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A prelude and a primer to this season's story: the tragedy of Cambodia.

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Danny's physically on-the-go this episode while we, as a podcast, are virtually moving to Supporting Cast. This week's news: bombings via consumer electronics, likely carried out by Israel, rock Lebanon (0:55); in Palestine-Israel, the US appears to be giving up on a ceasefire (8:08), medical conditions in Gaza sink to 19th century standards (10:21), and a Houthi ballistic missile strikes within Israel (11:48); MBS of Saudi Arabia chills normalization talks with Israel (13:59); Sudan sees “unprecedented” fighting around Al-Fashir (17:28); a Chinese aircraft enters Japanese waters (19:06); a jihadist attack on Bamako, Mali (20:39); South Sudan once again postpones its elections (23:10); in Russia-Ukraine, the Kursk counteroffensive appears to stall (25:01), Russia advances in Donetsk (27:14), and Biden appears to hold off on long-range strike permission for Ukraine (29:01); in Venezuela, four Americans are arrested in a "plot" against Maduro (32:26); Colombia-ELN ceasefire talks break down (34:30); and in Mexico, AMLO blames the US for rising cartel violence in Sinaloa (36:11).

It’s not the good news, but Danny and Derek bring you, well, also not good news. This week: a Gaza ceasefire talks update (1:15) while the IDF kills American citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi (5:18); Iraq is negotiating a deal for the US to withdraw its forces (11:43); the US gives Egypt a full military aid allotment (13:47); in Sudan, new Rapid Support Forces (RSF) activity in the country’s south (15:22); the Pentagon is trying to reconstitute a presence in West Africa (16:29); in Russia-Ukraine, the Russian counteroffensive in Kursk (19:24), claims of Iran supplying missiles to Russia (21:02), and Biden might be on the cusp of allowing Ukraine to strike inside Russia (23:00); Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González flees the country (25:46); the Mexican Senate passes AMLO’s judicial reform (27:50); and a New Cold War update featuring US and Chinese theater commanders speaking for the first time since 2022 (30:02) and fears over a possible Chinese naval base (31:16).

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Journalists Christopher Robbins & Katie Way from the independent outlet Hellgate return to the show to help update us on NYC Mayor Eric Adams' chaotic administration. We look at the scandal and indictments surrounding a number of top Adams officials, including multiple sets of siblings, all embroiled in bribes, extortions, and various other forms of graft. We also discuss NYPD scandal in light of the recent subway shooting which left multiple people injured and one bystander braindead.

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0:00 Would a different US president have made a difference for Gaza?

14:08 Saudi-Israel normalization takes a step back

19:12 Is all hope lost for a two-state solution?

26:27 Making sense of Israel’s pager attacks in Lebanon

35:04 Heading to Overtime—and an AP PSA

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When Kamala Harris first ran for president in 2019, she promised to deliver Medicare for All to the people — but that changed. Early in her campaign, she frequently referred to a 2017 bill she co-sponsored with Sen. Bernie Sanders that would have effectively abolished private health insurance. But when political winds didn’t look good, Harris changed course, and ultimately released her own, very different version of the bill, which sought to bolster and support private insurance companies by expanding their role in Medicare. 

It wouldn’t be the only time Harris bucked a campaign pledge for political gain. Today on Lever Time, senior podcast producer Arjun Singh looks at two defining moments in Harris’ career to understand how the presidential hopeful acts when forced to choose between the values she campaigned on and political gain.

In her current campaign, Harris has tried to play it safe. She’s consistently pushed the Biden administration’s agenda while remaining vague on how she’d respond to key issues. One of those issues has been how to handle Israel’s invasion of Gaza, a disaster that Harris will likely inherit if she wins the presidency. If so, the Gaza crisis will present one of the first tests of what a President Harris would do in office, but even close observers are unsure what the vice president ultimately believes is the best course of action on the matter.

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In this 15-minute video I show the custom code I have to run any Emacs command in a popup frame. The advantage of this is that I do not need to be in Emacs already. The examples I show cover org-capture and my tmr package.

This is the code I used in the video. Remember to assign the emacsclient calls to a system-level key binding.

