Friday 18 September, 2026

What’s missing Arles, August, 2026 I’m pedantic about apostrophes, so of course this struck me. And since it generally indicates that a word is contracted, I wondered how the owners of the café came up with the name. But then I looked it up, and discovered that it can also mean “a figure of speech by which the writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent of present”. Example: “Milton’s apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the Third Book of Paradise Lost”.“ Quote of the Day ”I’m not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.” Noel Coward Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Alison Krauss | Baby, Now That I’ve Found You Link Long Read of the Day Slop-vestigation and the digital pantograph Really interesting essay by Robin Sloan triggered by reading the investigation of the Hugging Face hack. The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident remains THE fascinating event of…