DHS announced a new ICE operation targeting Chicago on Monday, days after President Trump likened his assault on the city to the Vietnam War.

Trump Escalates Assault on Chicago With “Operation Midway Blitz”

^{Nick Turse (The Intercept)}

New data from the UK’s age verification rollout provides hard evidence of what internet governance experts have been warning about for years: these laws don’t protect children—they systematically drive users from regulated, compliant platforms to unregulated, non-compliant ones while accomplishing nothing except creating a massive privacy surveillance apparatus.

UK Age Verification Data Confirms What Critics Always Predicted: Mass Migration To Sketchier Sites

New data from the UK’s age verification rollout provides hard evidence of what internet governance experts have been warning about for years: these laws don’t protect children—they syst…

^Techdirt

Finding working copies of the last few titles was an “especially cursed” journey.

All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

^{Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)}

Signal has introduced a new opt-in feature that helps users create end-to-end encrypted backups of their chats, allowing them to restore messages even if their phones are damaged or lost.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/signal-adds-secure-cloud-backups-to-save-and-restore-chats/

American furniture brand Lovesac is warning that it suffered a data breach impacting an undisclosed number of individuals, stating their personal data was exposed in a cybersecurity incident.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lovesac-confirms-data-breach-after-ransomware-attack-claims/

cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/48517

From BBC News via this RSS feed

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.

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If you've heard of Chat Control already, bad news: it's back. If you haven't, this is a pressing issue you should urgently learn more about if you value privacy, democracy, and human rights. This is happening this week, and we must act to stop it right now.

Take a minute to visualize this: Every morning you wake up with a police officer entering your home to inspect it, and staying with you all day long.

The agent checks your bathroom, your medicine cabinet, your bedroom, your closets, your drawers, your fridge, and takes photos and notes to document everything. Then, this report is uploaded to the police's cloud. It's "for a good cause" you know, it's to make sure you aren't hiding any child sexual abuse material under your bed.

Every morning. Even if you're naked in bed. Even while you're having a call with your doctor or your lover. Even when you're on a date. Even while you're working and discussing your client's confidential information with their attorney. This police officer is there, listening to you and reporting on everything you do.

This is the in-person equivalent of Chat Control.

Chat Control Must Be Stopped, Act Now!

Chat Control is back to undermine everyone's privacy. There's an important deadline this Friday on September 12th. We must act now to stop it!

^{Privacy Guides}

Made Salvadorian Chicha, although not quite like how mother made to avoid the chance of getting vinegar haha. It's made with a brown cane sugar processed in an old fashioned way - a company sells the cones of sugar called mi costeñita - and pineapple.

Usually you use fresh pineapple and ferment it using the skins and hopefully you get the right yeasts. However, the pineapple sold in Finland is probably not as fresh as one harvested on the spot in El Salvador.

Thanks to Alzymologist@sopuli.xyz here on Lemmy tho (rip Alzymologist Oy), I got an excellent yeast that gave me the smoothest Chicha I've ever had. Perfectly sweet, with no sourness. It came out to around 12% alcohol in only 4 days too, even though a traditional Chicha takes at least 8.

I saved some of the raw Chicha with yeast in it and am now in the process of making an apple-hibscus drink with it next.

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.”

Thousands of people took to the streets of Washington, DC, on Saturday to voice opposition to Donald Trump’s armed federal intervention in the city.

The demonstration, organized by a coalition of local activist groups and unions, demands the “immediate withdrawal” of federal troops from Washington and an end to Trump’s federalization of the city’s own police department.

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 […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

minioctt

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

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)}

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)}

President Donald Trump is swiftly implementing his vision of the military as an all-powerful tool for his policy goals.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/apnews.com/a…

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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/opinion/universities-science-trump-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kU8.c67B.XfmGnjZXKR8P