#Juneteenth went from a little-known local tradition to a national holiday in just a few years.
But many Americans are still figuring out what it means (and how to best honor it).
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As one critic asked, has Juneteenth devolved ‘into an exploitative and profit-driven enterprise for companies that disregard the true significance of this day to the Black community?’The Conversation
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, sent a text message to President Trump expressing his belief that Trump is a consequential president and that only God's voice matters.
The text contained religious overtones, with Huckabee stating that Trump was spared in Butler, PA to be the President. A particularly disturbing part was a reference to Truman in 1945, who used nuclear weapons against an enemy state.
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Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative MatrixCaitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroTyler Durden (www.zerohedge.com)
A combat officer and three soldiers from the 12th Battalion of the Golani Brigade were seriously injured in the same incident in which Leshem was killed, according to the militaryYaniv Kubovich (Haaretz)
We in the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, strongly condemn the American threats and categorically reject the continued zionist aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which constitutes a blatant violation of international law and a direct threat to regional and global peace and security.
The zionist statements claiming that “there are no safe cities from ‘israel’ in the Middle East” reflect an arrogant colonial mindset and reveal aggressive intentions that endanger the stability of the region and its peoples.
We warn of the serious consequences of direct American involvement in any military aggression against Iran, and we hold Washington and the zionist entity fully responsible for the repercussions of this escalation against Iran and the region.
We affirm our solidarity with Iran and its people, and our support for its legitimate right to defend itself and its national sovereignty.
We call on Arab and Islamic countries to take a unified and responsible stance in confronting zionist recklessness, rejecting aggression against Iran, and preventing its continuation in order to protect the security of the region and the interests of its peoples.
Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
Tuesday: 21 Dhul-Hijjah 1446 AH
Corresponding to: June 17, 2025
The perceived legitimacy of one person's authority over another is one of the most dangerous superstitions held by this species.
I use a headless server connected to nothing but an ethernet cable in my basement, and I'd prefer to allow the thing to boot by itself and start up without me needing to unlock the disk encryption every single time I do an update or power back on. Its a Dell 9500t NUC that I'm using it as a server and am wondering whether its possible to encrypt everything still.
I do generally use docker containers, so could I potentially encrypt just the containers themselves, assuming I'm worried about a smash and grab rather than someone keeping the machine powered up and reading my ram?
Clevis/tang is probs what you’re looking for.
Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif:
“100 martyrs since dawn.
Most of them were standing in lines waiting for aid,
They wanted flour… but found death.
100 innocent souls snatched from life,
100 families devastated,
100 children will sleep tonight without a father, without a mother, without shelter.
What kind of oppression is this?
What kind of humanity allows the hungry to be killed while waiting for bread?
Gaza is not bleeding… Gaza is being slaughtered.”
Mordechai Vanunu's Christmas Update was TWEETED on Wednesday and this reporter notes Vanunu's 30 year wait for freedom from Israel. By Eileen FlemingEileen Fleming (The Arab Daily News)
no, no its cool. this university is IRGC-linked. just like those hamas ones, remember?
What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that the main outcome of the G7 summit in Canada was the acknowledgement that anti-Russian sanctions, which caused millions in damage to Western countries, were misguided.newsmaker1 newsmaker1 (English News front)
A stifling 35ºC this afternoon — and more below decks on Wrack, despite two fans and shade over all the open hatches.
Lots of iced water and hose showers in the cockpit.
Over 6,000 years ago, a mysterious civilization had detailed maps of our solar system.
The Sumerians created these drawings using clay. The surviving drawings show that they understood that the sun is a star at the centre of the solar system and that other planets revolve around it. They even accurately sketched the orbits and positions of the planets.
Interestingly, some of their paintings also depict strange images of giant entities. The Sumerians considered them to be deities. Intriguingly, some of the drawings of these gods even display symbols resembling human DNA sequences. Additionally, they had symbols related to medicine, which bear significant resemblance to modern medical symbols. To this day, we still cannot understand how thousands of years ago, the oldest civilization of mankind had such profound knowledge of astronomy.
This raises whether this ancient civilization was not backward but had advanced far beyond our current understanding of it.
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Die Bundesregierung plant Maßnahmen für flexiblere Arbeitszeiten. Einer IAB-Umfrage zufolge lehnen knapp drei Viertel der Beschäftigten unbegrenzte Arbeitszeiten ab. Große Unterschiede gibt es jedoch zwischen Jung und Alt.n-tv NACHRICHTEN
I would love to hear Martha Stewart weigh in on this topic.
She was clearly unfairly prosecuted by James Comey in the early 2000s. They tried to pin on Martha what members of Congress are obviously doing now.
