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Satanic Temple prepares to enter Florida schools as state moves to pass bill allowing chaplains to volunteer (www.independent.co.uk)

China urges largest nuclear states to negotiate a 'no-first-use' treaty (www.reuters.com)

“Nuclear-weapon states should negotiate and conclude a treaty on no-first-use of nuclear weapons against each other or make a political statement in this regard,” Sun said....

In two days, the Smokehouse Creek Fire has grown to be the second-largest in Texas history (www.cbsnews.com)

Just a reminder that it’s still February, people.

STOP USING GITHUB (lemm.ee)

Use Codeberg ;)

US Vice President says no decision to halt or condition military aid to Israel (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh (housefresh.com)

Stellantis CEO says Chinese EVs are ‘possibly the biggest risk’ facing his carmaker and Tesla (finance.yahoo.com)

Stellantis CEO says Chinese EVs are ‘possibly the biggest risk’ facing his carmaker and Tesla::The owner of the Dodge, Jeep, and Chrysler brands aims to take on Chinese EVs while avoiding a “race to the bottom.”

No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill (www.cbc.ca)

No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill::A Senate bill might cause the owners of Pornhub to block access to the site in Canada, its owners say.

Average credit card balances jump 10% to a record $6,360, and more consumers fall behind on payments (www.cnbc.com)

Americans now owe $1.13 trillion in credit card debt

Interesting android launchers?

Anyone try any good launchers lately? Something with interesting features or workflow.

Nix/Silverblue users: How big is the advantage if you already have 100% automated your deployments via Ansible?

There is a similar question on the site which must not be named....

LocalSend - Share files to nearby devices (localsend.org)

If you want a easy, reliable and cross-platform way to share files between computers, phones, etc, it may be of your interest.

Midjourney might ban Biden and Trump images this election season (www.engadget.com)

Millions can no longer afford their rent (mynorthwest.com)

Ukraine-born Miss Japan winner relinquishes crown following affair (www.bbc.com)

The Ukraine-born winner of the Miss Japan beauty pageant has given up her crown after a tabloid report revealed her affair with a married man....

Worth it (lemmy.world)

Hmmm... (files.catbox.moe)

Can Trump be on the ballot? It's the Supreme Court's biggest election test since Bush v. Gore (apnews.com)

In arguments Thursday, the justices will, for the first time, wrestle with a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from reclaiming power....

AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames (www.newscientist.com)

How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT (danluu.com)

I find it pretty interesting that kagi is rated as Terrible search engine, even ChatGPT preforms better.

Steam Hardware survey for January 2024 (lemmy.ml)

Windows 96.52%...

Texas AG Paxton sues five cities, including Austin and San Marcos, over marijuana policies (cbsaustin.com)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed lawsuits against five cities – Austin, San Marcos, Killeen, Denton and Elgin – ordinances that aim to eliminate enforcement of low-level marijuana possession offenses....

It's disturbing how we as a society are okay with ad companies weaponsing psychology

So many people that take psychology courses end up working in the advertisement industry because that’s where the jobs are if you have a psychology degree. Very few people sit back and think about the implications of the scientific study of the mind being used by companies to distort peoples perceptions and make them buy...