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Camera and ChArUco Keep the Skew Out of Your 3D Prints


Do you or a loved one suffer from distorted 3D prints? Does your laser cutter produce parallelograms instead of rectangles? If so, you might be suffering from CNC skew miscalibration, and you could be entitled to significant compensation for your pain and suffering. Or, in the reality-based world, you could simply fix the problem yourself with this machine-vision skew correction system and get back to work.

If you want to put [Marius Wachtler]’s solution to work for you, it’s probably best to review his earlier work on pressure-advance correction. The tool-mounted endoscopic camera he used in that project is key to this one, but rather than monitoring a test print for optimum pressure settings, he’s using it to detect minor differences in the X-Y feed rates, which can turn what’s supposed to be a 90-degree angle into something else.

The key to detecting these problems is the so-called ChArUco board, which is a hybrid of a standard chess board pattern with ArUco markers added to the white squares. ArUco markers are a little like 2D barcodes in that they encode an identifier in an array of black and white pixels. [Marius] provides a PDF of a ChArUco that can be printed and pasted to a board, along with a skew correction program that analyzes the ChArUco pattern and produces Klipper commands to adjust for any skew detected in the X-Y plane. The video below goes over the basics.

For as clever and useful as ChArUco patterns seem to be, we’re surprised we haven’t seen them used for more than this CNC toolpath visualization project (although we do see the occasional appearance of ArUco). We wonder what other applications there might be for these boards. OpenCV supports it, so let us know what you come up with.

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Spinning Top Chair Revisited


Designer furniture generally comes with excellent aesthetics and (sometimes) functionality. However, such furniture comes with a price to match. One such piece of furniture is the Magis Spun Chair. It’s a striking piece with a fun party trick to match: it works like a top spinning while you sit inside. However, it has a prohibitively expensive price tag of $1,200 to match. That’s why [Morley Kert] is on a mission to build one for less.

This isn’t [Morley]’s first time building a spinning chair. The first attempt featured numerous 3D printed pieces glued together. It did not inspire confidence in spinning, nor was it a striking piece of furniture. So a revisit was in order.

This time around the chair’s construction was CNC milled plywood. Some surfaces featured 3D carving, but the majority were left raw with carving the final shape handled manually. Despite its size, the chair only took four and a half sheets of 3/4 inch plywood by hollowing out the base allowing for more efficient use of material. Once the router had completed the pieces, they were stacked and glued together. Each layer was aligned with hidden dowels making the assembly process fairly straightforward.

However, while usable, the chair looked rather unfinished, so [Morley] went to town on it with a power carving angle grinder. To ensure even carving on the circular profile of the chair, he placed it, or for some sections glued it, on an electronic lazy Susan. After some practice, the carving process turned out really well with a well-shaped and professional looking chair. Some wood varnish and a large amount of sanding finished up the chair very nicely for a total material cost of under $500.

We were happy to see the completion of this chair building saga. If you want to see [Morley] make even more designer furniture for cheap, make sure to check out his other 3D printed chair!

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No Plans for the Weekend? Learn Raytracing!


Weekends can be busy for a lot of us, but sometimes you have one gloriously free and full of possibilities. If that’s you, you might consider taking a gander at [Peter Shirley]’s e-book “Learning Raytracing in One Weekend”.
This gradient is the first image that the book talks you through producing. It ends with the spheres.
This is very much a zero-to-hero kind of class: it starts out defining the PPM image format, which is easy to create and manipulate using nearly any language. The book uses C++, but as [Peter] points out in the introduction, you don’t have to follow along in that language; there won’t be anything unique to C++ you couldn’t implement in your language of choice.

There are many types of ray tracers. Technically, what you should end up with after the weekend ends is a path tracer. You won’t be replacing the Blender Cycles renderer with your weekend’s work, but you get some nice images and a place to build from. [Peter] manages to cram a lot of topics into a weekend, including diffuse materials, metals, dialectrics, diffraction, and camera classes with simple lens effects.

