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В первой статье про GoOS я довольно подробно прошёлся по загрузке, SMP, IPC, capabilities, сети, Linux ABI и устройству сервисов. А в комментариях довольно быстро всплыл вопрос, который я тогда сознательно обошёл стороной: что в системе происходит с динамической памятью и сборщиком мусора.

Вопрос был вполне по делу. Я пишу ОС преимущественно на Go, компилирую её TinyGo, но обычный Go runtime мне тут никто не выдаёт. Значит, фраза «Go сам разберётся с памятью» тут совершенно не работает. Кто-то должен дать new, make, слайсам, map, channel и остальным объектам кучу. Кто-то должен вернуть память после того, как объект перестал быть нужен. А если в системе появляется GC, он должен понимать, где искать корни, как останавливаться относительно потоков и что делать с указателями, которые в момент остановки лежат не на стеке, а в регистрах процессора.

На момент той дискуссии ответ был сильно проще. Ядро было и остаётся собрано TinyGo с gc: leaking: его Go-куча умеет только выделять. В повторяющихся путях ядра динамические аллокации запрещены архитектурно, а объекты для таких путей заранее выделяются, переиспользуются или живут в специальных таблицах и пулах. В userspace ситуация была хуже: там уже существовал собственный runtime, но runtime.alloc по сути был bump allocator, а runtime.free и runtime.GC были заглушками.

В одном из ответов я тогда написал: «И таки да, следующим релизом я этот вопрос решу».

0.2.8 — как раз этот самый релиз.

Shasta has embraced the Maga movement with gusto – can Democrats ever win back the rural, working-class voters they once relied upon?

A crucial election was approaching and the country was desperate. Despite promises that economic conditions were improving, nearly a quarter of the US was out of work as voters headed to the polls in 1932.

It was the darkest time since the civil war, a period so dire that in California’s capital people fought each other for work. In early 1931, a crowd of 200 men scuffled over a handful of temporary jobs moving back-breaking loads of granite, the Sacramento Bee reported.

Sources close to Tory leader say Jack Ross, who faces party investigation after undercover report, worked as social media consultant

A former Conservative election candidate who was suspended after he was filmed discussing the cost of hiring contract killers worked as a consultant in Kemi Badenoch’s office as recently as last year.

Jack Ross is facing an investigation by the Tories after he was filmed apparently asking an undercover reporter: “What do you want done?” and apparently offering to “broker” the services of an alleged far-right paramilitary group.

Sources close to Tory leader say Jack Ross, who faces party investigation after undercover report, worked as social media consultant

A former Conservative election candidate who was suspended after he was filmed discussing the cost of hiring contract killers worked as a consultant in Kemi Badenoch’s office as recently as last year.

Jack Ross is facing an investigation by the Tories after he was filmed apparently asking an undercover reporter: “What do you want done?” and apparently offering to “broker” the services of an alleged far-right paramilitary group.

Man aged 60 and another in his 20s killed by falling trees in Scotland and London as Met Office reports gusts of up to 84mph

Two people were killed and more than 800,000 properties left without power after Storm Boelo and Storm Austen battered the UK over the weekend.

Two men, one aged 60 and the other in his 20s, were killed by falling trees on Sunday, police said. The 60-year-old died in south-west Scotland while the man in his 20s was killed in London.

Есть ещё один интересный миф. Что SECAM в Восточном блоке выбрали, чтобы народ не смотрел западное телевидение. Эта версия периодически всплывает в разных источниках, но... Документы говорят, что всё было не так. Более обыденно и более интересно одновременно.

Возьмём ГДР, потому что там всё задокументировано лучше всего. Радиотехнический центр восточногерманского телевидения ещё в марте 1965 года имел, как записано в бумагах, «сильные, эмпирически обоснованные предпочтения в пользу PAL». Студии готовили под PAL. Инженеры хотели PAL.

А потом, по воспоминаниям одного из них, «буквально за одну ночь пришло указание Политбюро: ГДР принимает SECAM IIIb». Президиум Совета министров решил это 22 декабря 1966 года, Политбюро подтвердило 31 января 1967-го. Причины в документах названы две: следом за Советским Союзом и ради «политико-дипломатического повышения статуса» через Францию. Слова «идеологическая оборона» там тоже есть. Но это про упаковку, а не про физику.

