After three hours of talks, President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia told reporters that they had made progress on unspecified issues, but they gave no details, took no questions, and most importantly failed to announce a cease-fire of any kind.
The meeting broke up several hours before scheduled, and far short of the six or seven hours of discussions that Mr. Putin’s aides said they expected for the talks. The fact that they took no questions made it clear they did not want to be pressed on details.
Pastor Jamal Harrison Bryant is midway through a fervent sermon at his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church outside of Atlanta. Thousands of his flock are on their feet in the stadium-sized chapel as he strides back and forth across the stage in a light blue suit, his voice rising and falling. He alternates between conversation and condemnation, shifting between references to Shakespeare and Alcoholics Anonymous.
“Something’s gotta break!”
He repeats the challenge over and over, admonishing worshipers to break the habits that lead to debt, broken marriages, drugs or drinking. Then he turns to perhaps his biggest battle, an uphill, four-month-old fight to get Black consumers to break their habit of shopping at Target.
Bryant, 54, is demanding Target Corp. recant on its January decision to shift long-standing commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion. He and his supporters have singled out Target because of its historic support of the Black community and Black-owned brands. The outcome is key for both the Black church and the broader civi
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Pastor Jamal Harrison Bryant is midway through a fervent sermon at his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church outside of Atlanta. Thousands of his flock are on their feet in the stadium-sized chapel as he strides back and forth across the stage in a light blue suit, his voice rising and falling. He alternates between conversation and condemnation, shifting between references to Shakespeare and Alcoholics Anonymous.
“Something’s gotta break!”
He repeats the challenge over and over, admonishing worshipers to break the habits that lead to debt, broken marriages, drugs or drinking. Then he turns to perhaps his biggest battle, an uphill, four-month-old fight to get Black consumers to break their habit of shopping at Target.
Bryant, 54, is demanding Target Corp. recant on its January decision to shift long-standing commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion. He and his supporters have singled out Target because of its historic support of the Black community and Black-owned brands. The outcome is key for both the Black church and the broader civil rights movement, he says.
While he wasn’t the first to call for a Target boycott, the fight has taken on an existential nature for Bryant and others in the Black church who are desperate to force a company to defy US President Donald Trump’s war on what Trump calls “illegal DEI.”
In many agricultural fields of the West Coast of the United States, you’re more likely to hear Mixtec or Triqui languages spoken than Spanish. Both are common among the Indigenous people of southern Mexico, some of whom now pick grapes for Napa and Sonoma County’s prestige wineries, or apples in century-old orchards. Without their labor, rural economies in California would collapse.
Do you guys expose the docker socket to any of your containers or is that a strict no-no? What are your thoughts behind it if you don't? How do you justify this decision from a security standpoint if you do?
I am still fairly new to docker but I like the idea of something like Watchtower. Even though I am not a fan of auto-updates and I probably wouldn't use that feature I still find it interesting to get a notification if some container needs an update. However, it needs to have access to the docker socket to do its work and I read a lot about that and that this is a bad idea which can result in root access on your host filesystem from within a container.
There are probably other containers as well especially in this whole monitoring and maintenance category, that need that privilege, so I wanted to ask how other people handle this situation.
I use Podman with Diun (like Watchtower but no auto-updates) and I think that's the only time I've had to mount the socket into the container. Maybe also CrowdSec. Podman is rootless so I feel a bit better about it.
Very California hed. "The 210 Freeway" vs. I-210. The AP Style issues with that single sentence in the body are enough to make me twitchy. Setting aside that mess, the time element is in the wrong place (should be after "killed" to avoid that unpleasant "on" after what for some reason is being treated as a proper noun).
Then we have the absurdity of the state abbreviation. First of all, if it's in the same state, you don't use it at all. If for whatever reason you feel the need to in your local coverage area, postal codes are never indicated.
Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.
Former Roger Corman protege, and director of over 100 films, including classics like Chopping Mall, Deathstalker II, and non-classics like Murderbot (no, not that one) and Attack of the 50 Foot CamGirl.
Premier Doug Ford's government is ordering Ontario public servants to work from the office four days a week starting this fall and then full-time in January
Dude was getting lonely not being able to micromanage the lives of government employees.
::: spoiler Transcript A fediverse post by sodiboo @sodiboo@gaysex.cloud. It says "back in my day we didn't need wplace we just went outside and vandalized the real deal" The post was made 1 day ago. :::
[url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r64A6bvDo1B0eQ3vdwDZtCwu-s4G1xWnaHVZB1gg9N8/edit?usp=sharing]Agenda preparation for the April ForumWG meeting can be found at this public link[/url] (anyone can make comments for review.)
Monthly meetings are held
Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 17h00 to 18h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held on 7 August 2025.
August 2025 Agenda Forum and Threaded Discussions Task Force Format Information gathering prior to the meeting will be held asynchronously via the fediverse, with topics posted on one of the following two locations: https://community.nodebb.
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a whil
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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Personally, I can see his point - the Duke Nukem Forever levels of hype around GPT-5 set the promptfondlers up for Duke Nukem Forever levels of disappointment with GPT-5, and the "deaths" of their AI waifus/therapists this has killed whatever dopamine delivery mechanisms they've set up for themselves.
