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Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

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Now that we can use the internet to access almost anything you'd want to see and/or hear, we should make museums that archive different smells. You could find new smells you might have not experienced otherwise, or find some nostalgic smell to bring you back to a moment in your past.

In an unprecedented decision, the president issued an executive order to strip permitting authority for rebuilding from local officials and hand it to the federal government.

. . . Disaster recovery experts told POLITICO the president’s bid to dramatically expand federal power is legally questionable. The 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and established legal precedent argue against the federal government wresting away control of regulations, such as land-use rules, that are traditionally held by state and local governments, said Daniel Farber, faculty director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at UC Berkeley Law.

“This is completely unprecedented in terms of the history of federal disaster aid,” Farber said. “They’re gonna have a hard time making this stand up in court.”

. . . Newsom on Tuesday ridiculed Trump’s executive order as unnecessary and counterproductive. He reiterated the need for recovery dollars.

“Instead of finally sending to Congress the federal relief Los Angeles needs to rebuild from last year’s firestorms, Donald Trump continues to live in fantasy land,” Newsom said in a post on X. “Mr. President, you can actually speed up recovery by providing the assistance that survivors have been waiting for.”

The president’s order calls on the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Small Business Administration to consider new regulations to preempt local and state permitting rules and allow builders to certify to a federal agency that they’re in compliance with health and safety regulations to receive approval to build.

Farber said even if courts blessed the plan it was difficult to envision how it would work in practice. The federal government isn’t expert in Los Angeles’ code standards, and trusting builders to adhere to safety and quality standards without oversight could be dangerous to individuals and the broader community.

The naked corruption is so fucking exhausting

Gregory Bovino’s outwear choice prompts German commentators to compare it to fascist aesthetic

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59392382

TikTok wants users to believe that errors blocking uploads of anti-ICE videos or direct messages mentioning Jeffrey Epstein are due to technical errors—not the platform seemingly shifting to censor content critical of Donald Trump after he hand-picked the US owners who took over the app last week.

However, experts say that TikTok users’ censorship fears are justified, whether the bugs are to blame or not.

Ioana Literat, an associate professor of technology, media, and learning at Teachers College, Columbia University, has studied TikTok’s politics since the app first shot to popularity in the US in 2018. She told Ars that “users’ fears are absolutely justified” and explained why the “bugs” explanation is “insufficient.”

A Stolperstein (pronounced [ˈʃtɔlpɐˌʃtaɪn]; plural Stolpersteine; in English "stumbling block") is a ten-centimetre (four-inch) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. The Stolpersteine project, initiated by the German artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, aims to commemorate persons at the last place that they chose freely to reside, work or study (with exceptions possible on a case-by-case basis) before they fell victim to Nazi terror, forced euthanasia, eugenics, deportation to a concentration or extermination camp, or escaped persecution by emigration or suicide.[1] As of June 2023, 100,000[2] Stolpersteine have been laid, making the Stolpersteine project the world's largest decentralized memorial.

cross-posted from: https://thebrainbin.org/m/nottheonion@lemmy.world/t/1376014

‘Why let mere mortals decide CPU priorities when the cosmos can guide us?’ asks the developer.

To be clear, the point of this is to demonstrate the power and flexibility of a new Linux feature in a "haha only serious" way.

Zampieri is clear that this GPL-2.0 licensed project is a “scientifically dubious, cosmically hilarious” work. It definitely isn’t recommended for use in production systems - not because of bugs, but because it works as intended… The dev is still looking to add “more cosmic chaos” to scx_horoscope, so contributors are welcome.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59378754

The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder

https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/115967673993639921

I decided to write down a list of complete (no alpha/beta), playable (no proprietary dependencies), FOSS videogames.

I added all the games I could find online + all of the games that came to my memory.

Feel free to have a look to see if there's something you didn't know. And please suggest anything I missed, but please do not suggest pre-release or unfinished games.

Thank you!

DS9 s6e12 "Who Mourns for Morn?"

Image Credit & Copyright: Włodzimierz Bubak; Text: Ogetay Kayali (MTU)

Explanation: Rising over a frozen valley in the Tatra Mountains, the familiar stars and nebulas of Orion dominate this wide-field nightscape. The featured deep photo was taken in southern Poland's highest mountain range last month, where dark skies and alpine terrain combined to reveal both Earth's rugged beauty and the structure of our galaxy. Above the snowy mountains, Orion's bright belt stars anchor a region of glowing interstellar clouds. The Great Orion Nebula, a vast stellar nursery visible even to the unaided eye, shines near the center of the scene. Surrounding it is the enormous arc of Barnard's Loop, a faint shell of ionized hydrogen gas spanning much of the constellation. To the left, the round Rosette Nebula glows softly, while the grayish Witch Head Nebula hovers to the right, illuminated by nearby starlight. Near the top, the orange supergiant Betelgeuse marks the hunter's shoulder.

https://archive.is/HlqRV