Narrare l’Antropocene
Fin dalle prime pagine questo volume rivela l’ambizione di ricucire lo storico divorzio tra scienze della Terra, scienze sociali e tradizioni umanistiche. Il testo assume come proprio punto di partenza la «grande cecità» individuata da Amitav Ghosh, vale a dire l’incapacità della cultura contemporanea di percepire l’impatto dell’umanità sul «sistema-Terra». Muovendo da tale consapevolezza, i curatori orchestrano un mosaico disciplinare che, più che come un semplice affiancamento di saperi, si configura come un vero esercizio di ibridazione retorica, concettuale e metodologica.
Nella prima parte, l’ecologo Emilio Padoa Schioppa offre un quadro lucido delle prove stratigrafiche, biogeochimiche e climatiche che giustificano il ricorso alla categoria di Antropocene, discutendone la datazione convenzionale alla metà del Novecento e l’idea della «Grande accelerazione» come svolta irreversibile. In tal modo l’A. non solo fornisce dati, ma mostra come essi implichino un ripensamento etico-politico del rapporto fra umanità e geosfera.
Come contrappunto, il giurista Domenico Amirante scandaglia le narrazioni «catastrofista» ed «eco-modernista», evidenziandone aporie e punti di forza, e propone un modello di governance multilivello che non elimini, bensì trasfiguri, la dimensione democratica attraverso forme di coordinamento dell’azione ambientale locale con quella planetaria, restituendo così all’Antropocene la sua necessaria valenza istituzionale.
Nella seconda parte, si delinea una genealogia italiana della cli-fi e dell’ecocritica che parte da Italo Calvino: La speculazione edilizia e Il barone rampante vengono riletti come testi anticipatori di una critica al consumo di suolo e a un progresso disancorato dai limiti naturali. Da qui l’itinerario si prolunga fino alla contemporaneità della climate fiction, dove Arianna Mazzola individua la convivenza di distopia, thriller ecologico e narrazione epica, nell’intento di ridefinire il concetto stesso di «umano» sotto la pressione della crisi climatica. Giuseppe Langella indaga la dimensione emotiva della catastrofe; Francesco Sielo illumina la lezione bioetica di Primo Levi; Stefania Segatori mappa un filone di green poetry che, da Maria Grazia Calandrone ad Antonella Anedda, rende la natura soggetto di giudizio morale; e Niccolò Scaffai riflette sulla «profondità» come metafora e metodo di un immaginario in grado di intrecciare geologia, archeologia e psiche. Ciò che accomuna questi saggi è la convinzione che la letteratura non sia mero abbellimento del discorso ecologico, bensì laboratorio cognitivo dove si sperimentano forme di conoscenza capaci di mobilitare tanto l’intelletto quanto la sfera affettiva.
La terza parte sposta l’asse verso il diritto e la politica. Pasquale Viola conia il neologismo «nomocene» per indicare l’era in cui il diritto non si limita a regolare l’ambiente, ma diviene esso stesso fattore ecologico, insistendo sulla necessità di un diritto «multispecie» che superi l’antropocentrismo normativo. Luigi Colella ripercorre l’evoluzione del pensiero cattolico attraverso l’enciclica Laudato si’ di papa Francesco, mostrando come l’ecologia integrale abbia innervato il magistero recente; Gianfranco Pellegrino invita a non confondere la fascinazione narrativa con l’analisi empirica, riaffermando il primato dell’alfabetizzazione scientifica e della discussione pubblica informata; Carmine Petteruti esamina gli strumenti di democrazia deliberativa come argine al negazionismo climatico e come palestra di cittadinanza globale. Infine, Vincenzo Pepe propone un «ambientalismo realista» imperniato su transizione energetica digitale, rigenerazione territoriale e partecipazione civica.
Tra i meriti maggiori del volume spiccano la prospettiva multidisciplinare, la scelta di alternare voci consonanti e dissonanti e la chiarezza di un lessico che, pur specializzato, rimane accessibile a un vasto pubblico. Qualche limite si riscontra nella poca attenzione agli strumenti economico-finanziari della transizione (carbon price, incentivi verdi, finanza climatica). Nondimeno l’opera si impone come lettura imprescindibile per giuristi ambientali, comparatisti, ecocritici e policymakers, perché dimostra con chiarezza che «narrare» l’Antropocene non significa attenuare il rigore scientifico, bensì dotarlo di quelle forme simboliche capaci di convertire la conoscenza in responsabilità collettiva. In questa prova di equilibrio fra dati, diritto e narrazione risiede la forza teorica e la stringente attualità di un libro che contribuisce in modo sostanziale alla definizione di una cultura pubblica dell’Antropocene.
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Building A Ham Radio Data Transceiver On The Cheap
Once upon a time, ham radio was all about CW and voice transmissions and little else. These days, the hobby is altogether richer, with a wide range of fancy digital data modes to play with. [KM6LYW Radio] has been tinkering in this space, and whipped up a compact ham radio data rig that you can build for well under $100.
Radio-wise, the build starts with the Baofeng UV-5R handheld radio. It’s a compact VHF/UHF transceiver with 5W output and can be had for under $25 USD if you know where to look. It’s paired with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, which is the brains of the operation. The Pi is hooked up to the All-In-One-Cable which is basically a soundcard-like interface that plugs into USB and hooks up to the mic and speaker outputs of the Baofeng handheld. The final pieces of the puzzle are a USB PD battery pack and a small OLED screen to display status information.
What does that kit get you? The capability to transmit on all sorts of digital modes with the aid of the DigiPi software package. You can send emails, jump on APRS, or even chat on the web. You can configure all of this through a web interface running on the Raspberry Pi.
We’ve looked at some interesting digital ham projects before, too. Video after the break.
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[Thanks to programmer1200 for the tip!]
When USB Charger Marketing Claims are Technically True
We have seen many scam USB chargers appear over the years, with a number of them being enthusiastically ripped apart and analyzed by fairly tame electrical engineers. Often these are obvious scams with clear fire risks, massively overstated claims and/or electrocution hazards. This is where the “600W” multi-port USB charger from AliExpress that [Denki Otaku] looked at is so fascinating, as despite only outputting 170 Watt before cutting out, it’s technically not lying in its marketing and generally well-engineered.
The trick being that the “600W” is effectively just the model name, even if you could mistake it for the summed up output power as listed on the ports. The claimed GaN components are also there, with all three claimed parts counted and present in the main power conversion stages, along with the expected efficiency gains.
While testing USB-PD voltages and current on the USB-C ports, the supported USB-PD EPR wattage and voltages significantly reduce when you start using ports, indicating that they’re clearly being shared, but this is all listed on the product page.
The main PCB of the unit generates the 28 VDC that’s also the maximum voltage that the USB-C ports can output, with lower voltages generated as needed. On the PCB with the USB ports we find the step-down converters for this, as well as the USB-PD and other USB charging control chips. With only a limited number of these to go around, the controller will change the current per port dynamically as the load increases, as you would expect.
