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Israel has sealed off the largest Palestinian city in the West Bank and razed entire neighborhoods as retaliation for the shooting of two soldiers on Friday. (1/2) buff.ly/KXs9qLz

Donald Trump was “an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of young women in the mid-to-late 1990s,” according to the report.

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

automatetheboringstuff.com I forgot, @alsweigart.bsky.social also publishes it under Creative Commons license. This is r/Python's go-to book. I bought the eBook probably 8 years ago now.

I'm a fan of the video game RimWorld, and their new 1.7 update switches from Unity to their own custom engine "Waylith". But more importantly I think this reiterates that picking Unity is very much a dead end, given their history of ruinous changes in the name of profit-seeking.

Hey, ML and AI engineers, how much effort would it take to create a model that takes a web page's HTML as input, and outputs HTML of just the basic text information on the page? Basically make everything look like Wikipedia. Could it be made small enough to run on old laptops as a browser extension?

New York graffiti.

You want to know the best part of having the Folger's coffee commercial jingle stuck in your head?

Asking for a friend.

Would it be weird if I was at the laundromat and not wearing pants? Or would it be obvious that I wasn't wearing pants because they were in the laundry?

The defining trait of consumers as a group is being unorganized and (though they'll never admit it) controlled by advertising. Corporations and the politically organized can manipulate/regulate a market, but consumers can only order off the menu they're handed.

"You are technically correct: the most useless kind of correct."

Pro-tip: Put "before:2024" in your youtube search to avoid the AI slop.

these fucking guys, man. “surely there must have been some mistake” “nah bro we did that on purpose and our company culture is so wild this is a normal thing to say on the public Internet”

2026 NYC Election Ballot Proposals: What I Think And Why harihareswara.net/posts/2026/2...

Skellyton puppet app skelly.monster

I wonder if intelligent octopi evolved if they'd be like, "It's cool how you humans can hold a pencil behind your ear."

Okay, new business idea. You know how sometimes people leave spare change in their car's cupholder? The first step is to raise $12 to invest in a hammer...

My startup bakery is able to make cakes for $20 that people will pay $10 for. But after a billion dollar investment, I was able to make them for $15. After another $1b funding round, my team can make em for $12.50. I'm proud to announce that we can now make $10 cakes for $11.25.

I want to create a reboot of Scooby Doo, where at the end of the episode the ghost or the mummy or the space alien turns out to just be Elon Musk doing fraud. It's Elon Musk every time. Week after week, the episode ending just turns out to be Elon Musk committing fraud.

When people ask me if I've ever told a lie, I tell them no. They ask me again, and I tell them I've never told a single lie in my entire life. Then they press me on it, and I tell them I'm just not capable of it. It turns into a huge argument. I wish I could just say "yes" at the start and avoid it.

Does anyone have experience with running local models and connecting their Python scripts to them? Or experience running Pydantic? Mind if I pick your brain for a few minutes? Please message me.

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

You absolutely should see "You Can See Everything" in theaters and without spoilers, but know this: apparently people who see it having read Bad Blood are a lot less ambiguous on the "Is Elizabeth Holmes being manipulative?" question than those who haven't.

“You Can’t Say Anything These Days” Says Man Who Says Whatever He Wants All The Time www.betootaadvocate.com/you-cant-say...

What are the five NYC Charter Amendment Proposals on the November 2026 ballot, how did they come about, and what would they change? www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5K7...

In response to the eMudhra / emSign certificate security incident we've published guidance for Python users to update CA certificates: discuss.python.org/t/informatio... #security #Python #pki

Recap blog post from Day 2 of Python Core Sprint. Tl;dr: The bots are migrated over to Cabotage (from Heroku) smoothly without anyone noticing any downtime. Read for more details mariatta.ca/posts/python... #Python #infrastructure

I'm thinking of a random number between 1 and 18,446,744,073,709,551,616. Take a guess.

Getting angry that 1 GB is sometimes used to mean 1,000,000,000 bytes, what are you doing this evening?

Diminish an anime! Howl's Castle

When I was a kid, a big screen TV was the thing rich families had. Now large TVs are the only thing that has become and stayed cheap in our economy, but who cares because we're all staring at our phones.

I wonder how the kid who posted 15 years ago about their first job at Theranos is doing now

German Nazi leak

Trump voters in 2026: "I voted to be racist, not poor!"

Your Harry Potter dollars funded this.

Congratulations to the new PSF fellows! pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/10/anno...

I'm proud to become a sponsor of Kovid Goyal, who has been maintaining the Calibre ereader project for many years now. If you have a couple bucks extra each month, consider become his sponsor too. github.com/sponsors/kov...

AI-written books are the equivalent of chalkboards in movies covered with random, meaningless equations meant to look sciency.

Trump: 'I called Google, Google Maps. They wouldn't have taken my call in the first term. Now they kiss my ass."

(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

I got my flu and covid shot. If it's required to have a medical reason for you to get a covid booster, "physical inactivity" is a medical reason. You don't have to explain any further. Tell them what they need to hear. Just get the damn shot.

I am deeply committed to nonviolent political action. Today is the anniversary of the event which gets me closest to doubting that commitment.

Some people are concerned that AI can feel pain, so I recommend we put LLMs in cattle slaughterhouses so those people stop caring.

Developer House House said in a blog post that it decided not to release Big Walk on Xbox consoles in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement, which has called to boycott Microsoft, including products under the company’s gaming division.