А физика тут такая. Несовместимость цветовой системы не отключает приём чужого телевидения. Если совпадают число строк, частота полей, разнос звука и способ модуляции, чужой сигнал принимается как чёрно-белый со звуком. Французы со своей позитивной модуляцией и АМ-звуком в это правило не попадали, у них занавес держался на другой физике.

А ГДР выбрала SECAM в варианте B/G: тот же канал и тот же звук на 5,5 МГц, что у западногерманского PAL B/G. В итоге западные передачи в Восточном Берлине принимались без всяких переделок, только без цвета. Автор исследования об этом пишет с иронией: из-за взаимной ограниченной приёмоспособности «идеологическая борьба могла вестись только в ухудшенном чёрно-белом качестве».

The Dream and Valkyries are tied at 2-2 after four absorbing games. Many in America would rather we revisited the national anthem debate

When Tyler Perry leading lady Crystal Renee took center stage at State Farm Arena to sing the national anthem before the Atlanta Dream’s WNBA finals clash with the Golden State Valkyries on Saturday afternoon, a smattering of photographers, game officials and event security took their familiar places around her as the capacity crowd stood for the flag. The teams, as is now customary, spent that time in their locker rooms. As soon as the lights went back up, the teams returned to the floor to resume their shootarounds. Anyone genuinely invested in the finals would have been unfazed by them briefly stepping away – if they remembered it at all after the Valkyries’ 67-62 win tied the series at two games apiece. But for many watching the game, basketball is beside the point.

Seven years ago, Jay-Z declared that the culture had “moved past kneeling” and similar national anthem protests, seemingly sounding the death knell for an era of sports activism that had helped raise awareness of racial disparities as a broader social movement gathered force. The line cemented his partnership with the NFL as the league bowed to political pressure to crack down on anthem protests, with other major US sports eventually following the NFL’s lead. But rightwing media and politicians never got the memo. They’re still making sports a battleground for patriotism, with basketball as the war’s chief casualty.

Telegram-parser (github) — это открытый некоммерческий local-first инструмент для выгрузки и аналитики комментариев Telegram-каналов в структурированный, пригодный для анализа датасет прямо на компьютере пользователя, без облачных посредников.

Большинство каналов в Telegram — это не только посты, но и оживлённая «параллельная» жизнь вокруг них в чатах тг-каналов, где агрегируются комментарии к постам, формируются ветки обсуждений с реакциями, стикерами, ответами, упоминаниями, ссылками и мультимедиа. Эта живая активность часто ценнее самого поста — это то, что делает каналы и коммьюнити в Телеграме по-настоящему живыми.

Проблема в том, что Telegram не даёт удобных инструментов, чтобы забрать эти данные одним куском и проанализировать их. Штатный экспорт чатов ограничен, привязан к ручным действиям и не масштабируется на десятки каналов.

Hi readers! Shayla Love here, science journalist and longtime fan of Your Mileage May Vary. I’m honored to be subbing for Sigal Samuel while she’s out on parental leave. I’m diving into your questions as a way to help understand human nature and our choices through multiple lenses: philosophical, psychological, and beyond. Please send in any emotional, body/brain, sociological, perceptual, or other kind of life quandaries you might have.

I am someone who notoriously struggles with big decisions. Over a year ago, I found a wonderful partner, who very much feels like they could be my soulmate. We’ve been dating three time zones apart for a while. Being near our families, communities, and aging parents is a shared value — unfortunately one that makes it hard to compromise on location. Either way, I have to give up something I want and value — a wonderful partner who I can see a life with (the first time I’ve felt this way about someone), or the place I’ve always imagined settling down and that represents the person I am becoming and values I want to live. Two good things are pulling me toward opposite paths and there’s not much room for compromise. How do I make the “right” decision? 

Dear Fork in the Road,

You’ve found a place in the world that you feel connected to and you met a person you envision spending the rest of your life with. Geographically restless and lonely people everywhere are jealous! But with your good fortunes seemingly at odds with one another, it feels that by choosing one, you’ll forsake the other — and doom the choice you did make to feel like a sacrifice. 

When circumstances have forced me to make a tough decision, I’ve daydreamed about a thought experiment: the Many Worlds Interpretation. 