;;;; Run commands in a popup frame

(defun prot-window-delete-popup-frame (&rest _)
  "Kill selected selected frame if it has parameter `prot-window-popup-frame'.
Use this function via a hook."
  (when (frame-parameter nil 'prot-window-popup-frame)
    (delete-frame)))

(defmacro prot-window-define-with-popup-frame (command)
  "Define interactive function which calls COMMAND in a new frame.
Make the new frame have the `prot-window-popup-frame' parameter."
  `(defun ,(intern (format "prot-window-popup-%s" command)) ()
     ,(format "Run `%s' in a popup frame with `prot-window-popup-frame' parameter.
Also see `prot-window-delete-popup-frame'." command)
     (interactive)
     (let ((frame (make-frame '((prot-window-popup-frame . t)))))
       (select-frame frame)
       (switch-to-buffer " prot-window-hidden-buffer-for-popup-frame")
       (condition-case nil
           (call-interactively ',command)
         ((quit error user-error)
          (delete-frame frame))))))

(declare-function org-capture "org-capture" (&optional goto keys))
(defvar org-capture-after-finalize-hook)

;;;###autoload (autoload 'prot-window-popup-org-capture "prot-window")
(prot-window-define-with-popup-frame org-capture)

(add-hook 'org-capture-after-finalize-hook #'prot-window-delete-popup-frame)

(declare-function tmr "tmr" (time &optional description acknowledgep))
(defvar tmr-timer-created-functions)

;;;###autoload (autoload 'prot-window-popup-tmr "prot-window")
(prot-window-define-with-popup-frame tmr)

(add-hook 'tmr-timer-created-functions #'prot-window-delete-popup-frame)

;;;; The emacsclient call depends on the daemon or `server-mode' (I use the latter)

(use-package server
  :ensure nil
  :defer 1
  :config
  (unless (server-running-p)
    (server-start)))

;;;; The emacsclient calls that need ot be bound to system-wide keys

;; emacsclient -e '(prot-window-popup-org-capture)'
;; emacsclient -e '(prot-window-popup-tmr)'

In television commercials, at speeches, and on the campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris frequently boasts that she stood up to big banks as California's attorney general. But her sloganeering obscures a sometimes-ugly record. Today on Lever Time, Arjun Singh looks back at Harris' early years as a district attorney and then state attorney general to see what they show us about the president she may soon become.

When Harris first ran for District Attorney of San Francisco in 2003 — a time when prosecutors rarely described themselves as “progressive” — she campaigned as a crime fighter with few qualms about putting criminals behind bars. 

Later, as California’s attorney general, Harris continued to lean on her role as a tough prosecutor, vowing to go after mortgage lenders who utilized abusive tactics to strong arm Californians. But when it came time to fight the banks, did Harris let them off easy? Harris’ actions in that moment have left some observers with a pressing question: What does Kamala Harris actually believe?

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North America is the land of the car - but it hasn't always been this way. Many cities were once home to large public transport systems, or came close to building them. What happened? And could these networks ever return?

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You might remember Mitt Romney’s infamous line: “Corporations are people, my friend.” But where did this idea come from? In this episode: how the Ford Administration and the Powell Memo movement turned to the Supreme Court to establish the precedent that legalized corruption: money is speech, and corporations are entitled to First Amendment rights. 

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How did corporate executives and politicians turn Lewis Powell’s memo from a blueprint into a master plan — and begin executing it? In this episode, we uncover proof of a secret “Powell Memo Task Force,” as well as clandestine meetings involving America’s most powerful businessmen, a future president, and an ambitious young media consultant. The results would change history.

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A seemingly moderate corporate lawyer grows alarmed by anti-corruption reformers’ policy wins and writes a manifesto detailing how corporations and oligarchs can dominate American politics. Months later, he’s confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court by senators unaware that his manifesto is going viral among the business elite.   

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Ryan Grim, co-founder of Drop Site News, and investigative journalist José Olivares join the show to talk about their recent piece for Drop Site revealing how Ecuador’s US-linked attorney general is using her office to attack the country’s left. The group gives the background of Rafael Correa and his left-wing “Correísmo” movement, how Correa and his successors became targets of “anti-corruption” attorney general Diana Salazar, leaked messages of Salazar’s obtained by Drop Site leading to explosive allegations, the United States' potential links with assassinated presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, and why the US remains interested in domestic Ecuadorian politics.