American physician Dr. Saeed Rehman, speaking from Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, described treating victims of today’s aid massacre. He pleaded with the Western world to wake up: “What we’re seeing here is an absolute annihilation of humanity — of children, of pregnant women. What we’re seeing here is an execution.”@palestine
We could soon see several nuclear powers pitted against each other and dragging the world closer to nuclear annihilation. By Jeffrey D.Consortium News
#usa #boy-scouts #trump #government #adult-supervision #children #noem #vance #musk #rubio #hegseth #bondi #kennedy #gabbard
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Amid Israel’s continued attacks on Iran, U.S. lawmakers from across the political spectrum are pushing efforts to curb Donald Trump’s war powers as U.S. involvement in the war threatens to fracture Trump’s political coalition.Michael Arria (Mondoweiss)
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Beijing, June 17 (Prensa Latina) The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs highlighted that the St. Petersburg Economic Forum is an important platform for discussing global economic governance and building consensus on international cooperation.Alina Ramos Martin (Prensa Latina)
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#Israel has support from the U.S. and Europe. #Iran's allies have been dramatically weakened, taken out completely, or are not in a position to help. What does this mean for this war and its aftermath?
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Israel has support from the U.S. and Europe. Iran's allies have been dramatically weakened, taken out completely, or are not in a position to help. What does this mean for this war and its aftermath?Mitchell Plitnick (Cutting Through)
BREAKING: Sen Lindsey Graham is calling for the U.S. to deploy boots on the ground in Iran.
"The men and women who serve - they're the ones going, not the ones answering a poll."
"If you ask them 'would you be willing to risk your life to stop the Ayatollah from having a nuclear weapon,' ALL of them would say yes!"
"You wanna avoid WW3? Learn the lessons from WW2!"
"We live in a world where you pay now, or you pay later."
[He's a war rhetoric machine]
#Mastodon #uspol #Trump #Israel #Iran
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The protester said the rally was peaceful until it suddenly got ugly. Now, as he recovers in the hospital, he's not sure if he'll get his vision back in his right eye.Sid Garcia (ABC7 Los Angeles)
I hope they recover their vision. As someone who lost sight in one eye I can attest that going from binocular to monocular vision is life altering AND not considered a disability under the ~~law~~ Social Security requirements but typically is covered by ADA.
Edit: clarification.
In their hubris, Israel Zionists and US shitlibs think other countries' political system are like theirs', where the whims of a single person will shut down a government.
If that were true, wouldn't assassinating all those Iranian generals stop the missiles raining down on Tel Aviv today?
youtube.com/watch?v=xMH4oHpdV-… #Iran #Imperialism #Zionism #Fascism
Iran's senior military commander is calling on Israelis to leave the cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv immediately.Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubsc...YouTube
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A great story about Trump's kindness:
youtube.com/shorts/sC20OFl1hCw
Thirty-one years ago, the beautiful Kathie Lee Gifford was on her way to host The Miss America Pageant with her newborn daughter in tow when she received a d...YouTube
Friday, 6 June 2025 The Economic Freedom Fighters notes with deep concern the recent public remarks by the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), Adveffonline.org
Israeli Ambassador to Russia Simona Halperin makes comments about goals of the military operation in IranOdysee
I was foolish to believe capitalism would allow real dissent. It is not within the capacity of capitalism to allow self-harm. My waning faith in left wing political commentary is all but spent. They cannot harm the system.
Apart from those at the top for whom the system is rigged, capitalism allows only viable businesses to survive. The obscene joke we are compelled to partake in, all that exists, all that is allowed to exist, is only that which will do the lest harm to capitalism.
Do you think your anti-capitalist blogger will save the world? The obscene elegance of capitalism allows for a person to announce freely its every flaw in exquisite detail, whilst perpetually donating to its cause: paying capitalism for the privilege of critique.
And do support your political commentator of choice! There is no harm in it; how else will fools learn?; but be sure that it will not see the decline of our greatest foe. We all need to eat, have rent to pay, and your particular brand of counterculture needs to be supported; but remember what business model you are investing in.
Supporting political commentary is to lubricate the dissemination of ideas; but that is all. You are donating to support words.
As a rule capitalism honours those who aid the system; so no matter how radical the voice, it exists in equilibrium to the money making machine. Any alteration to that paradigm will lead only to financial ruin or else a greater endorsement of capitalism. Your voices of counterculture will not bring an end to capitalism.
The popular bloggers and commentators could easily join forces to disseminate ways for the public to unite in dissent; but the fact they have not done that already is perhaps all you need to know. Capitalism allows only that which will do the least harm to its system. Obviously they are not politicians; so we should not expect revolution from them. But more than that, they are not strategists: they have no clue how to effectively dissent. They have no clue how to assuage the looming fascism that is currently gripping the world.
But they can report it, and they can denounce it.
Over and out for now, guys!
xxx
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AMD's Pre-Zen Interconnect: Testing Trinity's Northbridge
Link: chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-pre-…
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Today, AMD’s Infinity Fabric interconnect is ubiquitous across the company’s lineup.Chester Lam (Chips and Cheese)
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“AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline, according to a new survey published today”
404media.co/ai-scraping-bots-a…
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
@404mediaco the only way to deal with this is the same as with any other #malware and #DDoS:
I do maintain a #blocklist of those and will happily accept suggestions and pull requests...
github.com/greyhat-academy/lis…
List of useful things. Contribute to greyhat-academy/lists.d development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
KiCad and Wayland Support
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07:01 It's a Red Hat project?