Lol, Ed Zitron is a one person neo-luddite machine. His entire website is one continuous anti AI spam. Which is fine...but I was trying to find out why #chatgpt5 launch was a failure, according to him. But he fails at a "writer" to communicate that, so he's probably right that he fears he will be replaced by 2000 lines of code.
Wulfy... saying someone cannot be right because they haven't agreed with you yet is an appeal to authority. People might be wrong, but they don't have to adopt AI in order to have an informed opinion.
If you're asking me how to design a prompt for a particular AI, then I don't know a single thing about it. If you're asking me whether AI is a good idea or not, I can be more sure of that answer. Feel free to prove me wrong, but don't say my opinion doesn't matter.
Have you seen the data centers being built just north of your house? No? Well it doesn't matter you still might have a point!
I am just slightly ahead of the game (as usual). I have done all my anti-AI anxiety back in 2023.
People were literally laughing at me when I was talking about dangers of #AI
But since then I am actually doing something meaningful to mitigate AI impact (#RegulateAI). Ai is a left vs righ issue and I am on the left of Trotsky.
I do not have much time for folks who are 'anti-ai' and yet know next to zero about how these systems work and what they can do. Though I do read their comments and occasionaly engage with them.
I was brouoght up in an occupied nation, and when I did not want to learn the language of the occupier, our teacher (bless her courageous heart) said "You need to know the language of your enemy".
Everyone needs to learn about #AI, as this is how they will lose their jobs, their democracy
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Oh. I totallly am on your side of the barricade.
I am just slightly ahead of the game (as usual). I have done all my anti-AI anxiety back in 2023.
People were literally laughing at me when I was talking about dangers of #AI
But since then I am actually doing something meaningful to mitigate AI impact (#RegulateAI). Ai is a left vs righ issue and I am on the left of Trotsky.
I do not have much time for folks who are 'anti-ai' and yet know next to zero about how these systems work and what they can do. Though I do read their comments and occasionaly engage with them.
I was brouoght up in an occupied nation, and when I did not want to learn the language of the occupier, our teacher (bless her courageous heart) said "You need to know the language of your enemy".
Everyone needs to learn about #AI, as this is how they will lose their jobs, their democracy and possibly their lives...
... you need to learn MORE about AI if you hate AI. Because frankly, most neo-luddites do themselves disservice. You need to sound credible to be impactful. Otherwise you are just yelling into the echo chamber.
Speaking of meaningful action... (short of torching the data centres and I only see stupid anti-AI memes not angry mobs)... if you live in #Australia and #AIHate
In this interim report, the Commission presents its initial findings and draft recommendations and invites further information and feedback from interested people and organisations.
Worst thing about neo luddites is the Luddites weren't opposed to technology. They just didn't like how one guy got to own the whole factory. So I get why people don't want to risk learning about some stupid stuff, but they're not luddites.
Stitching Identity: Flags, Pride and Memory
Every June 28, the LGBTIQANB+ community mobilizes around the world to raise awareness about the struggle against hate crimes. For me, more than a celebration, this date has always been a reminder that without
Stitching Identity: Flags, Pride and Memory
Every June 28, the LGBTIQANB+ community mobilizes around the world to raise awareness about the struggle against hate crimes. For me, more than a celebration, this date has always been a reminder that without justice, there is no pride — and that our flags are living symbols of our existence and resistance.
That's why I created this zine, part of a project called Stitching identity.
Stitching Identity: Textile Art in the LGBTIQANB+ Community aims to reclaim sewing as part of the historical development of queer communities and as a key tool for artistic and political expression. It highlights textile creation as a powerful act of visibility and resistance against gender-sexual discrimination.
In this fanzine you will find:
• A brief history of the community's flags. • A mini guide to the flags in use today. • Step–by–step instructions to make your own flag at home. The example given is a non-bina
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Stitching Identity: Flags, Pride and Memory
Every June 28, the LGBTIQANB+ community mobilizes around the world to raise awareness about the struggle against hate crimes. For me, more than a celebration, this date has always been a reminder that without justice, there is no pride — and that our flags are living symbols of our existence and resistance.
That's why I created this zine, part of a project called Stitching identity.
Stitching Identity: Textile Art in the LGBTIQANB+ Community aims to reclaim sewing as part of the historical development of queer communities and as a key tool for artistic and political expression. It highlights textile creation as a powerful act of visibility and resistance against gender-sexual discrimination.
In this fanzine you will find:
• A brief history of the community's flags. • A mini guide to the flags in use today. • Step–by–step instructions to make your own flag at home. The example given is a non-binary flag, but the technique works for creating any striped flag.
📌 Download it here:
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In this fanzine you will find:
• A brief history of the community's flags..
• A mini guide to the flags in use today.
• Step-by-step instructions to ...
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in reply to arrow74 • • •From the NY Times:
Sounds really productive
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in reply to xyzzy • • •#tacotrump gained nothing
#putinspuppet
#icc #warcrimes