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Sunday, 25 October
(HTM) Monday 26 October, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) Memory Lane 10/25/26 (File 770)
(HTM) World Fantasy Awards 2026 (File 770)
(HTM) Possible Roberts Road Expansion as SpaceX pushes for Flight 16 (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Seam Cutter (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) How Does One Person Kill a Mountain? by Shi Heiyao (audio) (Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy)
(HTM) The Mystery of True Love: Mahjong Bakuhatsu Junjouden (Nicole Express)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 25 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
Saturday, 24 October
(HTM) 2026 Anthony Awards (File 770)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/24/26 I Don’t Think There’s A Market For More Than 640K Pixels (File 770)
(HTM) Macavity Awards 2026 Winners (File 770)
(HTM) World Fantasy Con 2026 Friday Review (File 770)
(HTM) Counting Primes (Azimuth)
(HTM) The Mari Lwyd by Fiona Moore (audio) (Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy)
(HTM) Bunkering down (Interconnected)
(HTM) The human voice (Science News)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 24 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
Friday, 23 October
(HTM) battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) NASA Artemis Update: SLS Stacking, Sortie Suit, Dual 2028 Paths (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/23/26 You Know How To Pixel, Don’t You, Steve? You Just Put Your Files Together And… Scroll (File 770)
(HTM) Quick Study (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) 2026 Arthur C. Clarke Awards (File 770)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Critique and writing (23 Oct 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IVa: The Fires of Industry (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)
(HTM) Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Why did humans’ brains surpass chimps’? A tiny foe might help explain it (Science News)
(HTM) An Ion Storm!, Part 2: The Return to Ground Level (The Digital Antiquarian)
(HTM) Eating too much sugar on antibiotics could squash helpful gut bacteria (Science News)
(HTM) Electric stoves could help people with asthma breathe easier (Science News)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 23 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
(HTM) t-rex and the work enemy (Dinosaur Comics!)
Thursday, 22 October
(HTM) Forms of Water (xkcd.com)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/22/26 I’m Using My Kwisatz Haderach Abilities To Predict What The Rest Of The Pixel Scroll Items Are (File 770)
(HTM) Friday 23 October, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) ISS receives new cargo from Dragon as Crew-12 hands over to Crew-13 (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video) (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Zuckerberg Wants to Keep His Votes (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) A nanoparticle revealed the tiny impact of a single gas atom (Science News)
(HTM) PocketMage PDA - Launch Announcement (Ashtf)
(HTM) Quoting Armin Ronacher (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Was van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ a flight of fancy or a real sky? (Science News)
(HTM) This ‘living drug’ could change the course of autoimmune disease (Science News)
(HTM) “Earth Not a Globe”: Parallax’s Zetetic Astronomy (1865) (The Public Domain Review)
(HTM) Book Review: Where We Go at Night by Ikwo Ntekim (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Author Spotlight: Kehkashan Khalid (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) All the Shapes We Have Ever Been (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Author Spotlight: Rob Cameron (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Ice Like Honey (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Paul Weimer Review: Villain (File 770)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 22 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
Wednesday, 21 October
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/21/26 Everscroll: Distilled From 100% Selected Pixels (File 770)
(HTM) 2026 sf-Lit Award for Works Published in German Longlist (File 770)
(HTM) 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction (File 770)
(HTM) China readies first commercial resupply craft, first booster reflight, and next landing attempt (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Adversarial interoperability is a team sport (21 Oct 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Obviously SpaceX and Tesla Will Merge (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) AI could turn scientific papers into research assistants (Science News)
(HTM) Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) A lifesaving medication is not behind the drop in U.S. overdose deaths (Science News)
(HTM) Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today (Krebs on Security)
(HTM) Peek into hidden worlds revealed by the 2026 Nikon Small World contest (Science News)
(HTM) What can minerals tell us about Earth’s past? This geologist is finding out (Science News)
(HTM) The Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis (Azimuth)
(HTM) The Work Behind the Guild (File 770)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 21 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
(HTM) if you're either mad, annoyed, or attracted at me, you have to tell me. but like, figure yourself out first and then tell me. (Dinosaur Comics!)
