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Two snakes enjoying a pie with 3.14 on the top and π crimping.

Just released! 🚀

Please install and enjoy Python 3.14! 🥧

discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

#Python #Python314 #release

Headshots of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Brewster Kahle.

Join web pioneers Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Brewster Kahle in conversation about building and preserving the internet.

📅 Thurs, Oct 9 @ 7:30 PM PT
🎟️ IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL
Details ➡️ blog.archive.org/event/buildi...

Maine's governator makes COVID-19 💉 available to anyone.

"At Governor Mills' Direction, Maine CDC Issues Standing Order Expanding Access to COVID-19 Vaccine Amid Federal Roadblocks"

content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MEG...

💪 MAINE!

I've given several talks at posit conf, but I've never gotten to give the "here's the super awesome new thing I worked on that I now get to share with you" kind...until this year! Come to the commercial products session to hear me talk about building container images with Connect, it is so coooool 😁

Hey Austin, CVS has new Covid vaccines. Go get ‘em

YouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot) Python: The Documentary | An origin story

Premiere of the Python documentary in 15 minutes. Hanging out in the premiere chat :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads Showcasing stories from Eric McHenry, Michael W. Clune, Patrick Galbraith, Jay Miller, and Harley Rustad.

In our Weekly Top 5:

* The legend of the levee boss @theamscho.bsky.social
* Identity in the age of AI @harpers.bsky.social
* The rules of Rave Club @thefence.bsky.social
* Studying philosophy in prison @aeon.co
* French fry why @torontolifemag.bsky.social

longreads.com/2025/08/22/t...

Exclusive | The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off. Publications turn to the old-style products to appeal to nostalgic readers and stand out in a crowded digital-media landscape.

Some incredibly good news:

One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print.

In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast.

In short, it’s working.

So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.

Map of Cracker Barrel locations in every state

2024 electoral map

On Cracker Barrel, it's amusing how conservatives seem to believe they're attacking woke liberals. The people they're most likely to hurt by damaging the company are its employees — who are generally residents of red states. In fact, 84% of Cracker Barrels are located in red states. I counted.

grateful: Facilitate citation of R packages The goal of grateful is to make it very easy to cite R and the R packages used in any analyses, so that package authors receive their deserved credit. By calling a single function, grateful will scan the project for R packages used and generate a BibTeX file containing all citations for those packages. grateful can then generate a new document with citations in the desired output format (Word, PDF, LaTeX, HTML, Markdown). These references can be formatted for a specific journal, so that we can just paste them directly into our manuscript or report. Alternatively, we can use grateful directly within an Rmarkdown or Quarto document. In this case, a paragraph containing in-text citations of all used R packages will (optionally) be inserted into the Rmarkdown/Quarto document, and these packages will be included in the reference list when rendering.

I've added a few new features to {grateful}, the package that facilitates citation of #rstats packages, and I'd love feedback before submitting to CRAN 🧵

yes please, f'ing liquid amoxicillin succccks www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

3D-printed chewable gummy tablets: A new tool for oral amoxicillin administration in paediatric population

🦄💯

just trying to get to this recipe and i've been scrolling for an hour already

Do folks have a #Zed setup they like for html files that use jinja templates? The current extensions don't work very well. Maybe a project .zed/settings.json that has some jinja specific stuff?

GO MAINE

A barn-burner! Do give it a watch - Yani spoke so well about the way she has expertly built community at @ropensci.org

Drop #691 (2025-08-07): Short & Sweet The post expresses strong discontent regarding Perplexity.ai’s partnership with Truth Social, viewing it as empowering misinformation and contributing to societal division. The author shares …

Drop #691: Short & Sweet

The post expresses strong discontent regarding Perplexity.ai's partnership with Truth Social, viewing it as empowering misinformation and contributing to societal division. It concludes with a resolute rejection of the platform.

dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev/2025/08/07/d...

This 216-mile race through central Oregon is one wild trip: Peak Northwest podcast Snow, raves and midnight runs on the wild Cascade Lakes Relay.

This is the 300th (THREE HUNDREDTH) episode of Peak Northwest, which is incredible and insane and I can hardly believe it. Thanks to everyone who's ever listened, whether it was one episode or 300!

USDA uses AC/DC, Scarlett Johansson movie scene to scare away wolves Researchers have chased off predators in Oregon and California with drones equipped with loud speakers, blasting the sounds of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and an argument between actors in the movie “Marriage Story."

Researchers have chased off predators in Oregon and California with drones equipped with loud speakers, blasting the sounds of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and an argument between actors in the movie “Marriage Story."

The Portland area is $10M closer to its only earthquake-ready bridge If the “big one” hits, none of the city’s bridges would survive. Multnomah County is working to fix that.

If the “big one” hits, none of the city’s bridges would survive. Multnomah County is working to fix that.

In the latest episode of The Test Set, @wesmckinney.com talks funding #OpenSource, building trust in dev communities, and the "community over code" mindset.

Plus, get an overview of #Positron, the new polyglot data science IDE 💻

🎧 Listen at thetestset.co, on Spotify, or Apple Podcasts

Jobs - Crossref Help us achieve our mission to make research outputs easier to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse. We’re a small but mighty group working with over 20,000 members from 160 countries, and we have thou...

ICYMI @crossref.bsky.social has more #job positions and more blog posts:
- Product Manager vacancy
- DevOps Engineer vacancy
- Technical Support Contractor
Visit: www.crossref.org/jobs/
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Push alert for a Nazi blog

Screenshot of the blog called NatSocToday

The Substack app apparently push alert promoted a Nazi newsletter to several users. Users have complained about it on Substack Notes but the company hasn’t responded. Generally push alert promos are for content a user is likely to interact with

Morloc code highlighted in VS Code

#Morloc #VSCode extension is alive!

Thanks to @j23414.bsky.social for helping with the setup!

new vcr release v2! vcr helps record & replay HTTP interactions in #rstats tests. Major update w/ better defaults, enhanced security, new local scoping tools & improved debugging. Huge thanks to @hadley.nz for the majority of work on this release

📋 github.com/ropensci/vcr...
📚 docs.ropensci.org/vcr

new webmockr release v2.2.0, an #rstats pkg for stubbing & setting expectations on HTTP requests. webmockr is no longer integrated with docs.ropensci.org/vcr/, & should make dev of both vcr & webmockr easier

📋 Release notes: github.com/ropensci/web...
📚 Docs: docs.ropensci.org/webmockr

new crul release v1.6.0. crul is an HTTP client for #rstats This update aligns with recent webmockr and vcr releases - mocking is now handled through R6 client classes instead of the mock() function.

📋 Release notes: github.com/ropensci/cru...
📚 Docs: docs.ropensci.org/crul

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.

"San Francisco-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?"

www.kqed.org/news/1204942...

🌟 Huge thanks to everyone who joined the first virtual #morloc #hackathon yesterday!

We spent the day beta-testing the Morloc language, smoothing out install issues and running our first programs together.

🚀 Morloc execution is now tested on Linux, MacOS, and Windows (via WSL)!