Donald Trump has sparked fresh health fears as he shared a video of Frank Sinatra performing his hit song, My Way.
The president, 79, took to Truth Social on Saturday night, April 18, to share the clip of the musician performing the entirety of the song, beginning with the lyrics, "And now, the end is here / And so I face the final curtain."
Social media users went into overdrive as Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social of Frank Sinatra performing My Way, with some suggesting the post has a cryptic meaning
Do you enjoy reading books? There's a social reading platform on the Fediverse called BookWyrm, which is a free open alternative to Amazon Goodreads. Lots more info at:
Yes, it is. The lead developer confirmed they're still working on it and the BookWyrm Github page shows a steady stream of updates with the most recent being 5 days ago.
Does it support searching well enough? My sweetheart wanted to move off Goodreads so I looked into BookWyrm for her. She likes to be able to search/tag/sort her notes/books/TBR/etc to find things, but search has been an exceptionally weak point for ActivityPub-based so I hesitated to have her go that route and she ended up on LibraryThing instead. ๐
Not yet, but the website supports being installed as a web app which makes it behave like an app on your phone. More about how to do this at fedi.tips/how-to-install-web-aโฆ
I love @bookwyrm #BookWyrm It's not perfect, but it's good enough, and the community there is full of lovely people who are for the most part genuinely interested in sharing their love of #books and helping each other find something worthwhile to read.
The occasional communal gushing around especially excellent #books is also quite nice.
And it's one of the only social reading spaces where I feel like I can actually trust the #reviews, whether positive, negative, or neutral. For that matter, it's one of the few places online outside of dedicated book review blogs which actually contains a high proportion of thoughtful reviews.
Outrageous! The Department of Justice is delaying the effective date of the Title II web accessibility regulations. Blind and disabled Americans have waited long enough for equal access to government websites and apps. Civil rights delayed are civil rights denied. President Riccobono shares more of our concerns. We will be publishing a statement next week: youtube.com/shorts/cTuHxq49bJI
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in which bsky admits the outage 10 days ago *was* their fucking code after all. they tried to blame AWS at the time and loudly insisted it wasn't their vibe-rotted code
Hey all! I'm Jim, and I do system-y things at Bluesky. I'm here to give you some details about what happened on Monday of this week that caused Bluesky to go...
Interestingly enough, publishers with related labels used to put little quotes and cover art at the back of paperbacks. There might be five or six novels mentioned at the end, unrelated to the author but in a similar genre. This would be like doing that for indie authors! Why not?
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Chicken Soup for the Soul is suing tech companies OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, Perplexity, Apple, and Nvidia for copyright infringement. The suit, filed March 17 in the Northern District of California, alleges that hundreds of its copyrighted works were ingested without authorization or compensation to train large language models. publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topโฆ
In the complaint, the company makes the novel claim that the entire generative AI industry was built on a foundation of pirated books, first downloaded by one OpenAI employee in 2018. Defendants include OpenAI and seven other tech firms.
"By targeting Pope Leo XIV, Trump exposes the limits of power when faced with a moral authority it cannot silence. ...
The first thing to say about this attack is what it is not. It is not a sign of strength. Political power turns on a moral voice only when it has failed to contain it. If Leo were irrelevant, he would not be worth a sentence on Truth Social."
"He is being named precisely because his word has begun to leave a mark โ in the conscience of American Catholics, in the European chancelleries, in the very military apparatus that, weeks earlier, had felt the need to summon the Apostolic Nuncio, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, to the Pentagon. To attack the pope is to concede that the pope matters."
"What we are witnessing, then, is not a clash of personalities but the friction between two operating systems. On one side, a grammar of force: deterrence, national exceptionalism, the 'providential' use of power, a re-theologization of politics in which God is enlisted to bless the strong."
"On the other hand, a grammar of the Gospel: dialogue, moral limits, international law, the inviolable dignity of the innocent, the refusal to drag the name of God into the language of death. ...
