Venezuelani deportati dagli Stati Uniti e torturati in El Salvador
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I venezuelani mandati in El Salvador dagli Usa all'inizio di quest'anno sono stati torturati e sottoposti ad altri abusi, tra cui violenze sessuali
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Guerre di Rete - Droni, l'Europa accelera
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#GuerreDiRete è la newsletter curata da @Carola Frediani
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Intel GPUs on Raspberry Pi Is So Wrong it Feels Right
While you might not know it from their market share, Intel makes some fine GPUs. Putting one in a PC with an AMD processor already feels a bit naughty, but AMD’s x86 processors still ultimately trace their lineage all the way back to Intel’s original 4004. Putting that same Intel GPU into a system with an ARM processor, like a Raspberry Pi, or even better, a RISC V SBC? Why, that seems downright deviant, and absolutely hack-y. [Jeff Geerling] shares our love of the bizarre, and has been working tirelessly to get a solid how-to guide written so we can all flout the laws of god and man together.
According to [Jeff], all of Intel’s GPUs should work, though not yet flawlessly. In terms of 3D acceleration, OpenGL works well, but Vulkan renders are going to get texture artifacts if they get textures at all. The desktop has artifacts, and so do images; see for yourself in the video embedded below. Large language models are restricted to the not-so-large, due to memory addressing issues. ARM and RISC V both handle memory somewhat differently than x86 systems, and apparently the difference matters.
The most surprising thing is that we’re now at a point that you don’t need to recompile the Linux kernel yourself to get this to work. Reconfigure, yes, but not recompile. [6by9] has a custom kernel all ready to go. In testing on his Pi5, [Jeff] did have to manually recompile Mesa, however–unsurprisingly, the version for Raspberry Pi wasn’t built against the iris driver for Intel GPUs, because apparently the Mesa devs are normal.
Compared to AMD cards, which already work quite well, the Intel cards don’t shine on the benchmark, but that wasn’t really the point. The point is expanding the hardware available to SBC users, and perhaps allowing for sensible chuckle at the mis-use of an “Intel Inside” sticker. (Or cackle of glee, depending on your sense of humour. We won’t judge.) [Jeff] is one of the people working at getting these changes upstreamed into the Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi OS, and we wish him well in that endeavour.
Now, normally we wouldn’t encourage a completely unknown fellow like this [Jeff] of whom no one has ever heard of to be poking about in the kernel, but we have a good feeling about this guy. It’s almost as if like he’s been at this a while. That couldn’t be, could it? Surely we’d have noticed him.
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Precision Current Sources by the Numbers
It isn’t unusual to expect a precisely regulated voltage in an electronic project, but what about times when you need a precise current? Over on EDN, prolific [Stephen Woodward] explains how to use a precision Zener diode to get good results. [Stephen] takes you through the math for two topologies and another circuit that uses a pair of bipolar transistors.
You might wonder why you need a precise current source or sink. While it is nice to drive things like LEDs with a constant current, you probably don’t need ultra-precise currents. However, charging a capacitor with a constant current produces a very nice linear voltage ramp. When you use a resistor to bias collector current in a bipolar amplifier, you are just poorly imitating a constant current source, too. That’s just two of many examples.
The circuits use a MOSFET to handle the actual current path, so there are a few differences depending on whether you want to sink or source current. You may wonder why a precision Zener diode needs an external Zener. However, if you read the text, you’ll note that’s only if the input voltage is too high for the “real” Zener.
There are many techniques for manipulating currents. All good to have in your toolbox.
Building a Drivable, Life-Size 3D-Printed LEGO Technic Buggy
It’s part of the great circle of life that toys and scale models that provide a reflection of macro-sized objects like vehicles and buildings will eventually be scaled up again to life-sized proportions. Case in point the LEGO Technic dune buggy that [Matt Denton] recently printed at effectively human scale, while also making it actually drivable.
