*NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY “Portrait of a Nation: 2025 Honorees,” through Nov. 15. Steven Spielberg, Temple Grandin and Jamie Dimon are among those depicted in this annual exhibition spotlighting those who have made extraordinary contributions to American culture. “Star Power: Photographs From Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell (A Sequel),” through Jan. 10. An encore installation featuring 20 photos of movie stars from the 1930s and ’40s. “The Spirit of Invention: Patent Office and Patentees,” through June 6. An exhibition depicting the early history of the Patent Office through selections from the museum’s collection. “Meserve Collection Highlights: Modern Prints From Mathew Brady’s Portrait Negatives,” through May 14, 2028. Nine prints from 19thcentury negatives feature the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ulysses S. Grant and more. Eighth and F streets NW. npg.si.edu

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART “Saodat Ismailova: Melted Into the Sun,” through Nov. 29. Text, archival footage and original film unpack Central Asia’s traditions, oral histories and landscapes. “From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art,” through Jan. 18. More than two-dozen Islamic works from the Louvre in Paris are on display. “A Museum in the Making,” through Aug. 1. This exhibition tells the story of Charles Lang Freer’s Detroit home, which the collector and industrialist turned into an experiment in art and design. “Woven and Cast: Chinese Textiles and Japanese Metalwork From the Shirley Z. Johnson Collection,” Saturday through Nov. 28, 2027. A series of pairings that place Chinese textiles from the Ming and Qing dynasties alongside contemporary Japanese metalwork. 1050 Independence Ave. SW. asia.si.edu

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Your Brain on Spirituality · The Next Big Idea Daily

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Yes Please · Amy Poehler

PC Valmorbida, Chase Mattson & Porsha Williams? · Who? Weekly

Want to Enjoy Music More? Go For a Run. · The Daily

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Downward Facing Dreamboat · bookshelf

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Jensen Huang, Part 2: We Have to Hurt You to Save You · Decoding the Gurus

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Can curiosity save the wild? · TED Radio Hour

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METRO - Karat and Schtick · Serial

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🃏 Aphorisms

1. The web you craft is a mirror you didn't ask for.
2. Going analogue is just admitting the signal was never the point.
https://mjh.yoga/notes/links-i-would-gchat-you-if-we-were-friends/
3. Notability is a currency printed by people who need you to need it.

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• Getting back to Analogue · The Universe of Joshua Blais — https://joshblais.com/blog/analogue/
• Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends
• #790: Sorry, you’re not notable · Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends
• Olly - October 27, 2026 10:56 · Olly — https://olly.world/41bd6bd4
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r/Onyx_Boox - My Palma 2 Pro as a pen-first productivity device: the home screen is my daily planner page
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Disclaimer: This post was created with the help of Claude, as were the apps. Maybe you can take some ideas from it.Disclaimer: This post was created with the help of Claude, as were the apps. Maybe you can take some ideas from it.
My idea was to present the idea of a launcher which makes use of the stylus and the note taking while beeing minimalistic.

I wanted my Boox Palma 2 Pro to work like a paper planner that's there the moment I pick it up, not like another phone where I have to dig through apps first. So now the home screen is today's planner page, and I write on it directly with the stylus.

The setup

1. Overwatcher, the planner. It's my personal fork of Tools for Boox by Gábor Auth, with parts of the Ledger fork by Michael Joel Hall.

Daily pages with a schedule (it pulls in calendar events), a task list with checkboxes, and notes
Open tasks carry over to the next day automatically
The Palma and my Note Air 4C sync through my own WebDAV server over Tailscale, instead of Google Drive
No ads, no analytics
2. Ink Launcher, a small home screen app on top of it.

Today's page: It shows the current day split into four full-width parts (morning, afternoon, tasks, notes), because the whole page is too small on the tall 1:2 screen.
Pen writes, fingers navigate: Swipe sideways to switch parts, up for the app list, down for notifications.
Live ink: Writing uses the Onyx pen SDK. The strokes are saved straight into Overwatcher's data, so they show up on the Air 4C after the next sync.
Schedule: It opens on morning or afternoon depending on the time of day.
Status line: Battery, open tasks and notifications. Tapping "open tasks" jumps to the oldest unfinished task.
Sync indicator: It sits next to the date, which is handy when Tailscale is down.
App list: Text only, with search and favorites. It also opens the Boox Library and Notes.
Why

I want as little friction as possible: pick it up, see today, write. There's no unlock, find the app, find the page. The Air 4C is the big desk planner, and the Palma is the pocket version of the same pages.

How it was made

Both apps are vibe-coded: I described what I wanted and an AI coding assistant wrote the code. This post was also written with AI. It's early, and I made it my default launcher this weekend, so expect rough edges. I'm sharing the idea, not a download, but happy to talk about it.

Tip for anyone on a third-party launcher: Library and Notes have no app icon of their own and normally only open from the Boox launcher's widgets. They can be started directly, at least on my firmware:

Library: action com.onyx.action.LIBRARY
Notes: action com.onyx.intent.action.MAIN_ACTIVITY with the string extra json = {"action":"OPEN_NOTE"