Attacks on press freedom that used to seem outlandish or unlikely in the United States are happening across the country. Here’s the latest.
Targeting student op-ed writers threatens the free press
On Wednesday we published an article about how India’s revocation of American journalist Raphael Satter’s overseas citizenship to punish him for his reporting was a “not-so-farfetched” cautionary tale for the United States. “Once a government claims the power to use residency status as a cudgel to regulate speech, things escalate quickly and unpredictably,” wrote our advocacy director, Seth Stern.
But cautionary tales become realities quickly these days. The same day we published that piece, news broke that the Trump administration had abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University graduate student from Turkey. Masked men grabbed her off the street after an organization called Canary Mission had flagged her “anti-Israel activism,” which apparently consisted solely of cowriting an op-ed that was critical of the Israel-Gaza war. She has reportedly been transferred to a facility in Louisiana, despite a court order against moving her out of Massachusetts. The arrest comes weeks after reports that Columbia University investigated an op-ed writer in response to pressure from the administration.
We said in a statement that “if reports that Ozturk’s arrest was over an op-ed are accurate, it is absolutely appalling. No one would have ever believed, even during President Donald Trump’s first term, that masked federal agents would abduct students from American universities for criticizing U.S. allies in student newspapers. Anyone with any regard whatsoever for the Constitution should recognize how fundamentally at odds this is with our values.” We also joined a letter from the Student Press Law Center and other press freedom and collegiate organizations condemning the abduction and calling upon Tufts and Congress to take action and put themselves on the right side of history.
Max Frankel’s press freedom legacy
Max Frankel, a New York Times reporter and editor who helped push for the publication of the Pentagon Papers, died Sunday at the age of 94. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Frankel was well known for his decades of reporting. But it’s another piece of writing, not initially published in a newspaper, that holds a special place in First Amendment history.
An affidavit by Frankel filed in New York Times Co. v. United States, better known as the Pentagon Papers case, has become one of the most important public documents laying out the realities of national security reporting and Washington’s unspoken rules around government secrecy and leaks. Read more about Frankel’s legacy from FPF Senior Advocacy Adviser Caitlin Vogus.
NPR and PBS are just low-hanging fruit
At a congressional hearing this week, lawmakers attacked NPR and PBS for perceived bias and questioned whether there is still a need for the government to fund media these days. Trump separately said he wants both outlets defunded.
The stunt would’ve been concerning in normal times, but it’s particularly worrying now. Whether or not you think there’s a legitimate debate to be had about the government funding journalism, it’s clear that public media is just the low-hanging fruit — this administration intends to seize upon any and every legal theory, however far-fetched (or just ignore the law entirely), to punish the free press.
We joined a letter with the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) about the dangers of the administration’s attacks on NPR and PBS. Stern also had more to say on DW’s The Day, which also airs on several PBS stations.
New executive order gives DOGE more control over agency records
A new executive order has the potential to grant the Department of Government Efficiency more control over agency records, and hints that the Trump administration may be considering issuing a new executive order on classification.
Both could spell bad news for the public’s right to know. Read more here from our Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy, Lauren Harper.
Texas anti-SLAPP bill wouldn’t only impact journalists
The nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen understands the importance of laws against frivolous lawsuits targeting speech, known as strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPPs.
That’s why their litigation group has represented several Texas consumers who have been sued over their speech. For the latest in a series of interviews about the implications of attempts to weaken Texas’ anti-SLAPP laws, Vogus talked to Public Citizen attorney Paul Levy. Read the interview here.
What we’re reading
Israeli strikes kill two Gaza journalists, including Al Jazeera reporter (The Washington Post). Journalists are civilians, and targeting them is absolutely illegal and inexcusable. Everyone involved in these assassinations should be held accountable, including U.S. officials who bankroll war crimes.
Security lessons from a Signal group chat (FPF). Our digital security team explores what journalists can learn from this week’s big story — Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg’s accidental inclusion in a sensitive Signal group chat about bombing apartment buildings and whatnot.
The AP’s freedom of speech — and yours (The Wall Street Journal). “Today the U.S. government wants to control the AP’s speech. Tomorrow it could be someone else’s.” Read why you should care about the White House banning the Associated Press, regardless of your political views.
Leakers to Musk: We’re ‘not Elon’s servants’ (Politico). “The public deserves to know how dysfunctional, destructive, and deceptive all of this has been and continues to be,” a Food and Drug Administration employee told Politico.