Considering that this particular charger can be bought for around $30, is up-front about the limitations and uses GaN, while a genuine 300 Watt charger from a brand like Anker goes for $140+, it leads one to question the expectations of the buyer more than anything. While not an outright scam like those outrageous $20 ‘2 TB’ SSDs, it does seem to prey on people who have little technical understanding of what crazy amounts of cash you’d have to spend for a genuine 600 Watt GaN multi-port USB charger, never mind how big such a unit would be.
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ICE is on a rampage against the press
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
After over 100 days in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, Mario Guevara was deported today. Read on for more about this and other press freedom abuses, and take a minute to tell your lawmakers to stand up for journalists victimized by ICE.
ICE is on a violent rampage against the press
Federal immigration officers reportedly promised a “shitshow” last weekend in response to criticism from the mayor of Broadview, Illinois, who didn’t appreciate her city being invaded. They delivered, and journalists were well represented among their victims.
One journalist, Steve Held, was arrested. Others, including Held’s reporting partner at Unraveled Press, Raven Geary, were shot in the face with pepper ball rounds. According to lawyers on the scene, the protests the reporters were covering were peaceful and uneventful until ICE officers decided to unleash chaos.
A few days later at an immigration court in New York City, where ICE agents have been trying to intimidate journalists for months, agents assaulted at least three journalists, one of whom couldn’t get up and had to be hospitalized. You can read what we told Chicago’s The Triibe about the Broadview attacks and New York’s amNY about the New York ones.
More importantly, you can tell your lawmakers to speak out against ICE’s abuses using our new, easy-to-use action center. Take action here.
Journalist Mario Guevara deported to El Salvador
After months of hard-fought battles in both the court of law and the court of public opinion, the Trump administration deported journalist Mario Guevara today. This case wasn’t about immigration paperwork — Guevara had a work permit, and the administration argued in court that Guevara’s reporting on protests posed a national security risk.
“The only thing that journalists like Guevara threaten is the government’s chokehold on information it doesn’t want the public to know. That’s why he’s being deported and why federal agents are assaulting and arresting journalists around the country,” FPF’s Seth Stern said after Guevara’s family announced his deportation.
Guilty of journalism in Kentucky
Student journalist Lucas Griffith was convicted of one count of failure to disperse and fined $50 plus court costs after a jury trial on Thursday.
That’s unconstitutional — even the U.S. Department of Justice recognizes journalists’ right to cover how law enforcement disperses protesters.
But it also shows what a giant waste of taxpayer funds it is to prosecute journalists for doing their jobs. Before the trial, we led a coalition letter from press freedom advocates and journalism professors objecting to the charges. Read it here.
FPF and 404 Media sue DHS
FPF and 404 Media filed a lawsuit against multiple parts of the U.S. government, including the Department of Homeland Security, demanding they hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE.
It’s just one of several recent lawsuits we’ve filed under the Freedom of Information Act. We also surpassed 200 FOIAs filed in 2025 this week. Subscribe to The Classifieds newsletter for more on our FOIA work.
FCC censorship moves from prime time to prison
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has taken a lot of heat for his “mafioso”-style extortion of ABC over Jimmy Kimmel’s show. But his latest censorship effort is even more dangerous. It could strip those inside America’s most secretive institutions — its prisons — of a tool that has proved extremely effective in exposing abuses.
We partnered with The Intercept to publish incarcerated journalist and FPF columnist Jeremy Busby’s response to the FCC’s efforts to allow prisons to “jam” cell phones. Busby used a contraband phone to expose and force reform of horrific conditions in Texas prisons during the pandemic. Read his article here.
Photography is not a hate crime
The arrest of Alexa Wilkinson on hate crime charges for photographing vandalism at The New York Times building has prompted hair splitting about whether they’re a journalist. It’s giving us flashbacks to the pointless obsession over whether Julian Assange was a journalist, and not whether his prosecution endangered press freedom.
Stern explains that regardless of how we categorize Wilkinson’s work, the charges set dangerous precedents that threaten the constitutional protections journalists depend on to do their jobs. Read more here.
What we’re reading
DC Circuit rejects Fox News reporter effort to duck subpoena over anonymous source (Courthouse News). “This decision does real damage to bedrock principles of press freedom, and we urge the Court of Appeals to re-hear this case with a full panel of judges,” FPF’s Trevor Timm said.
Can the US government ban apps that track ICE agents? (BBC). “That somebody might use the app to break the law doesn’t mean the app can be banned,” Stern told BBC. After the interview, news broke that the administration successfully pressured Apple to pull the app.
Reporter’s suit over access to Utah Capitol dismissed (U.S. Press Freedom Tracker). This dismissal is nonsense. FPF’s Caitlin Vogus explained why in the Salt Lake Tribune earlier this year.
Israel illegally boards humanitarian flotilla heading to Gaza (Dropsite). A U.S. journalist was on board. The U.S. Department of State should be all over this and it should be headline news. Neither is likely, because the government considers critics of Israel terrorists and the media often shuns reporters who oppose slaughtering their Palestinian colleagues.
FPF welcomes Adam Rose to bolster local advocacy
FPF is excited to welcome Adam Rose as the new deputy director of our advocacy team. Adam will primarily focus on protecting press freedom at the local level, where we have seen a sharp increase in arrests and assaults of journalists all around the country — many of which have not made national headlines.
Adam comes to FPF after serving as the chief operating officer of Starling Lab for Data Integrity and as the press rights chair of the Los Angeles Press Club, where he has been a tireless advocate for the press freedom rights of journalists in the LA area. He successfully lobbied for a California law that prohibits police from arresting or intentionally interfering with journalists as they cover protests. Most recently, as a plaintiff in multiple press freedom-related lawsuits, his efforts have resulted in landmark federal court orders against both the Department of Homeland Security and Los Angeles Police Department for violating the rights of the press. Read more here.
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404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS
Last week Freedom of the Press Foundation and 404 Media filed a lawsuit against the multiple parts of the U.S. government demanding they hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE. The data sharing marked a watershed moment for ICE and its access to highly sensitive data that is ordinarily siloed off from the agency. We believe it’s important for the public to see this unprecedented data sharing agreement for themselves.As the Associated Press wrote when it first reported on the data sharing agreement between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agreement will give ICE the ability to find “the location of aliens.” The data shared includes home addresses and ethnicities, according to the Associated Press.
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Do you know anything else about this data sharing agreement? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.Both Freedom of the Press Foundation and 404 Media filed similar Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with DHS and CMS seeking a copy of the agreement. Neither agency provided the requested records in time, so we have now filed the lawsuit. In 404 Media’s case, CMS acknowledged the request but has not provided the records, and DHS did not even acknowledge the request at all.
404 Media’s request asked for a copy of the specific agreement, and if the agencies were unable to locate it, to alternatively provide copies of all agreements between DHS and CMS from this year.