If you find yourself with slightly more time, [Peter] has you covered. He’s also released books on “Raytracing: The Next Week.” If you have a lot more time, then check out his third book, “Raytracing: The Rest of Your Life.”

This weekend e-book shows that ray-tracing doesn’t have to be the darkest of occult sciences; it doesn’t need oodles of hardware, either. Even an Arduino can do it..


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The Most Personalized Font is Your Own Handwriting


When making a personal website, one will naturally include a personal touch. What could be more personal than creating a font from your own handwriting? That’s what [Chris Smith] has done, and it looks great on his blog, which also has a post summarizing the process.

Like most of us [Chris] tried to use open-source toolkits first, but the workflow (and thus the result) was a bit wanting. Still, he details what it takes to create a font in Inkscape or Font Forge if anyone else wants to give it a try. Instead he ended up using a web app called Calligraphr designed for this exact use case.
Above is hand written; below is the font. Aside from the lighting the difference isn’t obvious.
Fair warning: the tool is closed-source and he needed to pay to get all the features he wanted — specifically ligatures, glyphs made from two joined letters. By adding ligatures his personalized font gets a little bit of variation, as the ‘l’ in an ‘lf’ ligature (for example) need not be identical to the stand-alone ‘l’. In a case of “you get what you pay for” the process worked great and to the credit of the folks at Calligraphr, while it is Software-As-Service they offer a one-time payment for one month’s use of the “pro” features. While nobody likes SaS, that’s a much more user-friendly way to do it — or perhaps “least-user-hostile”.

All [Chris] had to do was write out and scan a few sheets that you can see above, while the software handled most of the hard work automagically. [Chris] only had to apply a few tweaks to get the result you see here. Aside from websites, we could see a personalized font like this being a nice touch to laser cut, CNC or even 3D printed projects. If you don’t want a personalized touch, the “Gorton” lettering of retro machinery might be more to your liking.


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Knowing That It Is Possible


We like to think that we can do almost anything. Give me a broken piece of consumer electronics, and I’ll open it up and kick the capacitors. Give me an embedded Linux machine, and I’ll poke around for a serial port and see if it’s running uboot. But my confidence suddenly pales when you hand me a smartphone.

Now that’s not to say that I’ve never replaced a broken screen or a camera module with OEM parts. The modern smartphone is actually a miracle of modularity, with most sub-assemblies being swappable, at least in principle, and depending on your taste for applying heat to loosen up whatever glue holds the damn things together.

But actually doing hardware hacking on smartphones is still outside of my comfort zone, and that’s a shame. So I was pretty pleased to see [Marcin Plaza] attempt gutting a smartphone, repackaging it into a new form factor, and even adding a new keyboard to it. The best moment in that video for me comes around eight minutes in, when he has completely disassembled all of the modules and is laying them out on his desk to see how little he needs to make the thing work. And the answer is batteries, motherboard, USB-C, power button, and a screen. That starts to seem like a computer build, and that’s familiar turf.

That reminded me of [Scotty Allen]’s forays into cell-phone hackery that culminated in his building one completely from parts, and telling us all about it at Supercon ages ago. He told me that the turning point for him was realizing that if you have access to the tools to put it together and can get some of the impossibly small parts manufactured and/or assembled for you, that it’s just like putting a computer together.

So now I’ve seen two examples. [Scotty] put his together from parts, and [Marcin] actually got a new daughterboard made that interfaces with the USB to add a keyboard. Hardware hacking on a cellphone doesn’t sound entirely impossible. You’d probably want a cheap old used one, but the barrier to entry there isn’t that bad. You’ll probably have to buy some obscure connectors – they are tiny inside smartphones – and get some breakout boards made. But maybe it’s possible?

Anyone have more encouragement?