The basis for this project is the 8845 Dune Buggy which was released in 1981. Unlike the modern 42101 version, it’s more straightforward and also seems more amenable to actually sitting in despite featuring more pieces for a total of 174 pieces. Naturally, [Matt] didn’t simply go for a naïve build of the 8845 buggy, but made a few changes. First is the scale that’s 10.42 times larger than the LEGO original, based around the use of 50 mm bearings. The model was also modified to be a single-seater, with the steering wheel placed in the center.
With some structural and ergonomic tweaks in place, the resulting CAD model was printed out mostly in PLA with a 1 mm nozzle and 10% infill using a belt FDM printer to help with the sheer size of the parts. After that it was mostly a LEGO kit assembly on a ludicrous scale that resembles a cross between building a LEGO kit and assembling Ikea flatpack furniture.
At merely the cost of most of his sanity, [Matt] finally got the whole kit together, still leaving a few suspension issues to resolve, as it turns out that so much plastic actually weighs a lot, at 102 kg. With that and other issues resolved, the final touch was to add an electric motor to the whole kit using a belt-driven system on the rear axle and bringing every LEGO minifig’s dreams to life.
After a few test drives, some issues did pop up, including durability concerns and not a lot of performance, but overall it performs much better than you’d expect from a kid’s toy.
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Linux imballa la memoria con la ceralacca. Glibc 2.43 porta mseal in ogni programma
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C’è un che di antico, di quasi romantico, nell’idea di sigillare qualcosa con la ceralacca. Un gesto definitivo, una promessa di integrità che sopravvive al tempo. Ebbene, questa metafora così fisica e rassicurante è approdata nel mondo etereo e
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Marion County Record settlement: A step toward accountability
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
Rümeysa Öztürk has been facing deportation for 234 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like. As we’ll discuss during an online panel next Tuesday, the government hasn’t stopped targeting journalists for removal. Read on for news from Kansas, Ohio, and more.
Kansas county pays $3M for forgetting the First Amendment
Press freedom just scored a $3 million win in Kansas. The county that participated in an illegal raid on the Marion County Record in 2023 is cutting big checks to journalists and a city councilor to settle their lawsuits.
As part of the settlement, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office also made a statement of “regret” for the raid, saying, “This likely would not have happened if established law had been reviewed and applied prior to the execution of the warrants.”
Ya think? FPF Senior Advocacy Adviser Caitlin Vogus broke down the flashing red lights any judge or cop should heed before storming a newsroom. Read her article here. And check out our March interview with Record publisher Eric Meyer.
No, journalists don’t need permission to cover immigration courts
Last month, we wrote to the Hyattsville immigration court in Maryland to express our alarm over a report that two journalists from Capital News Service had been expelled for not seeking express permission from the federal government to cover immigration proceedings.
That expulsion was contrary not only to the Constitution but also to the Executive Office of Immigration Review’s own guidance. But we noticed another problem with their fact sheet. It said reporters “must” check in upon arriving at immigration court. We’d been hearing anecdotes for some time about journalists being asked to “check in” at lobbies of immigration courts in other parts of the country. The fact sheet confirmed it.
In response, EOIR clarified that journalists are not required to either coordinate visits with the government in advance or check in upon arrival. And it issued an amended fact sheet to remove any doubt. We posted the fact sheet and email exchange on our site so any reporters given wrong information can have them handy. Read more here.
Secrecy and the midterms
The midterm elections are a year away, and it is essential to ensure that they are free and fair. Transparency is key, specifically surrounding the Department of Homeland Security’s election integrity unit and the Justice Department’s attempts to access voter data and equipment.
DHS’s election integrity unit is particularly secretive. For example, President Donald Trump appointed prominent election denier Heather Honey to lead the effort, but very little is known about what she’s doing with her newfound power. FPF’s Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper has more about our efforts to hold the unit accountable. Subscribe to The Classifieds for more secrecy news.
Charges dropped against Cincinnati journalist
Charges have finally been dropped against CityBeat reporter Madeline Fening, who was arrested while covering a protest at the Roebling Bridge in northern Kentucky in July. Congratulations to the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky and their legal partners on the important win.
