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Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
GEELA: The prototypes. They breed naturally, but a mutant strain has become dominant. They seem capable of thought. They exhibit primitive emotions, weaknesses we thought we had eradicated.
NOVARA: They will all have to be eliminated so that we can be certain the mutant strain is destroyed.
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Apple signs a $500M deal to buy rare-earth minerals from US producer MP, which secured Pentagon backing last week, as it seeks to cut its reliance on China (Carlos Caminada/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

#EroticMusings Week 6 (July 6-12) Setting: Do you prefer to work with constrained settings or expansive? Revisit locations or move on?
Expansive locations, with some recurring. I want to evoke a sense of familiarity and homecoming - describing a place for the second, third, fourth time giving the reader a cozy feeling of having been there so often, that every part of the place is kn…

Calamus 23 This moment as I sit alone
A promise of global unity, Whitman sharing his adulation for men in other countries.
I guess this is an antidote to Whitman's nationalism? His celebrations of America seem sweet and sincere but they are very American-centric. Here he's explicitly saying men of other lands can be just as wise, beautiful, or benevolent as American men. It seems unusual that he feels he has to say it explicitly.
As for the queer reading, his conclusion is
I know we should be brethren and lovers
There's that word, "lovers". It's so brash it's hard to understand. It seems uncharacteristically direct even understanding Whitman as a gay poet. Maybe this is some 19th century romantic language, mixing what feels very gay in with a more general celebration of brotherhood? Or maybe it is literally what it says, Whitman eroticizing international men.

Neat visualization of the recent #earthquake and resulting #tsunami.
#noaa

#eathquake in #NewJersey
https://masto.ai/@lastquake/114962461896052590

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
TARRANT: It was outside the ship.
DORIAN: Slave.
SLAVE: Yes, Master.
DORIAN: Analyze exterior disturbance.
SLAVE: It is an earthquake, Master.
AVON: Cause?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/173 B7B2

Earthquake Distance and Magnitude Estimation via Calibrated Microwave Frequency Fiber Interferometry
Stavros Deligiannidis, Yuhan Wang, Christos Simos, Iraklis Simos, Andreas Fichtner, Nikolaos S. Melis, Charis Mesaritakis, Adonis Bogris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20551

Earthquake Distance and Magnitude Estimation via Calibrated Microwave Frequency Fiber Interferometry
We present a calibration framework for a Microwave Frequency Fiber Interferometer (MFFI) aimed at estimating earthquake distance and magnitude, with the long-term goal of enabling early warning capabilities. This marks the first demonstration of calibrated MFFI sensing for quantitative seismic parameter retrieval

I have a large amount of code logging using logrus, and it's basically abandonware now that slog is in Go standard.
Big problem.
I spent some time getting Claude Code to make me a full drop-in replacement for logrus. I moved my biggest project to slog in sub 1 hour with this. Quality wise I think the generated outcome is pretty good - I would not have done it this well as its super tedious work.
I can gradually move to slog for new code with a aim to eradicate logrus…