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I must admit, it gives me joy to be able to order the following article from my university library: «Channelling the darkness: Group flow and environmental expression in the music of Black Sabbath and Joy Division»

"Iyengar told me she isn’t worried about Musk ruining D&D.
Musk is welcome to waste his money on “trying to make everyone play the version of D&D that he thinks should exist in the world,” Iyengar said. “That’s never been how that works. Everyone will play it how they want, or they’ll play something else.”
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Metallic transports from Taub-NUT AdS black holes
Mohd Aariyan Khan, Hemant Rathi, Dibakar Roychowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10445 https://arxiv.org/…

Metallic transports from Taub-NUT AdS black holes
We compute holographic DC conductivity associated with the Taub-NUT-$AdS_4$ black holes following the probe D-brane approach. In particular, we examine the effects of frame dragging on charge transport in both low and high temperature regimes. Our analysis reveals that in the low temperature regime, the conductivity is sensitive to the presence of the Misner string that causes frame dragging. Notably, the increase in the conductivity near the Misner string is sharper as compared to points farth…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Gao Hong & Gao Hong:
🎵 Flying Dragon (solo improvisation)
#GaoHong

Flame Skimmer Dragonfly hanging onto a branch with its mandibles. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #dragonfly #flameskimmer

"producing the feeling of knowing without the labor of judgement"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19466
oh what a great line

Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence
Large language models (LLMs) are widely described as artificial intelligence, yet their epistemic profile diverges sharply from human cognition. Here we show that the apparent alignment between human and machine outputs conceals a deeper structural mismatch in how judgments are produced. Tracing the historical shift from symbolic AI and information filtering systems to large-scale generative transformers, we argue that LLMs are not epistemic agents but stochastic pattern-completion systems, for…

Cleric, failing to negotiate with a junior red dragon, casts Invisibility on himself and runs into the tall grass.
Dragon watches invisible cleric’s trail in the grass.
Dragon, muttering: “Why are humans so stupid.”
Dragon flies to end of trail in grass, breathes fire over it.
Cleric: “AAAAAGH!”

Darkness draped Crans-Montana,
a ski resort in the Swiss Alps with a reputation for posh luxury.
Le Constellation, however, had few pretensions:
a cavernous venue with TV screens on the top floor to watch sport,
and a basement with low lighting, loud music and a dancefloor.
It attracted a young crowd, including under-18s, mainly from Switzerland and continental Europe,
and early on Thursday morning hundreds thronged the venue to see in 2026.
Many wo…

As I’m writing, the season is “Crickets chirp around the door.” By the time you read it, it will be “First Frost.” In New York, where I live, autumn is taking hold. Darkness in the early morning, leaves and branches coming down in high winds, and in the afternoon, low light floods the avenues, catching the tops of trees.
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Ways of Seeing: Seasonal Feeling
Autumn is taking hold