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Federal abortion ban bill just hit the House. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/722

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-rolls-out-deepseeks-ai-model-azure-2025-01-29/ Napkin math says it's about 30 times cheaper to run than OpenAI apparently, so it's obvious why they're doing it. Means it's going to be harder for Sam Altman etc to pull strings...

Also loving the random sharkticon and the nod to the whole FIRRIB/FIBRIR thing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/white-house-pauses-federal-grants/

A CDN isn't that, it's multiple computers placed all over the world, so when you request the data it pulls it form the nearest server so it loads faster, and doesn't concentrate it all in one place where it can be flooded. The cloud is basically a bunch of someone else's computers in the same...

https://www.404media.co/opm-memos-to-federal-employees-metadata/

Nah, it's the same old sparkling autocomplete it looks like from testing, it just only slaughters 2 lakes instead of 8 to do the same task(because China can't get advanced chips due to US export bans, so they actually had to -optimize- instead of throwing more money at more hardware)...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cjr85l2e4l4t

In my case at least, it's my day job. I work in IT.

Also depends on the site and traffic. A high traffic PHP-based site would kill any desktop computer trying to serve it. There's also CDNs(content delivery networks) for redundancy if you need to make sure the site stays up 24/7. It also offers protection in case someone with a chip on their...

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/trump-bitcoin-digital-asset-stockpile-strategic-reserve-cryptocurrency-rcna188921

Also From https://bsky.app/profile/markzaidesq.bsky.social/post/3lgf36h56hk2j

https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-01-23/ky-lawmaker-introduces-bill-to-restrict-blood-donations-from-covid-vaccinated-donors

"adverse consequences" - welcome to the new McCarthyism. Also the ADA is now collateral damage: https://med-mastodon.com/@tweetsjen/113875139929395223

Not technically Supreme Court yet, but it'll probably be going there next: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/victory-federal-court-finally-rules-backdoor-searches-702-data-unconstitutional

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-21/trump-says-he-s-open-to-musk-or-ellison-purchasing-tiktok I suppose that's one way for Twitter to get Vine back. And as if there was any doubt: https://futurism.com/elon-musk-video-game-character-caught-leveling-inauguration

https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c

Also it used to be a place to find capable artists doing commissions, or just to follow their art, outside of the gallery websites.

And the pettiest one(while being probably the least harmful)? He signed a EO that the flag should fly at full mast on all future inauguration days.