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movies godzilla minus one - highly recommended. great monster movie with solid effects and an even better story. alien: romulus - solid effects, really did a pretty solid job of keeping things in the weyland-yutani universe. i was entertained throughout. a quiet place: day one - solidly entertaining. blink twice - actually, better than i was expecting. i’m surprised that the broligarchy hasn’t been protesting this one. the fall guy - i loved this way more than i should have....

goal target: 30 - read: 07 (so far) if i were a better man, i’d do something focued and high minded. like targeting research in a specific vein of study. i am not that man. books note, this is a running list. (in reverse chronological order) the fire next time (james baldwin) this was a short read while on the plane. incredible writing. dense without being puzzing or circular. lots to think about and some incredibly spot on commentary on white america....

links, etc The Right-Wing Plan to Make Everyone an Informant just in case you forgot you were 0wned.

links, etc Dario Amodei — On DeepSeek and Export Controls

TIL: if you’re using uv everything packs itself you can feed your script to uv with the following she-bang invocation (the --script flag will process the balance of the script as the script. standalone scripts can run in a virtualenv within uv and internally resolve their dependencies. we needed this years ago. #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script # /// script # requires-python = ">=3.12" # dependencies = [ "requests" ] # /// uv allows you to package up your dependencies at the top of a script using TOML formatted structures in the comments....