https://thedailyadda.com/2025/09/08/news/politics/white-house-in-total-meltdown-after-trumps-shocking-epstein-letter-leaks/

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37123109

The lawsuit between Nintendo and Modded Hardware has been settled, with the site's operator agreeing to a final judgment of $2 million. The proposed settlement includes a broad permanent injunction that bans operator Ryan Daly from selling, distributing, or even linking to circumvention devices such mod chips and hacked consoles. The defendant also agreed to transfer his website domain to Nintendo and destroy any remaining circumvention devices.

Pro

2025-09-09 01:51:34

'Modded Hardware' Agrees to Settle Nintendo's Copyright Lawsuit for $2 Million

The lawsuit between Nintendo and Modded Hardware has been settled, with the site's operator agreeing to a final judgment of $2 million. The proposed settlement includes a broad permanent injunction that bans operator Ryan Daly from selling, distributing, or even linking to circumvention devices such mod chips and hacked consoles. The defendant also agreed to transfer his website domain to Nintendo and destroy any remaining circumvention devices.

'Modded Hardware' Agrees to Settle Nintendo's Copyright Lawsuit for $2 Million * TorrentFreak

^{Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)}

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37100629

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that the web is thriving. But in a court document filed by Google on late Friday, Google's lawyers wrote, "The fact is that today, the open web is already in rapid decline."

Pro

2025-09-08 17:32:30

New Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that the web is thriving. But in a court document filed by Google on late Friday, Google's lawyers wrote, "The fact is that today, the open web is already in rapid decline."

New Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that the web is thriving. But in a court document filed by Google on late Fri

^{Barry Schwartz (Search Engine Roundtable)}

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37110847

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Pro

2025-09-08 20:46:45

Largest NPM Compromise in History(Packages With Over 2.6 Billion Total Weekly Downloads) - Supply Chain Attack

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npm debug and chalk packages compromised

The popular packages debug and chalk on npm have been compromised with malicious code

^{Charlie Eriksen (Aikido Security)}

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37112962

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Pro

2025-09-08 21:41:49

Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month

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Introducing Signal Secure Backups

In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal.

^{Signal Messenger}

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37113232

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- Yellow Flag— Mastodon.
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Pro

2025-09-08 21:46:46

LookCam App Users Exposed to Critical Security Risks

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A look at a P2P camera (LookCam app)

I’ve got my hands on an internet-connected camera and decided to take a closer look, having already read about security issues with similar cameras.

^{Almost Secure}

By AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX
Updated 11:08 AM EDT, September 8, 2025

Capitalism’s image has slipped with U.S. adults overall since 2021, the survey finds, and the results show a gradual but persistent shift in Democrats’ support for the two ideologies over the past 15 years, with socialism rising as capitalism falls. The shifts underscore deep divisions within the party about whether open support for socialism will hurt Democrats’ ability to reach moderates or galvanize greater support from people who are concerned about issues like the cost of living.

...But Democrats under 50 are much less likely to view capitalism favorably, while the opinions of Democrats ages 50 and older haven’t shifted meaningfully, according to Gallup.

https://apnews.com/article/socialism-socialist-capitalism-big-business-free-enterprise-poll-c052ca687269a2cc075423877b7904e6

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35882926

By AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX
Updated 11:08 AM EDT, September 8, 2025

Capitalism’s image has slipped with U.S. adults overall since 2021, the survey finds, and the results show a gradual but persistent shift in Democrats’ support for the two ideologies over the past 15 years, with socialism rising as capitalism falls. The shifts underscore deep divisions within the party about whether open support for socialism will hurt Democrats’ ability to reach moderates or galvanize greater support from people who are concerned about issues like the cost of living.

...But Democrats under 50 are much less likely to view capitalism favorably, while the opinions of Democrats ages 50 and older haven’t shifted meaningfully, according to Gallup.

Peter Link

2025-09-09 01:29:39

What Americans think about socialism and capitalism, according to a new Gallup poll

By AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX
Updated 11:08 AM EDT, September 8, 2025

Capitalism’s image has slipped with U.S. adults overall since 2021, the survey finds, and the results show a gradual but persistent shift in Democrats’ support for the two ideologies over the past 15 years, with socialism rising as capitalism falls. The shifts underscore deep divisions within the party about whether open support for socialism will hurt Democrats’ ability to reach moderates or galvanize greater support from people who are concerned about issues like the cost of living.

...But Democrats under 50 are much less likely to view capitalism favorably, while the opinions of Democrats ages 50 and older haven’t shifted meaningfully, according to Gallup.

https://apnews.com/article/socialism-socialist-capitalism-big-business-free-enterprise-poll-c052ca687269a2cc075423877b7904e6

The number of reported arrests is relatively few, but immigrant rights advocates said the operation appears to mark a shift in ICE tactics. Before this operation, local activists said, agents had been targeted in their tactics, presenting warrants at specific homes or detaining people at immigration court. Stopping people on the street in what appeared to be a fairly random fashion is new, they said.

In short, the Supreme Court decision not to uphold an injunction barring the use of racial profiling a basis for arrest is having fairly immediate consequences .

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Jon Queally
Sep 08, 2025

Many thousands marched in solidarity through downtown Chicago over the weekend to denounce the growing threat of Trump's authoritarianism, with the Midwest's largest city his latest target.