Was chaotic JFK declassification marred by National Archives firings? (The Classifieds). Harper questions whether errors in the recent declassification of JFK records, including exposing social security numbers, had something to do with Marco Rubio taking over the National Archives while also serving as Secretary of State.
The sun is our planet’s source of natural illumination, and though we’ve mastered making artificial light sources, it remains extremely difficult to copy our nearby star. As if matching the intensity wasn’t enough, its spectral quality, collimation, and atmospheric scattering make it an special challenge. [Victor Poughon] has given it a go though, using a bank of LEDs and an interesting lens system.
We’re used to lenses being something that can be bought off-the-shelf, but this design eschews that convenience by having the lenses manufactured and polished as an array, by JLC. The scattering is taken care of by a sheet of inkjet printer film, and the LEDs are mounted on a set of custom PCBs.
The result is certainly a very bright light, and one whose collimation delivers a sun-like effect of coming from a great distance. It may not be as bright as the real thing, but it’s certainly something close. If you’d like something to compare it to, it’s not the first such light we’ve featured.
il giorno del ringraziamento sarà chiamato "giorno del grande affare" e le mutande dovranno essere portate sopra i pantaloni. il giorno del ringraziamento sarà spostato alla data di compleanno di trump. sulla luna sarà scolpita la sua faccia.
#NoiSiamoLeScuole, il video racconto di questa settimana è dedicato a due Nuove Scuole nel Veneto: la Primaria “Alfredo Fabris” di Zugliano (VI) e la Secondaria di I grado “Don Lorenzo Milani” di Zanè (VI), che, con i fondi #PNRR finalizzati alla cos…
#NoiSiamoLeScuole, il video racconto di questa settimana è dedicato a due Nuove Scuole nel Veneto: la Primaria “Alfredo Fabris” di Zugliano (VI) e la Secondaria di I grado “Don Lorenzo Milani” di Zanè (VI), che, con i fondi #PNRR finalizzati alla cos…
Local newspapers play an indelible role in American journalism, reporting some of the country’s biggest stories from its smallest communities.
So when authorities in Marion, Kansas, and Clarksdale, Mississippi, attacked their local newspapers for coverage with which they disagreed, the outlets themselves became the story. And outrage quicklyignited across the U.S.
In February, a judge granted the City of Clarksdale an order requiring The Clarksdale Press Register to delete an editorial raising questions about transparency within the city’s government. And in 2023, police raided the Marion County Record’s newsroom and its publisher’s home over the paper’s use of a public website to verify a news tip.
In both cases, the officials involved had longstanding grudges with the newspapers over critical coverage long before the attacks made national headlines.
To get a first-hand perspective on the fight against these unconstitutional efforts to quash free speech, we spoke to Clarksdale Press Register Publisher Wyatt Emmerich and Marion County Record Publisher Eric Meyer in an online webinar on March 26, 2025.
Meyer said the similarities between his and Emmerich’s experiences are “just overwhelming.” One of those similarities was the backlash that followed.
“When they were raiding our office, I said, ‘This is going to be on the front page of The New York Times,’ and they laughed at me,” Meyer said. “It was on the front page of The New York Times.”
The police raid of the Marion County Record and the takedown order issued to The Clarksdale Press Register both stem from prior butting of heads with their local governments. In Meyer’s case, the paper had a “contentious” relationship with the town because “we had the audacity to actually report news and reported in a way that was not positive and uplifting to the city.”
Similarly, Emmerich said Clarkdale’s mayor took issue with their editorials “because he didn’t like our coverage,” and even organized a boycott against the paper. “The mayor offered me $30,000 to fire the editor,” Emmerich said. “We were the fly in the ointment, and he wanted to get rid of us as best he could.”
“He’s a younger mayor and just doesn’t understand the role of a traditional newspaper,” Emmerich continued. “He assumed that because he was mayor, the newspaper’s job was to do what he told us to do, and we didn’t do that.”
But even as tensions boiled over and the local governments in Marion and Clarksdale tried to throw sand in the gears of accountability, Emmerich and Meyer kept their papers’ presses rolling.
“It was two all-nighters to put out the paper because we lost everything,” Meyer said. “They took our backup drives. We didn’t even have our name plates.”
Emmerich said stunting a local paper like his, either in court through publishing gags or through other means, could decimate the community’s access to reliable information. Similarly, Meyer said he sees his paper as a challenger to assumption and an excavator of truth — not a placater to the public or the local government.
