2026 Week 39 Links

Nature, maps, reviews, nostalgic music, disability, sports drama, and cookies. I've been forced into mandatory rest due to developing some sort of sinus/cold/covid thing last Sunday. Right now it's mostly fatigue and post-nasal drip. I can't help thinking it's punishment for working so hard on job hunting stuff for the past month. Well, I have my last four shifts at work this week and nothing else lined up so I may have plenty of time to rest soon enough. It is currently (Sept 18 - Oct 4) the Great Canadian Bioblitz which you can join on iNaturalist. You record your observations, upload them, and identify them. Cartograph - Atlas Edition a solo TTRPG by The Ravensridge Press (HT Pixel Nomad) "cognitive surrender" is a pretty chilling term from MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training (via combatdavey) into the strangereal by videodante, a review/overview of the Ace Combat games and their worldbuilding Not the End of the World, Actually by Fran, a…