This should count as a hack: making music from a thing that should not sing. In this case, [SIROJU] is tickling the ivories with a Brushless DC motor, or BLDC.
To listen to a performance, jump to 6:27 in the embedded video. This BLDC has a distinctly chip-tune like sound, not entirely unlike other projects that make music with stepper motors. Unlike most stepper-based instruments we’ve seen [SIROJU]’s BLDC isn’t turning as it sings. He’s just got it vibrating by manipulating the space vector modulation that drives the motor — he gets a response of about 10 kHz that way. Not CD-quality, no, but plenty for electronic music. He can even play chords of up to 7 notes at a time.
There’s no obvious reason he couldn’t embed the music into a proper motor-drive signal, and thus allow a drone to hum it’s own theme song as it hovers along. He’s certainly got the chops for it; if you haven’t seen [SIROJU]’s videos on BLDC drivers on YouTube, you should check out his channel. He’s got a lot of deep content about running these ubiquitous motors. Sure, we could have just linked to him showing you how to do FOC on an STM32, but “making it sing” is an expression for mastery in English, and a lot more fun besides.
[Shalma] begins by telling you a little about Joseph Fourier, the French mathematician with an interest in heat propagation who founded the field of harmonic analysis in the early 1800s.
Fourier’s basic insight was that you can represent everything as a sum of very basic oscillations, where the basic oscillations are sine or cosine functions with certain parameters. [Shalma] explains that the biology of our ear can do a similar thing by picking the various notes out from a tune which is heard, but mathematicians and programmers work without the benefit of evolved resonant hairs and bone, they work with math and code.
[Shalma] explains how frequency components can be discovered by trial and error, multiplying candidate frequencies with the original function to see if there are large peaks, indicating the frequency is a component, or if the variations average to zero, indicating the frequency is not a component. [Shalma] tells how even square waves can be modeled with an infinite set of frequencies known as the Fourier series.
Taking a look at higher-dimensional problems [Shalma] mentions how Fourier transforms can be used for graphical compression by dropping the high frequency detail which our eyes can barely perceive anyway. [Shalma] gives us a fascinating look at the 64 graphical building blocks which can be combined to create any possible 8×8 image.
[Shalma] then mentions James Cooley and John Tukey and the development of the Fast Fourier Transform in the 1960s. This mathematical tool has been employed to study the tides, to detect gravitational waves, to develop radar and magnetic resonance imaging, and to support signal processing and data compression. Even quantum mechanics finds use for harmonic analysis, and [Shalma] explains how it relates to the uncertainty principle. The Fourier transform has spread through pure mathematics and into number theory, too.
[Shalma] closes with a quote from Charles Fefferman: “If people didn’t know about the Fourier transform, I don’t know what percent of math would then disappear, but it would be a big percent.”
The PAX D177 PoS terminal helpfully tells you which tamper points got triggered. (Credit: Lucas Teske) These days Points of Sale (PoS) usually include a digital payment terminal of some description, some of which are positively small, such as the Mini PoS terminals that PAX sells. Of course, since it has a CPU and a screen it must be hacked to run something else, and maybe discover something fun about the hardware in the process. Thus [Lucas Tuske] set out to do exactly this with a PAX D177 PoS, starting with purchasing three units: one to tear apart, one to bypass tamper protections on and one to keep as intact reference.
As expected, there are a few tamper protections in place, starting with pads that detect when the back cover is removed and a PCB that’s densely covered in fine traces to prevent sneaky drilling. Although tripping the tamper protections does not seem to affect the contents of the Flash, the firmware is signed. Furthermore the secrets like keys that are stored in NVRAM are purged, rendering the device effectively useless to any attacker.
The SoC that forms the brains of the whole operations is the relatively obscure MH1903, which is made by MegaHunt and comes in a dizzying number of variants that are found in applications like these PoS terminals. Fortunately the same SoC is also found on a development board with the AIR105 MCU that turns out to feature the same MH1903 core. These are ARM Cortex-M3 cores, which makes targeting them somewhat easier.
Rather than try to break the secure boot of the existing SoC, [Lucas] opted to replace the SoC package with a brand new one, which was its own adventure. Although one could say that this is cheating, it made getting a PoC of custom code running on one of these devices significantly easier. In a foll0w-up article [Lucas] expects to have Doom running on this device before long.
Building a computer on a breadboard is a seminal project for many builders, but it can become complicated quite quickly, not to mention that all the parts needed for a computer are being placed on a medium which often lends itself to loose wires and other hardware bugs. [3DSage] has a working breadboard computer that is as simple as it can possibly be, putting it together piece by piece to show exactly what’s needed to get a computer which can count, access memory, and even perform basic mathematical operations.
