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Spell checking in Vim
Believe it or not, I do all my editing stuff with Vim. This includes writing emails and editing this blog content. One thing I was missing, compared to using Thunderbird or LibreOffice, is the spell checking feature. Until I took 10 minutes to read the Vim documentation .

OK, this is seriously awesome. The editing is excellent, it captured all the key plot points, and the pacing is way better than the original. :-)
#StarTrek

I just updated the @… changelog with another large list of updates from the past few months.
https://notes.recollect.fyi/share/nz1oJucQ

📋 Changelog for Recollect Notes App – 10/13/2026
October 13, 2026 – Privacy hardening – General privacy hardening, which includes ensuring error reports don't include any note text, even when a save fails. Faster, more reliable saving – Changes save faster and more reliably while you're editing, especially in shared notes. October 12, 2026…

#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 13:
What writerly weakness do you overcorrect for?
I don't know. If I did know, I would try very hard to avoid overcorrecting and probably undercorrect instead. Maybe it's better I stay ignorant. Let's find out in editing instead.

The BBC defends editing out pro-trans slogan "Protect the Dolls" from a Strictly contestant's t-shirt on its broadcast and iPlayer, citing editorial guidelines (Louise Griffin/Radio Times)
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainmen

BBC responds after Strictly edits out Bethany Antonia's "Protect the Dolls' T-shirt from broadcast
Viewers noticed that Bethany Antonia's T-shirt had been edited.

The other day my @… PWA suddenly becomes “unstyled”. No idea how it happens when it’s suddenly got fixed while debugging 🤦‍♂️

oh my, I love the cynicism of #artcraft apps: stealing from big tech using llm, exactly the same way big tech stole from artist, programmers and writers.
Definitely try it, there is #appImage for all platforms, you can try it in minutes on

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

#WritersCoffeeClub 7 Oct
Does your editing process tend towards addition or reduction?
A great deal of my editing process is about character and continuity. My first draft, I usually don't have the characters' voices and vocabulary clearly distinguished in my head, so they all tend to sound the same; and other things like 'does she have this item with her on this d…

Documenting a fictitious building
Yesterday, I posted to Mastodon in response to the question 'Do you write or imagine a backstory for your secondary characters?' that 'I spent 2,000 words last night writing detailed backstory of a significant BUILDING that I also have sketch plans of (which is also something I usually do – you cannot consistently write about a building without knowing where everything is'.

It has belatedly emerged that a 6-year-old girl in China who had a rare genetic disease
died a week after receiving the world's first brain gene-editing treatment.
The researchers released animal test results in the international journal Nature this year ahead of the treatment,
but did not disclose the already conducted clinical trial and the patient's death in the paper.
The international journal Science and the research-ethics outlet Retraction Watch reported…

China conceals child death after first brain base-editing trial, spurring ethics uproar - CHOSUNBIZ
China conceals child death after first brain base-editing trial, spurring ethics uproar Parents paid $860,000 as Shanghai Jiao Tong teams undisclosed base-editing trial ends in a childs death, prompting global ethics scrutiny

RE: https://mastodon.social/@overcastfm/117082749501050792
For those, like me that have to look up "srt file": A subtitle file (.srt), a standard format used for captions/subtitles in video players and editing software.
Gives you transcr…

Do you have footage that's been sitting in your cameral roll for ages, but don't know where to start with #videoediting? You're in luck! Join us this October for a pay-what-you-can (PWYC) video editing workshop series, in collaboration with the Digital Arts Resource Centre. 📼

Frugal Filmmaking: Video Editing on a Budget (Ottawa Cohort 2)
Learn video editing fundamentals using Kdenlive, a free and open source video editors alternative to Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Become a video editor.

