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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Truly groundbreaking.

Let the songs begin!

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL 1973 LIVE -4K- REMASTERED.(STEREO.) (19 minute set) https://youtu.be/UpUCJWlN0sE

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

My school (UK, 1980s) offered Mandarin as an extracurricular course. I signed up, showed up... and was the only student. One-on-one classes the rest of the year :)

(Just don't try grilling me in Mandarin now, though.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

What can we do about posts that contain a link but are not a "link post"?

E.g. a post like below that (I think) is an image post but also has a link

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

There was also the flag of the defunct Republic of VIetnam

https://vietnguyen.info/2021/theres-a-reason-the-south-vietnamese-flag-flew-during-the-capitol-riot

The depth of anti-communist feeling in the Vietnamese community, which includes many military veterans and former government officials, meant that it has always leaned strongly Republican. While Asian Americans as a whole voted 2 to 1 for Joe Biden over Trump, Vietnamese Americans supported Trump over Biden, 57 percent to 41 percent. A deep animus toward China, amplified by misinformation in Vietnamese-language media, bolsters the support for a president they see as tougher on foreign policy. This dovetailed with their anticommunism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

So you've decided to defame not just this specific person, but also a bunch of others you also know nothing about?

Not exactly what I was hoping for in c/Positive_News.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

How did they feel about the constable being a changeling?

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... Bajorans.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 day ago (3 children)

“While I stand by my support for him, I will call out harmful actions when necessary,” she said. “And finally, this isn’t about regrets; I have none.

Well...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Personally:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Madonna mia! Er Bimbo d'Oro!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

because he “fit the general description of a subject being sought by ICE,”

Heartening to know ICE are going around arresting people based on general descriptions, not even specific ones.

 
 

Teaser trailer

Rise of the Deceiver is an action co-op game in which players, imbued with powers bestowed upon them by the legendary members of the Wu-Tang Clan, fight against invaders that wish to corrupt their home. It’s been in development for three years, and started as a companion piece to Angel of Dust, a movie produced by Ghostface Killah and directed by The RZA.

While there have been numerous hip-hop-centric video games over the years, very few of them tackle the artistry, history, and culture of the genre beyond using it as set dressing. “We wanted to create something where it was built from the ground up,” Dabby Smith said. “It was by the culture, for the culture, and actually representing what [Wu-Tang Clan] put out there through the years.”

 

Written by George Takei, Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger
Art by Harmony Becker
Published by IDW Publishing

It Rhymes with Takei fills in the massive blanks George left in his bestselling autobiography of the 1990s by sharing the story of his being a secretly gay man. It’s a book about love, not sex, a book about the pain of hiding one’s true self. It’s a book about fear, about ambition, about shame, about hollow success, and, most of all, it’s a book about growth.

 

Exactly what it says on the tin.

The Voice has some artifacts, but I had to get it out of my head and into yours.
Peter Griffin Backed by the Sky Power Band:

 

On May 19, 2025, federal prosecutors charged Rep. LaMonica McIver, a New Jersey Democrat, under a little-known federal statute—18 U.S. Code Section 111—for allegedly assaulting and impeding Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during a visit to a Newark detention facility. The officers refused her entry to conduct a federally authorized oversight visit. It’s still unclear whether the claimed assault was alleged to be physical or verbal. But what’s clear is that Rep. McIver’s prosecution reveals something much larger: Under the current administration, Section 111 is being reimagined as a blunt political weapon. Not to deter violence—but to silence dissent and criminalize opponents.

Section 111 makes it a crime to “forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with” federal officials engaged in their duties. But here’s the problem: You don’t even need to know they’re federal officials. You can be convicted for shoving someone you think is just someone yelling in your face, even just placing them in “reasonable fear of harm” without physical contact—if they turn out to be a plainclothes agent. That’s not hypothetical.

That’s precedent, courtesy of the Supreme Court over 50 years ago.
Which means this: An undercover agent embedded in a protest, a public meeting, even a constituent town hall could claim to have been “impeded,” and the federal government can treat that moment as a federal crime. Under the current administration’s appetite for authoritarianism, that’s not a loophole, it’s a feature.

Archived at https://archive.is/JvUOO

 

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My face when... (media.piefed.social)
 
 

Out of five critical tech sectors, “China has the most immediate opportunity to overtake the United States in biotechnology,” the Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs said Thursday in its release of a “Critical and Emerging Technologies Index,” covering AI, biotech, semiconductors, space and quantum.

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Online culture and censorship have broken the ties that once spurred protesters.

Today, June 4, marks the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre—a moment of both tragedy and hope. It was the bloody end to a nationwide democracy movement that brought together workers and students, the most promising push for political reform in the history of the People’s Republic of China. But despite the courage of many individual Chinese who fought for democracy and the solidarity of their international supporters, there has not been a comparable movement since—and it’s hard to imagine one arising anytime soon.

It wasn't paywalled on my phone, but apparently it is when viewed elsewhere.

One of the key factors mentioned in the article: the erosion of the "the middle ring" from many societies (not just China): "close-ish" but not intimate/familial face-to-face relationships (neighbours, coworkers etc.) that are key to growing a social movement with real world activity.

 

I've been using Lemmy a couple of months, and now trying out Piefed.

Questions about community subscriptions:

  1. So by ticking the "topics" boxes during registration, I am now subscribed to a bunch of communities, right? Or am I subscribed to "topics"? Or "feeds"?

  2. What's the difference between Lemmy-style communities and Piefed's "topics" and "feeds"?

  3. How can I see which communities/topics/feeds I'm subscribed to?
    (I saw a list once, I think on the home page, but for some reason I've never been able to find it again.)
    Ah, I found https://piefed.social/communities but not through the Piefed UI, only via https://join.piefed.social/docs/user-guide/

  4. How can I find the Communities list in the Piefed UI?

  5. Re importing my community subscriptions and community blocks from my Lemmy account, what file do I need? Is it Lemmy > Settings > Export Settings: lemmy_user_settings_dateandtime.json ?

  • 5.1 And will that overwrite or supplement my existing Piefed subscriptions?
  • 5.2 Wait, did Piefed already include my existing Lemmy community subscriptions??? Or is it just luck/topic-picking-on-sign-up that they seem to be included among all the others?
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