The first step for any computer is to build a clock, and in this case it’s being provided by a 555 timer which is configured to provide an adjustable time standard and which steps through the clock pulses when a button is pressed. The next piece is a four-bit counter and a memory chip, which lets the computer read and write data. A set of DIP switches allows a user to write data to memory, and by using the last three bits of the data as opcodes, the computer can reset, halt, and jump to various points in a simple program.
Although these three chips make it possible to perform basic programming, [3DSage] takes this a bit further in his video by demonstrating some other simple programs, such as one which can play music or behave as an alarm clock. He also shows how to use a fourth chip in the form of a binary adder to perform some basic math, and then packages it all into a retro-styled computer kit. Of course you can take these principles and build them out as far as they will go, like this full 8-bit computer built on a breadboard or even this breadboard computer that hosts a 486.
Federal attacks on free speech are rightfully getting most of the headlines, but Georgia’s unprecedented attempt to prosecute dozens of “Stop Cop City” protesters as members of a racketeering enterprise was as frivolous as the worst of the Trump administration’s antics.
This week’s dismissal of conspiracy charges against these opponents of the Atlanta police training facility is welcome news. But it’s alarming that these charges lingered over 61 people’s heads for two years. And their ordeal likely isn’t over.
Ridiculous indictment
Rather than filing charges aimed at individual alleged acts of arson, vandalism, or other actual crimes, prosecutors tried to rope together dozens of activists into one sprawling case under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The indictment didn’t even attempt to connect the dots between most defendants’ constitutionally protected speech and a handful of defendants’ alleged bad acts.
Why would prosecutors want to do that instead of just charging the lawbreakers? Primarily, because the prosecution wasn’t intended to punish illegality but to kill a movement. Charging only those who broke actual laws wouldn’t achieve that aim, so they got to work making up new ones.
Secondarily, because they’re vindictive dirtbags. To prove it, they chose the date of George Floyd’s murder as the start date of their fabricated “conspiracy,” even though plans for Cop City hadn’t even been announced yet when Floyd was killed.
Prosecutors pointed to the defendants’ alleged anarchist political philosophy, their publications, their social media posts, their constitutionally protected recording of police, their use of encryption and VPNs to communicate securely, and even their holding news conferences and talking to reporters — all as “proof” that they were each part of a criminal enterprise.
The theory goes that, if one anarchist writes an essay about the environmental impact of Cop City and another anarchist sets a police car on fire, then both anarchists effectively struck the match together. Or something like that. It’s too incoherent to make any sense of.
Chilling effect on both journalists and sources
By the prosecution’s logic, journalists who covered the protests could be portrayed as helping to “advance” a RICO conspiracy simply by giving activists a platform. Write about the movement, and you (and your sources) might become part of the case file. This time, they only went after writers who participated in the Stop Cop City movement, but what about next time?
The harm extends beyond direct impact on reporters. Newsmakers and whistleblowers will surely be wary of talking to journalists if they know prosecutors view doing so — and particularly doing so securely via encrypted messaging — as an act in furtherance of a conspiracy.
This week’s win doesn’t undo the harm, either to free speech or to the defendants’ lives (many say they’ve been unable to find housing or jobs due to the long-pending case). The court’s forthcoming dismissal order seems likely to be limited to procedural grounds — prosecutors neglected to get required authorization from the governor to bring the charges. Deputy Attorney General John Fowler, the lead prosecutor on the case, said he’ll appeal.
Prosecutors must know they’re unlikely to ultimately secure a conviction, much less one that higher courts will uphold. Even if the appellate courts give them a path to get past this week’s procedural dismissal, they’ll still have to reckon with the Constitution and the fact that their legal and factual theories are as flimsy as they come.
But the longer they can stretch the case out, the longer uncertainty will linger about whether a law intended to counter organized crime can be distorted to stifle protest movements. And the more reluctant critics of Cop City will be to speak to journalists whose reporting might clarify the goals of their movement and contradict law enforcement narratives.
Plenty of experts have explained how RICO laws are rife with abuse, even when used for their intended purpose. The Cop City case makes clear that the need for reform isn’t just a criminal justice issue; it’s a free speech one as well.
For 171 days, Rümeysa Öztürk has faced deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like, and for 90 days, Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest.
Our newsletters are taking a short break next week, but we’ll be back. Explore our archive for more press freedom stories.
Take action to stop attacks on journalists and transparency
People often ask how to support the causes we fight for other than donating. Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) has a new action center to allow you to do just that by writing or calling members of Congress to tell them that the public cares about press freedom.
