XR may not have crashed into our lives as much as some tech billionaires have wished, but that doesn’t stop the appeal of a full display that takes up no physical space. At that point, why not get rid of the computer that takes up living space as well? That is what [Michael] tries to do with Bento, the form factor of an Apple Magic keyboard and the power of a Steam Deck.
Steam Deck modding is a great project to get started on but we don’t see too many VR or XR uses of the mobile pc. While the VR gaming potential is limited by lackluster power, general productivity is a perfect use case. All that productivity power can be found in a 3D printed case with a battery, allowing for some mobile use. A magic keyboard sits on top of the case, so the entire package takes up less space than the average mechanical keyboard. However, we could always support the addition of a mechanical key version. There’s plenty of spare room in this current design, just look at the storage area!
[Michael] believes that this use of XR fulfills a more true course for “spatial computing” than Apple’s Vision Pro. Of course, this design is not restricted to only XR use; the Steam Deck is capable of running on any normal monitor you would like. Regardless, we need to see the model files to verify for ourselves! [Michael] claims these resources will be available soon, and trust us that we will be waiting!
Minimalist builds are far from unheard of here on Hackaday. After all, less room taken up by random cables or clutter means more room for projects. This is a lesson clearly followed by similar projects such as this completely wireless-powered desktop!
Are robotaxis poised to be the Next Big Thing in North America? It seems so, at least according to Goldman Sachs, which issued a report this week stating that robotaxis have officially entered the commercialization phase of the hype cycle. That assessment appears to be based on an analysis of the total ride-sharing market, which encompasses services that are currently almost 100% reliant on meat-based drivers, such as Lyft and Uber, and is valued at $58 billion. Autonomous ride-hailing services like Waymo, which has a fleet of 1,500 robotaxis operating in several cities across the US, are included in that market but account for less than 1% of the total right now. But, Goldman projects that the market will burgeon to over $336 billion in the next five years, driven in large part by “hyperscaling” of autonomous vehicles.
We suspect the upcoming launch of Tesla’s robotaxis in Austin, Texas, accounts for some of this enthusiasm for the near-term, but we have our doubts that a market based on such new and complex technologies can scale that quickly. A little back-of-the-envelope math suggests that the robotaxi fleet will need to grow to about 9,000 cars in the next five years, assuming the same proportion of autonomous cars in the total ride-sharing fleet as exists today. A look inside the Waymo robotaxi plant outside of Phoenix reveals that it can currently only convert “several” Jaguar electric SUVs per day, meaning they’ve got a lot of work to do to meet the needed numbers. Other manufacturers will no doubt pitch in, especially Tesla, and factory automation always seems to pull off miracles under difficult circumstances, but it still seems like a stretch to think there’ll be that many robotaxis on the road in only five years. Also, it currently costs more to hail a robotaxi than an Uber or Lyft, and we just don’t see why anyone would prefer to call a robotaxi, unless it’s for the novelty of the experience.
On the other hand, if the autonomous ride-sharing market does experience explosive growth, there could be knock-on benefits even for Luddite naysayers such as we. A report, again from Goldman Sachs — hey, they probably have a lot of skin in the game — predicts that auto insurance rates could fall by 50% as more autonomous cars hit the streets. This is based on markedly lower liability for self-driving cars, which have 92% fewer bodily injury claims and 88% lower property damage claims than human-driven cars. Granted, those numbers have to be based on a very limited population, and we guarantee that self-drivers will find new and interesting ways to screw up on the road. But if our insurance rates fall even a little because of self-driving cars, we’ll take it as a win.
Speaking of robotics, if you want to see just how far we’ve come in terms of robot dexterity, look no further than the package-sorting abilities of Figure’s Helix robot. The video in the article is an hour long, but you don’t need to watch more than a few minutes to be thoroughly impressed. The robot is standing at a sorting table with an infeed conveyor loaded with just about the worst parcels possible, a mix of soft, floppy, poly-bagged packages, flat envelopes, and traditional boxes. The robot was tasked with placing the parcels on an outfeed conveyor, barcode-side down, and with proper separation between packages. It also treats the soft poly-bag parcels to a bit of extra attention, pressing them down a bit to flatten them before flicking them onto the belt. Actually, it’s that flicking action that seems the most human, since it’s accompanied by a head-swivel to the infeed belt to select its next package. Assuming this is legit autonomous and not covertly teleoperated, which we have no reason to believe, the manual dexterity on display here is next-level; we’re especially charmed by the carefree little package flip about a minute in. The way it handles mistakenly grabbing two packages at once is pretty amazing, too.
And finally, our friend Leo Fernekes dropped a new video that’ll hit close to home for a lot of you out there. Leo is a bit of a techno-hoarder, you see, and with the need to make some room at home and maintain his domestic tranquility, he had to tackle the difficult process of getting rid of old projects, some of which date back 40 or more years. Aside from the fun look through his back-catalog of projects, the video is also an examination of the emotional attachments we hackers tend to develop to our projects. We touched on that a bit in our article on tech anthropomorphization, but we see how going through these projects is not only a snapshot of the state of the technology available at the time, but also a slice of life. Each of the projects is not just a collection of parts, they’re collections of memories of where Leo was in life at the time. Sometimes it’s hard to let go of things that are so strongly symbolic of a time that’s never coming back, and we applaud Leo for having the strength to pitch that stuff. Although seeing a clock filled with 80s TTL chips and a vintage 8085 microprocessor go into the bin was a little tough to watch.
l'amico Lelio Scanavini mi invia queste righe che, preoccupato come tutti, condivido:
SOPRAVVIVERE?
«È inverosimile che otto miliardi di persone, 193 stati sovrani – nove dei quali dotati di armamenti nucleari –, un capitalismo sovrastatale e predatorio, e un sistema industriale ecologicamente insostenibile, possano sopravvivere a lungo senza andare incontro a guerre distruttive, alla devastazione della natura, al proseguimento della crescita delle disuguaglianze e della povertà, e a terrorismi, fanatismi, fondamentalismi, razzismi e criminalità transnazionale.»
(Luigi Ferrajoli, filosofo del Diritto, allievo di Norberto Bobbio, 2025)
If William Gibson and Bruce Sterling had written an arcade scene into “The Difference Engine”, it probably would have looked a lot like [Pete Wood]’s Meccano Martian Mission, as illustrated in the video below by the [London Meccano Club]. Meccano Martian Mission is an homage to Atari’s 1978 Lunar Lander video game, but entirely electromechanical and made of– you guessed it– Meccano.
You might think Meccano is “too modern” to count as steampunk, but it squeaks just into the Victorian era. The first sets hit stores in 1901, the last year of Queen Victoria’s long reign. Since then, Meccano has developed a large following that has produced some truly impressive constructions, and this arcade game can stand amongst the best of them.