“Despite having received the FOIA requests, and despite their obligations under the law, Defendants have failed to notify Plaintiffs of the scope of documents that they will produce or the scope of documents that they plan to withhold in response to the FOIA requests,” the lawsuit reads.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation is a non-profit organization that monitors press freedom issues in the U.S. and trains journalists on how to keep themselves and their sources safe. It regularly sues the U.S. government for access to records.The data sharing agreement is just one of a growing list of ways that ICE is sourcing highly sensitive, and sometimes legally protected, information as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort. ProPublica reported on the vast system the IRS is building to share millions of taxpayers’ data with ICE. 404 Media previously reported ICE has gained access to ISO Claimsearch, a massive insurance and medical bill database to find deportation targets. The database is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills.
Separately, 404 Media filed a lawsuit against ICE in September for access to the agency’s $2 million spyware contract.
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404 Media is a new independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.Outpost Staff (404 Media)
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Cold Sensor, Hot Results: Upgrading a DSLR for Astrophotography
When taking pictures of the night sky, any noise picked up by the sensor can obscure the desired result. One major cause of noise in CMOS sensors is heat—even small amounts can degrade the final image. To combat this, [Francisco C] of Deep SkyLab retrofitted an old Canon T1i DSLR with an external cooler to reduce thermal noise, which introduces random pixel variations that can hide faint stars.
While dedicated astrophotography cameras exist—and [Francisco C] even owns one—he wanted to see if he could improve an old DSLR by actively cooling its image sensor. He began with minor surgery, removing the rear panel and screen to expose the back of the sensor. Using a sub-$20 Peltier cooler (also called a TEC, or Thermoelectric Cooler), he placed its cold side against the sensor, creating a path to draw heat away.
Reassembling the camera required some compromises, such as leaving off the LCD screen due to space constraints. To prevent light leaks, [Francisco C] covered the exposed PCBs and viewfinder with tape. He then tested the setup, taking photos with the TEC disabled and enabled. Without cooling, the sensor started at 67°F but quickly rose to 88°F in sequential shots. With the TEC enabled, the sensor remained steady at 67°F across all shots, yielding a 2.8x improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio. Thanks to [Francisco C] for sharing this project! Check out his project page for more details, and explore our other astrophotography hacks for inspiration.
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Nino Lisi, una vita per gli altri Città della Scienza. Napoli, 13 ottobre
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Nino Lisi, una vita per gli altri, Città della Scienza 13 ottobre 2025 dalle ore 15 alle 18.30, Sala Archimede, Via Coroglio, 57 Napoli Ore 15: Perché siamo
SEIETRENTA - La rassegna stampa di Chora Media: Pizzaballa: "Cercare segni di salvezza nella disumanità di Gaza" | VIVAVOCE
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Hanno la forza non hanno la ragione di Danilo de Biasio
Hanno la forza, non hanno la ragione
Su quanto è successo alla Global Sumud Flottilla e sui crimini di guerra che Israele continua a compiere a Gaza non servono molte parole, bastano due foto prese dai social in queste ore.Danilo De Biasio (Rights Now)
Build A 3D Printed Tide Clock So You Know When The Sea Is Coming To Get You
The tides! Such a unique thing, because on Earth, we don’t just have oceans full of liquid water—we also have a big ol’ moon called Moon to pull them around. You might like to keep track of the tides; if so, this tide clock from [rabbitcreek] could come in handy.
The motions of the tides are moderately complex; it was in the late 19th century that Sir William Thomson figured out a reasonable method to predict the tides mathematically and with a mechanical contrivance of his own design. These days, though, you don’t need pulleys and ropes to build a tide clock; you can just use electronics for display and the NOAA API to get the information you need.
[rabbitcreek’s] build is based around the Xiao ESP32 S3, which is charged with using its Wi-Fi connection to query NOAA up-to-date tide height data. It then uses this information to drive the position of a servo, installed inside a 3D-printed housing. The servo rotates a little red Moon indicator around a central Earth, with our home planet surrounded by a stretched blue marker indicating the swelling of the tides as influenced by the Moon’s gravity.
If you’re a surfer or beach driver that’s always wanting to know the tidal state at a glance, this clock is for you. We’ve featured other tide clocks before, but never any projects that can actually influence the tides themselves. If you’ve figured out how to mess with gravity on a planetary scale, consider applying for a Nobel Prize—but do notify the tipsline before you do.
Goliarda Sapienza, L’Università di Rebibbia, Einaudi
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Mai forse come in questo 2025 l’opera di Goliarda Sapienza ha avuto un’attenzione mediatica con la trasposizione in serie televisiva del romanzo “L’ arte della gioia” ( pubblicato in edizione integrale postumo da Einaudi
Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime
The arrest of Alexa Wilkinson on felony hate crime charges for photographing vandalism at the New York Times building has prompted hairsplitting about whether they’re a journalist. The New York Times explained that Wilkinson’s “lawyers described them as a journalist, but did not name any publications for which Mx. Wilkinson works.”
Wilkinson certainly has a track record as a journalist. Whether the content they were charged for is journalism or PR is, I suppose, up for debate. But should we even bother debating it? Regardless of how we categorize Wilkinson’s work, the charges set dangerous precedents that threaten the constitutional protections journalists depend on to do their jobs.
As we all learned — or should have learned — from the Julian Assange prosecution, obsessing over whether a particular defendant meets someone’s arbitrary definition of journalism is a waste of time. What that case left us with at the end of the day is a Trump administration armed with a bipartisan consensus that routine journalistic acts, like talking to sources, obtaining government secrets, and publishing them, can be prosecuted as a felony under the Espionage Act. Those who change their tune when the next defendant is someone they like better than Assange will be easily discredited by their hypocrisy.
The same dangers apply when Wilkinson’s photography is treated as a hate crime. Wilkinson’s case stems from a July protest in which activists doused the Times headquarters in red paint and spray-painted “NYT lies, Gaza dies” on its windows. In addition to charging the vandals, New York prosecutors charged Wilkinson, who photographed the scene, with aggravated harassment as a hate crime.
New York authorities should be combating these cynical attempts to use antisemitism to justify authoritarianism. Instead, they’re fueling the trend.
But there was no hate crime. Vandalizing a building to protest perceived pro-Israel bias in news coverage is a political statement, not an antisemitic one. The vandalism may well be illegal, and we condemn it, as news outlets large and small are under increased threat in this charged political environment. We even documented the vandalism itself in our U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
But labeling actions that criticize a newspaper’s editorial decisions as a hate crime conflates political views with bigotry. Many journalists object to Israel’s slaughter of their peers in Gaza — and the U.S. media’s relative silence about it — for reasons having nothing to do with anyone’s religion. And many Jews themselves oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza and object to coverage they view as excusing or normalizing Israel’s conduct.
I’m one of those Jews, and I think what’s antisemitic is to assume that we monolithically share the politics of Benjamin Netanyahu and his ilk, who I consider the worst thing to happen to Judaism since the 1940s. As the saying goes, one day everyone will have been against this. When that time comes, efforts to conflate anti-Israel or anti-genocide views with antisemitism will leave Jews holding the bag for Israel’s reprehensible actions, America’s role in supporting them, and whatever blowback follows. That’s when the real antisemitism will start.