This week we launched the first two actions — one to tell lawmakers to stop the decimation of the Freedom of Information Act and the other to encourage them to do something (besides the same old empty expressions of concern) about the massacre of journalists in Gaza. We plan to expand the action center, including by taking on locally targeted initiatives. Please use this easy, new tool to help us make a difference — and still donate if you can, of course.
CBS’s real bias monitor is Donald Trump
CBS announced this week that it’s hiring Kenneth Weinstein — a career partisan — as its “bias ombudsman.” FPF Director of Advocacy Seth Stern wrote for The Guardian that while CBS has a constitutional right to monitor bias as it sees fit, it’s a different story when the government gets involved.
The creation of the ombudsman role was one of many capitulations CBS’s owners made to the Trump administration to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to approve the Paramount-Skydance merger. And based on comments from the administration, it fully intends to use its foothold inside CBS’s newsroom to bend its reporting to its liking. Read more here.
‘Cop City’ case’s threat to press freedom persists despite win
Federal attacks on free speech are rightfully getting most of the headlines, but Georgia’s unprecedented attempt to prosecute dozens of “Stop Cop City” protesters as members of a racketeering enterprise was as frivolous as the worst of the Trump administration’s antics.
This week’s dismissal of conspiracy charges against these opponents of the Atlanta police training facility is welcome news. But it’s alarming that these charges lingered over 61 people’s heads for two years. Their ordeal likely isn’t over, and neither is the chilling effect on journalism and whistleblowing that the case has caused. Read more here.
Will 9/11 records be declassified?
Next year marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and “a substantial body of records” about the event remains classified.
In theory, these records should automatically be declassified when they turn 25 in 2026. But this won’t happen with the 9/11 records, just as it hasn’t happened with other historically significant records, like the John F. Kennedy assassination records, which the public had to wait over 60 years to read.
Judge isn’t buying excuses for attacks on LA reporters
A group of journalists and others won a preliminary injunction in federal court on Sept. 11, 2025, placing new restrictions on the Los Angeles Police Department’s violent tactics while policing protests. The day before, they won a similar order against the Department of Homeland Security.
U.S. District Judge Hernán Vera outlined the decades-long history of press freedom abuses at protests in LA and said that “the First Amendment demands better.” We couldn’t agree more. Read more from FPF’s U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
China didn’t want you to see this video of Xi and Putin. So Reuters deleted it (The Intercept). When news outlets don’t resist censorship, “journalism’s independence “sinks to the lowest common denominator whenever news of global importance breaks in a country governed by a repressive regime,” Stern told The Intercept.
A tipping point at CBS News (Columbia Journalism Review). An alarming account of corporate meddling in CBS News’ editorial decisions, under new and old ownership alike, to appease the Trump administration and avoid criticizing Israel. And with CBS’s ownership now looking to buy CNN’s parent company, it’s unlikely to stop.
Cindy Cohn is leaving EFF, but not the fight for digital rights (WIRED). A giant in the civil liberties field! We all owe a debt of gratitude to Cindy Cohn for her indelible leadership at the Electronic Frontier Foundation for so many years (and for being our legal counsel at FPF since our founding in 2012).
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss "free speech," keeping stupid thoughts in one's own head, and cancel culture.
JASON: In August 2014, I spoke to Drew Curtis, the founder of Fark.com, a timeless, seminal internet website, about a decision he had just made. Curtis banned misogyny from his website, partially in the name of facilitating free speech.
“We don't want to be the He Man Woman Hater's Club. This represents enough of a departure from pretty much how every other large internet community operates that I figure an announcement is necessary,” Curtis wrote when he announced the rule. “Adam Savage once described to me the problem this way: if the Internet was a dude, we'd all agree that dude has a serious problem with women.”
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An email sent to NBCUniversal employees, including journalists at NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and more, eulogizes Charlie Kirk as an "advocate for open debate" and reminds staff that even milquetoast statements about Kirk's death can result in their firing.#CharlieKirk #Journalism
Comcast Executives Warn Workers To Not Say The Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk
A company-wide email from Comcast executives, sent to everyone working at NBCUniversal on Friday morning, mourns right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk’s death and reminds employees that saying the wrong thing about Kirk’s legacy can get you fired swiftly.
The email, obtained by 404 Media and first reported by Variety, has the subject line “A message from Brian Roberts, Mike Cavanagh, and Mark Lazarus.” In it, the executives eulogize Kirk, calling him an “advocate for open debate, whose faith was important to him.”
Roberts is the Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation, Cavanagh is the president, and Lazarus is the prospective CEO of VERSANT, Comcast’s new spinoff that will include the majority of its NBCUniversal cable network portfolio. NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and more journalistic and entertainment properties are under the NBCUniversal umbrella.