Organized by the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, city residents demonstrated in droves on Saturday afternoon, walking down Michigan Avenue carrying signs that read: "National Guard Stay Out of Chicago!"; "ICE Out of Chicago!"; "No Trump! No Troops!"; "No Nazis - No Kings"; and "Rise Up! Fight Back!"

'No Trump! No Troops!' Thousands March in Chicago as President Threatens 'War'

"Trump has spent billions on federal guards and the militarization of our community, pouring money into weapons and intimidation instead of investing in schools, hospitals, jobs, and housing."

^{jon-queally (Common Dreams)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35882855

Jon Queally
Sep 08, 2025

Many thousands marched in solidarity through downtown Chicago over the weekend to denounce the growing threat of Trump's authoritarianism, with the Midwest's largest city his latest target.

Organized by the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, city residents demonstrated in droves on Saturday afternoon, walking down Michigan Avenue carrying signs that read: "National Guard Stay Out of Chicago!"; "ICE Out of Chicago!"; "No Trump! No Troops!"; "No Nazis - No Kings"; and "Rise Up! Fight Back!"

Peter Link

2025-09-09 01:21:27

'No Trump! No Troops!' Thousands March in Chicago as President Threatens 'War' | Common Dreams

Jon Queally
Sep 08, 2025

Many thousands marched in solidarity through downtown Chicago over the weekend to denounce the growing threat of Trump's authoritarianism, with the Midwest's largest city his latest target.

Organized by the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, city residents demonstrated in droves on Saturday afternoon, walking down Michigan Avenue carrying signs that read: "National Guard Stay Out of Chicago!"; "ICE Out of Chicago!"; "No Trump! No Troops!"; "No Nazis - No Kings"; and "Rise Up! Fight Back!"

'No Trump! No Troops!' Thousands March in Chicago as President Threatens 'War'

"Trump has spent billions on federal guards and the militarization of our community, pouring money into weapons and intimidation instead of investing in schools, hospitals, jobs, and housing."

^{jon-queally (Common Dreams)}

The venture capital giant, behind cyber giants Wiz and Databricks, said it has notified current and former employees and the firm's limited partners of its January breach.

VC giant Insight Partners notifies staff and limited partners after data breach | TechCrunch

^{Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)}

"If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see? So now I can't claim 100 percent [reduction in crime]," the president said Monday.

The one crime Trump doesn't seem to have a problem with? Domestic violence.

^{Mother Jones}

Earlier policy on transgender service personnel has effectively created a list for the Pentagon

Trump asked trans troops to get an official diagnosis. Now he’s using it to kick them out

^{Oliver O'Connell (The Independent)}

Good lord, here comes another act of preemptive cowardice in service of ensuring the most powerful man in the world enjoys his appearance before a crowd he can’t control or doesn’t own.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/techdirt.com…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

US Open Tells Broadcasters Not To Broadcast Trump Being Booed At The US Open

Good lord, here comes another act of preemptive cowardice in service of ensuring the most powerful man in the world enjoys his appearance before a crowd he can’t control or doesn’t own.…

^Techdirt

Union says ‘Amazon is breaking the law’ after drivers working for contractor Cornucopia were terminated

Amazon fires 150 unionized third-party drivers, Teamsters says

^{Lauren Aratani (The Guardian)}

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Back when this interview was published (2000), the National Association of Broadcasters were really pissed off about guys like this, because 98% of the radio airwaves were controlled by private commercial stations. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Some background for the younger Lemmy lads: Stephen Dunifer wasn’t just another tinkering engineer soldering circuits in a Berkeley garage. Nah, he looked at the radio dial, saw the dead air between the corporate-owned frequencies, and said, “Fuck this! This silence belongs to us.”

He sailed electromagnetic seas, proved that resistance could be tuned in, live, and crackling through your car radio.

Free Radio Berkeley was a radio station and middle finger wired to an antenna, 40 watts of anarchist static against the monolithic hum of the FCC.

Dunifer was inspired by Black Liberation Radio in Springfield and the scrappy DIY transmitters of Japanese street radicals.

He called it democracy on the cheap, transmitters built for the cost of a weekend’s rent, voices breaking out of the gated spectrum where anything under 100 watts was outlaw territory.

So, of course, US courts called it piracy.

The legal battle with the FCC in the mid-90s became a theater of absurdity: men in suits waving injunctions at a guy who just wanted neighborhoods to hear themselves on the air.

So here's a good interview with him. I miss the days of microradio stations saying "fuck you" to the capitalists. Sigh...

If you're too bored to click the link, here ya go, but you miss all the potato camera pics:

Interview with Stephen Dunifer, Microradio Pioneer
By John Tarleton, June 2000

BERKELEY, California—Stephen Dunifer is the founder of Free Radio Berkeley and International Radio Action Training Education (IRATE). Disenchanted with the direction of mainstream media, he launched his own unauthorized FM radio station from the hills outside of Berkeley in the spring of 1993. His transmitter was about the size of a brick.

Free Radio Berkeley came to have 100 volunteers and 24 hours a day of programming. Dunifer would become embroiled in a running legal battle with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over his right to be on the air without a government license. Free Radio Berkeley was silenced in June 1998 by court injunction, though the case is presently being reviewed by a federal appeals court.

Dunifer continues focusing his energy on helping to build a movement; offering workshops and technical support and distributing simple, inexpensive radio equipment (see picture below of 40-watt transmitter) to community radio activists throughout the United States and to places like Haiti, Chiapas, El Salvador and East Timor. An activist since the Vietnam War era, the 48 year-old Dunifer has become the Johnny Appleseed of the Free Radio Movement.