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864 persone impiccate in Iran nel 2025. l’ultimo è Mehran Abbasian


@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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L’Ultimo in odine cronologico ad essere impiccato nella Repubblica Islamica è Mehran Bahramian. Lui è il dodicesimo manifestante delle proteste note come “Donna, Vita, Libertà”



Aylan non abita più qui


@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
articolo21.org/2025/09/aylan-n…
Ve lo ricordate il piccolo Aylan Kurdi, il bambino curdo-siriano riverso sulla spiaggia turca di Bodrum? Aveva tre anni, era il settembre 2015 e l’immagine di quel bambino con la magliettina rossa, morto annegato durante uno dei tanti viaggi della speranza e della disperazione cui abbiamo assistito



Enzo Tinarelli, catalogo delle opere


@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
articolo21.org/2025/09/enzo-ti…
Ciò che mi aveva colpito di Enzo Tinarelli, nel periodo in cui insegnavamo entrambi all’Accademia di Carrara, ancor prima del suo talento innato era stata la spiccata indole di maestro. Forse suggestionato dalla sua origine ravennate, mi è sempre apparso un




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🖼️ Manifesti
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❓ E altro ancora
Ogni pacco è unico, assemblato con passione e un pizzico di mistero. Perfetto per collezionisti, appassionati di mercatini, creativi e anime curiose.

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PAPA LEONE XIV: “L’UNICO COLPEVOLE DELLA GUERRA È PUTIN”


naaaaa un papa non diplomatico ma onesto.... sono commossa.



Roberto Vannacci ha ragione dicendoci che noi italiani da Nord a Sud dobbiamo essere uniti e che dobbiamo difenderci dagli immigrati subsahariani, magrebini e mediorientali che vengono ogni giorno coi barconi sulle nostre coste? Io dico si.

probabilmente sarebbe saggio che ognuno rimanesse solo nel suo quartiere. il resto deve essere tabù. niente viaggi fuori dal quartiere. e la pelle deve avere un colore preciso. canoni precisi per tutto. anche l'altezza deve essere italica o regionale. dobbiamo essere tutti più ariani: la perfezione.

P.S. ad andare al mare si diventa marocchini quindi non va bene.




Volenterosi, l’Ucraina e il peso dell’Europa per il cessate il fuoco. Parla Graziano (Pd)

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

Il summit dei Volenterosi, riunitosi questa settimana, ha evidenziato ancora una volta le divisioni tra gli Stati europei sul sostegno all’Ucraina. Francia e Regno Unito, principali promotori della Coalizione, si dicono pronti a impegnarsi boots




Per l'Occidente è un lavoro sporco per suo conto


Il lavoro sporco per ora sembra all'Occidente un'operazione per il suo interesse, ma potremmo risvegliarci con lavori sporchi di altri (alleati o nemici) contro di noi se non combattiamo subito i crimini di guerra: fanrivista.it/2025/08/soldato-…



I soliti quattro gatti ma almeno noi c'eravamo.

E comunque posso capire che la gente non avesse tempo, in fondo era solo un presidio contro un genocidio...

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Da Palo Alto al Pentagono, Trump porta i vertici delle Big Tech nelle Forze armate

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

Che la supremazia strategica sia una diretta conseguenza di quella tecnologica è una costante della storia militare. Dall’invenzione della ruota all’avvento dell’intelligenza artificiale, la componente tecnologica ha sempre rivestito un ruolo di primo



Forza Uria: bulldozer, scudi umani e distruzioni a Gaza


@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Coloni israeliani volontari, spesso senza la supervisione dei militari, abbattono le case dei palestinesi per conto di una società privata al servizio dell'esercito
L'articolo Forza Uria: pagineesteri.it/2025/09/06/med…



GAZA. Inchiesta dell’AP sull’attacco israeliano al Nasser: uccisi giornalisti e medici


@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
L'indagine dell'agenzia di stampa rivela che le forze israeliane hanno utilizzato proiettili di carri armati ad alto potenziale per colpire il complesso ospedaliero di Khan Yunis, prendendolo di mira quattro volte, il tutto senza