The game has all the features of the original: a swiveling spaceship, two-axis speed control, and even a little yellow flame that pops out when you are applying thrust. There’s a timer and a fuel gauge, and just like the original, there are easier and harder landing pads that offer score multipliers. While the score must be totted up manually, the game will detect a crash and flag it with a pop-down banner. It really has to be seen to be believed. It’s all done with cams and differentials hitting potentiometers and microswitches — not an Arduino in sight; [Pete] does a good job explaining it in the second half of the embedded video, starting about 10 minutes in. The brains of the operation: cams and gears, and ingenuity. Sure, might not be new or groundbreaking — these are old, old techniques — but not many people know them well enough to use them anymore, especially not with this degree of sophistication. To see these electromechanical techniques applied anachronistically to replicate one of the great pioneers of the arcade world tickles our fancy. It’s no wonder that perfecting this mechanical marvel has taken [Pete Wood] a decade.
The project reminds us of the Meccano Pinball Machine featured here years ago, but that somehow felt like a more natural fit for the apparently undead building kits. We lamented Meccano’s demise in 2023,but the brand is apparently being revived this year. Hopefully, that means there can be more young members for the [London Meccano Club] and groups like them, to keep the perforated-steel flame alive through another six reigns.
This hack is the bee’s knees, and we’re very thankful to [Tim Surtell] for the tip. Remember, the tip line is always open!.
Many FDM filament dryers have a port through which you can guide the filament. This handy feature allows you to print from the spool without removing it from the dryer, saving time and limiting exposure to (moist) air. Unfortunately, these exit ports aren’t always thought out very well, mostly in terms of the angle with the spool as it unrolls. The resulting highly oblique orientation means a lot of friction of the filament on the side of the port. This issue is addressed in a recent [Teaching Tech] video, with a simple, low-cost solution.
The basic idea is to have a swiveling port, inspired by a spherical bearing. The design shown in the video uses a PC4-M6 pneumatic connector to pass the PTFE tube. Connector choice is critical here, as many PC4-M6 pneumatic connectors won’t accommodate the PTFE. As a fallback, you can drill out a connector to enable this.
Once the connector is sorted, you need a 13 mm (~0.5″) step drill bit to widen the opening in the filament dryer. This ready-to-print version has 10 degrees of freedom in any direction, but you can adapt it to fit your needs. With this mod installed, the angle with which the filament enters the port should remain as close to zero as possible, preventing both friction and damage to the port and filament.
All’inizio di marzo, quattro ingegneri cinesi sono arrivati in Malesia da Pechino. Ognuno di loro ha portato con sé una valigia contenente quindici hard disk contenenti circa 80 terabyte di dati. Si trattava di fogli di calcolo, immagini e video utilizzati per addestrare un modello di intelligenza artificiale. L’azienda ha noleggiato circa 300 server con moderni chip Nvidia da un data center malese . Gli ingegneri hanno caricato i dati e hanno iniziato ad addestrare il modello, sperando di riportarlo in Cina.
Da quando gli Stati Uniti hanno imposto restrizioni all’esportazione di chip di intelligenza artificiale avanzati, le aziende cinesi hanno cercato modi alternativi per accedere alla tecnologia di cui hanno bisogno. In alcuni casi, hanno utilizzato equivalenti nazionali, ma ciò non è stato sufficiente. I tentativi di importare chip americani attraverso paesi terzi sono diventati meno efficaci a causa della crescente pressione. Ora, un numero sempre maggiore di sviluppatori sta trasferendo dati all’estero per utilizzare apparecchiature americane nel Sud-est asiatico e in Medio Oriente.
Tali azioni sono al limite dei divieti formali. Secondo l’ex funzionaria del Dipartimento del Commercio degli Stati Uniti, Thea Candler, la questione dell’accesso remoto delle aziende cinesi ai chip americani è stata discussa persino durante l’amministrazione Biden. Di solito, tra produttori come Nvidia e gli utenti finali cinesi intercorrono diversi intermediari, il che rende difficile il controllo.
L’amministrazione Biden aveva proposto di limitare le spedizioni per paese, il che avrebbe reso più difficile per la Malesia servire i clienti cinesi. Ma l’amministrazione Trump ha fatto marcia indietro a maggio, affermando di non voler creare barriere inutili per le aziende americane. È stato invece ricordato alle aziende che devono intervenire contro l’uso dei loro prodotti per addestrare l’intelligenza artificiale cinese.
Gli ingegneri cinesi non hanno trasferito i dati via Internet, poiché ciò avrebbe richiesto mesi. Hanno preparato e ottimizzato i set di dati in anticipo, sapendo che sarebbe stato difficile apportare modifiche dopo aver lasciato il Paese. Non è la prima volta che implementano un progetto in Malesia. In precedenza, utilizzavano lo stesso data center tramite una filiale di Singapore. Successivamente, per ridurre i rischi, è stata registrata una società ufficiale a Kuala Lumpur con la partecipazione di cittadini malesi.
Gli hard disk furono distribuiti in quattro valigie per evitare di attirare l’attenzione alla dogana. Questa volta, gli ingegneri tornarono in Cina con i risultati: centinaia di gigabyte di modelli e parametri addestrati. Il sistema è stato utilizzato per aggirare i divieti sull’importazione di server e chip in Cina, ma sta diventando sempre più inaffidabile. A febbraio, Singapore ha aperto un procedimento contro tre persone accusate di aver nascosto la destinazione finale di milioni di dollari di apparecchiature Nvidia. Le autorità locali hanno dichiarato che non consentiranno che le restrizioni all’esportazione vengano aggirate attraverso la loro giurisdizione.
Nel frattempo, il Sud-est asiatico sta vivendo un boom dei data center. JLL stima che la capacità complessiva dei data center di Malesia, Singapore, Thailandia e Indonesia sia di 2.000 megawatt, paragonabile a quella di Londra e Francoforte messe insieme. Quest’anno, un’azienda cinese ha preso in leasing 200 server di intelligenza artificiale originariamente destinati a un fornitore di servizi cloud statunitense. La domanda di chip Nvidia e AMD nella regione è aumentata vertiginosamente negli ultimi mesi. Nonostante i piani della precedente amministrazione di imporre restrizioni, tali forniture ora proseguono senza particolari restrizioni.
We will start by presenting a summary of the party’s current policy positions. From there we will discuss what positions/policy areas we should add. The goal is not to engage in lengthy policy debates, but to identify any gaps in the current platform, prioritize those issues we need to review and adopt positions on. Each individual policy is important, but our platform should be greater than the sum of its parts, a coherent and convincing argument for the party.