"It's important," he says, "to take back the means of communication and put it in as many hands as possible."

The concentration of ownership in the radio industry has greatly accelerated since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed with strong bipartisan support. A single owner can now control as many as eight stations in one city. Communities are recast as markets. Identical formats. Automated playlists. Increasing homogenization equals increasing profits. According to the latest data, three companies - Clear Channel (512), AMFM (443) and Cumulus Media (231)- now control almost 1,200 stations.

In this cultural wasteland, hundreds of unauthorized, low-power "pirate" stations have taken to the air. Facing a growing movement of electronic civil disobedience, the FCC reversed itself in January and announced it would license 1,000 LP (low-power)-FM stations (ranging from 10 to 100 watts) in the next couple of years. The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) was outraged. 98% of the radio airwaves are controlled by private commercial stations. And though few of the proposed new low-power licenses would be granted in populous urban areas, the NAB has mounted a furious lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill to have the new FCC regulations overturned.

Interestingly enough, the NAB will be holding its annual radio convention in San Francisco from September 20-23. Dunifer and others are planning a raucous greeting for when the NAB comes to town.

On a warm, Saturday afternoon in late May, a motley crew of 35 or so community radio activists from Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, Humboldt County, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Austin, Pennsylvania, etc. gathered in a Unitarian Church a couple of miles from where the original Free Speech Movement was born in the fall of 1964. The meeting was long. Seven hours. But, most people stuck it out. Their plans were ambitious, to "bring Seattle to the airwaves" with a four-day counter-convention featuring teach-ins, workshops, protests, street theatre and possibly large-scale non-violent civil disobedience.

Near day's end, people began dividing into committees and passing around sign-up sheets for various listservs. A web site was already under construction. The group gave itself a name—the Microradio Action Coalition (MAC). A certain tingle was in the air. There was the strange and exciting feeling of being present at the conception of another one of these mass, Seattle-style direct actions.

The following day I caught up with Dunifer at Free Radio Berkeley's headquarters in a cramped warehouse studio nd he reflected on the past, present and future of microradio.

"A Need That Had to Be Dealt With"
JT: We live in a media-saturated society. There's a tremendous number of media outlets including NPR stations in almost every American city. Why is microradio important?

SD: It's important for a number of reasons. One has to consider what NPR really stands for. In my opinion, NPR stands for "Nothing to Provoke Rebellion'' or "No Problems Radio". People have very little access as a community to the NPR stations, particularly large flagship stations like the ones we have here in San Francisco. Smaller communities might have a little bit more of a possibility.

Even though a person may have access, it doesn't mean they have a voice. The real difference is that micro-powered broadcasting gives communities a voice and allows them to empower themselves with that voice. The real bottom line in this is it allows people to speak to each other in communities, to express themselves, to share their art, their music, their culture, all the rich diversity they have to offer each other.

JT: What motivated you to become as involved as you have?

SD: Besides sheer obstinacy and bullheadedness, I basically saw a need that had to be dealt with as I was looking at things as they were developing in the early part of the '90s with the Gulf War and local and regional issues and that none of these were being covered.

In the case of the Gulf War, you had the military inviting the media into a spare room in the Pentagon and giving forth an arcade game version of the war (then) going all the way down to the bombing of Judi Beri and Darryl Cherney and local issues we were dealing with here in Berkeley over free speech rights, rights of assembly. Issues all across the board were not being represented at all. And if they were, it was very distorted and one-sided. Also, our supposed People's Voice, KPFA, was showing a severe lurch to the center. It all pointed to the fact that we had to look at alternatives how to reach people, how to give them a voice.

I had been involved in publishing other things. I didn't think publishing a new newspaper was really going to solve it. Having a background as an electronics design engineer/computer systems person and having a background also as a broadcast engineer, I said, "let's go for it." and look at doing some low power, knowing of some of the efforts of people before like Mbanna Kantako in Springfield, Illinois in the late '80s.

I met with people from the National Lawyers Guild Committee on Democratic Communications who had already been working on this issue in relation to Mbanna's situation. They had already done a sample brief that could be used by him or anyone else. The constitutional issues that were raised seemed very creditable to me. The FCC's regulatory policies and structure were overly restrictive because they prohibited stations with less than 100 watts of power. The rules and the process were for people that could afford to go through a $100,000 plus process to get a license.

So, Free Radio Berkeley went on the air April 11, 1993 as a free speech voice. It was a protest against the FCC's regulatory policies and a way of providing a voice for the community.

A Campaign of Electronic Civil Disobedience
JT: How has the FCC treated you and Free Radio Berkeley over the years? And, what's your rationale for breaking the law? When is it a good thing to go ahead and break the rules?

SD: First off, we have a quote on our web site from Howard Zinn that says, "Breaking the law isn't antithetical to democracy. It's essential to democracy." If people hadn't broken and defied the segregation laws in the South, if people hadn't taken the actions they did during the 1930s labor movements or in the 1890s in the general strike or any number of events and actions that have shaped the history of this country, we would be in a whole different situation. We would be in a Fascist dictatorship if people had not challenged the status quo. This is what democracy is all about. Democracy takes many forms.

To me, what we embarked on was a campaign of electronic civil disobedience. We felt the laws were unconstitutional. They were unjust. They violated our constitutional rights (and) our human rights as defined by UN accords. We felt taking action was necessary to force a change in those laws.