“You may have seen that MSNBC recently ended its association with a contributor who made an unacceptable and insensitive comment about this horrific event,” the executives wrote. “That coverage was at odds with fostering civil dialogue and being willing to listen to the points of view of those who have differing opinions.”
💡 Do you have information about how your company is speaking to employees about Charlie Kirk's death, or political speech in general? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at sam.404. Otherwise, send me an email at sam@404media.co.
Political analyst Matthew Dowd was fired from MSNBC on Wednesday after speaking about Kirk’s death on air. During a broadcast on Wednesday following the shooting, anchor Katy Tur asked Dowd about “the environment in which a shooting like this happens,” according to Variety. Dowd answered: “He’s been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that is the environment we are in. You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place. And that’s the unfortunate environment we are in.”
MSNBC is a division of NBCUniversal. The letter from Comcast executives reiterates to current employees that their jobs are on the line if they stray from bland, milquetoast statements about a man who spent his life fomenting hate will have consequences on their careers. The entire mainstream media environment has been working overtime to sanitize Kirk’s legacy since his murder—a legacy that includes targeted harassment of professors at schools across the country and normalizing the notion that basic human rights are up for “debate.”
The full email is below.
Dear Comcast NBCUniversal Team,
The tragic loss of Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old father, husband, and advocate for open debate, whose faith was important to him, reminds us of the fragility of life and the urgent need for unity in our nation. Our hearts are heavy, as his passing leaves a grieving family and a country grappling with division. There is no place for violence or hate in our society.
You may have seen that MSNBC recently ended its association with a contributor who made an unacceptable and insensitive comment about this horrific event. That coverage was at odds with fostering civil dialogue and being willing to listen to the points of view of those who have differing opinions. We should be able to disagree, robustly and passionately, but, ultimately, with respect. We need to do better.
Charlie Kirk believed that "when people stop talking, really bad stuff starts." Regardless of whether you agreed with his political views, his words and actions underscore the urgency to maintain a respectful exchange of ideas a principle we must champion. We believe in the power of communication to bring us together. Today, that belief feels more vital than ever. Something essential has fractured in our public discourse, and as a company that values the power of information, we have a responsibility to help mend it.
As employees, we ask you to embody our values in your work and communities. We should engage with respect, listen, and treat people with kindness.
Over on Instructables, [Logan Fouts] shows us the Contrib Cal GitHub desk gadget. This build will allow you to sport your recent GitHub commit activity on your wall or desk with an attractive diffuse light display backed by a 7×4 matrix of multicolor LEDs. Motivate yourself and impress your peers!
This humble project is at the same time multifaceted. You will build a case with 3D printing, make a diffuse screen by gluing and cutting, design a LED matrix PCB using KiCad, solder everything together, and then program it all with Python. The brains of the operation are a Raspberry Pi Zero W.
The Instructables article will run you through the required supplies, help you to print the case, explain how to solder the LEDs, tell how to install the heat-set inserts for high quality screw attachments, explain wiring and power, tell you about how to use the various screws, then tell you about where to get more info and the required software on GitHub: Contrib Cal v2.
In risposta alle crescenti violazioni dello spazio aereo, la Nato ha annunciato il lancio dell’iniziativa Eastern sentry, destinata a rafforzare la presenza militare lungo il fianco orientale dell’alleanza. A darne notizia sono stati il Segretario Generale Mark Rutte e il
La mia città (Reggio Emilia) è particolarmente brava nella gestione di viabilità e piste ciclabili.
Fino a qualche anno fa ne avevamo alcune ma poi, dal giorno alla notte, sono state tracciate con la vernice moltissime linee ai lati dalle carreggiate. Quando i reggiani si sono svegliati non potevano saperlo, ma erano diventati i cittadini della città "con più piste ciclabili d'Italia". Qualsiasi cosa volesse intendere il Comune, noi la leggiamo così: che quantità non significa qualità.
Le piste create in questo modo sono molto pericolose, quasi quanto le altre, quelle che sempre dal giorno alla notte si è deciso di mettere in piedi facendo diventare spazi condivisi i marciapiedi che prima erano soltanto...beh, marciapiedi. Queste sono diventate pericolose non tanto perché da quel momento bici e pedoni convivono, ma per le innumerevoli intersezioni con le vie laterali, ad esempio sulla via Emilia che tanto per chiudere il quadro ha pure tanti alberi tra la pista e la strada, così chi esce dalle vie laterali non ti vede. Ma si sa, la perfezione non è di questo mondo.
Questa lunga e doverosa premessa andava fatta per farvi capire la situazione di partenza.
Ad Aprile vicino a casa mia (che è lungo la via Emilia) iniziano a rifare una pista ciclabile, una di quelle create con la vernice tanto tempo fa, e io mi dico "dai, finalmente non ci troverò più le macchine parcheggiate sopra!