Monopoly Free Capitalism
My presentation is a study of Power and Progress focusing mostly on monopolistic forces. The study of economics tends to hide the significance of power, attributing wins and losses to merely consequences of good and bad choices in the voluntary participation in the market. But the truth is: in economics nothing is more important than power. That is a conspicuous discrepancy, which leads me to think of Assata Shakur’s words: “No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.” I’m not advocating for overthrowing those with power, but rather to shrink those Goliaths down to a fair size so they can’t just crush us with one single step. By getting rid of monopolies we will be able to participate on an equal playing field. Let’s step outside the typical study of economics and give “power” the analysis it deserves. At the very least understanding power will help any individual make better choices within the system as it is today.
The mega corporations have too much power over us, and with that they have the to power buy politicians disrupting our Constitutional Republic. My presentation will cover the negative effects of monopolistic power and a method to get rid of monopolies called Monopoly Free Capitalism. Monopoly Free Capitalism which is an alternative to capitalism. Simply put, it is capitalism without monopolies. Antitrust laws aren’t working to decentralize power. Monopoly Free Capitalism will succeed where antitrust has failed. This is a solution to corruption and economic inequality.
Lunch and protecting your privacy hands on
While eating, people knowledgeable in privacy will give hands on tutorials for tech like signal or tor.
How to navigate your local government
Steve Revilak, a Pirate town meeting member in Arlington and our First Officer, discusses how town government works and how you can bring change to yours.
Review of Party Initiatives
First we will outline each of the party’s efforts, assessing their isolated efficacy, as well as their role in accomplishing the party’s overall goals. We will discuss areas we should improve and what changes we need to make. Finally, we will make plans for the next year, including how to gauge the success of our projects.
Road to Town Meeting
Kolby Blehm will discuss his community education program, currently titled “Road to Town Meeting”, which aims to educate his town on the year long cycle of town government culminating in voting together at town meeting and resetting with elections each year.
Candidate Tutorial
Captain James will give a quick intro to running for office.
Election planning for 2026
We will discuss the races we currently know we are running in for the upcoming year, as well those we might compete in. We will discuss candidate recruitment, voter outreach efforts, and overall strategy.
Su richiesta dell'amico Gianni Tadolini esprimo il mio parere modesto (e inutile) sulla sitiazione della guerra Israele-iraniana (vi avverto che è lungo... 😪).
ISRAELE E LA GUERRA CON L’IRAN
Non è mai facile parlare di una situazione in divenire che non si sa come potrebbe finire ed in cui l’emotività del momento potrebbe portarti a considerazioni sbagliate, per cui mi scuserete se non sarò solo un cronista di fatti avvenuti ma cercherò di essere comunque il più obiettivo possibile. Premetto che le considerazioni sulla guerra che Israele ha scatenato contro l’Iran, verso la quale si può essere contro o a favore, non hanno alcuna connessione diretta (ma indiretta ovviamente sì) con il massacro che il governo Netanyahu ha scatenato nei confronti degli abitanti di Gaza, con la premessa dell’eradicazione di Hamas, ma nel quale onestamente non vedo né una strategia coerente né una prospettiva edificante ma solo un desiderio di vendetta indiscriminato.
Detto questo veniamo però ai fatti: è indubbio, nonostante non esistano prove certe (per ora), che l’Iran, nonostante le promesse e gli accordi, si volesse dotare di testate atomiche da usare sicuramente contro Israele ma contemporaneamente esercitando, di fatto, una egemonica minaccia su tutto il medio-oriente. La situazione è così lampante che non solo Rafael Grossi (Direttore della AIEA, agenzia internazionale per l’energia atomica) aveva lanciato un “warning” sui sotterfugi dell’Iran che stava nascondendo siti in cui arricchiva l’uranio, ma anche gli americani, sapendolo, cercavano di mediare una soluzione di compromesso perché l’Iran rinunciasse all’atomica. Bisogna ammettere che mentre fino a 10 anni fa circa, tutto il mondo arabo era contro Israele, gli Accordi di Abramo del 2020 (con Emirati Arabi Uniti e Barhein,) avevano “normalizzato” i rapporti con lo stato ebraico e non si erano più visti tentativi di aggressioni o le oceaniche manifestazioni anti-Israele (e anti-americane) nelle piazze mediorientali.
L’unico vero nemico , che non ha mai accettato alcuna “normalizzazione“ (anche non scritta) è rimasto l’Iran, che non solo ha messo nella sua Costituzione l’obbligo di cancellare Israele dalla faccia della terra, ma ha di fatto fomentato negli ultimi vent’anni almeno, ogni sorta di terrorismo antisionista finanziando massicciamente Hamas, gli Hezbollah (e di fatto controllando il Libano) e gli Houti nello Yemen. Di fatto il terrorismo antiebraico ha agito da detonatore continuo rendendo da sempre il medio oriente una polveriera instabile. Alla luce di quanto sopra, ha fatto bene Israele a bombardare siti militari e nucleari iraniani uccidendo capi militari e scienziati (con purtroppo l’inevitabile corredo anche di morti civili)? In punta di diritto internazionale sicuramente no anche se, per gli inutili “polemici” (che definirei in altro modo) allora anche la Russia aveva ragione di invadere l’Ucraina, con la sola differenza che l’Ucraina non aveva fatto niente contro la Russia (e la famosa guerra del Donbass era solo un pretesto), mentre l’Iran ha utilizzato per anni le braccia armate del terrorismo per distruggere Israele.
Quindi se da un punto di vista di diritto internazionale, Israele è evidentemente condannabile (io onestamente lo condannerei molto di più per i continui insediamenti abusivi in Cisgiordania), dal punto di vista strategico personale, Israele ha cercato semplicemente di tagliare la testa al serpente, la cui coda ricresceva continuamente! Tutti si chiedono se tale guerra (che non sappiamo per quanto durerà ma vista la risposta iraniana, non sembra possa prolungarsi più di tanto) sia al preludio di una guerra totale in Medio-Oriente. Io francamente credo di no. E’ un dato di fatto che aldilà delle visioni religiose “nemiche” (l’Iran è sciita e gli altri paesi mediorientali sunniti), la presenza di una potenza atomica nella regione, avrebbe creato problemi a tutti e consentito all’Iran di dettare legge in quella porzione di mondo. La distruzione del programma atomico bellico iraniano, fa tirare un sospiro di sollievo a tutti i paesi arabi e ciò è ampiamente dimostrato dal fatto che sia per Gaza, sia per il precedente bombardamenti israeliano del 19 aprile 2024, sia per l’attuale conflitto, non si sono viste né proteste né segnali di vendetta nei confronti di Israele, se non formali e blande dichiarazioni (la più preoccupata sembra la Russia perché perderebbe il supporto dell’Iran, co-produttore dei droni Shahed finora massicciamente forniti alla forze armare russe).
