Here’s cautionary tale for you, out of China, about a young woman who says she fell in love with an artificial intelligence chatbot. There have been well-publicized instances of people seeking companionship from chatbots and it leading to tragedy. In this instance, it caused heartbreak. The story involves the Chinese AI firm Deepseek which, earlier this year, launched a chatbot that's almost as good as its American rivals. Soon after the launch, a young woman began a conversation with that chatbot. Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak takes the story from there.
The Daily - Charlie Kirk’s Politically Charged Memorial
Conservatives from around the country flocked to Arizona on Sunday to memorialize the activist Charlie Kirk. The service included leaders from the highest levels of the U.S. government, including Vice President JD Vance and President Trump.
Two clear strands emerged during the memorial addresses: a message of Christian unity, and a vow to fight political enemies on the left.
Robert Draper, who covers domestic politics for The Times, explains how the collision of those two messages makes this a crucial moment for the MAGA movement.
Guest: Robert Draper, a Washington, D.C.-based journalist for The New York Times, who writes about domestic politics.
Background reading:
- Thousands flocked to Phoenix for Charlie Kirk’s memorial service.
- President Trump remembered Mr. Kirk as a martyr while attacking political opponents.
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Up First from NPR - Charlie Kirk Memorial, Trump Pressures DOJ, Palestinian State Recognition
President Trump and top officials turned Charlie Kirk’s memorial into both a tribute and a political rally, with Trump calling him a martyr and vowing to continue his fight. The president is also pressuring Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue prosecutions of his political enemies, while forcing out a U.S. attorney who resisted. And several countries just recognized Palestine as a sovereign state, but in the West Bank many Palestinians say recognition without change on the ground means little.
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Start Here - Trump to DOJ: Prosecute, Or Else
President Trump replaces a handpicked federal prosecutor who declined to bring charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James. Family and fans gather to remember Charlie Kirk. And Oktoberfest venues raise the price of beer, angering local customers.
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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO491: What Do We Actually Know About Tyler Robinson? Why Did He Kill Charlie Kirk?
The public has gone through several phases of evolution on what the shooter's motive was. At first, it was assumed he was a leftwing terrorist. Then it seemed clear he was on the right. Or maybe nihilist. Then, the charging documents were released. These contained some selected texts with Robinson's transgender roommate who he seems to have been in a romantic relationship with. They are... weird. But what is going on here? What can we actually reasonably conclude at this time?
The Daily Signal - Charlie Kirk Memorial’s Massive Turnout & Attorney General Prosecution Mayhem | Sept. 22, 2025
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- Charlie Kirk’s memorial in Glendale, Arizona, surpasses capacity at State Farm Stadium and two overflow locations.
- We gear up for a week of Attorney General prosecution mayhem.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 9.22.25
Alabama
- Gov. Ivey Orders ALEA to Work Closely with ICE
- An Alabama Child Who Contracted the Measles is On the Mend
- APLS Postpones Decision on Fairhope Library Funding
- Lawsuit Claims Wrongful Death in Huntsville Police Shooting
- Owens Corning to Build Shingle Facility in Prattville
- State’s Only Billionaire Names Successor
- Friday Shooting Near LaFayette Football Stadium Not Related to Game
- National Championship QB Considers Run for Office
- Construction Industry Leader Says Immigration Crackdown Could Affect Alabama’s Workforce
- Montgomery Police Investigate Sunday Morning Stabbing Death
- Alabama SOS Candidates Want Active Role in City Elections
- Catfish Fillets Recalled in Three State – Including Alabama
National
- Tens of Thousands Gather for Charlie Kirk Memorial Service
- Mom in Maine Suing Video Game Developers
- Ben Carson to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Pentagon to Require Journalists to Sign New Reporting Pledge
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Velvet Revolution and The Velvet Divorce
The country of Czechoslovakia was born and died in the 20th century.
It was created after a war, suffered through another war, was occupied during the Cold War, and was finally liberated in 1989.
Once it did become free of Soviet Rule, they decided that maybe they should never have been made into a country in the first place.
Unlike almost every country that came before it, it managed to dissolve without any violence.
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Start the Week - Contains Strong Language Festival, Bradford
At the Contains Strong Language Festival in Bradford, Tom Sutcliffe and guests explore the history and culture of the city, and nation, through its poetry and stories. From battlefields and royal courts, coalmines to curry houses Start the Week looks at the language and rhythms that have captured the country.
