The team look at the week's news and, while trying understand how rebels took Syria so quickly, a military strategist helps us to take the Warwickshire stronghold of Nuneaton. Plus Rupert the Jorkiepoo helps solve the prison overcrowding crisis.

From The Skewer’s Jon Holmes comes The Naked Week, a fresh way of dressing the week’s news in the altogether and parading it around for everyone to laugh at. Host Andrew Hunter Murray (No Such Thing As A Fish, QI Elf, Private Eye) and chief correspondent Amy Hoggart strip away the curtain and dive into not only the big stories, but also the way in which the news is packaged and presented.

From award-winning writers and a crack team of contemporary satirists - and recorded in front of a live audience - The Naked Week delivers a topical news nude straight to your ears.

Written by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Sarah Dempster Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley Adam Macqueen Louis Mian

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We interrogate how many milestones make a mission, look at how some MPs fund their offices and with all the Gregg Wallace unpleasantness we put a crisis management expert under pressure to give celebrities tips on how to apologise.

Host Andrew Hunter Murray, Chief Correspondent Amy Hoggart, The Skewer's Jon Holmes and The Naked Week team deliver a topical news-nude straight to your ears.

The Naked Week team strip away the curtain and dive into not only the big stories, but also the way in which the news is packaged and presented.

Written by: Jon Holmes Katie Sayer Sarah Dempster Gareth Ceredig Jason Hazeley Adam Macqueen Louis Mian

Additional material: Marc Haynes Cornelius Mendez

Guests this week: Jordan Greenaway Dr Beth Malory

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The team look at the week's news and pull back the curtain on the dark arts of lobbying. Plus, to draw attention to climate change, an art critic throws Michelangelo's David at a pyramid of tomato soup tins. It's like Just Stop Oil's tactics, but in reverse.

The Skewer’s Jon Holmes comes The Naked Week, a fresh way of dressing the week’s news in the altogether and parading it around for everyone to laugh at. Host Andrew Hunter Murray and chief correspondent Amy Hoggart strip away the curtain and dive into not only the big stories, but also the way the news is packaged and presented.

From award-winning writers and a crack team of contemporary satirists - and recorded in front of a live audience - The Naked Week delivers a topical news nude straight to your ears.

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Bill Bailey stars as Guy Starling, a middle aged man who, after 45 years, and for reasons quite unknown to him, is suddenly revisited by his imaginary childhood friend, Hennikay.

When Guy’s great business idea – developing a phone-based app designed to stop people using phone based apps – unsurprisingly fails, he needs to find a job. And so he attends a sales seminar with Shining Path, who are apparently, "the number one providers of after-life finance packages in the UK".

However, his attention is constantly derailed by the constant chatter of Hennikay, his imaginary childhood friend, who is still determinedly living in his head. And if that wasn’t enough, he also has to cope with Tony, his old boss, who is also there, competing with him to land a job.

But try as he might, Guy really can’t get enthused by the idea of a career selling pre-paid funeral plans to the people of Maidstone. Was this what he thought his life was going to be, when he and Hennikay were young together, way back in 1976?

Acclaimed comedian - and Strictly Come Dancing champion - Bill Bailey leads a series cast which includes Tony Gardner and Elizabeth Carling in this warm, funny look at childhood, adulthood and some of the follies of modern life, where a man with a confused child in his head might just be the sanest person in the room.

Written by David Spicer

Guy: Bill Bailey Hennikay: Max Lester Tony: Tony Gardner Stacia: Rebecca Boey

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Krystal and Saagar discuss Jimmy Carter passes away, Trump backs Elon in H1B war, Ro Khanna responds to Laura Loomer call out, Theo Von says TikTok is being banned for Israel, IDF abducts doctor in final hospital destruction, Tim Dillon mocks United CEO on Netflix, Biden says he would have won.

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After a generational collapse, the various factions of the right find themselves scrambling to pick up the pieces of the wreckage they wrought. They decide to break from the establishment Republican Party to pursue new strategies involving new technologies—one that’s short-term successes would be matched by its long-term consequences.

This episode draws from Lee Fang’s The Machine, Theda Skockpol’s The Tea Party and the Remaking of American Conservatism, Claire Bond Potter’s Political Junkies, Gabriel Sherman’s The Loudest Voice in the Room, and Matthew Lysiak’s The Drudge Revolution. For a full list of sources, check our works cited doc here: www.chapotraphouse.com/seeking

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Python is one of my programming languages I’m using for both work and home life – no doubt, I’d want to use Emacs as an IDE for Python programming. There is a certain set of features we’d expect to have in any IDE: 1) code completion, 2) code navigation, 3) error checking.

Thanks to the fact that both eglot, the Emacs client for the Language Server Protocol (LSP), and tree-sitter, a powerful parsing library, are now – since version 29 – the parts of Emacs, It should not be too hard to construct a lightweight and fast Python IDE.