Il rovesciamento della teocrazia iraniana, farebbe comodo a tutti nella regione perché sicuramente agirebbe da “normalizzatore” nei difficili rapporti tra le diverse fazioni ed eliminerebbe forze terroristiche di difficile controllo (basti pensare al problema che gli Houti causano alle petroliere con danno economico sia per i paesi occidentali che per quelli arabi che il petrolio devono venderlo). Io pertanto, allo stato attuale, poi purtroppo la guerra è imprevedibile, non vedo alcun rischio di coinvolgimento do altri paesi che si terranno ben distanti da questo conflitto. Ovviamente, e qui apro un altro capitolo, l’eventuale raggiungimento dell’obiettivo israeliano (con il rovesciamento o almeno il grande ridimensionamento della minaccia iraniana) non ci deve far dimenticare la grave situazione palestinese che deve trovare una soluzione accettabile e dignitosa (come per l’Ucraina), con il rispetto assoluto dei confini ed il riconoscimento reciproco dei paesi confinanti. Tale situazione deve però passare attraverso l’eliminazione “totale” di Hamas”, non certo eliminata dalla ferocia indiscriminata dell’esercito israeliano, ma, come proposto dal Presidente dell’Autorità palestinese Abbās, da una forza di polizia internazionale ONU che deve sradicare il taglieggiamento da parte dei terroristi nei confronti del popolo gazawi.
Se si pensa che ancora oggi il 60% dei viveri e medicinali forniti con aiuti internazionali viene intercettato o prelevato da Hamas, allo scopo di rivenderlo alla popolazione, si capisce come anche in un dramma come questo, il movimento terroristico rappresenti un problema soprattutto per la popolazione palestinese. Anche noi europei, americani e molti altri paesi mondiali compresi gli arabi, abbiamo contribuito non solo alla mancata soluzione del problema palestinese ma anche al mantenimento del movimento terroristico, ignorando il problema, lasciando che Israele se lo risolvesse da solo ed andando solo in piazza con le bandiere e gli slogan “Free Palestine”.
Abbiamo contribuito a creare un popolo di improduttivi, che hanno imparato a vivere solo di sussidi internazionali senza creare posti di lavoro e lasciando che i soldi, generosamente regalati ogni mese dalla Banca di Ramallah ad ogni cittadino palestinese, finissero in buona parte per alimentare il movimento terroristico che continuava a comprare armi ed addestrare soldati. Solo da 1993 e il 2021 secondo l’OECD (Organizzazione per la cooperazione e lo sviluppo economico) i soldi ufficialmente donati alla Palestina ammontano a oltre 42 miliardi di dollari per una popolazione totale di poco di 4 milioni e mezzo (ma la cifra è molto più altra grazie a donazioni occulte provenienti da associazioni arabe pro-palestina).
La soluzione del riconoscimento e della creazione di uno stato palestinese, deve consentire un vero sviluppo del popolo economico e sociale e deve necessariamente passare per l’eliminazione dei movimenti terroristici, ma anche per un rispetto di Israele verso un altro popolo in osservanza delle determinazioni ONU (sull’espansione di Israele), fin qui completamente ignorate dallo stato ebraico. Se la distruzione del potenziale bellico iraniano potesse essere il preludio ad una “pacificazione e normalizzazione” dell’ area, allora anche questa guerra potrebbe avere un risvolto positivo, ma tutto ciò è ancora da vedere e successivamente da verificare. Enrico Bernini Carri (15 giugno 2025)
This album rejects sacrifice. It chooses to save the innocent sacrifical lamb, while the guilty humanity falls into chaos. Reveals the ritual of repudiation, war, ritual sacrifice, denied redemption, fragile freedom, and the final descent into XAOC.
Composed and performed on Game Boy DMG. Recorded live direct to Tascam; no mastering applied.
Tracklist: [1.] الرفض RIPUDIO [2.] كل حرب OGNI GUERRA (777) [3.] كل تضحية طقسية OGNI SACRIFICIO RITUALE. (prine 2025) [4.] البريء L'INNOCENTE (Star of Betlehem) [5.] لا يُكَفِّر NON ESPIA. [6.] أنا أُنقِذ الحمل SALVO L'AGNELLO. [7.] لا أُخَلِّص NON REDIMO [8.] نفسي ME STESSO [9.] الدَّم COL SANGUE. [10.] الحمل يَمْضِي L'AGNELLO VA VIA (vitela) [11.] حُرًّا، على عُكَّاز LIBERO, SULLA STAMPELLA (berehit 2025) [12.] فقط العالَم المُذنِب SOLO IL MONDO COLPEVOLE (p 2025) [13.] يَسقُط في الفَوضى CADE NEL XAOC.
released May 31, 2025 Pixelart illustration by biiterat www.instagram.com/biiterat/ No AI used in any part of this album.
Le Forze di Difesa Israeliane (Idf) hanno annunciato sabato di aver ottenuto piena libertà operativa nello spazio aereo intorno a Teheran, capitale dell’Iran. È una informazione che se confermata è molto importante. Il portavoce delle Idf, il brigadier general Effie Defrin, ha dichiarato che è stata stabilita
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Israele ha colpito il più grande giacimento di gas iraniano. Missili hanno ucciso tre donne nel villaggio palestinese di Tamra, in Galilea L'articolo Israele-Iran. E’ scontro totale proviene da Pagine Esteri.
È stato pubblicato il Report sullo stato di sostenibilità (diciamo pure di insostenibilità) della Pesca. Il 65% della pesca nel Mediterraneo e mar Nero non è sostenibile. Ma dove ci sono regole, in buona parte vengono seguite. Bisogna che ci siano maggiori regolamentazioni (e dove oggi non ci sono, anche controlli perché si inizi rispettandole).
Ho ripercorso le vie del ricordo, di quando ero bambino e tutto sembrava luminoso e pesante. Ragazzi che scherzano, giovani donne in balìa di una struggente lontanaza che solo delle parole potrebbero colmare. Ascolto i miei passi sul selciato delle memorie e delle speranze, dove la vita ad un tempo si spegne e si accende.
l'ultima vittoria dei si a un referendum risale al 2011. un'epoca storica e politica diversa dall'attuale. dare un qualche valore politico a un referendum senza quorum è proprio di chi mente e sa di mentire.
Il consiglio comunale di San Giovanni Rotondo ha approvato ieri la revoca della cittadinanza onoraria che era stata conferita a Benito Mussolini negli anni del regime fascista. Anche la città di Padre Pio ripudia Mussolini. Ringrazio il nostro compagno consigliere comunale Roberto Cappucci e il circolo di Rifondazione Comunista di San Giovanni Rotondo (Fg) per [...]
