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Thursday 1 October 2026

Today

Thursday 1 Oct

  • 12:00 — Vaccination hold, PragMed
  • 12:15 — Očkování covid + chřipka · PragMed, LightHouse 3rd floor, Jankovcova 1569/2C, Praha 7-Holešovice
  • 13:00 — Lorenzo & Inna (Teams coaching)

Friday 2 Oct

  • Nothing timed.

Saturday 3 Oct

  • Nothing timed.

Prague weather

feels 10°C11°C clear
  • 2 km/h
  • 74%
  • 7°C
high 25°C / low 11°Cmostly clear morning, overcast afternoon

Air & pollen

  • Open-Meteo · Europe/Prague · as of about 07:30 | Time | Temp | Sky | Wind | Hum | Dew | |------|------|-----|------|-----|-----| | 09:00 | 13°C | clear | 2 km/h | 68% | 7°C | | 12:00 | 19°C | partly cloudy | 5 km/h | 49% | 8°C | | 15:00 | 25°C | overcast | 4 km/h | 34% | 8°C | | 18:00 | 25°C | overcast | 10 km/h | 30% | 6°C | | 21:00 | 20°C | overcast | 4 km/h | 35% | 4°C | Pollen: mugwort low–moderate (about 2 grains/m³)
  • grass and ragweed negligible
  • tree pollen effectively off

Markets

(Wed 30 Sep close — Thu morning CET)

  • Wall St mixed after cooler PCE: Dow −0.86% → 50,908 · S&P −0.25% → 7,652 · Nasdaq +0.24% → 26,861 (HDFC SKY)
  • EUR/USD about 1.136 · DXY about 101.20 (−0.17%)
  • Brent about $98.84 (+2.8%) on Middle East supply jitters; China A-shares shut for National Day (1–7 Oct)

Conflicts

  • Ukraine: Russia’s heaviest combined energy strike in months — drones + missiles across about 10 regions; at least 7 dead; emergency power cuts in Kyiv for first time since spring (France 24 · Guardian). Zelenskyy cites about 176 km² retaken near Lyman in op “Vivaldi.”
  • Iran / US: Tehran says it received an official US reply (via Qatar) to its 7-day Hormuz/ceasefire offer; Trump had publicly rejected it; sequencing of trust steps still stuck; new US Treasury sanctions on Iran supply-chain facilitators (AP via Military.com).

Garlasco / Chiara Poggi

Procura di Pavia closed the Sempio probe (deadline 28 Sep); defence lawyer Angela Taccia (30 Sep): expects a rinvio a giudizio “anche per il clima mediatico,” while denying grounds. Sempio’s mother: son “non c’entra assolutamente niente.” Stasi camp still pushing revision after negative DNA re-checks on bike pedals that allegedly never entered the original file (ANSA · Sky TG24).

Tools & tech

  • Bitwig: Studio 6.1 (26 Aug) — rebuilt Sampler (Spectral + Fragments modes, slicing, auto tempo/pitch) + new Tuner; free with Upgrade Plan.
  • Traktor: Pro still 4.5.1 (9 Jul); Traktor Play (streamlined 2-deck) announced for 3 Nov.
  • YouTube (last 1–2 days): nothing fresh worth flagging.
  • Linux tip: Prefer ss -tulpn over old netstat to list listening ports with owning PIDs.
  • Package: bat — sudo apt install bat (binary often batcat on Ubuntu) — colourised, paged file view instead of bare cat.

Grok Bot tip

Tired of typos sneaking into drafts? Turn on Spell check under Settings → General: open Spell check (sidebar account → Settings, or Cmd+,). It only covers the rows listed in the app UI map — no invented toggles. Handy when you’re flying through Lollo Times notes.

Good News

  • Global mangrove cover has flipped from decades of net loss to net gains, per State of the World’s Mangroves 2026 (Nature Conservancy / Global Mangrove Alliance, 30 Sep) — with the caveat that old-growth is still being lost.
  • Acoustic enrichment (playing healthy-reef soundscapes) boosts settlement of the critically endangered coral Diploria labyrinthiformis (Scientific Reports 2026).
  • Synchrotron scans show the “oldest octopus” fossil Pohlsepia was a nautiloid mis-ID — clears a 25-year evolutionary puzzle (University of Reading / Proc. B).

Wonder

A 300-million-year-old fossil once listed in Guinness as the oldest octopus turned out, under synchrotron X-rays, to hide a radula with the wrong tooth count — it was a rotting nautilus relative that just looked octopus-shaped. Tiny teeth, big rewrite of cephalopod timelines.

Painting of the day

Sandro Botticelli — La Primavera (Uffizi)

La Primavera — Sandro Botticelli

Philippe Daverio: «La Primavera di Botticelli. Contemporaneamente chic e misteriosa, sexy e severa. L'equivoco è la chiave dell'italianità. L'Italia raffinata è sempre equivoca, non è mai banale e palese.» — La7 / In Onda

Word of the day (EN)

salutary — producing a beneficial or corrective effect (even if unpleasant).

  1. Missing the AlzaBox deadline would be a salutary lesson in calendar hygiene.
  2. A cold walk after the jab can have a surprisingly salutary effect on mood.

Čeština (2 words)

výtah (VEE-takh) — elevator / lift → Jedeme výtahem do třetího patra. (We take the lift to the third floor.)

schody (SKHO-di) — stairs → PragMed je ve třetím patře — výtah nebo schody. (PragMed is on the 3rd floor — lift or stairs.)

Marco Aurelio

IV.49 (trad. italiana):

Sii come il promontorio, contro cui si infrangono incessantemente i flutti: resta immobile, e intorno ad esso si placa il ribollire delle acque. «Me sventurato, mi è capitato questo». Niente affatto! Semmai: «Me fortunato, perché anche se mi è capitato questo resisto senza provar dolore, senza farmi spezzare dal presente e senza temere il futuro».