“We need to understand that there is a role for journalism in society, and that role is not necessarily being the cheerleader for the town,” he said. “We are here to present the views that aren't heard, to explore the facts that aren't explored.”
It’s been over a year since the police chief who led the raid on the Marion County Record resigned, but the fallout hasn’t ceased. Meyer said he is “keeping the lawyers busy” by suing the county, the city, the former police chief, and other individuals involved in the raid.
“We got so many subscriptions out of this. We’re the 121st largest town in Kansas, the 57th largest county. A year after the raid, we had the eighth largest paid circulation in the state.”
Eric Meyer, Marion County Record publisher
Meyer also plans on filing wrongful death suits. His 98-year-old mother, Joan Meyer, died a day after police executed a search warrant at the home they shared. Her death, he believes, was caused by the stress of the raid.
By standing up to intimidation that flew in the face of the journalism their papers produced, Emmerich and Meyer both experienced an outpouring of support thanks to the nationwide attention their cases received.
“We got so many subscriptions out of this. We’re the 121st largest town in Kansas, the 57th largest county,” Meyer said. “A year after the raid, we had the eighth largest paid circulation in the state.” Marion is a town of less than 2,000 residents.
Keeping a small town newspaper’s finances in check is essential, especially at a time when one-third of U.S. newspapers have shuttered since 2005. But Meyer and Emmerich agree that success isn’t just measured in dollar signs or subscriber rates. Their papers must hold power to account in order to fulfill their mandates.
“Because there's so little good local journalism, the good local journalism that is there tends to be very powerful and gets results,” Emmerich said. “And unfortunately, one of those results is pushback from the city council in the form of intimidation tactics and such.”
Despite being lifted, the publishing gag against The Clarksdale Press Register “did hurt us,” Emmerich said, but “we weathered that storm.” The paper is still vulnerable, however, because Mississippi is one of several states that lacks an anti-SLAPP law protecting journalists from legal actions known as strategic lawsuits against public participation that are brought in order to chill speech.
Still, both Emmerich and Meyer believe the risks they are taking to report the truth and hold officials accountable outweigh the consequences of playing it safe. After all, a public that is disengaged from its reality “sure as hell hurts democracy,” Meyer said. And in a country that routinely distrusts and villainizes local news, these attacks did not occur in a vacuum; if they can happen in Clarksdale or Marion, they can happen anywhere.
“People don’t think they can change things. I've written the same editorial probably 50 out of the 52 weeks in the year, just with different ways of expressing it,” Meyer said. “If you don't believe that you can make a difference in something, all you listen to are slogans. If you believe you can make a difference, you'll look at facts.”
When we think of 8-bit computers, it’s natural to start with home computers. That’s where they live on in the collective memory. But a Z80, a 6502, or similar was more likely to be found unseen in a piece of industrial machinery, doing the job for which we’d today reach for a microcontroller. Sometimes these two worlds intersected, and thus we come to the EuroBEEB, a derivative of Acorn’s BBC Micro on a Eurocard. [Steve Crozier] has performed extensive research into this system and even produced a recreated PCB, providing a fascinating window into embedded computing in the early 1980s.
The EuroBEEB was the work of Control Universal, a Cambridge-based company specialising in embedded computers. They produced systems based upon 6502 and 6809 processors, and joining their product line to the then-burgeoning BBC Micro ecosystem would have been an obvious step. The machine itself is a Eurocard with a simple 6502 system shipped with ACORN BBC Basic on ROM, and could be seen as a cut-down BBC Micro with plenty of digital I/O, accesible through a serial port. It didn’t stop there though, as not only could it export its graphics to a “real” BBC Micro, it had a range of expansion Eurocards that could carry the missing hardware such as analogue input, Teletext, or high-res graphics.
The reverse-engineered PCB comes from analysis of surviving schematics, and included a couple of gate array logic chips to replace address decoding ROMs in the original. If it seems overkill for anyone used to a modern microcontroller, it’s worth remembering that by the standards of the time this was a pretty simple system. Meanwhile if you only fancy trying BBC BASIC, there’s no need to find original hardware.
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) La giornata internazionale dedicata al backup dei dati permette alle imprese di effettuare la verifica delle loro strategie di protezione dati in un contesto di cyber minacce in evoluzione, nell'era dei ransomware. Ecco i consigli
📣 Contrasto ai diplomifici, reclutamento docenti e diritto allo studio: oggi il Consiglio dei Ministri ha approvato il decreto-legge #PNRR con una serie di misure strategiche per la #scuola.
