Tag: september 11

Posted on
by

Let us make it three days of Pook-Emu Bee links in a row.

1 | Million Goods Opens And A Crucial Bike Lane Completed (DeKalb Dispatch. Sep. 11, 2026.)
There’s no such thing as a crucial bike lane.

2 | From Holdout to Hunted: Keith Reddington Seeks Phone Records and Interview with Holdout Clancy Juror (Jonathan Turley. Sep. 22, 2026.)
This guy is a menace.

3 | Susan Rice: U.S. Must Work with China to ‘Freeze’ AI Development (Pam Key for Breitbart. Sep. 21, 2026.)
I think they should be a little more subtle before getting straight to their point.

4 | A powerful West Village 9/11 memorial asks us not to forget one young office worker (Ephemeral New York. Sep. 7, 2026.)
I meant to include this link in a Pook-Emu Bee before 9/11. I wasn’t able to publish much that week. Better late than never.

5 | Video shows rare whale sharks just 100 miles off New York City (John Dias for CBS News. Sep. 3, 2026.)
I’m not a big boat guy so I will stick to bringing you terrestrial NYC news.

6 | Jellyfish Clog Shores and Sting Swimmers as Summer Wanes in Rockaway (Samantha Maldonado for The City Reporter. Sep. 2, 2026.)
I don’t think I’ve ever been to Rockaway so I’ll rate myself as safe.

7 | State Department Says ‘Do Not Travel to Libya for Any Reason’ (John Hayward for Breitbart. Sep. 5, 2026.)
Well. Where do I go now? (Aside: Whoever sees which of the first six links inspired me to drop a Libya story at the end earns smug self-satisfaction.)

Posted on
by

My posting out-put has been subpar of late, but today the Pook-Emu Bee links return for the first time since September 10.

1 | 25 Years Since the Worst Day in My Lifetime (Andrew R. Arthur for Center for Immigration Studies. Sep. 11, 2026.)
Memories of 9/11 and border/visa security in the ensuing quarter-century.

2 | New World Trade Center is fine but it could have been great (Steve Cuozzo for the New York Post. Sep. 12, 2026.)
Given the number of stupid ideas that were floating around in the wake of 9/11 (many of which are noted in this op-ed), I am willing to count the “fine” Freedom Tower as a “W.”

3 | What 9/11 was like for veteran Post police reporter: ‘Nothing could prepare me’ (Larry Celona for the New York Post. Sep. 11, 2026.)
Memories from a repporter who had covered 9/11 on the ground.

4 | The Second Life of Crayons (Dan Lewis for Now I Know. May 15, 2019.)
Innovative crayon recycling.

5 | Guess Who Helped Doxx the Holdout Juror in the Lindsay Clancy Case (Victoria Taft for PJ Media. Sep. 13, 2026.)
Someone ought to look into whether attorney Reddington and his wife have been communicating with some of the “11” subsequent to the trial.

6 | 220 million traveler records exposed in Vietnam-linked APIS leak (Ax Sharma for Bleeping Computer. Sep. 8, 2026.)
I’m 100% sure I am not part of this leak thanks to one simple trick.

7 | Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans — penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons (Mark Tyson for Bleeping Computer. Sep. 13, 2026.)
Superintelligence relative to what? If the bar for human intelligence is this proposal than the original Mario Party devs are in trouble.

8 | Publishing your work increases your luck (Aaron Francis for The ReadME Project. Juuly 12, 2022.)
Every Pook-Emu Bee is a roll of the dice.

9 | You Can Drop SEO (Ibrahim Diallo at iDiallo. Sep. 12, 2026.)
Not here I can’t. The “brand SEO” of “Pook-Emu Bee” is too elite.

10 | Feds accuse China of ‘systematic’ distillation of U.S. AI models (Derek B. Johnson for Cyberscoop. Sep. 8, 2026.)
To be fair to China… a decent number try to scrape my sites directly

Posted on
by

I read a good op-ed in the New York Post by New York State Assemblyman Matt Slater on the subject of ensuring 9/11 is properly taught in New York schools (New York Post, September 11, 2025). The post is well-worth reading (especially if you are a fellow New Yorker), but a few passages prompted me to addend comments.

But for today’s K-12 students, 9/11 is not memory — it is history. None of them were alive to experience it.

Matt Slater

I would add that a growing number of teachers are too young to have clear and distinct memories of 9/11, even if they are older than 24. It is not the case like it was in prior years where all teachers could discuss 9/11 with the context of having been old enough to remember or understand it at the time.

The State Education Department provides school districts with guidance regarding 9/11 curriculum, but it fails to adequately recognize the day’s significance, or the changed world that it created. It was not just another historical event, but a defining moment for our state, our country and the free world.

Matt Slater

I am not sure what the curriculum is now, although I have measured skeptecism about the work of New York City public schools. I went to private schools for K-12. We had no 9/11 curriculum, but all of us were old enough to remember 9/11. Much of the discussion in current events and the like focused on the aftermath of 9/11, specifically the wars in the Middle East and Central Asia.

For elementary students, that may mean an emphasis on the stories of helpers and heroes, while middle schoolers can explore the historical timeline. High school students can study the political, military and cultural consequences of 9/11, as well as the radicalization that fueled the attacks.

Matt Slater

While I have obviously not studied the bill in detail, this sounds like a good outline to me, especially in considering the age of the students. I would be inclined to say regarding the high school curriculum that it should specifically address Islamist terror, which is the ideology that fueled the 9/11 attacks, and not some vague radicalization in the abstract. That is not only necessary for understanding 9/11, but also for understanding foreign affairs and threats to the homeland today.

The students sitting in New York’s classrooms today may be the last generation to grow up surrounded by those who remember 9/11 firsthand.

Matt Slater

This is an interesting point. More and more kids in New York will be born to parents who were either born after September 11, 2001, or born too close to the day to remember it distinctly. Assemblyman Slater is correct that this would be a good opportunity to codify a 9/11 curriculum. Now is Albany capable of doing this well? I have my doubts, but count me as a supporter of Mr. Slater’s effort.

In the spirit of the somber day, I share a post I published last year on the 9/11 Heroes Walk in San Antonio, Texas.