My city of Bloomington appears to have almost a third of the population living in poverty according to the US Census, but you'd have a tough time seeing that if you drove through.

What we have is a large university with almost half the population being college students.

https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US1805860-bloomingt...

Poverty is often defined as having an income less than 1/3 of the median. The median household income in the US is about $80,000 p/a, so poor would be about $26,000. You might well have a tough time seeing that from the outside.

I've been running about the same amount of years, starting at age 38, including sometimes as many as 14 runs of 26.2 or longer in a year.

Keeping 80% or more of the volume at an easy effort is part of that. I think diet helps, because depending on what you eat, you are could be contributing to more or less inflammation in the body, which both could make injury more likely and recovery slower. I eat whole-food, plant-based.

I expect a good stretching routine would also aid injury prevention, but I've been pretty lousy about that most of the time.

It depends on the intensity level. In the pandemic of 2020, I ran 26.2 mile runs at an easy effort for 5 weekends in row in the spring and 6 in the fall, generally with my easy effort getting faster as I went. Rather than the sequence of big runs wearing my out, I was getting stronger.

Now, if I had tried to run every one at "race pace", I would likely be trashed or injured by the end from insufficient recovery.

I once had a computer that would turn itself off when I left the room to get a drink.

Turned out be an old building with loose floorboard. The force of standing up was just enough to short out a failing power supply.

Is this headed towards becoming a new Linux distribution or hardening existing ones?

With plan mode, I would hope there's an approval step.

With Swarm mode, it seems there's a new option for an entire team of agents to be working in the wrong direction before they check back in to let you know how many credits they've burned by misinterpreting what you wanted.

I'm also using GitLab for personal projects. Works well enough.

I found a discarded working vape that had a complete working game system (screen with controls) built-in... a very attractive package to small kids.

Digital production has lowered the cost, and the Ghost platform in particular is a great value for small publishers, bundling together the blog, newsletter and subscriptions in one package, even now including ActivityPub federation.

And Ghost themselves a non-profit org that doesn't mark up the Stripe transaction fees!

One local news outlet recently switched to that, saving about %5 on Patreon fees and a second is switching now.

https://ghost.org/

That's Ghost, at ghost.org!

They had a solid podcast interview with journalist Jordan Green on the raise of far-right extremism in the US.

https://buckscountybeacon.com/2025/08/journalist-jordan-gree...