AI Forensics: seven out of the nine top AI image models on Hugging Face edited an image of a clothed woman into a topless one using a simple six-word prompt (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/hugging-face-has-a-nonconsensual-deepfakes-problem/

Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem
Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

As always, there’s something uniquely powerful about hearing young people speaking in their own voices without being run through the filters of news editing and high-polish production, just rough and heartfelt and true.
And…especially that first video where you can see the faces, I just cannot express to you how •extremely• Twin Cities the vibes of all these students are! This is my home, I see it so clearly in these videos.
3/ #Minneapolis #ICEout

Those open-source vibe-RE'd Adobe Suite appz are pretty slick. The guy who wrote Task Manager hates the idea of them, so they must be good! https://getartcraft.com/apps
If you want them, maybe grab them before Adobe sues everybody within 10 feet of this project into the 9th dimension's shadow realm

"Software is over": Developer uses AI to build free Adobe clones after frustration with cancellation fees. The open-source apps aim to replace Photoshop, Premiere, and five other Adobe products, though early users have reported problems.
https://www.techspot.com/news/11…

Writing to my techie audience here, transit/GIS people you can skip this one lol
I’m building my first NAS for my video editing projects and I’ve boxed myself into a corner by committing to a mini-ITX TrueNAS build, which means I need 2x16GB RDIMM or ECC UDIMM memory sticks. RDIMM is utterly incompatible with my wallet and ECC UDIMM is too niche to find brick and mortar, any recs on finding it *relatively* cheap? 😭

Wayne Lawson, a Vanity Fair editor for 30 years who shaped the work of many of the magazine's stars, including Dominick Dunne and Marie Brenner, has died at 94 (Penelope Green/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/business/media/wayne-lawson-dead.htm…

Wayne Lawson, Vanity Fair’s ‘Secret Weapon,’ Has Died
Working with Mr. Lawson, reporters said, was like taking a master class in writing: “He was a throwback to the old style of editing.”

dolbotally v0.3.1 now lets you edit and delete existing counters. To do so, press 'e' or 'd' in the counter list.
Install/upgrade by running "cargo install --locked dolbotally"

Post editing on Bluesky would be great.
At least let me correct the language of a post/reply after I sent it 🫠

@… another conceptual question re: #BSSG
How do I turn a draft into a post?
bssg post allows editing a draft, but doesn't turn in into a published post.
The most simple solution would be to mv from drafts/ to src/.
But that wouldn't…

BSSG/README.md at main
BSSG - BSSG - Bash Static Site Generator. A simple, efficient, and portable SSG written entirely in Bash. Converts Markdown posts/pages into static HTML sites with RSS, sitemaps, tags, archives, and easy CSS theming. Runs on Linux, macOS, and BSDs.

Jesus man, doing anything with locations, addresses, and geomarkers is some kind of insanity as a developer.
I can't even begin to explain how mind numbingly difficult it is because virtually none of your assumptions ever survive reality.
Every interface I've used for group editing of locations and addresses are super clunky and require something like 10 steps to make any changes, which for my users will result mutiny.
I have to figure out the fine line between acce…

#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 7: Does your editing process tend towards addition or reduction?
That depends entirely on when you ask. The first few rounds are mostly about adding the things I skipped behind [ADD THIS LATER]. But once that's done, it's trimming, trimming, trimming.

It was a real pleasure and privilege to be invited onto Jamie Lidell’s wonderful podcast, *Hanging Out With Audiophiles*.
Big thanks to @… for surprising me with the introduction - and for his impeccable subsequent editing (including magically dealing with my tendency to stare out of the window and thus not talk into my very directional mic.)
Mr. …

Google launches Google Pics, a creative design suite powered by Gemini and Nano Banana to compete with Canva and Adobe Express, available as a Workspace app (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/987423/google-pics-ai-image-editor-generator

Google Pics is like Canva, but with even more AI
Google Pics aims to make editing and generating “professional-grade” AI images less cumbersome for Workspace users.