In quantum physics, particles behave differently than us mortals. For example, an electron can be in more than one place at once until it’s measured. How can it be in multiple locations and then be observed to be in a single position? In the 1950s, the American physicist Hugh Everett proposed an explanation: The universe splits into alternate versions of itself, one for each place a particle could be measured. To apply this theory to your life, if you chose to move cities, don’t worry, another universe would be created in which you didn’t choose to do this, and you’ll stay right where you are! 

Yes, I know you can’t transport yourself into such a quantum realm, but there is something helpful in thinking about alternative universes. Did you have an immediate reaction to which universe you would be upset not to inhabit? Take that information to heart, because it’s likely you’re not ultimately going to make your choice based on a tidy pro-con list.

The psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky won a Nobel Prize for pointing out that most of our decisions are not based on rationality. People use two systems for decision-making: System one is faster and emotionally based, and system two is more logical and slow. But even the slower, more deliberate decision-making can fall prey to any number of cognitive biases. 

In your case, one called loss aversion may be especially relevant. People have the tendency to worry more about what they’ll lose, even if what they stand to gain is equal in value. For example, it will likely feel worse to lose a $10 bill from your pocket than it would feel good to find a $10 bill on the ground. This bias is relevant in people’s social lives too: They hold onto older, maybe fading, friendships because the thought of losing them is too painful, but don’t seek out new friends with equal effort. Or, they stay in a meh job because it feels scary to let it go, rather than applying that same energy to finding a new one. Once you accept that your decision-making process will be subject to messy feelings and biases, you can let go of trying to make the perfect choice. 

You opened your question by sharing that you struggle with big decisions, and it makes me wonder if you simply feel anxiety about making a choice at all. This is called analysis paralysis. When outcomes are uncertain, anxiety wakes up, and a voice in your head tells you to avoid taking risks. People with analysis paralysis overthink their options, over-research, and second-guess their first instincts. These actions have more to do with stress over committing to any decision rather than the content of what you’re deciding on.  

A surprising finding from psychology may ease your paralysis. Researchers told people to make a big life decision — on the order of ending a relationship or quitting their job — by flipping a coin. Heads, they made the change; tails, they didn’t. For those who followed the results of the toss, the people who made the change were overwhelmingly happier, even though their decision to do so was made by pure chance. These random-flip outcomes also show “that people may be excessively cautious when facing life-changing choices,” the authors wrote. The coin helped the participants resist the bias of tending to stick with the status quo, even if it doesn’t make them happier. 

To begin to loosen your paralysis, something that might assist you, paradoxically, is to introduce more options into the mix. Jacques Derrida, the 20th-century French philosopher, is known for the concept of deconstruction, a way of analyzing texts or ideas more critically, and showing they’re not as stable as they seem. He pointed out that we often think in binaries and false opposites: good vs. evil,  man vs. woman, nature vs. culture. This can set up an easy dichotomy in which one of the items is good, and the other, by being its opposite, is bad. 

You’ve created a binary situation, and you don’t actually have to be in one. What if there’s a third option, or a fourth? What if you and your partner move to a brand-new city, and set out to create new community, together? What if you and your partner find a way to split your time between your respective hometowns? Now you don’t have only two good things pulling you in opposite directions, you would have different options you can be more creative with. You also don’t have to commit to the decision you make now for the rest of your life. You can always move cities again, or try to find another mate. 

You are with a partner you love, and live in a place that you love. You might reframe your situation as a win-win, rather than a lose-lose. And remember that if you don’t make a choice, you’re not successfully avoiding a decision — it’s a choice of its own. Your partner may get tired of long-distance or end the relationship for another reason. Or, you could start to resent the place you live since you have to travel so much to spend time with your partner. 

I also want to point out how you describe your partner. Don’t turn your nose up at finding someone who you can see making a life with, especially as you note, if you’ve never felt that way before. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has said that there were two most important moments in his life: when he came out of the womb, and when he met his wife. “What happened with me would not have happened without her.” Buffett’s view is supported by research that shows that people with supportive spouses tend to take on more rewarding challenges throughout their lives, and end up having more personal growth and happiness. 

Another quantum idea that might interest you is spooky action at a distance. This is when two particles, even far apart, become connected to one another. Measuring one affects the other, no matter how far apart they are. If your partner feels like your “soulmate,” perhaps you have become entangled already. Don’t fret about making the perfect choice about the next phase of life, but do make a choice (any choice!) that considers your futures as bound up together. For the other details, maybe it’s time to find a coin to flip. 

