Tootfinder

{purrr} has some lesser known functions that make handling of failing function calls easier: safely, quietly, possibly: #rstats

Wrap a function to capture errors — safely
Creates a modified version of .f that always succeeds. It returns a list with components result and error. If the function succeeds, result contains the returned value and error is NULL. If an error occurred, error is an error object and result is either NULL or otherwise.

Damn! spent the whole evening reading articles and not editing photos (as planned) ...
Ah well - then I invite you to a walk we did recently on a sunny day along some nice blooming bushes.
#hiking #flowers #outdoors

Videos show ICE’s pursuit of immigrant’s van before Houston shooting
Videos that capture the minutes leading up to and immediately after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot an undocumented Mexican immigrant in Houston early Tuesday morning
show agents aggressively following a white work van and then approaching the vehicle on foot.

Security camera footage from nearby businesses and residences, obtained and analyzed by The Washington Post, provides a n…

What videos show about ICE’s pursuit of immigrant’s van before Houston shooting
Surveillance footage captures ICE agents in unmarked vehicles pursuing the van Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving.

During our vacation recently, I tried to practice more foreground and composition for .. not for documenting our vacation, but to capture more a feeling that I had at this moment.
This is one of the photos. Here it felt "better" to me to set the focus to the red poppies because at this moment, they just drew more attention as we were walking towards the gate.
More of this day:

ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall "feeling", amid its legal battles with book authors (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/cha

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.

ReFocus: The Films of Gaspar Noé - Call for Chapters
https://ift.tt/gVWYosl
updated: Tuesday, July 14, 2026 - 4:35pmfull name / name of organization: Florian Zappecontact…
via Input 4 RELCFP

ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall "feeling", amid its legal battles with book authors (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/cha

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.

Thousands of people remain missing or unaccounted for following the Rapid Support Forces' capture of El Fasher, according to new findings published by the UN Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan.
Following the takeover in late October 2025,
the International Organization for Migration estimated that more than 127,000 people were displaced from the city and surrounding villages.
The mission noted that humanitarian organizations later described El Fasher as a "ghost town,&…

Thousands remain missing after El Fasher takeover in Sudan | News.az
The report states that before the city's fall, El Fasher had an estimated population of about 260,000 people, News.az reports, citing reports of the U...

ReFocus: The Films of Gaspar Noé - Call for Chapters
https://ift.tt/gVWYosl
updated: Tuesday, July 14, 2026 - 4:35pmfull name / name of organization: Florian Zappecontact…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Just another place we visited in the Fränkische Schweiz. We just walked along a little stream and suddenly passed through this rock-gate with all the lush green on either side.
Just beautiful.
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/caves-and-meadows-d…