Disabilità e inclusione. Premio per Pieve Fosciana: "Pronti a fare sempre di più"
Il Comune si è aggiudicato il premio nazionale "Piccolo Comune amico". Domani si terrà la presentazione a Roma alla quale sarà presente la consigliera comunale Manetti.
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Dan Osborn Is Ready to Mount an Even Bolder Campaign
The independent populist from Nebraska, who came close to winning in 2024, is running to unseat one of the Senate’s wealthiest and most self-serving members in 2026.Nation Magazine (The Nation's Substack)
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Senators Seek ‘Light Touch’ for Crypto Market as Democrats Balk
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-09/senators-seek-light-touch-for-crypto-market-as-democrats-balk?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Sources: Groq has talked with investors about raising $300M to $500M at a $6B post-investment valuation, which would double its $2.8B valuation from August 2024 (The Information)
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Sources: Groq has talked with investors about raising $300M to $500M at a $6B post-investment valuation, which would double its $2.8B valuation from August 2024
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ICE Block--A new app designed by Joshua Aaron to let you know when #ICE is operating nearby **through anonymous pins of sightings** so you can make #goodtrouble or protect yourself as needed.
Noem and Trump are in meltdown over this. Trolls with 12 followers are already trying to start conspiracies that its "a front for ICE" to scare people off.
Check it out before you use it, as always. Good stuff. 🙌
How to Watch the Mexico vs. USMNT Concacaf Gold Cup Final Online
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How to Watch Mexico vs. USMNT 2025 Gold Cup Final Online Without Cable
Here’s how to watch the 2025 Gold Cup final online, including ways to livestream Mexico vs. USMNT without cable.Oscar Hartzog (Rolling Stone)
You Deserve a Lil' Treat, Like One of These 25+ Amazon Prime Day Deals for Under $50
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Best Amazon Prime Day Deals Under $50: Shop Prime Day Discounts, Sales
We rounded up the best Amazon Prime Day deals for $50 or less. Shop discounts on fashion, beauty products, home decor, and more for less than $50. Buy nowAlexis Mikulski Ruiz (Rolling Stone)
Meta offered Apple’s head of foundation models more than $200M to jump ship
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Meta poached Apple’s head of foundation models with $200M offer - 9to5Mac
Earlier this week, Apple’s AI models team head joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs. Now, we know what it took for him to head to Menlo Park.Marcus Mendes (9to5Mac)
Fascist Barbie Noem held back FEMA search/rescue assistance in Texas for 3 full days after flooding began.
Always remember that cruelty and indifference to suffering are, in a big way, what motivates this regime.
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Almost every interview I've given since October 7 has to begin with "do you condemn?" Are you out of your minds? Yeah I condemn. I condemn the aparteid state, that has been engaged in a sadistic type of genocide for almost eight decades, that's what I condemn. You want me to condemn the people that are subjected to these crimes when they stand up?
--- Miko Peled, speaking at the Palestine Museum
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Could Gig Workers Unlock More Benefits With New Legislation?
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My latest project is to check an old cedar fence nearby, which is already decaying, for lichens.
I have found some really beautiful lichens, one of which is this Common Clam lichen (Hypocenomyce scalaris).
This lichen consists mainly of small lobes (squamules) that look like clams, very rarely this lichen produces apothecia.
On the second photo you can even see these apothecia (black round dots with grey rims).
#lichen #lichensubscribe #nature #closeup #fence
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Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push – Politico
The losses are spread across each of NASA’s 10 regional centers, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and will impact everything from planning astronaut missions to the moon to sending out deep space probes. | Aubrey Gemignani / NASA via Getty Images
Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency pushThe losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.
A rocket takes off.By Sam Skove, 07/09/2025 01:14 PM EDT
At least 2,145 senior-ranking NASA employees are set to leave under a push to shed staff, according to documents obtained by POLITICO — potentially spelling trouble for White House space policy and depriving the agency of decades of experience.
