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Even as the anti-vax lobby erodes public trust, new evidence confirms that "immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza have shown consistent effectiveness & safety and are associated with a substantially reduced risk of hospitalization & severe disease"

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Do populists always crash the economy? Argentina is counting the cost of its turn to Javier Milei. Politicians from Donald Trump to Giorgia Meloni and Nigel Farage will be closely watching what happens next

Do populists always crash the economy?

It's time to acknowledge reality:
 
Our health system is broken. It's time to guarantee good-quality care to every man, woman & child in this country.
 
Our campaign finance system is broken. It's time to get rid of Citizens United and publicly fund elections.
 
Let’s do it.

-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence

These are the foundations of real freedom.

Mocket is out in the wild, with a version compatible with Python 3.14.
Enjoy testing your `asyncio` code!

#python #testing #mocket #socket #mocking #tdd #pytest #testing

pypi.org/project/mock...

a man stands in front of a sign that says microsoft works developer ALT: a man stands in front of a sign that says microsoft works developer

... And this is for my own typo

So, if you are a Python deloper and you normally deal with geospatial data, please have a look at it and help me make it nicer.

#geos #geospatial #opensource #python #pythondev

Here is the link for the GitHub repo: github.com/mindflayer/t...

togo Lightweight Python bindings for the TG geometry library

So, welcome to ToGo: pypi.org/project/togo/

You read it right, it's written in C, and out there working in the industry we are just a whole bunch of Python developers

So I told myself, I'll try to create Python bindings for it. I haven't done that before but, in the end, it won't be the first new thing I try, innit?

Nobody is looking for something different, and there's no need for something completely new, right?

Or maybe there is.

Months ago I discovered a new open source geometry library for C (very fast point-in-polygon). It's called TG and it's just great.

I've been working in the aerospace industry for long enough to understand that people are not used to new tools and libraries. There are a bunch of famous open source ones, and they are de-facto standards.

UK officially recognises Palestine as a state Sir Keir Starmer said the UK - alongside Australia and Canada - was taking the step "in the face of growing horror" in the Middle East.

UK officially recognises Palestine as a state

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK - alongside Australia and Canada - was taking the step "in the face of growing horror" in the Middle East

news.sky.com/story/uk-off...

Surprise, surprise – Labour is reaping what it has sown Instead of addressing child poverty, homelessness, poor working conditions or any of the real issues impacting this country, Labour has chosen to deflect the blame and pour billions into arms, says Je...

Labour is reaping what it has sown.

My piece for @the-independent.com on the need for a real alternative.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/jerem...

4.5 million children are living in poverty. Our climate is burning. Palestinians are being erased in a genocide.

Up and down the country, people are demanding real change.

None of us will ever give up in our common struggle for a more equal, sustainable and peaceful world.

There goes the First Amendment.

The US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing Rightwingers had long complained of a censorious leftwing ‘cancel culture’ but seem happy to now reframe that as ‘consequence culture’

The US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing

I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Global Sumud Flotilla

The gist of the Israeli take on the Global Sumud Flotilla. (They can bomb, they can kill, they can lie through their teeth, they can deny genocide till they are blue in the mouth. BUT, they cannot counter the power of well-targeted humour) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaoA...

So DHH has gone fully open right winger and racist? Maybe that gets people to stop sharing and reading his takes.

If you still share that motherfucker's writing (even on tech) or advertise his business rethink your whole life decisions and move to the woods or something.

YouTube video by CultRepo Python: The Documentary | An origin story

A language so expressive that it makes almost everything seem simple, and in which even the few truly complex things become possible.
If you recognize yourself, at least in part, in what I've written, this documentary is for you.

#python #origin #story

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...

With and thanks to Python, I've had the pleasure and honor of working with numerous talents, in the most diverse sectors: from telecommunications to retail, to aerospace.
I believe I owe much of my success, and the talent I've acquired in the field, to the simplicity and naturalness of Python.

I still remember starting to use it, just for fun, on my laptop, sitting at the kitchen table of the house where I grew up.
It was love at first sight, and it was probably the wisest choice of my entire career in software development.

He had started working on it, and he thought it was so wonderful he had to share it.
I was still using Windows, and that's how I installed my first version of Python, one of the few ".exe" files that changed my life (I switched to Linux shortly thereafter).

I think the same is true for many people like me who have spent decades in front of a monitor.
In the early 2000s, in my twenties, I discovered Python. I wasn't working yet, when a virtual friend I played Ultima Online with told me about it.

I played, yes, but I always felt much more comfortable on the computer trying to create something from scratch. Creating a digital product, as we would say today, I've always seen as my pastime, THE ultimate game.

I was fortunate enough to grow up in a house where we could afford—in the late 1980s—a personal computer (strictly used).
I learned to program, or thought I had, as a child.
I played with Turbo Pascal and DB2, and then I played a lot of different video games.

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders In Wake of Charlie Kirk Murder, Sen. Bernie Sanders Addresses Rising Political Violence in America

The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life.

A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation.

No more political violence.

Vaccines work. Period.