I’m also reminded of a time in the fourth grade in Amarillo, Texas, when our teacher had posted an American Sign Language alphabet on the wall for the year. My classmates and I started using it to communicate, and eventually the teacher got frustrated at our distractions (understandable). In order to stop the distractions, he ripped the poster off the wall – not realizing that he’d actually been effective in teaching us the alphabet in ASL. We didn’t need that poster anymore. Taking this curriculum away, or relegating it to the outside the core, does not eradicate the knowledge from students’ minds. They will find ways to understand how politics, gender, sexuality, and more are used to divide us – whether in the classroom or not.

A reminder that nobody has done the reading, and if you do that alone you’ll soon find yourself absurdly ahead of the curve

On Wednesday, September 16, Huntington Beach Fire Department Marine Safety lifeguards were notified of a possibly injured sea turtle near Surfside. They later discovered the turtle was laying eggs. Our lifeguards responded, established a perimeter, and coordinated with Seal Beach Lifeguards before notifying the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Three days later, on September 19, HBFD Marine Safety lifeguards responded to another sea turtle sighting near the Huntington Beach Pier and discovered the turtle laying eggs. They immediately established a perimeter and notified the appropriate agencies. NOAA personnel returned to the area yesterday to establish a more permanent protected perimeter around the nesting site. The City of Huntington Beach is grateful to our local, state, and federal partners for their quick response and continued efforts to protect these sea turtles and their nesting sites. From NOAA: An olive ridley sea turtle was observed digging a nest and laying eggs on a beach near Seal Beach in Orange County, CA, on 16 September 2026. This is the first-ever recorded natural nesting for any sea turtle species on the U.S. West Coast. Three days later, a sea turtle was observed again on the beach a few miles south, near the Huntington Beach Pier. It is unclear at this time whether this is the same or a different turtle. The team will monitor the nest throughout the incubation period, which typically lasts for 45-60 days. Both areas are fenced, protected, and have interpretive signage. We urge beachgoers to steer clear and not disturb the sites. Olive ridley turtles are the smallest of the sea turtles: adults weigh up to 100 lbs. and are about 2.5 to 3’ in length. They are estimated to live about 30-50 years. These sea turtles are found worldwide, primarily in the tropical waters of the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans. Major Pacific nesting populations span Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. While occasionally seen in Southern California following warm currents, this species has never been documented to nest in the United States. What can you do? • Keep your distance. Give nesting sites plenty of space, and don't disturb the fencing or signage. • Spot a sea turtle? The public can play an important role in protecting turtles and helping our experts by reporting sightings using this survey123.arcgis.com/share/d…. • Found a stranded sea turtle? Call the NOAA Fisheries West Coast Stranding Hotline at(562) 506-4315. A big thank you to our partners @USFWS, @CDFW, @huntington_beach_lifeguards, @cityofhb, huntington_beach_fire, @sealbeach_lifeguard+ Bolsa Chica Ecological Preserve, US Navy Seal Beach, @cityofsealbeachca, surfside lifeguards, Seaside Colony Communication Association, @aquariumpacific, and many others for their quick response and help monitoring these important sites. Sea turtles are protected under the Endangered Species Act. The inter-agency team responsible for monitoring and protecting these turtles took all accompanying media. We remind the public to keep a respectful distance from these animals and the protected nesting sites.

She's super talented. I NEED to buy one of these. Here's a comparison of the Pentium weaving with a Pentium die photo.

Everyone should be preserved after they die. We want a human future. It's finally possible to preserve people well enough that they could be eventually restored. 🧵1/x

I added a tiny "papercuts" cli tool that agents can use to complain about bullshit they encountered during work, like dead-end tool calls, broken links, or other frustrations. The models would usually just push through without mentioning any problems

guess who DID NOT TAKE A SINGLE PART OF THE BAR EXAM TODAY if you guessed “every single lawyer in the state of Washington,” congratulations, you win a prize the prize is 700 or so very tired and upset lawyers

Yeah people claiming this is most important security incident since Morris worm are straightforwardly right I think.

I laughed when I watched this one. Amazing that someone made this, and it flies

Is anyone out there using flaredown.com/ ? I have a dev with a grant to improve it and no available and actively engaged stakeholders #flaredown #flaredownhealth

I have plenty more Erdős solutions in the queue, all long and likely just as hard to formalize; I'm still figuring out how to release them. For now, the #870 write-up and Lean proof are both here: github.com/davidturturean/er… 11/n

미국 스튜디오 MAKE의 작품이다. 이집트 고양이 여신 바스테트에서 시작해 19세기 회화를 거쳐 현대까지, 고양이의 역사를 16초 안에 훑는 애니메이션이다. 시대는 바뀌었다. 고양이는 바뀌지 않았다. 그게 이 영상의 결론이다.

Ribosome simulation in @threejs

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA. Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team. After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator. In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets. Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record." Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.