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Psychedelics align brain activity with context https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10910-z Under psilocybin, "the separation between internal models and sensory context on which predictive processing depends" dissolves.
Brain-wide reconfiguration of burst firin…

Psychedelics align brain activity with context - Nature
The psychedelic psilocybin reorganizes brain activity into structured, context-aligned patterns that integrate internal and external processing, providing a neural basis for the felt continuity between self and world, elucidating how the psychedelic state translates into psychological change.

Contrary to Trump's bloviating gasbaggery, one of the strongest security features of U.S. elections is precisely the fact that they aren't conducted at the federal level.
✅ Here's what makes American elections so complicated and secure | PBS News
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Here's what makes American elections so complicated and secure
One of the strongest security features of U.S. elections is the fact that they aren’t conducted at the federal level.

Just set up some new IAQ monitoring stations around the house. Still want to put one in the bedroom to see how stuffy it gets at night with the door closed, but I only had four units so this is what I started with.
Particle counts are Sensirion SEN5x, CO2 and most other atmospheric data SCD4x.
Haven't done any kind of zero cal on the CO2 and they've been sitting around idle for a while, so there's probably a bit of offset that will need to be corrected - the one on th…

What's worse than books written with temperatures expressed in degrees Fahrenheit?
Books written with temperatures expressed in "degrees", and you have to guess the scale from context.

Troy Jackson is the frontrunner for Maine Democrats
What happens next?
A reminder of the next steps of the frantic replacement process in the Maine Senate race now that Troy Jackson appears poised to clinch the Democratic nomination.
Over the weekend, all 16 counties elected 500 delegates who will vote in a special convention in Bangor on Saturday,
with the remaining delegates coming from the state Democratic party committee.
This will the formal process of selec…

Maine Democrats rally around Troy Jackson to replace Graham Platner in crucial Senate race – US politics live
Former state legislator in strong position to become Democratic nominee after several candidates drop out over the weekend

Wife comes in while I'm working on my computer. I'm there looking very satisfied. She asks me what I'm smiling at.
"Oh, I lit this street portrait perfectly."
That's what counts as excitement around here. I love using speedlights and I'm just so happy when I nail the lighting in the wild.
#photography

Singapore-licensed dtcpay, which offers stablecoin payments across Europe, Hong Kong, Australia, and North America, raised a $25M Series A (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/09/18/sbi-group-backs-payments-firm-dtcp…

SBI Group backs payments firm dtcpay in $25 million funding round
Stablecoin payments company dtcpay completed a $25 million Series A funding round with a strategic investment from Japan’s SBI Group.

doing more thorough exploration of https://contextfreepatentart.tumblr.com/

This post gets regular inline updates:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
Today I added a Nature article, the Web Sustainability Guidelines Impact Ratings, and the Carbon in Context calcula…

What You Can Do as a Web Builder on Earth Day
One easy thing you can do for the earth is not use “AI” tools. Consider this as a programmer, web developer, web designer, copywriter, webmaster, etc. The tools include anything branded as generative AI, LLMs, computer vision tools, Copilot, ChatGPT, Bard, Grok, Dall-e, Midjourney, and so on. If you are…

The UK FCA, alongside tax authorities and police, raids three illegal peer-to-peer crypto businesses, signaling an end to "light-touch" crypto regulation (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/09/17

FCA steps up crypto enforcement with raids on illegal London P2P trading sites
Legal experts highlight that because zero P2P crypto firms currently hold FCA authorization, all commercial peer-to-peer venues in the U.K. are operating illegally.