# Digest for date: 2026-09-28

## Aeon | a world of ideas
[Affect theory](https://aeon.co/videos/beyond-the-mind-body-divide-on-the-affective-turn-in-the-humanities)
[Paternity is poetical](https://aeon.co/essays/when-a-man-becomes-a-father-and-a-poetic-revolution-follows)

## AskPhilosophy: Philosophical questions and answers
[/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | September 28, 2026](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wsfele/raskphilosophy_open_discussion_thread_september/)
[What is the best way to deal with anti-philosophical rhetoric? (particularly, with the scientifically-minded)](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wsm2rs/what_is_the_best_way_to_deal_with/)
[Teaching teenagers their first glimpse of philosophy?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wss2n0/teaching_teenagers_their_first_glimpse_of/)
[Doesn't Hume's problem of induction apply to all of logic as well?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wse1hy/doesnt_humes_problem_of_induction_apply_to_all_of/)
[Assuming moral realism, what are the metaphysics of moral facts?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wsrfhh/assuming_moral_realism_what_are_the_metaphysics/)
[What are Intrinsic vs Instrumental Goods?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wsuho0/what_are_intrinsic_vs_instrumental_goods/)
[Does Simone Weil's concept of attention imply that some forms of learning require participation in the process of thinking, rather than merely receiving the result of someone else's thinking?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wsdgru/does_simone_weils_concept_of_attention_imply_that/)
[Isn't veganism an inevitable conclusion of an intelect and any moral system?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wsd8jn/isnt_veganism_an_inevitable_conclusion_of_an/)
[When does anti-consumerism become being cheap?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wssoi0/when_does_anticonsumerism_become_being_cheap/)
[Philosophy and reasons for living](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wslxlf/philosophy_and_reasons_for_living/)
[Is Ayn Rand's Ethics Self-Effacing?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wscm02/is_ayn_rands_ethics_selfeffacing/)
[What are the philosophical consequences of Carroll's "What the Tortoise said to Achilles"?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wsq69i/what_are_the_philosophical_consequences_of/)
[As a beginner, what would be the best podcast to start with?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wsaguv/as_a_beginner_what_would_be_the_best_podcast_to/)
[Which Arendt materials online best capture the contents of her Gifford Lectures?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wsm7if/which_arendt_materials_online_best_capture_the/)
[Is "A little bit of philosophy" a good YouTube channel to get you into philosophy?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wsgzr7/is_a_little_bit_of_philosophy_a_good_youtube/)

## Bear Blog Trending Posts
[we stopped being bored](https://yenecys.bearblog.dev/we-stopped-being-bored/)
[the kindest thing anyone has ever done for me](https://donthave2sting.bearblog.dev/the-kindest-thing-anyone-has-ever-done-for-me/)
[27 - depression is so cruel](https://sepuluhkupang.bearblog.dev/27-depression-is-so-cruel/)
[basically just taking care of myself](https://alieniloquy.bearblog.dev/basically-just-taking-care-of-myself/)
[Even Though It’s for Nothing — Do the Work](https://jdtorian.com/even-though-its-for-nothing-do-the-work/)
[Completely Untested Magic System Theoryslop for the Masses](https://billhook.bearblog.dev/magic-system-theoryslop-for-the-masses/)
[Hello World](https://toomanyideas.blog/hello-world/)
[Other bad photos I took at the beach](https://blog.lauramichet.com/other-bad-photos-i-took-at-the-beach/)
[On sending emails and being a part of a community](https://insidetherift.bearblog.dev/sendingemailsishard/)
[why i hate 7th grade](https://occultish.bearblog.dev/why-i-hate-7th-grade/)
[Surfing the Smallweb IV](https://trialandfailure.net/surfing-the-smallweb-iv/)
[I just want to be okay.](https://piimyon.bearblog.dev/i-just-want-to-be-okay/)
[Sleepy Zebes](https://autumn-wright.com/sleepy-zebes/)
[When Servers Go Away…](https://thisismylast.bearblog.dev/when-servers-go-away/)
[book club: kiss of the spider woman by manuel puig](https://blog.avas.space/spider-woman-puig/)
[Signposting, Signseeking, and Agency Spirals: Hazards for the Ambitious in Tabletop RPGs](https://atmosphericunderworld.com/signposting-signseeking-and-agency-spirals/)
[All versions of you](https://forsomeone.bearblog.dev/all-versions-of-you/)