In una recente intervista pubblicata dal Corriere della Sera, il Capo di Stato Maggiore della Marina Militare, Amm. Sq. Enrico Credendino, ha dichiarato che “la Marina ha un progetto di budget, da qui al 2040, si pensa a una portaerei ad energia nucleare, ma anche a droni di ogni tipo e
La guerra in Ucraina ha rappresentato un punto di svolta nell’evoluzione delle tecnologie militari moderne. I droni, protagonisti indiscussi di questo conflitto, hanno completamente rivoluzionato le operazioni sul campo di battaglia, trasformando le tattiche militari tradizionali e costringendo gli eserciti
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo SEGUI IL LIVE. Caccia israeliani colpiscono obiettivi strategici in Iran, inclusi impianti nucleari. Teheran risponde con centinaia di missili: 4 morti e oltre 70 feriti in Israele. In Iran le vittime sono quasi 80. Gli attacchi continuano. L'articolo
Paolo Pasi – L’albergo del tempo sospeso freezonemagazine.com/rubriche/… Cosa spinge tante persone a tornare ogni estate nello stesso luogo, una pensione familiare di Riccione che, allo scoccare delle vacanze, assume tinte magiche e fiabesche? Il mistero dell’austera proprietaria, una donna mai sposata e fiera di sé, s’intreccia a un racconto corale in cui le trentuno stanze della pensione Heaven parlano attraverso i loro […] L'articolo Paolo Pasi
a chi non è andato a votare al referendum dico solo una cosa: ne riparliamo la volta in cui tu sei favorevole al si ed io al no... quando presumibilmente arriverai alla conclusione che il no ha la vittoria automatica.
Fediforum happened this week, porting your social graph cross-protocol with Bounce, Bonfire gets closer to release, a prominent Lemmy server shuts down, and much more.
Fediforum happened this week, porting your social graph cross-protocol with Bounce, Bonfire gets closer to release, a prominent Lemmy server shuts down, and much more.
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FediForum and related announcements
The FediForum unconference was this week, with three days of sessions, keynotes and demos. The event was originally scheduled for April, but got cancelled at the last minute due to drama around transphobic statements made by one of the co-organisers. The individual in question left FediForum, and instead FediForum set up an advisory board with a number of community members. This edition of FediForum had keynotes for the first time, by ActivityPub co-creator Christine Lemmer-Webber, author Cory Doctorow, and Ian Forrester, who lead a Mastodon instance at the BBC. There were also a large number of demos (list here) and unconference sessions about a wide variety of subjects. I’ll write more about both the demos and the keynotes once the videos of them will become available online, likely next week.
Bounce is a newly-announced tool that allows people to migrate their social graph across protocols. It is made by A New Social, the organisation behind Bridgy Fed. The ability to port a social graph from AT Protocol to ActivityPub reshapes what is possible within the Open Social Web. For that reason, I think Bounce is a meaningful release, with its power mainly being in altering the shape of these networks. I wrote an essay on that this week that goes into the philosophical side of Bounce. For more practical information I can recommend this coverage by TechCrunch and The Verge. Meanwhile, A New Social’s CTO Ryan Barrett has shared all the updates and new features that have happened to Bridgy Fed over the recent months.
Music sharing platform Bandwagon shared more information during Fediforum on their development work, and how they are working on integrating album sales. A dev blog by Bandwagon recently shared their plans on adding a premium subscription, and how album sales work. During a Fediforum session, developer Ben Pate shared some screenshots on what this looks like. WeDistribute has a deep dive into Bandwagon and the current state of development based on the latest FediForum session.
Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform that has slowly been reaching the end of the line for development, and they announced the release candidate version of Bonfire 1.0. It is a framework and platform for building communities on the fediverse, and has a large variety of features and extensibility. One of the standout features is circles and boundaries. Circles allow users to define lists of accounts, and boundaries allows users to determine on a per-post basis to what circles each post gets shared. This creates a significant amount of flexibility on how to handle private posts, something which is in huge demand within the open social web. Bonfire also gives users a large amount of control over how they see and filter their feed. For more of a philosophical take on that, I recently wrote about how Bonfire’s approach on custom feeds compares to Bluesky’s approach. The developers are inviting people to install their own instance and experiment with the new features. It is unknown when Bonfire will be ready for a full 1.0 release. For another look at Bonfire, TechCrunch also covered the story.
Filmmaker and fediverse evangelist Elena Rossini has released her fediverse promotion video, which was highly anticipated by the community. The video can be viewed here, and tells the story of why the fediverse matters for a lay audience. The video is worth paying attention to for two reasons: first of all, it is a well-produced promo video for the fediverse that explains some of the core ideas in an accessible manner. Secondly, the video has gotten a huge amount of support from within the fediverse community, with a large number of prominent people within the community supporting Rossini’s work. One of the challenges of analysing a decentralised community is that there is no singular decentralised community, there are a wide variety of different groups and cultures. However, by seeing how and who responded positively to the video, it becomes clear that Rossini’s video does represent a dominant and popular understanding of what the fediverse is, and why it matters. In that way, analysing the video does provide good insight into the one of the more dominant and popular cultures of the fediverse.
Shutdown of Lemmy and opportunity for PieFed
Lemm.ee, one of the biggest Lemmy servers, is shutting down at the end of June. The team says: “The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.” This has some significant impact on the wider Threadiverse community, as the lemm.ee hosted a significant number of popular communities. This makes server shutdowns on Threadiverse platforms signficantly more impactful, as they also impact people who do not have an account on the platform. Community migration is challenging, and there are no specific tools to help with a community with migrating to a different server.
The shutdown of the Lemm.ee server provides an opportunity for PieFed, a link-aggregator platform similar to Lemmy. PieFed is over a year old, that has seen significant development and new features beyond Lemmy, but has not managed to gain traction yet, with growth of users being slow. However, now that communities on the lemm.ee. server need to find a new place, PieFed is emerging as one of the main destinations. In turn, this is giving PieFed some much need promotion and awareness within the Threadiverse community, with PieFed doubling the number of accounts within a week. Lemmy clients are also starting to add support for PieFed, with the Lemmy client Interstellar already supporting PieFed. PieFed also uploaded two PeerTube video walking through all the moderation and administration features the platform has.
Platform updates
Ghost’s work on implementing ActivityPub is getting close to an official release. In their latest update, Ghost said that their ActivityPub integration will be part of the Ghost 6.0 release, which will come in ‘a few weeks’. The team has been working on ActivityPub for over a year, and have grown from 3 people to 8 people now working on their social web integration. For Ghost, the ActivityPub integration is more than just another connector, describing it as ‘a statement that the open web still matters’.
Mastodon is planning to release a new update, version 4.4, with the first beta now available. Some of the new features include the ability to set more feature content on user profiles, more list and follow management tools. For admins, there are better tools for setting legal frameworks, moderation tweaks and more. The biggest feature of the patch is that it will display quoted posts. The highly requested feature will only be fully available in version 4.5, which will include the ability for users to create quoted posts. Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput says that he expects version 4.4 to be released at the end of June, with version 4.5 scheduled a few months later in September of October. The organisation also shared their monthly engineering update for May.
