À l’occasion de la journée de Zamenhof, nous débattrons l’après-midi à propos de l’espéranto :
– De quoi s’agit-il réellement ? La définition du PIV est-elle suffisante ?
– L’espéranto est-il plus qu’une langue ?
– Comment est-ce possible, ou cela pourrait-il l’être ?
– Est-ce important ?
– Comment vivez-vous personnellement l’espéranto ?
– Zaza influence-t-il encore le mouvement actuel ?
Ce débat sera l’après-midi en français et sera précédé d’un agréable repas en auberge espagnole à midi et des affaires courantes de l’association le matin (en espéranto).
N’oubliez pas votre pique-nique et vos couverts pour le repas partagé.
Nos réunions sont ouvertes à tous, membres et non membres de l’association, locuteurs ou non d’espéranto, bien que nos discussions soient souvent en espéranto.
Vous pouvez arriver à midi si vous ne désirez pas participer à la réunion en espéranto du matin.
Venez nombreux !!!
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Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux
Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux - alavi.me
We will explore how we can use an Android E-ink tablet (or any tablet) as a monitor for Linux computeralavi.me
Five arrested over plot to attack German Christmas market
Local media says one of the suspects is an imam at a mosque, and police allege he "called for a vehicle attack".
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Thailand says Cambodian rocket fire has caused its first civilian death in new border fighting
Thailand's government reports a rocket attack from Cambodia on Sunday killed a 63-year-old villager.
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United Boeing 777 Has Engine Failure, Causing Dulles Airport Brush Fire
A United Airlines Boeing 777 had an engine failure while departing Washington Dulles Airport, which ultimately caused a brush fire.
One million households without power in Ukraine after Russia attacks energy grid
The latest overnight attacks come as US envoy Steve Witkoff prepares to hold more talks with Ukraine's president.
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Airline Industry On The Verge Of Historic $1 Trillion Revenue This Year
The global aviation industry is expected to achieve $1.008 trillion this year marking a 4% growth from 2024 & forecasts a further 4.5% growth in 2026.
Airline Industry On The Verge Of Historic $1 Trillion Revenue This Year
The global aviation industry is expected to achieve $1.008 trillion this year marking a 4% growth from 2024 & forecasts a further 4.5% growth in 2026.Abid Habib (Simple Flying)
Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux
Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux - alavi.me
We will explore how we can use an Android E-ink tablet (or any tablet) as a monitor for Linux computeralavi.me
Price of a bot army revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide
A new analysis using twelve months of COTSI data, published in the journal Science, shows that verifying fake accounts for use in the US and UK is almost as cheap as in Russia, while Japan and Australia have high prices due to SIM costs and photo ID rules.The average price of SMS verification for an online platform during the year-long study period running to July 2025 was $4.93 in Japan and $3.24 in Australia, yet just a fraction of that in the US ($0.26), UK ($0.10) and Russia ($0.08).
The research also reveals that prices for fake accounts on Telegram and WhatsApp appear to spike in countries about to have national elections, suggesting a surge in demand due to “influence operations”.
Price of a 'bot army' revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide
The first global index tracking real-time prices for buying fake account verifications on 500+ online platforms in every country has been launched by a team at the University of Cambridge.University of Cambridge
This Month’s Poem
Halsway Carol
Iain Frisk
Lo for the tiding of the long night moon
Let the sunrise call about the morning soon
Short is the biding of the fading light
Sing for the coming of the longest night
North wind tell us what we need to know
When the stars are shining on the midnight snow
All of the branches will be turned to white
Sing for the coming of the longest night
A winter day, the summer grass turned hay
Frost in the field ’til the dawn of May
A summer’s light never shone as clear or as bright
So dance in the shadows of a winter’s night
Lo for the tiding of the long night moon
May the harvest last until the springtime bloom
Home is our comfort at the winter’s height
Sing for the coming of the longest night
All of the colours of the sunrise sky
Shine a light upon us, as the day goes by
Sun-setting shadows fading out of sight
Sing for the coming of the longest night
A winter day, the summer grass turned hay
Frost in the field ’til the dawn of May
A summer’s light never shone as clear or as bright
So dance in the shadows of a winter’s night
Find this poem online at Town Common Songs
Price of a bot army revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide
Cambridge Online Trust and Safety Index
A new analysis using twelve months of COTSI data, published in the journal Science, shows that verifying fake accounts for use in the US and UK is almost as cheap as in Russia, while Japan and Australia have high prices due to SIM costs and photo ID rules.The average price of SMS verification for an online platform during the year-long study period running to July 2025 was $4.93 in Japan and $3.24 in Australia, yet just a fraction of that in the US ($0.26), UK ($0.10) and Russia ($0.08).
The research also reveals that prices for fake accounts on Telegram and WhatsApp appear to spike in countries about to have national elections, suggesting a surge in demand due to “influence operations”.
Price of a 'bot army' revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide
The first global index tracking real-time prices for buying fake account verifications on 500+ online platforms in every country has been launched by a team at the University of Cambridge.University of Cambridge
2 Korean publishing associations sue Google, Apple over mandatory in-app purchases
2 Korean publishing associations sue Google, Apple over mandatory in-app purchases
Korea's two publisher associations have filed class-action lawsuits in the United States against two tech giants, Google and Apple, accusing them o...Kim Se-jeong (The Korea Times)
VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
Should You Trust Your VPN Location?
17 out of 20 popular VPNs exit traffic from different countries than they claim. Dig into what that means and why it matters in our VPN report.IPinfo
LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash
LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash
LG's recent software update has forcibly installed Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant, on smart TVs without removal options, sparking widespread user backlash over privacy, bloatware, and loss of control.Lucas Greene (WebProNews)
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Jared Kushner is at the center of Trump's corruption
From media mergers to foreign policy, Trump's son-in-law is consolidating power — and making millions
The speed and scale of Jared Kushner’s re-emergence can’t be overstated. In the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency, his son-in-law is casually consolidating economic and political power with staggering speed.
Kushner has positioned himself at the center of the biggest media merger in years and at the fulcrum of White House foreign policy, all while taking in multi-billion-dollar investments from autocratic governments.
Easily set up your PieFed instance using YunoHost!
After 5 months of chipping away at it, PieFed is now an installable 'app' in the Yunohost store! It's been there for a couple of weeks actually but until this weekend it had a scary red exclamation mark because some automated tests hadn't ran yet. But that's gone now so I feel confident about recommending it to others.
Yunohost is a linux distro for servers that has a web gui for installing and managing services, that takes all the hassle out of self-hosting. How to get started with Yunohost.
@squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi and @michael@piefed.chrisco.me have had good success setting up their instances already: piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/…
A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements
The first post in a four part miniseries about self-hosting for newbies via YunoHostElena Rossini
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Spotify’s Prompted Playlists use AI to control your algorithm
Spotify’s Prompted Playlists use AI to control your algorithm
Prompted Playlists, a new beta feature on Spotify, will let Premium users (in New Zealand) generate playlists with AIStevie Bonifield (The Verge)
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This Photographer Built an Awesome Medium-Format Rangefinder, and So Can You
This Photographer Built an Awesome Medium-Format Rangefinder, and So Can You
Photographer Albert Cornelissen wanted an affordable, versatile medium-format rangefinder. So he built it himself.Jeremy Gray (PetaPixel)
This Photographer Built an Awesome Medium-Format Rangefinder, and So Can You
This Photographer Built an Awesome Medium-Format Rangefinder, and So Can You
Photographer Albert Cornelissen wanted an affordable, versatile medium-format rangefinder. So he built it himself.Jeremy Gray (PetaPixel)
EU keeps moving to Open Source, New Linux smartphone, KDE fundraising
EU keeps moving to Open Source, New Linux smartphone, KDE fundraising - Linux Weekly news
Head to https://squarespace.com/thelinuxexperiment to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code thelinuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https:/...PeerTube.wtf
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At least 11 die in storm-hit Gaza from cold and collapsing buildings
By Mera Aladam
12 December 2025 10:20 GMT
Overall, at least 13 buildings - already partly damaged from Israeli bombing - collapsed due to heavy rain and strong winds, according to the Gaza-based Government Media Office. Some people remain trapped under the rubble, with others wounded.Meanwhile, over 27,000 tents of displaced families have been destroyed or swept away by floods and strong winds. More than 250,000 displaced people have been affected by rain, floods, and collapsing shelters.
