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Trumps neue Erlasse: Freibrief für Tiktok, DOGE verpufft

100 neue Erlasse hat Trump zu seinem Amtsantritt angekündigt, gut 40 sind es geworden. Klagen folgen auf dem Fuß.

https://www.heise.de/news/Trumps-neue-Erlasse-Freibrief-fuer-Tiktok-DOGE-verpufft-10249771.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Arbeitswelt #Digitalisierung #DonaldTrump #Elektroauto #ElonMusk #Handel #Homeoffice #Recht #Software #TikTok #news

Ohio State defeats Notre Dame 34-23 in college football championship game https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5269419/ohio-state-notre-dame-football?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@sebastienserre I've looked hard at it but don't see how it fulfills those requirements.

#POTUS' long list of executive orders on energy/climate on first day: Exit Paris, not only supporting more fossil fuels, also putting barriers to renewables. Really stupid is roll back of the energy efficiency standards for appliances which save everybody money.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-executive-orders-list.html

This is not a huge deal, but it illustrates what is going on right now in the US.

I noticed that a number of White House press releases are no longer online. This one was there 24 hours earlier, but not today.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250112140218/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/28/fact-sheet-united-states-and-60-global-partners-launch-declaration-for-the-future-of-the-internet/

Many people in our community's Facebook group are extremely disenchanted with Zuckerberg's decision to remove all constraints on misinformation mongers.

I'd like to see WordPress.org -- or someone who wants to make some money -- create a plugin that replicated the functionality of a private Facebook group.

Include the FB UX as one option, but make it more flexible if desired.

Trust me when I say this book will come in handy. Chapter 1 is titled "Resist."

Options:

- https://www.adafruit.com/product/3532
- https://www.digitapub.com/products/how-to-be-a-digital-revolutionary
- https://www.amazon.com/How-Digital-Revolutionary-Violet-Blue/dp/1521338280

Red camellia in our garden.

#photos
#photoOfTheDay

How to write like an old-time journalist: https://billbennett.micro.blog/2025/01/21/how-to-write-like-an.html

Inaugural Day topics in "Cornerstone of democracy" include:

-- An unwelcome era arrives
-- And so it begins...
-- All corruption, all the time in Trump world
-- Democratic opportunity: 'Champion the self-employed'
-- Doing EVs right

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https://cornerstone.ghost.io/essentials-january-20-2025/