The 2,145 employees are those in GS-13 to GS-15 positions — senior-level government ranks that are typically reserved for those with specialized skills or management responsibilities. The losses are particularly concentrated at higher levels, with 875 GS-15 employees set to leave, according to the documents.
Those 2,145 employees, in turn, make up the bulk of the 2,694 civil staff who have agreed to leave NASA under a slate of offers that fall within broader administration efforts to trim the federal workforce, according to the documents. NASA has offered staff early retirement, buyouts and deferred resignations.
Many of those leaving also serve in NASA’s core mission sets, according to the documents. Those leaving include 1,818 staff serving in mission areas like science or human space flight, with the rest performing mission support roles like IT, facilities management or finance.
“You’re losing the managerial and core technical expertise of the agency,” said Casey Dreier, chief of space policy at The Planetary Society. “What’s the strategy and what do we hope to achieve here?”
The departures follow a proposed White House budget for 2026 that would slash NASA’s funding by 25 percent and cut over 5,000 staff. The cuts, if enacted by Congress, would force the agency to operate with the smallest budget and staff since the early 1960s.
The losses are spread across each of NASA’s 10 regional centers, where much of the agency’s work is done and which focus on everything from planning astronaut missions to the moon to sending out deep space probes.
The Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland is set to lose the most staff at 607; Johnson Space Center in Texas will lose 366 staff; Kennedy Space Center in Florida will lose 311; and NASA headquarters in Washington will lose 307. Langley Research Center in Virginia will lose 281, Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama will lose 279, and Cleveland’s Glenn Research Center will lose 191 staff.
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The image features a political-themed graphic with a yellow background. In the center, there is a large sign with the word "TRUMP" in bold blue letters, accompanied by the slogan "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" in smaller blue text. The sign is framed with a red border and stars at the top and bottom, resembling a campaign banner.
On the left side of the image, there is a silhouette of a person in a suit, facing the sign. On the right side, there are two silhouetted figures wearing red caps, with one figure appearing to bow and pray, while the other stands beside them. Below the figures, there are two raised hands, suggesting a gesture of supplication.
The image includes text at the top and bottom. The top text reads, "AND THE IDIOTS BOWED AND PRAYED," and the bottom text states, "TO THE ORANGE GOD THEY MADE." The text is in white, with a shadow effect, making it stand out against the yellow background. The overall composition of the image conveys a critical message about the political figure represented by the sign.
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artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
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Francis Preston Blair Jr. (1821-1875) was a United States Senator, a United States Congressman and a Union Army major general during the American Civil War. He represented Missouri in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and was active in preventing the state of Missouri from being absorbed into the Confederacy at the beginning of the war.
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#history #ushistory #genealogy
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Is this your ancestor? Compare DNA and explore genealogy for Francis Blair Jr. born 1821 Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States died 1875 St.www.wikitree.com
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Purtroppo sì (oltre che in assassini)
I piani deliranti di Israele per Gaza trasformeranno i soldati in carcerieri
Finalmente, Israele entrerà a far parte della famiglia delle nazioni illuminate. Come la Germania, il Giappone, la Cina e gli Stati Uniti, anche Israele avrà un grande campo di concentramento ben organizzatoUmberto De Giovannangeli (Globalist.it)
Wann ist das Internet denn jetzt endlich tot? (mit Franziska Bluhm)
TikTok bekommt eine amerikanische Schwester: M2 ist der Arbeitstitel, der Rest ist Spekulation. Aber hey! Für Spekulationen sind wir immer zu haben.
Leider gilt das auch für KI-Bots - denn Grok 4 steht vor der Tür und lässt schon jetzt seine Wahrheitsverzerrung durchschimmern.
Und dann gibt’s da noch das Problem mit dem fehlenden Traffic, seit Google Übersichten erstellt.
➡️ Die Recherche von Lars Wienand zu Fakepromis auf Social Media: t-online.de/nachrichten/panora…
Kapitelmarken, KI-generiert:
00:00 Hallo Franziska!
