💬 Quoted…​​ “We are sending a message that the situation is becoming more urgent.”

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists officially set its Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds until midnight yesterday, down from 100 in 2022, saying the decision to shave 10 seconds off the clock this year was "largely, though not exclusively" due to the war in Ukraine.

• The 76-year-old Doomsday Clock is now the closest it’s ever been to midnight, a metaphor signaling the end of humanity. (Background)

💻 Stat of the Day: Remote jobs made up 13.2% of all postings advertised on LinkedIn last month, down from 20.6% in March, per new company data. At the same time, remote jobs attracted 52.8% of all applications submitted on LinkedIn in December, slightly higher than a year before.

🤯 Did You Know?... More than half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level, per a new Gallup analysis of Department of Education data.

📖 Worth a Read: Nobody has my condition but me → (The New Yorker)