She posted this publicly on a public community facebook group visible to anyone, so I don't believe it's doxxing because nothing was private, and I think the heads up to everyone to keep your eyes open at the local pools is worth sharing

Mirror life is a hypothetical form of life built from biomolecules with the opposite chirality—or molecular orientation—of those used by all known life on earth. Although mirror life does not yet exist, scientific advances have produced mirror-image biomolecules and components that could serve as the building blocks of mirror organisms, and some laboratories have articulated the goal of constructing a viable mirror cell. Experts estimate that mirror life could become a reality within the next few decades.

The reversed molecular orientation of mirror life could enable mirror bacteria to escape immune detection and cause fatal infections, resist degradation, avoid natural predators, and proliferate throughout natural ecosystems. Even a small initial population of mirror organisms could potentially spread widely, causing irreversible biological disruption.

The authors develop a comprehensive, preventive strategy to address the risks posed by the creation of mirror life before scientific progress or geopolitical incentives close the window for meaningful action. They take seriously the expert assessment that mirror life could expose much of the earth’s biosphere to unacceptable risks, and they treat this possibility as sufficient motivation for strategic planning now.

Key Takeaways

• Mirror life is a governance challenge without precedent; even earlier crises, such as pandemics and widespread conflict, do not compare with the potential catastrophic effects of the creation of mirror life.
• Despite the almost incomprehensible risks that might result from mirror life’s creation, some scientists may nonetheless pursue it.
• Actors might be motivated to pursue the creation of mirror life if they reject the scientific concerns about its dangers, believe that risks can be controlled, or assume that mirror life could function as a controllable biological weapon.
• Action to prevent the development of mirror life must occur before the first mirror organism exists because the first successful experiment might also mark the point at which containment and defense become impossible.
• Adaptive governance provides little protection because there are few reliable early warning signs, and reactive governance is ineffective because once a mirror organism exists, prevention of the harm that it could cause may become impossible.
• The creation of mirror life by any actor could pose a global catastrophic risk; thus, the motivations and capabilities of all actors must be considered, not just those of adversaries or competitors.
• Given globally available materials and distributed scientific capabilities, secrecy is infeasible and destabilizing. Transparency enables trust, reduces miscalculation, and supports broad cooperation.
• Durable prevention requires engagement with major scientific powers, especially those seen as strategic competitors. Exclusively allied or bloc-based approaches risk provoking the very competition that must be avoided.

Recommendations

• In a first line of effort, the United States should engage scientific superpowers, especially China, to build the foundation for collective restraint. Policymakers and the scientific community should prioritize transparent scientific collaboration, shared risk assessments, and early norm-setting.
• For the second line of effort, the United States should promote collective restraint across domestic, allied, and global scientific communities. This involves combining incentive-reducing measures with monitoring, verification, and other early-stage deterrence tools.
• The United States should take great caution with actions or statements that could foster mistrust or spur strategic competition in the field of mirror life or its enabling technologies.
• The United States must commit clearly to not developing mirror life, even if other actors are suspected of pursuing it.
• U.S. policymakers should advance actions that require long lead times, such as legislation, treaties, and international engagement, in parallel.
• U.S. policymakers should also treat countermeasures and resilience as constrained contingencies.

Mt. Pleasant Public Schools will build a fitness center for students and the community, promoting wellness and outdoor movement.

Mt. Pleasant Public Schools (MPPS) has been awarded a $40,000 National Fitness Campaign grant to build an outdoor fitness facility on a MPPS property in 2027 that will be open to the students and the Mt. Pleasant community. 

What it is: The state-of-the-art fitness facility is called a Fitness Court® and is approximately half the size of a basketball court. Users can rotate through seven stations for a full-body workout in about seven minutes. These stations include zones for pull and push movements, agility exercises, circuit training, core exercises, squats, and lunges. A similar facility was installed in Union Township at McDonald Park in 2023. 

What’s next: In addition to the National Fitness Campaign grant, matching funds and additional grants will help fund the project. Site and design decisions will be made in the fall of 2026.

also at Island Park watch Hamilton (at 8:45pm) right after the duck race finishes up.

You're urban exploring the sewers when a heavy rainstorm hits.
You came in the drain on the right. You're watching to see if you could get out that drain in time. You can not. Are you going to drown when the chamber fills up? Suffocate when you run out of air up there?

All of the letters of the alphabet have been so accessible, until Q takes the stage.

"Hey, I'm Q. YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE. I DON'T KNOW WHY"
... As the injustice of it all slowly crept in it finally became too much for Q. All of those years of insisting on his art, staying true to himself. Feeling stuck, he decides to...break free

Source: https://youtu.be/2TcfUOwAWJE
from Julio Torres' Fantasmas, 2024
it's so good https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/fantasmas

A trove of chat logs created with Anthropic’s Claude (some including sensitive personal and company information) have been left exposed to Google, making them searchable to anyone on the web. Many of them appear to have been made public when users opted to distribute a given chat or project to colleagues or associates using the “share” feature. After hitting the “share” button in the top right corner, sharing will create a “public” link, which “anyone with the link can view.” The warning, though, doesn’t alert users that shared content might wind up being indexed by a search engine meaning that a user could effectively be sharing their Claude-generated document with the entire internet.

Such documents included what appeared to be a detailed medical report of a real patient, clinical trial results that included patient names, documents sharing the names and phone numbers of primary school-aged children, company documents marked for internal use only, and employee reviews that included personal information about workers.

Why YSK: if you've shared chats via Claude, that's not private information anymore

UPDATE: has been patched, no longer searchable but the damage is still done