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All Linux based systems use an Init system, short for initialization: it's the first process that starts after you boot your OS, and it runs in the background while you're using your computer, to manage system services, and various processes. For many, many Linux distros, SystemD is this init system.
SYstem D is a relatively recent project, at the scale of Linux anyway, it started in 2010, and was spearheaded by Red Hat. Its goal was to replace the existing solutions, like SysV or Upstart, to make things faster and more resilient.
It quickly became the default on Fedora, obviously, then on Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, and many, many others.
The famous Bloat argument is one advanced most often. System D, as time went on, encompassed more and more features that were generally handled by individual services, not the init system itself, like device management, login, or network management and creating logs.
This can be perceived as going against the Unix philosophy, where a piece of software is supposed to do just one thing, and to communicate well with other small systems.
What's certain is that most distros that implement it are general purpose distros, that need to provide as many systems as possible, and so they tend to use most of systemD's features and modules.
SystemD also "hides away" certain configurations with its own tools, like systemctl, instead of exposing everything as a config file. Whether these things are important or not, though, depend on the person.
Another criticism levelled at System D is the fact that it has become so pervasive that a lot of other components are created with a hard dependency on it: without SystemD, they can't work at all, or will have a limited featureset. This results in some extra work for distros that don't want to use systemD, as they have to use an alternative implementation of these features.
Another regular criticism of SystemD comes from the fact it's mainly a Red Hat project, or at least was started by Red Hat. The fact remains that while systemD was started at Red Hat, it IS an open source project, and it is receiving contributions from a lot of people that aren't at Red hat.
Another criticism of SystemD is that it's making Linux based systems uniform and that it restricts choice. I'd argue this isn't really true, since there ARE other alternatives, like OpenRC, Dinit, SysVInit and more.
One final problem people identify with SystemD is system security. First, there's the fact that having one single system that powers the init and service management of most distros is a security risk: an attacker can target many, many systems by targeting systemD.
Second, some people would say that since SystemD is huge and does a lot of things, it has a very large attack surface.
But why would you WANT to use it, exactly?
SystemD is a unified project, which means you don't have to learn 20 different programs if you need to interact with something: you learn how systemD works, and you can manage everything.
Compared to other init systems, it's also simpler, as it opens various sockets that services can plug into, and services can start in mostly any order. And finally, systemD is written in C, and isn't the usual compilation of bash scripts, so it tends to be faster and more efficient than many other init systems.
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Fun Fact:
Obwohl „Emoticon“ und „Emoji“ ähnlich klingen und sich beide auf grafische Ausdrucksformen von Emotionen beziehen, sind sie etymologisch nicht miteinander verwandt.
„Emoticon“ ist ein Kofferwort aus dem Englischen, zusammengesetzt aus emotion (Gefühl) und icon (Symbol).
„Emoji“ hingegen stammt aus dem Japanischen und bedeutet wörtlich soviel wie „Bildschriftzeichen“.
Er setzt sich aus den Schriftzeichen 絵 für „e“ (Bild), 文 für „mon“ (Ausdruck) und 字 für „ji“ (Buchstabe) zusammen.
🛎 - Since June 2024 he (McCormack) also called Israel a “death cult”.
MIA I thought is missing in action what’s your acronym stand for?
Iran releases weird video.
"ALERT: 🚨 Iran releases video of a man petting a nuclear bomb."
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Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) — Following is the full text of the commentary released by Kim Hyok Nam on Monday titled “Commentary on the ‘strategic flexibility’ of the U.S. forces in the ROK”: The commander of the U.S.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Violence against Palestinians is not only accepted but expected.The Electronic Intifada
LLMs pose an interesting problem for DSL designers
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DHS Secretary Noem Hospitalized for Allergic Reaction
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The secretary was taken to the hospital ‘out of an abundance of caution’ and is expected to make a full recovery.Joseph Lord (The Epoch Times)
Demand that Middle East "be free of nuclear weapons and other WMDs", applicable “to all States in the region without exception".Baqir Sajjad Syed (DAWN.COM)
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In this comprehensive interview with Russian television's DEN TV, Matt Ehret was invited to explain the historic roots of Russian-US friendship from 1776 to the defeat of Hitler, as well as an indepth analysis of cybernetics as the foundation for the…Matthew Ehret (Matt Ehret's Insights)
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Does anyone have any updates re: Kristi Noem?? I'm seeing nothing posted anywhere since ~2 hours ago.
Wondering if it was something other than an "allergic reaction" that sent her to the hospital. Maybe a panic attack? 🤔
My only reason for even thinking this is because as DHS Secretary, she's under enormous pressure right now.
She's so trustworthy -- I wish her all the best!!🙏🏼
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