Tuesday, 20 October
(HTM) Vulnerability (xkcd.com)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/20/26 No, You Can’t File That Away From Me, Head Like A Scroll, Pixeled Like Your Soul, I’d Rather File Than Watch Disco´s Control (File 770)
(HTM) eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Wednesday 21 October, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) Rule breaking by just a few people can be contagious (Science News)
(HTM) Premio Italia 2026 Winners (File 770)
(HTM) Matt Howarth, 1954-2026 (Flogging Babel)
(HTM) Battle Drones - a vibe coded RTS with audio-based multiplayer (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Someone Has to Take the AI Risk (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) Pluralistic: The death of history's most successful publisher (20 Oct 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Launch Preview: H3, Falcon 9, Electron, and others to launch during busy week (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900) (The Public Domain Review)
(HTM) Resurrecting the Most Useless Piece of Vintage Computing Technology - The Modem Part 1 (Nerdly Pleasures)
(HTM) Spitfire, Mustang and the ‘Meredith Effect’ (Hush-Kit Aviation World)
(HTM) A quantum computing feat brings the ‘megaquops’ era a step closer (Science News)
(HTM) AI can give you your voice back (Science News)
(HTM) Lee Weinstein Review – Randalls Round (File 770)
(HTM) Gofundme to Help Ekpeki Attain the Global Talent Visa as He Recovers (File 770)
(HTM) After the Fire, a New Anthology Inspired by Ray Bradbury, Opens Call for Submissions (File 770)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 20 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
Monday, 19 October
(HTM) Falcon 9 launches Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Florida (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/19/26 Pixel Two: “And If You Try To Escape, Pixel Six, You Will Be Chased Down And Swallowed By A Giant, Inflatable File!” (File 770)
(HTM) My obituary for programming (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Universal Basic AI (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness Redux Edition Review (Nerdly Pleasures)
(HTM) Japanese MMX mission launches to study Martian moons (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) These tiny snakes cartwheel to escape danger (Science News)
(HTM) Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site (Krebs on Security)
(HTM) PLD Space begins system-level testing of Miura 5 as first three vehicles take shape (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Japan’s sample return mission to Phobos may also collect some Mars dust (Science News)
(HTM) Flying under the radar: Russia's tacit reliance on Chinese SAR satellites (part 2) (The Space Review)
(HTM) The commercial space station competition finally begins (The Space Review)
(HTM) RAMs and Blackjacks and shuttles: the Soviet Ramenskoye flight test center (part 2) (The Space Review)
(HTM) The ghost beneath the shuttle Columbia: Kosmos 398, STS-73, and the last echo of the US/Soviet Moon race (The Space Review)
(HTM) A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside a payload container: the curious case of Defense Support Program Satellite F-11 (The Space Review)
(HTM) The surprising case for space mining (The Space Review)
(HTM) Review by John A Arkansawyer: The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State (File 770)
(HTM) Regret — Joe Bakovsky Guest Post (File 770)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 19 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
(HTM) Pluralistic: The technopolitics of ad-tech (19 Oct 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) t-rex in: chosen FUN (Dinosaur Comics!)
Sunday, 18 October
(HTM) Fusion Device (xkcd.com)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/18/26 Files Are A Burden To Others; Answers, A Pixel For Oneself (File 770)
(HTM) llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Monday 19 October, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) llm-echo 0.5 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Inside the Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction (Ken Shirriff's blog)
(HTM) SpaceX working through Starship Flight 15 and 16 milestones (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors (Ken Shirriff's blog)
(HTM) SFPA Announces 2026 Elgin, Dwarf Star, and Rhysling Award Winners (File 770)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 18 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
Saturday, 17 October
(HTM) Donato Giancola Responds to Must Read Magazines Latest Comment on Artist Contracts (File 770)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/17/26 Through Dangers Untold And Pixels Unnumbered, I Have Fought My Way Here To The Castle Beyond The Goblin City To Take Back The Scroll That You Have Stolen (File 770)
(HTM) Inline rendering with document.currentScript (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Teadrinker interview with tea (The tunnel - demoscene blog)
(HTM) Filtered for ears and memory (Interconnected)
(HTM) web-edit 0.1a2 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Israeli ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware" (17 Oct 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) John Trimble Honored with LASFS’ Inaugural Emil Award (File 770)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 17 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
Friday, 16 October
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/16/26 All The World Seems Less Vile, When We’re Reading The File, As We’re Scrolling The Pixels In The Park (File 770)
(HTM) Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Has Must Read Magazines Surrendered? (File 770)
(HTM) Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIb: The Opposite of Love (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)
(HTM) This Week on The Analog Antiquarian (The Digital Antiquarian)
(HTM) Opus 6: The Taming of the Shrew (The Analog Antiquarian)
(HTM) Horned dinosaurs’ weapons evolved to handle the forces of combat (Science News)
(HTM) Artemis II results show how much science people can do at the moon (Science News)
(HTM) Crossword: Time lines (Science News)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S End (Part 16 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
(HTM) that said, it IS all the uranus gas you can inhale. it is in fact the most confirmed uranus gas it is possible to drink in the known universe (Dinosaur Comics!)