New York authorities should be combating these cynical attempts to use antisemitism to justify authoritarianism. Instead, they’re fueling the trend. Wilkinson’s case, in a blue state, legitimizes the Trump administration’s un-American actions, like its efforts to deport Mahmoud Khalil over his criticisms of Israel and Rümeysa Öztürk for co-writing an op-ed arguing for boycotts of Israeli products. The administration baselessly argues that their constitutionally protected speech constitutes support for Hamas and threatens national security. And several Republican attorneys general have floated the idea that reporting critical of Israel could be punished as support for terrorism. Wilkinson’s case only gives cover to those advancing these absurd arguments.
Israel showed us exactly where conflating speech with violence leads. Last month, Israel killed 31 journalists in airstrikes on newspaper offices in Yemen — the deadliest single attack on the press in 16 years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Israel has justified the strikes by characterizing the targeted outlets as publishing “terrorist” propaganda.
Should we debate whether those massacred in Yemen (or Gaza) followed the Associated Press Stylebook or strictly adhered to journalistic codes of ethics? Or should we just acknowledge that militaries shouldn’t blow people to bits over what they say and write, regardless of whether it’s bad journalism or even propaganda?
Even setting aside the hate crime charge, Wilkinson’s case has broader implications for the press that don’t hinge on whether they’re a card-carrying member. The complaint against Wilkinson reportedly emphasizes not just the photographs they took but also social media posts criticizing Times staff and alleged foreknowledge of the vandalism. This suggests prosecutors view Wilkinson as complicit because of proximity or sympathy to those who committed it and awareness of their plans.
But objectivity is not a precondition for constitutional protection. It’s a relatively recently developed journalistic norm — with its share of critics — that would have been seen as ridiculous when the First Amendment was written.
Should we debate whether those massacred in Yemen (or Gaza)...adhered to journalistic codes of ethics? Or should we just acknowledge that militaries shouldn’t blow people to bits over what they write?
As for embedding and foreknowledge, journalists routinely embed with groups whose members commit illegal acts. For example, the Israeli army, which, according to the United Nations, is committing genocide. Domestically, police reporters ride along with officers who may use excessive force. Investigative journalists cultivate sources involved in criminal activity. If foreknowledge of illegal acts or presence when they occur makes one legally complicit, journalism as we know it becomes impossible.
And for those concerned about journalistic ethics and objectivity, what impact do you think it’ll have if reporters are allowed to embed with government-approved lawbreakers, like soldiers and police, but not dissidents? Will that result in “fair and balanced” coverage?
Your opinion about Wilkinson’s work won’t change the trajectory of our democracy. But prosecutors in America’s biggest city validating the Trump administration’s criminalization of dissent very well might. Every journalist — and everyone who depends on journalism to hold power to account — should be alarmed.
The Christian Hedges report, del 3/10/2025
The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israeli lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists
The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
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ONU: un lavoratore su quattro è minacciato dalle AI. Ma anche i loro comunicati sono scritti dagli LLM
Le Nazioni Unite si affidano sempre più all’intelligenza artificiale nella produzione di testi ufficiali. Secondo un recente studio, il 13% dei comunicati stampa delle Nazioni Unite mostra già segni di generazione automatica.
Un’analisi delle pubblicazioni aziendali e governative ha rivelato un quadro ancora più ampio: circa il 17% di tali materiali, dagli annunci di lavoro alle dichiarazioni ufficiali, avrebbe potuto essere redatto con l’ausilio di modelli linguistici.
Ma sappiamo che l’intelligenza artificiale è utilizzata attivamente anche dai cittadini comuni.
Secondo gli autori, circa il 18% dei reclami presentati al Consumer Financial Protection Bureau degli Stati Uniti tra il 2022 e il 2024 è stato generato utilizzando reti neurali. Questo risultato sembra prevedibile: più della metà degli adulti americani (52%), che ha già ammesso di utilizzare modelli linguistici.
Vengono utilizzati più spesso per l’auto apprendimento o per le attività quotidiane, ma il loro utilizzo anche in ambito aziendale sta diventando sempre più evidente.
La percentuale di testo generato automaticamente è particolarmente elevata nei comunicati stampa aziendali. I ricercatori hanno scoperto che quasi un quarto delle pubblicazioni pubblicate sulle tre principali piattaforme di comunicati stampa è stato creato con l’ausilio dell’intelligenza artificiale. La più alta concentrazione di tali materiali è stata riscontrata nel settore scientifico e tecnologico.
Gli autori hanno studiato separatamente gli annunci di lavoro su LinkedIn. È emerso che le grandi aziende sono meno propense ad affidarsi a strumenti generativi nella scrittura degli annunci di lavoro, mentre circa il 10% degli annunci di lavoro delle piccole imprese, al contrario, mostra segni di apprendimento automatico.
Nel frattempo, gli stessi candidati esprimono sempre più insoddisfazione: il reclutamento automatizzato è percepito come una semplificazione ingiusta e i candidati vogliono che le aziende dichiarino apertamente il loro utilizzo dell’intelligenza artificiale.
È evidente anche il crescente utilizzo di algoritmi nel lavoro delle Nazioni Unite: mentre all’inizio del 2023, i segnali di generazione automatica erano registrati solo nel 3% dei comunicati stampa in lingua inglese dell’organizzazione, alla fine del 2024 questa cifra ha superato il 13%. Ciò è particolarmente significativo se si considera che le Nazioni Unite stesse hanno ripetutamente avvertito che l’automazione basata sulle reti neurali minaccia una professione su quattro, con le donne nei paesi sviluppati, dove molte mansioni lavorative possono essere esternalizzate agli algoritmi, che sono le più a rischio.
Negli Stati Uniti, la comunicazione e le pubbliche relazioni sono tra le professioni con una predominanza femminile. Secondo i dati del 2024, le donne rappresentano il 67,8% dei professionisti delle relazioni pubbliche e il 70,1% dei responsabili delle pubbliche relazioni e della raccolta fondi. Questi settori sono già attivamente saturi di testi basati sull’intelligenza artificiale.
Nel complesso, i ricercatori hanno registrato un rapido aumento. Prima del rilascio di ChatGPT nel novembre 2022, solo l’1,5% dei materiali analizzati poteva essere classificato come scritto automaticamente, ma ad agosto 2023 questa quota superava il 15%. La crescita successiva ha rallentato e ad agosto 2024 la cifra si è stabilizzata al 17%.