Pura illusione.
Per qualche settimana sono comparsi i cartelli del nuovo cantiere e basta.
Finché non si è visto l'inizio dei lavori, io e altri ciclisti usavamo abusivamente la pista, anche perché non sapevamo dove altro passare (in questo tratto non c'è il marciapiedi con lo spazio condiviso).
A Giugno hanno cominciato a costruire dei muretti che delimitassero la carreggiata delle automobili tenendola separata da quella delle bici. "Benissmo!" Mi son detto.
Ma a luglio le persone sfruttavano le interruzioni nei muretti (ad esempio negli incroci) per intrufolarsi e parcheggiare la macchina sulla pista, come se niente fosse. Ora chi andava in bici stava peggio di prima, perché non poteva scavalcare il muretto per mettersi nella carreggiata e aggirare l'ostacolo.
La settimana scorsa hanno messo i paletti, per evitare questi parcheggi abusivi, e ci siamo detti "Evviva! Non capiterà più!"
Niente paura, l'Amministrazione è tosta ma nei cittadini trova pane per i suoi denti: alcuni paletti sono stati rimossi, altri investiti (spero non apposta) con un'automobile, e ora si può entrare di nuovo nella pista.
Nel frattempo le moto non si fanno problemi e parcheggiano dove gli pare.
Lunedì scorso hanno iniziato i lavori per asfaltare e mi son detto "Finalmente, non ci saranno più buche!".
Ad ora, il km di pista pagato con fondi PNRR non è ancora terminato: mancano i paletti rimossi e l'asfalto non è ancora finito. Inoltre, alcuni muretti sono stati già rovinati da auto/camion che ci hanno sbattuto sopra.
Quando dico che in questo paese non ce la possiamo fare, c'è un motivo.
5 mesi per un km di pista ciclabile, e non se ne vede la fine. Nel frattempo, i ciclisti rischiano la vita non potendola usare, spesso, per lavori o per inciviltà.
Il governo, le amministrazioni ci mettono del loro per fare schifezze, ma nessuno obbliga a essere stronzi. E tra noialtri italiani il numero di stronzi sembra in crescita costante. Ma il bello è che riusciamo a contagiare anche un po' di stranieri... dev'essere un virus.
esattamente. Giacché certi soggetti sono totalmente privi di empatia, pensano solo a sé e al proprio mezzo meccanico, l'unico modo per far loro capire quanto possano essere nocivi certi comportamenti è colpendo il loro amato bene. Tra l'altro, si dà un bell'impulso all'economia locale: pensa quanti andranno dal carrozziere!
Frascati diventa per un giorno il cuore pulsante dell’Europa strategica. Nella sede dell’Esa-Esrin, gli Stati Generali su difesa, spazio e cybersicurezza hanno riunito ministri, vertici militari, istituzioni comunitarie e industria. Un confronto che va oltre il tecnicismo. L’Unione si scopre vulnerabile,
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo L'ex presidente di destra è stato condannato a 27 anni e tre mesi di carcere per aver pianificato un colpo di stato al fine di rimanere al potere dopo aver perso le elezioni del 2022 L'articolo AUDIO. BRASILE. Condanna Bolsonaro. “La maggior parte
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale A che punto è il percorso verso la costituzione di una effettiva sovranità digitale europea? Che tipo di strategia adottare rispetto all’oligopolio statunitense delle Big Tech? Come gestire le smisurate potenzialità dell’Intelligenza Artificiale e i rischi che queste implicano per gli esseri
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo articolo21.org/2025/09/bolsona… L’ex presidente brasiliano di estrema destra Jair Bolsonaro ha progettato un golpe per sovvertire lo stato democratico di diritto, guidando una organizzazione criminale armata. Il piano prevedeva gli omicidi del presidente Lula (liberamente
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo articolo21.org/2025/09/basilic… In Basilicata, terra che custodisce ancora la memoria del confino di Carlo Levi ad Aliano, le spoglie dello scrittore torinese rappresentano un simbolo potente contro l’oppressione e per la dignità umana. Eppure, la
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale Il Veneto alle prese col turismo “cafone” estivo: a Padova, nello storico Prato della Valle, alcuni soggetti si sono sdraiati a prendere il sole in biancheria intima a ridosso delle statue; a Cortina, cuore delle Dolomiti, alcuni
Al centro Esa-Esrin di Frascati si sono svolti gli Stati generali della Difesa, dello Spazio e della Sicurezza, organizzati dal Parlamento europeo e dalla Commissione europea in collaborazione con l’Agenzia spaziale europea. L’evento ha riunito rappresentanti istituzionali, vertici militari