We led two letters in support of Fening and CityBeat intern Lucas Griffith. After the first, felony charges against the two were dropped. The second led prosecutors to admit to a reporter that they’d offered to drop charges in exchange for the journalists waiving their right to sue — a likely violation of both the Constitution and attorney ethics rules.
Now, both cases are over, but Griffith was found guilty of failure to disperse and fined $50. That may not sound like much, but the constitutional violation is still significant – journalists are not required to disperse along with protesters because they need to be free to cover the aftermath of protests. Read CityBeat’s coverage here.
What we’re reading
Trump vs. the BBC: What hurdles might the president’s legal argument face? (BBC). Trump “doesn’t care” if he wins the lawsuits he’s filed against newsrooms he doesn’t like, FPF’’sbsky.app/profile/did:plc:sabyz…Advocacy Director Seth Stern told BBC. “The point is to intimidate and punish those he views as critical (of) him.”
When reporting is a crime (Inquest). “Prison journalism should not be illegal. It should not be starved, stifled, or silenced. ... laws need to change.” Readbsky.app/profile/did:plc:yvl5j…Inquest’s article featuring FPF columnist Jeremy Busby’s account of how his own journalism, and that of outside reporters wanting to tell his story, is stifled by prison authorities. And watch our video featuring journalist Daniel Moritz-Rabson discussing the guide to reporting on prisons that he wrote for FPF.
The FCC’s news distortion policy should be rescinded (Protect Democracy). Thanks to our friends atbsky.app/profile/did:plc:4fvbd…Protect Democracy for furthering the fight against Brendan Carr’s censorial FCC. Carr’s selective enforcement of the policy to characterize any coverage Trump doesn’t like as “distortion” shows why the policy shouldn’t exist in the first place.
Larry Wilson: Stop shooting at the press while we do our jobs (Los Angeles Daily News). “Cops are banned from shooting non-violent people with deadly projectiles — whether they’re protesters or journalists. Because it’s illegal,” said First Amendment lawyer Susan Seager.
I tried to deliver aid to Gaza. Israel kidnapped and tortured me (The Nation). Journalist and human rights lawyer Thomas Becker writes about his treatment while detained by Israel. Watch our online discussion last week, in partnership with Defending Rights & Dissent, with three U.S. journalists who reported similar experiences after being abducted from aid flotillas.
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Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and theyx27;re using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.#News #nuclear
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Microsoft and nuclear power company Westinghouse Nuclear want to use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants in the United States. According to a report from think tank AI Now, this push could lead to disaster.“If these initiatives continue to be pursued, their lack of safety may lead not only to catastrophic nuclear consequences, but also to an irreversible distrust within public perception of nuclear technologies that may inhibit the support of the nuclear sector as part of our global decarbonization efforts in the future,” the report said.
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The construction of a nuclear plant involves a long legal and regulatory process called licensing that’s aimed at minimizing the risks of irradiating the public. Licensing is complicated and expensive but it’s also largely worked and nuclear accidents in the US are uncommon. But AI is driving a demand for energy and new players, mostly tech companies like Microsoft, are entering the nuclear field.“Licensing is the single biggest bottleneck for getting new projects online,” a slide from a Microsoft presentation about using generative AI to fast track nuclear construction said. “10 years and $100 [million.]”
The presentation, which is archived on the website for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the independent government agency that’s charged with setting standards for reactors and keeping the public safe), detailed how the company would use AI to speed up licensing. In the company’s conception, existing nuclear licensing documents and data about nuclear sites data would be used to train an LLM that’s then used to generate documents to speed up the process.
But the authors of the report from AI Now told 404 Media that they have major concerns about trusting nuclear safety to an LLM. “Nuclear licensing is a process, it’s not a set of documents,” Heidy Khlaaf, the head AI scientist at the AI Now Institute and a co-author of the report, told 404 Media. “Which I think is the first flag in seeing proposals by Microsoft. They don’t understand what it means to have nuclear licensing.”
