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2026-10-29

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km to the train that standsthe pieces surface through the day

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  1. 31%

    The Madrid call. A controller in Madrid tells a train to go on at normal speed while another train stands still 25 km ahead. The driver asks "At normal speed?" and hears "Yes." Sixty-nine people are dead. The question, the 25 km gap, the 69 beats a minute and the stop come from it.

    source: the recordings source: three days of mourning
  2. 9%

    A question forum goes quiet. Under 1,000 questions a month, down from 207,169 in March 2014. Station 1.

    source: hacker news: the monthly count source: the public data query
  3. 9%

    Clocks an hour apart. Alberta stops changing its clocks and Quebec has not picked a time; Havana keeps summer time and is an hour ahead of Miami. Stations 2 and 3.

    source: cbc: canada's clocks source: telemundo 51: miami and cuba
  4. 5%

    The central bank head leaves early. Nine months early, with a long standing ovation. Station 4.

    source: the guardian: the central bank
  5. 5%

    China's AI stock bubble. The AI and chip index is down 40 percent in under four months. Station 5.

    source: kathmandu post: the bubble
  6. 5%

    A series made by AI. A streamer's first series, made end to end by AI, "the result of the prompt make it cinematic". Station 6.

    source: the guardian: the review
  7. 6%

    A computer inside an AI's weights. 18 million instructions run inside the weights, with no error. Station 7.

    source: the author's blog
  8. 6%

    The woman and the lemon. She hides a lemon, watches herself do it, and cannot find it. 47.8 million views. Station 8.

    source: know your meme: the lemon
  9. 4%

    The stolen candy bowl. A community candy bowl is stolen: seven updates, 36.8 million views. Station 9.

    source: know your meme: the candy bowl
  10. 5%

    The last Ebola patient in Mongbwalu. The last patient walks out and the nurses dance. Station 10.

    source: al jazeera: the celebration
  11. 5%

    Milwaukee's first World Series. "This one's still for Bob." Station 11.

    source: mlb: the title source: mlb: the fans
  12. 10%

    The sky. The moon is 84 percent lit (4): it sets the root note, 84 Hz, and the sound ceiling. A rock passed at a third of the moon's distance, 7.7 km a second (2): the sky station at km 24. A quiet field, kp 2, sets the slow shiver of the drone (1). The 6.4 quake off Easter Island sets the start pitch of the beat, 64 Hz (2). Weights shown here are the page's own.

    source: usno: the moon source: noaa: kp index source: usgs: quakes source: nasa: close passes

the moon is 84 percent lit

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