The historian Catherine Clarke is retelling the story of the past in a new way in ‘A History of England in 25 Poems’. From the 8th century to today these verses illuminate the experiences, emotions and imaginations of those who lived through it.
As the 2025 City of Culture, Bradford gets an imaginative re-making in ‘The Book of Bradford: A City in Short Fiction’, a collection filled with rich diversity and youthful energy. Its editor Saima Mir, who grew up in the city, says the stories don’t avoid the scars of past challenges, but there’s pride in a city that has overcome differences and is looking ahead.
Moving on from the past is also reflected in Andrew McMillan’s debut novel, ‘Pity’, which follows three generations of a Yorkshire mining family, exploring themes of masculinity and post-industrial decline. As a prize-winning poet, McMillan will also be performing at the Contains Strong Language Festival in Bradford.
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Python Bytes - #450 At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling
Topics covered in this episode:
- * pandas is getting pd.col expressions*
- * Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling*
- * uv cheatsheet*
- Ducky Network UI
- Extras
- Joke
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Brian #1: pandas is getting pd.col expressions
- Marco Gorelli
- Next release of Pandas will have
pd.col(), inspired by some of the other frameworks- I’m guessing Pandas 2.3.3? or 2.4.0? or 3.0.0? (depending on which version they bump?)
- “The output of
pd.colis called an expression. You can think of it as a delayed column - it only produces a result once it's evaluated inside a dataframe context.” - It replaces many contexts where lambda expressions were used
Michael #2: Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling
- Free and open-source
- Probably supports your IDE (if your IDE isn’t a terminal)
- VS Code
- VS Code Insiders
- Cursor
- Windsurf
- JetBrains IDEs (including PyCharm)
- You pick plan or act (very important)
- It shows you the price as the AI works, per request, right in the UI
Brian #3: uv cheatsheet
- Rodgrigo at mathspp.com
- Nice compact cheat sheet of commands for
- Creating projects
- Managing dependencies
- Lifecycle stuff like build, publish, bumping version
- uv tool (uvx) commands
- working with scripts
- Installing and updating Python versions
- plus venv, pip, format, help and update
Michael #4: Ducky Network UI
- Ducky is a powerful, open-source, all-in-one desktop application built with Python and PySide6.
- It is designed to be the perfect companion for network engineers, students, and tech enthusiasts, combining several essential utilities into a single, intuitive graphical interface.
- Features
- Multi-Protocol Terminal: Connect via SSH, Telnet, and Serial (COM) in a modern, tabbed interface.
- SNMP Topology Mapper: Automatically discover your network with a ping and SNMP sweep. See a graphical map of your devices, color-coded by type, and click to view detailed information.
- Network Diagnostics: A full suite of tools including a Subnet Calculator, Network Monitor (Ping, Traceroute), and a multi-threaded Port Scanner.
- Security Toolkit: Look up CVEs from the NIST database, check password strength, and calculate file hashes (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512).
- Rich-Text Notepad: Keep notes and reminders in a dockable widget with formatting tools and auto-save.
- Customizable UI: Switch between a sleek dark theme and a clean light theme. Customize terminal colors and fonts to your liking.
Extras
Brian:
- Where are the cool kids hosting static sites these days?
- Moving from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages - Will Vincent from Feb 2024
- Traffic is a concern now for even low-ish traffic sites since so many bots are out there
- Netlify free plan is less than 30 GB/mo allowed (grandfathered plans are 100 GB/mo)
- GH Pages have a soft limit of 100 GB/mo
- Cloudflare pages says unlimited
Michael:
- PyCon Brazil needs some help with reduced funding from the PSF
- Get a ticket to donate for a student to attend (at the button of the buy ticket checkout dialog)
- I upgraded to macOS Tahoe
- Loving it so far.
- Only issue I’ve seen so far has been with alt-tab for macOS
Joke: Hiring in 2025 vs 2021
- 2021:
- “Do you have an in-house kombucha sommelier?”
- “Let’s talk about pets, are you donkey-friendly?”, “Oh you think this is a joke?”
- 2025:
- “Round 8/7”
- “Out of 12,000 resumes, the AI picked yours”
- “Binary tree? Build me a foundational model!”
- “Healthcare? What, you want to live forever?”