Python Tip #111 (of 365):
Don't use the __class__ attribute. 🧵
To get the name of any object's class, you can use:
type(my_obj).__name__
You might occasionally see this instead:
my_obj.__class__.__name__
I don't recommend that approach.
#Python #DailyPythonTip
There's a great quote in Every Tool's a Hammer that i think dovetails nicely with these thoughts:
"Life stories always look like straight lines from the vantage point of looking back, but precious few really are." - Adam Savage
an underrated game dev skill IMO is being able to realize “this person and I have been discussing (thing) for months, and yet i think we have slightly different versions of (thing) in our heads. let’s get together and talk about that in excruciating detail”
but they don't love wlw romance.
it's a very big problem in publishing. straight women hate wlw in fiction in a similar way to straight men hating mlm in fiction.
I unsubscribed from a writing blog I've been subscribed to for like ten years because they allowed a pro AI story where the writer in question replaced their editor (along with a bunch of other "administrative tasks" that included artistic specialties.) The boosters don't hear themselves.
Oh, god, so I posted on fedi about the Olivia Hill rule as a useful tool for community managers back in November, and today I had someone go "I'd question this rule because I question everything" and just.
It's surprisingly effective at just, getting rid of people who would be a drain.
I can at least recommend the lakeshore limited if you can afford a roomette or better. It's a comfy trip with good views.
(It's still long.)
The stories say you burst from Zeus’s head A grown woman, ready for battle Born in violent bloodshed Tearing herself from the shell of a man I can’t help but wonder did you, too, Mourn a girlhood that you could never have? Did you come out a warrior Knowing, as we all do, you would have to fight to survive?
Did you wait for the day when you could escape The masculine shadow from which you came Only to find that his legacy lingered A stain that could never be washed away? Did other goddesses look at you with suspicion? Were you too loud, too brash, too tall, too fierce Did they look at you and see his face Did they shun you for being too close to manhood
Some called you Athena the Virgin Is it because you hid your lust from them Projecting a guileless feminine innocence The spectre of “predator” always over your shoulder? Were there skills you never learned Buried in the darkness in him Did you scramble to catch up, never feeling Like you could make up for the time
Were you scorned? Pitied? Idolized? Reviled? Were you always the goddess of wisdom? Or did you have to chisel truths from your soul To become enough to be treated as worthy Did you know that when they built you a pedestal A whole city to your name It would only be a matter of time Before they tore you back down
As I bond with other transfeminine people about similarities in harm from certain life experiences, the poem "A Prayer for Athena" I wrote several years ago keeps coming to mind
A design for a king or monarch of some sort inspired by oyster mushrooms and devils tooth mushroom. Over all fairly humanoid when he looks kinda chill
Design concept for game that we ended up going in a different direction for but I like this art I made so I'm posting it✨🍄
Seeing the same burial image on social media, others turned to X’s AI assistant Grok to check its veracity. Like Gemini, Grok will breezily assure you the photo is not from Iran at all – although it lands on a different date, disaster and location. The image is “from Rorotan Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia – a July 2021 stock photo of Covid mass burials. Not Minab,” it says. In both cases, the AI answers sound sure: they don’t equivocate, and even provide “sources” for the original image, should you choose to check them. Follow the thread to examine those, however, and you’ll begin to hit dead ends: either the image doesn’t appear at all, or the link provided is to a news report that doesn’t exist. For all their impression of clarity and precision, the AIs are simply wrong. The cemetery image, it turns out, is authentic. Researchers have cross referenced the photo of the site with satellite images that confirm its location, and it can be cross-referenced again with dozens more images taken of the same site from slightly different angles, and again with video footage – none of which experts say show signs of tampering or digital manipulation. The “factchecks” by Gemini and Grok are just one example of a tidal wave of AI-generated slop – hallucinated facts, nonsense analysis and faked images – that are engulfing coverage of the Iran war. Experts say it is wasting investigative time and risks atrocities being denied – as well as heralding alarming weaknesses as people increasingly rely on AI summaries for news and information.
To everyone out there who defends and encourages reliance on generative AI: I want you to explain to me how software systems that do this is not just defensible but something good and to be encouraged. Go on. Explain it to me, right now.
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I've talked about this here before, but my experience as a journalism instructor is that Grammarly makes students' writing worse. This was true even several years ago, pre-GenAI hype. The mushy, even incoherent sentences it created were what caused me to start warning them off it.
Deus Ex Machina (God from The Machine) is such a cool sounding term until you actually research it a little and learn it's just ancient theatre critic jargon and "The machine" in question is a crane
one thing I like saying to my cats in admonishment is "you know the rules" when they very clearly do not know and will never know the rules
New sentence I have just spoken aloud to a cat: "Act like you've been here before."
Get round thing in metal loop is so many sports.
“Please enjoy the museum”:
Relooted is OUT NOW!
Please share!
They truly do not make games like this anymore.
A handheld card game based on the years of the show’s English version releasing in North America by a video game studio in Montreal, Canada.
They just do not make games like this anymore.
You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
The “white” in front of American citizens is really silent but it’s there
hey game designers on itch, if your game includes a lot of stuff, include a zip of all the files to download, signed someone that hates having to download 8-10 different downloads to get your play materials and stuff.
The number of _premium_ games that want location data is scary. It's my individual opsec hill I wish I could convince the world of.
You’ve got to love how actress Kelly Marie Tran, one of the most harassed people ever to be on the internet, still leapt up to defend trans people in a recent interview. No one would blame her for keeping her head down and shutting up forever but she will NOT and I admire her for it ⭐
My wife was showing me the news story while this post was on my screen.
That's the Crowley Frieda (Thoth) deck!
I have a question.
Cancel. Genuinely. Cancel. A rejection at the border is a permanent mark against entry, forever.
If you insist, follow dangerous territory protocols: know your embassy details, make sure someone knows your travel details, and have funds for emergency legal, health, and departure expenditures.
As @alexandraerin.com said, if you're in the crowd it's not gallows humor, it's just part of the execution.
Got a friend asking for some accessibility focused reading, and it's been a minute since I started learning the topic.
Do you have a go to text to introduce the topic in 2026?
Please share!