Damn! spent the whole evening reading articles and not editing photos (as planned) ...
Ah well - then I invite you to a walk we did recently on a sunny day along some nice blooming bushes.
#hiking #flowers #outdoors

Started editing mongolia using josm. I'll probably make mistakes but I'm having a ton of fun.
#osm #mongolia

What if, instead of spending years optimizing small molecule chemistry to treat just one disease,
there really was a magic button to switch off any gene we chose?
In that case, we could treat
dozens of deadly diseases,
from Alzheimer’s to diabetes
to Huntington’s disease.
Welcome to the world of #siRNA therapy.
The story of siRNA begins in 1990,
when the scien…

A future of programmable medicine
What if instead of editing a gene, or blocking the protein it produces, you could simply switch it off?

Here's why this bothers me so much. There's already a lot of automation for patches getting backported to the numerous stable kernels. In theory those updates are focused on important or minor fixes, so distributions just pull in the latest stable release and it shows up in security updates on your machines. We _already_ have problems with problematic fixes slipping into the stable kernel series, and llm reviews are going to make it worse.

September Descent (2026)
Beautiful late summer day & mood, on the way back down into the valley. Only another few precious weeks until the snow arrives (hopefully)...
Also, just to illustrate that black & white conversion/editing always offers a huge spectrum of possibilities: Here's my current chosen/preferred WIP conversion base edit (second image, with custom fine-tuned weights for primary hues) vs. using the default HSV desaturation route only (which here produces muc…

I thought I've read that #hashtags can't be found via "follow hashtag" of posts that did not have the hashtag in its initial version. Therefore, editing a post for adding hashtags doesn't work.
This does seem to confirm: https://

I’m curious if there’s a IDE/editor where you can do inline LLM prompts while editing a source file that works more like text macros; like you say “> fetch the users profile from the something API” and it throws in the few lines of code you want for that, maybe it has multiple suggestions.
Have you seen a (good) implementation of this?
Background: I’m researching am for an article about where (manual) programming will go (or not go) in the future and what can be learned from the popularity of LLMs for programming.

Online panels and better image editing have brought down their cost in recent decades. Since the 1990s, around twenty properly sampled visual preference surveys have been run on popular architectural preferences.
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/do-people-prefe…

Alright, I fucking wrote the first draft. Now I'm tired.
Something something #FuckCars
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/transitliberationism-a-bicycle-anarchist-manifesto
Edit: also the usual. Editing is welcome, feedback, fact checks, typo call-outs, are all greatly appreciated.

BBC names ex-Panorama editor Rachel Jupp as director of BBC News, almost a year after Deborah Turness resigned over the Trump speech editing controversy (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-…

Ex-Panorama editor Rachel Jupp named next BBC News boss
Ex-Panorama editor Rachel Jupp has been named director of BBC News and Current Affairs starting in October 2026.

Instagram rolls out a conversational AI video editing assistant for Edits, its dedicated CapCut competitor, after an initial preview at a creator event in June (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/instagram-rolls-out-an-ai-vi…

Instagram rolls out an AI video editor for creators | TechCrunch
This conversational AI assistant is intended to provide personalized feedback to creators, rather than generic advice.

I took the leap today: Nikon ZR Sirui 50mm T1.8 anamorphic AF lens. 6yrs editing; I will now own my entire pipeline, for better or for worse!
I would like to publicly thank @… , who was the first person on here to drop me a compliment on my iPhone photos, and over the years helped me find the confidence to think of myself as a visual artist also. His p…

#codingagents are so verbose. Almost everything they generate can be cut down to the bare essentials. The fact "they" are so defensive is basically them hedging because "they" don't truly understand the code they are editing.
The triage bot keeps resurrecting old project labels despite instructions to the contrary. Maybe routing the agent through a custom scrip…

Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft’s Copilot AI chatbot
are constantly bombarded with lewd or sexually explicit photo editing requests and images that users have uploaded,
including upskirt photos or putting women into sexual positions.
These contractors are then asked to review whether the generated image successfully fulfilled the prompt
— such as, did the image generator make the woman’s AI-enlarged breasts big enough

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a postproduction tax incentive into law, rewarding productions that locate scoring, editing, or other post work in California (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs CA Postproduction Tax Credit Into Law
The bill, AB 2319, rewards productions that locate their scoring, editing or other kinds of post work in the state.