01:37 TikTok und M2
06:14 Grok 4
12:02 Wie die Wissenschaft KI hacken will
19:16 Nick Clegg über KI
24:18 Google vs. Publisher
27:55 Identitätsdiebstahl im Internet
35:40 Funktionen und Emotionen
40:14 Versöhnlichkeit des Tages
Promi-Anzeigen: Betrüger kapern Nutzerkonten für Milliardenbetrug
Gefälschte Promi-Werbung für angebliche KI-Investments treibt Opfer ins Unglück und nervt. Inzwischen kapern Betrüger dafür sogar Accounts nichtsahnender Nutzer.Lars Wienand (t-online)
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There is “something” deviously wrong with mainstream media. It’s “like” they don’t care about Women and democracy or anything but money.
In Mexico, a coalition of catholic young Women and boys elected a Jewish socialist who identifies as a Woman.
Seems like something “american” Women would be interested in, but who am I to say?
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A imagem é uma ilustração em estilo cartunizado de um personagem masculino com cabelos grisalhos, vestindo um terno preto e gravata. Ele tem uma expressão de admiração e rubor, com as bochechas coradas e um olhar fixo, sugerindo que está olhando para algo que o impressiona. O personagem tem um dedo na boca, como se estivesse pensativo ou surpreso. Ao fundo, há estrelas brilhantes, indicando um momento de inspiração ou admiração. Há um balão de fala com a frase "EU GOL PARA S...", que é cortada, sugerindo que o personagem está falando algo importante. A imagem é acompanhada de uma legenda em português que diz: "Bolsonaro olhando pra tela do celular, vendo notícias do tarifão, ruborizado e ofegante sussurrando 'Tru... Trump-kun...' 👍👉". A imagem é uma sátira política, com o personagem representando Jair Bolsonaro, e a legenda faz uma referência humorística à admiração de Bolsonaro por Donald Trump.
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Clouds and More from the Finger Lakes
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Clouds and More from the Finger Lakes - Stan Stewart - @muz4now
Stan Stewart shares photos of clouds and other inspiring images of the Finger Lakes region of central New York state (USA).Stan Stewart (Stan Stewart - @muz4now)
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#RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
Ukraine detains Chinese spies tasked with stealing Neptune missile technology, SBU says
According to the SBU, the two individuals, a 24-year-old former student of a Kyiv technical university and his father, were gathering classified documentation with the intent to illegally transfer it to Chinese intelligence.Anna Fratsyvir (The Kyiv Independent)
wayback is now fully on freedesktop: gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback…
thanks to @neal for driving this, and @mupuf for doing the sysadmin work on freedesktop gitlab!
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It should be either "1 - 3 pm" or "from 1 to 3 pm," don't you think?
Not saying that I never make grammatical errors; I do all the time. But this is more about logics. "from 1 - 3 pm" doesn't make sense.
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Ukrainian paratroopers capture Russian officer
Paratroopers from the 77th Separate Airmobile Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have captured a Russian officer. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
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Smetana, Adamo with Segev and Debussy from Chicago - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Grant Park Music Festival. Inbal Segev, cello, and the Grant Park Orchestra conducted by Nicole Paiement play: SMETANA: The Moldau. Mark ADAMO: Last Year, Cello Concerto. DEBUSSY: La Mer. Live....www.worldconcerthall.com
I'm confused, in the most recent Mastodon update what do Trending and Live feeds in the web app do?
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How To Train A New Voice For Piper With Only A Single Phrase
[Cal Bryant] hacked together a home automation system years ago, which more recently utilizes Piper TTS (text-to-speech) voices for various undisclosed purposes. Not satisfied with the robotic-sounding standard voices available, [Cal] set about an experiment to fine-tune the Piper TTS AI voice model using a clone of a single phrase created by a commercial TTS voice as a starting point.
