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  1. I just finished giving my talk at the education summit, "Vibe teaching: training in the age of AI."

    What fun!

    I've uploaded the slides: speakerdeck.com/reuven/vibe-te

  2. @Reuven

    As JoeP pointed out, it's slightly more complex.

    >>> c = 256
    >>> d = 256
    >>> c is d
    >>> True

    But:
    >>> c = 257
    >>> d = 257
    >>> c is d
    >>> False

    "Small" integers are shared objects, like interned strings, because they're commonly encountered multiple times in a codebase/program. Larger numbers aren't.

    `is` isn't generally useful for numbers / math, but it's a very important operator for many other types of objects.

    #identity #equality #objects #shared

  3. DOJ whistleblower says he witnessed government officials undermining the rule of law

    Erez Reuveni was on his way up. He was an attorney in the Department of Justice who was…
    #NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Headlines #KilmarAbregoGarcia #TopStories #UnitedStatesDepartmentofJustice
    newsbeep.com/196571/

  4. @memeorandum

    “The Venezuelans were to be denied the right to be heard by a judge and Reuveni said Bove expected a challenge.

    "Bove emphasized, those planes need to take off, no matter what," Reuveni said. "Then after a pause, he also told all in attendance, and if some court should issue an order preventing that, we may have to consider telling that court, 'f*** you.'"

    The Republicans in the Senate confirmed Bove to a lifetime federal judgeship. #VoteThemOut

  5. The #DOJ’s internal watchdog has seemingly ignored 20 instances of possible wrongdoing by the #Trump admin, lawyers for a #whistleblower said in a letter on Monday urging lawmakers to address the “apparent collapse” of an office meant to root out #misconduct.

    The lawyers pointed to the case of their client, Erez Reuveni, who was fired in April last year amid a legal fight over the admin’s decision to send immigrants to #CECOT, a maximum-security prison in #ElSalvador. It

    #law #LegalEthics

  6. Rad! Looking forward to reading #EricKing’s book after listening to him talk at #SeattleAnarchistBookFair and be interviewed for the press tour.

    pmpress.org/index.php?l=produc

    The #FreedomForFelons podcast interview released today is a standout for being about to talk about aspects of prison life with a level of immediate mutual intelligibility that is impossible without lived experience. The reminder of the “Rattling the Cages” oral histories King edited with #JoshDavidson was good to have, and would make a good next read, but like King and the hosts were saying, people who haven’t lived it find it hard to believe that prisoners talking about personal and systemic abuse by guards is real. “Rikers: An Oral History” by Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau was comprehensive and beyond persuasive, but a huge part of that was guards also admitting it.

    With #Anark on YouTube, King also spoke to the realities of how you hold onto your principles amid systems that don’t give you agency for ideological purity (e.g. being forced at higher security prisons to only associate within-race, therefore with white supremacists) or what battles you fight for your principles (e.g. veganism). The conversation on what prisoner support really looks like and how letter writing should not be viewed as charity but mutual exchange between people was also really insightful, esp. “send me the books I like to read, not the ones you think I should read”. That wasn’t primarily a lesson on anarchism but worth remembering: even people who are in the most vulnerable circumstances deserve better than you thinking you know what’s best for them rather than themselves.

    And the #SeekingWitchcraft podcast was a really good conversation on many of those same things but with the added focus on what following a personal, non-Christian and specifically pagan practice looks like inside a culturally Christian institution meant to dominate and destroy your body and spirit.

    Again, have not yet read the book itself, but really excited to, based on all these things so far.

    Last, @pmpress sends a whole bunch of little treats to go along with their orders! Which was a nice surprise.

  7. History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along – The New Yorker

    History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along

    Some civil servants and senior officials in the Trump Administration are experiencing bouts of conscience.

    By Michael Luo, December 14, 2025

    Photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro; Source photographs from Getty

    The second Presidency of Donald Trump has been unprecedented in myriad ways, perhaps above all in the way that he has managed to cajole, cow, or simply command people in his Administration to carry out even his most undemocratic wishes with remarkably little dissent. Some civil servants and senior officials, however, are experiencing bouts of conscience. In March, Erez Reuveni, a veteran Justice Department lawyer, was promoted to the position of acting deputy director of the Office of Immigration Litigation. He decided to personally take on the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who had been wrongly sent back to El Salvador, in violation of a 2019 court order. On April 5th, Reuveni told his supervisor he would not sign an appeal brief that said Abrego Garcia was a “terrorist.” According to a whistle-blower complaint that Reuveni later filed, he said, “I didn’t sign up to lie.” He was suspended and then fired.

    Other career prosecutors have chosen to step down. In February, when Trump officials moved to dismiss corruption charges against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, it triggered resignations from Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim United States Attorney in Manhattan, and from Kevin O. Driscoll and John Keller, the two officials in charge of the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section. In September, Erik Siebert, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, resigned, after his investigations into Letitia James and James Comey stalled and Trump demanded that he be fired.