Gli autori hanno utilizzato il loro rilevatore di testo automatico per il loro lavoro. Tuttavia, riconoscono che il programma non è in grado di distinguere accuratamente i materiali che sono stati pesantemente modificati dagli esseri umani dopo la generazione. Questa lacuna è in linea con i risultati precedenti riguardanti i punti deboli di strumenti simili. Già nel 2023, uno studio separato ha dimostrato che nessuno dei sistemi disponibili ha dimostrato un’accuratezza superiore all’80% e, in alcuni casi, il testo generato è stato rilevato come testo umano. I risultati sono stati ancora peggiori con l’editing manuale, la parafrasi automatica o la traduzione.
Un altro studio ha rilevato un livello ancora più basso: l’accuratezza del riconoscimento in condizioni di sostituzione potrebbe scendere al 17,4%. L’autore principale dello studio attuale, il professore James Zou della Stanford University, spiega che tali strumenti funzionano in modo più efficace con articoli di grandi dimensioni, ma non sono in grado di determinare in modo affidabile se un particolare materiale sia stato scritto utilizzando l’intelligenza artificiale. Osserva che, come qualsiasi nuova tecnologia, i modelli generativi non possono essere ridotti a una valutazione netta, positiva o negativa. Commettono inevitabilmente errori e affidarsi esclusivamente a essi per la preparazione del testo senza verificare il risultato finale porterà inevitabilmente a inesattezze fattuali.
L'articolo ONU: un lavoratore su quattro è minacciato dalle AI. Ma anche i loro comunicati sono scritti dagli LLM proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.
Ora è ufficiale: il governo Meloni è stato denunciato alla Corte penale internazionale per complicità in genocidio.
Non è uno slogan né un titolo di giornale, ma un atto formale. Secondo quanto depositato dall’avvocato Fabio Marcelli, dirigente del Cnr – Istituto di studi giuridici internazionali, il governo italiano è stato denunciato davanti alla Corte Penale Internazionale dell’Aja per presunta complicità nel genocidio in corso a Gaza.
L’esposto, stando a quanto reso pubblico, cita direttamente i nomi della Presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni, del ministro degli Esteri Antonio Tajani, del ministro della Difesa Guido Crosetto e dell’amministratore delegato di Leonardo, Roberto Cingolani. Nell’atto si sostiene che, mentre nella Striscia di Gaza la Commissione internazionale d’inchiesta dell’ONU parla di “genocidio”, l’Italia avrebbe continuato a intrattenere rapporti politici e commerciali con il governo di Benjamin Netanyahu, fornendo di fatto un sostegno indiretto alla prosecuzione delle ostilità.
La denuncia non proviene da un partito o da un gruppo politico, ma da un giurista di lungo corso. Marcelli, nella sua nota, spiega che l’obiettivo è chiamare a rispondere non solo chi compie materialmente i crimini, ma anche chi – secondo la legge internazionale e la legge italiana sul genocidio del 1967 – li favorisce, li sostiene o non interviene per impedirli.
Se la Corte dell’Aja valuterà ammissibile il fascicolo, l’Italia sarà chiamata a fornire spiegazioni. In ogni caso, questo atto resterà come documento storico: nel pieno della devastazione di Gaza, c’è chi ha chiesto formalmente di verificare le responsabilità anche del governo italiano.
La Storia, quando verrà scritta, non dimenticherà questi passaggi. E allora resterà anche questo: che l’Italia, sotto il governo Meloni, è stata chiamata in giudizio per non aver fatto abbastanza per fermare la tragedia palestinese.
Paolo Consiglio
Fonti principali:
– Adnkronos – Denuncia alla Corte Penale Internazionale contro esponenti del governo italiano (settembre 2025).
– Il Fatto Quotidiano – Fabio Marcelli deposita esposto per complicità in genocidio (settembre 2025).
– Commissione internazionale d’inchiesta ONU – Rapporto 2025 su Gaza.
Nota editoriale
Questo articolo rappresenta un’opinione critica e argomentata, fondata su fonti giornalistiche e istituzionali. Le dichiarazioni e i nomi citati sono riportati esclusivamente come contenuto dell’esposto depositato alla CPI e non come accuse formulate dall’autore. Ogni riflessione si colloca nell’ambito della libertà di stampa e di pensiero, principi essenziali in una società democratica.
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Ora è ufficiale: il governo Meloni è stato denunciato alla Corte penale internazionale per complicità in genocidio. Non è uno slogan né un titolo di giornale, ma un atto formale.Telegram
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Flotilla, l''idea' di Giuliano Ferrara: "Perche non trattenere gli attivisti come gli ostaggi di Hamas?"
'Non dico sottoterra' ma 'per lo stesso numero di giorni degli ostaggi del 7 ottobre, parlamentari compresi'Redazione Adnkronos (Adnkronos)
Lugano - eravamo più di "diverse centinaia"
Per testimonianze più vere, cercate sui social (di meta ahimè...)
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#blocchiamotutto #Lugano #globalsumudflotilla #manifestazione #gaza #palestinalibera
In piazza per la Flotilla: un migliaio di manifestanti e disagi al traffico a Lugano
Da piazza Dante allo svincolo autostradale, tante persone hanno partecipato al corteo scandendo slogan a sostegno della Global Sumud Flotilla - Traffico bloccato in entrata e uscita a causa di un'ora di sit-in ai semafori di Lugano Sud - FOTO E VIDEOValentina Coda (Corriere del Ticino)
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Trump ad Hamas, 'accordo entro domenica o sarà l'inferno'
ma davvero non ha ancora imparato che dire così alla contro-parte può equivalere solo a farsi mandare affanculo? ma dove è vissuto fino ad adesso? ha 5 anni?
Anche i detenuti di Bologna hanno scioperato
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Fratoianni (Avs), grazie ai detenuti di Bologna, perfino loro hanno scioperato. Un’altra dimostrazione di umanità. “In questo fiume di umanità che sta attraversando tutta Italia, da Bologna arriva una lezione straordinaria: i detenuti
The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.#News
Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
Both Google and Apple recently removed Red Dot, an app people can use to report sightings of ICE officials, from their respective app stores, 404 Media has found. The move comes after Apple removed ICEBlock, a much more prominent app, from its App Store on Thursday following direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials. Google told 404 Media it removed apps because they shared the location of what it describes as a vulnerable group that recently faced a violent act connected to these sorts of ICE-spotting apps—a veiled reference to ICE officials.The move signals a broader crackdown on apps that are designed to keep communities safe by crowdsourcing the location of ICE officials. Authorities have claimed that Joshua Jahn, the suspected shooter of an ICE facility in September and who killed a detainee, searched his phone for various tracking apps. A long-running immigration support group on the ground in Chicago, where ICE is currently focused, told 404 Media some of its members use Red Dot.
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Do you know anything else about these apps and their removal? Do you work at Google, Apple, or ICE? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.“Ready to Protect Your Community?” the website for Red Dot reads. “Download Red Dot and help build a stronger protection network.”
The site provides links to the app’s page on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. As of at least Friday, both of those links return errors. “This app is currently not available in your country or region,” says the Apple one, and “We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server,” says the Google one.
