What's the best thing you've read today? Mine's this, from Marisa Kabas on bsky:

"This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source."

"Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs."

Spoiler: It's a video of Trump sucking on Elon's toes, with text over top that says: "Long live the real king."

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3liwlwvvq6k2s

“legislation was introduced by State Sen. Brad Pfaff (D-Onalaska) and Rep. Jenna Jacobson (D-Oregon).

“Wisconsin farmers deserve the right to repair their own equipment or do business with the mechanic of their choosing,” Pfaff said.

He emphasized the legislation’s potential to support farmers facing rising costs, increase competition among service providers, and create local jobs.”

Wisconsin [Democratic Party] Lawmakers Introduce #RightToRepair Bill for Farmers

https://civicmedia.us/news/2025/2/20/right-to-repair-is-already-law-in-five-other-states?ref=404media.co

The richest man and Acting Monarch of the American Reich says “we’re on the event horizon of the singularity.”

No, Elon, we’re being held hostage and steered towards a Singularity of Stupid.

Never forget, these people are really dumb.
https://www.mind-war.com/p/singularity-of-stupid

I'm looking for a job. I have 30 years of experience doing complex systems programming in many languages, most recently Typescript, Haskell, and Python. I learn quickly. I can do advanced mathematics.

This year I helped a company migrate 15,000 customers from another company into their own systems.

Last year I helped develop a differential privacy database product written in Haskell.

Before that I helped develop a laboratory information management system that tracked up to 30,000 Covid-19 tests per day.

I live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, but I have years of success working remotely. I can start January 1.

Please check out my CV.

https://plover.com/~mjd/cv/Mark%20Jason%20Dominus%20-%202024b.pdf

I posted the following on Facebook this morning, and Facebook immediately removed the posting:

Noah Berlatsky explains why many people are now choosing not to hold holiday celebrations with relatives who voted for Donald Trump:

"Trump voters have told you they will hurt you. It’s reasonable to believe them."

#Thanksgiving #family #Trump #fascism #cruelty
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-may-not-be-safe-to-remain-friends

"Nothing’s making me feel better than the fact that Donald Trump finally got his own Donald Trump,”

-Seth Meyers