Over 4,300 distress calls have been made across the Gaza Strip since the storm began earlier this week, the Ministry of Interior and National Security said.
Despite limited resources, the ministry said search-and-rescue civil defence teams, along with police, are doing their best to help people.
At least 11 die in storm-hit Gaza from cold and collapsing buildings
At least 11 Palestinians have died in storm-hit Gaza from cold and collapsing buildings within the last 24 hours.Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
At least 11 die in storm-hit Gaza from cold and collapsing buildings
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By Mera Aladam
12 December 2025 10:20 GMT
Overall, at least 13 buildings - already partly damaged from Israeli bombing - collapsed due to heavy rain and strong winds, according to the Gaza-based Government Media Office. Some people remain trapped under the rubble, with others wounded.Meanwhile, over 27,000 tents of displaced families have been destroyed or swept away by floods and strong winds. More than 250,000 displaced people have been affected by rain, floods, and collapsing shelters.
Over 4,300 distress calls have been made across the Gaza Strip since the storm began earlier this week, the Ministry of Interior and National Security said.
Despite limited resources, the ministry said search-and-rescue civil defence teams, along with police, are doing their best to help people.
At least 11 die in storm-hit Gaza from cold and collapsing buildings
By Mera Aladam
12 December 2025 10:20 GMTOverall, at least 13 buildings - already partly damaged from Israeli bombing - collapsed due to heavy rain and strong winds, according to the Gaza-based Government Media Office. Some people remain trapped under the rubble, with others wounded.Meanwhile, over 27,000 tents of displaced families have been destroyed or swept away by floods and strong winds. More than 250,000 displaced people have been affected by rain, floods, and collapsing shelters.
Over 4,300 distress calls have been made across the Gaza Strip since the storm began earlier this week, the Ministry of Interior and National Security said.
Despite limited resources, the ministry said search-and-rescue civil defence teams, along with police, are doing their best to help people.
At least 11 die in storm-hit Gaza from cold and collapsing buildings
At least 11 Palestinians have died in storm-hit Gaza from cold and collapsing buildings within the last 24 hours.Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
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Israel’s expanding ‘Yellow Line’ swallows Gaza districts and uproots families
By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
13 December 2025 09:44 GMT
“From the first day we came back, we heard bombardment, demolitions and gunfire,” Hamed said.“It would start at sunset and continue until dawn.”
At first, they assumed the explosions were far away, believing the Yellow Line was still distant.
But now, Hamed can see the yellow concrete blocks placed by Israeli forces from his window – a sight that wasn’t there just weeks ago.
Across Gaza, the temporary demarcation line has been shifting, creeping ever closer to densely populated areas and fuelling fears of renewed displacement and violence by Israel.
Israel’s expanding ‘Yellow Line’ swallows Gaza districts and uproots families
When Ahmed Hamed returned to his home in Gaza City after the ceasefire, it stood about 1.5km west of the so-called “Yellow Line” enforced by Israel. Two months on, that distance has shrunk to roughly 200 metres.Maha Hussaini (Middle East Eye)
Israel’s expanding ‘Yellow Line’ swallows Gaza districts and uproots families
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By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
13 December 2025 09:44 GMT
“From the first day we came back, we heard bombardment, demolitions and gunfire,” Hamed said.“It would start at sunset and continue until dawn.”
At first, they assumed the explosions were far away, believing the Yellow Line was still distant.
But now, Hamed can see the yellow concrete blocks placed by Israeli forces from his window – a sight that wasn’t there just weeks ago.
Across Gaza, the temporary demarcation line has been shifting, creeping ever closer to densely populated areas and fuelling fears of renewed displacement and violence by Israel.
Israel’s expanding ‘Yellow Line’ swallows Gaza districts and uproots families
By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
13 December 2025 09:44 GMT“From the first day we came back, we heard bombardment, demolitions and gunfire,” Hamed said.“It would start at sunset and continue until dawn.”
At first, they assumed the explosions were far away, believing the Yellow Line was still distant.
But now, Hamed can see the yellow concrete blocks placed by Israeli forces from his window – a sight that wasn’t there just weeks ago.
Across Gaza, the temporary demarcation line has been shifting, creeping ever closer to densely populated areas and fuelling fears of renewed displacement and violence by Israel.
Israel’s expanding ‘Yellow Line’ swallows Gaza districts and uproots families
When Ahmed Hamed returned to his home in Gaza City after the ceasefire, it stood about 1.5km west of the so-called “Yellow Line” enforced by Israel. Two months on, that distance has shrunk to roughly 200 metres.Maha Hussaini (Middle East Eye)
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American Socialists Aren’t Tired of Winning
American Socialists Aren’t Tired of Winning
More than 100 democratic socialist elected officials, staffers, and organizers from across the US met in New Orleans for the third How We Win conference last weekend. The gathering demonstrated American socialists’ growing influence and confidence.jacobin.com
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Back to Bipolarity: How China's Rise Transformed the Balance of Power Free || Jennifer Lind
Conclusion:
“Let me tell you something,” President Barack Obama told Congress during his 2016 State of the Union address, “the United States of America is the most powerful nation on Earth,” he said. “Period. Period. It's not even close.” In case anyone did not get the message, Obama repeated “it's not even close” two more times, while the audience applauded.155 But was it close? And how close must a country get to the United States to challenge it in a great power competition? This article contributes to such debates by creating an inductive method for comparing national power, both to validate common metrics and to establish thresholds for great power capabilities.
This method has shown, first, that thresholds for great power are far lower than many scholars assume. The balance of power is often highly uneven among great powers—even between superpowers. Countries that engaged other great powers in dangerous security competitions often had far inferior material capabilities.
Second, China is either within or well past what constitutes the historical normal range for great powers. In fact, in contrast to the argument that the United States enjoys a substantial lead, I find that China today is a superpower whose capabilities on most dimensions exceed those of the Soviet Union at its Cold War peak. Third, contrary to assertions that the world remains unipolar or has shifted into multipolarity, this article has shown that the world is bipolar. India and Russia are indeed influential regional powers, and India's continued rise may, in the medium term, shift the system into multipolarity. As of 2024, though, the system is bipolar.
The shift from a unipolar, U.S.-dominated system to a bipolar system has important implications for international politics. Engaged in a security competition with a superpower rival, China has both the motivation and the resources to shape international politics in ways that protect its interests. Indeed, Beijing already supports authoritarian leaders in a variety of ways, contributing to a global trend of democratic decline.156 China's contestation of human rights and other norms is transforming multilateral institutions’ activities and agendas.157 China's political and economic support has already affected the balance of power in the Russo-Ukrainian War and strengthens Iran vis-à-vis the United States and Europe.158 Furthermore, China has transformed the balance of power in East Asia, which elevates the risk of war over Taiwan and creates the risk of war and nuclear escalation between China and the United States.159 By threatening U.S. regional power projection, China's great power rise calls into question the credibility of U.S. security guarantees of its regional allies and threatens the alliance system at the core of current U.S. grand strategy. After 1990, the shift from bipolarity to unipolarity transformed U.S. foreign policy and international politics. Today, the shift from unipolarity to bipolarity makes another transformation likely.
https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/49/2/7/125214/Back-to-Bipolarity-How-China-s-Rise-Transformed
MAHA Moms Are Angry at the E.P.A. Lee Zeldin Is Trying to Win Them Back.