PeerTube released their latest version, 7.2, with a new design for video management and publication pages. PeerTube also now has more features for handling sensitive content. Creators can now add an explanation of why the content is marked as sensitive. Users also have more flexibility with how they want sensitive content to be handled, with various different configurations between hiding, blurring or warning about a video with sensitive content. PeerTube is also running a crowdfunding campaign for the mobile app, which has now crossed the halfway mark at 35k EUR. This milestone is for video management from the mobile app, with the next milestone being for livestream support in-app. The PeerTube app developer also shared a blog post with his thoughts on the technical framework considerations for building the app.
Hollo is a single-user microblogging platform, and their latest release has a significant number of new features, including better OAuth and various upgrades to the UX. Developer Hong Minhee also announced that independent fediverse developer Emelia Smith will join as a co-maintainer for Hollo.
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It’s the 80th day that Rümeysa Öztürk is facing deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like. Meanwhile, aggression from law enforcement at protests in California have landed journalists in the hospital. Read on for more press freedom news.
It’s a situation that is likely to get worse and spread to other cities, with local law enforcement emboldened by the administration’s rhetoric and federal agents being haphazardly thrown into situations they’re not trained to handle.
We worked with partner organizations in California to send letters to the Department of Homeland Security, Los Angeles law enforcement agencies, the Marines and National Guard informing them of their obligations under the First Amendment, and in the case of the local authorities, California law.
Of course, strongly worded letters are not nearly enough for situations like these, and there’s plenty more work to do. But in the meantime, we’re not going to stay silent. Read the letters here, here and here.
Superstar lawyers join our effort to stop Paramount settlement
As reported in the Los Angeles Times, we’ve got a legal all-star team behind our effort to stop Paramount Global from capitulating to President Donald Trump by settling his frivolous lawsuit over an edited “60 Minutes” interview with then Vice President Kamala Harris.
Abbe Lowell, a highly respected litigator who has handled countless high-profile cases, Norman Eisen, a former ambassador to the Czech Republic and White House ethics advisor and their respective teams sent a formal demand letter to Paramount’s directors on our behalf outlining our plans to file a shareholder derivative suit if Paramount tanks its reputation and furthers America’s democratic backslide by caving.
This is an expensive endeavor, and we don’t get a dime if we win — whatever we recover from rogue Paramount directors and officers goes back to Paramount. Read more here and support us if you can.
FPF takes State Department to court over Öztürk secrecy
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) is taking the government to court over its refusal to disclose information about the arrest of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk for exercising her constitutionally protected right to coauthor an op-ed the government didn’t like.
FPF, represented by Loevy and Loevy, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department in the District Court for the District of Columbia to force the release of two documents that will shed light on the government’s targeting of Öztürk. Read more here.
Documenting 10 years of Trump’s anti-press social media tirades
61,989. That’s how many social media posts by President Donald Trump over the past decade Tracker journalist Stephanie Sugars has single-handedly reviewed (at least as of yesterday).
Monday will mark 10 years since Trump famously descended a golden escalator at New York City’s Trump Tower in 2015 and launched his first winning bid for the Oval Office. The Tracker is marking the occasion by launching its Trump Anti-Press Social Media Tracker, a comprehensive database of Trump’s attacks on the press on Truth Social, X and elsewhere.
Read former Voice of America press freedom reporter Liam Scott’s article about Sugars and the database here.
Woman arrested after interview by St. Paul journalist (Monitor). Federal authorities must promptly explain both their basis for arresting Isabel Lopez and how they knew where and when she’d be talking to reporters. Surveilling journalists is unacceptable.
Condemning SFPD’s detention of Daily Cal staffers and suppression of student journalism(The Daily Californian). Detaining journalists, even for a minute, prevents them from covering events of public concern, and violates their rights. The San Francisco Police Department and other police departments around the country need a crash course on the First Amendment.
Small-town newspapers are dying because no one wants to run them (Columbia Journalism Review). Succession planning doesn’t usually make the list when people talk about the challenges facing the press, but Liam Scott explores the consequences of local newspaper publishers dying and retiring with no one there to take over.
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo SEGUI IL LIVE. Una raffica di missili è stata lanciata dall'Iran verso Israele. Almeno uno ha colpito la capitale Tel Aviv. L'articolo Cominciata la risposta dell’Iran. Colpita Tel Aviv proviene da Pagine pagineesteri.it/2025/06/13/med…
#NoiSiamoLeScuole questa settimana è dedicato a cinque scuole toscane: l’Istituto Tecnico Professionale “Margaritone-Vasari”, il Liceo “Piero Della Francesca” e l’IC “Cesalpino” di Arezzo, l’Istituto Professionale “Avogadro” di Abbadia San Salvatore …
#NoiSiamoLeScuole questa settimana è dedicato a cinque scuole toscane: l’Istituto Tecnico Professionale “Margaritone-Vasari”, il Liceo “Piero Della Francesca” e l’IC “Cesalpino” di Arezzo, l’Istituto Professionale “Avogadro” di Abbadia San Salvatore …
Rifondazione Comunista sarà anche quest’anno al Roma Pride per esprimere solidarietà alla comunità LGBTQIA+ che in questo ultimo anno è il bersaglio di un’escalation di odio e violenza, quella di strada tanto quanto quella istituzionale. Ricordiamo che Rifondazione Comunista rimane l’unico partito in Italia a far eleggere una persona trans in parlamento, un fatto che a distanza di quasi vent’anni continuiamo a rivendicare con orgoglio – ancor più oggi quando le persone trans* in particolare sono nel mirino delle destre di tutto il mondo, Italia compresa.
Rifondazione proprio per questo è solidale con le le istanze delle persone trans, queer e non binary che si sentono sovradeterminatә dalle stesse circostanze che hanno portato alla nascita del Priot, pur non condividendo la scelta quest’anno di renderlo antagonista al Pride istituzionale e le pratiche che ne sono conseguite. Ma questo non ci esenta dal riconoscere anche le criticità della gestione di un momento e di uno spazio fondamentali nella vita delle persone LGBTQIA+.
Troviamo problematica la scelta di ridurre progressivamente la partecipazione di tutte le diverse realtà che compongono la comunità dopo averle ignorate anche quando partecipavano al comitato organizzativo perché il Pride e di tuttә; è simbolicamente molto problematico un nuovo percorso – inaugurato l’anno scorso – che prevede un corteo che va a chiudersi dentro un recinto nascosto al pubblico perché il Pride è rivolta di strada; è estremamente problematico un manifesto politico che pur apprezzabile per molti versi, si rifiuta di chiamare le cose col proprio nome perché quello che sta avvenendo in Palestina è un genocidio anche di nome e non solo di fatto; troviamo problematica la scelta della stesse forze che si arrogano il timone del movimento di ignorare selettivamente i risultati dei tavoli di lavoro a cui abbiamo partecipato (invitatә) soprattutto quando ignorano il nodo centrale che lega in modo inestricabile diritti civili e diritti sociali.