📣 Contrasto ai diplomifici, reclutamento docenti e diritto allo studio: oggi il Consiglio dei Ministri ha approvato il decreto-legge #PNRR con una serie di misure strategiche per la #scuola.
Qui tutti i dettagli ▶️ https://www.mim.gov.
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Lo scandalo della chat Signal del Governo Usa dove si parlava di piani di guerra contro gli Houthi insegna tanto sugli errori comuni che uno Stato, come un'azienda anche strutturata, possono fare in termini di governance della cybersecurity. Ed è
Lo studio legale californiano Greenberg Glusker ha raggiunto attraverso un tribunale arbitrale la possibilità di recuperare 33 milioni di dollari da T-Mobile. La causa denuncia gravi violazioni della sicurezza che hanno portato al successo di un attacco di scambio di SIM (SIM Swap).
L’incidente è avvenuto il 21 febbraio 2020, quando un dipendente della T-Mobile ha trasferito il numero di telefono del cliente Joseph “Josh” Jones su una scheda SIM controllata da un aggressore. L’attacco ha portato al furto di oltre 1.500 Bitcoin e di circa 60.000 Bitcoin Cash, per un valore di 38 milioni di dollari al momento del furto.
L’account T-Mobile di Jones era dotato di misure di sicurezza avanzate, tra cui un PIN di otto cifre che avrebbe dovuto impedire qualsiasi modifica. Ciò ha portato la vittima a credere che gli aggressori avessero utilizzato vulnerabilità nei sistemi dell’operatore di telefonia mobile per ottenere il controllo sul suo account.
La petizione di Greenberg Glusker, depositata presso il tribunale di Los Angeles, rivela che un’indagine delle forze dell’ordine ha accertato il coinvolgimento nell’attacco informatico di un adolescente di 17 anni a cui è stata diagnosticata l’ADHD. Secondo le informazioni disponibili, era associato agli hacker Nima Fazeli e Joseph O’Connor, coinvolti nell’hacking di decine di account Twitter nello stesso 2020.
Il caso T-Mobile è stato tenuto segreto dall’autunno del 2023. Lo studio legale ha affermato che l’operatore di telefonia mobile stava cercando di mantenere riservati i dettagli delle sue falle di sicurezza.
Paul Blechner di Greenberg Glusker ha sottolineato che il problema dello scambio di SIM è rimasto una vulnerabilità irrisolta per molti anni. Ha affermato che gli operatori, tra cui T-Mobile, erano a conoscenza del problema ma non hanno preso sufficienti precauzioni per proteggere i propri clienti.
Gli attacchi di scambio di SIM rappresentano una seria minaccia perché i numeri di telefono vengono spesso utilizzati per l’autenticazione a due fattori in vari servizi online. Una volta che gli aggressori prendono il controllo del numero, possono modificare i dettagli di accesso e assumere il controllo degli account degli utenti.
Uno dei casi più noti dell’uso di questa tecnica divenne importante negli hack di Twitter del 2020. Gli hacker hanno attaccato 130 account e ne sono stati catturati 45, tra cui quelli di personaggi famosi: Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, Elon Musk e Mike Bloomberg.
Sono numeri positivi quelli con cui l’azienda campana Ala, specializzata nella logistica integrata e nella distribuzione di componentistica per l’industria aeronautica e aerospaziale, chiude il 2024. A dimostrarlo il bilancio consolidato presentato dal Consiglio di amministrazione che registra un
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale La segretaria del Partito democratico (Pd), Elly Schlein, ha attaccato la presidente del Consiglio, Giorgia Meloni, per le dichiarazioni rese in un’intervista al The Financial Times in cui definiva “infantile”
SCANDALO UE: 7° AUMENTO DI STIPENDIO Mentre i cittadini europei soffrono rincari e crisi, i 66.000 parass… ehm dipendenti UE si godono un nuovo, vergognoso aumento ad aprile: il settimo dal 2022! Si tratta degli arretrati del 2024, quando avrebbero dovuto ricevere un aumento del +8,5%. Nello stesso periodo (fonte: OCSE e Eurostat), i salari reali (al netto dell’inflazione) in Italia sono diminuiti del 7%.
Ecco i numeri scandalosi della Ue: - Lo stipendio minimo sale da 3.361€ a 3.645€; - Il massimo schizza da 23.262€ a 25.229€; - Von der Leyen incasserà 34.800€/mese (+2.700€), i commissari 28.400€ (+2.200€).
