Corey Doctorow gave an outstanding keynote on enshitification and monopolies in tech. Worth the 45 minute watch. I took away (in addition to holding strong when a manager asks for a bad feature) that it is time to allow DRM evasion in response to US tarriffs. youtu.be/ydVmzg_SJLw?...

There were layoffs at MS yesterday and 3 #Python core devs from the Faster CPython team were caught in them. If you know of any jobs, please send them their way:

Eric Snow: www.linkedin.com/in/ericsnowc...
Irit Katriel: www.linkedin.com/in/irit-katr...
Mark Shannon: www.linkedin.com/in/mark-shan...

Fast on the heels of the last release, I have published a PyPy v7.3.19 bug-fix release with PyPy2.7, PyPY3.10 and a beta-quality PyPy3.11. Please try it out! The complete release note is at doc.pypy.org/en/latest/re...

Was there ballot tampering in Nevada? The data points to anomalous behavior…

electiontruthalliance.org/clark-county...

PyPy 7.3.18, with Python3.11, 3.10, 2.7 is released. See the release note at doc.pypy.org/en/latest/re...