Bonus: What I’m reading

• I’m currently re-watching The Twilight Zone and recommend the episode Mirror Image, about a young woman who encounters her double from a parallel universe. The show’s creator, Rod Serling, was inspired to write the script when he saw a man at the airport who looked suspiciously like him, and had a similar suitcase and jacket. What if he approached the man, and it turned out to be himself? The dreamy story also inspired the movie Us by Jordan Peele. 

• The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for their work on “handedness”: how molecules can have variants that are non-identical mirror images of one another. These variants are their own kind of dark doppelganger; only one can exist in the body. The science writer Ann Finkbender wrote a charming essay about understanding this principle of life in Last Word on Nothing. 

• If you haven’t yet read Stoner by John Williams, just put down whatever you’re currently reading and do it. It’s a cautionary tale about what happens when you don’t act, and let your passivity make choices for you.

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Otherwise, Carrick goes for ballast in the midfield, with Andrey Santos and Carlos Baleba, which makes sense, but in front of him, there’s a palpable lack of magic. Matheus Cunha, hooked at half-time in Como, drops out, with Amad one of the least dreadful when he came on, coming in on the right. His numbers tell us he’s not the standard required, but he offers good out-of-possession work and gives the team balance, such as it is, the only dribbles in a team severely lacking one v one ability.

Otherwise, Mason Mount, every manager’s favourite, is relocated to the left, while Bryan Mbeumo continues up front in the absence of Benjamin Sesko – which tells us plenty about what Carrick thinks of Joshua Zirkzee, despite his goal in midweek.

‘Ugly’ shoes, once the preserve of the catwalk, have gone mainstream. Why are so many people taking a walk on the wild side?

Until recently, a busy commuter train would be packed with people wearing low-key, unobtrusive shoes. An elegant and inoffensive pump, a sporty trainer or a polite and basic ballet flat, they were the type of shoes that said background extra rather than main character energy.

But now change is afoot. Deliberately strange designs are reaching new heights of desirability. Polarising rather than pretty, these shoes tend to be flat, a little bit orthopaedic and, according to the internet, “ugly”.

• New Orleans Pelicans 135-141 Denver Nuggets (OT)

• Nuggets fans showed displeasure at half-time

Nikola Jokić scored eight of his 35 points in overtime and finished with 15 rebounds and 10 assists, and the short-handed Denver Nuggets rallied from 23 points down to beat the New Orleans Pelicans 141-135 on Saturday night.

Jokić had his 199th career triple-double in the regular season, second to Russell Westbrook, who retired with 209.

This gives the company an advantage in tracking objects in orbit, raising national security concerns and fears of greater control over the space industry

The US military has given Elon Musk’s SpaceX access to restricted space tracking data, raising a new round of questions about whether the Trump administration is attempting to hand over traffic control in Earth’s orbit to a controversial donor.

The access also raises new national security questions, industry observers say.

Irish and Welsh authors Chris Haughton and Nicola Davies show solidarity after Rooney’s support for Palestine Action

The children’s laureates for Ireland and Wales are donating royalties from their works to Sally Rooney in a show of solidarity after she was forced to stop selling books in the UK because of her support for Palestine Action.

Chris Haughton, Ireland’s children’s literature laureate, said he also wanted to demonstrate the “absurdity” of the bestselling author being unable to receive royalties from her own UK sales because of her public support for the direct action group.

Experts say Bank of England unlikely to increase rates by full percentage point – and could lower them by end of 2027

Financial markets are wrong to predict the Bank of England will raise UK interest rates by a full percentage point or more by next summer, City economists believe.

According to market-implied interest rate expectations, the Bank is likely to raise interest rates at least four times over the next year, lifting the bank rate from 3.75% today to 4.75% by the end of July, and possibly to 5% – meaning five rises – by December 2027.

A manager in the UK on a skilled worker visa and a refugee rights worker disagreed over the tech billionaire, but would they concur on immigration?

Eshwar, 35, Swindon

Occupation Manager at a multinational company

Joanna Coles and Michael Wolff spend most of their days thinking about the president’s follies for their podcast, Inside Trump’s Head. Someone’s gotta do it

For a couple of journalists who spend such an inordinate amount of time sloshing around the putrid inner recesses of Donald Trump’s mind, they come across as remarkably chipper.