A split is emerging within Trump’s base as health activists accuse Mr. Zeldin of leading the agency to prioritize chemical industry interests over public health.
Schedule for Social Web Developer Room at FOSDEM 2026
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Pull-Effekt: Sachsen bietet Exklusivausbildung für faschistische Jurist*innen
Wer gegen die allgemeinen Menschenrechte ankämpft, sollte im Gerichtssaal nur auf der Anklagebank etwas zu sagen haben – so zumindest die Theorie in Deutschland seit den Nürnberger Prozessen. Anders sieht man das in Sachsen. Hier werden Faschist*innen auch nach höchstrichterlichen Urteilen noch Rosen auf den Weg gestreut.
Doch der Reihe nach: Im Oktober 2022 entschied der Sächsische Verfassungsgerichtshof (SächsVerfGH) in einem umstrittenen Urteil, dass Sachsen dem Dritten Weg-Kader Matthias Bauerfeind, sein Rechtsreferendariat ermöglichen müsse. In Bayern und Thüringen war der langjährige Neonazi mit seinen Klagen – wie in vergleichbaren Fällen aller Bundesländer seit einem Leiturteil von 1975 üblich – gescheitert. Bauerfeind zog im bayerischen Fall sogar vor das zuständige Bundesgericht und verlor – allerdings zu spät, denn da war der Neonazi, dank der eigensinnigen Auslegung des höchsten sächsischen Gerichts, bereits fertig ausgebildeter Volljurist. Tür und Tor stehen neonazistischen Jurist*innen seitdem in Sachsen offen.
Matthias Bauerfeind
Der 1984 geborene Matthias Bauerfeind war von 2005 bis 2012 Funktionär der NPD und ab 2009 Kern einer Kameradschaft im „Freies Netz Süd“. Von 2005 bis 2013 wurde er fünf Mal verurteilt, u.a. wegen Widerstands gegen Vollstreckungsbeamte und Verwendens von Kennzeichen verfassungswidriger Organisationen. Nach dem Verbot des „Freien Netz“ im Jahr 2014, baute er als „stellvertretender Gebietsleiter Süd“ den Dritten Weg in Bayern mit auf. Dokumentiert sind beispielsweise seine Auftritte 2016 in Nürnberg, 2017 in Fulda und 2019 in Kempten. Bemerkenswert, aber wenig überraschend: Zuletzt fiel der auf Strafrecht spezialisierte Bauerfeind damit auf, dass er von mehreren baden-württembergischen AfD-Kreistagsfraktionen das anwaltliche Mandat in Verwaltungssachen erhielt.
Wir wollen euch hier den jüngsten Fall des sächsischen Sonderwegs vorstellen:
Im Mai 2025 wurde der Faschist John Hoewer aufgrund seiner Tätigkeit und Publikationen bei der Jungen Alternativen, dem extrem rechten Verein Ein Prozent, und dem offen faschistischen Jungeuropa Verlag als Rechtsreferendar in Rheinland-Pfalz abgelehnt. In seiner Begründung schrieb das Gericht in Koblenz, dass es in einer „wehrhaften“ Demokratie „(…) dem Staat [nicht] zuzumuten [sei], verfassungsuntreue Bewerber in den Vorbereitungsdienst aufnehmen zu müssen.“
Doch dann bewarb sich Hoewer in Sachsen.
Nachdem das Oberlandesgericht (OLG) Hoewer zwei mal aus Zweifel an seiner Verfassungstreue ablehnte, entschied das Oberverwaltungsgericht (OVG) Bautzen im November 2025, dass Hoewer unverzüglich seine juristische Ausbildung beim Oberlandesgericht (OLG) Dresden aufnehmen dürfe. Das OVG Bautzen sah sich dabei an das kritisierte Sonderurteil des SächsVerfGH gebunden. Es bekräftigte seine Zweifel an der Richtigkeit dieses Urteils sogar nachdrücklich. Trotzdem verzichtete es auf eine Weiterleitung des Falls an das zuständige Bundesgericht (BVerfG), welches 2024 im Fall Bauerfeind doch eindeutig im Widerspruch zum SächsVerfGH entschieden hatte. Eine verpasste Gelegenheit. Und so bleibt das Motto der sächsischen Rechtspraxis vorerst: Nur weil man Faschisten ablehnen kann, heißt das noch lange nicht, dass man sie auch ablehnen muss. Denn in Sachsen reicht es seit 2022 nicht aus, nachweislich einer menschenverachtenden Ideologie anzuhängen. Man muss sich schon strafbar machen im Kampf gegen die freiheitlich demokratische Grundordnung.
John Hoewer
Der neu-rechte Kader John Hoewer, Jahrgang 1987, ist im April 2025 von seinem stellvertretenden Vorstandsposten bei Ein Prozent zurückgetreten. Zwei Monate nachdem er sich erstmals in Sachsen beworben hatte. Dabei ist ihm ein aktives Eintreten gegen die „freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung“, welches dem Bundesverfassungsgericht 2024 als Ablehnungsgrund für ein Rechtsreferendariat genügte, wahrlich nicht schwer nachzuweisen:
Schon im Januar 2017 soll Hoewer in handgreiflichen Auseinandersetzungen mit linken Demonstranten in einem Hörsaal der Universität Magdeburg verwickelt gewesen sein. Im April 2017 dann begleitete er den laut eigener Aussage den „Rechtsradikalen“ Philip Stein zu einer Veranstaltung der italienischen Faschisten von Casa Pound in Rom. Ebenfalls 2017, im Juli, besuchte John Hoewer gemeinsam mit weiteren AfDlern, JNlern und anderen Neonazis das „Deutschland-Seminar“ der extrem rechten Braunschweiger Burschenschaft Thuringia. Im Jahr 2021 nahm John Hoewer nachweislich an Kampfsportrainings mit anderen Neonazis der Jungen Alternative, der AfD und der NPD (heute Die Heimat) in Berlin Weißensee teil. Im Jahr 2022 war Hoewer dann Beisitzer im Verbandsrat der extrem rechten Deutschen Burschenschaft (DB). Ja, Hoewer ist Burschenschaftler, und zwar bei Germania Köln, Raczeks Breslau zu Bonn, und dort fechtet er vor NS-“Kunst“ mit Hakenkreuz. Die Burschenschaft ist übrigens die, die 2011 einen Antrag bei der DB einbrachten, der als „Ariernachweis“ bekannt wurde. Geschenkt, dass Hoewer auch jahrelang zum Jungen Alternative Landesvorstand in Sachsen-Anhalt gehörte und mindestens von Januar 2018 bis März 2025 für den AfD-Fraktionsvize im Bundestag, Sebastian Münzenmaier (Mainzer Burschenschaft Germania Halle), als Mitarbeiter angestellt war.
