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Saturday 26 September 2026

Today

Free / nothing on the calendar.

Deliveries

  • PPL — parcel 41157386215 ready for pickup at Trafika PAJAK, Kubelíkova 733/60, Praha 3. Open today 07:00–20:00. Pickup PIN 516805. Hold until 2 Oct 2026. (Likely the Intimissimi order #2003943997 that shipped 24 Sep.)
  • Enecta — order #35612 confirmed 25 Sep (10% CBD oil 30 ml + hemp gummies); preparing for shipment, not on the road yet.
  • Nothing else expected for delivery today.

Prague weather

high ≈ 21 °C / low ≈ 7 °Cprecip chance ≈ none (clear to fair; a bit more cloud late afternoon).

Hourly (rest of today)

  • 08:007 °C≈ 3 km/h≈ 87%≈ 5 °C
  • 09:009 °C≈ 3 km/h≈ 79%≈ 6 °C
  • 10:0011 °C≈ 3 km/h≈ 70%≈ 6 °C
  • 11:0014 °C≈ 3 km/h≈ 60%≈ 6 °C
  • 12:0016 °C≈ 3 km/h≈ 53%≈ 7 °C
  • 13:0018 °C≈ 4 km/h≈ 50%≈ 7 °C
  • 14:0019 °C≈ 4 km/h≈ 50%≈ 9 °C
  • 15:0021 °C≈ 3 km/h≈ 40%≈ 7 °C
  • 16:0021 °C≈ 3 km/h≈ 38%≈ 6 °C
  • 17:0021 °C≈ 0 km/h≈ 39%≈ 7 °C
  • 18:0021 °C≈ 3 km/h≈ 40%≈ 7 °C
  • 19:0019 °C≈ 7 km/h≈ 54%≈ 9 °C
  • 20:0017 °C≈ 4 km/h≈ 65%≈ 11 °C
  • 21:0016 °C≈ 3 km/h≈ 70%≈ 11 °C
  • 22:0015 °C≈ 2 km/h≈ 75%≈ 11 °C
  • 23:0014 °C≈ 2 km/h≈ 81%≈ 11 °C

Air & pollen

  • Now (≈ 07:30 Europe/Prague): ☀️ clear · 7.1 °C (feels ≈ 5.7 °C) · wind ≈ 2.5 km/h from the S · humidity ≈ 89% · dew ≈ 5.5 °C. Allergy / pollen: Tree pollens (alder, birch, olive) and ragweed are essentially off. Grass is near zero. Mugwort (pelyněk) is the only signal worth noting — low to moderate later (≈ 0.4 grains/m³ now, rising toward ≈ 5–6 grains/m³ this evening). Mild for most
  • mugwort-sensitive noses may notice it toward dusk

Markets

*Monday-open watch:*

  • Weekend tape (US cash markets closed).
  • S&P 500 ≈ 7,743 (+0.5%) — first up week in three
  • Nasdaq Composite ≈ 27,069 (+0.5%)
  • Dow ≈ 51,829 (+0.9%, ≈ +479 pts)
  • Oil eased on Hormuz-talk optimism: WTI settled ≈ $92.41/bbl (−≈ 2.3%); Brent ≈ $104/bbl (reports vary slightly on the exact Brent print)
  • COMEX gold — Friday/weekend quotes clustered ≈ $4,270–$4,310/oz; the week was soft (≈ −2% on weekly charts) on a firmer dollar and higher yields, with a modest overnight rebound noted in Asia metals wrap-ups
  • Crude (WTI / Brent) — as above after Friday’s pullback; still elevated vs pre-conflict norms while Hormuz diplomacy swings
  • E-mini Nasdaq-100 & E-mini S&P 500 — Friday after-hours indications pointed modestly higher into the weekend (order of ≈ +0.5% on both); CME equity futures reopen Sunday evening US time
  • Official US response (or not) to Iran’s seven-day Hormuz / ceasefire proposal after WSJ reports Trump rejected it — oil and risk assets will move on any confirmation
  • USTR said further detail on post–Trump–Xi trade talks could land around 28 Sep
  • Fed path: Friday’s tape still priced meaningful odds of further tightening; durable-goods / next data crumbs after UMich

IPO Watch

  • Busy US week ahead (week of 28 Sep):

  • OuraOURA

    smart-ring maker; terms ≈ $40–$44 on ≈ 50M shares (≈ $2.1B); expected to price late week with Nasdaq trading eyed around 30 Sep

  • AccelevationACCV

    power-distribution / data-center hardware; terms ≈ $20–$24 on ≈ 30M shares (≈ $660M); in the same week’s pipeline

  • Smaller: Siyata Mobile / PTT also on some calendars around 30 Sep–1 Oct

  • India: several SME issues opening from 28 Sep (SRIT India, Shah Investor’s Home, etc.) — noise for EU/US desks