Dopo i mercati, la Cina invade anche i campi di battaglia con i suoi droni

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Nonostante Pechino si sia sempre dichiarata neutrale rispetto al conflitto in Ucraina, le evidenze emerse recentemente dimostrano un coinvolgimento ben più concreto nella guerra di Vladimir Putin. La Cina, infatti, fornisce a Mosca componentistica e materiali essenziali





Tom Petty – la fondazione celebra Wildflowers con un regalo ai fans…..
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La fondazione Tom Petty ha celebrato il trentesimo anniversario di Wildflowers pubblicando un autentico tesoro per i fan: un filmato inedito delle prove accompagnato dalla struggente ballata Crawling Back To You. Il video d’archivio, diretto da Justin Kreutzmann, mostra le prove del tour Dogs With Wings del 1995 riprese dal


Tom Petty – la fondazione celebra Wildflowers con un regalo ai fans…..
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La fondazione Tom Petty ha celebrato il trentesimo anniversario di Wildflowers pubblicando un autentico tesoro per i fan: un filmato inedito delle prove accompagnato dalla struggente ballata Crawling Back To You. Il video d’archivio, diretto da Justin Kreutzmann, mostra le prove del tour Dogs With Wings del 1995 riprese dal




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come accennavo nella precedente presentazione, cercavo un luogo dove poter far vetrina delle 'robe che cucio'.

sono completamente autodidatta e mi muovo con il passaparola per ricevere commissioni per consolidare tecniche e ampliare gli orizzonti, oltre che per guadagnarmi da vivere.

studio modellistica appena ho un attimo, ma mi appoggio anche ad artigiani modellisti che creano cartamodelli che poi cucirò per voi (adulti e bambini).

uso solo tessuti certificati, da rivenditori scelti.

come piattaforma ho scelto di utilizzare Pixelfed.uno.

sperando di non sbagliare proverò a linkare la mia vetrina.

fatemi sapere se l'operazione è andata a buon fine, grazie


Abito bimba in popeline 100% cotone certificato GOTS. Cucio robe tentando di guadagnarmi da vivere. Cucio più o meno di tutto. Autodidatta, ho iniziato un anno fa e sono aperta a sperimentazioni. Studio modellistica nelle ore buche e propongo prezzi accessibili che mi consentano di cucire sempre di più e sempre con più precisione e tecnica. Se sei interessat*, contattami!


Thanks for citing us, House Republicans. Now do something


We were pleasantly surprised when congressional Republicans introduced our farewell article to the former president, titled Biden’s press freedom legacy: Empty words and hypocrisy, into the record at a House Judiciary Committee hearing this week.

That’s great — it’s always nice to have our work recognized. But if Republican lawmakers agree with us that former President Joe Biden was bad on press freedom, someone should really tell them about this Donald Trump character who’s in office now. All the abuses we identified in the article Republicans cited have (as the article predicted) worsened under the new president, and he’s come up with plenty of new ones too.

We wrote a letter to let the committee know that if it’s serious about addressing the issues our article discussed, regardless of who is in the White House, we’re here to help. We’ll let you know if they reply (but don’t hold your breath). Read the letter here or below.

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Recording police is not ‘violence’


Dear Friend of Press Freedom,

For 164 days, Rümeysa Öztürk has faced deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like, and for 83 days, Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest. Read on for more, and click here to subscribe to our other newsletters.

Recording police is not ‘violence’


It was bad enough when government officials claimed that journalists are inciting violence by reporting. But now, they’re accusing reporters of actually committing violence.

The supposed violence by reporters? Recording videos. At least three times recently, a government official or lawyer has argued that simply recording law enforcement or Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers is a form of violence. Read more here.

Thanks for citing us, House Republicans. Now do something


Congressional Republicans introduced our farewell article to the former president, titled Biden’s press freedom legacy: Empty words and hypocrisy, into the record at a House Judiciary Committee hearing this week.

That’s great — it’s always nice to have our work recognized. But if these lawmakers agree with us that former President Joe Biden was bad on press freedom, someone should really tell them about this Donald Trump character who’s in office now. All the abuses we identified in the article Republicans cited have (as the article predicted) worsened under the new president, and he’s come up with plenty of new ones too.