Diese Gesetzeslage und Rechtssprechung, der sächsische Sonderweg, ist in Deutschland einmalig. Im Raum steht der Verdacht, dass die Entscheidung des Sächsischen Verfassungsgerichtshofes von 2022 dem geltenden Bundesrecht widerspricht. Dass es auch anders geht, zeigt das Nachbarland Thüringen. So wies das Thüringer Verfassungsgericht im November 2025 eine AfD-Klage ab und entschied, dass Personen nicht zum juristischen Vorbereitungsdienst zugelassen werden sollen, wenn sie gegen die freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordnung verstoßen.
Doch Bauerfeind und Hoewer sind nicht die einzigen, denen der sächsische Sonderweg zugutekam. Der Neonazi Brian Engelmann durfte bereits im November 2018 sein Rechtsreferendariat in Chemnitz antreten, obwohl man um sein Weltbild wusste – im selben Monat stand er für seine Beteiligung am Überfall auf den alternativen Leipziger Stadtteil Connewitz mit anderen Neonazis vor Gericht. Und selbst nachdem sein Urteil von einem Jahr und vier Monaten auf Bewährung im Jahr 2020 für rechtskräftig erklärt wurde, entschied das Oberlandesgericht Dresden (OLG), dass Engelmann seine juristische Ausbildung abschließen dürfe. Jetzt ist der Mann mit den Hakenkreuzen auf der rechten Schulter Volljurist und in der Rechtsanwaltskanzlei des Leipziger Szene-Anwalts Arndt Hohnstädter angestellt.
Brian Engelmann
Der 1992 in Freital geborene Brian Engelmann ist mehrfach vorbestrafter Gewalttäter und Kampfsportler. Schon 2012 griff Engelmann in eine Auseinandersetzung in einer Dresdner Diskothek ein. Dabei brach er dem Angreifer mehrere Gesichtsknochen und zerstörte ihm diverse Zähne, als er ihm gegen den Kopf trat. Im selben Jahr zog Engelmann für sein Jura-Studium nach Leipzig und fiel dort bald als Teil des “Bushido Sportcenter Leipzig” (ehemals “Bushido Free Fight Team”) von Marko Zschörner auf. In den folgenden Jahren trat Engelmann immer wieder als MMA-Kämpfer bei einschlägigen Veranstaltungen in Erscheinung. So gab es z.B. 2013 einen Kampf in Köthen gegen Kevin Kraft – ein weiterer Neonazi, dem zusammen er schließlich am 11.01.2016, im Nachgang des Angriffs auf Leipzig-Connewitz, von der Polizei festgesetzt wurde. Gemeinsam mit Mitgliedern der Neonazi-Struktur „HooNaRa“ („Hooligans, Nazis, Rassisten“), wie beispielsweise Martin Krause, arbeitete Engelmann jahrelang beim Leipziger Sicherheitsunternehmen “Black Rainbow Security”. Auch nach Abschluss seines zweiten Staatsexamens trat Engelmann weiterhin bei Neonazi-Milieu-Veranstaltungen, wie 2023 bei „Ostdeutschland kämpft“, auf.
Eine Gesetzesänderung, wie aktuell gefordert, oder eine juristische Entscheidung auf höchster Ebene lassen zwei Jahre nach dem SächsVerfGH-Urteil immer noch auf sich warten. Immerhin scheint nun endlich auch die Sächsische Landesregierung, in Person der Justizministerin Constanze Geiert (CDU), gemerkt zu haben, dass etwas faul ist im Freistaat Sachsen. So will man am Bundesverfassungsgericht mit einer abstrakten Normenkontrolle gegen die diesbezügliche Rechtsauslegung des eigenen, Sächsischen Verfassungsgerichts vorgehen. Bis dahin bleibt genau zu beobachten, wie sich der „Pull-Effekt“ auf faschistische Jurist*innen nach Sachsen weiterentwickelt.
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Rechte Referendare in Sachsen: Landesregierung zieht gegen Landesrichter vor Gericht
Eine eigenwillige Gesetzesauslegung lockt rechte Referendare nach Sachsen. Das Justizministerium will jetzt gegensteuern und hofft auf das Bundesverfassungsgericht.Steffen Winter (DER SPIEGEL)
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Expert says Dems have "once-in-a-generation" chance to flip hundreds of seats across the nation - LGBTQ Nation
Sweeping Democratic victories in off-year elections seem to be foreshadowing a very good midterms for the party, and one expert believes it’s even bigger than that.“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power,” Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which focuses on electing Democrats to statehouses, told Mother Jones.
Expert says Dems have "once-in-a-generation" chance to flip hundreds of seats across the nation - LGBTQ Nation
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee believes Dems can "fundamentally transform legislative power" if they do 2026 right.Molly Sprayregen (LGBTQ Nation)
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How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P?
San Silvestro 2025
✨ Cari amici, siete pronti a salutare l'anno vecchio a ritmo di funky jazz? Dopo le magiche serate estive, torniamo da Antonio per una notte di San Silvestro indimenticabile: mentre gusterete un esclusivo Menù di Pesce, saremo noi ad accompagnare la vostra cena e il brindisi di mezzanotte con la nostra musica dal vivo.
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Un semplice analizzatore di chat whatsapp
Per quelli che non vogliono impazzire a leggere chat di gruppo infinte.
Andrebbe un po' affinata, se possibile senza arrivare a usare l'AI per leggerezza.
AAA cercasi affilatori di spade
GitHub - suoko/WhatsAppChatSummarizer
Contribute to suoko/WhatsAppChatSummarizer development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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un sistema per creare un sommario delle chat con millemila messaggi non letti.
Non so se genera anch un albero stimato delle conversazioni, per rimediare alla coglionagine di quelli che non menzionano mai il messaggio cui rispondono
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ti potrebbero fare santo. Allora dovresti aggiungere:
- calendario dei compleanni, degli scioperi e delle attività extra scolastiche
- rubrica dei contatti, chi è genitore di chi
- quanti soldi devo dare per regali/cassa comune e a chi
Questo almeno fino alla primaria, poi dalle medie non c'è più la chat dei genitori, vero? VERO?
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Ah, ti piacerebbe, ora che arriva la nostra onda ce la infileranno fino all'università 😁
Per le medie mi spiace ma c'è ancora, moooolto più soft ma c'è.
In effetti capire chi è genitore di chi sarebbe fattibile con un "reverse engineering", di solito il genitore parla del proprio figlio (che c'è o non c'è a un evento), esattamente quello che faccio io per ripescare i numeri di telefono.
Andrebbe trovata una micro ai fatta in kotlin da trainare con i fiumi di chat che abbiamo.
E magari integrarlo in fluffy chat.
Volevo quasi sentire lo sviluppatore di raccoon se conviene switchare a kmp subito o vedere di migliorarla prima e poi switchare.
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Si, questo fa poco, ho provato qualche ai con python ma è veramente un casino capire le chat di gruppo e costruirci dei dati aggregati (esattamente come è difficile per noi umani)
Questo è quel che fa per ora:
Il testo viene suddiviso in righe. Ogni riga che inizia con un pattern riconosciuto come data/ora di WhatsApp (es. 10/12/25, 11:55 - ...) viene trattata come l'inizio di un messaggio. Viene estratta la data e confrontata con un insieme di date relative agli ultimi N giorni (di default, 10). Solo i messaggi appartenenti a queste date target vengono considerati.
Filtro per Parole Chiave: Per ogni messaggio filtrato per data, il testo del messaggio stesso (esclusa la parte del mittente e potenzialmente link/menzioni) viene confrontato con un insieme predefinito di parole chiave (es. "compiti", "riunione", "evento", "compilare", "sondaggio", "importante", "per venerdì", ecc.).