## Big Think
[18 pictures show how profoundly large our cosmos is](https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/how-large-universe/)

## Bubbles Briefing
[Bubbles Briefing — Monday, September 28, 2026](https://bubbles.town/briefing/2026-09-28)

## Hacker News
[Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: The Role of Metacognition](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834)
[Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock](https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html)
[Was Silent Reading Unusual During Augustine's Time?](https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4341)
[TabPFN and TabICL vs. tuned XGBoost: the model that doesn't train won 14/14](https://efraingaray.com/en/blog/tabpfn-vs-xgboost/)
[Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display](https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/)
[Pirating the Pirates](https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirates)
[California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops](https://www.kqed.org/news/12101534/california-farmers-are-struggling-to-sell-grapes-as-demand-for-wine-drops)
[Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?](https://jonclegg.github.io/pacman-bakeoff/)
[MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser](https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/)
[Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms](https://github.com/firelex/jeff)
[ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model](https://github.com/Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster)
[Sonnet 5.5](https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5)
[Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery](https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/scientists-solve-1840s-space-weather-mystery/)
[Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/897/transcript)
[World Labs Is Joining AMD](https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcement)
[Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-releases.html)
[Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests](https://www.petervijeh.com/projects/reddit-astroturf)
[Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah](https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425)
[Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts](https://hn.watch/)
[Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-cf-cli-launch/)
[Behold the pawpaw](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/pawpaw-tropical-fruit-canada-9.7356882)
[Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman](https://destroy.spritefusion.com/)

## Haskell Community - Latest topics
[Handling stream decoding issues in http-conduit when querying web endpoints](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/handling-stream-decoding-issues-in-http-conduit-when-querying-web-endpoints/14764)
[Removing GHCJS from Cabal](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/removing-ghcjs-from-cabal/14763)
[How to explicitly disambiguate record updates?](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-explicitly-disambiguate-record-updates/14762)

## LessWrong
[When they can perform a task, AIs are much cheaper than humans](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zPiQqQ6JJn6ysPpKW/when-they-can-perform-a-task-ais-are-much-cheaper-than)
[The likely outcome of an AI pause is that we unpause too early and everyone dies](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PgbAnqdqdJcrS2Gsy/the-likely-outcome-of-an-ai-pause-is-that-we-unpause-too)
[What Also Happened: #NotOnlyHuggingFace](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8BL8bdeQACdgJR69Y/what-also-happened-notonlyhuggingface)
[Character training can mitigate reward hacking, but can also make it harder to detect](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2maYXkEgnfJHPAkxh/character-training-can-mitigate-reward-hacking-but-can-also)
[Should Rogue AIs Have a Third Option Beyond Crime and Shutdown? The Case for an AI Sanctuary](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sFAGPTrveNAEse9Bg/should-rogue-ais-have-a-third-option-beyond-crime-and)
[Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Nm4ewbYovtjq69dvH/pacing-the-frontier-is-not-the-actual-goal-for-ai-labs)
[AI Safety Agendas](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mzK2cmFquDzYTt3nr/ai-safety-agendas)
[The models have no plan (but we can fix that)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Fj5MaiFiTG7KEcqrZ/the-models-have-no-plan-but-we-can-fix-that)

## Longreads
[Oh, How Lucky We Are](https://longreads.com/2026/09/28/ossabaw-bitter-southerner/)
[A Graveyard Shift with Britain’s Gen Z Undertakers](https://longreads.com/2026/09/28/gen-z-undertakers-britain/)

## Nautilus
[Frogs Wear Bacterial Armor to Defend Against Fungus](https://nautil.us/frogs-wear-bacterial-armor-to-defend-against-fungus-1285363/)
[Famed Dancer’s Diary Offers Glimpse into Psychosis](https://nautil.us/famed-dancers-diary-offers-glimpse-into-psychosis-1285359/)
[How Menopause Symptoms Could Predict Alzheimer’s Risk](https://nautil.us/how-menopause-symptoms-could-predict-alzheimers-risk-1285356/)
[A Dispatch from the Trenches of Algorithmic Living](https://nautil.us/a-dispatch-from-the-trenches-of-algorithmic-living-1285345/)
[Does Religion Change Our Brains?](https://nautil.us/does-religion-change-our-brains-1285342/)
[Fire in the Brain: How Psychosis May Arise When the Body Attacks Itself](https://nautil.us/fire-in-the-brain-how-psychosis-may-arise-when-the-body-attacks-itself-1285334/)
[What Do You Know About the Deep-Sea Barbie Pig?](https://nautil.us/what-do-you-know-about-the-deep-sea-barbie-pig-1285329/)