We wrote a letter to let the committee know that if it’s serious about addressing the issues our article discussed, regardless of who is in office, we’re here to help. We’ll let you know if they reply (but don’t hold your breath). Read the letter here.

Will secret law prevail in drug boat massacre?


The Trump administration has not provided any legal justification for blowing up a boat carrying 11 alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers on the Caribbean Sea. We filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out if lawyers at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel were consulted before the slaughter and, if so, what they said.

If there is an OLC opinion about the targeting of the Venezuelan boat, the public and Congress should be able to debate it right now. Unfortunately, the government has long taken the position that OLC opinions should be secret, even though there should be no such thing as secret law in the United States. Read more here, and, if you want to learn more about government secrecy and what we’re doing to combat it, subscribe to The Classifieds.

Stop the judicial secrecy bill


An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would allow lawmakers to scrub information about themselves from the internet. The bill fails to achieve its stated purpose of keeping lawmakers safe — except from investigative journalism.

This week we helped lead a letter to senators from press freedom and civil liberties organizations objecting to the misguided legislation. Even if the NDAA amendment does not succeed, it’s likely that this bill will be back, and we’ll be ready to fight it. Read the letter here.

ICE revives contract for spyware


In 2023, Biden issued an executive order limiting government use of commercial spyware. Subsequently, the Biden administration issued a stop-work order on a $2 million contract between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Paragon, a spyware vendor that makes products that have reportedly been used to spy on journalists.

It now appears ICE is reinstating this contract. Read more here and subscribe to our Digital Security Tips newsletter.

What we’re reading


Inside Trump’s decade-long war on the press: 75,000 posts, 3,500 direct attacks

Editor and Publisher
Trump’s anti-press rhetoric is “not bluster; it is not a personality trait. It is deliberate,” our U.S. Press Freedom Tracker’s Stephanie Sugars said. “It is very much at the cost of the strength of our social fabric and our shared reality.”


RSF and Avaaz launch international media operation

RSF
Great work by our friends at Reporters Without Borders organizing this response to Israel’s slaughter of journalists in Gaza. It’s unfortunate that more U.S. outlets did not participate. If the outlets you support were not among the few, ask them why.


Illinois restores protections for press targeted with frivolous lawsuits

The Dissenter
We spoke to The Dissenter about the Illinois Supreme Court’s ridiculous ruling that the state’s law against strategic lawsuits against public participation doesn’t protect reporting, and the recently passed bill to repair the damage.


He plagiarized and promoted falsehoods. The White House embraces him

The New York Times
We talked to the Times about influencers replacing journalists at the White House. Yes, it’s awful that Trump won’t grant reporters the honor of getting lied to at press briefings. But the decimation of FOIA — a source of facts, not spin — is even more concerning.


Noem accuses CBS of ‘deceptively’ editing interview about Abrego Garcia

The Hill
Kristi Noem’s complaints underscore why news outlets can’t settle frivolous lawsuits. Now, the door is wide open for government officials to question every editing decision news outlets make, whether to shorten an interview for time or to not air lies and nonsense.


Police body cameras are supposed to shed light. Rhode Island rules let officers keep footage in the dark

Rhode Island Current
When rules restrict police body cameras from being used to provide transparency, the only use left for them is surveillance.


Judge Charles Wilson defends New York Times v. Sullivan

Reason
A good recap of why “originalist” attacks on the actual malice standard — which limits defamation claims by public figures — are so disingenuous.


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#NoiSiamoLeScuole questa settimana è dedicato ai nuovi Asili nido all’avanguardia in provincia di Cremona e di Brescia, realizzati grazie al #PNRR.

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Il Consiglio dei Ministri ha approvato il decreto-legge recante la riforma dell’Esame di Stato del secondo ciclo di istruzione, misure per la valorizzazione del personale scolastico e per la sicurezza dei viaggi d’istruzione.