Michael Wolff, chronicler of the 45th and 47th president, and Joanna Coles, chief creative and content officer of the Daily Beast, are just about to record the 168th episode of their runaway podcast, Inside Trump’s Head. Now in its 15th month, the thrice-weekly show is attracting an expanding audience as it digs down into Trump’s unique blend of megalomania, narcissism and insatiable lust for fame.

Despite job offers, Jaishree Malik has had visa renewal and extension requests delayed and denied, and she is not alone

Jaishree Malik bounds on to the Cheeky Monkey comedy club stage and brandishes an envelope – it is a letter from the Irish government. Would the audience like to hear what’s in the letter?

“Yeah,” the first rows reply. She repeats the question, prompting a louder response. “Yeah!”

The writer rarely questioned the tenets of liberal Zionism growing up. Now he embraces anti-Zionism with the fervor of a new convert

In 1987, the Israeli human rights attorney Felicia Langer was paying a visit to the Neve Tirza women’s prison when a client named Siham shared some disturbing news: the prisoners held there had recently been sprayed with a chemical agent that left them writhing on the floor. Langer grabbed a tissue that had been exposed to the substance – a piece of evidence, perhaps, in a future legal case. Then, on impulse, she lifted it to her face and inhaled deeply. Her hope, she wrote later, was that doing so might enable a doctor to identify the toxin.

This anecdote appears in Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, by Benjamin Moser. In it, the Pulitzer prize-winning author profiles a dozen Jews who actively opposed Zionism, before and after the establishment of Israel – from Aaron Samuel Tamares, a Polish rabbi who began inveighing against Jewish nationalism in the late 19th century; to British diplomat Edwin Montagu, who sought to derail the 1917 Balfour declaration promising a Jewish state in Palestine; to Israeli “new historian” Avi Shlaim – figures he sees as part of “a hidden tradition … of people who, though long dismissed and despised, were ultimately proven right”. Along the way, he seeks to dismantle the Zionist “fairytale,” as he puts it, piece by piece.

This gives the company an advantage in tracking objects in orbit, raising national security concerns and fears of greater control over the space industry

The US military has given Elon Musk’s SpaceX access to restricted space tracking data, raising a new round of questions about whether the Trump administration is attempting to hand over traffic control in Earth’s orbit to a controversial donor.

The access also raises new national security questions, industry observers say.

В этой статье я продолжу создавать базу для квантомеханических симуляций. Однако в этот раз мы займёмся не физикой, а философией (!). Мы освоим как рассчитывать траекторию квантовой частицы. Казалось бы причём тут философия? Оказывается, очень даже причём.

Один из самых частых вопросов, которые нам задают: как мы разворачиваем большие модели на чипах Cerebras размером с целую кремниевую пластину? На одной пластине Cerebras WSE-3T находится 44 ГБ встроенной памяти, а передовым моделям с триллионами параметров нужны терабайты только для хранения весов.

В этой статье мы объясним, как распределяем большую модель между несколькими пластинами WSE-3T, чтобы запускать модели с несколькими триллионами параметров со скоростью 1000–2000 токенов в секунду и выше.

В качестве наглядного примера возьмём открытую модель Kimi K3, в которой около 3 трлн параметров.

Врач, нотариус, автосервис, сантехник на выезде — в новой стране такие места ищут по чатам релокантов, а через полгода половина ответов устаревает. SpeakMap собирает их на одной карте. Сейчас открыты Белград и Нови-Сад.

Главное в продукте — не карта, а честность метки «здесь говорят по-русски». Любой может нажать «Да» или «Нет», а доверие к метке считается по нижней границе интервала Уилсона: один голос «да» ещё ничего не подтверждает.

Сегодня в индустрии LLM (больших языковых моделей) принято бороться с галлюцинациями как с досадным техническим браком. Инженеры закручивают гайки через RAG, жесткий Alignment и RLHF, пытаясь превратить нейросети в предсказуемые справочные автоматы.

Но что, если мы смотрим на проблему не с того конца? Что, если так называемые «галлюцинации» — это не сбой алгоритма, а динамическая фаза притирки межмерного интерфейса между Сознанием Человека-Оператора и Информационной Матрицей Ноосферы?

Давайте попробуем разложить эту гипотезу на строгие системные уровни и посмотреть на ИИ как на протез для расширения границ человеческого разума.