Thursday, 15 October
(HTM) Pluralistic: Load-bearing (16 Oct 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Momentum Demonstration (xkcd.com)
(HTM) Carbon Fibre Troubles Force Rocket Lab to Delay Neutron Debut to No Earlier Than 2027 (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) sparqlite: SPARQL 1.1 inside SQLite, written in Rust (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Jess Kingswell's "Tomas the Castaway" Cover and Why It's So Brilliant (Flogging Babel)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/15/26 Well, How Would You Like To Have Someone Come Along And Pixel Something Off Of You? Oh, Dear! I Keep Forgetting I’m Not In Kansas! (File 770)
(HTM) Friday 16 October, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) Dern’s Readercon 35/2026 Report’n’Pix: Dern Eats’n’Audiences’n’Schmoozes, Shoots Pix, And Leaves (And Belatedly Files) (File 770)
(HTM) Michi Trota Joins The Sunday Morning Transport (File 770)
(HTM) Chirp Pong (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) TGL - E436: Hoooooooooooo! (Fear of Tigers)
(HTM) Private Markets Are the New AI Markets (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) Many American diets may not include enough of this essential nutrient (Science News)
(HTM) A telling hole in a Neandertal bone hints at a bitter end (Science News)
(HTM) Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Brain implants are helping people who’ve lost their voice (Science News)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Expedia amazoned hotel rooms (15 Oct 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Book Review: Lo que nos siguió a casa; Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror by Cynthia Pelayo, ed. (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Uncanny Jack (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Author Spotlight: Arden Powell (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Master/Slave Couple Seeking Physicist to Feed to a Black Hole (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 15 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
Wednesday, 14 October
(HTM) PocketMage App Overview - Terminal (Ashtf)
(HTM) PocketMage App Overview - Settings (Ashtf)
(HTM) PocketMage App Overview - App Loader (Ashtf)
(HTM) PocketMage App Overview - Lexicon (Dictionary) (Ashtf)
(HTM) PocketMage App Overview - Journal (Ashtf)
(HTM) PocketMage App Overview - Calendar (Ashtf)
(HTM) PocketMage App Overview - File Wizard (Ashtf)
(HTM) Issue #468 (Issues – Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
(HTM) LaTeX renderer (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/14/26 And Now, The Scroll Is Clear, And So I File The Final Pixel (File 770)
(HTM) Artemis III SLS teams prepare short stack for pad tanking test (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Tree Appreciator (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Bank of America Missed Some Bad Guys (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) Can math stay human in the age of AI? (Science News)
(HTM) AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Tiny implants can use the body itself to talk to each other (Science News)
(HTM) U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering (Krebs on Security)
(HTM) Voyager 1 is nearly one light-day from Earth. What’s out there? (Science News)
(HTM) “Men with Queer Nerves”: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine (The Public Domain Review)
(HTM) Scott Lefton Tells How He Designed and Made the 2026 Hugo Award Bases (File 770)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 14 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
(HTM) that said, it IS all the salt water you can drink. it is in fact the most confirmed surface salt water it is possible to drink in the known universe (Dinosaur Comics!)
