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An interview with  Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice. On the morning of 26 August, a series of flash floods and debris flows struck parts of Tibet and Nepal. Scientists have identified the trigger as an ice-rock avalanche and bedrock landslide in the Himalayan mountain range, driven in large part by background warming due to climate change, which has led to permafrost melting and glacial retreat.

Programming note: I went long on one topic today, but watch out for a bonus Bandwagon with a very special guest dropping tomorrow. His pants looked too big. No, it was more than that: This young pitcher would make any pair of pants look too big, unavoidably baggy, awkwardly bunched at the ankles. Standing perfectly vertical, he was skeletal. Then he folded that stick frame into a pile, whirled out of the jumble, hitched into a wide, sidewinding lefty attack and let go.

Robotics — 1 min read For years, humanoid robots have been the stars of viral YouTube videos, performing backflips and dancing to pop songs. However, the industry is now entering a "get a job" phase. Persona AI is leading this shift by focusing on a specific, high-demand industrial task: shipyard welding. Unlike general-purpose home assistants, these robots are being built to solve a concrete labor shortage in one of the world's most grueling work environments.

It was the final matchday before the end of the transfer/trade window. I'm pretty sure this is the last time we'll see this version of a bunch of these teams – *stares in Colorado Rapids* – but maybe not quite as many as we'd all suspected a few weeks ago. I have a few theories as to why that is. The big one: MLS front offices know the roster rules are changing soon (hopefully as soon as this winter) and with those changes will come, perhaps, a new meta for how rosters are built.

Why I will always do my own writing and my own thinking I was in the middle of a much-needed digital detox – a proper holiday – when I hopped back online briefly to check whether any venues were planning to screen the World Cup final the next day. I'd clocked that Spain and Argentina were through to the final and thought maybe, just maybe, somewhere on the Queensland island where we were staying would play it live, despite the brisk 5am kickoff time.

あまりにも激動の時代なので、いつか振り返ることがあるかもしれないので、まとめておく。 サブスク サブスクは Cursor と Codex の二つ。 Team プランの Premium シートを年間契約して利用している。ほぼ Auto (Cost) を利用している。込み入った作業をする場合は Grok 4.6 xhigh を利用している。 Cursor は CLI / GUI の両方がとてもとても残念なのが悲しい。 ChatGPT Business プランの Premium シートを年間契約して利用している。これは Business プランの 5 倍の容量、さらに 5 時間制限がなくなるというプラン。 基本的には GPT 5.6 Sol max で利用している。主に調査や設計用。 解約した。Fable 5 が必要なときだけ再契約する方針でいる。応援はしているのでまた頑張って欲しい。 API 自社サービスの開発に利用している。DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 のみ有効にしている。OpenCode 経由で利用して貰っている。 オープンソースでの利用を前提として...

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This week, classicist and translator Stephanie McCarter discusses the art of translation, adapting myth, and her new book on Catullus.