Identificazione Messaggi Significativi: Se una qualsiasi delle parole chiave è presente nel testo del messaggio (in forma minuscola e con corrispondenza parziale), il messaggio viene considerato significativo. Vengono estratti:
La data del messaggio.
Il mittente (numero o nome).
Il testo del messaggio.
Eventuali riferimenti temporali trovati all'interno del testo (es. "venerdì", "alle 15", "prossima settimana") utilizzando espressioni regolari.
Una categoria assegnata automaticamente in base a quale insieme specifico di parole chiave (es. " Incontri / Eventi", " Compiti / Verifiche") è stato trovato nel messaggio.
Formattazione del Riassunto: I messaggi identificati come significativi vengono poi raggruppati:
Prima per data, in ordine cronologico inverso (dal giorno più recente).
Poi all'interno di ogni data, vengono raggruppati per la categoria assegnata.
Infine, all'interno di ogni categoria e data, vengono elencati i singoli messaggi, mostrando mittente, testo e eventuali riferimenti temporali trovati.
Output: Il risultato finale è un testo formattato che rappresenta un riassunto contestuale e organizzato dei messaggi significativi trovati negli ultimi N giorni, evidenziando argomenti come appuntamenti, compiti, richieste, eventi, ecc., raggruppati in modo logico per facilitarne la lettura.In sintesi, non è un vero e proprio "riassunto" AI, ma piuttosto un filtro contestuale basato su parole chiave con una riorganizzazione e formattazione del risultato.
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I miglioramenti veloci da fare sono:
- tag "evento da confermare"
- creazione evento calendario dove devi solo confermare l'aggiunta dell'evento
Il miglioramento complesso sarebbe di incrementare il dizionario e migliorare il processo di analisi.
AI kids' toys give explicit and dangerous responses in tests
AI kids' toys give explicit and dangerous responses in tests
AI-powered kids' toys like Miko 3 have hit shelves this holiday season, claiming to rely on sophisticated chatbots to animate interactive robots for children.Kevin Collier (NBC News)
Trump Gives Big Tech Friends an Early Christmas Gift With Order Against State AI Regulations
US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at preventing state-level regulation of the burgeoning artificial intelligence industry, a gift to tech corporations that bankrolled his inauguration and are currently funding his White House ballroom project.
Trump's order instructs the US Justice Department to establish an AI Litigation Task Force with a single mandate: sue states that enact AI laws that the administration deems "onerous and excessive." The order also threatens to withhold federal funding from states that implement AI regulations.
Public Citizen, a watchdog group that has tracked increasingly aggressive AI influence-peddling in Congress and the administration, said Trump's order "grants his greedy Big Tech buddies’ Christmas wish."
"This reward to Big Tech is a disgraceful invitation to reckless behavior by the world’s largest corporations and a complete override of the federalist principles that Trump and MAGA claim to venerate," said Robert Weissman, Public Citizen's co-president. "Everyone should understand why this is happening: During and since the last election cycle, Big Tech has spent at least $1.1 billion on campaign contributions and lobby expenditures. Big Tech corporations poured money into Trump’s inaugural committee and to pay for his garish White House ballroom. A major Big Tech and AI investor is serving as Trump’s 'AI czar' and driving administration policy."
"While Trump has ensured the federal government is doing almost nothing to address the harms that AI is already causing, states are moving forward with sensible AI regulation," Weissman added. "These include efforts to address political deepfakes, nonconsensual intimate deepfakes, algorithmic pricing manipulation, consumer protection measures, excessive data center electricity and water demand, and much more. Big Tech is whining about these modest measures, but there is zero evidence that these rules are impeding innovation; in fact, they are directing innovation in more positive directions."
Jenna Sherman, a campaign director focused on tech and gender at Ultraviolet Action, said Trump's order "only has one group of winners: his wealthy donors in the tech sector."
"Every other person loses from this wildly unpopular move. And not just in theory, as stripping away state AI regulations puts many—namely, women and children—at risk of real harm," said Sherman. "These harms of AI—which the Trump and the tech sector are clearly happy to ignore—are already here: non-consensual deepfake porn sexualizing women and girls, children being led to suicidal ideation by AI chatbots, and AI-powered scams and crimes targeting older Americans, especially women, to name but a few."
The US Chamber of Commerce and other corporate lobbying organizations representing tech giants such as Microsoft and Google celebrated the order, predictably characterizing it as a win for "small businesses."
The leaders of California and other states that have proposed and finalized AI regulations were defiant in the face of Trump's threats of legal action and funding cuts."
"President Trump and Davis Sacks aren’t making policy—they’re running a con," said California Gov. Gavin Newsom, referring to the scandal-plagued White House AI czar. "Every day, they push the limits to see how far they can take it. California is working on behalf of Americans by building the strongest innovation economy in the nation while implementing commonsense safeguards and leading the way forward."
Trump signed the order after the Republican-controlled Congress repeatedly rejected efforts to tuck a ban on state AI regulations into broader legislation.
"After months of failed lobbying and two defeats in Congress, Big Tech has finally received the return on its ample investment in Donald Trump," Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said in a statement Thursday. "With this executive order, Trump is delivering exactly what his billionaire benefactors demanded—all at the expense of our kids, our communities, our workers, and our planet."
"A broad, bipartisan coalition in Congress has rejected the AI moratorium again and again," he added, "and I intend to keep that streak going. I will use every tool available to challenge this indefensible and irresponsible power grab. We will defeat it again."
Trump Calls for GOP to Ram Through AI Regulation Ban in Must-Pass Military Spending Bill
"If lawmakers are serious about AI governance, they must create strong, enforceable national protections as a regulatory floor—not wipe out state laws so Big Tech can operate without consequence," said one consumer advocate.julia-conley (Common Dreams)
La leggenda di Tellaro, la città salvata dai pirati grazie ad un polpo gigante, da Storia Che Passione di Nicola Comerci
Il pacifico paesino che conta meno di 600 abitanti, in provincia della Spezia, ha una vicenda molto particolare, dove gli avvenimenti storici si mescolano in maniera molto fantasiosa con elementi leggendari
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La leggenda di Tellaro, la città salvata dai pirati grazie ad un polpo gigante
Tellaro, il comune comune di 600 abitanti salvato da un polpo gigante durante un'invasione dei pirati Saraceni...Nicola Comerci (Storia Che Passione)
Trump’s Politicization of the Military is Creating Divisions Within the Bipartisan Regime
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Nearly half a year after President Trump first deployed hundreds of National Guard forces to Los Angeles, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the domestic use of the military. The hearing, held on December 11, comes as Trump has expanded his use of the National Guard, deploying forces to Washington D.C., Chicago, Portland, and Memphis, and has threatened several other cities. Though not covered by the hearing, domestic militarization also continues at the U.S.-Mexico border where the military now controls a third of all U.S. southern borderlands, with the Navy recently taking control of the border along California.Trump’s use of the military domestically has been an attack on cities with large Black, immigrant, and progressive communities where opposition to the Right is strong. It is a blatant attempt by the president to turn the U.S. military into a force for carrying out his domestic agenda. This move is a test for the stability of the U.S. regime where the military has a long tradition of remaining outside of domestic affairs. As this crisis has escalated, Democrats have increasingly raised alarm over Trump’s actions — including several with ties to the military and national security, who have released a video calling on troops to disobey illegal orders.
The committee was clearly divided along partisan lines as they questioned a panel of three witnesses: Department of Defense Principal Deputy General Council, Charles Young III; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas Security Affairs, Mark Ditlevson; and United States NORTHCOM Commander, General Gregory Guillot.