It’s Christmas, a day that we at the Irreal Bunker celebrate in large part by being slothful. Therefore, today’s offering is a quickie. On the other hand, since it is Christmas, you can also think of this post as a Christmas gift.

Over at the Emacs subreddit, ArcanistCheshire tells us that building Emacs with the Lucid toolkit resulted in an impressive Emacs speedup. This is seconded by Karthink, someone who has shown he knows what he’s talking about.

Sadly, if you’re a macOS user this gift is not for you. It’s only for users of X-windows and even then there are some restrictions. Take a look at the post for the details.

Even if you are a macOS Emacs user, you can take heart because being an Emacs user is a gift all by itself. Merry Christmas

Featuring Bassam Haddad on the historical and geopolitical origins of Assad’s rise and fall — and what might happen next. We think through the contradictions: honoring the joy felt by Syrians at Assad’s ouster while simultaneously taking stock of a truly bad geopolitical outcome.

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Danny and Derek speak with Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, associate professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus, for the first episode in our series on his book The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq. In this episode, they lay the groundwork of 20th century Iraq, covering the Hashemite monarchy, sectarianism and the country and the role of Western actors, the Iraqi Petroleum Company, the origins of the communist movement in Iraq, Rashid Ali and anti-British movements, and more until World War II.

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Marie K. Ekeberg has a holiday gift for Emacs users: a list of 24 Emacs packages that you can try during the holidays. The list is interesting in that it doesn’t really have a theme other than that they’re packages that Ekeberg finds useful or interesting. Some of them are builtin, some of them are in MELPA / Gnu Elpa, and some of them aren’t in any ELPA repository.

Some like Org-mode, Windmove, Magit, EXWM, Multiple cursors, and vterm will be familiar to most Emacs users but some may be new—at least they are to me. The first on the list is Try. Mike Zamansky often used it in his Emacs videos to try out a package without actually installing it. If you want to sample some of the offerings from the list, installing Try first is a good idea because it lets you experiment with a package without having to commit to it.

Another very useful package is undo-tree. It’s a little hard to get used to but it really will improve those times when you have to undo some text. It also rationalizes “redo”. That alone is worth installing it for.

One package that I haven’t tried but that looks interesting is focus. The idea is that text outside some configurable region get grayed out. I’m not sure it would work for me but it does look interesting. It provides a perfect example of why you should install Try: you can experiment with it and if you don’t like what you see, it will disappear the next time you start Emacs.

The list is worth taking a look at You may find something that will fit in with your workflow.

Democracy Now! 2024-12-20 Friday

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• Amazon Workers Launch Historic Strike to Demand New Contracts & End Unsafe Labor Practices
• UnitedHealth vs. Patients: NYC Man's Battle to Get Lifesaving Drug Highlights Broken Health System
• How to Appeal Insurance Denials, Abolish Medical Debt, and Fight for Medicare for All
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In this Christmas special, Frank Skinner and his guests decipher the good, the bad, and the baffling, as they try to work out a mystery item - based entirely on its online reviews. Which traditional panto features an animatronic dinosaur? What’s the worst present they’ve ever received? And is that one star write-up “bit claggy, made me feel sick” a review of some stuffing or Love Actually? Written by Frank Skinner, Catherine Brinkworth, Sarah Dempster, Jason Hazeley, Rajiv Karia, Karl Minns, Katie Sayer and Peter Tellouche Devised by Jason Hazeley and Simon Evans, with the producer David Tyler A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4

This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share their highly-anticipated “Best Albums” of 2024. Plus, they’ll also hear selections from production staff.

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The “gig economy” has been a disruptive force, undermining the working class’ access to job security, benefits, and fair wages, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation and financial instability. Now Claudia Sheinbaum’s government is stepping in and implementing a historic change to labor laws to grant labor protections and social security to hundreds of thousands of “gig” workers who will now be recognized as employees.  Co-hosts José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth also look at US Ambassador-designate Ron Johnson’s past as a spook for the CIA and as both “military advisor” in El Salvador during the country’s civil war and, more recently, his cozy relationship with Nayib Bukele. Plus a conversation on efforts to protect Indigenous peoples’ rights and in Losers and Haters, we ask why outlets insist on quoting people like Castañeda and Dresser, who have no credibility.

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Seismic shifts accross the middle east over the last year, from the genocide in Gaza, to the fall of the Assad regime in Syria to the killing of Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah, will reshape the region and force changes in the way resistance operates. 

Rania Khalek was joined by Bashir Saade, an Interdisciplinary Lecturer in Politics and Religion at the University of Stirling and author of the book “Hizbullah and the politics of remembrance.” 

As with many other periods, the history of the Roman Empire has often been told from the vantage point of a minoritarian social elite. Sarah Bond, a professor of classics at the University of Iowa, set out in her research to uncover something different: a "history from below" detailing the class struggle in ancient Rome. She joins Long Reads to discuss this project. Sarah's book Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire will be published in February of next year.