The app allows people to report ICE presence or activity, along with details such as the location and time, according to Red Dot’s website. The app then notifies nearby community members, and users can receive alerts about ICE activity in their area, the website says.
Google confirmed to 404 Media that it removed Red Dot. Google said it did not receive any outreach from the Department of Justice about this issue and that it bans apps with a high risk of abuse. Without talking about the shooting at the ICE facility specifically, the company said it removed apps that share the location of what it describes as a vulnerable group after a recent violent act against them connected to this sort of app. Google said apps that have user generated content must also conduct content moderation.
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Google added in a statement that “ICEBlock was never available on Google Play, but we removed similar apps for violations of our policies.”Google’s Play Store policies say the platform does not allow apps that “promote violence” against “groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, caste, immigration status, or any other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization,” but its published policies do not include information about how it defines what types of groups are protected.
Red Dot did not respond to a request for comment.
On Thursday Apple told 404 Media it removed multiple ICE-spotting apps, but did not name Red Dot. Apple did not respond to another request for comment on Friday.
On Thursday Joshua Aaron, the developer of ICEBlock, told 404 Media “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move,” referring to Apple removing his own app. ICEBlock rose to prominence in June when CNN covered the app. That app was only available on iOS, while Red Dot was available on both iOS and Android.
“ICEBlock is no different from crowd sourcing speed traps, which every notable mapping application, including Apple's own Maps app, implements as part of its core services. This is protected speech under the first amendment of the United States Constitution,” Aaron continued. “We are determined to fight this with everything we have. Our mission has always been to protect our neighbors from the terror this administration continues to reign down on the people of this nation. We will not be deterred. We will not stop. #resist.”
That move from Apple came after pressure from Department of Justice officials on behalf of Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to Fox. “ICEBlock is designed to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs, and violence against law enforcement is an intolerable red line that cannot be crossed. This Department of Justice will continue making every effort to protect our brave federal law enforcement officers, who risk their lives every day to keep Americans safe,” Bondi told Fox. The Department of Justice declined to comment beyond Bondi's earlier comments.
The current flashpoint for ICE’s mass deportation effort is Chicago. This week ICE raided an apartment building and removed everyone from the building only to ask questions later, according to local media reports. “They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," one neighbor, Eboni Watson, told ABC7. “That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.’”
Brandon Lee, communications lead at Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, told 404 Media some of the organization’s teams have used Red Dot and similar apps as a way of taking tips. But the organization recommends people call its hotline to report ICE activity. That hotline has been around since 2011, Lee said. “The thing that takes time is the infrastructure of trust and training that goes into follow-up, confirmation, and legal and community support for impacted families, which we in Illinois have been building up over time,” he added.
“But I will say that at the end of the day it's important for all people of conscience to use their skills to shine some light on ICE's operations, given the agency's lack of transparency and overall lack of accountability,” he said, referring to ICE-spotting apps.
In ICEBlock’s case, people who already downloaded the app will be able to continue using but will be unable to re-download it from the Apple App Store, according to an email from Apple Aaron shared with 404 Media. Because Red Dot is available on Android, users can likely sideload the app—that is, install it themselves by downloading the APK file rather than from the Play Store.
The last message to Red Dot’s Facebook page was on September 24 announcing a new update that fixed various bugs.
Update: this piece has been updated to include a response from the Department of Justice.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
Anti-ICE protesters marched up Michigan Avenue on Tuesday evening.Cate Cauguiran (ABC7 Chicago)
Trump reclama poteri speciali per attaccare i Narcos. Cosa sta succedendo
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Gli Stati Uniti sono in guerra. O, almeno, così vuole Donald Trump. Come riporta l’Associated Press, internamente all’amministrazione americana sta circolando un memo che dichiara gli Usa in uno stato di “conflitto armato non internazionale” con i cartelli dei narcotrafficanti caraibici, ora
Siamo ancora a Gaza
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articolo21.org/2025/10/siamo-a…
dopo l’uscita della notizia che abbiamo lasciato Gaza City molti amici mi hanno scritto sconsolati: “Se anche voi lasciate Gaza non c’è più speranza per la popolazione.” È vero che abbiamo chiuso le nostre attività a Gaza City perché lì non potevamo più garantire la sicurezza del nostro staff, ma non abbiamo
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È stato bello ieri sera. La #manifestazione spontanea, organizzata in poche ore.
Dopo il lavoro sono corsa a casa a prendere la mia kefiah e la bandiera, poi un’altra corsa per prendere il treno e arrivare a #Lugano in tempo!
Ho rivisto tante belle persone e una delle mie sorelle. Alcune persone erano lì con i figli, che tenevano orgogliosamente dei cartelloni con le angurie disegnate. Belli ❤
Poi un mio conoscente, regista, vedendomi tra la folla, mi ha chiesto una testimonianza per il documentario che sta producendo. Mi ha detto: “Come ti senti dopo quello che è successo ieri sera alla #SumudFlotilla?” Io ho risposto: “Affranta.” E pronunciando quella parola, sono scese lacrime incontrollate. Ho pianto perché ci speravo davvero che almeno una barca della flotilla arrivasse a Gaza. Lo so che era impossibile, ma io ci speravo lo stesso.
Ma anche perché sento troppa indifferenza intorno a me, anche tra le persone che amo. Al lavoro, c’è troppa gente fascista e non voglio interagire con loro. Gli altri amici, conoscenti, colleghi di volontariato ecc. fanno finta di niente. Palestina/Gaza = taboo.
Questo mi fa soffrire moltissimo.
Ora dovrei terminare, cioè iniziare, i compiti per la lezione di domani.. ma non riesco a concentrami
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Difesa, i 12 miliardi vanno trasformati in sicurezza per i cittadini. Intervista a Minardo
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Nel documento programmatico di finanza pubblica il governo ha inserito la proposta di destinare circa 12 miliardi di euro aggiuntivi alla Difesa entro il 2028, una scelta legata sia agli impegni assunti in sede Nato sia alla necessità di
Abolition and Alternatives Conference (AAC) Starts Today
We are proud to sponsor The Abolition and Alternatives Conference (AAC) that starts today, October 3rd, and ends on the 5th. The conference is organized and hosted by The Black Response at their offices at 245 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02142 on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, it will be at The Foundry – 101 Roger Street Cambridge, MA – Kendall Square. The conference schedule is available.
We encourage all Pirates to attend and support this conference, especially, but not exclusively, the ShotSpotter and Police Surveillance track. If you can not attend, or even if you can, please consider giving a donation to The Black Response or print out their poster and put it up in your neighborhood. See you next week!
Details on the conference are reproduced below. Edits are only for clarity:
This free, in-person event will bring together community members, organizers, and advocates for a weekend of in-depth learning and discussion focused on alternative public safety and community care, housing justice, and the impacts of surveillance technologies like ShotSpotter. It will include keynote addresses from Fatema Ahmad (Muslim Justice League), Stephanie Guirand (The Black Response), and Spencer Piston (Boston University).
