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   Raising bricks. Young people in China are “raising bricks”: they spray a clay brick with water a few times a day and wait for moss to land on it. One article called the bricks “practically immortal”, because dormant moss greens up again as soon as it is watered. One post on Xiaohongshu says: “no output required, no KPIs to hit, no need to beg it to bloom”. (The Guardian)

   source: the guardian
2. 17%

   The comebacks. Lula, 80, lost round one on 4 October and won round two with 51.79 percent, the first president since 1988 to do it. Serbia’s students, who began after a station roof fell on sixteen people, ended fourteen years of one man’s rule in one evening. María Corina Machado is back in Venezuela after more than ten months: “I am here. With you.” Gabon turned its social media back on after eight months. (BBC; The Guardian)

   source: bbc: lula source: bbc: serbia source: bbc: machado source: bbc: gabon
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   The sky and the earth. The moon was full at 00:12 and is 99 percent lit. The sun rose at 07:20 and the day is 10 hours 40 minutes long. Kp is 1, the solar wind runs at 334 km/s, 28 sunspots show, and a compass in New York points 12.46 degrees west of north. A rock, 2025 UK9, passes inside the moon’s distance on 31 October. (USNO, NOAA, SILSO, NASA)

   source: usno moon and sun source: noaa kp source: noaa solar wind source: silso sunspots source: noaa declination source: nasa jpl
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   Vines and an old network. A Chrome extension called Overgrown lets vines grow over the tabs you forget. And a ten-year-old image network, a model from 2015, named the right skin-cancer diagnosis for 125 of 200 lesions; two new chatbots from AI labs got 84 and 85. (Charlie Gerard; Lynch Lab)

   source: charlie gerard source: lynch lab
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   Not everything comes back. Yasuo Fukuda, Japan’s prime minister in 2007 and 2008, died at 90. Eric Bauza, a voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, died at 46. (Kyodo; CBS News; THR)

   source: kyodo source: thr
6. 2%

   Switzerland in blocks. All of Switzerland rebuilt in Minecraft, one block to the metre. (Manifold)

   source: manifold

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