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The world drank coffee before it drank tea. 'The world' here meaning the Middle East, Russia and Europe. One battlefront in this great transition was Iran. And this commercial battle was waged ferociously from the 18th into the 19th centuries. Opium has a key role in this story. So does the Samovar.  And so does politics. Coffee houses from London to Tehran made governments uneasy – citizens met and talked and plotted there – but tea houses frightened governments even more. The story of the history of tea in Iran is tied up in geopolitics and trade relationships between Iran, Russia and China and Britain.

Guest:

• Rudi Matthee - John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Delaware

Books: The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900; The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730; Persia in Crisis: The Decline of the Safavids and the Fall of Isfahan; and most recently, Angels Tapping at the Wine-shop's Door: A history of Alcohol in the Islamic World

Defector’s David Roth returns to the show for wall-to-wall Kamala v. Trump debate coverage, with a deep dive into Laura Loomer’s elevation to inner-circle Trump entourage and additional coverage of Shannon Sharpe’s sex stream.

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Ben & Matt of the JUSTICE WARRIORS comic series join us this week. We look at the SECOND Trump assassination attempt in about as many months, Trump’s increasingly intimate relationship with Laura Loomer, and just his insane personal and political arc over the last few months. Then, more seriously, the continued blatant demagoguery around immigration stirred up by Republicans that Democrats and the Harris campaign seems unequipped to respond to. Finally, a few stories that seem to have crossed from the pages of Justice Warriors into reality.

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Challenged by Babs to find a single person he’s never wronged, Brighty’s search leads them to Cornwall and to best friend Russ Blackshark. Whilst Brighty and Babs re-run Russ’s stag do, Churlington gets into a spot of bother auditing the family tin mine.

Lord Christian Brighty is the talk of the Regency 'Ton' - a celebrated libertine, a heartthrob and a hero to many. But close-up, he is a spoilt, impetuous, life-ruining bastard… Or at least he was. Because his carefree life of infinite privilege has been upended by an encounter with his new chambermaid - the uneducated but forthright Babigail - who became the first person to tell him the unvarnished truth about his selfish behaviour. Overnight, his lifelong trust that everyone loved him had been replaced with a gnawing fear that Babs was right.

So now, with his narcissism collapsing and a need to prove to Babs he is actually a good person, Lord Brighty is determined to fix all his past wrongs. And by extension all the ills of Regency society. Accompanying him in his quest are Babs (elevated beyond her station to a chambermaid-cum-adviser role), and his butler, Mr Churlington. Although Churley would prefer everything to stay exactly as it used to be (as would all Brighty’s friends, family and the entirety of high society).

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Danny and Derek once again speak with Mark Ames, co-host of Radio War Nerd, for an update on what’s going on in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. They talk about the internal dynamics in Putin and Zelinskyy’s respective administrations, Russia’s Kursk counteroffensive, media framing around Ukrainian victories vs. those of Russia, when western governments wil…

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Premise

The 0.4.0 release of uv does everything I currently do with pip, pyenv, pipx, pip-tools, and pipdeptree. Because of that, I'm in the process of switching to uv.

This blog post covers switching from pyenv to uv.

History

• 2024-08-29: Initial writing.

• 2024-09-12: Minor updates and publishing.

Start state

I'm running Ubuntu Linux 24.04. I have pyenv installed using the the automatic installer. pyenv is located in $HOME/.pyenv/bin/.

I have the following Pythons installed with pyenv:

$ pyenv versions
  system
  3.7.17
  3.8.19
  3.9.19
* 3.10.14 (set by /home/willkg/mozilla/everett/.python-version)
  3.11.9
  3.12.3

I'm not sure why I have 3.7 still installed. I don't think I use that for anything.

My default version is 3.10.14 for some reason. I'm not sure why I haven't updated that to 3.12, yet.