“Please draft a full Environmental Review for new project with these details,” Microsoft’s presentation imagines as a possible prompt for an AI licensing program. The AI would then send the completed draft to a human for review, who would use Copilot in a Word doc for “review and refinement.” At the end of Microsoft’s imagined process, it would have “Licensing documents created with reduced cost and time.”
The Idaho National Laboratory, a Department of Energy run nuclear lab, is already using Microsoft’s AI to “streamline” nuclear licensing. “INL will generate the engineering and safety analysis reports that are required to be submitted for construction permits and operating licenses for nuclear power plants,” INL said in a press release. Lloyd's Register, a UK-based maritime organization, is doing the same. American power company Westinghouse is marketing its own AI, called bertha, that promises to make the licensing process go from "months to minutes.”
The authors of the AI Now report worry that using AI to speed up the licensing process will bypass safety checks and lead to disaster. “Producing these highly structured licensing documents is not this box taking exercise as implied by these generative AI proposals that we're seeing,” Khlaaf told 404 Media. “The whole point of the lesson in process is to reason and understand the safety of the plant and to also use that process to explore the trade offs between the different approaches, the architectures, the safety designs, and to communicate to a regulator why that plant is safe. So when you use AI, it's not going to support these objectives, because it is not a set of documents or agreements, which I think you know, is kind of the myth that is now being put forward by these proposals.”
Sofia Guerra, Khlaaf’s co-author, agreed. Guerra is a career nuclear safety expert who has advised the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and works with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the safe deployment of AI in nuclear applications. “This is really missing the point of licensing,” Guerra said of the push to use AI. “The licensing process is not perfect. It takes a long time and there’s a lot of iterations. Not everything is perfectly useful and targeted …but I think the process of doing that, in a way, is really the objective.”
Both Guerra and Khlaaf are proponents of nuclear energy, but worry that the proliferation of LLMs, the fast tracking of nuclear licenses, and the AI-driven push to build more plants is dangerous. “Nuclear energy is safe. It is safe, as we use it. But it’s safe because we make it safe and it’s safe because we spend a lot of time doing the licensing and we spend a lot of time learning from the things that go wrong and understanding where it went wrong and we try to address it next time,” Guerra said.
Law is another profession where people have attempted to use AI to streamline the process of writing complicated and involved technical documents. It hasn’t gone well. Lawyers who’ve attempted to write legal briefs have been caught, over and over again, in court. AI-constructed legal arguments cite precedents that do not exist, hallucinate cases, and generally foul up legal proceedings.
Might something similar happen if AI was used in nuclear licensing? “It could be something as simple as software and hardware version control,” Khlaaf said. “Typically in nuclear equipment, the supply chain is incredibly rigorous. Every component, every part, even when it was manufactured is accounted for. Large language models make these really minute mistakes that are hard to track. If you are off in the software version by a letter or a number, that can lead to a misunderstanding of which software version you have, what it entails, the expectation of the behavior of both the software and the hardware and from there, it can cascade into a much larger accident.”
Khlaaf pointed to Three Mile Island as an example of an entirely human-made accident that AI may replicate. The accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of a Pennsylvania reactor in 1979. “What happened is that you had some equipment failure and design flaws, and the operators misunderstood what those were due to a combination of a lack of training…that they did not have the correct indicators in their operating room,” Khlaaf said. “So it was an accident that was caused by a number of relatively minor equipment failures that cascaded. So you can imagine, if something this minor cascades quite easily, and you use a large language model and have a very small mistake in your design.”
In addition to the safety concerns, Khlaaf and Guerra told 404 Media that using sensitive nuclear data to train AI models increases the risk of nuclear proliferation. They pointed out that Microsoft is asking not only for historical NRC data but for real-time and project specific data. “This is a signal that AI providers are asking for nuclear secrets,” Khlaaf said. “To build a nuclear plant there is actually a lot of know-how that is not public knowledge…what’s available publicly versus what’s required to build a plant requires a lot of nuclear secrets that are not in the public domain.”