Food will be provided, childcare will be available, and we encourage attendees to share any additional access needs via the conference interest form. TBR will be reaching out to invite participation as speakers and facilitators. For questions, please contact Stephanie at general@theblackresponsecambridge.com.
Throughout the conference, participants will have the opportunity to choose from panels in four tracks:
Housing Justice
This track features panels led by the Cambridge Housing Justice Coalition (CHJC). CHJC is a coalition of activist groups and concerned Cambridge residents who believe housing is a basic human right. The panels and workshops on this track will focus on housing justice and its intersections with the prison industrial complex.
ShotSpotter and Police Surveillance
This track will be led by the #StopShotSpotter Coalition Camberville. In this track, coalition members will provide an introduction to ShotSpotter, the audio-surveillance technology. We will examine its impact in Cambridge, the national landscape, and broader conversations about surveillance tech.
Alternatives and Community Care
This track will be led by members of the Massachusetts Community Care Network (MCCN). This track will include panels of responders, program directors, and organizers working to make alternatives to policing real. It includes a panel on the movement with Daanika Gordon, Spencer Piston, and Minali Aggarwal.
Community Concerns (Anti-Racism, Immigration Justice, Justice for Palestine, and Black Lives Matter)
This track will discuss concerns that come directly from the communities we serve and work with. These concerns also intersect with the movement for abolition and alternatives. They include Justice for Palestine, Immigration Justice, and Anti-Racism. In this tract we intend to learn from organizers leading these movements in Massachusetts.
L’aumento delle spese militari finanzi una difesa europea sovranazionale. Parla Borghi
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In data odierna, il governo ha trasmesso alle Camere il Documento programmatico di finanza pubblica (Dpfp), all’interno del quale è contemplato un aumento delle spese militari di circa 12 miliardi di euro entro i prossimi tre anni. Il tema è tra i
Carleigh Beriont is running for Congress as an “anti-social Democrat” and she thinks the party needs to abandon social media nationally also.#News
Can You Win a Congressional Seat Without Social Media?
Carleigh Beriont is running for Congress, and if you know about her campaign, it’s definitely not for the same reason you’ve learned about other local politicians in recent years. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become a household name in part because of her ability to use social media and livestreams to talk to people directly. Zohran Mamdani hasn’t even won an election yet, but is already a national political figure thanks in part to his fluency on TikTok.Beriont, on the other hand, is not using social media at all. She’s been on Twitter, Linkedin, and Facebook in the past, but has not been on social media since 2020 after getting frustrated with the kind of discussions and divisiveness she saw there.
Beriont is a former union organizer, a teacher, and vice chair of the local Select Board. Now, she is not only trying to win the Democratic primary for the New Hampshire District 1 congressional race, she has also made social media abstinence a part of her platform.
Eric Schildge, Beriont’s husband, reached out to me after reading my article about an Instagram account promoting Holocaust denial t-shirts, and explained that Beriont was promoting herself as an “anti-social Democrat” because she thinks “Democracy works better offline.”
According to Beriont’s campaign manager Carly Colby, Beriont raised over $232,000 from over 2,300 individual donors. Over 250 of these individuals donated in response to receiving a message specifically about Carleigh not using social media.
I called Beriont to find out why she thinks it’s possible to win an election without social media.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
404 Media: Why did you get off social media?
Carleigh Beriont: I'm a millennial, so I grew up like when Facebook required the .edu and it was a great way to connect with new classmates going into college and old friends when you had moved away from where you grew up, which I did. During the height of the Black Lives Matter protests [in 2020], there were a number of conversations that I saw happening on my feed where one relative would post something and a friend from school would post something, and they'd be yelling at each other, and I was like, these people don't even know each other and they're fighting online. It just felt like the experience was getting more and more degraded. It was more and more ads, more and more videos, less and less communication between people, and I signed off because I think that it was making it hard for me as an academic and a parent and someone who was very busy, to think clearly.I was always worried about what I was going to say or that people were going to jump all over me, and I thought that was unhealthy. When I ran for office the first time in New Hampshire, I wasn't sure I'd be able to do it without social media. But I also realized that talking to people on the phone and meeting them at their doors or speaking in libraries, people weren't as angry or as opposed to one another as I'd been led to believe based on social media. And so I started to think, well, what if we don't use social media running for Congress? I mean, you've seen this week how bad things have gotten [Editor’s note: this interview took place the week Charlie Kirk was shot], and I just don't think that democracy works well online. We're seeing Donald Trump try to force the sale of Tiktok to one of his biggest supporters’ children. We're seeing Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos sitting in the front row of Trump's inauguration. They had better seats than Greg Abbott did, and these people are making billions of dollars off of us, and they are destroying our democracy in the process. I don't want to be a part of it. So when I think of what can I do, What can I change, we decided not to use social media during the campaign because we don't want to live in a world where that is where our politics take place, and how they're outsourced, because we don't think that it's productive for democracy.
404 Media: I told my colleagues I was doing this interview and one of them joked that the headline for the story could be: “Can You Win an Election Without Telling Anyone You’re Running?” I hate social media also but I think I have to use it to promote our articles. Don’t you think it’s a necessary evil for you as well?
Beriont: It's so funny. I wish I could get a shirt that was like, “necessary evil?”. I do think that it's evil. I don't know that it's necessary. This campaign is a test for that. It's one thing for people who are trying to promote themselves or trying to sell things to use social media. I think it's another for our political leaders who are in a position where they should be holding corporations and the people who run them, like Mark Zuckerberg, responsible for their actions.We're watching how the government is literally using that to surveil us and fire people for things that they're allegedly posting that are inappropriate about Charlie Kirk's assassination and things like that. It's incredibly risky for people to be using social media who are trying to preach a message of connection and community and democracy and equality and respect and dignity. I am not seeing those things on social media. Most of what people see, I believe a lot of it is AI. I believe a lot of it is an attempt to sell you something. I believe little of it is things that your friends and family are using as a way to actually connect. In New Hampshire, we've seen local police departments shut down the comment sections on their Facebook. We see political candidates deleting things that they don't like or comments that are negative. And so I think it just skews our sense of what's real and what's possible right now. And so that's why we're not using it.
Instead, we're doing something I'm calling district dialogs. As a facilitator and teacher, I'm happy to involve myself in messy, awkward conversations with people. I love teaching people how to stay in conversations and hold spaces. And so we're asking people what they wish politicians understood better. And we've had about 40 of these conversations throughout the district, and in almost every one we're hearing the same things from people who are exhausted by social media. They go on to check something, and two hours later they realize that they've lost two hours of their life, or they tried to find a post from a candidate, and instead, they got sucked into like some type of Nazi propaganda. And it's just such a shitty way to run a communication system and to run a country, and I think that we've done too much outsourcing to it, so it needs to stop.