    There has been turnover in senior ranks of the military as well. In October, Admiral Alvin Holsey, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, abruptly announced that he would retire at the end of the year. Tensions had reportedly been mounting between Holsey and the Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, particularly over the admiral’s concerns about the legality of drone strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean. Now military experts have raised the possibility of war crimes, as lawmakers investigate a drone operation on September 2nd that destroyed a boat and killed everyone on board.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along | The New Yorker

    Tags: Civil Servants, Conscience, GOP, Republicans, Senior Officials, The New Yorker, Those Who Go Along, Trump, Trump Administration

    #CivilServants #Conscience #GOP #Republicans #SeniorOfficials #TheNewYorker #ThoseWhoGoAlong #Trump #TrumpAdministration

  8. Federal Judge James Boasberg is expanding his criminal contempt investigation into Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s role in a controversial deportation case. He has ordered top DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign to testify under oath about decisions in March that led to migrants being deported to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, despite court orders to halt flights. The judge also wants to hear from ex-Justice Department official Erez Reuveni, who has alleged that government officials planned to ignore court orders amid aggressive Trump-era deportation efforts. This comes after Noem provided limited and unclear sworn statements about the episode, raising questions about potential deliberate violations of court orders. Will these testimonies reveal possible misconduct? More here: cnn.com/2025/12/08/politics/kr #Immigration #Justice #CourtOrder #HomelandSecurity #TrumpEra #LegalProceedings #Contempt

  9. Histadrut leader Arnon Bar-David has been facing intense pressure from opponents of the judicial shakeup to declare a general strike in an attempt to ...

    Organization representing 150 leading companies, tech sector workers, lawyers to rally Monday as coalition readies to enact key bill that will limit judicial review
    Business forum, tech companies to strike ahead of final votes on reasonableness law | The Times of Israel

  10. By default, every class inherits from "object".

    You can see this by checking the __bases__ attribute on a class:

    class C:
    pass

    print(C.__bases__) # prints (<class 'object'>,)

    __bases__ is a tuple — hinting (correctly) that Python supports multiple inheritance.

  11. It's time for ! We're in Long Beach, California, near one of the most active ports in the world.

    As such, Bamboo Weekly's challenges are about the Port of Long Beach — how much traffic it gets, what is imported, and from where.

    Level up your and : BambooWeekly.com

  12. How free is the press in your country? Challenge your skills — merging files, pivot tables, and plots — on the most recent data from Reporters Without Borders.

    Don't settle for toy data sets. Level up with real data and real challenges with Bamboo Weekly.

    Learn more at BambooWeekly.com

  13. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed. And US gas prices continue to rise.

    Bamboo Weekly challenges you to use to find where they're highest, how much they've increased — plus create interactive maps.

    Level up your data skills every Wednesday!

    Check it out: BambooWeekly.com

  14. Want to round datetimes? You have 3 options:

    - dt.floor — earlier
    - dt.ceil - later
    - dt.round — nearest

    For example:

    s.dt.floor('3h') # previous multiple-of-3 hour
    s.dt.ceil('15m') # next 15-minute block
    s.dt.round('1D') # nearest 1 day

  15. Want to set the time on a series of datetimes to midnight? Use dt.normalize:

    df['x'].dt.normalize()

    You get back series of datetime values, but all times are 00:00:00.

  16. Want to convert a datetime column to Unix time (seconds since 1970)?

    df['date'].astype('int64')

    That's it! No division needed.

  17. The Strait of Hormuz is still closed, and oil prices remain high.

    But which are higher, spot prices or oil futures?

    In the latest Bamboo Weekly, I give you six data-analysis problems to solve about oil prices using public data.

    More info: BambooWeekly.com

  18. Want to convert an integer column from Unix time to datetime?

    Use pd.to_datetime, passing the int column and the "unit" keyword argument, set to "s" (seconds):

    df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['unixtime'],unit='s')

    If the column is in ms, then say unit='ms'

  19. Want to check if two datetimes are in the same month/quarter/year?

    Convert them both to periods, and compare with ==:

    date1.to_period('M') == date2.to_period('M') # same month?
    date1.to_period('Q') == date2.to_period('Q') # same quarter?

  20. Want to find which time period contains a datetime? Use to_period:

    pd.Timestamp.now().to_period('1D')
    pd.Timestamp.now().to_period('6W')

    This returns a Pandas "Period" object, useful (among other things) for checking if two dates are within the same period.

  21. Want to find leap years in a datetime series? Use dt.is_leap_year:

    df = DataFrame({'x':np.arange(32),
    'y': pd.date_range(start='1995-04-19',
    end='2027-04-19', freq='1YE')})

    df.loc[pd.col('y').dt.is_leap_year] # returns boolean series

  22. Want to know if values in a datetime series are at the start/end of a period? Get a boolean series from:

    df['x'].dt.is_month_start # or dt.is_month_end
    df['x'].dt.is_quarter_start # or dt.is_quarter_end
    df['x'].dt.is_year_start # or dt.is_year_end

  23. Use dt.day_of_week to get the day number from a datetime series.

    But is 0 Sunday or Monday? Or not used at all?

    Better: Use the day_name method:

    df['x'].dt.day_name()

    Good news: It returns a series of strings!
    Bad news: It's 4x slower.

  24. Do Americans pay more taxes than in other countries? Do they pay more in income taxes?

    Explore OECD data with , , Marimo, and Claude Code (plus the new marimo-pair skill) in the latest Bamboo Weekly, and find out!

    Read all about it: BambooWeekly.com

  25. Want to grab a part of datetime value in a data frame column? Use "dt":

    df['x'].dt.year
    df['x'].dt.hour
    df['x'].dt.minute
    df['x'].dt.day_of_week # or dayofweek or weekday

    day_of_week returns an integer, where 0 is Monday and 6 is Sunday.

  26. It's tax day in the US — and according to Gallup, Americans think taxes are too high. But... how high are they vs. other countries?

    In the latest Bamboo Weekly, I pose 6 questions about taxes. Can you solve them with marimo-pair, Marimo, Claude Code, and ?

    Check it out: BambooWeekly.com