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Recording police is ‘violence’? Absolutely not.


It was bad enough when government officials claimed that journalists incite violence by reporting. But now, they’re accusing reporters of actually committing violence.

The supposed violence by reporters? Recording videos. At least three times recently, a government official or lawyer has argued that simply recording law enforcement or Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers is a form of violence.

In July, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem proclaimed during a news conference following ICE raids on California farms that videotaping ICE agents performing operations is “violence.” Noem lumped video recordings in with other forms of actual violence, like throwing rocks or Molotov cocktails at agents.

Then, in August, Justice Department lawyer Sean Skedzielewski argued, during a court hearing over the Los Angeles Police Department’s mistreatment of journalists covering protests, that videotaping law enforcement officers “can be used for violence.” He claimed recording is violent because it can reveal officers’ identities, leading to harassment, and can encourage more protesters to join the fray.

Also in August, the government applied similar logic as it fought against the release of Mario Guevara, the only journalist in U.S. custody after being arrested for newsgathering. Guevara, who is originally from El Salvador, was detained while covering a protest in Georgia and turned over to ICE for deportation. In a bond hearing before an immigration court in July, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the government argued that Guevara’s recording and livestreaming of law enforcement “presents a safety threat.”

At the risk of stating the obvious, videotaping someone is not the equivalent of throwing a firebomb at them. Actually, recordings of law enforcement officers made by journalists and members of the public allow the public to see what the police are up to and hold officers accountable for abusing their authority or breaking the law.

That includes holding officers who are violating the First Amendment accountable in court. Adam Rose, chair of the press rights committee for the LA Press Club, said that Skedzielewski also denied in court that DHS officers had pointed weapons at journalists, despite video evidence submitted to the court of them doing exactly that.

Skedzielewski “wound up making our case for us,” Rose told us. “His own argument showed how the government can try to lie in court, and why filming in public is critical to ensure the truth comes out.”

Video recording police in public is also protected by the First Amendment, as both Rose and Mickey Osterreicher, the general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, point out. “The claim that journalists and others video recording police are engaged in ‘acts of violence’ is not only absurd on its face but flies in the face of the law and common sense,” said Osterreicher.

That constitutional right applies even if officers would prefer not to be identified. The government often claims that officers must not be identified because they’re at risk of (real) violence or harassment. But the correct response to those threats is to prosecute and punish those who actually break the law by harassing or physically attacking police, not make up crimes to go after those who exercise their First Amendment right to record them.

The government claims at other times that officers should not be recorded because they’re undercover. The government has been known to abuse this argument, including by making bizarre claims that any officer who may, at some point, go undercover should be treated as undercover at all times. Plus, journalists have no way of knowing whether a particular agent participating in an immigration raid or officer policing a protest is undercover at the moment they’re recording. The responsibility of preserving officers’ cover is on the officer and the government, not journalists and the public who can observe them working in plain view.

These justifications, however, are mere pretext for the government’s true purpose. Officials want courts and the public to believe that recording agents and officers is a violent act because it justifies officers’ own violent response to the press.

In LA, government attorney Skedzielewski didn’t just argue that video recording is violent. He said that meant that justified officers in using force against people videotaping them. This claim—made in a court that’s already restrained police from attacking journalists after they were documented violently assaulting and detaining reporters repeatedly —should seriously alarm journalists and anyone who wants to record police.

“For an officer of the court to conflate the use of recordings to reveal police officers’ identities with the actual making of those recordings, in order to justify the use of excessive force against those doing the recording, shows complete ignorance of the law, disregard for the Constitution, a blatant attempt to demonize those who would dare risk their health and safety to provide visual proof of police behavior, or all three,” said Osterreicher.

That demonization is working, unfortunately, especially when it comes to ICE officers’ beliefs about how they can respond to being recorded. In recent months, ICE officers have knocked phones out of the hands of those recording them, pulled weapons on people photographing or videotaping them, and even arrested U.S. citizens for filming them.

