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@baconandcoconut on turning down $1.5M from the US gov: "We're definitely doing DEI over here, just so you know"
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"When people feel welcome to show up as their whole selves, they take bigger swings, they ask bigger questions, and they keep showing up"

Lots to learn from the #PyConUS closing keynote about the Djangonaut Space mentoring program. Making space for people and making them aware there *is* space for them to be authentically themselves is so important!

The stage is PACKED with people promoting other PyCons and cousin conferences
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Fastly transferred 1.92 EXABYTES of data for PyPI in 2025 🤯

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@amcasari dropping truth in the #PyConUS Sunday keynote. And awesome space science nods (AGC, WMAP )

Larry Hastings is giving a repeat of his talk on multithreading with `blanket` in room 104 RIGHT NOW (1 PM) if anyone is interested

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Now watching Mark Shannon present on memory management in CPython. TIL there are *20* flavors of freelist for the sake of tuples?!
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The Steering Council will be filling the open dev-in-residence role, and there's room for growth (...if the money shows up, but doesn't HAVE to be a single sponsor)

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Thrilled that @pathunstrom is giving a talk on CSS to update my knowledge over 20 years of "I have not bothered to learn this" progress

Name-dropping the Old Magicks (GeoCities, Neopets, LiveJournal), and a moment to refer to "On Contempt Culture", since CSS and Python are surely no strangers to the contempt described by that talk

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Thomas Wouters on Rust in CPython:

"It's going to be a multi-year project even to decide not to do it"

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