"Employment" is such an antiquated word.

From the FT: “Unemployed Americans are taking longer to find new jobs than at any point in the past four years as muted hiring deepens concerns about the labour market. It now takes an average of more than 11 weeks for an unemployed person in the US to find a new job, the longest since 2021… 1 of 2

Raise your hand if you think ICE should be abolished and their murderers prosecuted 🖐️

Instead of destroying the Department of Education, maybe this mistake of a department can be undone.

nothing smacks of professional-grade logistics like FREE scrawled on a cardboard box in bubble letters

“Christians” worship a brown-skinned foreigner; who was a refugee in hiding as a child; commanded His true followers to welcome the stranger; and was later the victim of state violence. This part matters just a bit. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/the-fake-o.... Please click, read, subscribe.

Been thinking a lot lately about something I read recently. The correlation between far right authoritarian views and a lack of capacity for empathy. - Being horrible to people - Only caring about an issue when it finally affects you

There are many serious governments in the world. The US is not one of them. (There are no penguins in Greenland.)

I deleted TikTok back when the Oracle purchase was announced but if you've still got it, you GOTTA dump it. Especially for trans folks. It straight up says in the new TOS that they--Oracle, the company that has active ties to the Trump admin--are monitoring and documenting trans and NB users.

MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS

Will the Times chicken out and settle or will he TACO and drop the suit before discovery?

Which is why Republicans want to destroy it.

Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law

Can the US build beautiful places again? As long as we remain car-dependent, no.

I don't understand why there are so many attempts at creating humanoid robots when Star Wars has been offering the best template since 1977.

The "fuck your feelings" assholes sure get upset when their feelings are hurt.

DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/

Something incredible I learned (re-learned?) tonight is that the blog post where the first SARS-CoV-2 genome was shared - six years ago on Saturday - included the most iconic footnote of all time

Republicans have told us for decades we need unlimited guns under the 2nd Amendment for days exactly like today. But when today came, they called the unarmed woman murdered by an authoritarian government a terrorist instead of taking up arms against her killers. Remember it.

not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s

What the actual fuck?

Bragging that you just passed your 3rd dementia test is a great way of telling us they've made you take 3 dementia tests

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

Someone told me they prefer Grok because it doesn't have the annoying guardrails of the other systems. I struggled to keep a straight face as pretty much this came immediately to mind.

My kid gifted me the 2026 @effinbirds.com desk calendar. Perfect for setting one's daily intention.

I just completed "Inverse Captcha" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2017 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2017/day/1 Getting started on 2017! github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2016! #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com Only 8 years left to complete! github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed "Grid Computing" - Day 22 - Advent of Code 2016 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2016/day/22 I recently learned how useful it can be to take a good look at the puzzle input. github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed all 12 days of Advent of Code 2025! #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com

I've completed "Christmas Tree Farm" - Day 12 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/12 I'll be honest, the memes ruined today for me. github.com/sirhc/advent...

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

I just completed "Reactor" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/11 This was one where my approach was right, but my desire for output defeated any attempt at a properly optimized algorithm. github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed "Factory" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/10 I thought about coding up something to minimize the function, but took the opportunity to learn a new tool instead. github.com/sirhc/advent...

I've completed "Movie Theater" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/9 Plotting the input made the answer feel obvious, I just kept getting all the math wrong. github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8 I had some trouble with semantics on part one, but modification for part two was trivial. github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/7 Not too difficult, but I kept messing up my state maintenance because I wanted to do the visualization. github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6 Trying to figure out why today's was so easy... github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed "Like a Rogue" - Day 18 - Advent of Code 2016 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2016/day/18 Memoization ftw github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed "Two Steps Forward" - Day 17 - Advent of Code 2016 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2016/day/17 Thank goodness for small search spaces. github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed "Dragon Checksum" - Day 16 - Advent of Code 2016 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2016/day/16 Beware suboptimal solutions... github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed "Timing is Everything" - Day 15 - Advent of Code 2016 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2016/day/15 There's probably a clever mathy way to do this, but this worked well enough. github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/5 Not too bad. I just forgot to account for a case when merging ranges. github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed "One-Time Pad" - Day 14 - Advent of Code 2016 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2016/day/14 This one was frustrating. My code gave the wrong answer. Code from two different users on Reddit gave the same wrong answer. Finally, a third user's was right. Why? I don't know yet.

I just completed "Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2016 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2016/day/11 This one drove me nuts for a while. Thank goodness for the folks on Reddit who are smarter than I am. github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/4 This was surprisingly straightforward. github.com/sirhc/advent...

I've completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3 github.com/sirhc/advent...

I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1 (forgot to share this yesterday) github.com/sirhc/advent...

I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2 github.com/sirhc/advent...

Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor. (via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)