Die Vorfreude steigt. Am Sonntag beginnt die elfte Ausgabe vom Transcontinental Race #tcrno11
Die Punkte auf der Karte kann man live verfolgen https://followmychallenge.com/live/tcrno11/
Live tracking NFL cuts, trades and final roster moves around the league https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46008028/2025-nfl-preseason-live-updates-roster-cuts-trades-signings
Calamus 43 O you whom I often
A short and sweet love poem, Whitman at his most writerly. The spare and simple words have a light musicality that's often missing from his more didactic blank verse.
The literal meaning is Whitman telling someone how his very presence inspires feelings of love. It's so short and precise I'm just going to quote the whole poem.
O you whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you,
As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
I love the lack of action. Whitman simply wants to sit in the same room as his beloved, a quiet devotion I appreciate. And that phrase "subtle electric fire". Electric had a different meaning in pre-Edison America but it works both ways.
Mostly this poem is just a lovely mood.
(The linked video and commentary are more than usually good.)
Turns out life doesn’t just imitate art
— sometimes it borrows the script, reboots it with National Guard checkpoints and streams it live from Los Angeles.
Case in point:
A Day Without a Mexican,
the cheeky 2004 sci-fi satire from Mexican filmmakers Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi,
in which California wakes up to find every person of Latino descent has vanished into a mysterious haze,
leaving Angelenos panicking over who’s going to mow the lawns and run …
This is rather nice. #sound
https://www.mixcloud.com/FamilyTreeRadioShow…
I'm going to try doing a live stream about @… on the weekend https://www.youtube.com/live/qxawE1nk9SA
(edit) I changed it to the following day to av…
Electron-muon conversion in nuclei and rare decays induced by LFV dark photon
Alexey S. Zhevlakov, Sergey Kuleshov, Valery E. Lyubovitskij, Evgenie O. Oleynik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17733
Cards' Russell taken to hospital following collision https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45818158/cardinals-lb-jj-russell-carted-practice-field-collision
House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed in a post on X,
“JUST SIX MONTHS into President Trump’s second term, America is safer, stronger, and more prosperous”
—despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Meanwhile, the White House posted an absurd cartoon depicting a slimmed-down Trump with $100 bills and bald eagles flying in the air around him,
plus a nearly two-minute-long video that touted his alleged accomplishments.
But millions of Americans would disagree with those …