(Fastmail calendar, Europe/Rome)

Tue 13 Oct

• All day: Luca a Praga · Pecorari a Praga (both end today)
• 12:00–13:30 Unico with Pierpaolo Pecorari, Unico restaurant
• 18:00–18:30 Meet with Leonardo Farfan, video call (cal.com link)

Wed 14 Oct

• Nothing timed.

Thu 15 Oct

• 13:00–14:00 Lorenzo & Inna coaching, Microsoft Teams

• DPD 13459523365491 (Extrastore return): waiting at E-Mys Market, Čajkovského 1224/19, Praha 3. Code 8F41. DPD said it holds 7 days from 9 Oct, so roughly until Fri 16 Oct. You can extend the hold via the link in the DPD email.
• Intimissimi orders 2003989511 (4 items) + 2003989496 (2 items): shipped 12 Oct to the Intimissimi store, Náměstí Republiky 1. Not tracked; they'll email when it's ready to collect.
• Amazon.de 306-5184824-0481921 (GLK X204 rear mats): dispatched 6 Oct. Still no delivery email this morning, even though the window was 10–12 Oct. Worth a look in Amazon.

• Ukraine, "energy ceasefire": Trump announced it Sunday. Zelensky says Russia has hit six energy sites since then, injuring 33, and there are fresh outages in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia. (BBC)
• Kyiv: a drone hit a 25-storey block in Darnytskyi, killing 2. Then around 6 ballistic missiles struck transport and warehouse sites late Monday. (Kyiv Post)
• Diplomacy: the Kremlin rejected Zelensky's idea of a 60-day truce to allow elections and says it wants a full peace deal. (Irish Times)
• Iran/US: still stuck over Hormuz. Tehran is reviewing the latest US proposal, will answer through Qatari and Pakistani mediators, and wants to return to the Islamabad MoU. (Washington Times)
• At sea: UKMTO logged three tanker strikes on 11 Oct alone. One was the Petro Dolphin off Sohar, Oman, with 2 Indian sailors missing. (Maritime Executive)
• Threats: security chief Rezaei says Gulf data centres, undersea cables and AI sites would be "within range" if war resumes. (Iran International)

• Decisive week: the deadline for replies to the Pavia prosecutors is Sun 18 Oct. After that, a request to send Sempio to trial is expected. (AGI)
• Sempio's defence plans to file five expert reports by Fri 16 Oct. They target palm print 33 (lawyers say "il piede del killer è più piccolo del suo") and the shoe print. (Leggo)
• Sempio spoke after a 3-hour meeting at Genomica in Rome with geneticist Marina Baldi: "Noi eravamo pronti quattro mesi fa". (LaPresse)
• The Poggi family won't file counter-reports or join as civil party; they stay as injured party. (AGI)

Bitwig: no new release. The latest is still 6.1.3 from late September (release history). Fresh on YouTube:

• The Bitwig Sampler Ate My Family by Future Form Sounds, 2 days ago
• Bitwig Studio Linux audio dehiss/clean by J£RK$UM, about 12h ago

Traktor: no new release. Traktor Pro is still on 4.5.1 from July (NI update status). No Traktor tutorial worth flagging from the last 1–2 days.

Linux

• Tip: slow boot? Run systemd-analyze blame to rank services by how long they took to start. systemd-analyze critical-chain shows what actually held up the boot.
• Package: trash-cli (sudo apt install trash-cli). trash-put file moves things to the desktop Trash instead of deleting them for good like rm. Get them back with trash-restore.

Typos in long prompts? Settings has a Spell-check row under General. You can open Settings from the account button at the bottom-left of the sidebar or the command palette's "Open settings".

• Klamath salmon are back: after four dams came down in 2024, more than 13,000 Chinook went up the river in 2025. They've retaken 88% of their known historical habitat. (Mongabay)
• Turtles home in NSW: 13 rescued turtles went back into a refilled Gingham water hole, and 281 eggs are incubating at Taronga Dubbo. (Guardian)
• Costa Rica: 13 white-lipped peccaries were released after an 18-year absence. They spread seeds from 57 plant types. (Times of India)

The Moon on Prague's Orloj sits on a 57-tooth gear inside its own sphere. A weight-driven screw turns it two teeth a day, powered by gravity alone. Wikipedia says that makes the clock unique among astronomical clocks that show lunar phases. The clock was first mentioned on 9 Oct 1410, so it just turned 616. (Wikipedia)

Andrea Mantegna, Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ), late 15th century, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. The famous foreshortened Christ, feet first. In 2013 Ermanno Olmi rehung it in a dark room, unframed, 67 cm off the floor.

Vittorio Sgarbi backed giving it a room of its own (il Giornale, 13 Dec 2013), but not the darkness or the missing frame:

«il capolavoro di Mantegna sembra in castigo, al buio, non protetto ma nascosto, quasi in un retrobottega.»

«In una collocazione definitiva, terrei tutto il buono della proposta di Olmi ristabilendo il legame con il contesto attraverso la cornice»

Source: il Giornale, "Mantegna senza rivali (finalmente)"

apophenia (noun): the tendency to see meaningful patterns or connections in random or unrelated things.

• Three red cars in a row felt like a sign, but it was just apophenia.
• Good analysts guard against apophenia when a chart looks "obvious."

1. sleva (discount), SLEH-vah. Je na to nějaká sleva? "Is there a discount on this?"
2. zpoždění (delay), ZPOZH-dyeh-nyee. Vlak má deset minut zpoždění. "The train is ten minutes late."