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Finished “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison, the only short story she ever wrote.
Two girls, Twyla & Roberta, bond as roommates for a few months in a shelter at age 8. They lose touch but encounter each other later in life, always at odds.
Morrison tells us one girl is black and one is white, but intentionally removes all racial clues and language. Brilliant thought experiment, of which, why do we care? Does it matter?
4.5/5 stars, rounded up ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Recitatif
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the…

by accident i stumbled on this review by the #NSA on Bruce Schneiers "Applied Crypto" book from long ago.

Atomkraftwerk Saporischschja: Eine Stromleitung repariert
Eine der beiden Stromleitungen zum russisch besetzten ukrainischen Atomkraftwerk Saporischschja ist repariert worden. Dies bestätigte die ukrainische Energieministerin Switlana Hryntschuk im staatlichen Nachrichtenfernsehen. Der in der Besatzungszeit zehnte Blackout habe damit genau einen Monat gedauert. Repariert worden sei eine 750-Kilovolt…
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Ukraine wirft Russland Sabotage am AKW Saporischschja vor
Das Atomkraftwerk Saporischschja ist seit über zehn Tagen ohne Stromversorgung von außen. Ukrainische Experten werfen Russland vor, die Abkoppelung vom ukrainischen Netz absichtlich herbeigeführt zu haben.

Maybe this sort of experience will mean the Gardaí will become a little less tolerant of the far right.
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/10/21/citywest-hotel-protest-public-order-gardai-at-scene/

Citywest Hotel protest: Garda van set alight and fireworks launched at gardaí
Hundreds of people have gathered near the driveway of the hotel

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

Finished “People Like Us” by Jason Mott.
I will admit that there were moments early where I struggled, trying to puzzle out the dual narratives. You have to accept it as experimental writing with a plurality in scope. When I surrendered and just READ, I absolutely loved it!
What is it about? So much. Gun violence. Where home is. America. Race. Writers. Trauma & coping. Time travel. Peacocks.
So much to say, but for spoilers 🤐
5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

People Like Us
The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 Nation…

hello my #fuckaas friends in my phone
you know about mastodon. you may have heard of lemmy, the fedi equivalent of reddit, or pixelfed, the fedi equivalent of Instagram, or bookwyrm, the Goodreads equivalent.
but did you know there's like 8 bajillion other things in the fediverse that you can check out and start using in place of corporate-captured platforms? it's true!

delightful-fediverse-experience
A curated list of server applications supported on the ActivityPub Fediverse and related standards.

How can AI agents support journalists' work? An experiment with designing an LLM-driven intelligent reporting system
Vasileios Maltezos, Roman Kyrychenko, Aleksi Knuutila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01193

How can AI agents support journalists' work? An experiment with designing an LLM-driven intelligent reporting system
The integration of artificial intelligence into journalistic practices represents a transformative shift in how news is gathered, analyzed, and disseminated. Large language models (LLMs), particularly those with agentic capabilities, offer unprecedented opportunities for enhancing journalistic workflows while simultaneously presenting complex challenges for newsroom integration. This research explores how agentic LLMs can support journalists' workflows, based on insights from journalist intervi…