And in fact, that's what has happened. The FCC was saying three or four years ago in open court documents that they would never visit this issue again. And now, as a form of damage control, the FCC has given us a few crumbs off the table with the new LP-FM service.

It's been an interesting relationship for these seven years. They have stalled and stonewalled and prevaricated along this whole issue. So far, they have managed to dodge the bullet of constitutional scrutiny on their whole regulatory structure, which I feel is still unconstitutional. I don't feel they have the right to sell the airwaves in auctions.

JT: You say you don't recognize the constitutionality of the way the FCC distributes licenses for radio stations. Sketch out your vision for what would be the optimal setup for distributing what is ultimately a limited, finite resource.

SD: There's various ways of looking at it. If we could get 50% of the corporations off the airwaves, that's one way. The other way is to transition in where they give us new spectrum space.

For example, open up the FM band at the low end by moving TV channel 6 to the UHF digital, which is supposed to happen. That would open up 30 new channels of FM frequencies. And over a three or four year period, radio receivers could be manufactured to meet that new band requirement. That's not a big issue in my opinion. Already, such receivers exist in Japan because in Japan FM goes down to 78 Megahertz.

So, that's the more viable way. They have sort of recognized that. One of our proposals we put to the FCC was to open up that band. Well, now they want to open it up for the new digital broadcasting instead of what we proposed. We know it's a viable option to open up that six megahertz of channel space and make that available for strictly low-power community broadcasting, which I would see as being done more as a registration process than formal licensing.

That is, you find a frequency that is usable, fill out the paper forms, and notify the FCC that you have registered the use of that frequency. Then, follow the rules of the road in terms of interference, channel spacing and equipment and filtering and all that. As long as you follow the rules of the road, then there's no problem. That way it keeps it a much less formal way of dealing with it.

Globalizing from Below
JT: You've done work to bring microradio to other countries What are the policies and attitudes you've found from governments where you've tried to spread low-power radio?

SD: It varies. In Haiti, it's fairly easy to do. The Lavalas Party, the peasants' party, is in power ostensibly in Haiti. A lot of people work with our people in the peasant movements. So, there's been no problems there. In fact, it's almost easier to do microradio in Haiti than it is here.

In Mexico, it's very much opposed by the government. They have shut down stations. And, El Salvador does not recognize community radio as a service. They only recognize commercial and government radio. There's been ongoing fights in El Salvador over community radio.

In some places no governments exist at all virtually. We supplied several transmitters to opposition forces in East Timor against Indonesia and they were eventually were able to move back into Dili (East Timor's capitol city) and one of our transmitters there was set up as an official People's Voice of Dili.

JT: With the new FCC regulations going in place, talk about the strengths and weaknesses you see in what they've offered low-power people. Also, the NAB reaction and how this all leads into the mobilization this September for the counter-convention.

SD: In my opinion, what the FCC has given us is massive damage control. Essentially, they were faced with an ungovernable situation with hundreds if not thousands of people going on the air in their communities with micropower stations. People are still doing it. They may have slowed down a bit. Some people anticipate they may get some sort of license.

I think part of the reason the FCC did this is to break us up into two camps, those who are willing to go along with the process and those who see the process for what it is; tossing us a few crumbs while allowing the corporations to still dominate the airwaves, the people's resource. One, which in my opinion, has been stolen from the people. We're not the pirates. The corporations are the pirates here. We're not engaging in felonious activity. We are engaging in free speech activity.

The strength of it is they are actually recognizing the validity of what we are saying. In fact, most of the things adopted by the FCC were recommendations given to them by the micropower movement as represented by the National Lawyers Guild on Democratic Communications. If you listen to the FCC, they're making statements that could come from our court documents and other public record statements over the period of time we've been doing this. They've come around, at least at the official level, of recognizing the necessity of this.

Of course, this has sent the National Association of Broadcasters into a fit of apolexy. We've been in a state of war with the NAB for the last three or four years. They essentially declared war on us at one of their radio meetings. They put out orders to all their member stations, which is most every commercial station in this country, to locate and report any micropower station in their area regardless of whether that station was causing interference to any other existing services. Essentially, a search-and-destroy mission against micropower broadcasting.

In response to the FCC's LP-FM ruling, the NAB got its bought-and-paid-for Congress critters to introduce their own legislation to roll back the few crumbs the FCC has given us. That bill has now passed the House and will come up for a vote in the Senate soon. So, what we are mobilizing for is a mass outpouring of people to come to the NAB's radio convention

Who knows why they picked San Francisco. But, they're going to be right on our doorstep September 20-23 and we have every intention of confronting them and shutting down various aspects of their convention. Also, at the same time we will have our own counter-convention to push for independent, local, democratic media that will be the voice, the eyes and ears and the written hand of people in all these different communities across the country and the world.

JT: A globalization from below.

SD: Absolutely. My slogan is, "Act Globally, Revolt Locally."

Reaching Out
JT: A question about the September mobilization. This weekend there was the first meeting of the Microradio Action Coalition. Given the origins of the microradio movement with Mbanna and others and the necessity of bringing microradio to all types of communities, do you see this mobilization reflecting the diversity of the groups that could make use of this kind of communication.?