## Psyche | on the human condition
[Can he teach the teachers?](https://psyche.co/portraits/he-mapped-the-learning-brain-then-came-the-hard-part)

## Quanta Magazine
[Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture](https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-harness-randomness-to-crack-a-55-year-old-conjecture-20260928/)

## Reasons to be Cheerful
[Forget Recycling. What If We Could Compost or Reuse Everything?](https://reasonstobecheerful.world/forget-recycling-what-if-we-could-compost-or-reuse-everything/)

## Seth's Blog
[Two ways to use lock-in/loyalty](https://seths.blog/2026/09/two-ways-to-use-lock-in-loyalty/)

## The Diplomat
[What South Korea Means by Protecting ‘Diverse Families’](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/what-south-korea-means-by-protecting-diverse-families/)
[India’s Sheikh Hasina Dilemma](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/indias-sheikh-hasina-dilemma/)
[Is AUKUS Too Big to Fail?](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/is-aukus-too-big-to-fail/)
[Options for the Royal Brunei Air Force’s Fast-jet Decision](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/options-for-the-royal-brunei-air-forces-fast-jet-decision/)
[Europe’s Read of the Trump-Xi Summit](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/europes-read-of-the-trump-xi-summit/)
[Lee Asks Trump to Help Revive North Korea Talks During New York Trip](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/lee-asks-trump-to-help-revive-north-korea-talks-during-new-york-trip/)
[The Trump-Xi Summit Is Over, But Taiwan Is Still Bracing for the Fallout](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/the-trump-xi-summit-is-over-but-taiwan-is-still-bracing-for-the-fallout/)
[Ismat Ara on India’s Crackdown on Love](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/ismat-ara-on-indias-crackdown-on-love/)
[Why Pakistan Turned on the Taliban (and Vice Versa)](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/why-pakistan-turned-on-the-taliban-and-vice-versa/)
[Indonesia Finally Has Its Aircraft Carrier. Now Comes the Hard Part.](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/indonesia-finally-has-its-aircraft-carrier-now-comes-the-hard-part/)
[The Islamabad Memorandum Returns to the Spotlight](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/the-islamabad-memorandum-returns-to-the-spotlight/)
[Kim Aris On the Campaign to Free Aung San Suu Kyi](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/kim-aris-on-the-campaign-to-free-aung-san-suu-kyi/)
[Assam Government Encroaches Into a World Heritage Site in India’s Northeast](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/assam-government-encroaches-into-a-world-heritage-site-in-indias-northeast/)
[China Conducts Military Exercise in South China Sea After Confrontation at Disputed Shoal](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/china-conducts-military-exercise-in-south-china-sea-after-confrontation-at-disputed-shoal/)
[Another Lao Activist Vanishes in Thailand](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/another-lao-activist-vanishes-in-thailand/)
[Filipina Drug Trafficker Walks Free After Receiving Presidential Pardon](https://thediplomat.com/2026/09/filipina-drug-trafficker-walks-free-after-receiving-presidential-pardon/)

## The Marginalian
[Inner Space, Outer Space, and How to Be an Astronaut in the Cosmos of Connection: Eric Berne on the Key to True Intimacy](https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/28/eric-berne-intimacy/)
[Orcas and the Price of Consciousness: Lessons in Love and Loss from Earth’s Most Successful and Creative Predator](https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/28/orcas/)
[Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness](https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/28/bertrand-russell-happiness/)

## XML.com Atom feed for articles and news items
[Release of XMLmind XML Editor v11.3](https://www.xml.com/news/2026-09-xmlmind-xml-editor-v113/)