The deepest consequences of this episode will be felt not in Rome but in the United States, and not next week but over the coming years. The attack forces a clarification that the American Catholic community has postponed for decades."
"Successive White Houses have known how to deal with popes who could be framed as 'foreign': the Argentine, the Polish, the German, the Pole who confronted communism, the Latin American who confronted capitalism. There was always a cultural distance that made it possible to describe papal criticism as an outside voice failing to understand America."
"With Leo, that shortcut is closed. He is American, he speaks the language from the inside, he knows the reflexes, the liturgies, the temptations."
Again: Trump's attack on Leo "forces a clarification that the American Catholic community has postponed for decades."
The US Catholic bishops, the bulk of them appointed by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, have for decades provided abysmal pastoral and moral leadership.
They, and the white Catholics they have led into the dead end of voting for Trump three times now, are deeply complicit in the Trump presidency and the horror show unfolding in front of us now.
They silenced a generation of theologians who had the gifts and calling to shape a robust Catholicism according to the Vatican II norms, a church engaged dialogically with the world around it, imparting its values in respectful dialogue with secular culture.
They allied themselves wirh reactionary, racist white evangelicals fleeing the Democratic party after it pushed through civil rights legislation for people of color. They played a preeminent role in getting this alliance to fixate on abortion and sexual morality as the only moral issues deserving attention โ so that many Catholics now think matters of war and peace are political and not moral issues.
The US Catholic bishops hand-picked by John Paul II and Benedict XVI led their flock into the moral dead end of assuming that issues like healthcare for needy people, economic justice for those on the margins of society, how immigrants are treated, are just political and not moral issues. The theologians silenced by these bishops were capable of teachiing lay Catholics a Catholicism much more faithful to far richer moral norms.
In their lust for power and to preserve the privilege of an all-male, ostensibly celibate clerical elite, the US Catholic bishops of recent decades sacrificed the future of the church to maintenance of a mutable, historically conditioned clerical system. They slapped survivors of clerical sexual abuse in the face, alienated women, attacked LGBTQ people.
People have walked away from the Catholic church in droves, as the bishops stand by in silence.
What's happening now "forces a clarification that the American Catholic community has postponed for decades": Antonio Spadaro is right to say this.
But even now, large numbers of the US Catholic bishops resist Leo's leadership as they did Francis and hunger for the days when the Polish and German popes were in power and the church was fixated on clerical domination and pelvic morality.
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Robert Kingett
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Yes, it is. The lead developer confirmed they're still working on it and the BookWyrm Github page shows a steady stream of updates with the most recent being 5 days ago.
TroikaFox
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There's a built-in book database using data from @wikidata and @inventaire and at least in my experience it works pretty well.
It might be worth trying to see how it seems for your needs.
craignicol
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Not yet, but the website supports being installed as a web app which makes it behave like an app on your phone. More about how to do this at fedi.tips/how-to-install-web-aโฆ
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in reply to craignicol • • •just installed bookwyrm from F-Droid ๐ f-droid.org/de/packages/nl.priโฆ
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BookWyrm | F-Droid โ Freies und quelloffenes Android-App-Repository
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Oh wait, you're right! Sorry about that craignicol, there is one!
Thanks Enigma!
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •I love @bookwyrm #BookWyrm
It's not perfect, but it's good enough, and the community there is full of lovely people who are for the most part genuinely interested in sharing their love of #books and helping each other find something worthwhile to read.
The occasional communal gushing around especially excellent #books is also quite nice.
And it's one of the only social reading spaces where I feel like I can actually trust the #reviews, whether positive, negative, or neutral. For that matter, it's one of the few places online outside of dedicated book review blogs which actually contains a high proportion of thoughtful reviews.
#socialReading #reading #bookworm #bookstodon #bookreview #bookreviews #bookworms #bibliophile #bibliophiles #bibliophilia #book
Misha
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •BookWyrm has a great community but overall I find neodb a bit more feature complete and useful as it also supports movies, games etc
The only downside is that the content is mostly in Chinese ๐ but other instances like eggplant have more English language user content
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