SD: Absolutely. That's our intent. You have to understand that when people of color do something illegal the repercussions for them are ten times as worse. We had one person in L.A., Michael Taylor, who met a very odd death over this issue. There was some weird, gnarly stuff going down. We don't know all the details. The point is when a person of color undertakes something like this for a community of people of color, they're gonna be subject to a lot more abuse. They could have the cops coming in and jacking them up on all kinds of pretexts. That's one of the deterring factors.

There's not any issues, as far as I'm concerned, in this movement of racism and classism. The fact of life (is) if you are a person of color in this community, or any community, particularly if you are an activist and going up against the system, you could end up like Geronimo Pratt, 27 years behind the bars, because the FBI lied about what you did, or (like) Mumia or whoever.

We definitely want to do a big outreach to youth of color to get them involved creating their own media so their own stories can be heard. So, we're going to do everything possible. We're basically here to help anybody, anytime set up a micropower station. If people want us to do workshops, or whatever, we'll do it.

But when you have a situation where three youth of color standing on the sidewalk corner is considered a riot by cops and dealt with accordingly, then you have to put yourself in their shoes and understand why they have to be a little bit more circumspect about these sort of things in their communities.

JT: What do you see for the future of community radio here in the US in the coming years? Do you see low-power taking the place of NPR-style public radio?

SD: We should be so lucky. I think it (low-power FM) is going to have an ever-increasing place in communities. As long as people are forthright and militant enough about it to not give up their rights to the airwaves, then it's going to happen in a real major way. More people are looking at the issue of corporate control of every aspect of their lives. Communication is an absolutely essential part of being able to deal with this whole issue of corporate hegemony. Because if you can't communicate, you can't organize. If you can't organize, you can't fight back. And if you can't fight back, you have no hope of winning.

Symbiosis: Microradio and the Net
JT:What kind of symbiosis do you see emerging between the Internet and low-power community radio?

SD: It's a symbiosis that has actually been in process for some time. I would say a lot of it began in 1997 when we set up the A-Infos radio project site basically to exchange program content in digital file form on MP3. And since then what we're looking at is using the Web as an alternative distribution medium to share program materials. In Seattle, we had Studio X. "Voices of Occupied Seattle" was doing a live Internet feed from Seattle. That feed was picked up and rebroadcast by community and micropower stations around the world. We had calls, for example, from Amsterdam. Radio 100 was rebroadcasting the feed.

What this does is allow us to both operate very locally as a grassroots community voice and at the same time operate globally as a grassroots global community to bring in breaking news, breaking things as they are happening right there in the immediacy of the event. Or, offer it on a delayed basis from taped material and content.

So, bascially we are seeing this integrated relationship between the Net as a distribution medium, as a way of communicating between stations to organize ourselves more effectively, to share content, to set up, as needed, webcasting studios to provide content to other stations. In the Bay Area, we are going to be providing webcasting services of all major events that occur in the Bay area so stations around the world and people individually can tune in and listen or dial in or dial up.

We see that there's going to be a very productive relationship between all these forms of grassroots media tool usage with the Internet, micropower broadcasting, inexpensive computer systems to edit your video and audio material and word processors to write your stories on. And using the Net to promulgate these on a global basis and using the micropower stations to promulgate it on a community basis. Not everyone in the community is gonna own a computer nor may they want to. Everyone's got a radio, though.

JT:Last question. The Internet played a huge role in what happened in Seattle and people are continuing to use it as an effective tool. Do you think that the powers-that-be ever imagined it would work out this way? And, do you think there's any way they can reign it back in?

SD: I'm sure they never conceived it would ever happen this way. But, that's the perversity of the Universe in which we live. Things take a life of their own. And at this point, I don't think they are going to be able to reign it back in. It has permeated everything too deeply to be uprooted. And if they do, it would cause such a major social upheaval. In terms of people, it would set off a major prairie fire of resistance.

The 2003 birthday book also includes a letter that references Trump with a crude joke about a woman from another Epstein associate

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Supreme Court rules that immigration raids in LA can continue

US top court says that immigration agents can stop people based solely on their race, language or job.

^{Nadine Yousif (BBC News)}

Jerusalem (AFP) – Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in east Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people and wounding others, according to Israel's foreign minister, in one of the deadliest attacks on Israel since the start of the Gaza war.

"Palestinian terrorists murdered six Israelis," Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said, adding that one of the dead was a recent immigrant from Spain.

Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) had earlier reported 15 people wounded in the late morning attack at the Ramot Junction in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, with seven in serious condition. Police said the two gunmen were also killed.

Four of the dead were ultra-Orthodox Israeli men, according to local media.

Spain's foreign ministry condemned the attack, affirming its "commitment to peace in the Middle East".

At the scene of the attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: "Let it be clear: these murders strengthen our determination to fight terrorism."

"We are now engaged in pursuit and are cordoning off the villages from which the murderers came. We will apprehend whoever aided and dispatched them, and we will take even stronger steps."

Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir later said in a statement that he "ordered a full closure of the area from which the terrorists came".

"We will continue with a determined and ongoing operational and intelligence effort, we will pursue terror cells everywhere, and we will thwart terrorist infrastructure and its organizers," he added.

The Israeli military had earlier said troops were "encircling several areas on the outskirts of Ramallah" in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in response to the attack.

Palestinian militant group Hamas, which has been at war with Israel in the Gaza Strip for nearly two years, praised the attack, saying it was carried out by two Palestinian militants.

"We affirm that this operation is a natural response to the crimes of the occupation and the genocide it is waging against our people," Hamas said in a statement.

Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich blamed the attack on the Palestinian Authority, which he claimed "raises and educates its children to murder Jews".

"The Palestinian Authority must disappear from the map, and the villages from which the attackers came should be reduced to the status of Rafah and Beit Hanoun," he wrote on X, referring to cities in Gaza that have been devastated by Israeli air strikes.

The Palestinian presidency in Ramallah said it "firmly rejected and condemned any targeting of Palestinian and Israeli civilians," the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

The PA is a civilian ruling authority in areas of the West Bank, where about three million Palestinians live -- as well as around half a million Israelis occupying settlements considered illegal under international law.

Israeli paramedic Fadi Dekaidek, who was at the scene, called the attack "severe".

"The wounded were lying on the road and sidewalk near a bus stop, some of them unconscious," he said in a statement issued by MDA.

Police said the attackers opened fire towards the bus stop after arriving in a vehicle.

"A security officer and a civilian at the scene responded immediately, returned fire, and neutralised the attackers," they said in a statement.

Palestinian gunmen shoot dead six people in east Jerusalem attack: foreign minister

^RFI

London (AFP) – British street artist Banksy on Monday took aim at the UK's crackdown on protesters with a new work outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, adding fuel to a free-speech row roiling the country.

The artist posted an image of the work, which features a judge wielding a gavel over a protester on the ground holding a blood-splattered placard, on his Instagram page.

The work has since been covered by black plastic sheets and two metal barriers.

It appeared after 890 people were arrested at a demonstration against a ban on the activist group Palestine Action in London on Saturday.

The artwork "powerfully depicts the brutality unleashed" by the government's ban, said a spokesperson from the Defend Our Juries group that organised the protest.

"Since the dystopian ban came into force, over 1,600 people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding cardboard signs with seven words 'I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action'," the spokesperson added.

"When the law is used as a tool to crush civil liberties, it does not extinguish dissent -- it strengthens it."

Free speech has become a hot topic in the UK, with people from across the political spectrum complaining that the law is too heavy-handed.

The issue hit international headlines last week when comedy writer Graham Linehan was arrested for posts on X insulting transgender people.

Questa Posta Del Culo è diversa dalle altre perché invece dei messaggi sui social, affronta un’usanza arrivata a essere grottesca. La giornata mondiale.

La posta del culo: giornata mondiale

Iniziamo col botto: qual è la differenza tra il culo e la giornata mondiale? Nessuna! Per ogni persona ce ne è una.

Parlando sul serio: la giornata mondiale o internazionale è un evento legato a una data specifica, solitamente organizzato dalle nazioni unite o altre realtà più o meno famose per sensibilizzare su un tema sociale o una professione.

Sono nate molto tempo fa, adesso però le si conosce di più perché servono a fare tendenza sui social network: maggiore è il numero di post che ne parlano, maggiore è la possibilità per le aziende di sfruttare a scopo di lucro le persone che si puliscono la coscienza convinte di fare attivismo sul tema del giorno, con un semplice messaggio.

Io sono Spartaco!

Citiamo dal film “Spartacus”, di Stanley Kubrick: “io sono Spartaco!”

Spartaco, cresciuto come schiavo, guida una rivoluzione che l’esercito romano reprime; il generale Crasso è intenzionato a giustiziare tutti i ribelli ma pone loro una condizione: “se mi consegnate Spartaco, vi risparmierò la vita.”

Così uno alla volta iniziano a urlare: “io sono Spartaco!” E alla fine vengono tutti messi a morte per crocifissione ma la vera identità di Spartaco non è mai stata scoperta.

Cosa c’entra con la giornata mondiale?

Se tutti sono Spartaco, nessuno è Spartaco! Allo stesso modo se ogni data corrisponde a una giornata mondiale importante, nessuna ricorrenza viene ricordata davvero. Anzi ogni giornata mondiale viene presa in giro e quasi nessuno ne conosce la storia.

Riportiamo come dimostrazione l’elenco delle giornate mondiali presenti a settembre. Sono vere? Sono finte? Alla fine diventa irrilevante, anche perché in alcuni giorni ce ne è più di una.

Settembre: le giornate mondiali

• 1 settembre: giornata mondiale della barba, e della lettera d’amore
• 2 settembre: giornata mondiale della cognizione (come? Che cavolo è?)
• 3 settembre: giornata internazionale delle caprette, e delle persone barbute (ma il giorno della barba non era l’uno?)
• 4 settembre: giornata mondiale della salute sessuale (ecco, di questa si dovrebbe parlare un po’ più seriamente)
• 5 settembre: giornata internazionale della carità. (non lo sapevamo, è anche il compleanno di Freddie Mercury. Al prossimo giro passeremo col piattino cantando le sue canzoni…)
• 6 settembre: giornata mondiale dei barbieri (ma perché non uniscono con la barba e le persone barbute? Mistero).
• 7 settembre: giornata internazionale dell’aria pulita per i cieli blu. (sottotitolo: vietato scoreggiare e avere l’alito cattivo, giusto?)
• 8 settembre: giornata mondiale della fisioterapia (uno di noi ha un genitore fisioterapista che, neanche a dirlo… non sapeva niente). Più giornata internazionale dell’alfabetizzazione.
• 9 settembre: giornata mondiale della sindrome feto-alcolica e della bellezza (due materie coerenti una con l’altra, vero?)
• 10 settembre: giornata mondiale per la prevenzione del suicidio…

Potremmo andare avanti ancora perché ce ne sono fino al 30, addirittura giorni con due ricorrenze ciascuno ma non vale la pena perderci tempo anche se approfondire le storie alla base di una singola giornata, può farci scoprire qualcosa di interessante.