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How to Share Your Emacs Configuration Between Different Machines (and Architectures) with Native Compilation

If you use Emacs on multiple machines, especially ones running different architectures or operating systems, sharing your Emacs configuration across those machines can become tricky. Add native compilation (introduced in Emacs 28) to the mix, and you might run into conflicts when Emacs tries to reuse compiled .eln files between machines.

Fortunately, with a bit of smart configuration, you can make Emacs share your configuration while keeping native compilation enabled for each machine. In this post, I'll show you how to set up your Emacs so that native compilation caches (.eln files) are kept separate for each machine. We'll also discuss why this is important and what your directory structure will look like.

Why Is This Important?

Emacs uses native compilation to compile Elisp files into optimized .eln binaries, which are architecture and system-dependent. If you share your Emacs configuration across machines without accounting for this, you may encounter issues:

1. Conflicting .eln files: A .eln file compiled for a Linux machine might not work on a macOS machine.

2. Unnecessary recompilations: Emacs may attempt to recompile packages on each startup, which can slow things down and clutter your eln-cache directory.

By separating the native compilation cache for each machine, you ensure:

• Faster startup times since Emacs doesn't recompile already-compiled code.

• A cleaner and more predictable setup across machines.

The Solution: Machine-Specific eln-cache Directories

To keep .eln files organized and avoid conflicts, you can configure Emacs to use a machine-specific eln-cache directory. Here's the configuration snippet to add into your early-init.el:

;;; Native Compile Settings
;; I use a <emacs-default-dir>/eln-cache-<machine-hostname>/ dir to store
;; my different machines' eln compiled code. This allows the same config
;; to be used on several machines without conflicts.
;; This is added in early-init.el to prevent unwanted recompilations.

(when (featurep 'native-compile)
  ;; Set the right directory to store the native compilation cache
  (let ((path (expand-file-name (concat "eln-cache-" (system-name) "/") user-emacs-directory)))
	(setq-default native-comp-eln-load-path       (list path)
				  native-compile-target-directory path)
	(startup-redirect-eln-cache path))

  (setq-default native-comp-async-report-warnings-errors nil  ;; Silence compiler warnings as they can be disruptive
				native-comp-jit-compilation              t    ;; Enable async native compilation
				package-native-compile                   t))) ;; Compile installed packages

What Does This Code Do?

1. (system-name): Retrieves the hostname of the machine. This is used to create a unique directory for each machine's eln-cache.

2. expand-file-name: Combines the Emacs configuration directory (user-emacs-directory) with the machine-specific eln-cache-<hostname> folder.

3. native-comp-eln-load-path and native-compile-target-directory: Set the paths for Emacs to store and load the compiled .eln files.

4. startup-redirect-eln-cache: Ensures Emacs uses the specified eln-cache directory right from startup.

Optional settings:

• native-comp-async-report-warnings-errors: Silences disruptive compiler warnings.

• native-comp-jit-compilation: Enables Just-In-Time (JIT) native compilation for faster execution.

• package-native-compile: Ensures all installed packages are natively compiled.

By placing this in your early-init.el, you make sure Emacs sets up the eln-cache directory before it starts loading packages or recompiling files.

Folder Structure Example

Let's say you have two machines, with the following hostnames:

• debian: A Linux workstation.

• macbook: A macOS laptop.

With the above configuration, your Emacs directory structure will look like this:

~/.emacs.d/
|-- early-init.el
|-- init.el
|-- eln-cache-debian/          # Cache for 'debian'
|   |-- abcdef01-abcdefgh01.eln
|   |-- xyz12345-xyzabc123.eln
|
|-- eln-cache-macbook/         # Cache for 'macbook'
	|-- abcdef01-abcdefgh01.eln
	|-- pqr67890-pqrxyz678.eln

Setting Up for a New Machine

If you're setting up Emacs on a new machine:

1. Clone or copy your shared Emacs configuration (e.g., from GitHub).

2. Make sure the above snippet is in your early-init.el.

3. Start Emacs. It will automatically create a new eln-cache-<hostname> directory and begin compiling packages natively for the current machine.

Conclusion

Sharing Emacs configurations across machines doesn't have to be a hassle, even when using native compilation. By directing Emacs to use machine-specific eln-cache directories, you can:

• Avoid conflicts caused by incompatible .eln files.

• Speed up startup times by preventing unnecessary recompilations.

• Maintain a clean and organized Emacs setup.

I hope with the provided configuration, you can easily manage Emacs on multiple machines—whether you're switching between Linux, macOS, or different hardware architectures.

Happy hacking!

Hesse, Jacques and Max join us for some holiday fun on today’s episode. After some fruitful discussion of Mr. Beast’s plan to rent out the Great Pyramids of Giza, we turn to a perennial favorite: Dear Prudie. What to do when a busty neighbor jogs lustily in front of your children? What if your wife shits too much? Your home invader’s child is now in your pre-school class? Answers to all these questions plus granma’s chicken wings all in today’s show.

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