In my 3.10.14, I have the following Python packages installed:

$ pip freeze
appdirs==1.4.4
argcomplete==3.1.1
attrs==22.2.0
cffi==1.15.1
click==8.1.3
colorama==0.4.6
diskcache==5.4.0
distlib==0.3.8
distro==1.8.0
filelock==3.14.0
glean-parser==6.1.1
glean-sdk==50.1.4
Jinja2==3.1.2
jsonschema==4.17.3
MarkupSafe==2.0.1
MozPhab==1.5.1
packaging==24.0
pathspec==0.11.0
pbr==6.0.0
pipx==1.5.0
platformdirs==4.2.1
pycparser==2.21
pyrsistent==0.19.3
python-hglib==2.6.2
PyYAML==6.0
sentry-sdk==1.16.0
stevedore==5.2.0
tomli==2.0.1
userpath==1.8.0
virtualenv==20.26.2
virtualenv-clone==0.5.7
virtualenvwrapper==6.1.0
yamllint==1.29.0

That probably means I installed the following in the Python 3.10.14 Python environment:

• MozPhab

• pipx

• virtualenvwrapper

Maybe I installed some other things for some reason lost in the sands of time.

Then I had a whole bunch of things installed with pipx.

I have many open source projects all of which have a .python-version file listing the Python versions the project uses.

I think that covers the start state.

Steps

First, I made a list of things I had.

• I listed all the versions of Python I have installed so I know what I need to reinstall with uv.

  $ pyenv versions
  

• I listed all the packages I have installed in my 3.10.14 environment (the default one).

  $ pip freeze
  

• I listed all the packages I installed with pipx.

  $ pipx list
  

I uninstalled all the packages I installed with pipx.

$ pipx uninstall PACKAGE

Then I uninstalled pyenv and everything it uses. I followed the pyenv uninstall instructions:

$ rm -rf $(pyenv root)

Then I removed the bits in my shell that add to the PATH and set up pyenv and virtualenvwrapper.

Then I started a new shell that didn't have all the pyenv and virtualenvwrapper stuff in it.

Then I installed uv using the uv standalone installer.

Then I ran uv --version to make sure it was installed.

Then I installed the shell autocompletion.

Note

I have a dotfiles thing and separate out bashrc changes by what changes them. You can see my home-grown thing that works for me here:

https://github.com/willkg/dotfiles

These instructions are specific to my home-grown dotfiles thing.

$ echo 'eval "$(uv generate-shell-completion bash)"' >> ~/dotfiles/bash.d/20-uv.bash

Then I started a new shell to pick up those changes.

Then I installed Python versions:

$ uv python install 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Searching for Python versions matching: Python 3.10
Searching for Python versions matching: Python 3.11
Searching for Python versions matching: Python 3.12
Searching for Python versions matching: Python 3.8
Searching for Python versions matching: Python 3.9
Installed 5 versions in 8.14s
 + cpython-3.8.19-linux-x86_64-gnu
 + cpython-3.9.19-linux-x86_64-gnu
 + cpython-3.10.14-linux-x86_64-gnu
 + cpython-3.11.9-linux-x86_64-gnu
 + cpython-3.12.5-linux-x86_64-gnu

When I type "python", I want it to be a Python managed by uv. Also, I like having "pythonX.Y" symlinks, so I created a uv-sync script which creates symlinks to uv-managed Python versions:

https://github.com/willkg/dotfiles/blob/main/dotfiles/bin/uv-sync

Then I installed all my tools using uv tool install.

$ uv tool install PACKAGE

For tox, I had to install the tox-uv package in the tox environment:

$ uv tool install --with tox-uv tox

Now I've got everything I do mostly working.

So what does that give me?

I installed uv and I can upgrade uv using uv self update.

Python interpreters are managed using uv python. I can create symlinks to interpreters using uv-sync script. Adding new interpreters and removing old ones is pretty straight-forward.

When I type python, it opens up a Python shell with the latest uv-managed Python version. I can type pythonX.Y and get specific shells.

I can use tools written in Python and manage them with uv tool including ones where I want to install them in an "editable" mode.

I can write scripts that require dependencies and it's a lot easier to run them now.

I can create and manage virtual environments with uv venv.

Next steps

Delete all the .python-version files I've got.

Update documentation for my projects and add a uv tool install PACKAGE option to installation instructions.

Probably discover some additional things to add to this doc.

Thanks

Thank you to the Astral crew who wrote uv.

Thank you to Rob Hudson who goaded me into posting this finally rather than sit on it another month.

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