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Just made a back to school collection on my Threadless store to suggest stuff I think people should get for the students in their lives, or themselves. So basically some shameless self promotion.
Enjoy: https://davidaugust.threadless.com/collections/back-to-school…

Shop the Back to School Collection on David August's Artist Shop | Featuring custom t-shirts, prints, and more
Whether you're heading to class, or just want to learn stuff this year, here's some inspiration by me.

New report warns 54% of turtles and tortoises are at risk of extinction https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/new-report-warns-54-of-turtles-and-tortoises-are-at-risk-of-extinction/

New report warns 54% of turtles and tortoises are at risk of extinction
“Most people have a turtle story, whether that’s seeing a turtle at an aquarium, having a turtle as a pet as a kid, or they helped one cross the road, or one happened across their backyard one day,” Jordan Gray, from the Turtle Survival Alliance, told Mongabay. For many Indigenous cultures, turtles hold profound spiritual […]

Excitation of toroidal Alfv\'en eigenmode by energetic particles in DTT and effect of negative triangularity
Guangyu Wei, Fulvio Zonca, Matteo Valerio Falessi, Zhiyong Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14622

Excitation of toroidal Alfvén eigenmode by energetic particles in DTT and effect of negative triangularity
A linear gyrokinetic eigenvalue code is developed to study the stability of toroidal Alfvén eigenmode (TAE) in general axisymmetric toroidal geometry, with the self-consistent treatment of energetic particle drive and core plasma Landau damping in a non-perturbative way. The general particle responses of both circulating and trapped particles are incorporated in the calculation by means of the action-angle approach, and, particularly, the finite Larmor radius and orbit width effects of energet…

TSP - Travelling Salesman Problem - to represent a picture. Robert E. Bosch names it 'Opt Art' and we are watching a talk how to do this with TurtleStitch. Remote, by indian student Bhavik.
#TurtleStitch10 #embroideryart

40 years old!
it stands up pretty well, especially branford marsalis' contributions on soprano sax, although maybe the song about reagan and gorbachev is a little dated heh
#nowplaying #vinyl #vinylrecords

Eddy #Merckx ;-)
Ferrovelo Cycle Works. Vintage and Classic bicycle projects. Builds | Restorations | Collections.
#colnago #ferrovelocycleworks

Massey products for homotopy inner products
Kate Poirier, Thomas Tradler, Scott O. Wilson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15494 https://ar…

Massey products for homotopy inner products
This paper defines Massey-type products for a homotopy inner product on an $A_\infty$ algebra, called Massey inner products. We include an explicit description of ordinary Massey products for $A_\infty$ algebras, and for $A_\infty$ modules, and show that Massey product sets can have interesting internal structure. We give non-trivial applications from lens spaces, links, and low dimensional manifolds, showing Massey inner products contain information beyond ordinary Massey products.

Russia becomes third-largest gas supplier to EU: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/russia-becomes-thirdlargest-gas-supplier.html

Not a feel good take on the state of movies, TV and streamers. An interesting read: #film

Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer meant fewer shipping costs for Netflix, and fewer DVDs for the company to manage and store. Netflix tracked heavy users of its service — labeling them internally as “pigs” — and secretly throttled their deliveries. It didn’t matter if Netflix rented fewer DVDs than Blockbuster, b…

Walter and Paul presenting a DIY project to convert an old sewing machine into a modern computerized embroidery machine. First time in TV today 😄
#turtlestitch10 #embroidery #arts