Before the release of Piper TTS in 2023, existing free-to-use TTS systems such as espeak and Festival sounded robotic and flat. Piper delivered much more natural-sounding output, without requiring massive resources to run. To change the voice style, the Piper AI model can be either retrained from scratch or fine-tuned with less effort. In the latter case, the problem to be solved first was how to generate the necessary volume of training phrases to run the fine-tuning of Piper’s AI model. This was solved using a heavyweight AI model, ChatterBox, which is capable of so-called zero-shot training. Check out the Chatterbox demo here.
Training began with a corpus of test phrases in text format to ensure decent coverage of everyday English. [Cal] used ChatterBox to clone audio from a single test phrase generated by a ‘mystery TTS system’ and created 1,300 test phrases from this new voice. This audio set served as training data to fine-tune the Piper AI model on the lashed-up GPU rig.
To verify accuracy, [Cal] used OpenAI’s Whisper software to transcribe the audio back to text, in order to compare with the original text corpus. To overcome issues with punctuation and differences between US and UK English, the text was converted into phonemes using espeak-ng, resulting in a 98% phrase matching accuracy.
After down-sampling the training set using SoX, it was ready for the Piper TTS training system. Despite all the preparation, running the software felt anticlimactic. A few inconsistencies in the dataset necessitated the removal of some data points. After five days of training parked outside in the shade due to concerns about heat, TensorBoard indicated that the model’s loss function was converging. That’s AI-speak for: the model was tuned and ready for action! We think it sounds pretty slick.
If all this new-fangled AI speech synthesis is too complex and, well, a bit creepy for you, may we offer a more 1980s solution to making stuff talk? Finally, most people take the ability to speak for granted, until they can no longer do so. Here’s a team using cutting-edge AI to give people back that ability.
Umfrage: 95 Prozent lehnen muslimischen Bürgermeister ab
Das ist deutlich: In einer aktuellen Umfrage bei exxpress live gaben 95 Prozent der Teilnehmer an, sich keinen muslimischen Bürgermeister in ihrer Stadt vorstellen zu können.exxpress.at
The rise and fall of FOIA Gras
Tom Hayden never intended to become a journalist. But in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hayden decided to look into how his local school district in Evanston, Illinois, was making decisions about when to send kids back to school.
It was a contentious issue in town and deserved journalistic inquiry. But Hayden realized the decline of local media left a void that someone needed to fill. So he decided to step up and launch his Substack newsletter FOIA Gras, which as the name implies, focused on public records-based, Freedom of Information Act-related reporting.
“Ten years ago, a board meeting would have had reporters from suburban beats that are all gone now,” Hayden said. “Now, you just see the high school beat reporter.”
Hayden’s side gig as a journalist was a big success, and his focus expanded beyond pandemic issues. “Our local board initially hated me, but now they consider me like their inspector general,” Hayden said in March. “I’m able to get records that they don’t even know about. I break stories to them about lawsuits that they don’t even know about.”
But soon after we spoke, and after he completed his coverage of Evanston’s school board elections, Hayden announced that he was ending his experiment with citizen journalism. “It’s rendered a considerable toll on my mental well-being, my professional day-to-day career, my finances, and my relationships. I always told myself if the fun is gone, I can walk away, and the fun is gone,” he wrote.
‘Throwing darts’ at public records
Hayden was familiar with FOIA requests before venturing into journalism, from seeking records as part of his day job in the corrosion industry. So, when families started moving out of Evanston to nearby towns where schools had reopened, Hayden put on his citizen-journalist hat and started pulling records.
“I started kind of just throwing darts, looking mainly at lists of public records from the board meetings, which are public, and they immediately hit,” Hayden said.
Under Illinois’ public records laws, requesters are not charged fees for most records requests (aside from copying costs for large document sets). It’s a powerful law, Hayden said, as long as you are diligent and know what you are looking for.
“Our local board initially hated me, but now they consider me like their inspector general. I’m able to get records that they don’t even know about.”
Tom Hayden
Hayden said the records he requested showed that then-superintendent Devon Horton had been misappropriating funds and steering contracts to business partners, misleading Evanstonians about financing for a school in Evanston’s Fifth Ward, and more.