The escalating attacks on journalists and citizens who are recording police show the danger of the government’s rhetoric. All who care about press freedom and transparency must push back on claims equating filming to violence.

When officials say at news conferences that video recording is violent, journalists should challenge that assertion and cite the law.

When attorneys argue that recording police justifies violence or arrest, they should have their arguments confronted by opposing counsel and the judge, who has the power to sanction lawyers who ignore First Amendment jurisprudence to make frivolous arguments on behalf of the government.

And when ICE officers harass or detain someone for videotaping them, everyone else should take out their phones and hit the record button.

Recording the police isn’t violence. Don’t let officials get away with loud, incorrect claims to the contrary to diminish our First Amendment rights.


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LIBERI DAI VELENI DI ROMA


Il 9 settembre al corteo che sarà aperto dai più piccoli, parteciperanno le donne e gli uomini che vogliono continuare a vivere LIBERI DAI VELENI DI ROMA

Santa Palomba siamo tutti noi che non ci arrenderemo mai alla tracotanza di un potere che vorrebbe annientarci.

#Ambiente #StopInceneritore #NoInceneritore #NoInceneritori #ZeroWaste #Rifiuti #Riciclo #EconomiaCircolare #NoAlCarbone #EnergiaPulita



Le cose che ci raccontiamo sugli smartphone a scuola


Visto che viene citato in lungo e in largo e a sproposito, l'accordo previsto nei Paesi Bassi non vieta l'uso didattico dei device a scuola, smartphone compresi, come riportato nello studio sugli effetti di questa decisione. kohnstamminstituut.nl/rapport/…
Noi invece abbiamo vietato tutto, e così per lavarci la coscienza sull'abuso degli smartphone da parte dei ragazzi impediamo l'unico uso sensato e monitorato. Buttiamo il bambino con l'acqua sporca, ma il bambino lo buttiamo dal balcone, l'acqua ce la buttiamo addosso.


Io non posso, andateci voi e mettete tante foto.


GIÙ LE MANI DALLA CITTÀ: DOMANI A MILANO IL CORTEO NAZIONALE PER LEONCAVALLO E SPAZI SOCIALI radiondadurto.org/2025/09/05/g… #centrisociali #Leoncavallo #NAZIONALI #milano



Ci hanno triturato i cosiddetti per giorni riguardo il presunto sabotaggio del GPS dell'aereo della Bomber Pfizer dando la colpa ai russi, ora dicono che non è vero e che loro non l'anno mai detto. Alla faccia della psicopatia; bugiardi patologici compulsivi.
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Se non mandiamo a casa tutta la gentaglia che abbiamo al governo e rinnoviamo radicalmente la nostra politica, siamo un Paese finito.

In Italia non ci si può far giustizia da soli, deve pensarci lo Stato. Ma se lo Stato non lo fa, e anzi s’inventa una legge per cui non può perseguire determinati reati, si arriva al paradosso emerso martedì a Venezia: i borseggiatori (presunti e non) stanno iniziando a denunciare chi li filma, chi li trattiene, chi cerca di sventarne i crimini. Il caso è stato sollevato davanti ai cronisti attoniti dal comandante della polizia locale di Venezia, con accanto il sindaco Luigi Brugnaro: “Un paio di cittadini sono stati denunciati dai delinquenti – ha detto – perché di fatto non possono fermare i borseggiatori”. Ed è esploso un tema che, oltreché giuridico, è anche politico: nessun privato può trattenere una persona che ha commesso un reato non procedibile d’ufficio e, dalla riforma Cartabia, il furto con destrezza non lo è.

“Se in uno Stato di diritto i criminali dediti al borseggio, fermati più volte dalle forze dell’ordine, possono continuare ad agire indisturbati, mentre i cittadini che li hanno giustamente fotografati mentre rubano vengono denunciati per stalking, è evidente che siamo alla follia”, ha commentato il direttore della Confartigianato Venezia, Matteo Masat.

Leggi l'articolo completo a cura di Leonardo Bison su Il Fatto Quotidiano