Non vogliamo essere come i cospirazionisti ma, nel nostro blog, siamo liberi di esprimere un cattivo pensiero: non è che istituire la giornata mondiale per ogni stupidaggine serva proprio a nascondere quelle più rilevanti per la società civile?

• 4 settembre: salute sessuale
• 10 settembre: prevenzione dei suicidi
• 11 settembre: primo soccorso
• 14 settembre: donazione del midollo osseo
• 15 settembre: giornata internazionale della democrazia
• 21 settembre: giornata internazionale della pace
• 26 settembre: giornata per l’eliminazione delle armi nucleari, giornata europea delle lingue, giornata della contraccezione.
• 28 settembre: giornata dell’accesso universale all’informazione

Ora uno ci dovrebbe spiegare perché la giornata mondiale per l’eliminazione totale delle armi nucleari sia stata messa il 26 settembre insieme alla giornata della contraccezione e quella europea delle lingue.

Tutte e tre, per diversi motivi, avrebbero la loro rilevanza nella società contemporanea. In Europa sarebbe l’occasione per riflettere sul fatto che si insiste a chiamarsi “unione” però ogni paese parla la propria lingua e, quella comune, è l’inglese che ha origine in uno Stato non facente più parte della sedicente unione europea. Come la mettiamo?

Abbiamo citato queste apposta, perché nel periodo storico in cui viviamo la pace, la democrazia, la libertà sessuale e riproduttiva e il benessere sono ad altissimo rischio e sarebbe necessaria una consapevolezza maggiore.

Noi quando abbiamo iniziato il blog, siamo un po’ caduti nella tendenza di catturare ogni giornata mondiale e farla raccontare al nostro virus HIV senziente ma poi ci siamo resi conto che non riuscivamo a starci dietro e al posto di divertirci, ci sentivamo sotto pressione.

Facciamo pure fatica a celebrare la giornata contro l’HIV e AIDS (primo dicembre), figuriamoci le altre! Lasciamole a chi ha tempo da perdere.

The U.N.'s Universal Postal Union (UPU) said the global postal network saw postal traffic en route to the U.S. "come to a near halt" after Aug. 29, when the "de minimis" trade exemption that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended. Data between postal operators shows that traffic dropped 81% on Aug. 29 compared to a week earlier, the union said. The UPU also said it is working on ways to get traffic flowing back to the country.

At least 88 postal operators have suspended some or all services to the United States until there is a solution, the union said.

After the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary, school leaders in Uvalde, Texas, initially planned to publicly defend district Police Chief Pete Arredondo, but officials instead chose to remain silent as investigations into police actions unfolded, newly released records show. Arredondo is now facing criminal charges over law enforcement’s delayed confrontation with the gunman.

The previously unreported details were revealed in over 25,000 pages of records the district has disclosed over the course of a week since Aug. 26 after a yearslong legal fight with news outlets, including ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, which filed over 70 public information requests for the records in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.

However, the district’s law firm may have again failed to disclose all of the requested information, according to Laura Prather, one of the attorneys representing the newsrooms in the records litigation. Prather sent a letter Friday demanding the district publish the remaining files, which could include details about the school maintenance issues with doors that failed to lock, Arredondo’s severance and additional communications among officials. Decker, the district’s lawyer, did not respond to requests for comment.

Uvalde School Officials Initially Planned to Defend Pete Arredondo, Records Show

The previously unreported details were revealed in the over 25,000 pages of records the school district has disclosed since Aug. 26 in response to a yearslong legal fight by news outlets, including ProPublica and The Texas Tribune.

^ProPublica

These People Deserve Each Other

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent got into a heated confrontation with Federal Housing Finance Agency chief Bill Pulte last week at the Executive Branch, the MAGA-chic private club in D.C., Politico reports.

Bessent accused Pulte, the MAGA influencer ginning up mortgage fraud claims against Trump foes, of bad-mouthing him to Trump, leading to this diatribe from the sitting Treasury secretary: “Why the fuck are you talking to the president about me? Fuck you. I’m gonna punch you in your fucking face.”

Co-owner Omeed Malik attempted to intervene in the confrontation, prompting this memorable exchange:

“It’s either me or him,” Bessent said to Malik. “You tell me who’s getting the fuck out of here.”

“Or,” he added, “we could go outside.”

“To do what?” asked Pulte. “To talk?”

“No,” Bessent replied. “I’m going to fucking beat your ass.”

Even Trump-world insiders described the scene to Politico as “bonkers” and “unhinged.”

