• All day — Register to vote at Praha 3 (deadline Wed 7 Oct 16:00) · ÚMČ Praha 3, Seifertova 51/559 (note: Praha 3 already confirmed your registration on 25 Sep — polling district 3007 at ZŠ Jaroslava Seiferta — this calendar hold is likely leftover)
• No timed appointments on the calendar.

• Alza / AlzaBox — ready now. Order 1060322057 (Coravin Timeless Three+ Wine Preservation System, Black). AlzaBox P3 – Žižkov – Fibichova (Žižkovská věž), Fibichova 1586/11, Praha 3. Pickup code 395 340. Paid. Pickup by Tue 29 Sep 23:59.
• PPL ParcelShop — waiting. Tracking 41157386215, PIN 516805. Trafika PAJAK – Praha Kubelíkova, Kubelíkova 733/60, Praha 3. Open today ≈07:00–20:00. Pickup by 2 Oct 2026.
• Enecta order #35612 confirmed 25 Sep — still preparing.
• Intimissimi order 2003943997 shipped 24 Sep — no pickup notice yet.

• Ukraine: Russia kept up mass drone/missile strikes over the weekend; Kyiv Independent reported at least 14 killed and 57 injured in a 27 Sep wave; further strike deaths reported into 28 Sep (CNA and others). Energy and civilian sites remain targets.
• Ukraine (front): Reporting continues on Ukrainian pressure in the Lyman / Donbas “Fortress Belt” area, with Russian units trying to stabilize after local retreats (bne IntelliNews / regional wraps) — fluid, not a settled line change.
• Iran / Hormuz: Trump publicly rejected Iran’s mediated proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within about seven days (conditions reportedly included sanctions relief and ending a naval blockade); he still floated possible talks “next week” (France 24, Al Jazeera liveblog 28 Sep). Oil reacted higher; IRGC claims of seizing US underwater drones keep the military risk premium alive.

Today: deadline for the Pavia Prosecutor’s investigation of Andrea Sempio is Monday 28 Sep 2026. Sky TG24 (27 Sep) says the Procura is expected to notify the defense of the conclusion of investigations (art. 415-bis), with a second notice for aggravated murder and new expert reports attached (DNA on nails — Previderè; anthropometrics — Cattaneo; floor print — Iuliano/Caprioli). Psychiatric consult (Catanesi) still incomplete after Sempio refused a direct interview. Sempio’s lawyers (Cataliotti, Taccia) await the file; Stasi’s defense is watching for a possible revision petition after this step. Ex-RIS Gen. Luciano Garofano was heard as a witness Friday. Today is a procedural step, not a verdict.

• 22 Sep — General Affairs Council: ministers worked the 2028–2034 Multiannual Financial Framework and prep for the October European Council (Consilium / Irish Presidency notes).
• Social security coordination reform: Council authorised to move to final adoption of the long-running coordination rules reform around 28 Sep (Agence Europe).
• Pharma package: Member States locked Council positions on the European pharmaceutical reform, with formal steps tied to the same late-September Council track (Agence Europe).
• Ukraine Facility: Council approved nearly €3 billion support for Ukraine, with a new support loan entering disbursement (Council / 2eu.brussels reporting, 25 Sep).
• Live files to keep on the board: MFF 2028–34 negotiations, pharma legislation, social-security coordination close-out.

Bitwig & Traktor

No fresh Bitwig Studio or Traktor Pro release notes worth flagging this morning, and no clearly new YouTube tutorials from the last 1–2 days. Quiet day.

Linux

(a) Tip: Pipe a file list into entr to re-run a command whenever those files change — handy for rebuilds or tests without a full IDE watcher. Example: ls *.py | entr -c python3 main.py (Ctrl-C to stop). (b) Package: entr — tiny “run this when files change” tool (sudo apt install entr).

Tip

Want Light, Dark, or Follow System? Jump straight to the Theme setting with the deep link grokbot://app/v1/settings?id=theme — no menu hunting.

Weekly changelog

Late last week public write-ups (e.g. TeslaNorth, 24 Sep) highlighted a Grok Bot release (≈0.61) with voice calls / voice memos, 1Password vault sharing, inline forms, and drafting for email/Slack. Nothing further confirmed in official channels.

• Underwater solar: Euronews (27 Sep 2026) reports researchers testing perovskite-based panels about 10 m underwater — early proof that solar can harvest light below the surface for submerged sensors and gear.
• Farm limestone as carbon sink: Yale News (23 Sep) on a Nature paper — agricultural liming in the Mississippi River Basin can act as a major net carbon sink in soils, flipping an old emissions assumption.
• Bee-safe pesticides path: Good News Network — California researchers using machine learning to find odor compounds that repel honeybees from pesticide-treated crops, aiming to cut bee exposure without losing pest control.

Schooling glassfish don’t just copy neighbours blindly: a 2026 Nature paper shows they detect when nearby fish suddenly vanish or flee, and that visual “social alarm” helps drive collective escape — a neural hook for how schools spook as one (Neuronal detection of social actions directs collective escape behaviour, Nature).

Girl with a Pearl Earring (Meisje met de parel) — Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665 · Mauritshuis, The Hague.

Blue-and-yellow turban, one earring, a look that launched a thousand posters. It’s a tronie (character study), not a named portrait, and the “pearl” may be glass or tin — the light is the real jewel.

Sgarbi, verbatim (on the Bologna tour of the painting, quoted in Famiglia Cristiana, 6 Feb 2014):

«Noi non ne abbiamo bisogno» … «e poi la gente non si mette in fila per andare a vedere un’icona dell’arte, ma per incontrare una star».

(The same article notes Daverio’s broader view that such works should be seen in their home context — paraphrased there, so not quoted as his words here.)

obdurate (adj.) — stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action; hardened against persuasion.

1. The committee stayed obdurate even after the new data landed.
2. Don’t be obdurate about the API shape if users keep bouncing off it.

chléb — bread · khlehb
Koupím chléb. — I’ll buy bread.
Čerstvý chléb voní skvěle. — Fresh bread smells great.

voda — water · VO-dah
Dej mi vodu, prosím. — Give me water, please.
Pitná voda je z kohoutku. — Drinking water is from the tap.