Il meccanismo? una formula del tutto imperscrutabile. E la farsa continua: nel 2025 potrebbero arrivare ulteriori 3 aggiustamenti. L’Europa premia sé stessa mentre danneggia i cittadini.
A cura di Leonardo Musci e di Alessandra Cavaterra Dal 28 marzo al 2 aprile 2025, dalle ore 9:30 alle ore 13.00, previa prenotazione scrivendo a ramus@fondazioneluigieinaudi.it Presso l’Ordine degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Milano Viale Andrea Doria, 9 – Milano L'articolo Mostra “Giovanni Malagodi un
Lo sciopero generale dei metalmeccanici è la migliore risposta alla prepotenza dei padroni di Federmeccanica. Le motivazioni dello sciopero dei metalmeccanici sono sacrosante. La chiusura del padronato è inaccettabile. Il silenzio della ministra del lavoro e del governo su questa vertenza conferma che la destra sta dalla parte dei padroni. Il padronato nega a 1.900.000 [...]
Dall’inizio del conflitto in Ucraina, i droni marittimi (più correttamente definiti Unmanned Surface Vessels, o Usv) sono stati impiegati in modo sempre più efficace dalle forze di Kyiv nel disturbare le operazioni navali russe nel Mar Nero, fornendo all’Ucraina un mezzo economicamente vantaggioso per
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Non esiste la ricerca di un percorso trasformativo collettivo, proprio come il sistema si auspica. Ma non esiste neanche la fermezza critica di menti pensanti capaci di mantenere linearità di analisi e solidità di approccio. Non esiste alternativa
Verdad y Libertad, pseudoterapie riparative, vescovo di Palermo ne testa la correttezza: la diocesi non smentisce
Vescovo Corrado Lorefice e vicario per la pastorale Giuseppe Vagnarelli, organizzatore dell'incontro pubblico, che hanno introdotto e concluso i lavori, interpellati come diocesi dal pubblico, non hanno dato alcuna smentita, dopo 7 mesi di silenzio dagli articoli di stampa nazionale e internazionale dell'estate scorsa.
Giovedì 27 marzo 2025 pomeriggio, nella chiesa parrocchiale di Santa Caterina da Siena in via dell'Airone a Borgo Ulivia, la diocesi di Palermo ha tenuto un «aggiornamento teologico per laici», ad accesso pubblico, su «accompagnamento e accoglienza delle persone omosessuali».
Presenti almeno 150 persone in sala, tra cui il vescovo che ha lungamente aperto l’incontro, il vicario per la pastorale, l’addetto stampa del vescovo e una giornalista. Ho atteso il momento delle domande, e, al mio turno ho posto la seguente domanda:
9 settembre 2017, Bagheria, in una parrocchia, nel territorio della nostra arcidiocesi,
«a 20 anni, il rito iniziale: essere rinchiuso in uno stanzino buio, con una lista scritta di cose che devo lasciare fuori dalla porta, come l'attrazione per lo stesso sesso; qualcuno poi apre la porta, ti dice: "Vuoi venire alla luce?", rispondi di sì, esci dalla porta e metti dei lucchetti simbolici: al sesso, alla masturbazione. A questi momenti comunitari c'erano persone da diverse parti del mondo che si collegavano online per seguire».
Incontri successivi sempre
«seguiti non da professionisti ma daI fondatore.
Tappa obbligatoria - viaggio di una settimana a Granada a spese del seminario, dove gli incontri si tengono a casa di Miguel Angel Sanchez Cordòn, pediatra ex gay:
bagno in piscina tutti nudi; dover stare tutti nudi a guardarsi, per educare il corpo a non eccitarsi.
Essere obbligato a mettere in scena il proprio funerale: mettere su carta i tuoi difetti percepiti, come "omosessualità", "abominio", "falsità"; bruciarli, obbligato poi a seppellirne le ceneri sotto la tua lapide simbolica, disegnata da te, col tuo nome.
Ogni sera, dover fare un report via telegram se si sono avute delle minime pulsioni o erezioni; se accade, devi scriverlo sul gruppo in diretta e tutti cominciano a mandare messaggi di sostegno e preghiere collettive».
«Sentirsi intrappolato senza altra scelta se non quella di sopprimere il mio vero sé».
