Month: April 2025

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Headlines From The Times - Measles Risks Rise, E. Coli Lawsuits Mount, Jack in the Box Shutters Stores

Stanford scientists warn that if childhood vaccination rates stay low, measles could become as common as the flu by 2050. A California produce supplier faces lawsuits over a deadly E. coli outbreak that was never publicly disclosed by the FDA, raising serious food safety concerns. Jack in the Box announces plans to close more than 150 locations nationwide as rising costs and debt force a major restructuring. Major budget cuts to LADOT could derail Los Angeles’ Olympic transit plans and jeopardize traffic safety initiatives.

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Marketplace All-in-One - AI can’t read the room

Leyla Isik, a professor of cognitive science at Johns Hopkins University, is also a senior scientist on a new study looking at how good AI is at reading social cues. She and her research team took short videos of people doing things — two people chatting, two babies on a playmat, two people doing a synchronized skate routine — and showed them to human participants. After, they were asked them questions like, are these two communicating with each other? Are they communicating? Is it a positive or negative interaction? Then, they showed the same videos to over 350 open source AI models. (Which is a lot, though it didn't include all the latest and greatest ones out there.) Isik found that the AI models were a lot worse than humans at understanding what was going on. Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes visited Isik at her lab in Johns Hopkins to discuss the findings.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Modi behaviour: will India retaliate against Pakistan?

Tensions between India and Pakistan have flared after the terrorist attack in Kashmir last week. Our correspondent explains what Narendra Modi may do next. Why even priests and the clergy need the free market (8:56). And the surprising survival of cassette tapes (15:45).  


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Start Here - President Trump’s Report Card

An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll reveals historically low approval ratings ahead of President Trump’s 100th day in office. The FBI arrests a sitting judge for allegedly aiding an undocumented immigrant to evade authorities. And a car careens into a Canadian street fair just ahead of the country’s election day.

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Start the Week - Advocating for nature

In his new book, Robert Macfarlane takes the reader on a river journey, through history and geography, to posit the idea that rivers are not merely for human use, but living beings. In Is A River Alive? he argues that human fate is interwoven with the natural world, and that it’s time we treated nature not as a resource, but a fellow being.

But does the natural world have legal rights? In A Barrister for the Earth the lawyer Monica Feria-Tinta explains how she’s sought justice for environmental wrongs. Her case against the destruction of cloud forests was the world’s first Rights of Nature case.

In Britain many environmental campaigners argue for the Right to Roam and greater access to private land. But in Uncommon Ground, Patrick Galbraith presents a counterargument on the benefits of restricting access to the countryside, advocating for wildlife’s right to tranquillity.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 4.28.25

Alabama

  • Sunday marked the 14th year since 62 tornadoes hit the state killing 253
  • AL House committee considers a bill to ban food dyes in public school food
  • Future uncertain of 2 bills in AL House re: protection of minors in state
  • 7 candidates running to be mayor of Mobile will hold public forum on May 6th
  • US Coast Guard rescues 3 people from burning boat off coast of Fort Morgan

National

  • A judge in WI was arrested for aiding an illegal alien evade arrest by ICE
  • Sting operation in CO results in arrests of hundreds of illegal aliens
  • FL operation over weekend sees 800 illegal alien arrests
  • US SoS Rubio talks deportations and tariffs on NBC's Meet the Press
  • Trump calls for action by DOJ re: ActBlue, and brings up AutoPen Scandal
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The Daily Signal - 900+ Illegals Arrested in Massive Raids, Possible Russia/Ukraine Peace Deal | April 28, 2025

On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:

  • Over 900 illegal immigrants arrested in massive, targeted raids in Florida and Colorado.
  • President Trump suggests a Ukraine / Russia peace deal is imminent.
  • New court documents claim that the deported MS-13 member Democrats dubbed a “Maryland father” isn’t a father at all.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Origins of the Internet

If you are listening to my words right now, then you are obviously an internet user. 

The internet has arguably been the most transformative technology of the last fifty years. 

But it wasn’t developed overnight or all at once. It was a gradual process to solve specific problems, and no one knew at the time that it would become the basis of a global network of computers. 

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Talk Python To Me - #503: The PyArrow Revolution

Pandas is at a the core of virtually all data science done in Python, that is virtually all data science. Since it's beginning, Pandas has been based upon numpy. But changes are afoot to update those internals and you can now optionally use PyArrow. PyArrow comes with a ton of benefits including it's columnar format which makes answering analytical questions faster, support for a range of high performance file formats, inter-machine data streaming, faster file IO and more. Reuven Lerner is here to give us the low-down on the PyArrow revolution.

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Python Bytes - #430 Or you go to jail

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Brian #1: pip 25.1 has dependency groups, pylock.toml, plus more

  • post What's new in pip 25.1 - Dependency groups!
  • Richard Si
  • Discovered this through Hugo van Kemenade

  • Dependency groups, PEP 735, supported

    # pyproject.toml
[dependency-groups]
test = ["pytest", "pytest-xdist"]
lint = ["mypy", "isort"]
# Dependency Groups can include other groups! ✨
dev = [ {include-group = "test"}, {include-group = "lint"} ]

  • Package installation progress bar

  • Resumable downloads
  • Experimental lockfile generation, PEP 751, with pip lock
    • so cool
  • pip index versions is stable, no longer experimental
    • use this to get a list of available versions
    • ex: python3 -m pip index versions pytest-check
    • combine with --json to get a nice script readable output

Michael #2: aiohttp goes free threaded

  • Thanks to months of consistent contributions by Lysandros Nikolaou, all of the mandatory dependencies of #aiohttp now ship free-threaded variants of #wheels!
  • This unlocks the same in aiohttp!

Brian #3: uv 0.6.15 supports pylock.toml

  • Discovered through Brett Cannon
  • So far, these projects support pylock.toml
    • pip
    • pip-audit
    • pdm
    • uv
  • With uv
    • To export a uv.lock to the pylock.toml format,
      • run: uv export -o pylock.toml
    • To generate a pylock.toml file from a set of requirements,
      • run: uv pip compile -o pylock.toml -r requirements.in
    • To install from a pylock.toml file,
      • run: uv pip sync pylock.toml or uv pip install -r pylock.toml

Michael #4: Whenever

  • via Pat Decker
  • Typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python, available in Rust or pure Python.
  • Whenever helps you write correct and type checked datetime code.
  • It's also way faster than other third-party libraries—and usually the standard library as well.

Extras

Brian:

Michael:

Joke: Can you Vibe?