Damian
@notatallshaw.bsky.social
Geek
OSS: pip maintainer, resolvelib maintainer
OSS: pip maintainer, resolvelib maintainer
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This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
I had the pleasure of being the release manager for the pip 25.3 release:
Release: pypi.org/project/pip/...
Official Announcement Post: discuss.python.org/t/announceme...
Full change log: pip.pypa.io/en/stable/ne...
Release: pypi.org/project/pip/...
Official Announcement Post: discuss.python.org/t/announceme...
Full change log: pip.pypa.io/en/stable/ne...
October 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I had the pleasure of being the release manager for the pip 25.3 release:
Release: pypi.org/project/pip/...
Official Announcement Post: discuss.python.org/t/announceme...
Full change log: pip.pypa.io/en/stable/ne...
Release: pypi.org/project/pip/...
Official Announcement Post: discuss.python.org/t/announceme...
Full change log: pip.pypa.io/en/stable/ne...
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🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
July 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
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Great op-ed @usatoday.com from longtime TB Fighter Quinn Yates: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
11,000 more TB patients died after Trump's USAID cuts. That number will rise. | Opinion
The potential for thousands of new deaths from TB is not worth the less than 1% in federal savings that came from cutting USAID.
www.usatoday.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Great op-ed @usatoday.com from longtime TB Fighter Quinn Yates: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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My new show is now LIVE. Go watch episode 1 of How is This Better: Privatizing Public Lands from @couriernewsroom.bsky.social
youtu.be/SzvrN9TTOG8?...
youtu.be/SzvrN9TTOG8?...
Our National Parks are Under Attack | How Is This Better?
YouTube video by COURIER
youtu.be
May 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My new show is now LIVE. Go watch episode 1 of How is This Better: Privatizing Public Lands from @couriernewsroom.bsky.social
youtu.be/SzvrN9TTOG8?...
youtu.be/SzvrN9TTOG8?...
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NYC, it is happening here. ICE agents in plain clothes waited outside a courtroom earlier today to kidnap people. New Yorkers mobilized quickly to block them, but the NYPD, collaborating with ICE, aggressively broke it up and arrested people.
See thread for more videos from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social.
See thread for more videos from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social.
May 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
NYC, it is happening here. ICE agents in plain clothes waited outside a courtroom earlier today to kidnap people. New Yorkers mobilized quickly to block them, but the NYPD, collaborating with ICE, aggressively broke it up and arrested people.
See thread for more videos from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social.
See thread for more videos from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social.
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Trump's ICE is now kidnapping New York City high school students. This is where Eric Adams' silence and complicity has led us.
Free Dylan now.
Free Dylan now.
A Bronx high schooler showed up for a routine immigration court date. ICE was waiting.
A NYC public school student’s arrest was part of a nationwide blitz of immigration authorities detaining migrants in courthouses in an effort to speed up deportations.
www.chalkbeat.org
May 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Trump's ICE is now kidnapping New York City high school students. This is where Eric Adams' silence and complicity has led us.
Free Dylan now.
Free Dylan now.
Just watched the #PyConUS Friday Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow on enshitification. Wow!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVm...
Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow
YouTube video by PyCon US
www.youtube.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Just watched the #PyConUS Friday Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow on enshitification. Wow!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVm...
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"You know you're living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why you're safe."
Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy (moving from Yale to the University of Toronto)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXR9... (6:30 for the quote)
#uspol
Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy (moving from Yale to the University of Toronto)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXR9... (6:30 for the quote)
#uspol
We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S. | NYT Opinion
YouTube video by The New York Times
www.youtube.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"You know you're living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why you're safe."
Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy (moving from Yale to the University of Toronto)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXR9... (6:30 for the quote)
#uspol
Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy (moving from Yale to the University of Toronto)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXR9... (6:30 for the quote)
#uspol
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On leaving LA and saying “Hello to all that” youtu.be/sIr_y0-gmAA?...
I'm Leaving LA
YouTube video by Akilah Obviously
youtu.be
May 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
On leaving LA and saying “Hello to all that” youtu.be/sIr_y0-gmAA?...
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There were layoffs at MS yesterday and 3 #Python core devs from the Faster CPython team were caught in them. If you know of any jobs, please send them their way:
Eric Snow: www.linkedin.com/in/ericsnowc...
Irit Katriel: www.linkedin.com/in/irit-katr...
Mark Shannon: www.linkedin.com/in/mark-shan...
Eric Snow: www.linkedin.com/in/ericsnowc...
Irit Katriel: www.linkedin.com/in/irit-katr...
Mark Shannon: www.linkedin.com/in/mark-shan...
May 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
There were layoffs at MS yesterday and 3 #Python core devs from the Faster CPython team were caught in them. If you know of any jobs, please send them their way:
Eric Snow: www.linkedin.com/in/ericsnowc...
Irit Katriel: www.linkedin.com/in/irit-katr...
Mark Shannon: www.linkedin.com/in/mark-shan...
Eric Snow: www.linkedin.com/in/ericsnowc...
Irit Katriel: www.linkedin.com/in/irit-katr...
Mark Shannon: www.linkedin.com/in/mark-shan...
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The Loan Programs Office (LPO) is one of the most quietly effective tools the federal government has. It is the center of our industrial policy providing loans that banks won't give for energy innovation. It funds real projects. Battery factories. Nuclear reactors. Geothermal energy. Car factories.
April 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The Loan Programs Office (LPO) is one of the most quietly effective tools the federal government has. It is the center of our industrial policy providing loans that banks won't give for energy innovation. It funds real projects. Battery factories. Nuclear reactors. Geothermal energy. Car factories.
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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
I had one recent success with LLMs and non-trivial code, and it was to use a style of test driven development
I made a high level design, I wrote some basic tests and edge case tests, I had LLM to fill out some more and validated them
Then I got the LLM to write just enough code to pass the tests
I made a high level design, I wrote some basic tests and edge case tests, I had LLM to fill out some more and validated them
Then I got the LLM to write just enough code to pass the tests
April 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I had one recent success with LLMs and non-trivial code, and it was to use a style of test driven development
I made a high level design, I wrote some basic tests and edge case tests, I had LLM to fill out some more and validated them
Then I got the LLM to write just enough code to pass the tests
I made a high level design, I wrote some basic tests and edge case tests, I had LLM to fill out some more and validated them
Then I got the LLM to write just enough code to pass the tests
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Do me a favor and vote for Rebel Spirit in the Webby Awards. Literally everything is so shitty and I want this goddamn award. Thank you! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVot…
April 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Do me a favor and vote for Rebel Spirit in the Webby Awards. Literally everything is so shitty and I want this goddamn award. Thank you! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVot…
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Critical reporting from Stephanie Nolen on what the interruption of TB funding actually means for those living with the disease--and those caring for them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...
Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally
The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Critical reporting from Stephanie Nolen on what the interruption of TB funding actually means for those living with the disease--and those caring for them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...
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As the U.S. Government endeavors to make tuberculosis great again, please consider preordering a signed copy of my book about our deadliest infection, its long history, and why in the 75 years since TB became curable, we've allowed over 150,000,000 people to die of the disease. everythingistb.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
As the U.S. Government endeavors to make tuberculosis great again, please consider preordering a signed copy of my book about our deadliest infection, its long history, and why in the 75 years since TB became curable, we've allowed over 150,000,000 people to die of the disease. everythingistb.com
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I'd like to bring this video to your attention.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
www.youtube.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I'd like to bring this video to your attention.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
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This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...
What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi
“To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.
time.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...
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I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
February 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.