«Insormontabile pressione psicologica ad essere qualcuno che non ero».
E, poi, come effetti, «attacchi di panico», e, per i 7 anni successivi, «crisi di ansia e ira improvvisa».
che nel 2017 incontri di questo che lui chiama«percorso formativo»della durata di un anno, che avrebbe come«obiettivo una piena maturità umana e affettiva», si sono tenuti anche a Palermo;
che l'arcivescovo di questa diocesi, Palermo,«ha voluto partecipare» a qualche incontro per «testarne la correttezza»;
che«la parola definitiva se affidare o meno seminaristi» del seminario della propria diocesi a un percorso di questo genere «è del vescovo».
La diocesi smentisce?
Dopo il giro delle risposte di competenza dei tre relatori esterni, ha preso la parola il vicario per la pastorale Giuseppe Vagnarelli, per ringraziare e salutare, quindi una lunga preghiera condotta personalmente dall'arcivescovo Corrado Lorefice, e tutte e tutti a casa. Nessuno dei due ha minimamente toccato il tema. Nessuna smentita, quindi.
@informapirata ⁂ a me delirante sembra la mancata smentita - quindi ammissione che così sia andata; delirante il mancato fare ammenda; delirante che, come risposta, non aprano gli archivi dei seminari vescovili di Agrigento e Palermo a una commissione indipendente che faccia chiarezza e ricostruisca la vicenda andando a cercare una per una le decine di persone offese, che loro sanno perfettamente chi sono e noi no; delirante che se ne occupi stampa nazionale e internazionale, ma che, con l'unica eccezione di Claudia Fauzia, nessuno della stampa locale senta l'esigenza di intervistare, indagare, chiedere smentite ai varii Lorefice, Vagnarelli, Montenegro e ai rettori del seminario di Palermo di allora e di ora.
La dimensione subacquea del dominio marittimo assume oggi una rilevanza strategica sempre più decisiva, ponendosi al centro di nuove dinamiche geopolitiche globali. Le infrastrutture critiche poste sui fondali marini – gasdotti, oleodotti e
@Privacy Pride Il post completo di Christian Bernieri è sul suo blog: garantepiracy.it/blog/lacqua-c… Si, Claudia Giulia, hai capito bene, Stroppa ha detto che può accedere a qualsiasi dato personale degli utenti di twitter/x in modo arbitrario, inclusi quelli non pubblicamente visibili. Può vedere la reale identità degli utenti pseudonimi, che lui maccheronicamente chiama anonimi, può
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Chi vuole partire viene condotto al transito di Kerem Shalom. Dopo l'ispezione, prosegue verso Rafah, il ponte di Allenby o l'aeroporto di Ramon. A tutti verrebbe detto che «non è certo» che potranno tornare a Gaza L'articolo Come
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale L’idea che l’Italia debba scegliere tra gli Stati Uniti e l’Europa è “infantile” e “superficiale”, visto che Washington e il
Ecco, stiamo con i cattivi della storia. Capisco la voglia di mediare, ma non sta mediando una beneamata cippa, ci stiamo beccando dazi e insulti e noi a quanto pare ci pieghiamo pure a 90
@gildadriel @Tototun non c'è niente da fare... il trenino italiano, fintanto che non viene fatto deragliare, viaggia sempre ostinatamente verso la parte sbagliata della storia
Non siamo solo noi, le nazioni europee da tempo sono incapaci di esprimere qualcosa che non sia la sottomissione acritica e incondizionale agli USA.
Pensa alla Danimarca, che ha confermato da poco l'acquisto degli F35, cioé regalare miliardi a un paese che sta minacciando di invadere parte del suo territorio.
Alcuni dicono che è vero, altri dicono il contrario. Ma di fatto dipendere da ricambi e sopratutto software e telemetria gestiti dagli USA renderebbe quegli F35 estremamente ineffettivi.
Ad ogni modo l'Europa non può competere militarmente con gli Stati Uniti, a partire dal piccolo dettaglio che abbiamo le loro basi piazzate in casa.
@alfredon996 dal canto mio non credo dovremmo cercare la competizione militare, ma almeno l'indipendenza sul piano della difesa. Affidarsi ad un "alleato" che si è dimostrato inaffidabile più volte non è il massimo. Possiamo farci andare bene il fatto di essere affiliati agli USA, ma possiamo farci stare un po' meno bene l'idea di dover dipendere da loro per la nostra sicurezza.