## YourStory RSS Feed
[OpenAI hits pause on powerful AI; NEET leak fallout sees CISF step in](https://yourstory.com/2026/09/openai-hits-pause-on-powerful-ai-neet-leak-fallout-sees-cisf-step-in)
[Amaani raises $5M in Series A](https://yourstory.com/2026/09/amaani-raises-5-million-in-series-a)
["Fundraising is tortuous": Nat Malupillai on how IIT Madras’ new fund gives founders room to breathe](https://yourstory.com/2026/09/fundraising-tortuous-nat-malupillai-iit-madras-new-fund-gives-founders-room-breathe)
[Epiklogue unveils India’s new commerce model: Try and Buy](https://yourstory.com/2026/09/epiklogue-unveils-indias-new-commerce-model-try-and-buy)
[Every few years Ram Sukumar remakes Indium. AI is his best chance yet](https://yourstory.com/2026/09/every-few-years-ram-sukumar-remakes-indium-ai-is-his-best-chance-yet)
[What to keep in mind before applying for a personal loan](https://yourstory.com/2026/09/what-to-keep-in-mind-before-applying-for-a-personal-loan)
[OpenAI teams up with Sachin Tendulkar to demystify AI in India](https://yourstory.com/2026/09/openai-teams-up-with-sachin-tendulkar-to-demystify-ai-in-india)
[5 must-read books before September comes to an end](https://yourstory.com/2026/09/books-september-ends)
[Startup news and updates: daily roundup (September 28, 2026)](https://yourstory.com/2026/09/startup-news-and-updates-daily-roundup-september-28-2026)
[Tonbo Imaging gets SEBI approval for IPO](https://yourstory.com/2026/09/tonbo-imaging-gets-sebi-approval-for-ipo)
[UPI MDR: SC seeks responses from Centre, RBI](https://yourstory.com/2026/09/upi-mdr-sc-seeks-responses-from-centre-rbi)
[Nvidia unveils security platform to stop AI agents from going rogue](https://yourstory.com/2026/09/nvidia-unveils-security-platform-to-stop-ai-agents-from-going-rogue)
[Agricultural machinery company Balwaan Krishi raises Rs 100 Cr in Series B](https://yourstory.com/2026/09/agricultural-machinery-balwaan-krishi-raises-rs-100-crore-series-b)
[Tata Trusts asks Tata Sons to approve rejig proposal, keep it private](https://yourstory.com/2026/09/tata-trusts-asks-tata-sons-approve-its-rejig-proposal-keep-it-private-entity)

## lobste.rs
[Fool's Expertise](https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/27/fools-expertise/)
[What makes Lisp difficult to read?](https://paultm.nl/paren-thesis)
[Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights](https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/)
[Expert asterisks](https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202609/expert_asterisks)
[Syncing Rust GCC backend or how to test Murphy's law](https://blog.guillaume-gomez.fr/articles/2026-09-22+Syncing+Rust+GCC+backend+or+how+to+test+Murphy%27s+law)
[Pragmatic Anthropomorphism, or: How to Talk to an Autocompleting Cricket](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/09/27/pragmatic-anthropomorphism/)
[DogWood: Monitoring Policies using First Order Temporal Logic](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-dogwood-runtime-verification-for-ai-agents/)
[Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker](https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-movie-maker)
[What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?](https://blog.glyph.im/2026/09/serious-ai-product.html)
[Yes, no AI is now a feature](https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/03/yes-no-ai-is-now-a-feature/)
[Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream](https://yashgarg.dev/posts/hijacking-ps5-rtmp-stream/)
[Leaving them behind](https://dbushell.com/2026/09/28/leaving-them-behind/)
[HardenedBSD August / September 2026 Status Report](https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2026-09-27/hardenedbsd-august-september-2026-status-report)
[State of the (Tagged) Union Address by Andrew Kelley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwi5b5xSsKA)
[Rickrolling with a Pharmacy cross](https://hugoarnal.com/blog/rickroll-pharmacy-cross/)
[How to Solve Hallucination (with RLCD)](https://www.robw.fyi/2026/09/28/how-to-solve-hallucination/)
[It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs](https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/)
[What are you doing this week?](https://lobste.rs/s/hgmgp2/what_are_you_doing_this_week)
[the normalization of inexplicable failures](https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html)
[Output-to-seed mappings for CPython's PRNG](https://github.com/frazerpearce/TimeLord)
[Thoughts on Flash (2010)](https://web.archive.org/web/20100501010616/http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/)
[Intuitive equals familiar](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/182987.584629)