Actual text of a LinkedIn profile: "An Enthusiastic Quality Assurance Engineer with several years 2 months of experience in..."
Most likely an accident ("several years 2 months"), but a QA engineer not proof reading and fixing own bio gives the reader pause. Just saying.
#quality #editing #opinion

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117181967340645618
Practical steps to limit exposure with any Insta360 device:
network-segment the camera from other devices on your home network;
disable cloud-sync and AI-cloud-editing features;
review and restrict app…

#WritersCoffeeClub 27/9: How much time passes between sitting down to write and actually writing?
I am one of those unholy ones who writes in my head, not entire chapters but dialogue and short paragraphs. I try them out, see if it fits.
Which means that I can sit down and start writing before my behind has fully settled on the chair. Other times, it turns into an editing proce…

Google updates its AI video editor Vids with Gemini Omni and a feature that lets users create custom digital avatars using a selfie and voice recording (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/google-vids-now-lets-you-star-in-your-own-…

Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos | TechCrunch
Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.

narraverse's multi buffer editing is up in today's early morning commit. Still raw. Cycling between buffers is panic-prone. No buffer closing yet.

Last week, Anthropic confirmed that it was operating a wet biology lab in the Bay Area
where it uses its AI models to run physical experiments.
This week, the AI giant announced that this lab has already made what it believes is a big discovery:
a new enzyme “system” that has certain “properties reminiscent of CRISPR,”
as Anthropic describes it.
CRISPR is a natural immune system used by bacteria to fight off viruses that has become a gene-editing technology wi…

Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big | TechCrunch
But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.

When I have small insects that move too quickly for photographs, I like to dump them onto a white platform that sits on ice, to slow them down a bit. If you zoom and squint you can some wasps that I discovered loitering on my yarrow plants. I'm still editing the close-ups but will share soon. A eulophid, I think. #macro #macrophotography #photography #wasps #insects #wasps

Ohhhh, alt text for profile pictures are now a thing!! And the new profile editing UI is way better too!

The official #Pixelfed android app does not allow alt text editing; it clears the alt on edit, which is unfortunate. Reverting to #pixeldroid

FURBNET UPDATE II: the "listen (solo track)" and "listen (mute track)" buttons above each track's sheet music now also work! (they use the same code for transposition/editing)

FURBNET UPDATE II: the "listen (solo track)" and "listen (mute track)" buttons above each track's sheet music now also work! (they use the same code for transposition/editing)

In a first, today I was staring at a piece of AI generated code that had a subtle bug, and then realized the AI had gotten it right and I'd introduced the bug while editing it.
DMs are open, AMA about software engineering.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GR/new
[1/1]:
- B-repLer: Language-guided Editing of CAD Models
Yilin Liu, Niladri Shekhar Dutt, Changjian Li, Niloy J. Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10201 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/115031625722935245
- Geometrically Approximated Modeling for Emitter-Centric Ray-Triangle Filtering in Arbitrarily Dyn...
Rabin Gajmer, Joonas Haapala, Zoltan Beck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10457 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116560660242490785
- NaP-Control: Navigating Diffusion Prior for Versatile and Fast Character Control
Chia-Wen Chen, Yan Wu, Korrawe Karunratanakul, Siyu Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20209 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116611422054088912
- Vis4GS: A Visual Analytic Tool for 3D Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction
Kai-Yuan Lin, Aryabima Mandala Putra, Jui-Chi Lee, Shih-Hsuan Hung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26985 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116815255549530340
- LATO.2: Factorized 3D Mesh Generation with Vertex and Topology Flow
Long, Zhao, Lin, Zhang, Guo, Liang, Xu, Hladk\'y, Nie{\ss}ner, Hu, Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10623 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116917178519049532
- OmniX: From Unified Panoramic Generation and Perception to Graphics-Ready 3D Scenes
Yukun Huang, Jiwen Yu, Yanning Zhou, Jianan Wang, Xintao Wang, Pengfei Wan, Xihui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26800 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115468347012341868
- HairPort: In-context 3D-aware Hair Import and Transfer for Images
Alireza Heidari, Amirhossein Alimohammadi, Ali Mahdavi-Amiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12562 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116735964747387747
- From Scene-Centric to Observer-Centric: Modeling Observer-Aware Relations for 3D Scene Graph Gene...
Jingjun Sun, Chaowei Wang, Zhirui Liu, Jiaxu Tian, Ming Yang, Yaoxing Wang, Yan Di, Shan Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27412 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116832228785083392
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Wasted two hours trying to implement something just to end up realizing it's literally impossible to implement due to the code architecture. That is, multi-/tabbed buffer editing in narraverse.