“È necessario sviluppare una coscienza civica sul fenomeno dell’abuso del digitale e della conseguente incapacità di scrivere a mano che oggi riguarda tutti, ma che coinvolge soprattutto i più giovani. Penso che sul piano delle politiche pubbliche questo tema possa essere trattato in modo ancora più
DAL 2003, SLOWFORWARD (=slowforward.net) è il sito più testardo, aggiornato (e anziano) su #scritture di ricerca, #arte contemporanea, #musica sperimentale, materiali verbovisivi, #asemic writing, #poesia concreta, #prosa in prosa, prose brevi, scritture non assertive, e molto altro:
Mentre negli USA ci si avvia a passi rapidissimi verso un regime paradittatoriale la nostra presidente del consiglio si dichiara d'accordo con il vicepresidente di quel regime, Vance. Da chi frequenti si capisce chi o cosa sei.
Ecco perché secondo me #Librewolf non è, al momento, una vera alternativa a #Firefox.
L'ho installato su un PC al lavoro su cui precedentemente usavo Firefox.
Ecco come si presenta il mio client #zimbra su librewolf (prima immagine) rispetto a come si vede su Chrome (seconda immagine).
Sì, ok, non si muore, ma se si moltiplicano queste piccole cose per le centinaia di siti che uso durante la settimana, diventano una grande cosa.
Io mi auguro che dal codice di Firefox nasca qualcosa di nuovo, o forse di vecchio, come era Firefox un tempo. Che sia librewolf, waterfox o qualcos'altro.
Ma la strada da fare è ancora tanta per me, e in salita.
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The ATmosphereConf was last weekend, independent relays are starting to appear, and more.
Conference
This weekend was the first ATProto conference, the ATmosphereConf, in Seattle. Over two days there were a large number of speakers and sessions, with over 150 people in attendance, and a significant number watching the live streams as well. I could not make it to the US, so for a full overview of the event, I recommend this extensive article by TechCrunch’ Sarah Perez, who was present at the event. The entire event was livestreamed, and all talks can be viewed via this YouTube playlist.
Some assortment of thoughts I had while watching the livestream and VODs over the last few days:
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber gave a short speech, about her background as a digital rights activist, and how she is now “holding the door open, so people can see another world is possible”. Graber is clearly aware of her position, where she is seen as a figurehead of the network, while also wanting to build a decentralised network where there is place for competing platforms. Being a figurehead of a network, without becoming the de facto leader of the network, while also holding the leadership position of by far the largest organisation in the network, is a challenging position to balance.
Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee talked about where Bluesky came from and where it is going. One of the things he talked about is the consideration of why Bluesky decided on their own protocol and not ActivityPub. His answer focuses on practical considerations, especially how ActivityPub handles identity and account migration. Watching the ATProto Ethos talk by Bluesky protocol engineer Daniel Holmgren it struck me that the question could also be framed as a matter of lineage. Holmgren talks about how ATProto takes inspiration from the Web, Peer to Peer systems as well as Distributed Systems. Placing it in such a context makes it clear that ATProto has quite a different background and other ways of thinking than ActivityPub has.
Ændra Rhinisland talked about how community projects can become load-bearing for the network, without adequate support structures for the people who run such projects. She also runs the popular news feeds using Graze. Graze has been adding support for advertisements, and Ændra is one of the first to take advantage. In her talk she walked through how at current usage rates, the feeds could generate over $20k per month in ad revenue. She plans to use this revenue to support the queer communities building on ATProto, and showed early plans for a self-sustaining fund powered by Graze’s feed revenue, to support initiatives such as Northsky.
The talk by Ms Boba is a great indication of how much under-explored design space there is on Bluesky and ATProto. Her talk focuses on labelers and fandom communities, and has some great examples of how they can be used outside of moderation.
Blacksky founder Rudy Fraser gave an excellent talk, describing Bluesky as a skeuomorphism, meaning that it imitates the design of the product it’s replacing. This phase is a part of the adoption cycle for new technologies, but Fraser does not to stop at imitation but instead explore the new ways that communities can be build online. Fraser is specifically interested in building platforms that can serve mid-sized communities, ranging from hundreds of thousands to a few million people. The Blacksky community is an example of this, and Fraser hopes that Blacksky can inspire other communities to do the same. His framing of content moderation as community care and not a cost of business also resonated with me.