Stamattina stavo (ri)guardando le immagini stock di Blogger, che vengono proposte da usare come sfondi decorativi sui siti dal pannello admin, e… mi è venuto in mente che dovevo pigniarli (e ci mancherebbe altro, ormai). In realtà, io pensavo fossero sfondi esclusivi di Google, anche se sotto sotto sospettavo di no… e infatti sono immagini […]

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2025-09-08 18:11:11

bloggistiche immagini rubacchiate alla gran G (immagini stock di Blogger salvate in Pignio)

Stamattina stavo (ri)guardando le immagini stock di Blogger, che vengono proposte da usare come sfondi decorativi sui siti dal pannello admin, e… mi è venuto in mente che dovevo pigniarli (e ci mancherebbe altro, ormai). In realtà, io pensavo fossero sfondi esclusivi di Google, anche se sotto sotto sospettavo di no… e infatti sono immagini stock premium normalissime, provenienti dai vari siti soliti… ma questo non vuol dire che non siano da salvare nella mia pineta multimediale, visto come possono sempre tornare utili nei momenti più casuali. 🙂

Sono ben 372 immagini uniche, molte JPEG e qualcuna PNG, quasi tutte in alta risoluzione, ma ovviamente tutte senza watermark, per cui evidentemente sono tutte state comprate da Google per permettere agli utenti di usarle gratis complementando i vari temi offerti (ma da almeno un decennio eh, non è roba recente, e lo si vede da come Blogger ancora usa il benedettissimo Material v1)… E certamente non sono state pagate da Google perché io potessi scaricarmele tutte e archiviarmele nella mia libreria dell’accumulo ordinato, quindi è servita indubbiamente un pochino di magia per compiere il misfatto, ma in pochi minuti ci ho messo comunque le mani sopra, su tutte (perché alcune mi piacciono tanto). 🪆

Sono servite due fasi per compiere l’opera. Fase 1: usare la console JavaScript del browser per copiare i metadati di tutte le immagini dalla pagina attiva ad un oggetto JSON, cliccando una sezione alla volta ed eseguendo per ciascuna il mio codicino che prende le immagini dal DOM… e poi fase 2: chiedere a Copilot di scrivere uno scriptino per scaricare tutte le immagini dal JSON su disco e creare i file INI corrispondenti per Pignio. (E, fase 3, suppongo: eseguire lo script e godere.) E poi in realtà ho dovuto spendere fin troppi minuti per filtrare a mano (con solo l’aiuto di Czkawka) le immagini duplicate che sono uscite fuori, perché svariate erano ripetute in più categorie, ma era comunque meno problematico fare così che sbattermi per avere uno script che tenesse conto già di questo schifo, vabbé. ✋

Adesso che ho anche aggiornato Pignio per mostrare le liste delle sottocartelle, collezioni di questo tipo lì sopra sono anche più epiche di prima, quindi ecco tutte queste belle (o quantomeno decenti) immagini stock con licenza non specificata (insomma, riutilizzabili solo a proprio rischio e pericolo, come piace a me): … e, qui ci sono gli appunti delle varie fasi, comprensivi di sloppa IA per gran divertimento: memos.octt.eu.org/m/nZo3BpL67C…. E ora, ancora, appena ho voglia, mi prenderò pure le immagini di Google Sites, che sono diverse (ma sono di meno, forse una cinquantina, quindi si fa subito anche solo a mano). 🎭

#Blogger #images #immagini #sfondi #stock

Memo by ██▓▒­░⡷⠂𝚘𝚌𝚝𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚞𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚜⠐⢾░▒▓██

Czkawka, Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc: + https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka + Fake site with probably malware: https://czkawka.com — https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka/issues/1583 ![](https://user-images.

^Memos

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-immigration-stops-los-angeles-trump-57cc1f85ceafda0f11052b326c8b7173

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-linked-venture-fund-1789-capital-tops-1-billion-assets-2025-09-08/

The leading U.S. exchange for technology giants is moving toward blockchain-based listing and trading of stocks, filing a request with the SEC to pursue it.

Nasdaq Seeks Nod From U.S. SEC to Tokenize Stocks

^{Jesse Hamilton (CoinDesk)}

Forget scorecards and accountability assemblies. These polite tactics assume shame still works on politicians who've proven themselves shameless. That's bringing a pencil to a gunfight. This is political asymmetric warfare, and anti-authoritarians need to weaponize every legal mechanism available. Every tactic described here operates within existing law.

Consult local statutes and file only legitimate, good-faith complaints. But file them relentlessly.

Ethics complaints, criminal referrals, FOIA bombardments, bar complaints, IRS whistleblower reports: these are the tools that actually destroy political careers. Corrupt politicians have vulnerabilities: campaign finance violations, unreported income, conflicts of interest, misuse of office resources. These corrupt practices are often integral to their systematic exploitation.

Criminal complaints also work. Bob Menendez got 11 years. Duncan Hunter got 11 months in prison for stealing over $250,000 in campaign funds. File criminal referrals with state attorneys general. Even unsuccessful investigations drain resources. Politicians routinely spend six figures to millions on defense lawyers while under investigation. Trump spent over $100 million on legal fees during his criminal investigations and civil lawsuits from 2022-2024. Force them to lawyer up repeatedly.

FOIA functions as a powerful tool. Scott Pruitt's career ended after Sierra Club's relentless FOIA campaign exposed his secret calendars and industry meetings. Hillary Clinton's email scandal started with a FOIA request filed by journalist Jason Leopold. File requests for calendars, emails, text messages, visitor logs. Appeal every denial. Litigate when necessary. Organizations like CREW maintain hundreds of active FOIA requests and lawsuits, creating constant pressure.

The Red State Resistance Blueprint

Asymmetric Political Warfare

^{Christopher Armitage (The Existential Republic)}

Torniamo più carichi che mai dalle lunghe ferie

Il libro di Settembre 2025 è Le venti giornate di Torino

Tempo fino al 1 ottobre, poi vediamo

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