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This is ingenious: astronomers have identified 138 new asteroids just a few tens of metres across by re-analysing JWST images taken for other purposes, shifting and recombining the images to mimic tracking the asteroids and synthesise an effective longer-term exposure.
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/hundreds-of-small-asteroids-found-in-the-main-belt-using-jwst
Today I’ve published post about creating #Debian #vm on #FreeBSD with #bhyve (vm-bhyve). Might be helpful for some people out there.
https://cdrmack.dev/posts/2025-02-26_debian_vm_on_freebsd.html
Mitch is out here trying to pretend he regrets the very monster he spent decades creating, and I, for one, am not buying it.
Oh, he’s at the end of his life and wants to go to Heaven? TOO BAD! God sees through such childish tricks.
https://www.thegodpodcast.com/p/mitch-mcconnell-can-burn-in-hell
NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
https://apnews.com/article/black-consumers-dei-buying-guide-naacp-34664d8af92e2dc1ba787a498348b7a4?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure. The Associated Press reports exclusively that the nation’s oldest civil rights organization is listing which brands have stood by or reversed their past commitments to DEI. Some studies value Black purchasing power at over a trillion dollars. The effort comes as the Trump's administration has singled out diversity and inclusion efforts policies as discriminatory. Trump has signed executive orders removing DEI policies from within the federal government and has instructed the Justice Department to examine alleged discrimination in the private sector.
Now I am getting serious ... Under the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 USC 552a - don't miss that final 'a') each of us has the right to demand every agency of the Federal government to tell us what information they have about us.
These *ARE NOT* FOIA requests, although agencies try to evade the more strict PRIVACY ACT obligations [and direct penalties on people in the agency] by pretending that these are FOIA requests.
Each of us can send a request - there's no special format (although it would be good for someone to brew up some text) - it can be handwritten and sent US mail.
Each agency is require to publish a list of its "system of records" (SORN) and contact information in the Federal Register.
Here for example are the SORNs at the US Treasury Dept: There are a lot of 'em, and that's just one department.
A campaign by citizens to demand, not ask, demand and require, that every agency respond to Privacy Act requests - millions of requests - could really slow down FFOTUS/Musk.
https://home.treasury.gov/footer/privacy-act/system-of-records-notices-sorns
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