With longstanding disparities in achievement gaps and funding, Hayden felt that Horton had used promises of championing diversity to divide the public rather than address the issues. “Equity is about lifting oppressed communities, not using them as a shoulder to lift yourself to a better job,” he wrote.
Hayden said he intended to use the truth to “try to find a way to bridge the people in this town that have political street fights over this.” Instead of bickering, he thought, “Let’s go get the actual records.”
To do so, Hayden launched FOIA Gras. Quickly, Hayden became a go-to source for Evanstonians to find out what was happening in the board meetings and within the district, for parents and board members alike.
A fork in the road
As a citizen journalist and his own boss, Hayden was able to set his own parameters. Despite the success of the newsletter, however, Hayden announced he was closing down FOIA Gras in April, when the work outweighed the fun and backlash against his editorial choices started affecting his personal life.
“Ultimately, for me, I sort of reached the point where this project reached a fork in the road,” Hayden said, “where I have to decide, ‘Am I a professional journalist, or am I a citizen-journalist-slash-parent-slash-community-member?’”
In one particular case, in 2022, a middle schooler was caught making nooses out of jump ropes outside of a school while a protest was going on inside over some teachers being transferred. The incident blew up in Evanston, but Hayden decided not to cover it at the time to protect the children’s identities.
“The reality is that nobody knows why the student did it,” Hayden said, but the incident became part of a narrative around a school anti-racism initiative.
Hayden FOIA’d a copy of the associated police report, which he said police provided, but improperly, because it contained information on a minor.
“The incentives are broken. This is a massive national issue — there is very little money in the pursuit of truth.”
Tom Hayden
After obtaining the report, Hayden reached out to the parents involved for comment and began writing a story about the district’s response to the nooses incident. Through his reporting, Hayden became uncomfortable continuing to report on a story based on speculation and decided to stop. Unfortunately, that made some of his readers angry.
One parent “reached out to me as a source and provided me some information about his child, who was only tangentially involved, but not the kid who made the nooses,” Hayden said. But the parent then provided the story to a national outlet, The Free Press, because, said Hayden, it fit its agenda of having “anti-woke stories.” That outlet ultimately ran the story.
“Very little money in the pursuit of truth”
The Free Press reported that, according to its sources, the child who made the noose was dealing with mental health issues and didn’t know about the racial connotations of hanging nooses. It accused Superintendent Horton of turning a child’s cry for help into a self-promotion opportunity during the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement. It framed Evanston — known for the country’s first municipal reparations program, among other racial justice initiatives — as an example of wokeness going too far (not long after the article, the Trump administration launched an investigation of the school district).
The drama surrounding the noose incident and Free Press article was the straw that broke the camel’s back for Hayden. People began ascribing nefarious motives to his decision not to cover the story, when in reality he just didn’t want to contribute to putting middle schoolers in the middle of a public spectacle. Hayden decided he’d close down FOIA Gras after the school board election in April. He continues to both work full-time and teach data governance at Northwestern University.
“There’s a set of ethical rules that a professional journalist has to follow, especially when it comes to editorial decisions and injecting my own opinion into stories,” Hayden said. “I just reached that fork in the road.” His preference was always to report on verifiable data — that’s why he felt so at home with FOIA. But fact-based reporting wasn’t enough for his readers, and the aforementioned “political street fights” continued despite his efforts.
Ultimately, despite the important news he broke, the experience left Hayden cynical about the future of the profession he dabbled in. “I don’t feel good about the future of journalism,” he wrote in his departing announcement. “The incentives are broken,” Hayden said. “This is a massive national issue — there is very little money in the pursuit of truth.”
This is fourth in a series of profiles of independent journalists who use public records to hold local governments accountable. The third, about Michelle Pitcher’s reporting on the Texas criminal justice system, is here. The second, about Hannah Bassett of the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, is here. The first, about Lisa Pickoff-White of the California Reporting Project, is here.
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