“This is a signal that AI providers are asking for nuclear secrets. To build a nuclear plant there is actually a lot of know-how that is not public knowledge…what’s available publicly versus what’s required to build a plant requires a lot of nuclear secrets that are not in the public domain.”
Tech companies maintain cloud servers that comply with federal regulations around secrecy and are sold to the US government. Anthropic and the National Nuclear Security Administration traded information across an Amazon Top Secret cloud server during a recent collaboration, and it’s likely that Microsoft and others would do something similar. Microsoft’s presentation on nuclear licensing references its own Azure Government cloud servers and notes that it’s compliant with Department of Energy regulations. 404 Media reached out to both Westinghouse Nuclear and Microsoft for this story. Microsoft declined to comment and Westinghouse did not respond.“Where is this data going to end up and who is going to have the knowledge?” Guerra told 404 Media.
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Do you know anything else about this story? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at +1 347 762-9212 or send me an email at matthew@404media.co.Nuclear is a dual use technology. You can use the knowledge of nuclear reactors to build a power plant or you can use it to build a nuclear weapon. The line between nukes for peace and nukes for war is porous. “The knowledge is analogous," Khlaaf said. “This is why we have very strict export controls, not just for the transfer of nuclear material but nuclear data.”
Proliferation concerns around nuclear energy are real. Fear that a nuclear energy program would become a nuclear weapons program was the justification the Trump administration used to bomb Iran earlier this year. And as part of the rush to produce more nuclear reactors and create infrastructure for AI, the White House has said it will begin selling old weapon-grade plutonium to the private sector for use in nuclear reactors.
Trump’s done a lot to make it easier for companies to build new nuclear reactors and use AI for licensing. The AI Now report pointed to a May 23, 2025 executive order that seeks to overhaul the NRC. The EO called for the NRC to reform its culture, reform its structure, and consult with the Pentagon and the Department of Energy as it navigated changing standards. The goal of the EO is to speed up the construction of reactors and get through the licensing process faster.
A different May 23 executive order made it clear why the White House wants to overhaul the NRC. “Advanced computing infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and other mission capability resources at military and national security installations and national laboratories demands reliable, high-density power sources that cannot be disrupted by external threats or grid failures,” it said.
At the same time, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gutted the NRC. In September, members of the NRC told Congress they were worried they’d be fired if they didn’t approve nuclear reactor designs favored by the administration. “I think on any given day, I could be fired by the administration for reasons unknown,” Bradley Crowell, a commissioner at the NRC said in Congressional testimony. He also warned that DOGE driven staffing cuts would make it impossible to increase the construction of nuclear reactors while maintaining safety standards.
“The executive orders push the AI message. We’re not just seeing this idea of the rollback of nuclear regulation because we’re suddenly very excited about nuclear energy. We’re seeing it being done in service of AI,” Khlaaf said. “When you're looking at this rolling back of Nuclear Regulation and also this monopolization of nuclear energy to explicitly power AI, this raises a lot of serious concerns about whether the risk associated with nuclear facilities, in combination with the sort of these initiatives can be justified if they're not to the benefit of civil energy consumption.”
Matthew Wald, an independent nuclear energy analyst and former New York Times science journalist is more bullish on the use of AI in the nuclear energy field. Like Khlaaf, he also referenced the accident at Three Mile Island. “The tragedy of Three Mile Island was there was a badly designed control room, badly trained operators, and there was a control room indication that was very easy to misunderstand, and they misunderstood it, and it turned out that the same event had begun at another reactor. It was almost identical in Ohio, but that information was never shared, and the guys in Pennsylvania didn't know about it, so they wrecked a reactor,” Wald told 404 Media.
"AI is helpful, but let’s not get messianic about it.”