404 Media: How are you reaching people without social media?
Beriont: We've been meeting in like public libraries and school cafeterias and church basements and driveways and living rooms, and asking people to bring some of their friends, or if it's a local democratic committee or some type of organization, asking them to invite people, and just sitting around and asking one another what we think we need to be doing right now. What people are saying after those meetings is they're so grateful that they had a chance to hear other people and to be heard, and they don't feel alone, and social media makes them feel alone. It makes them feel crazy, it makes them feel overwhelmed. And actually sitting and talking with the people in your community about what you can do to make it better is, I think, an antidote for a lot of that feeling of overwhelm and disassociation that people have right now.I ask people what they think about my position on social media, and the number of people, especially millennials, say “I wish I could throw my phone out the window.” It seems to be really the political consultants and people who work in politics who are the most opposed to this idea, in part, because, for a lot of people, it's a low lift way to get involved. I think we have to ask ourselves whether it's actually an effective way of making a difference right now. I don't believe that that's the case in 2025.
404 Media: Have you done any polling or do you have any data that shows that this strategy is working?
Beriont: We haven't done any polling yet. It's tricky because there's six other people in this primary right now, one of the things that I think has been differentiating me is my willingness to sit and have a conversation. So a lot of politicians are operating the way that they have been trained to, which is to show up at a place, get a picture for Instagram or Facebook or Twitter, and then leave and people notice and are frustrated with that because they don't feel like they're actually getting an opportunity to talk with the people that want to represent them. As someone who has been on the other side of that, I decided to run because I was really frustrated with all of these monologues and these directed cameras telling me how to think or how to feel or how to vote or why, you know, the sense of reality that I had was wrong. And I think people really want more dialogue right now. They want more real, authentic exchanges. And I think they deserve that, and I think that that needs to be the foundation for democratic politics going forward.404 Media: When I was in the VICE union there was an organizer with Writers Guild of America East who told us that support for the union on social media doesn’t mean anything, and can be counter productive because it makes people feel like they’re supporting the union without actually supporting it. Is your no social media approach to campaigning influenced by your experience in union organizing?Beriont: Yeah, absolutely. I was one of the people that helped organize the graduate student union at Harvard with the UAW. I think you're absolutely right about that. I also think that local politics has been great for this, because it's nonpartisan. And one of the things that I've realized is that in order to get things done in a space that is politically quite divided, you can't just be posting shit about your opponents the minute you don't get your way. You need to really build relationships and recognize that you're not always going to get your way, and this is true in a negotiation. When you show up to bargain at a table, you don't assume that you're going to get every single one of the things that you ask for, but you assume that people meet you in good faith and you'll be able to move forward. And I think that a lot of the relationship building and the coalition building that we need right now is lacking at the national level. We're seeing people, pouring fuel on partisan fires and preaching to the choirs, and they're doing that to raise more money, and it's not winning over anybody, and it's not helping to de-escalate the situation that we're in right now. And I think that it's frankly making us a lot less safe, because instead of actually holding social media corporations accountable for what they're posting online, which they could be doing, they're choosing not to do that.
404 Media: Do you think a no social media strategy can work on a national level?
Beriont: Absolutely. I think it's well suited to New Hampshire because this is a state that is very used to hands on democracy. Our State House has 400 state reps in it, and we used to have the first primary in the nation. So most people in New Hampshire who are politically active are used to interacting with political candidates and politicians and getting to know them quite well, and expect that from their politicians. This is a state where the majority of politicians who run, if they're posting anything on Facebook, they're probably going to get like, two or three likes. And it just doesn't seem to be the most effective way to organize in a place like this. But I also think that, at the very least, we should be asking our politicians to get offline and stop exacerbating tensions on platforms that are only benefiting billionaires. They're buying our politicians. They're buying our politics. And it needs to stop somewhere. So it should probably start with the people who are attempting to be our leaders.
This week, we discuss characters in open source, that Saudi comedy festival, and asking ourselves if we're haters.
This week, we discuss characters in open source, that Saudi comedy festival, and asking ourselves if wex27;re haters.#BehindTheBlog
Behind the Blog: Open-Source Drama and Saudi-Approved Humor
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 characters in open source, that Saudi comedy festival, and asking ourselves if we're haters.EMANUEL: I swear I try my best not to use Behind the Blogs to pat myself on the back, but I’m very happy with how my piece about the recent Ruby Drama turned out. I got a lot of interesting responses to the the article, some of which I hope will result in new articles soon, but mostly I was happy that it appears I didn’t fuck up any of the details in what was a highly complicated, technical, and controversial story for people who care about this stuff.
That is not to say that I didn’t get any constructive criticism, some of which I’d like to address here. One piece of feedback I got from multiple people in the camp that is angry with Ruby Central’s ousting of contributors is their view that the article underplays the role David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) played in this saga, and the political views he’s expressed on social media over the years.
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This week, we discuss characters in open source, that Saudi comedy festival, and asking ourselves if we're haters.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
A leggere l'articolo del Post sulle manifestazioni di oggi si trova un elenco morboso di petardi, tafferugli, occupazioni e blocchi.
Io ho sfilato a Firenze dalle 9:30 alle 12:00, ho visto decine di migliaia di persone sfilare in maniera assolutamente tranquilla ma di loro in quell'articolo non c'è traccia.
Mi domando se mi sono abbonato a Il Post o a Libero...
(Questo stesso messaggio l'ho mandato alla sua redazione via mail e invito gli abbonati che siano d'accordo a fare lo stesso).
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Aggiornamento 4/10/2025 09:46: il testo dell'articolo è stato completamente rivisto.
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Lo sciopero e le manifestazioni in tutta Italia per la Flotilla e per Gaza
Centinaia di migliaia di persone stanno manifestando in moltissime città: sono state occupate università e porti, e cancellati treni e voliIl Post
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@Max - Poliverso 🇪🇺🇮🇹 meraviglioso! --> ieri sera a Lugano
Lugano - eravamo più di "diverse centinaia"
Per testimonianze più vere, cercate sui social (di meta ahimè...)
https://www.cdt.ch/news/ticino/in-piazza-per-gaza-e-la-flotilla-diverse-centinaia-a-lugano-i-manifestanti-407478 (ah! hanno cambiato l'articolo nel frattempo - stamattina c'era scritto diverse centinaia di persone)#blocchiamotutto #Lugano #globalsumudflotilla #manifestazione #gaza #palestinalibera
Corriere del Ticino: In piazza per la Flotilla: un migliaio di manifestanti e disagi al traffico a Lugano (Valentina Coda)
Da piazza Dante allo svincolo autostradale, tante persone hanno partecipato al corteo scandendo slogan a sostegno della Global Sumud Flotilla - Traffico bloccato in entrata e uscita a causa di un'ora di sit-in ai semafori di Lugano Sud - FOTO E VIDEO
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Sul mio cammino di lettrice, ho incontrato ultimamente alcuni libri che raccontano di viaggi che mi hanno fatto appassionare alle avventure che vi vengono descritte. In questo caso, ho letto due libri che raccontano la Russia sovietica, con Steinbeck, e la stessa terra, nei primi anni duemila, ne L’alcol e la nostalgia di
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