Republicans expressed total agreement with the domestic use of the military. Even as rifts have emerged within the Republican Party over many of Trump’s most extreme policies, there appeared to be unity from those on the committee who argued that Trump was restoring law and order. At certain points in the hearing, the specter of the 2020 uprising against the police loomed. In fact, some of the first remarks of the hearing, made by committee chairman Senator Roger Wicker, harkened back to 2020, claiming that Democrats made widespread calls to defund the police. Wicker even cited the “police-free zone” established in Seattle.
In reality, the Democrats maneuvered to co-opt widespread radicalization against the police and their systemic racism, then used Biden’s presidency to ramp up police funding. Of course, Republicans will never admit this, and they instead used the hearing to make all sorts of unsubstantiated claims about cities being full of violent crime and illegal immigrants flooding the United States with drugs. This totally false depiction of Democrat-run cities is the only way Republicans can try to justify Trump’s domestic use of the military and federal police forces who are terrorizing immigrants and U.S.-born communities alike.
Most Americans oppose the deployment of the National Guard in U.S. cities and many have mobilized against the deployments. However, as Democratic senator Tammy Duckworth said in her opening remarks, her motivation to call the hearing came from the recent shooting of two National Guard soldiers in D.C., one of whom died. This set a tone which was apparent throughout the hearing: for the Democrats, the main concern is that Trump’s use of the military to enforce his political agenda risks the stability of this repressive institution which still holds more prestige than most other institutions in the United States. Duckworth clarified this in later remarks, saying “I fear the day when Americans stop thanking our troops for their service because they’re afraid of our troops.”
Other Democrats echoed this sentiment, while also raising concern over how these deployments risk distracting U.S. troops from training for wars with adversaries including China and Russia, and how the deployments with no clear mission or timeframe risk hurting troops’ morale. They questioned what, if any, protections troops might have if they refuse to comply with orders from Trump that go against the constitution; raised alarm over Trump’s talk of fighting “an enemy within”; and in some cases even strongly criticized ICE as a violent force only accountable to the president. But underlying even the most combative criticisms from Democrats was the aim of preserving the prestige of the military as an institution and the overall stability of the U.S. regime.
For their part, the witnesses made no indication of disagreement with Trump’s agenda. This could be because they agree with him ideologically, but it is just as likely that they know Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would take swift action to fire any defense officials who offer even a slight criticism of the administration’s agenda. The result was mostly mundane, bureaucratic non-answers, but at times alarming like when Senator Mazie Hirono asked Young if it is an illegal order for the president to order troops to shoot Americans in the streets. Young refused to give a straight answer, instead saying, “orders to that effect would depend on the circumstances.”
Despite the divide over Trump’s use of the military, and as fierce as some of the Democrats were in challenging these National Guard deployments, it must be understood that their desire to preserve the credibility of the military is not a stance that should be taken by workers, youth, and broader sectors in the United States who want to resist the Far Right. While Trump’s wide-scale and partisan use of the military is unprecedented, the domestic use of the military exists throughout U.S. history. The National Guard is a force that was created from the militias which committed genocide of Indigenous communities throughout the United States. Since then, it has been used to crush militant workers’ actions and uprisings against racial injustice. This is the institution which infamously killed students for protesting the Vietnam War.
Trump’s use of the military must be opposed, and troops should be encouraged to refuse orders to repress protests in U.S. cities. But the Left cannot lose sight of the role of the military as a force meant for repression of workers domestically and in service of U.S. imperialism. Unlike the Democrats, our goal is not to preserve a violent, anti-worker institution. It is to oppose the military and its repressive role whether those under its boot live in the United States or anywhere else.
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Trump administration creates new militarized zone in California along southern US border
Trump hands 760 acres of California public land to the navy for a new defense zone, deepening border militarizationVictoria Bekiempis (The Guardian)
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Scoperta in Liguria la più antica prova di convivenza diretta tra umani e cani domestici (da National Geographic)
Circa 14.400 anni fa il cane era già parte integrante delle attività dei gruppi umani. Lo rivela una ricerca italiana finanziata dalla National Geographic Society condotta nella Grotta della Bàsura (Toirano)
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Scoperta in Liguria la più antica prova di convivenza diretta tra umani e cani domestici
National GeographicCirca 14.400 anni fa il cane era già parte integrante delle attività dei gruppi umani. Lo rivela una ricerca italiana finanziata dalla National Geographic Society condotta nella Grotta della Bàsura.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
[...]How have the copywriters been faring, in a world awash in cheap AI text generators and wracked with AI adoption mania in executive circles? As always, we turn to the workers themselves. And once again, the stories they have to tell are unhappy ones. These are accounts of gutted departments, dried up work, lost jobs, and closed businesses. I’ve heard from copywriters who now fear losing their apartments, one who turned to sex work, and others, who, to their chagrin, have been forced to use AI themselves.Readers of this series will recognize some recurring themes: The work that client firms are settling for is not better when it’s produced by AI, but it’s cheaper, and deemed “good enough.” Copywriting work has not vanished completely, but has often been degraded to gigs editing client-generated AI output. Wages and rates are in free fall, though some hold out hope that business will realize that a human touch will help them stand out from the avalanche of AI homogeneity.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)
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SNCC’s Ghosts, the Fourth Republic, and the Crisis of Liberalism
Every republic has founding quarrels. India has Nehru, Gandhi, and Ambedkar arguing over whether the new state would be socialist, village-centered, or liberal-constitutional. Pakistan has Iqbal and Jinnah wrestling with what it means to build a Muslim homeland out of the wreckage of the Raj. South Africa has Mandela and the ANC leadership negotiating, under the gaze of the old security state and with the memory of Biko hovering over the room, what a post-apartheid constitution should guarantee and what it cannot yet touch. Across Latin America, the transitions out of military rule and the new constitutions of the 1980s and 1990s posed the same question in different accents: how far to curb markets, the generals, and the old oligarchies without igniting a counterrevolution.In the United States, we can name three such moments without much effort. The First Republic is born from Madison, Hamilton, and the Anti-Federalists arguing over the reach of the new federal government. The Second emerges from Lincoln, Douglass, Sumner, and Stevens fighting over slavery and Reconstruction. The Third is the New Deal order of Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, Walter Reuther, and Southern barons battling over the mass-party welfare state that remade capitalism without abolishing it. Their disagreements over federal power, race, and markets still structure our politics.
What we lack is a comparable language, and an equivalent cast of founders, for the Fourth American Republic: the constitutional order created when Black Americans forced the United States to dismantle de jure apartheid and finally extend formal citizenship across the color line. Between Brown v. Board and the Voting Rights Act, the country became, on paper, a multiracial democracy layered onto the New Deal’s economic regime. Yet the people who argued most intensely about what that democracy should be are rarely treated as framers. They are remembered as “civil-rights leaders,” not as architects of a new order.
This matters because the arguments we now conduct under the heading “the crisis of liberalism” are downstream of that unfinished founding. Jerusalem Demsas reaches back to Locke and Shklar to ask what liberalism is for: how a diverse society lives together without turning politics into permanent retribution. Matthew Yglesias looks at the institutional language of contemporary anti-racism and hears an illiberal turn: groups displacing individuals, neutral rules and objectivity treated as domination, universal rights and due process treated as obstacles. My own response has been that much of what he calls “postliberal” is not an external invasion but liberalism’s own cramped, elite offspring: a professional style that promises recognition inside institutions while leaving the political economy largely intact. Those are contemporary arguments, but they are not necessarily new arguments. They are, in softened and professionalized form, the arguments that forged and divided the founding generation of the Fourth Republic.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the crucible where many of those fights were conducted. SNCC’s organizers—John Lewis, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, Ella Baker, Diane Nash, Fannie Lou Hamer, James Forman—and allied figures like Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King Jr. fought over the meaning of American liberalism, the role of racism and capitalism, and the future of the Democratic Party. Their debates, as Founding Fathers and Mothers of a new republic, set the terms of the settlement that followed. Their breakup left unresolved tensions that still shape what counts as “liberal,” what counts as “identity politics,” and the Democratic Party.