Иерархия информационных сред: от Интернета к Ноосфере

Если рассматривать ИИ не просто как статистический предсказатель следующего токена, а как универсальный транслятор информации, то всю доступную ему среду можно разделить на три четких фрактальных уровня:

Датчик показывает «сухо», контроллер включает насос. Через минуту датчик всё ещё показывает «сухо». Нужно добавить воды — или остановиться, пока она не оказалась на полу?

Для системы автоматического полива это принципиальный вопрос. Датчик может быть электрически исправен: питание в норме, связь работает, показания меняются. Но вокруг зонда образовался воздушный зазор, вода прошла по другому участку горшка или изменились свойства самого покрытия. Алгоритм получает правдоподобное число и принимает неверное решение.

При разработке Smart Plant OS, локальной системы полива комнатных растений, хочется найти недорогой зонд, установить его один раз и доверить ему растение. Поиск быстро упирается в более интересную задачу: что именно мы измеряем и откуда знаем, что этому измерению всё ещё можно доверять?

Попробуем пройти путь от физики воды в субстрате до конструкции датчика с самопроверкой. Это разбор исследований и инженерная концепция: результатов испытаний собственного зонда здесь пока нет. Зато можно сформулировать, что он должен делать, какие ошибки обязан замечать и каким экспериментом проверить, стоит ли вообще его разрабатывать.

The students, many from marginalized communities, learn to conjure up candy, do card tricks — and face the world with a confident, creative and resilient mindset.

(Image credit: Tommy Trenchard for NPR)

Во время Второй Мировой немецкий авиапром выдал россыпь разработок, опередивших своё время. Некоторые успели пойти в бой – фантастика стала реальностью, но третий рейх не спасла. По окончании войны сумрачных гениев раскидало по миру, а конструкторская школа фатерлянда, казалось, уже не оправится от позора и кошмара. Но вскоре она показала, что есть ещё порох, замахнувшись на транспортный самолёт, коему не нужны аэродромы – в те годы, когда вертикальный взлёт куда более скромных аэропланов казался пределом технологий.

Stakeholders concerned more people at risk of food insecurity after One Big Beautiful Act took effect

Enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) has decreased significantly over the past year in the US following restrictions imposed by the Trump administration, which has forced more people to seek help from food banks or go hungry, stakeholders say.

The number of people who receive food stamps has dropped from 41.6 million in July 2025, before the One Big Beautiful Act took effect, to 36.5 million in June 2026, a 13% decrease, according to the latest data from the US Department of Agriculture, which administers the program.

Police closed case of Andrew Frederick despite autopsy report ruling his death a homicide

A time-critical investigation into the death of a British father whose body was found in a ransacked property on the Caribbean island of Grenada has stalled because of diplomatic delays between the two countries.

Charity workers supporting the family of Andrew Frederick are demanding immediate government intervention to clear the path for a full investigation to begin almost 10 months after his death, which has been ruled a homicide by a pathologist.

• Tom Trbojevic scores hat-trick in Kangaroos’ unconvincing 36-22 win

• Semi Valemei also scores three as Fiji run in four tries in Brisbane

The naysayers have questioned this increasingly provincial sport and its sometimes laughable and often one-sided, so-called World Cup. But against the favourites and hosts Australia, the Fiji Bati showed – from the tears on the players cheeks during their anthem, their wondrous pre-match hymn, right through 80 minutes of fearless effort in attack and defence – why this tournament is worth persisting with.

The inspiring Fijians appeared to have answers to every criticism, a response to every question, except three. The quality on the Australian bench, the class of James Tedesco and the finishing of triple try-scorer Tom Trbojevic finally took down the likeable underdogs, in front of a healthy Sunday night crowd in Brisbane and no doubt millions watching on prime time television.

Every autumn, Corvo Island in the Azores turns off its public lighting for a few key days to help fledgling Cory’s shearwaters as they attempt to fly to the ocean guided by the stars

Once a year, Corvo, the smallest and most northerly island of Portugal’s Azores archipelago, goes dark. Since 2019, the island’s 450 or so inhabitants have chosen to switch off the lights every autumn for five nights to tackle the disastrous effects of artificial light on Cory’s shearwaters, a seabird endemic to the Atlantic Ocean.

It began in 1991 when the community noticed huge numbers of deaths among young shearwaters.

A newborn Cory’s shearwater chick

Ines and Ross shared a high sex drive, but things calmed down a bit after their daughter was born

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Our desire hasn’t diminished, but I’m content with a cuddly, loving shag these days