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#NewBromptonBagDay! Die Gamer unter Euch kennen sicher #ThermalTake. Wußtet Ihr, dass die nicht nur Lüfter und PC-Gehäuse sondern auch Rucksäcke für Laptops und Taschen herstellen? Die als #Fronttasche

Friend announces an AI pendant with a speaker for spoken replies for $249, up from its original necklace's $129 price, with an optional $10 monthly subscription (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-friend-2-necklace-can-talk-back-to-you-now/

The New Friend AI Pendant Can Now Talk Back to You
Avi Schiffmann has a new version of his controversial AI companion. It’s more expensive, and you can’t change its personality.

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli.
The newspaper which has been providing the meager support for this reporting is ceasing operations. Please share and support if you can - this is one of the only true journalists actually on the ground in Ukraine.
Friend link bypasses the paywall and includes links to videos from Ukraine:

Four Sectors, One Single Signal: Is the Russian Front Breaking?
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

(2021) The Defensive Activation Theory: REM sleep as a mechanism to prevent takeover of the visual cortex https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.632853/full So we should disrupt REM sleep for better masteri…

Frontiers | The Defensive Activation Theory: REM Sleep as a Mechanism to Prevent Takeover of the Visual Cortex
Regions of the brain maintain their territory with continuous activity: if activity slows or stops (e.g., because of blindness), the territory tends to be ta...

A New Grandson, a Lost Friend, and an Exoneration
This week brought both celebration and sorrow: the loss of a former Army comrade, the early arrival of a new grandson, and news of three Pennsylvania men finally exonerated after nearly three decades in prison. A reminder that life rarely comes in simple categories.

A New Grandson, a Lost Friend, and an Exoneration – Bob Mueller
A lost friend, a new grandson, and a Pennsylvania exoneration highlight a week of grief, joy, and questions about justice.

➡️ Python f-string Tips & Cheat Sheets
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Python f-string tips & cheat sheets
Python's string formatting syntax is both powerful and complex. Let's break it down and then look at some cheat sheets.

Twitch rolls out Dual Format, a feature that lets creators stream horizontally and vertically simultaneously, and 2K streaming for partners and affiliates (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2184452/twitch-cr

Twitch creators will soon be able to stream in horizontal and vertical formats simultaneously - Engadget
The company announced the new Dual Format feature alongside other updates at TwitchCon Europe.

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…