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale Da oltre settant’anni siamo abituati a pensare al sistema internazionale come a un fragile equilibrio retto dal liberalismo occidentale. Un equilibrio imperfetto basato su alcune regole minime condivise: il rispetto della sovranità, la centralità delle istituzioni multilaterali, la fiducia nel libero commercio come antidoto alla
Per capire cosa faceva Charlie Kirk bisogna conoscere una cosa molto americana: ilpost.it/2025/09/12/charlie-k… Ora, devo dire che l'orientamento della società nazionale debate in Italia è generalmente diverso, tende a favorire il rispetto reciproco e il debate come esercizio di ascolto, oltre che di argomentazione. Però il rischio dell'eccesso agonistico c'è, per questo ultimamente preferisco alternare debate classico a debate collaborativo
Così la Camera del popolo dopo una seduta straordinaria incentrata sulla situazione nella Striscia - Gli Stati si pronunciano a favore di un gruppo di esperti per la riforma dell’AVS
Il commissario europeo per la Difesa e lo Spazio, Andrius Kubilius, intervenuto a Frascati durante gli Stati generali di difesa, spazio e cybersicurezza presso la sede dell’Agenzia spaziale europea, ha messo in chiaro la posta in gioco segnando un cambio di paradigma nella visione dell’Unione europea:
“Top Gun” sembra essere destinata a diventare un pezzo del passato, con i caccia che dovranno cedere il posto alle nuove tencologie. Il Dipartimento della Difesa statunitense ha infatti inaugurato la sua prima scuola “Top Drone”, un’iniziativa destinata a migliorare l’addestramento degli operatori di
Regalo mutande assorbenti per bambini/ragazzi soggetti a enuresi. Sono: - 60 per la fascia 3-5 anni - 30 per la fascia 4-7 anni - 27 per la fascia 8-15 anni.
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Cresce il bilancio della rivolta in Nepal. Dietro le proteste la disillusione per le riforme mancate e l'indignazione per la corruzione e il nepotismo. Ma sul paese pesano anche nostalgie monarchiche e la competizione tra Pechino e New Delhi
è successo anche in ucraina. si inizia sempre dalle esercitazioni al confine. credo serve mostrare polso. mai avuto dubbi che putin intendesse allargarsi in europa.
@Privacy Pride Il post completo di Christian Bernieri è sul suo blog: garantepiracy.it/blog/espropri… Il Garante Privacy, con il nobile intento di salvare i minori dai mali del mondo, annuncia di volersi sostituire alle famiglie, privandole della responsabilità
Éric Chevillard – Santo cielo freezonemagazine.com/news/eric… In libreria dal 19 Settembre 2025 Éric Chevillard torna in Italia con il romanzo Santo cielo arricchito dalla prefazione inedita di Paolo Di Paolo. Proprio così: l’ora dei verdetti, il romanzo delle grandi rivelazioni è arrivato. Albert Moindre si trova nell’aldilà, dopo essere stato travolto da un camioncino carico di datteri e olive […] L'articolo Éric Chevillard – Santo cielo proviene da FR
When Will They Ever Learn? – A Story of U.S. Folk Music 1963-1969 freezonemagazine.com/articoli/… Ci sono raccolte che assolvono alla funzione di catalogo, preziose ma in fondo statiche. E poi ci sono operazioni come When Will They Ever Learn?, poderoso cofanetto di quattro CD pubblicato dalla Strawberry (ramo della Cherry Red Records), che non si limitano a mettere ordine tra canzoni celebri e brani dimenticati, ma
Venerdì 12, Sabato 13 e domenica 14 torniamo nelle piazze di Albano Laziale e Pavona con la raccolta firme per cancellare i poteri speciali grazie ai quali Gualtieri gioca la partita con un mazzo di carte truccato. Contro l'abuso di potere legalizzato puoi metterci la firma. Nelle locandine trovi dove e quando firmare. Massima diffusione 💪🏼
Does Silksong Seem Unreasonably Hard? You Probably Took a Wrong Turn
There is an aggrieved cry reverberating through the places on the internet where gamers gather. To hear them tell it, Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to the stone-cold classic 2017 platformer, is too damned hard. There’s a particular jumping puzzle involving spikes and red flowers that many are struggling with and they’re filming their frustration and putting it up on the internet, showing their ass for everyone to see. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… Even 404 Media’s own Joseph Cox hit these red flowers and had the temerity to declare Silksong a “bad game” that he was “disappointed” in given his love for the original Hollow Knight. youtube.com/embed/3yxR6H_Zh0M?…youtube.com/embed/GD8ZyYE1K7k?…youtube.com/embed/ZsmxOMijLtE?… Couldn't be me.
