Month: May 2025

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Headlines From The Times - Altadena Break-Ins, Trump’s Budget Cuts, Job Market Signals, and a Shipping Shakeup

Security cameras are going up in Altadena after a surge in burglaries, but some locals say it’s not enough. President Trump’s 2026 budget proposes deep cuts to domestic programs while boosting military spending. Despite strong job growth in April, economists warn that trade wars and government cuts could cool the labor market. And a shipping loophole that kept online prices low is now closed raising costs for sites like Shein and Temu, and potentially for consumers across the U.S.

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Marketplace All-in-One - Is talking to AI chatbots good for us?

People are using chatbots in all kinds of ways — to search the web, get help with an online purchase, sometimes even for counseling. But there's a lot about this human-AI interaction we don't fully understand. Do these chatbots effectively combat loneliness or worsen social isolation? The answer — so far — is complicated, according to Cathy Fang, a second-year PhD student at MIT Media Lab who, along with researchers from OpenAI, studied how chatbot use affects human social and emotional wellbeing.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - People vilify plastic. they should use it better instead

Many people view plastic as an environmental disaster that blights landscapes and chokes marine life. Our correspondent argues that instead we need to better understand this miracle material. To make prison work, governments need to have better strategies for managing inmates’ release (10:04). And could saying sorry harm your career (16:16)? 


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Start Here - The Diddy Trial Begins

Jury selection begins in the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs. The federal government begins “involuntary collection” of student loan repayments. And “Black dandyism” will be on display at tonight’s Met Gala. 


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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 5.5.25

Alabama

  • SoS Allen responds to legal victory re: VCAP law in the state
  • 2 University of Alabama graduates talk about Trump's recent speech
  • State senate has 3 days to pass bill that regulates sale of hemp products
  • WSFA News getting ratioed on FB for using term "pregnant people"
  • Teacher of the Year Award to be presented this Wednesday in Montgomery

National

  • Trump to unveil at least one trade deal with ally country this week
  • DOJ arrests four illegals for running smuggling ring through Canada
  • DNI's Gabbard says Alien Enemies Act backed by FBI evidence
  • Sean "Diddy" Combs trial begins this week in Manhattan
  • Former LA sheriff switches parties after being registered Democrat 
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The Daily Signal - Trump Dukes it Out on Meet the Press, CNN Interviews the Cartel | May 5, 2025

On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:

  • President Trump hits the economy, immigration, and Iran on Meet the Press.
  • Our White House correspondent Elizabeth Mitchell gets a few questions answered on Air Force One.
  • CNN interviews a member of the Sinaloa cartel.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Triple Crowns and Grand Slams

Many different sports have a concept of a triple crown or a grand slam. 

What it is defined as differs from sport to sport, but what they all have in common is that achieving a triple crown or a grand slam is considered to be the pinnacle of the game. 

In some sports, the triple crown or grand slam has achieved a legendary status, and in others, the definition changes rather frequently.
Learn more about Triple Crowns and Grand Slams and how they are achieved on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Start the Week - Smell – the underrated sense

Our sense of smell is vital to appreciating food and drink, it can warn us of danger, and enhance enjoyment of our environment, and yet it is one of our least explored sensory systems. In The Forgotten Sense, olfaction specialist Dr Jonas Olofsson explains the science behind our sense of smell.

Dr Ally Louks caused a stink on social media when she mentioned the subject of her PhD thesis, Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose. But she shows just how much readers can learn from paying attention to the aroma of a writer’s work.

While imagining the stench of a Dickensian city street can enhance a reader’s experience, what about actually smelling burning rubber as you play a video racing game? Professor Alan Chalmers explains the groundbreaking research currently ongoing to make gaming a more immersive experience, with smell at its centre.

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Talk Python To Me - #504: Developer Trends in 2025

What trends and technologies should you be paying attention to today? Are there hot new database servers you should check out? Or will that just be a flash in the pan? I love these forward looking episodes and this one is super fun. I've put together an amazing panel: Gina Häußge, Ines Montani, Richard Campbell, and Calvin Hendryx-Parker. We dive into the recent Stack Overflow Developer survey results as a sounding board for our thoughts on rising and falling trends in the Python and broader developer space.

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The Stack Overflow Survey Results: survey.stackoverflow.co/2024

Panelists
Gina Häußge: chaos.social/@foosel
Ines Montani: ines.io
Richard Campbell: about.me/richard.campbell
Calvin Hendryx-Parker: github.com/calvinhp

Explosion: explosion.ai
spaCy: spacy.io
OctoPrint: octoprint.org
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GitHub Copilot: github.com
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Docker: docker.com
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Python Bytes - #431 Nerd Gas

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Michael #1: pirel: Python release cycle in your terminal

  • pirel check shows release information about your active Python interpreter.
  • If the active version is end-of-life, the program exits with code 1. If no active Python interpreter is found, the program exits with code 2.
  • pirel list lists all Python releases in a table. Your active Python interpreter is highlighted.
  • A picture is worth many words

Brian #2: FastAPI Cloud

  • Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, announced today the formation of a new Company, FastAPI Cloud.
  • Here’s the announcement blog post: FastAPI Cloud - By The Same Team Behind FastAPI
  • There’s a wait list to try it out.
  • Promises to turns deployment into fastapi login; fastapi deploy
  • Side note: announcement includes quote from Daft Punk: Build Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
    • I just included this in a talk I’m gave last week (and will again next week), where I modify this to “Build Easier, Better, Faster, Stronger”
    • Sebastian and I are both fans of the rocket emoji.
  • BTW, we first covered FastAPI on episode 123 in 2019

Brian #3: Python's new t-strings

  • Dave Peck, one of the authors of PEP 750, which will go into Python 3.14
  • We covered t-strings in ep 428
  • In article
    • t-strings security benefits over f-strings
    • How to work with t-strings
    • A Pig Latin example
      • Also, I think I have always done this wrong
      • Is it the first consonant to the end? or the first consonant cluster?
      • So… Brian → Rianbay? or Ianbray?
      • BTW, this is an example of nerdgassing
    • What’s next once t-strings ship?
  • On thing that’s next (in Python 3.15, maybe, is using t-strings in shlex and subprocess)

Michael #4: zev

  • A simple CLI tool to help you remember terminal commands.

  • Examples:

    # Find running processes
zev 'show all running python processes'
# File operations
zev 'find all .py files modified in the last 24 hours'
# System information
zev 'show disk usage for current directory'
# Network commands
zev 'check if google.com is reachable'
# Git operations
zev 'show uncommitted changes in git'

  • Again, picture worth many words:

Extras

Brian:

Michael:

Joke: Can my friend come in?