Per le stesse ragioni continuiamo a trovare problematica (se non tragicamente sbagliata nel caso di marchi apertamente sostenitori del genocidio palestinese) la scelta di perseguire la logica delle sponsorizzazioni private, perché ci rende tuttә fragilә e ricattabilә e soggettә all’aria politica che tira al momento – come dimostra il fuggi fuggi degli sponsor: se tanti servizi per la comunità dipendono dal privato, forse compito di chi è al timone del movimento dovrebbe essere quello di lottare contro la dismissione generale dello stato sociale, affinché si prenda carico in maniera specifica delle esigenze di una comunità che non deve dipendere dalle fluttuanti elemosine del capitalismo. E crediamo che sia profondamente problematica la scelta di interloquire e cercare punti di convergenze con le stesse forze che adesso hanno anche il potere istituzionale per negare, reprimere e distruggere concretamente le nostre identità e le nostre vite.
Lә compagnә di Rifondazione e Giovanә Comunistә però, nonostante tutte queste contraddizioni, anche quest’anno al Roma Pride ci saranno, perché gli spazi conquistati col sacrificio e anche col sangue di tantә non si abbandonano a nessun costo e saremo lì a portare anche le istanze di chi ha scelto di non esserci e di chi non può e per non smettere mai di denunciare tutte queste criticità nello spirito più unitario possibile. Le alleanze politiche e sociali perseguite in questi anni stanno mostrando tutta la loro volatilità e la realtà con cui dobbiamo continuare a fare i conti è sempre la stessa: da una parte ci sono i sistemi di dominio, dall’altra le soggettività oppresse. È il momento di schierarsi e restare unitә, prima che ci travolgano. Buon Roma Pride a tuttә
Federazione Roma Castelli Litoranea del Partito della Rifondazione Comunista
Il #MIM ha pubblicato l’ordinanza con cui vengono stabilite le date ufficiali relative al calendario scolastico nazionale per l’anno 2025/2026, comprese le festività riconosciute su tutto il territorio e le scadenze degli esami di Stato.
Il #MIM ha pubblicato l’ordinanza con cui vengono stabilite le date ufficiali relative al calendario scolastico nazionale per l’anno 2025/2026, comprese le festività riconosciute su tutto il territorio e le scadenze degli esami di Stato.
The following was a letter submitted by an anonymous Pirate supporter using the pseudonym “Forward Thoughts”, sharing critiques of the gap between the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and how they are often undermined in practice. This article is apart of the project “Message in a Bottle”, allowing supporters of the US Pirate Party to submit editorial articles to the United States Pirate Party website.
Not many people are educated on this matter, but there’s a difference between rights and freedoms. Rights are legal protection of entitlements in regards to ethical, social, or legal principles bestowed to a populace. Freedoms are the capability to believe, act, or think without inordinate deprivation focusing on freewill and autonomy.
Let’s talk about our good old rights. Made in your township, county, state, and in the case of our constitutional amends Washington D.C. Constitutional amendments, otherwise known as the Bill of Rights, are an example of rights you have.
Back in 1789 the US Constitution was conjured up to succeed the precursor to the Bill of Rights, which was called the Articles of Confederation. Difference between the US Constitution and the Articles of Confederation was the US Constitution was made for all states to abide by within the Union, emphasising on a sturdy centralized government while the Articles of Confederation was to confer autonomy to the states with an emphasis of there being amicable relations between the states.
Here in the USA we have constitutional amendments that are supposed to protect us against a tyrannical government. These rights include, but are not limited to, freedom of speech, fair trial, privacy, and right to bear arms (firearms).
Before America gained its independence from the British crown while under its colonial rule, our founding fathers included a statement in the Declaration of Independence that said “we hold these truths to be self-evident”.
Here’s something to think about: if these truths are self-evident, why do we need it written on a piece of paper by lawmakers in an ever ideological-shifting Congress subject to interpretation by Judges who again, shift from one ideology to another when they get impeached, pass away while in office, or retire?
Right to a fair and impartial trial is granted under the 6th amendment. Moreover, it entitles you the right to a speedy and jury trial.
Just because you have the right to a fair trial doesn’t mean you have the liberty to a fair trial. In other words, your rights are enshrined into law on a piece of paper in theory but not in practice.
For instance, 1969 U.S. Supreme Court case Frazier v. Cupp said the police can lie to you in an interrogation. That’s right, deception is not grounds for nullification of evidence in a criminal trial.
1986 U.S. Supreme Court case Lockhart v. McCree excludes objectors to the death penalty on juries in capital punishment cases.
1965 U.S. Supreme Court case Singer v. United States mandated jury trials in federal court unless given permission for a bench trial by the government.
2021 U.S. Supreme Court case Jones v. Mississippi rendered a finding of “permanent incorrigibility” in cases of sentencing minors to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole unnecessary.
1991 U.S. Supreme Court case Harmelin v. Michigan clarified that mandatory minimum sentences, even when excluding extenuating circumstances, don’t violate the 8th amendment.
1984 Pulley v. Harris determined courts aren’t required to compare death penalty eligible cases to that of other similar cases before meting out capital punishment to defendants.
Jurors in jury trials are mentally subjected to a litany of social, racial, ethnic, and mental biases clouding their judgement to deliver an impartial decision on deciding if a defendant or defendants are guilty or not guilty.
Anyone who understands the legal system knows it’s customary, a rite of passage if you will, to know about everyone’s Miranda rights stemming from the 1966 U.S. Supreme Court Miranda v. Arizona case that ruled evidence obtained, i.e. statements, without advising suspects of their rights cannot be used against them at a criminal trial.
Why would you need to be protected against self-incrimination? Surely it’s to prevent the government from coercing a confession out of the accused.
It’s not just made for that, it also stands in as a consolation for police officers who are trained in interrogation using what’s called the “Reid technique” ensuring the defendant makes a false confession.
Not only is that used as a statement of admittance at trial, the defendant may also get charged with perjury.
Would it be too much of a stretch to imagine if a cop uses deceptive tactics on a suspect on the street and/or the interrogation room they won’t lie on the witness stand during proceedings of a trial?
Prosecutors have unfettered powers for what charges can be brought up against a defendant, even if the charges don’t make sense to be brought up on to a defendant to begin with. A legal precedent in the court system.
Moreover, they’re allocated a well-endowed budget. More so than the defendant, thus tilting the legal playing field in their favor for the so-called “public” to win.
Lastly, prosecutors use this morally (though not legally) coercive strategy where they’ll overcharge a defendant on crimes in order for them to plead guilty to fewer and/or lesser criminal charges.
Judges tend to be vindictive. It’s not supposed to be this way, yet it is.
What I mean by vindictive is if you don’t plead guilty to a crime, you’re most likely gonna be “made an example out of” and sentenced to the maximum sentence allowed by statute.
In some cases, even flat-out pleading guilty can make Judges sentence you out of spite with zero consideration for severity of the crime or focus on rehabilitation, simply because no one can stop them from acting on feelings of lawfully despotism.
