2025

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....

links, etc No bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard? Here’s why | Vanguard probably the most cogent summary of the speculative nature of crypto “assets” that i’ve seen to date. well done vanguard.

TIL: sanity preserving marked2 setting i don’t know what took me so long to puzzle out why i was always getting line break behaviors when writing and previewing github markdown in marked2. unchecking this little configuration option allows me to keep my 80-column preference for paragraph wrapping in markdown files without showing line breaks.

links, etc just in case you forgot you were owned. Trump Seeks to Paralyze Independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Watchdog - The New York Times I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw | The Guardian