Fantasy is a part of reality . . .

Saturday, October 10, 2026 . It's the Satyr's day . . . and the Moon is new. Record high temperatures are in the forecasts for GreenCountry today. Moderate Southerlies, bright sun, and low 90's are indicated for TulseyTown's afternoon.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Rumi

. . . retaining “human control” of AIs means purposefully and insistently instantiating the integral element drawn from lived human experience into our entwinement with intelligent machines. The challenge is not just about “disarming” the capacity of AI agents to act on their own, as the Pope has called for, but also about “arming” the integral conception of the human within the integrated cognitive framework in which we already dwell. – Nathan Gardels, “We are already post-human,” Noema, 10.9.26

Texas is no longer a fantasy. – Matt Kerbel, Wolves and Sheep.

Why “wild-caught” matters. The food your fish eat. – Sam Sifton, “The Morning,” New York Times, 10.9.26

Today is the birthdate of playwright, screenwriter and director Harold Pinter. The Nobel laureate was born in 1930 East London.

Giuseppe Verdi was born on this date in a village in 1813 Parma, Italy.

Yesterday was the birthdate of composer Camille Saint-Saens, born in 1835 Paris. His Third Symphony (the Organ) was featured at the first live classical music concert I attended as a teenager. It, along with Beethoven's Fifth at the same event, changed my life. Understatement.