Another late update. I took last week off of work to deal with my shingles. It turns out shingles last longer than I was expecting and I spent much of that week in pain and cranky about it. I’m hoping things start to take a turn for the better soon.

The week was spent mostly watching movies, playing video games and doing some light chores I’ve been putting off for ages.

Things I Liked

From the IPA, 2026 photo award winners

There’s so many fantastic photos. These are a few of my favorites.

From Jay Zuerndorfer, “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once”

A moving exploration of the grief experienced when losing a pet.

From Signore Galilei, “The two Christian saints who are secretly the Buddha”

An interesting read that speaks to the way religions have exchanged ideas over time.

The story of Barlaam and Josaphat first shows up in the Christian tradition in the 10th century, in Georgia as the Balavariani. It seems to have been derived from an Arabic version, the Book of Bilawhar and Budhasaf. The name “Budhasaf” in turn comes from the Persian version “Bodisav”, and thence from the Sanskrit “Bodhisattva”. Somewhere over the successive retellings, the Buddha’s story morphed into a Christian one.

From Capable, adversarial design based privacy clothing

[Their technology works by]translating AI-interfering patterns into knitted textiles that can influence how selected AI perception systems interpret visual information in real time. When worn, the textile pattern may lead selected object detection systems to detect animals or other objects instead of a person, while remaining fully visible to human observers. Performance depends on the AI model, software version, and environmental conditions.

This is cyberpunk as fuck. It turns out I don’t like living in a cyberpunk reality though.