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Friday 2 October 2026

Today

Friday 2 Oct

  • 12:00 — Pilates, Next.Move Churchill (Italská 69/2584, Praha)
  • 15:00 — Meet with Leonardo Farfan, Google Meet

Saturday 3 Oct

  • 16:00 — Tennis, Sportovní Areál Třebešín

Sunday 4 Oct Nothing timed.

Prague weather

Open-Meteo, Europe/Prague (about 07:30): 11°C ☁️, feels about 10°C, wind 2 km/h, humidity 71%, dew point 6°C. Day high 19°C / low 11°C, dry (0 mm).

Hourly: 08:00 11° ☁️ · 10:00 13° ☁️ · 12:00 15° ☁️ · 14:00 18° ☁️ · 16:00 19° ☁️ · 18:00 19° ☁️ · 20:00 17° ☁️ (wind light all day; dew about 6–8°C).

Allergy: grass near zero; mugwort about 3 grains/m³ (low–moderate); birch/alder/ragweed negligible (Open-Meteo air quality).

Markets

  • (closes / late Thu 1 Oct)
  • STOXX Europe 600 −1.30% to 626.65 (lowest close since June; bond sell-off) — Morningstar / Dow Jones
  • S&P 500 closed about 7,668.82 (+0.23%) as Treasury yields eased from multi-decade highs — market reports 1 Oct
  • EUR/USD near a yearly low (about 1.125) on strong US data / dollar bid — FX Street 1 Oct

Conflicts

  • Ukraine: Overnight/day drone and missile strikes; Kyiv Independent reported at least 6 killed and dozens injured; energy infrastructure hit. General Staff: about 209 clashes, heavy pressure around Pokrovsk. Putin publicly ruled out a ceasefire (Al Jazeera / ISW 1 Oct).
  • Iran: US reinforcing the region (third carrier / Marine deployments reported); tanker incident talk around Hormuz; diplomacy stalled, Tehran weighing counter-proposals while preparing for wider retaliation if struck (Al Jazeera live 2 Oct).

Garlasco / Chiara Poggi

1 Oct (ANSA): Famiglia Poggi will not join as parte civile against Andrea Sempio — lawyers say they consider him innocent / no claim while Stasi’s conviction stands. Prosecutors, after closing the Sempio file again, plan to seek rinvio a giudizio after mid-October. Parallel dispute continues over 2007 RIS bike-pedal DNA raw data (Garofano vs Stasi consultants). ANSA

Tools & tech

  • Bitwig: Studio 6.1 still the current line (shipped 26 Aug 2026) — rebuilt Sampler (slicing, Spectral/Fragments, etc.). No newer release overnight.
  • Traktor: Pro 4.5.1 (9 Jul 2026) still current — bugfix + Win10 no longer officially supported. No newer drop overnight.
  • YouTube (last 1–2 days): no solid new Bitwig/Traktor tutorial dated 30 Sep–2 Oct found; skip rather than stretch older uploads.
  • Linux tip: journalctl -u nginx -n 50 --no-pager (swap the unit) — last 50 lines for one service without drowning in the whole journal.
  • Package: duf (sudo apt install duf) — clearer disk-usage overview than raw df.

Grok Bot tip

Tip: notification sounds live under General → Notification sound (and the on/off row next to it). Handy if a routine fires and you want a soft chime without hunting the OS mixer. Open settings via the bottom-left account button or Cmd+,.

Good News

  • UC Berkeley–led team published charge-switching lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery that flip charge in blood to cut inflammation — mouse acute lung injury results and human blood-cell tests look promising (Berkeley Engineering, 1 Oct, Nature Nanotechnology).
  • Mayo Clinic reported early biomarker drops (nerve-injury markers down sharply) in a single-patient ALS gene-targeted therapy (Newswise / Mayo, recent).

Wonder

Asteroid 44 Nysa looks like a weird three-lobed / arch-shaped body with a tiny moon — possibly a contact “trinary” that stuck together after collisions (Sky & Telescope astronomy news).

Painting of the day

Giorgione — Il tramonto (Sunset), National Gallery, London (c. 1501–05).

Il tramonto — Giorgione

Sgarbi (il Giornale, 6 Jul 2025): «Il supposto mistero della Tempesta, che mistero non è, perché rappresenta esattamente quello che dichiara, cioè una lampo nel cielo, si svela pienamente in questo dipinto di pochi anni prima. Un meraviglioso paesaggio indorato dal tramonto, una roccia minacciosa bagnata di luce serotina.» And later: «Giorgione va oltre Bellini, destabilizza il mirabile equilibrio del grande Maestro, rende marginale l’uomo e fa sentire il grande mistero della natura.» Source: il Giornale

Word of the day (EN)

perspicacious — having a ready insight into and understanding of things; shrewdly perceptive.

  • A perspicacious editor spotted the hole in the argument before anyone else.
  • You don’t need to be perspicacious to see the AlzaBox deadline is today.

Čeština (2 words)

  • lékárna (LEH-kahr-nah) — pharmacy. «Kde je nejbližší lékárna?»
  • ordinace (or-di-NA-tseh) — doctor’s office / consulting room. «Čekám v ordinaci.»

Marco Aurelio

Pensieri IV.3 (trad. it. da edizione Bertagni / A se stesso): «Si cercano un luogo di ritiro, campagne, lidi marini e monti; e anche tu sei solito desiderare fortemente un simile isolamento. Ma tutto questo è proprio di chi non ha la minima istruzione filosofica, visto che è possibile, in qualunque momento lo desideri, ritirarti in te stesso; perché un uomo non può ritirarsi in un luogo più quieto o indisturbato della propria anima.»