Friday 9 Oct

• All day — Prague local elections, day 1 (vote 14:00–22:00), ZŠ Jaroslava Seiferta, Vlkova 800/31, Praha 3 (okrsek 3007). Bring Italian ID/passport + Czech residence card.
• 12:00–13:00 — Pilates, Next.Move Churchill (Italská 69/2584)

Saturday 10 Oct

• All day — Prague local elections, day 2 (vote 08:00–14:00), same station (Vlkova 800/31)
• 11:00–12:00 — Tennis, Cibulka

Sunday 11 Oct

• Nothing timed.

• Amazon.de order 306-5184824-0481921 — MERCEDES GLK X204 rear black velour mats (€22). Dispatched 6 Oct; arriving 10–12 Oct to Prague.
• Nothing else expected.

• Ukraine: Russian glide bomb on buses in Kramatorsk (8 Oct) — ≥33 dead; further strikes toward Kyiv/Odesa/east. Talks: Ukrainian/European negotiators meet US envoys in Miami Fri–Sat; Ukraine hit Omsk oil refinery.
• Iran / region: Trump says talks with Iran are “productive,” no US strikes before 3 Nov midterms; Tehran weighing a Hormuz reopen plan. Houthis claimed a ballistic hit on Riyadh King Khalid Airport (8 Oct); some flights suspended.

Fresh RIS angle (Tg1/Rai, 8 Oct): 2007 verbals vs Capt. Marino’s Sep 2026 deposition — why sample Chiara’s DNA with a kitchen cucchiaino when autopsy blood already existed; yield 2.78 ng matches Stasi bike pedals (swap hypothesis). Garofano says pm Muscio twice denied him villa access. Stasi defense still pushing raw RIS data ahead of revisione; Sempio 415-bis filings due about 18 Oct (ANSA 7 Oct).

• Bitwig: Still on 6.1.3 (23 Sep); last feature drop 6.1 (Aug) — Sampler upgrades + NKS Connect. No newer Oct release.
• Traktor: Pro 4.5.1 (9 Jul) remains current; no Pro 5 news.
• YouTube Bitwig/Traktor tutorial in the last 1–2 days: none found.
• Linux tip: namei -l /full/path/to/file — walks the path and shows which directory actually denies you permission.
• Package: sudo apt install ncdu — interactive disk usage (ncdu /); finds what’s eating space without a wall of du.

Language lives under Settings → General. Open Language to set the app UI language without hunting menus. Handy if the interface drifted into a language you didn’t mean, or after signing in on a new machine. It’s separate from each agent’s own tone and description.

• Charité Berlin treated Germany’s first patient with approved CRISPR Exa-cel for β-thalassemia; the 19-year-old has been transfusion-independent about 4 months.
• Stanford gave the first commercial Orca-T (Tregzi) transplant after FDA approval; phase 3 showed far less severe GVHD vs standard care.
• AFM images finally show two DNA duplexes “zipping” groove-to-groove — confirming a about 20-year prediction (Nucleic Acids Research).

Astronomers spotted a rare “phoenix” exoplanet (about Jupiter-size, 4.4-day orbit) around white dwarf HS 0209+0832 (about 270 ly), likely formed from the dying star’s shed material (Nature Astronomy, early Oct).

Jan Vermeer — Woman in Blue Reading a Letter (Lettrice in blu), Rijksmuseum (recently at Palazzo Barberini). Vittorio Sgarbi, Panorama, 15 Aug 2026:

«Vermeer vuole invece dimostrare che l’historia più nobile, in quanto capace di rivolgersi alla parte migliore delle persone, i loro cuori, sta proprio nella straordinarietà dell’ordinario che può manifestarsi in una casa come un’altra della buona borghesia olandese»

liminal — of a threshold or transitional state; in-between.

1. At dusk the alley felt liminal — neither day nor night.
2. Airport gates are liminal spaces: you’re leaving and not yet arrived.

• zásuvka /ZA-soov-ka/ — wall socket. Kde je zásuvka? Potřebuju nabít telefon.
• nabíječka /na-BEE-yech-ka/ — charger. Zapomněl jsem nabíječku v hotelu.