I, too, got to the area just outside Hunter’s March in Silksong where the horrible red flowers bloom. Unlike others, however, my gamer instincts kicked in. I knew what to do. “This is the Dark Souls Catacombs situation all over again,” I said to myself. Then I turned around and came back later.
And that has made all the difference.
In the original Dark Souls, once players clear the opening area they come to Firelink Shrine. From there they can go into Undead Burg, the preferred starting path, or descend into The Catacombs where horrifying undying skeletons block the entrance to a cave. One will open the game up before you, the other will kill new players dead. A lot of Dark Souls players have raged and quit the game over the years because they went into The Catacombs instead of the Undead Burg.
Like Dark Souls, Silksong has an open-ish world where portions of the map are hardlocked by items and soft locked by player skill checks. One of the entrances into the flower laden Hunter’s March is in an early game area blocked by a mini-boss fight with a burly ant. The first time I fought the ant, it killed me over and over again and I took that as a sign I should go elsewhere.
High skilled players can kill the ant, but it’s much easier after you’ve gotten some basic items and abilities. I had several other paths I could take to progress the game, so I marked the ant’s location and moved on.
As I explored more of Silksong, I acquired several powerups that trivialized the fight with the ant and made it easy to navigate the flower jumping puzzles behind him. The first is Swift Step, a dash ability, which is in Deep Docks in the south-eastern portion of the map. The second is the Wanderer’s Crest, which is near the start of the game behind a locked door you get the key for in Silksong’s first town.
The dash allowed me to adjust my horizontal position in the air, but it’s the Wanderer’s Crest that made the flowers easy to navigate. The red flowers are littered throughout Hunter’s March and players have to hit them with a down attack to get a boosted jump and cross pits of spikes. By default, Hornet—the player character—down attacks at a 45 degree angle. The Wanderer’s Crest allows you to attack directly below you and makes the puzzles much easier to navigate.
Cox, bless his heart, hit the burly red ant miniboss and brute forced his way past. Then, like so many other desperate gamers, he proceeded to attempt to navigate the red flower jumping puzzles without the right power ups. He had no Swift Step. He had no Wanderer’s Crest. And thus, he raged.
He’s not alone. Watching the videos of jumping puzzles online I noticed that a lot of the players didn’t seem to have the dash or the downward attack.
Games communicate to players in different ways and gamers often complain about annoying an obvious signposting like big splashes of yellow paint. But when a truly amazing game comes along that tries to gently steer the player with burly ants and difficult puzzles, they don’t appreciate it and they don’t listen. If you’re really stuck in Silksong, try going somewhere else.
Ma se c'è Friendica che ti permette di scrivere post lunghi, perché c'è tanta gente che apre un account su Mastodon e poi per scrivere un post lungo deve commentarsi 3-4 volte da sola per farcelo entrare tutto?
Voglio dire... hai fatto 30 andandotene da Facebook, a quel punto puoi fare 31 e scegliere un'istanza più adatta a te.
può anche darsi che non sappiano dell'esistenza di Friendica. Il mio primo account federato aveva il limite di 500 caratteri (che poi per quello che scrivo sono fin troppi... Per il resto ho il blog)
Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
Thursday morning, Ezra Klein at the New York Timespublished a column titled “Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way.” Klein’s general thesis is that Kirk was willing to talk to anyone, regardless of their beliefs, as evidenced by what he was doing while he was shot, which was debating people on college campuses. Klein is not alone in this take; the overwhelming sentiment from America’s largest media institutions in the immediate aftermath of his death has been to paint Kirk as a mainstream political commentator, someone whose politics liberals and leftists may not agree with but someone who was open to dialogue and who espoused the virtues of free speech.
“You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him,” Klein wrote. “He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it.”
“I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness,” Klein continued.
Kirk is being posthumously celebrated by much of the mainstream press as a noble sparring partner for center-left politicians and pundits. Meanwhile, the very real, very negative, and sometimes violent impacts of his rhetoric and his political projects are being glossed over or ignored entirely. In the New York Times, Kirk was an “energetic” voice who was “critical of gay and transgender rights,” but few of the national pundits have encouraged people to actually go read what Kirk tweeted or listen to what he said on his podcast to millions and millions of people. “Whatever you think of Kirk (I had many disagreements with him, and he with me), when he died he was doing exactly what we ask people to do on campus: Show up. Debate. Talk. Engage peacefully, even when emotions run high,” David French wrote in the Times. “In fact, that’s how he made his name, in debate after debate on campus after campus.”
This does not mean Kirk deserved to die or that political violence is ever justified. What happened to Kirk is horrifying, and we fear deeply for whatever will happen next. But it is undeniable that Kirk was not just a part of the extremely tense, very dangerous national dialogue, he was an accelerationist force whose work to dehumanize LGBTQ+ people and threaten the free speech of professors, teachers, and school board members around the country has directly put the livelihoods and physical safety of many people in danger. We do no one any favors by ignoring this, even in the immediate aftermath of an assassination like this.