Conflicts

  • Ukraine: Fresh Russian drone/missile waves into 26 Sep — Kyiv (Solomianskyi office fire; Obolon debris), Kharkiv (four injured), Zaporizhzhia (two women killed, child injured under rubble). Friday’s Kyiv strikes killed seven (incl. a 14-year-old). ArcelorMittal halted Ukraine’s largest steel plant (Kryvyi Rih) after repeated strikes killed five workers. Zelensky pressed for more air defense; said Trump decided to license Ukrainian Patriot-missile production.
  • Iran / wider Middle East war: Tehran floated a seven-day plan (via Qatar) to pause regional fighting, unfreeze assets, lift oil sanctions/blockade, and reopen Hormuz. FM Araqchi pitched it at UNGA; WSJ reported Trump rejected it. Markets treated Friday’s oil dip as hope-then-doubt. US–Iran MoU from June remains broken; CENTCOM still enforcing the naval blockade.

Garlasco / Chiara Poggi

Fresh acts before the 28 Sep deadline: Procura di Pavia heard ex-RIS commander Luciano Garofano and former RIS officers on the 2007 scientific work (ANSA / Tg1 / Repubblica, 25 Sep). Second chiusura indagini on Andrea Sempio still expected around Monday — then defense gets ≈ 20 days for memorie/consulenze before any rinvio a giudizio / archiviazione / proroga call. Psychiatric consulenza (Catanesi) was the late piece; Sempio refused clinical interviews, so it leans on wiretaps, writings, media. No verdict today — calendar event, not a sentence.

Tools & tech

Bitwig & Traktor: No brand-new Bitwig or Traktor product drop in the last couple of days (Bitwig 6.1 Sampler/Tuner update is from late August). No clearly fresh Bitwig/Traktor YouTube tutorials from the last 1–2 days worth flagging.

Linux:

  • Tip: After a big install binge, refresh the locate database so filename search stays fast: sudo updatedb, then locate partial-name.
  • Package: plocate — the modern locate (faster, fewer surprises than old mlocate). Install: sudo apt install plocate.

Grok Bot tip

Tip: In Settings → Updates, turn on Automatic updates so the Grok Bot app itself patches without a manual “Check for Updates” ritual — separate from updating the computer/box. Open it here: Automatic updates.

Good News

  • Scotland’s Cairngorms: Cambridge-led aerial/LiDAR work mapped large-scale native woodland recovery (millions of regenerating trees / thousands of hectares of new woodland) — expansion you can see from above.
  • Argentina: A giant anteater returned to Alma Guaraní (Corrientes) after ≈ 40 years; researchers link it to passive restoration (fencing out livestock/dogs/hunting) in the humid Gran Chaco (Restoration Ecology, covered by Mongabay Sep 2026).
  • England’s Studland Bay: swapping damaging boat anchors for eco-moorings cut seagrass scars by ≈ 94%, with seahorse habitat bouncing back (UK research roundup).

Wonder

California two-spot octopuses (Octopus bimaculoides) can learn to use a mirror to find a reward they cannot see directly — Current Biology (2026) evidence that cephalopod spatial smarts go beyond “curious arm.”

Painting of the day

La Tempesta — Giorgione

La Tempesta — Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco), ≈ 1503–08. Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice (cat. 915; canvas ≈ 82 × 73 cm). Soldier, nursing mother, and a lightning-split sky: first great Venetian landscape puzzle.

Vittorio Sgarbi, catalogue essay for the 2010 Palazzo Grimani Giorgione show (quoted in LaFolla.it, 2 Sep 2010): «La prima fotografia — il lampo nel cielo colto nell’istante in cui appare, rendendo luminose e spettrali le architetture sul fondo. Un fulmine, l’avviso della tempesta imminente… Da molto tempo penso che la lettura più pertinente sia proprio quella impressionistica, che fa riferimento alla “tempesta”, la cui evidenza metereologica ha lo stesso peso dei due umani protagonisti.»

Word of the day (EN)

perspicacious — having keen insight; mentally sharp at reading situations.

  1. A perspicacious editor spotted the hole in the argument before anyone else did.
  2. Markets reward perspicacious timing more often than loud opinions.

Čeština (2 words)

  1. káva — coffee · (KAH-vah) · Dáš si kávu? — Want a coffee?
  2. čaj — tea · (chy, like “chai”) · Preferuji čaj ráno. — I prefer tea in the morning.

Marco Aurelio

«Gli uomini cercano ritiri in campagna, al mare, in montagna; e anche tu sei solito desiderare intensamente tali luoghi. Ma tutto questo è da persona assai comune, quando ti è possibile, in qualunque momento, ritirarti in te stesso. In nessun luogo infatti l’uomo può trovare un rifugio più quieto e più libero da affanni che nella propria anima…»

Pensieri, Libro IV, 3