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Sun 8 Nov · today

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Mon 9 Nov

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Tue 10 Nov

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Strait of Hormuz from orbit (NASA, public domain). Source

• Ukraine’s energy grid hit. Overnight Friday–Saturday, Russia launched 172 drones and 36 ballistic missiles, Zelenskyy said, some of them North Korean KN-23s. The strikes hit energy facilities; Ukraine’s energy ministry said five regions were plunged into darkness and power transmission around Kyiv was badly hit. Kyiv also had trouble with water and heat, and the city’s Northern Bridge was damaged. Zelenskyy said five people were injured, including a 14-year-old girl. The Guardian
• Talks on Tuesday. US-brokered talks among Ukraine, Russia and the United States are due in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday and Wednesday (10–11 Nov), the first such meeting in months. Zelenskyy said Russia is intensifying attacks to pressure Ukraine’s position, and asked Washington for more Patriot interceptors. The Guardian
• Iran missile range. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it has lifted a self-imposed 2,000-kilometre cap on the range of its ballistic missiles. Iran is not known to already have missiles that fly farther than that. ABC News Australia
• Strikes and diplomacy. On Friday Trump said US forces had carried out “minor” strikes and destroyed a “little” Iranian anti-aircraft system; ISW said the target was air defences on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz. On Saturday the US announced Task Force Iron Gate, based in Tampa, to disrupt weapons and sanctioned goods moving over Iran’s land borders and the Caspian Sea. The same day, Trump discussed de-escalation with Qatar’s emir; AP reported that Iran is reviewing Qatari proposals on the nuclear file. ABC News Australia · ISW / Critical Threats

Garlasco castle tower (Alessandro Vecchi, CC BY-SA 3.0). Source

• No new filing. No new prosecutor, court or police filing since Pavia’s 3 November request to send Andrea Sempio to trial.
• Defence contests intercepts. Saturday 7 Nov, Sempio’s lawyer Liborio Cataliotti told Rai 2’s Storie al Bivio Weekend that the intercepted soliloquies “non provano in alcun modo le sue responsabilità,” and that notebook phrases were copied from a TV-show outline (the defence says it found a live comment on that programme and a link sent to a friend six days later). He also said a 3D reconstruction showed Sempio’s foot did not fit the shoes attributed to the killer, cited a 2010 intercept in which Sempio spoke of ordering size-44 shoes versus traces long attributed to a size 42, said there was no relationship with Chiara Poggi, and contested a motive built on three phone calls totalling about 25 seconds. La Presse
• Sempio’s reaction. Friday 6 Nov on Quarto Grado, Sempio said the trial request was expected and hoped “to go into the courtroom as soon as possible to settle everything,” adding “Paura no, tensione sì, perché il momento è quello che è.” Gup Luigi Riganti will decide whether he goes to trial; no hearing date yet. ANSA
• Video and X. No clearly dated new YouTube video or X discussion confirmed beyond those TV appearances.

• Bitwig. No new release; Studio 6.1.4 (13 October) remains latest. Bitwig releases
• Traktor. Pro 4.5.1 (9 July) remains current. NI update status
• Tutorials. No worthwhile new Bitwig or Traktor YouTube tutorial from the last day or two.
• Ubuntu tip: interface summary. After an upgrade or flaky Wi-Fi, run ip -br addr (or ip -br a): one short line per interface, with name, UP/DOWN and addresses.
• Package: jq. sudo apt install jq provides a small command-line JSON tool for extracting fields from API responses, logs or journalctl -o json.

On-demand usage has its own row. In Settings → Usage & Billing → On-demand, you can inspect extra usage separately from Usage, Plan and Billing. Usage & Billing appears only when the feature is enabled; open Settings with Cmd+, or the account menu.