Kirk claimed that his Turning Point USA sent “80+ buses full of patriots” to the January 6 insurrection. Turning Point USA has also run a “Professor Watchlist,” “School Board Watchlist,” and “Campus Reform” for nearly a decade.
“America’s radical education system has taken a devastating toll on our children,” Kirk said in an intro video posted on these projects’ websites. “From sexualized material in textbooks to teaching CRT and implementing the 1619 Project doctrine, the radical leftist agenda will not stop … The School Board Watch List exposes school districts that host drag queen story hour, teach courses on transgenderism, and implement unsafe gender neutral bathroom policies. The Professor Watch List uncovers the most radical left-wing professors from universities that are known to suppress conservative voices and advance the progressive agenda.”
These websites have been directly tied to harassment and threats against professors and school board members all over the country. Professor Watchlist lists hundreds of professors around the country, many of them Black or trans, and their perceived radical agendas, which include things like supporting gun control, “socialism,” “Antifa,” “abortion,” and acknowledging that trans people exist and racism exists. Trans professors are misgendered on the website, and numerous people who have been listed on it have publicly spoken about receiving death threats and being harassed after being listed on the site.
One professor on the watchlist who 404 Media is granting anonymity for his safety said once he was added to the list, he started receiving anonymous letters in his campus mailbox. “‘You're everything wrong with colleges,’ ‘watch your step, we're watching you’ kind of stuff,” he said, “One anonymous DM on Twitter had a picture of my house and driveway, which was chilling.” His president and provost also received emails attempting to discredit him with “all the allegedly communist and subversive stuff I was up to,” he said. “It was all certainly concerning, but compared to colleagues who are people of color and/or women, I feel like the volume was smaller for me. But it was certainly not a great feeling to experience that stuff. That watchlist fucked up careers and ruined lives.”
The American Association of University Professors said in an open letter in 2017 that Professor Watchlist “lists names of professors with their institutional affiliations and photographs, thereby making it easy for would-be stalkers and cyberbullies to target them. Individual faculty members who have been included on such lists or singled out elsewhere have been subject to threats of physical violence, including sexual assault, through hundreds of e-mails, calls, and social media postings. Such threatening messages are likely to stifle the free expression of the targeted faculty member; further, the publicity that such cases attract can cause others to self-censor so as to avoid being subjected to similar treatment.” Campus free speech rights group FIRE found that censorship and punishment of professors skyrocketed between 2020 and 2023, in part because of efforts from Professor Watchlist.
Many more professors who Turning Point USA added to their watchlist have spoken out in the past about how being targeted upended their lives, brought years of harassment down on them and their colleagues, and resulted in death threats against them and their loved ones.
At Arizona State University, a professor on the watchlist was assaulted by two people from Turning Point USA in 2023.
“Earlier this year, I wrote to Turning Point USA to request that it remove ASU professors from its Professor Watchlist. I did not receive a response,” university president Michael Crow wrote in a statement. “Instead, the incident we’ve all now witnessed on the video shows Turning Point’s refusal to stop dangerous practices that result in both physical and mental harm to ASU faculty members, which they then apparently exploit for fundraising, social media clicks and financial gain.” Crow said the Professor Watchlist resulted in “antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ+ and misogynistic attacks on ASU faculty with whom Turning Point USA and its followers disagree,” and called the organization’s tactics “anti-democratic, anti-free speech and completely contrary” to the spirit of scholarship.
Kirk’s death is a horrifying moment in our current American nightmare. Kirk’s actions and rhetoric do not justify what happened to him because they cannot be justified. But Kirk was not merely someone who showed up to college campuses and listened. It should not be controversial to plainly state some of the impact of his work.
Arizona State Police released footage of an incident between an ASU English professor, a reporter and cameraman from Turning Point USA that happened on Oct. 11. University president Dr. Michael Crow released a statement calling the men "cowards."
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Unknown parent • •E nel frattempo io potrei quasi finire all'ospedale, investito, visto che devo passare in strada.
marcell_o
in reply to Simon Perry • • •E tra noialtri italiani il numero di stronzi sembra in crescita costante.
Ma il bello è che riusciamo a contagiare anche un po' di stranieri... dev'essere un virus.
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Simon Perry
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la stronzaggine non dovrebbe mai essere la risposta, ma come dici tu è facile abituarsi alle usanze de posto, se ti rendo o la vita più facile.
D'altra parte non succede niente, giusto?
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Si può anche fare per carità, con il risultato di perdere tempo.
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