Cruel and usual punishment is protected under the 8th amendment. Ever wonder why we have the death penalty legal in the federal justice system and in some states across the USA?
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it as unconstitutional in 1972 in Furman v. Georgia, four years later in 1976 we saw it reinstated in Gregg v. Georgia.
What amendment was this decided under you may ask? The one protecting us against cruel and unusual punishment.
Compare this to other developed nations around the world, you’ll see they don’t have the death penalty, thus highlighting capital punishment as unusual.
1987 U.S. Supreme Court case Singer v. United States found capital punishment is fair game even if the defendant didn’t intend to cause a death in a felony murder case.
1987 U.S. Supreme Court case McCleskey v. Kemp disregards racial statistics on capital punishments.
2003 U.S. Supreme Court case Ewing v. California paved the way for the Golden State’s draconian 3-strikes law.
2006 U.S. Supreme Court case Oregon v. Guzek disregarded permitting defendants from submitting innocent-based evidence during a sentencing phase of trial.
2019 U.S. Supreme Court case Madison v. Alabama greenlights executions of those who didn’t remember committing a murder, i.e. dementia.
Protection against double jeopardy and self-incrimination, as well as protecting your right to have due process in the legal system, is protected under the 5th amendment.
In a sense, you’re innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Due process is futile when you have a bail system permitting courts to charge defendants bail to be released back into the community well before they’ve even been convicted of a crime of the nature brought forth against them by the state while awaiting their sentence.
Get this: courts have held that police can force you to unlock your cellphone if it has biometric (fingerprint and face scan) security.
2011 U.S. Supreme Court case Bobby v. Dixon contradicts Miranda v. Arizona in the way that police don’t have to tell you of your rights when you’re not in police custody.
2010 U.S. Supreme Court case Berghuis v. Thompkins spat in the face of Miranda v. Arizona by taking away your right to be silent.
What I’m trying to say is you need to explicitly verbalize your right to remain silent to invoke your right to remain silent.
When your partner chooses not to answer you about whether or not they want to have sex with you, that’s not consent towards intercourse. At that point it’d be sexual assault.
The 2nd amendment explicitly states “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Meanwhile, people who use recreational drugs of any kind are statutorily prohibited by federal law from owning a firearm.
Granted, there’s been a federal case recently ruling in favor of a defendant charged with gun ownership while simultaneously being a user of marijuana and overturning their conviction at the time of this article being published.
To add insult to injury, any felonies on your record regardless if non-violent or violent is an automatic disqualifier from owning a gun.
If Uncle Sam wasn’t bad enough with unlawfully regulating firearms you should take a look at a handful of states.
California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Hawaii, and New York are among the top 10 states for gun control in increments of high capacity bans, guns at protests prohibited, interview with local police chief for discretionary approval, fully-auto and assault weapon bans, and mandatory waiting periods for firearm purchases.
Freedom of speech in the 1st amendment is meant to protect you against unlawful curtailment of your right to say disparaging things about the government.
In addition, it gives you the right to practice any religion you see fit and to peacefully assemble (think protests).
Too bad the U.S. Supreme Court decided it didn’t retroactively apply in these cases.
1941 U.S. Supreme Court case Cox v. New Hampshire ruled that local and state governments can pass laws mandating permits for large gatherings of protests.
1969 U.S. Supreme Court case Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham gave way for townships and cities to deny permits to protest events if they deem it as a threat to public safety within their community.
2007 U.S. Supreme Court case Morse v. Frederick declared promoting illegal drug use was outside the protection of freedom of speech.
1988 U.S. Supreme Court Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier held that student speech in a school-sponsored newspaper can be censored by the faculty.
2025 U.S. Supreme Court case TikTok, Inc. v. Garland eroded TikTok’s ability to fall under the dominion of a foreign company under the guise of “national security”.
Imagine this: the 1st amendment doesn’t just protect people from freedom of speech, it protects unions, super PACs, and corporations.
2010 U.S. Supreme Court case Citizens United v. FEC granted corporations, and super PACs (political action committees) and even unions the right to independently spend on politician and political issue-based campaigns.
Yes, you read that right! Super PACs, corporations, and unions have been recognized as being considered in the same category as people under the 1st amendment.
Right of privacy in the 4th amendment protects you against unlawful search and seizures without probable cause or a warrant.
However, you wouldn’t even think this for what I’m gonna explain to you.
1975 U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Brignoni-Ponce has established warrantless searches within 100 miles of the border.
1976 U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Martinez-Fuerte gave border patrol the okay to set up checkpoints within the border zone to crack down on illegal immigration.
That same year, Heien v. North Carolina ruled an officer who mistakens the law when conducting a traffic stop doesn’t violate the 4th amendment.
2009 U.S. Supreme Court Herring v. United States said police can search you and your property illegally over a mistake.
2013 U.S. Supreme Court case Maryland v. King ruled that buccal swabs are permissible as if it were fingerprinting.
1990 U.S. Supreme Court case Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz ruled that police sobriety checkpoints are legal.
1984 U.S. Supreme Court case New Jersey v. T. L. O. constructed a path for school administrators to search students on school property without a warrant.
In the exact same year, Oliver v. United States sprouted up a legal doctrine known as the “open-field doctrine” where searches done in a field not immediately surrounding a private quarters does not violate the 4th amendment.
Safford United School District v. Redding, while declaring the broad search done on a pupil who at the time was a girl was unconstitutional, school administrators were granted legal immunity from conducting illegal searches.
Slavery was abolished thanks to the passing of the 13th amendment.
Sadly, our judicial branch partially eroded this freedom via court cases.
1918 U.S. Supreme Court case Arver v. United States, otherwise known as Selective Draft Law Cases, finds the selective services, or the draft for times of war, to be a constitutional government program.
Upon thorough examination of the 13th amendment you’ll notice slavery is illegal except for instances where a victim has been subjected to incarceration.
Because that loophole was added into the final version of the amendment, prison labor is a lucrative business to corporations to have modern day slave labor produce their products at miniscule wages where they’re often sold at exorbitant prices on markets.
Your scope of freedoms are at the mercy of our 3 branches of government.
Moreover, they’re subject to scrutiny at the state level too.
Do we really need lawmakers wearing suits and ties to determine what’s good and bad for us?
If we did, could we truly rely on them to grant us liberty for us to live out an average day-to-day life not impeding on the well-being and safety of another person?
Will corruption get in the way of how judges are influenced?
Can judges not allow ideologies to interfere with just decisions?
Is there a necessity for a centralized governmental power in regards to control over how free a person becomes before it encroaches on another person’s free will?
Should we have security and insurance to protect others while depriving freedoms to others?
Here’s a quote I came up with: “Societies managed by the inhabitants with direct action have the most freedom while societies managed by the lawmakers with police have the least freedom.”
J. Alfred Prufrock
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