Adult Galleria mellonella; the experiment used larvae (Donald Hobern, CC BY 2.0). Source

• Nitric oxide against infection. A gas we already make — nitric oxide — helped nine in ten infected wax moth larvae survive a bacterial wound infection, against about six in ten left untreated, in a University of Reading study published 3 November. The team packed the gas into tiny particles that release it slowly (it breaks down too fast on its own); in flask tests the particles left 10,000 to 100,000 times fewer bacteria after a day. More work is needed before this could become a treatment for people. University of Reading
• Tropical-disease progress. WHO said 63 countries had eliminated at least one neglected tropical disease by June 2026, up from 42 in 2020. People needing treatment fell to 1.41 billion in 2024, a 36% drop since 2010; sleeping sickness cases are down 98% since 1999; and Guinea worm hit a historic low of 10 human cases in 2025. The agency called this a genuine success — and warned the progress is “fragile” without steady funding. Anadolu Agency, citing WHO

The multilingual Rosetta Stone (Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0). Source

Language diversity may have peaked long before colonialism. About 7,500 languages are spoken or signed in the world today. A model by Yale linguist Claire Bowern and colleagues, published in Science, finds that linguistic diversity likely peaked at somewhere between 20,000 and 75,000 languages only 1,000 to 3,000 years ago — perhaps up to ten times today’s total — and then fell as farming intensified and ancient empires expanded, not just with colonialism in the last 500 years. Before agriculture, with a world population of roughly 4.4–7 million, they estimate only about 4,500–6,200 languages. Science News

Beato Angelico, Annunciation, north dormitory corridor, San Marco, Florence (public domain). Source

Beato Angelico, Annunciazione di San Marco (fresco, about 1440–1445), still in the dormitory corridor of the convent of San Marco in Florence. The Virgin sits under a bare Renaissance loggia; Gabriel has just arrived from the left; a garden opens beyond. It was painted for Angelico’s fellow Dominicans, so they would meet the scene as they left their cells — no theatrical gold storm, just quiet architecture and stillness. It matters because early Renaissance perspective and sacred calm are held in the same breath.

«L’Annunciazione di San Marco - affrescata nel corridoio del dormitorio conventuale tra il 1440 e il 1445 resta per me uno dei vertici assoluti della pittura occidentale.»

«Non credo ci sia altro pittore che abbia saputo dipingere Dio senza offendere l’intelligenza dell’uomo.»

«In Angelico non vedo solo l’estasi, ma una costruzione razionale. Una pittura fatta di economia formale, armonia e silenzio. Più matematica che mistica.»

Vittorio Sgarbi, 25 January 2026. Il Giornale

peripeteia — a sudden reversal of fortune or circumstances, especially the turning point in a tragedy (from Aristotle’s Poetics).

• The comedy’s peripeteia arrives not with a crash, but when the charming driver finally runs out of road and excuses.
• In the novel, his peripeteia is the quiet moment he understands he can never go home.

• otevřeno (OH-teh-vrzheh-no): open. Mají dnes otevřeno? (Are they open today?)
• zavřeno (ZAH-vrzheh-no): closed. V neděli mají zavřeno. (They’re closed on Sunday.)

Witold Gombrowicz (Aleksander Janta archive, public domain). Source

Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke (first published October 1937, Warsaw, Rój). A thirty-year-old writer is snatched back to school by a professor and forced into the role of an immature schoolboy, then shoved through one social “form” after another. Grotesque, funny, and sharp about how other people pin a face — a gęba, a mug — on you. Kin to Pirandello’s identity games and Hašek’s institutional absurdity.

Get it: Amazon.it · Ferdydurke, Il Saggiatore, Italian edition (2020). Paperback offers from €3.99; price and condition vary.

C’eravamo tanto amati (1974, Ettore Scola). Three friends from the Resistance — Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefano Satta Flores — plus Stefania Sandrelli, followed from the Liberation to the mid-1970s as ideals thin out, careers harden, and the joke gets sadder. Bittersweet commedia all’italiana that is also a history of postwar Italy; dedicated to De Sica, who died while it was being finished.

Trailer: Nuovissimo Millefilm 2 on YouTube

Where to stream: Czechia: availability could not be verified on JustWatch; no platform claimed. Italy: Sky Go, NOW, The Film Club Amazon Channel; rent or buy on Apple TV, Amazon Video and TIMvision. JustWatch CZ · JustWatch IT

A new way to visualize General Relativity · ScienceClic English (France) · English · 11 minutes 33 seconds He takes apart the usual “rubber sheet” picture of Einstein’s gravity — the sagging trampoline that secretly explains gravity with more gravity — and rebuilds a clearer image that includes time, not just space. Proper science communication, no clickbait. YouTube