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I spent much of today cleaning my office. It's amazing how messy it gets due to ongoing projects (my own and client projects) and so much paper. I was saving a lot of it for paper making but I've still got plenty of pulp in the fridge to use.
On Friday, the plan is no shopping, just cleaning the basement getting rid of cruft, maybe finding some things to donate or give away if possible.

"A high acuity is trivially obtained at the expense of field of view through suitable enlarging optics, so whenever a high acuity is claimed for a visual prosthesis one must also check if the corresponding field of view is better than tunnel vision." https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink

@… good on the problems of nuclear and the illusion of Small Modular Reactors
https://crookedtimber.org/2025/10/03/paper-reactors-and-pap…

Contrary to Neuralink Blindsight's lack of evidence concerning applicability to people born blind, there is the 2012 paper titled "'Visual' acuity of the congenitally blind using visual-to-auditory sensory substitution" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

‘Visual’ Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution
Sensory Substitution Devices (SSDs) convey visual information through sounds or touch, thus theoretically enabling a form of visual rehabilitation in the blind. However, for clinical use, these devices must provide fine-detailed visual information which was not yet shown for this or other means of visual restoration. To test the possible functional acuity conveyed by such devices, we used the Snellen acuity test conveyed through a high-resolution visual-to-auditory SSD (The vOICe). We show that…

In what Arizona’s attorney general slammed as an
“unacceptable and outrageous” act of “unchecked aggression,”
a federal immigration officer fired pepper spray toward recently sworn-in Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva
during a Friday raid on a Tucson restaurant.
Grijalva (D-Ariz.) wrote on social media that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers
“just conducted a raid by Taco Giro in Tucson
— a small mom-and-pop restaurant that has served our c…

ICE Goons Pepper Spray Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva During Tucson Raid | Common Dreams
"If federal agents are brazen enough to fire pellets directly at a member of Congress, imagine how they behave when encountering defenseless members of our community," Grijalva said.

Présidentielle ivoirienne : les autorités durcissent les interdictions de manifester Š l’approche du scrutin
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2025/10/18/preside…

Présidentielle ivoirienne : les autorités durcissent les interdictions de manifester à l’approche du scrutin
Les restrictions politiques affectent notamment les deux grands partis d’opposition à Alassane Ouattara, au pouvoir depuis 2011 et qui s’avance comme le grand favori du scrutin.

Wow, une petite révolution en train de se discuter entre experts très investis.
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html
On n'a plus qu'Š attendre 3-5 ans pour pouvoir utiliser des QUERY au lieu de PO…

A US appeals court panel orders the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to restore striking journalists' benefits from 2017, ruling the paper bargained in bad faith (Megan Swift/TribLIVE.com)
https://triblive.com/local/regional/appellate-court-…

Appellate court panel sides with striking Post-Gazette workers; PG will appeal decision
A federal appeals court panel on Monday ruled in favor of striking journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, possibly heralding an end to a long and bitter labor dispute that led newspaper staffers to walk the picket line for more than three years. The decision by three judges on the U.S.

Sometimes people leave art in the Free Little Art Gallery, which is awesome! And I don’t care if it’s a crayon drawing on paper or yarn tied to sticks, if it’s art, it stays.
But… we do have to curate, and we do have *some* standards, and any offensive items are swiftly removed.

If I'm gonna do some "pen testing" it's gonna be me sitting at my desk with a stack of nice paper, some music playing, and no computers involved.