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"When I hear international leaders speak of “Israel’s right to defend itself,” I wonder: against whom? Against mothers with their babies? Against teachers with their board markers? Against students with their books? The global silence — or worse, complicity — amplifies our grief" -- Dr Hassan El-Nabih

‘I’m happy and sad to see you’: The paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide
A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing what our survival has cost us.

In other exciting news, GitHub Classrooms is now repeatedly failing to import an assignment from a previous semester. Every time it fails, every few minutes, it generates a new repo in my org for the same assignment. Lovely.
There is AFAICT no way to cancel the import.

'Feeling blessed', Cowboys lineman could be ready for Week 1 after scary injury https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/26/tyler-guyton-discusses-injury-recovery-…

Progress of happiness-inducing and battery-charging events in the next months:
39c3:
✅ Ticket (paid)
✅ train ticket to HH
✅ train ticket back to CH
✅ hotel
Disobey2026
✅ Ticket (accepted as volunteer)
◻️ flight
◻️ hotel
On the other hand, my bank account looks unhappy 😐
#39c3

Donald Trump issued a pardon for the founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange on Thursday.
Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty in late 2023 to one count of failing to maintain an anti-money laundering program and stepped down as CEO of Binance,
which paid $4.3bn to settle related allegations.
He was sentenced to four months in prison.
Zhao, who is often referred to by his initials CZ, is one of the world’s richest people and biggest names in cryptocurrency.

Jets erase 20-point deficit in final minutes before falling to Buccaneers in latest gut-wrenching loss

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jets-er

Timer wrap around strikes again:
''The root cause was traced to a software timing bug. The software function that switches the signal amplifier on and off relies on an internal timer. This timer is constantly counting up and restarts from zero once every 16 months. If the function happens to be using the timer at the exact moment it restarts, the amplifier remains switched off, and Juice’s signal is too weak to detect from Earth.'

Juice team resolves anomaly on approach to Venus
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on track for its gravity-assist flyby at Venus on 31 August, following the successful resolution of a spacecraft communication anomaly that temporarily severed contact with Earth.The issue, which emerged during a routine ground station pass on 16 July, temporarily disrupted Juice’s ability to transmit information about its health and status (telemetry).Thanks to swift and coordinated action by the teams at ESA’s European Sp…

President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/tru

Did John Mateer, Fernando Mendoza help NFL Draft stock? More Week 4 reactions https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6647901/2025/09/21/nfl-draft-2026-mateer-fernando-mendoza/

Tinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming months, following its rollout in seven countries and in California (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/tinder…

Tinder will require new users in the US to verify their identity with a selfie  | TechCrunch
The facial verification feature, known as Face Check, requires new users to verify their identity by submitting a short video selfie.