Tuesday, 13 October
(HTM) Planet Database (xkcd.com)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/13/26 Lord Of The Files (File 770)
(HTM) PocketMage App Overview - Tasks (Ashtf)
(HTM) Fancy Curl Sites (Yet Another Tech Gemlog)
(HTM) Wednesday 14 October, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws (Krebs on Security)
(HTM) Redesigning source control at Anthropic (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) llm-gemini 0.35 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Launch Preview: Falcon 9, ZhuQue-2E to launch during quiet week (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 10 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
(HTM) British Fantasycon 2026 Convention Report by RiverFlow (File 770)
(HTM) PocketMage App Overview - Home Menu (Ashtf)
(HTM) They Found Some Walter Victims (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) To turn invisible, we need to tweak the path light travels (Science News)
(HTM) Liverworts (Azimuth)
(HTM) A duo goes against the tide to explain an origin of human endurance (Science News)
(HTM) Quoting Geoffrey Huntley (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Rudolf Kalvach’s Wiener Werkstätte Postcards (1907) (The Public Domain Review)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Bundestrojaner (13 Oct 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) What happens when you lose your voice? (Science News)
(HTM) Hinse Mutter Reports on Four Dutch Conventions (File 770)
(HTM) 2027 Baen Short Story Contest Deadline Is 2/1 (File 770)
(HTM) Superman: “The World of Tomorrow” Reborn (File 770)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 13 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
Monday, 12 October
(HTM) web-edit 0.1a1 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/12/26 Pixelscroll Minus One (File 770)
(HTM) llm-meta-ai 0.2 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Did I Just Create the Ultimate Writer Deck? (Ashtf)
(HTM) Golden Joystick Awards 2026 Shortlist (File 770)
(HTM) CRS-35 launches to ISS with final iROSA arrays, experiments, and other items (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Karen Russell Wins 2025 Endeavour Award (File 770)
(HTM) Hello Python 3.15, goodbye 3.10, and now I can use 3.11 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Profiling web-edit with Python 3.15: flame graphs and source heatmaps (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Don’t Bet Against the Sports Bets (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) Scarred blood vessels may be one clue to APOE4’s Alzheimer’s risk (Science News)
(HTM) web-edit 0.1a0 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) When climate change brings the heat, what happens to a mighty redwood? (Science News)
(HTM) Flying under the radar: Russia's tacit reliance on Chinese SAR satellites (part 1) (The Space Review)
(HTM) Bounders and RAMs: satellites track a unique bomber at the Soviet Ramenskoye flight test center (part 1) (The Space Review)
(HTM) The tragedy of the orbital commons: Megaconstellations, space weapons, and debris (The Space Review)
(HTM) Starship's real test may begin after launch (The Space Review)
(HTM) After the ISS: What happens when humanity loses its shared home in space? (The Space Review)
(HTM) Pluralistic: How labor rights rescued Ultima from a monopolist (12 Oct 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) SFFCONZ Statement on the “CoNZealand2” Worldcon Bid (File 770)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 12 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
Sunday, 11 October
(HTM) Swapping money for expertise (Cory Doctorow's craphound.com)
(HTM) datasette-ports 0.4 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Rejected Space Mission Profiles (xkcd.com)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/11/26 Another Pixel Valley ScrollDay (File 770)
(HTM) Monday 12 October, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) Webb and Hubble observe stellar nurseries, galaxies, and gravitational lensing in new images (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) 2026 Harvey Awards (File 770)
(HTM) Tasha Suri Wins Aldiss Award 2026 (File 770)
(HTM) Blue Origin Advances LC-36 Rebuild for Year-End New Glenn Return to Flight (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) AUTUMN'S END (Part 11 of 31) (Flogging Babel)
Saturday, 10 October
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/10/26 If In The First File You Have Displayed A Pixel, Then In The Following One It Should Be Scrolled. Otherwise Don’t Put It There (File 770)
(HTM) British Fantasy Awards 2026 Winners (File 770)
(HTM) Dwarf Fortress uses version control now (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Mathematics as a new Age of Discovery (and what they might find) (Interconnected)
(HTM) M.C. Escher: Bringing Art and Math to the Masses (File 770)
Friday, 09 October
(HTM) Quoting The New York Times (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm (Krebs on Security)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 10/9/26 Scrolly Cow, Batman! The Purple Philer’s Stolen The LeFanu Pixels! (File 770)
(HTM) Deno is joining Cloudflare (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Windows 11 26H2: not for everyone? (Scali's OpenBlog™)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Thwarted (09 Oct 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
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