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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 1.12.26

Alabama

  • Gov. Ivey indicates she would sign a bill that restricts SNAP purchases
  • Former Pentagon insider spills beans on Army sound weaponry re:J6
  • State senator says West Corridor already draining funds from other projects
  • Four arrests made in Dothan after cold blooded murder of teenager at home
  • CBS "48 Hours" covers case of chiropractor poisoning wife in Hartselle
  • Tuscaloosa City Council approves a new police cadet program in the city

National

  • Federal judge strikes down parts of Trump's election intercity executive order
  • DHS releases more video leading up to fatal shooting in Minneapolis by ICE
  • Treasury Secretary heads to MN to track all fraud payments and transactions
  • USDA Secretary will give no federal funds to MN until fraud is stopped
  • SCOTUS to hear oral arguments on Tuesday re: transgender athletes in high school and collegiate sports programs
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What A Day - The ‘Dark Fleet’ Behind Venezuela’s Oil Trade

The United States Coast Guard seized another oil tanker, the Olina, on Friday. It is the fifth Venezuela-linked tanker seized by US forces under President Trump, and the third since the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Earlier last week, the US seized a vessel near Iceland following a slow chase across the Atlantic Ocean. That ship, the Bella 1, was renamed the Marinera and started flying the Russian flag after US forces first tried to board it back in December. So, what’s going on with all of these sneaky name changes? To find out, we spoke to Shelby Holliday. She’s a senior video producer and journalist for The Wall Street Journal, where she focuses on geopolitics.

And in headlines, protests across the U.S. continue following the death of Renee Good at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on, and Trump weighs his options in Iran as state violence against protestors ramps up.

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Strict Scrutiny - Debunking Trump’s Bullsh*t Legal Arguments for Invading Venezuela

Leah, Kate, and Melissa preview January’s major SCOTUS cases, including disputes over trans kids' participation in team sports, a concealed-carry ban in Hawaii, and Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. The hosts are then joined by Georgetown Law Professor Marty Lederman to break down the administration’s flimsy legal case for the regime-change operation in Venezuela, as well as the Court’s shadow docket ruling on the federalization and deployment of the National Guard in Chicago. Finally, some news: the horrific murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis, the Court’s opinion in an important habeas case, and an unhinged tweet from Trump’s Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

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Python Bytes - #465 Stack Overflow is Cooked

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Michael #1: port-killer

  • A powerful cross-platform port management tool for developers.
  • Monitor ports, manage Kubernetes port forwards, integrate Cloudflare Tunnels, and kill processes with one click.
  • Features:
    • 🔍 Auto-discovers all listening TCP ports
    • ⚡ One-click process termination (graceful + force kill)
    • 🔄 Auto-refresh with configurable interval
    • 🔎 Search and filter by port number or process name
    • ⭐ Favorites for quick access to important ports
    • 👁️ Watched ports with notifications
    • 📂 Smart categorization (Web Server, Database, Development, System)

Brian #2: How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster

  • Henry Schreiner
  • Some very cool graphs demonstrating some benchmark data.
  • And then details about how various speedups
    • each being 2-37% faster
    • the total adding up to about 3x speedup, or shaving 2/3 of the time.
  • These also include nice write-ups about why the speedups were chosen.
  • If you are trying to speed up part of your system, this would be good article to check out.

Michael #3: AI’s Impact on dev companies

  • On TailwindCSS: via Simon
    • Tailwind is growing faster than ever and is bigger than it has ever been
    • Its revenue is down close to 80%.
    • 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business.
    • “We had 6 months left”
    • Listen to the founder: “A Morning Walk”
    • Super insightful video: Tailwind is in DEEP trouble
  • On Stack Overflow: See video.
    • SO was founded around 2009, first month had 3,749 questions
    • December, SO had 3,862 questions asked
    • Most of its live it had 200,000 questions per month
    • That is a 53x drop!

Brian #4: CodSpeed

  • “CodSpeed integrates into dev and CI workflows to measure performance, detect regressions, and enable actionable optimizations.”
  • Noticed it while looking through the GitHub workflows for FastAPI
  • Free for small teams and open-source projects
  • Easy to integrate with Python by marking tests with @pytest.mark.benchmark
  • They’ve releases a GitHub action to incorporate benchmarking in CI workflows

Extras

Brian:

  • Part 2 of Lean TDD released this morning, “Lean TDD Practices”, which has 9 mini chapters.

Michael:

Joke: Check out my app!

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Short Wave - These little microbes may help solve our big problems

Microbes are little alchemists that perform all manner of chemical reactions. A team of microbiologists co-founded a non-profit to try to harness those abilities to solve some of the world’s big problems — from carbon capture to helping coral reefs to cleaning up waste. Recently, the team turned their attention to the microbes living in people’s homes — on and in shower heads, drip pans, and hot water heaters. These rather extreme environments may have pressured microorganisms into surviving in ways that could be advantageous to humans. Science reporter Ari Daniel takes us on a treasure hunt in miniature.

This episode was produced by Hannah Chinn. It was edited by Rebecca Ramirez. Tyler Jones checked the facts. The audio engineer was Robert Rodriguez.


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The Best One Yet - 🧠 “Air Brain” — Nike’s neuro-sneaker. Zuck’s nuclear reactors. NYC Congestion Pricing’s Birthday. +Planuary

Nike’s mind-altering brain sneaker just sold out… because it’s a “Paul Revere Product.”

Meta is buying enough nuclear energy to power 5 Vermonts… Zuck’s gone radioactive.

NYC’s Congestion Pricing been a huge success… but you haven’t heard that because of “negative news bias.”

Our New Year’s Resolution? It’s called “Planuary”...


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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – Emperor Trump Wants Greenland

Is Trump genuinely interested in expanding America’s borders or is this all just to further their mission of “looking tough online”? For the people surprised to suddenly find themselves on America’s bad side, does it matter? 


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The Indicator from Planet Money - How far can philanthropy go to fill government gaps?

While Americans are known for their generosity, the U.S. government, increasingly, is not. The Trump administration’s cuts to SNAP benefits among other aid programs have forced states, foundations and donors to fill the gaps. But can they? On today’s show, the limits of philanthropic efforts to supplant federal aid. 

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The Definitions’ features dorm room conversation – with a dystopian twist

Matt Greene’s new novel The Definitions starts with new college dormmates getting to know each other. But there’s a dystopian twist: The students have survived a virus that has erased people’s memories. Nameless students attend school at The Center, where they’re told their memories will one day return to them. In today’s episode, Greene chats with NPR’s Lauren Frayer about the philosophy of language, the pandemic, and some unresolved questions from his book.


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