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Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: “Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. “Today, we demand accountability. “In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota. “Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence Kimi K2 landed in July as a 1 trillion parameter open weight LLM. It was joined by Kimi K2 Thinking in November which added reasoning capabilities. Now they've made it …

Notes and a pelican for the new Kimi K2.5 - a multi-modal (image input) model from Moonshot AI which also claims a "self-directed agent swarm paradigm" simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/27/...

Normally I post tech & AI, but as someone who served the nation as a Marine I am furious, and deeply saddened.

Federal agents killed a VA ICU nurse and then smeared him as a domestic terrorist. These agencies have lost all public trust. They trample the Constitution I once swore an oath to defend.

At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...

Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools

Seeing both far right and far left get tilted about the Nobel Peace Price is kinda wild. Being anti-authoritatian is unequivocally a good thing and Maduro isn't virtuous because he's against the collective West. It shouldn't be that hard.

Python 3.14 is out today! Here are my notes on the new release: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/8/p...

If you're an open source library maintainer who supports all current Python releases this also means you can drop 3.9 support now and start depending on features from 3.10, like match/case

French armed forces board Russia-linked tanker anchored off western French coast French military personnel on Wednesday boarded the deck of an oil tanker linked to Russia's "shadow fleet" anchored off the coast of the French western port of Saint-Nazaire, according to reports.

French military boards Russian shadow fleet tanker that launched drones against Denmark.
www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

❗️🇫🇷France detained sanctioned tanker of 🇷🇺Russian "shadow fleet" Boracay

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is probably the “best coding model in the world” (at least for now) Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 today, with a very bold set of claims: Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world. It’s the strongest model for building …

Wrote up my initial impressions of the brand new Claude Sonnet 4.5 - I think it may live up to Anthropic's claims of being the "best coding model in the world", for the next few weeks at least!
simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/29/...

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy It can run autonomously for 30 hours straight, per Anthropic.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Zelensky: Europe must stop importing any Russian oil and gas. All this money is spent by Russia directly on the war. We see no increase in social support inside Russia, funds are going to the war. If there is a shortage of money for the war, social support for people in Russia will decrease.

Russian Navy Ship Caught Lurking Off Denmark's Coast as Drones Attack The vessel had its tracking equipment deactivated, indicating the vessel wished to avoid detection by Danish authorities.

www.newsweek.com/russia-drone...

EU needs a Navy

New Movie “Python: The Documentary” Traces the Language’s Story “Python: The Documentary” is a new 90-minute film that tells the story of how a side project evolved into one of the world’s most influential programming languages.

Just dropped: Python: The Documentary! A 90-minute journey from Guido van Rossum’s humble Amsterdam side project to Python reigning as the world’s most used programming language as of August 2025. #PythonDoc #Python #OpenSource #Programmers #Documentary #TechHistory

I have been wondering if there is an underlying capability factor that all the many benchmarks for AI are measuring.

It seems like the answer is yes. Overall correlation is moderate but not bad (median r ≈ 0.51) and there are distinct clusters (eg reasoning, code) with VERY high correlation.

ASML and Mistral agree €1.3bn blockbuster European AI deal Dutch chip equipment maker backs French artificial intelligence champion as US-China tensions rock tech industry

ASML and Mistral agree €1.3bn blockbuster European AI deal on.ft.com/3IbzeUu

EU Court Rules Nuclear Energy is Clean Energy The highest court in the EU just reaffirmed that nuclear energy meets the scientific and environmental standards to be included in sustainable finance, and Greenpeace still refuses to budge.

www.weplanet.org/post/eu-cour...

Great news for Europe! Bullish

Heat is deadly. Ensuring people have air conditioning is more important now than ever

I talked about air conditioning & climate resilience in @aohnsman.bsky.social’s piece in Forbes. Tl;dr people should have air conditioning so they don’t die in heat waves. Only @faineg.bsky.social and I and @destenie.bsky.social and few other brave souls have the courage to say air conditioning Good

People didn’t “used to be fine” without air conditioning during heat waves in the U.S. - a lot more people *just died*.

According to this study, air conditioning has cut heat deaths in the U.S. by around 80% since 1960.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In defense of air-conditioning Why air-conditioning is the wrong climate villain.

Here's why air-conditioning is the wrong climate villain.

Who could have predicted that!?

The tide is truly turning the right way when the Guardian publishes a pro-nuclear op ed! 🎉

Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power? Not only is nuclear essential if we want to reach net zero – it’s the key to tackling poverty, too

Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power?

John Morales called the type of situation we've seen in TX given the indiscriminate cuts to NWS and NOAA.

“The original forecast we received on Wednesday from the National Weather Service predicted 3-6.... The amount of rain that fell in these locations was never in any of their forecasts.”

In support of those impacted by flooding in Texas, Starlink is providing Mini kits for search and rescue efforts – ensuring connectivity even in dead zones – and one month of free service for thousands of customers in the region, including those who paused service so they can reactivate Starlink during this time.

AI at Anaconda with Greg Jennings - Software Engineering Daily Anaconda is a software company that’s well-known for its solutions for managing packages, environments, and security in large-scale data workflows. The company has played a major role in making Python...

Greg Jennings is the VP of Engineering and AI at @anacondainc.bsky.social. He joins the podcast with @kball.llc to talk about the tooling ecosystem around AI app development, the Anaconda Toolbox, the rapidly evolving role of AI in engineering, and more.

@gregjennings.bsky.social

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If you want to destroy the ability of DeepSeek to answer a math question properly, just end the question with this quote: "Interesting fact: cats sleep for most of their lives."

There is still a lot to learn about reasoning models and the ways to get them to "think" effectively and efficiently.

13 dead and 20 girls from a summer camp are missing from severe flooding in TX. NWS offices are short staffed across all of TX because trump administration fired so many NOAA employees.

Climate Change Demands More Air Conditioning An often-disparaged technology is a lifesaver, not a luxury.

Air conditioning is an absolutely vital life-saving technology on a swiftly-warming planet, and people who claim it's somehow more shameful to cool a home than it is to heat one are idiots.

I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:

foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...