SNCC’s Ghosts, the Fourth Republic, and the Crisis of Liberalism
Liberalism versus nationalism, social democracy versus identity politics: the Fourth Republic’s buried quarrels and the search for a new American order.Waleed Shahid (Waleed’s Substack)
la caduta dell’octt da ora sempre più certa e definitiva
Lo so che io in genere ci scherzo fin troppo con la storia degli spiriti, che mi influenzano e mi tormentano e mi condannano modificando malamente il mio intero stato psicofisico per sabotarmi poco a poco… ma ormai, giuro, inizio veramente a credere che ci sia da qualche parte una malvagicissima entità che si sta […]
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la caduta dell’octt da ora sempre più certa e definitiva
Lo so che io in genere ci scherzo fin troppo con la storia degli spiriti, che mi influenzano e mi tormentano e mi condannano modificando malamente il mio intero stato psicofisico per sabotarmi poco a poco… ma ormai, giuro, inizio veramente a credere che ci sia da qualche parte una malvagicissima entità che si sta estremamente impegnando a farmi definitivamente crollare; e, senza ombra di dubbio, ultimamente ci sta purtroppo riuscendo. La percentuale di realtà della mia prospettata megafine pare via via sempre più alta. ☠️
In realtà è impossibile capire per bene cosa ho, a questo punto… anche perché, cercando definizioni normali, a volte mi quadrano e a volte no… praticamente, persino nella mia instabilità sono instabile. Ciò che posso dire senza paura di imprecisione, però, è che mi sento come se in me ci fosse zio perone un buco nero, che a volte, a caso, si attiva, e mi risucchia buona parte delle energie spirituali… A volte mi aspira la voglia, la spinta, la scintilla, di fare alcune cose… altre volte invece, la forza, del tipo che avrei il desiderio di fare qualcosa, ma faccio proprio fatica all’atto pratico… e ancora, forse più di rado ma comunque grevissimamente, ho la voglia, ho la forza, riesco a fare quello che sento di dovere, ma alla fine non ci godo. Ed ecco, con un simile quadretto, aggiunto il fatto che la causa è intangibile, penso sia più che ovvio impazzire!!! 🥰Nella pratica, tutto ciò mi si esprime in maniera veramente terribile ed insopportabile. E in un momento, magari, non ho quello sfizio di fare niente in particolare… per esempio, non mi va di giocare ai miei videogiochini, o di leggere, e, se l’idea mi viene in mente chiedendomi cosa posso fare per passare il tempo, mi sento che mi scoccio… o magari, appunto, inizio a fare qualcosa di non troppo faticoso, sulla lunghezza d’onda di questi esempi, e magari ce la faccio, continuo fino al momento di decretata fine, e però nel mentre mi sento alquanto zzz e poco gratificata a riguardo… o ancora, forse il più terribile di tutti i casi, che però si applica perlopiù a quelle cose cognitivamente pesanti come scrivere: provo a mettermici, ma sento che proprio mi manca la concentrazione, non riesco ad entrare nel flusso, o non riesco a starci per abbastanza tempo, e il tutto mi richiede una fatica assurda (anche senza distrazioni esterne che mi distolgono). 🥴
Oggi, per esempio, è davvero allucinante. Mi sono svegliata alle 10, dopo circa 8 ore di sonno… e avrei voluto in realtà dormire ancora e ancora, ma il mio corpo non me lo lasciava fare; quindi, verso le 11 ho dovuto decretare impossibile il riaddormentarmi, e sono andata a fare colazione. Durante la colazione, forse volevo scrivere qualche notina, ma nel mentre mi sono accorta tipo di non avere quella forza, e ho dovuto rassegnarmi all’usare il telefono che avevo in mano giustappena per guardare qualche video… e poi, finito di mangiare, sono crollata; letteralmente. Sono stata praticamente un’ora tra il divano e il pavimento, soltanto disperandomi di questa cosa qui, che giusto ora — avendo iniziato giusto dopo pranzo con molta fatica, e finendo adesso che è quasi sera con poco meno sforzo — sto riuscendo a scrivere qui… manco il telefono ho più toccato in quel momento, oh; e, in realtà, nemmeno il fatto di non aver a tal punto ancora preso il caffè, che alla fine della mia colazione io voglio come ogni altra mattina, mi ha dato la forza di alzarmi subito in piedi e tornare in cucina per ottenerlo. Bruciata sono, proprio. 😭
Adesso è per l’appunto sera, e… boh. Sto abbastanza meglio, dopo aver innanzitutto pranzato, e poi addirittura preso il caffè del dopo pranzo al bar anziché a casa, con la scusa di fare un giro fuori di primo pomeriggio con i miei genitori prima che calasse il sole… però sto comunque pisciata, non lo so. Non ho fatto ancora niente di niente a questo punto, nemmeno scritto una singola notina sul mio Sharkey; giusto perso una ventina di minuti su Pinterest per trovare un’immagine che andasse bene per questo post… e beh, tutto ciò mi secca, appunto. In questo momento, per esempio, mi secca che io stia sentendo proprio la fatica per scrivere questo post, quando invece vorrei essere al 100% nel flusso e non sentire alcuno sforzo… così come mi secca ancora adesso che io ci abbia messo più di 1 ora a scrivere l’articolino di ieri sera; che volevo fare, perché quella di scrivere un post lungo al giorno è una delle poche abitudini buone per me che ho, e che quindi voglio mantenere, ma lì ho provato una fatica ancora più pesante di quella di adesso, e un costante crollo della concentrazione, che mi fa davvero disperare al solo pensarci. 😢
Il vero problema, però, non è manco di per sé il fatto che questi fenomeni paranormali mi capitino… quanto il fatto che, per quanto io provi e riprovi, questa sembra essere la mia condanna a morte; non riesco a trovare alcuna vera soluzione — definitiva, per così dire — al problema. Nel senso… se mi venisse il mal di testa fulminante, so che potrei prendere una tachipirina per farmelo passare, e bene o male dovrebbe funzionare circa sempre… così come, se sono fisicamente stanca alla fine di una giornata, ho la certezza che mi basta dormire per rigenerare il corpo… Invece, per questa rogna qui, non trovo assolutamente nulla che funzioni perfettamente e che lo faccia sempre, in maniera letteralmente 100% affidabile. 🏺
Sto provando a dormire di più e meglio, negli ultimi giorni, ma non sembra essere direttamente utile… ho detto come mi sono svegliata malissimo oggi dopo aver dormito alla fine ok, ma invece altri giorni li ho passati molto bene con anche 3-4 ore di sonno. Sto cercando anche di tenere il culo meno incollato alle sedie, e di stare di più fuori casa e al sole semplicemente per passare il tempo, camminare di più… e magari questo sul momento mi fa stare meglio, ma mi sembra funzioni più come una distrazione, che come una vera medicina. Per qualche inspiegabile motivo, visto che non sto facendo una mazza di pesante, ho di solito anche più fame, e sto mangiando di più (più carboidrati, nello specifico)… però oh, eppure non sento di ottenere più energie (forse perché beh, come ho detto, non mi mancano tanto quelle fisiche, ma quelle spirituali; però che cazzo di merdata). 👹
Ormai, non solo devo andare a dormire la sera senza poter davvero dare per scontato che con il sonno avrò magicamente recuperato sufficienti energie spirituali — che, in quanto ragazza magica, non solo necessito, ma pretendo, e addirittura mi sento di dire che merito, affinché lo scopo della mia esistenza sia allineabile a quello del cosmo — ma anche durante la giornata non posso essere sicura di come si manterranno i miei livelli… così come possono salire a caso, possono crollare; e non sempre lo fanno, ovviamente, e chiaramente non tutti i giorni sono così disperati come oggi… ma davvero questa cosa io non la sopporto, e mi viene pesantissimamente da piangere al solo pensiero… almeno, stamattina mi veniva, e magari mi verrà più tardi; ma, come già detto a me non escono neppure le lacrime, quindi sono proprio condannata. Non sopporto di voler essere al mio assoluto top, e fottutamente non riuscirci più in maniera continuativa!!! 😩
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border” set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts causing turmoil in Chicago and elsewhere, he sees himself as the good guy. Not everyone agrees.