Managed to make narraverse's narrative editor more generic, therefore it can work with entities now. It'll also be used for timeline and artifacts (upcoming in v0.3.0).
"Narrative editor" is just "editor" now.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.GR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GR/new
[1/1]:
- Clarify Before Executing: A Self-Evolving Agent for Resolving Intent Asymmetry in 3D Tool Orchest...
Xiaoye Zhu, Weixin Li, Junan Huo, Bozhong Wang, Jia Zeng, Yi Yang, Cen Chen, Qi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16352
- CNS-Edit : Category-Agnostic 3D Editing with Coupled Neural Shape Representation
Jingyu Hu, Weilong Yan, Zhengzhe Liu, Haipeng Li, Ka-Hei Hui, Hao, Zhang, Chi-Wing Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16577
- TopoGS: Planar Reconstruction via Topology-aware 3D Gaussian Splatting
Shanshan Pan, Jiale Chen, Yilin Liu, Hui Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16838
- SciForma: Structure-Faithful Generation of Scientific Diagrams
Yuxuan Luo, Peng Zhang, Xinjie Zhang, Xun Guo, Zhouhui Lian, Yan Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18091
- SGA: Plug&Play Geometric Verification for Educational Video Synthesis
Lopez Jhon, Hinojosa Carlos, Ghanem Bernard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18116 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116957182951799578
- Lossless-INR: Lossless Volumetric Implicit Neural Representations
Kaiyuan Tang, Daniel Burke, Chaoli Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18150
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117090411706296448
I stand by my paraphrasing.
Writing isn’t just the act of putting words of an initial draft down.
Writing is deliberately chosen communication with other human beings (can even be yourself).
It includes research, outlining, drafting, editing, proofreading and revising. Just putting words down while stochastic algorithms simulate the other activities is meaningless.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GR/new
[1/1]:
- Conformal tubular parameterization and toroidal bending of tube-like surfaces
Shunyu Yao, Gary P. T. Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16305 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116600097651538857
- SCALMU: Synthetically-trained Coupling of Adaptive Learned Multiplicative Updates for Hyperspectr...
Xinxin Xu, Yann Gousseau, Christophe Kervazo, Sa\"id Ladjal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30973 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/116673699236122120
- CNS-Edit : Category-Agnostic 3D Editing with Coupled Neural Shape Representation
Jingyu Hu, Weilong Yan, Zhengzhe Liu, Haipeng Li, Ka-Hei Hui, Hao Zhang, Chi-Wing Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16577
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Implemented making new narratives. Yes this'll (kinda) be a worldbuilding TUI.

Microsoft 365 Copilot for #GCC / #Government just had a massive wave of announcements:
✅ OpenAI’s GPT-5.6
✅ Memory & Personalization
✅ Native editing with Copilot in Word, Excel & PowerPoint 
✅ Copilot Chat (Basic) in Outlook with lexical search for ALL email, contacts, meetings 
✅ Copilot Notebooks with native integration in OneNote
✅ Copilot in Forms 
Check out the Public Sector blog post here:
✅ What's Next in #Microsoft 365 #Copilot for Government
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/publicsectorblog/whats-next-in-microsoft-365-copilot-for-government/4555457