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Billed by the Line: Obituary Inflation, the Emptied Obit Desk, and the Last Working Vanity Press
The Sunday death notices all carry the same sentence. She died peacefully at home, surrounded by her loving family, after a courageous battle with cancer....
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#WritersCoffeeClub 9. How does your own sense of mortality influence what you write?
I am writing the human condition, strictly from my POV. Life is finite, this ride is going to end one day? Absolutely a part of the story.
Death, as grim as it is, has a presence. I am, after all, not immortal. No need to pretend otherwise.
But I don't see any reason to spend my ti…

Noch am Dienstagabend habe ich mich selbst über den Gedanken amüsiert, dass es auch Abgeordnete der Linken oder Grünen seien könnten, die die CDU damit trollen, für den AfDler zu stimmen, um einen Keil in die Union zu treiben. Das wäre eine grandiose strategische Leistung gewesen.
Aber ich hielt das für enorm unwahrscheinlich.
Gerade in Hinblick darauf, dass es impliziert, die Abgeordneten der CDU seien ansonsten stabil. Und habt ihr euch mal die CDU angeschaut? Gerade im Osten?<…

Good News Of The Day.
There are turtles involved.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-10-06/endangered-turtles-get-a-boost-with-the-help-of-massachusetts-school-kids

Endangered turtles get a boost with the help of Massachusetts school kids
Children across the state have helped raise baby Blanding's turtles for years.

Hör mig berätta om alla likheter mellan antivaxxare och människor som varnar starkt för all ultraprocessad mat
Vetenskapsmotstånd, vaccinskepsis och tokiga influencers.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5w7EtfG27gvquuP9NVqmzv?autoplay=true

Mal ein Blick zurück: Intel, das war erst der Anfang, womöglich war der Abzug ein Kipppunkt – nach der Treuhand, Hartz und Inflationskrisen hätte die Transformation in #Sachsen-Anhalt mal anders laufen können.
Ist sie aber nicht. Jetzt, nach der #Wahl, werden noch ein paar andere Dinger einschl…

You've seen the film, but what now?
Come to our series of #Manchester workshops: the first one tonight!
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2026…

Events: National Emergency Briefings – what next?
Updated 11 Aug: third workshop added We bring you a series of three workshops looking at the implications of the National Emergency Briefings for Greater Manchester.  What does it mean for us? Who …

Sources: Kalshi is targeting a December rollout for exchange-traded futures contracts tracking US inflation, rivaling exchanges like CME and ICE (Greg Ritchie/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

So... First, this is a great example of the enemy of your enemy not being your friend:
https://todon.eu/@radical_chic/117427249480571937
I can hope that this will cause Adobe to help her the AI bubble popped sooner and/or that it breaks Adobe's market share, but I'm not going to use these tools, nor will I cheer too loudly if the result is that copyright restrictions actually get applied and stop LLM coding (even though stopping LLM coding is unambiguously good). (This is very much not a "clean room" implementation if Claude's training data includes any Adobe source, which it very well might.
Second, assuming this does not cause courts to suddenly start actually applying copyright law correctly, it represents a terrifying new reality for legacy software companies, given their dependence on software monopolies for a lot of their income. The people who have been building on open source all along have the better business model here, but this becoming the norm is more destructive than helpful to the open source movement, since "just rebuild it" seems easier than actually using or contributing to an existing open-source project.
That said, these tools are certainly full of serious bugs. They would be even if they had been written by humans in this timeframe, although in that case you'd probably have an order of magnitude fewer issues. These bugs will result in things like "if you open this PDF with the tool, your computer gets taken over by a virus". That occasionally happens with Adobe products too, of course, but it will happen more frequently and won't be fixed as fast/well in these tools.