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Anaconda Founder&Head of AI; created the PyData movement, PyScript, Bokeh, Datashader; Fellow @ Python Software Foundation; Center for Humane Tech Game~B; Physics, Cybernetics, Memetics. A student of the human condition. Memento mori
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What a great meetup! Thanks to everyone who came by yesterday for an evening of real-world AI and bullshit-free strategies for building LLM applications. Recap and highlights: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

China suggested the US use its influence with Israel to stop the conflict with Iran from spilling over, a sign Beijing is becoming increasingly concerned about the stability of a region it relies on for energy supplies.

I'm pretty excited about @inkandswitch.com's Keyhive project, and I really wanted to feel solid on the novel key management approach they use called BeeKEM - so I wrote this explainer article about it! Tysm to @expede.wtf for helping me make some sense of you and the team's work ✨

Career advice for developers: Write normal code. Just the basic good stuff. Don't be fancy, don't be clever. Don't use currying everywhere. You don't need Docker for everything. Also don't write dumb code. Please write good code. But make it normal. As unsurprising as possible. Thank you

“Historically, no one lived past age 35” "I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

EPIC response.

We really need to stigmatize conspiracy theories again. We gotta get to a point again where people at least say "I know I sound crazy" when they say they believe in some far-reaching plot.

A senator celebrating the murder of political opponents should be expelled. Not debated. Not excused. Expelled.

One of many reasons it’s dumb to try and “fix” the trade deficit with tariffs is that trade wars hurt *exports* in addition to imports—keep in mind we usually have a manufacturing trade *surplus* with Canada, before Trump began wrecking that trade relationship

Keep up the pressure!

be the admin of your own heart ✨

Institutional Books: Massive Historical Text Corpus - 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages - 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages - Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata - Noncommercial early-access release huggingface.co/datasets/ins...

You can’t stop the MAGAfication of the judiciary or pass progressive laws of any kind if you don’t have a strategy to win the senate. www.slowboring.com/p/why-im-obs...

We're thrilled to announce our new project: docs.coop! Building on the great work of Suite Numerique (docs.numerique.gouv.fr), we're offering an opportunity to be part of a new collaborative Docs platform as a service, that provides an ethical alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, Notion etc.

Hats off to anyone attempting Viz Buzz, it's really tricky to recreate a plot in just 40 minutes! Especially if you waste lots of minutes on basic data cleaning... Here's my version and the original. I popped the whole thing on YouTube as well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8sE... #databs #datasky

Two geometric facts about 63, but how to connect them? nedbatchelder.com/blog/202506/...

Any half-sensible govt would be falling over itself to attract these academics to the UK to boost our universities & therefore our economy. But obviously we can’t, because in place of policy we’re fixated on numbers, in a pointless attempt to placate implacable people, round of applause everyone

"To everyone who pulls me aside to whisper with the best intentions 'You have already won', I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over. And as my father told me years ago, 'When the Right wins power, the Left writes a great book.' Those days are over too." -Zohran Mamdani

I just published The Shadows of Silicon: How We Built Our Most Brilliant Machines to See Only Echoes of Human… medium.com/intuitionmac...

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

This is huge. The Trump administration wants to vastly expand the practice of shipping people to random countries they have never been to before, and are now making this part of a threat; either the countries accept taking third country nationals, or they get banned from visas.

1.) Fucking Lmao 2.) Stephen Miller is big mad. 3.) This is a pretty big walkback.

🎉 Big update! The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more! Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k... 🧵

Important steps towards what may end up being litigation against the immigration courts' decision to turn away members of the public and the press. They are looking for information from anyone who's been turned away (see the second post).

The Virginian colonels in the US Army at US Civil War outbreak were: R.E. Lee, John J. Abert, Edmund B. Alexander, Philip S.G. Cooke, John Garland, Thomas Lawson, Matthew M. Payne, Washington Seawell, George H. Thomas, René De Russy and Thomas T. Fauntleroy. Only Lee sided with the Confederacy /1

Absolute fucking 🔥. "Over eight hours...people throwing back tear gas...throwing anything that they could to defend themselves...Border Patrol retreated. “And the hundreds of workers in the factories were able to escape. If any community was going to fight back without apology, it was this one."

We *have* to keep having the conversation about asking elderly leaders to step aside in public because there is simply no evidence it is happening loud enough in private. This is all just so sad. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

www.reddit.com/r/space/s/g1...

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

just watched a video on Obsidian that described it as "future-proof," i.e. it uses open file formats so you can easily migrate to a different note-taking app & you're not locked in. could borrow that to explain bluesky decentralized → open → billionaire-proof → future-proof

To anyone migrating over from Threads and looking for a native iOS / iPadOS / macOS app:

What are your best Taco Trump memes

ZELDIN: I understand you're an aspiring fiction writer. I see why. SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes

Neguse was grilling Jim Jordan so hard this morning over language in the reconciliation bill to restrict federal judges' ability to enforce court penalties that Jordan had to consult with his lawyers

🚨 Just 10 Days Left! 🚨 The countdown is on — only 10 days left to grab your early bird tickets for our 2025 edition! Lock in your spot at the best price before rates go up. pydata.org/paris2025/ti...

atproto has more in common with (souped up) RSS than (watered down) blockchain

Legal Aid hack: - over 2 million pieces of data gone - 15 yrs worth of info - extremely sensitive data incl details of victims of domestic violence and people’s criminal cases - unbelievable potential for harm well beyond “scams” The CEO says this:

English is not a serious language

🔭 Milky Way over Maunakea Image Credit & Copyright: Marzena Rogozinska apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25052...

We’re testing a new feature! Starting this week, select accounts can add a livestream link to sites like YouTube or Twitch, and their Bluesky profile will show they’re live now.