Futurology Today

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House Speaker Mike Johnson stated Sunday that the U.S. will enforce the TikTok ban unless ByteDance sells the app to a U.S.-based owner, countering Trump’s suggestion of a 90-day extension.

Johnson emphasized TikTok’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party and its harmful influence on American users. GOP Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts also opposed an extension.

The law does not allow the president to grant an extension without guarantees that ByteDance is actively pursuing a sale.

Johnson added there is no evidence of progress toward such progress.

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/MarvelsGrantMan136 on 2025-01-21 21:38:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/DifusDofus on 2025-01-21 19:50:09+00:00.

I found out JSON could work as a small local database, thinking of storing records of at least 1135 cars, televisions and handbags, while allowing downloads through magnet links.

I would like to see if there are projects that have already done this or if a standard database with SQL and PHP is better.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17497219

The expansion is inconsistent with decarbonization.

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APOD - Titan Touchdown: Huygens Descent Movie

https://youtu.be/msiLWxDayuA?si=NXK_30kK1o1Y0Em8

What would it look like to land on Saturn's moon Titan? The European Space Agency's Huygens probe set down on the Solar System's cloudiest moon in 2005, and a time-lapse video of its descent images was created.

@science@lemmy.world @science@beehaw.org space@beehaw.org @space@lemmy.world @science@lemmy.ml @space@newsmast.community #space #science #nasa #astronomy

Morpheus from The Matrix holds two options, in the Red Pill / Blue Pill scene. On the left is a sign which reads "Fragile Unstable Top." On the right is a sign which reads "Support Bottom."

https://archive.is/musUz

EDIT: In my previous incarnation I was at an instance that didn't have downvotes, so this is a little new to me, but just out of curiosity why would anyone downvote an article like this? A lemming has the right to do so, of course, just curious.

Use reader mode in case of paywall. I recommend BBC article they’re linking to as well, even if slightly outdated by now.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25043892

I wrote a program that turns the feed it receives from your webcam in ASCII art. It's open source: you can find the code on Github.

Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's far-right finance minister, has said that he was given assurances that the war on Gaza would continue and Israel would launch a "gradual takeover of the entire Gaza Strip".

Smotrich said that Gaza was currently "ruined and disintegrated, uninhabitable" an that it would "remain that way".

He added: "Don't be impressed by the forced joy of our enemy. This is an animalistic society that sanctifies death. Very soon, we will erase their smile again and replace it with cries of grief and the wails of those who were left with nothing."

Netanyahu said in a video address on Saturday that Israel would continue its war on Gaza in "new, forceful ways" if the second stage of the ceasefire agreement proved to be "futile".

"President [Donald] Trump and President Biden have given full backing to Israel's right to return to combat if Israel concludes that negotiations on Phase B are futile."

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The original was posted on /r/linustechtips by /u/Tiny-Table7937 on 2025-01-21 20:57:55+00:00.

I wanted to emphasize some context that feels left out. This is from my comment in another thread.

Do you remember when Linus said adblock is piracy? Late Jan of 22? Remember how well everyone took that, and said that creators' earnings should be protected? That he was absolutely right, and thanks for bringing this to their attention? Me either. He got tore apart. People were happy to continue robbing creators of their adsense revenue.

One month later, March of 22, is when they dropped Honey. He was already in an environment where people were shitting on him for daring to say people might want to consider the consequences of their choices. Why on earth would he think anyone cared about creators, when the whole world was telling him that they didn't?

Edit: TLDR; Linus asked the world to care about creators' well-being a month before dropping Honey, the world said "shut the fuck up," and then he did.

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The original was posted on /r/linustechtips by /u/Jacksharkben on 2025-01-21 20:39:33+00:00.

Basic gist of it is, Twitter / X has gone downhill extremely quickly, and the “discussion” aspects of the site have been ruined by needing an account to participate and paid accounts having their comments artificially pushed to the top of the discussion. As well as the actions of the Twitter ceo are not ok.

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