Tootfinder

#Requiescat For Abdullah Ibrahim aka Dollar Brand. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_OcdqkeeI2xgbOKGW5-PfTzd1NlKuZBt

Sources: Demis Hassabis pitched a new independent industry AI safety entity, modeled on the IAEA, to top Trump officials before stepping down as DeepMind CEO (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/deepminds-hass

florentine_families: Padgett Florentine families
Multiplex network with 2 edge types representing marriage alliances and business relationships between Florentine families during the Italian Renaissance. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 16 nodes and 35 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted
…

Dev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software, stoking fears of unstoppable ads — delivers 360p video at 30 FPS and acts as a ‘bridge for AI’
A new and unique ASCII video streaming solution has been released under the MIT license. ASCILINE Engine by YusufB5 is pitched as a “high-performance, real-time ASCII video rendering engine” that can be used to broadcast “an unblockable video stream.”
📺

Dev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software — delivers 360p video at 30 FPS and acts as a ‘bridge for AI’
Some commenters are worried that this development could precipitate unblockable ads.

When the conservative American commentator Tucker Carlson sat down last year for a buzzy interview with Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian,
the unlikely encounter would most likely never have happened without the involvement of a tiny, independent Iranian outlet.
Mahdi Ahmadi, the founder of Azad, a six-person team that hosts debates in Tehran and publishes them on YouTube, pitched Mr. Carlson on the idea, he said, and then connected him with the president’s team.
This med…

The Iranian YouTube Show Posing Questions Few Dare Ask
Azad, a popular online debate program, has tackled topics that push the limits of Iran’s authoritarian system. Some question how it has remained on air.

Did you know that you can use #PyTest 's plugin manager instance to check whether a particular plugin was loaded? You might have known that.
And did you know that pytest plugins have no "canonical" name, and every plugin's name is literally whatever was passed while it was registered? So if a plugin was autoloaded, it's its entry point name. If it was loaded via `-p` or `PYTEST_PLUGINS`, it's whatever the argument was (i.e. entry point name in the first case, object reference in the second one). And if it was loaded via an explicit call to plugin loader, then it was whatever you passed to the plugin loader.
https://github.com/syrupy-project/syrupy/pull/1142/changes

What blocked this bus and all this traffic for a whole light cycle? I peer around the corner of the Panchitas van and see, of course, a double-parked Waymo.

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:

Finished reading "Whistler" by Ann Patchett.
Daphne runs into her former stepfather at the Met, four decades after divorce ended their one year as family.
A slow, beautiful portrait of people revised across decades. Everyone gets re-seen, with the kindness and introspection to do it justice. Eddie, her mother, her father, even the life Skip Hotalling lives as contrast to the choices Eddie makes.
5/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Whistler
The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Times bestsell…

Hila Gelato is building a parklet, the 2nd floating parklet along the new Valencia bike lane