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What if dinner was public infrastructure - again?
"food charity Nourish Scotland are pushing for the reintroduction of public diners to Scotland: diners subsidised by the state to provide affordable, nutritious, and filling meals that are accessible to everyone regardless of their financial status.
“There's an element of universality, dignity, and quality that comes with something being a public institution or a part of public infrastructure,” said Anna Chworow"

Tonight I'll be doing a bit of ambient sounds djing at the opening of a Ruth Orkin exhibition at Künstlerhaus Nürnberg, 7-10pm and today you got the chance to see her intense photography for free.
https://independent-photo.com/news/ruth-orkin/

Ruth Orkin | The Independent Photographer
One of the finest photographers of her time, Ruth Orkin was an award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker, whose deeply absorbing images capture the charm and intrigue of quotidian life.

An interview with Eric Trump on how he became a crypto evangelist after several banks cut off the Trump family's accounts following the January 6 Capitol riot (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/f…

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Grad: 14 September - 21 September
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Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
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Soeben eine Absage einer booking.com -Unterkunft erhalten, wegen des medizinischen Assistenzhunds 🐕‍🦺 meiner Frau, und weil angeblich Booking.com die Beschränkung "mindestens 4 Nächte" nicht übernommen hätte.
Habe die Buchung storniert (zum Glück kostenfrei weil genügend früh), aber die Gastgeber auf das Behindertengleichstellungsgesetz hingewiesen.

Welp.
The toolchain is cursed but I have the Trion devkit talking FMC/APB at 75 MHz to a STM32H750. I can probably push further (maybe 100 MHz PCLK?), this isn't failing timing, but it's good enough for the purpose.

WORKSHOP> Doctoral School Specialist Course for PhD students at Ghent University (Belgium): “Current Research on Middle Chinese and ‘Buddhist Hybrid Chinese’”
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Today in Tabs and Garbageday were the best reads about wtf is going on with Kirk.
https://www.todayintabs.com/p/groyper-war-2-turns-hot

Groyper War 2 Turns Hot
Let's take a deep calming breath before we confront the following.

WORKSHOP> Doctoral School Specialist Course for PhD students at Ghent University (Belgium): “Current Research on Middle Chinese and ‘Buddhist Hybrid Chinese’”
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Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
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