Erin Kissane’s talk goes into detail about vernacular institutions, local and grassroots organisations and practices that are often illegible to outsiders but deeply embedded in local communities. This allows them to be close to the needs of their community members, but makes them hard to see and understand from the outside. This outside illegibility is a double-edged sword: IFTAS served a crucial role for trust and safety in the fediverse ecosystem, but had to shut down to a lack of funding as a result of being illegible to financiers.
Bluesky PBC has been working on a new version of the relay that makes it easier and cheaper to host, under the Sync 1.1 proposal. This new version is now starting to roll out, showing a significant drop in resource usage. Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold shared some statistics here. Independent ATProto developer @futur.blue set up his own relay as a speedrun. He shows that a full network relay can be run on a 50USD Raspberry Pi, with an easy-to-follow tutorial here.
That full network ATProto relays are cheap to run has been known for a while within the ATProto developer community, but that knowledge has not spread much yet. One reason for this is that independent developers have set up relays primarily for their own use, sharing access with a few friends, but no other publicly accessible full-network relays exist yet1.
Upcoming short-form video platform Spark is building their own complete infrastructure. Spark’s relay will publicly accessible, and hosted in Brazil. Having ATProto infrastructure outside of US jurisdiction is a conversation that has come up regularly, and often followed by the assumption that the alternative is to have infrastructure like a relay hosted in Europe. Spark is bringing in a slightly unexpected twist here, by having the first publicly accessible relay that is not owned by Bluesky PBC being hosted in Brazil instead.
Having other relays that are not owned by Bluesky PBC has been the subject of a lot of conversation, and the Free Our Feeds campaign was founded on the idea that a significant financial investment is needed to do so. Furthermore, it assumes that such a relay is not only expensive, but that it requires an extensive governance infrastructure to manage it. The current developments regarding relays call both of these assumptions into serious question: relays are cheap, not expensive. Furthermore it seems that there is enough incentive that organisations that are serious about building their own ATProto platforms are willing to run their own relays.
In Other News
Bluesky PBC has published a proposal on how they want to handle OAuth Scopes. OAuth Scopes is one of the main projects on the roadmap for the first half of this year. Currently, logging into an ATProto app via OAuth requires you to give that app permission to access all the data for your account. OAuth Scopes allows an app to only ask for the permissions that are necessary, and not the entire account. There are two problems that need to solve: the technical part of making it work, as well as the handling the UX to communicate clearly to people what data an app wants to access. The challenging part of the UX is how to handle the translation from the technical description of the data that is requested (stylised like ‘app.bsky.feed.getFeed’, for example), into a way that is understandable for the everyday user. The second challenge is that apps require permission not for one, but for many types of this lexicon data. A third-party Bluesky client that is restricted to only Bluesky data will still have to request a dozen of these Lexicons. A long list of technical lexicon names makes it impossible for regular people to have an informed opinion on what data is and is not being accessed. Bluesky PBC’s proposal is to group different lexicons into bundles, and create new lexicons that reference these bundles. Scoped OAuth can then request access to a bundle of lexicons, with a description that is legible for regular people.
Git repository platform Tangled is working on news ideas how a GitHub alternative might do things differently, and one of their first proposals is defining two types of pull requests. For another look at Tangled, this blog post experiment with what the platform allows.
One of the talks at the ATmosphereConf was by independent developer Rashid Aziz, who is the co-founder of basic.tech. Basic is a protocol for user-owned data, and seems to be fairly comparable to the PDS part of ATProto, with the major difference that Basic allows for private data on their version of a PDS. Aziz used the combination of these two protocols to create private bookmarks for Bluesky.
The new Record Collector labeler automatically displays if someone has been using other apps in the ATmosphere outside of Bluesky.
Rocksky is a new music scrobbler service on ATProto, that is currently in closed beta testing. It allows people to connect their Spotify account and automatically ‘scrobble’ (track) the music they are listening to.
The Links
Some tech-focused links for ATProto:
ATCryptography is a package with cryptographic utilities for the ATProto, written in Swift.
A blog post by independent ATProto developer Mary about ‘AT Protocol, OAuth, and well, decentralization’. Mary also published a repository car file explorer this week.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! If you want more analysis, you can subscribe to my newsletter. Every week you get an update with all this week’s articles, as well as extra analysis not published anywhere else. You can subscribe below, and follow this blog @fediversereport.com and my personal account @laurenshof.online on Bluesky.
Cerulea.blue is a publicly accessible relay, using a custom implementation, but it is limited to non-Bluesky PDSes. ↩︎
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