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World Book Club - Laurent Binet – HHhH

Harriett Gilbert welcomes the French author Laurent Binet to the World Book Club studio to answer your questions about his acclaimed novel HHhH.

The book tells the story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, and the daring mission carried out by Czech resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Prague. At the same time, Binet places himself into the narrative, obsessively questioning how history should be told, where fact ends and fiction begins, and whether a writer ever has the right to blur that line.

Recorded in front of a live audience at The American Library in Paris, Laurent will be answering your questions about blending history and fiction without betraying the truth, why he chose to make himself writing part of the story itself, and how storytelling is an attempt to confront, or make sense of, the darkest moments in history.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 3.2.26

Alabama

  • State Senator Larry Stutts offers 2 bills to address problems within AL prisons
  • A bill that limits screen time for children in public schools heads to Governor's desk
  • AL Senate passes bill regulating Marine patrols and random safety inspections
  • 3 people arrested Monroe county for violating election law with absentee ballots
  • Jury selection begins today in trial of Ibrahim Yawed in the murder of Aniah Blanchard
  • Recall for Dupray steam cleaners due to faulty boiler bursting and causing burns
  • 3 US  Service members are confirmed dead following airstrikes in Iran
  • President Trump vows revenge on the loss of life, says operations continue
  • Iran now working to choke off oil transport in the Strait of Hormuz
  • A War Powers Resolution to be offered this week in the US House
  • Deadly shooting occurs in Austin TX with possible terroristic ties to Iran
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What A Day - Trump’s Dangerous Gamble In Iran

Over the weekend, the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes that reportedly hit more than 2,000 targets across Iran. In response, Iran struck sites across the Middle East. What, exactly, is the United States doing in Iran, especially now that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed? Nahal Toosi, senior foreign affairs correspondent and columnist at POLITICO, lays out what’s likely to happen next and why it matters.

And in headlines, Senator Lindsey Graham insists regime change is not the goal in Iran, Democrats mostly oppose the war (with some notable exceptions), and someone struck it big in a prediction market gamble on when the U.S. would strike Iran.

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Strict Scrutiny - S7 Ep21: The Conservative Push to Weaken Our Democracy

International law expert Rebecca Ingber of Cardozo Law joins Leah at the top of the show to talk about the US and Israel's war on Iran. Then, Leah welcomes guest co-host Chris Geidner of Law Dork to run through domestic legal news, including the omission of allegations against Trump from the Epstein files, the President’s MAHA Surgeon General nominee Casey Means’s confirmation hearing, the administration’s wildly illegal halting of Medicaid funds to Minnesota, the role of independent media in Trump 2.0, and some of the stories Chris has been breaking. They also unpack last week’s oral arguments and opinions before Leah is joined by Marc Elias, chair of Elias Law Group and founder of Democracy Docket, to discuss how voting rights are under attack from all three branches of government.

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Python Bytes - #471 The ORM pattern of 2026?

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Michael #1: Raw+DC: The ORM pattern of 2026?

  • ORMs/ODMs provide great support and abstractions for developers
  • They are not the native language of agentic AI
  • Raw queries are trained 100x+ more than standard ORMs
  • Using raw queries at the data access optimizes for AI coding
  • Returning some sort of object mapped to the data optimizes for type safety and devs

Brian #2: pytest-check releases

  • 3 merged pull requests
  • 8 closed issues
  • at one point got to 0 PR’s and 1 enhancement request
  • Now back to 2 issues and 1 PR, but activity means it’s still alive and being used. so cool
  • Check out changelog for all mods
  • A lot of changes around supporting mypy
    • I’ve decided to NOT have the examples be fully --strict as I find it reduces readability
      • See tox.ini for explanation
    • But src is --strict clean now, so user tests can be --strict clean.

Michael #3: Dataclass Wizard

  • Simple, elegant wizarding tools for Python’s dataclasses.
  • Features
    • 🚀 Fast — code-generated loaders and dumpers
    • 🪶 Lightweight — pure Python, minimal dependencies
    • 🧠 Typed — powered by Python type hints
    • 🧙 Flexible — JSON, YAML, TOML, and environment variables
    • 🧪 Reliable — battle-tested with extensive test coverage
  • No Inheritance Needed

Brian #4: SQLiteo - “native macOS SQLite browser built for normal people”

  • Adam Hill
  • This is a fun tool, built by someone I trust.
  • That trust part is something I’m thinking about a lot in these days of dev+agent built tools
  • Some notes on my thoughts when evaluating
    • I know mac rules around installing .dmg files not from the apple store are picky.
      • And I like that
    • But I’m ok with the override when something comes from a dev I trust
    • The contributors are all Adam
      • I’m still not sure how I feel about letting agents do commits in repos
    • There’s “AGENTS” folder and markdown files in the project for agents, so Ad

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Joke: House is read-only!

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The “Peace President” Goes to War

Over the weekend, in the middle of the night, the Trump administration brought the United States into yet another Middle East war. 


Guest: Shane Harris, staff writer at The Atlantic covering national security and intelligence


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Short Wave - Spring ice is thawing earlier in lakes. What does that mean for life below the surface?

Lakes are freezing later, thawing earlier and experiencing dramatic temperature swings in between. And all that throws off the delicate balance of life below the surface. And that has a major impact on the roughly 1.7 million ice fishers in the U.S. who spend millions of dollars buying equipment and guide services each year. Producer Berly McCoy explains how scientists are tracking those ecological changes by getting out on the ice — to fish. 


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The Indicator from Planet Money - Should the families of organ donors be compensated?

Two economists get into the business—and stakes—of organ donation, and they argue why the government should financially compensate their families.

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