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I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

I'm trying Zig for this year's AoC
https://github.com/jeffmallozzi/aoc2025-zig/blob/main/src/day01.zig

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evergreen holiday meme

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer and the text "deviation from the norm will be punished unless it is exploitable"

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I am reminded, with the death of James Watson, of the comment - "What did Watson and Crick discover? Rosalind Franklin's notes..."

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#PSA #CallToAction #TeenVogue

Teen Vogue has now been folded into Vogue, and all politics reporters, all Black women and all trans people working there were fired on Monday (11/3/25) morning.

That is, none of the people who made Teen Vogue a surprisingly effective civics communication vehicle remain with the magazine.

If you or someone in your family has a subscription, now it's a good time to explain what boycotts are and what they can do.

Note how "facts" becomes "progressive politics"

Bluesky posts by Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com:
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
Certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
Today's information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much, as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

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periodic reminder that the concept of the "tragedy of the commons" (where people having unfettered access to a resource supposedly inevitably leads to its degradation and destruction) was popularized by Garrett Hardin, a white nationalist eugenicist who was using it to argue for global population controls

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Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America.

The human brain is resilient. While you’re watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you’re accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.

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Tawny Platis on 65 years of female robotic voices in movies and TV

#voices #assistants #ai

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjM9bWLdtQ

PS: This video is most definitely not AI-generated. Check out the rest of her channel!

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Of what use is #DigitalSovereignty when you need an Apple or Android device to install the App that implements your Digitally Sovereign solution? Always make sure there is a device-independent (or more flashy: technology-neutral :) way for citizens to use your solution without being forced to share data with Apple or Google.

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I like this meme.

Columbo saying, "Just one more thing... When you were 'discovering' America, was there anyone else there at the time?"

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Poster of a frog in the style of Shepard Fairey, with green added to the usual palette. It reads, "HOP."

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The canceling of ICEBlock is more evidence, were any needed, that the Web is the platform of the future, the only platform without a controlling vendor. Anything controversial should be available through a pure browser interface.

#USpolitics

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Thinking of this classic* @smbccomics during 'Cybersecurity Awareness Month'

*From 2012 (!?)

https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2526

#cybersecurity

Top panel: Movie hacking...

Man sitting at a PC says "If I can just overclock the unix django, I can basic the DDoS root. Damn. No Nice. But wait... if I disencrypt their kilobytes with a backdoor handshake then... jackpot"

Bottom panel: Real hacking...

Left: A man on the phone at a computer says "Hi, this is Robert Hackerman. I'm the county password inspector."
Right: The man he's calling, who seems to be working in an office, responds "Hi bob! How can I help you today?"

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"ICE goes masked for a single reason - to terrorize Americans into quiescence."

- from a decision issued today by a federal judge (appointed by Reagan)

And there's the issue of masks. This Court has listened
carefully to the reasons given by Oztirk’s captors for masking-
up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd
Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as
disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a
single reason —- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small
wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard
them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It
should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks.
Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and
honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly
desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we
have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on
in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloguy to this
administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape
history,” Lincoln righty said. “[It] will light us down in
honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.” Abraham Lincoln,
Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862). am,

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RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

@annaleen Thank you for this story. I just finished listening to the audio book. It's short and cozy yet manages to touch on so many themes. One of my favorite reads so far this year!

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It appears that PACER has been compromised by a Russian threat actor for some time. This is a very big deal for people who have submitted sealed documents in federal court whose threat model includes RU.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/russia-hack-federal-court-system.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk8.qjQL.BwB7OUw3ewJ8&smid=url-share

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The reason Substack pushed a Nazi blog onto people's phones is because—as founder Hamish McKenzie said in his response to Substackers Against Nazis 2 yrs ago—he believes it is valuable and important to platform Nazi voices.

This sort of thing is not a one-off. https://www.the-reframe.com/questions-for-substack/

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