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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

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

petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, 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.”
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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.

Am 07. November kommen @… und @… im Rahmen des Podcastfestivals Podcat and Poodle zu einer Liveaufzeichnung ihres Podcasts #Antritt

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.

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…

Ich bin Kind der 1970er und Teen der 1980er. Meine Eltern haben mir ganz ohne Klimaerwärmung mitgegeben, schonend mit meiner Umwelt umzugehen: Licht aus, wenn man als letzter ein Zimmer verlässt. Nahrungsmittel kreativ verarbeiten anstatt weg werfen. Im Winter reichen 20°C im Haus, wenn dir kalt ist, zieh' einen Pulli an. Gehe sorgsam mit Wasser um, kann man einfach abdrehen während man sich einseift oder die Zähne putzt. Auto braucht kein Vollgas.
Ich gestalte mein Leben bis heute…

A profile of Camilla Clark, quiet adviser to husband Dario Amodei and behind-the-scenes player at Anthropic; she once pitched a porn startup to Jeffrey Epstein (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropics-first-lady-took-winding-roa…

Anthropic’s ‘First Lady’ Took a Winding Road to the Top
Eric Schmidt had plenty of reasons to toast the success of Dario Amodei and Anthropic at a private event the former Google CEO hosted recently. But Schmidt, who is also an early Anthropic investor, made a point to celebrate “Cami and Dario,” the couple seated together at the event. The Cami in ...

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