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys.Dan Mihalopoulos | WBEZ (Chicago Sun-Times)
This Group Pays Bounties to Repair Broken Devices—Even If the Fix Breaks the Law
Companies tend to be rather picky about who gets to poke around inside their products. Manufacturers sometimes even take steps that prevent consumers from repairing their device when it breaks, or modifying it with third-party products.But those unsanctioned device modifications have become the raison d'être of a bounty program set up by a nonprofit called Fulu, or Freedom from Unethical Limitations on Users. The group tries to spotlight the ways companies can slip consumer-unfriendly features into their products, and it offers cash rewards in the thousands of dollars to anyone who can figure out how to disable unpopular features or bring discontinued products back to life.
“We want to be able to show lawmakers, look at all these things that could be out in the world,” says right-to-repair advocate and Fulu cofounder Kevin O’Reilly. “Look at the ways we could be giving device owners control over their stuff.”
Fulu has already awarded bounties for two fixes. One revives an older generation of Nest Thermostats no longer supported by Google. And just yesterday, Fulu announced a fix that circumvents restrictive digital-rights-management software on Molekule air purifiers.
Fulu is run by O’Reilly and fellow repair advocate and YouTuber Louis Rossmann, who announced the effort in a video on his channel in June.
The basic concept of Fulu is that it works like a bug bounty, the long running practice in software development where devs will offer prize money to people who find and fix a bug in the operating system. Fulu adopts that model, but the bounty it offers is usually meant to “fix” something the manufacturer considers an intended feature but turns out to be detrimental to the user experience. That can mean a device where the manufacturer has put in restrictions to prevent users from repairing their device, blocked the use of third-party replacement parts, or ended software support entirely.
“Innovation used to mean going from black-and-white to color,” Rossmann says. “Now innovation means we have the ability to put DRM in an air filter.”
Fulu offers up a bounty of $10,000 to the first person to prove they have a fix for the offending feature of a device. Donors can also pool money to help incentivize tinkerers to fix a particular product, which Fulu will match up to another $10,000. The pot grows as donations roll in.
Bounties are set on devices that Rossmann and O’Reilly have deemed deliberately hostile to the owners that have already paid for them, like some GE refrigerators that have DRM-locked water filters, and the Molekule air purifiers with DRM software that blocks customers from using third-party air filters. A bounty on the XBox Series X seeks a workaround to software encryption on the disk drive that prevents replacing the part without manufacturer approval. Thanks to donations, the prize for the Xbox fix has climbed to more than $30,000.
Sounds like a sweet payout for sure, but there is risk involved.
Fixing devices, even ones disabled and discontinued by the manufacturer, is often in direct violation of Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the 1998 US law that prevents bypassing passwords and encryption or selling equipment that could do so without manufacturer permission. Break into a device, futz with the software inside to keep it functional, or go around DRM restrictions, and you risk running afoul of the likes of Google's gargantuan legal arm. Fulu warns potential bounty hunters they must tackle this goal knowing full well they're doing so in open violation of Section 1201.
“The dampening effect on innovation and control and ownership are so massive,” O’Reilly says. “We want to prove that these kinds of things can exist.”
Empty NestIn October, Google ended software support for its first- and second-generation Nest thermostats. For lots of users, the devices still worked but couldn’t be controlled anymore, because the software was no longer supported. Users lamented that their fancy thermostats had now become hunks of e-waste on their walls.
Fulu set up a bounty that called for a software fix to restore functionality to the affected Nest devices. Cody Kociemba, a longtime follower of Rossmann’s YouTube channel and a Nest user himself, was eager to take the bounty on. (He has “beef with Google,” he says on his website.) After a few days of tinkering with the Nest software, Kociemba had a solution. He made his fix publicly available on GitHub so users could download it and restore their thermostats. Kociemba also started No Longer Evil, a site devoted to his workaround of Nest thermostats and perhaps hacks of future Google products to come.
“My moral belief is that this should be accessible to people,” Kociemba says.
Kociemba submitted his fix to Fulu, but discovered that another developer, calling themselves Team Dinosaur, had just submitted a fix slightly before Kociemba did. Still, Fulu paid out the full amount to both, roughly $14,000 apiece. Kociemba was surprised by that, as he thought he had lost the race or that he might have to split the prize money.
O’Reilly says that while they probably won't do double payouts again, both fixes worked, so it was important for Fulu’s first payout to show support for the people willing to take the risk of sharing their fixes.
“Folks like Cody who are willing to put it out there, make the calculated risk that Google isn't going to sue them, and maybe save some thermostats from the junk heap and keep consumers from having to pay $700 or whatever after installation to get something new,” O’Reilly says. “It's been cool to watch.”
This week, Fulu announced it had paid out its second-ever bounty. It was for a Molekule Air Pro and Air Mini, air purifier systems that used an NFC chip in its filters to ensure the replacement filters were made by Molekule and not a third-party manufacturer. The goal was to disable the DRM and let the machine use any filter that fit.
Lorenzo Rizzotti, an Italian student and coder who had gone from playing Minecraft as a kid to reverse engineering and hacking, submitted proof that he had solved the problem, and was awarded the Fulu bounty.
“Once you buy a device, it's your hardware, it's no longer theirs,” Rizzotti says. “You should be able to do whatever. I find it absurd that it's illegal.”
But unlike Kociemba, he wasn’t about to share the fix. Though he was able to fix the problem, he doesn’t feel safe weathering the potential legal ramifications that he might face if he released the solution publicly.
“I proved that I can do it,” he says. “And that was it.”
Still, Fulu awarded him the bounty. O’Reilly says the goal of the project is less about getting actual fixes out in the world, and more about calling attention to the lengths companies are allowed to go to wrest control from their users under the auspices of Section 1201.
“We need to show how ridiculous it is that this 27-year-old law is preventing these solutions from seeing the light of day,” O’Reilly says. “It's time for the laws to catch up with technology.”
https://www.wired.com/story/fulu-repair-bounties-nest-molekule/?=0
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The San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood most vulnerable to sea level rise is also sinking: ‘A right now problem’
The Bay Area neighborhood most vulnerable to sea level rise is sinking
Thousands of people in Marin County’s largest city already face periodic flooding. It’s projected to get much worse.Tara Duggan (San Francisco Chronicle)
Portland groups challenge proposal to divert climate action funds to hire police
Portland groups challenge proposal to divert climate action funds to hire police
Three Portland-based organizations are challenging a ballot proposal that would divert a quarter of the city«s billion-dollar climate action fund»s yearly revenue to hire more police officers.Monica Samayoa (OPB)
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