According to Wald, using AI to consolidate government databases full of nuclear regulatory information could have prevented that. “If you've got AI that can take data from one plant or from a set of plants, and it can arrange and organize that data in a way that's helpful to other plants, that's good news,” he said. “It could be good for safety. It could also just be good for efficiency. And certainly in licensing, it would be more efficient for both the licensee and the regulator if they had a clearer idea of precedent, of relevant other data.”He also said that the nuclear industry is full of safety-minded engineers who triple check everything. “One of the virtues of people in this business is they are challenging and inquisitive and they want to check things. Whether or not they use computers as a tool, they’re still challenging and inquisitive and want to check things,” he said. “And I think anybody who uses AI unquestionably is asking for trouble, and I think the industry knows that…AI is helpful, but let’s not get messianic about it.”
But Khlaaf and Guerra are worried that the framing of nuclear power as a national security concern and the embrace of AI to speed up construction will setback the embrace of nuclear power. If nuclear isn’t safe, it’s not worth doing. “People seem to have lost sight of why nuclear regulation and safety thresholds exist to begin with. And the reason why nuclear risks, or civilian nuclear risk, were ever justified, was due to the capacity for nuclear power. To provide flexible civilian energy demands at low cost emissions in line with climate targets,” Khlaaf said.
“So when you move away from that…and you pull in the AI arms race into this cost benefit justification for risk proportionality, it leads government to sort of over index on these unproven benefits of AI as a reason to have nuclear risk, which ultimately undermines the risks of ionizing radiation to the general population, and also the increased risk of nuclear proliferation, which happens if you were to use AI like large language models in the licensing process.”
Dem NRC members warn they could be fired over safety decisions - E&E News by POLITICO
A Wednesday hearing also revealed more details about a meeting with a Department of Government Efficiency official.Nico Portuondo, Francisco "A.J." Camacho (E&E News by POLITICO)
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*Libertà per il Dott. Husam Abu Safiyya*
Ecco alcuni punti chiave sulla sua situazione e le richieste di liberazione:
• Arrestato il 27 dicembre 2024 durante un raid israeliano all’ospedale Kamal Adwan.
Disarmare. Voce del Verbo Amare Ovvero, Spogliare l’Informazione delle Armi. Monologo di e con Angela Iantosca
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Angela Iantosca, giornalista e scrittrice, sarà al
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Are EU Austerity Cuts Adding To The Inequalities?
Europe stands at perhaps the most difficult crossroads of recent times, a tough call to make between social welfare and stabilizing fiscal balance. On 4 November 2025, the IMF issued a warning, citing the deep fiscal troubles the EU is facing and how the situation is likely to worsen if immediate and more decisive steps are not taken. The rising debt levels, which could double to 140% by 2040, as suggested by the IMF, pose an imminent threat to disturbing the existing fragile balance between revenue and expenditure. Funding various social schemes, including pensions, unemployment benefits, healthcare, and education, has long been a mainstay of government policies across the EU. Now, the IMF calls for a re-evaluation of those spending policies. The message is clear: harsh measures are crucial now to have a better future. Across Europe, governments have already joined the austerity drive. For the last 18 months, the EU has been experimenting with various ideas as part of a strict fiscal policy aimed at restoring the budgetary balance. Below is a list of measures adopted across the EU countries:
- Raising the statutory retirement age.
- Freezing or delaying pension indexation.
- Limiting the duration of unemployment benefits.
- Reducing public-sector wage growth or hiring.
- Cutting healthcare and education budgets.
- Phasing out early-retirement schemes.
- Increasing consumption or environmental taxes.
- Reducing energy or transport subsidies.
- Capping family and housing support payments.
- Restricting public investment spending.
These measures have either been implemented/approved, or are currently under parliamentary debate. As policymakers adjust the policy machinery to cope with an impending economic peril, implementations are faced with a formidable opposition from the affected groups. In fact, over the last two months, a wave of rising resentment has been evident. Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and more have all witnessed nationwide strikes, and many more are likely to follow.
Although cutting public spending might seem like a straightforward solution to rectify the current fiscal imbalance from the government’s perspective, the situation is not entirely linear. Cutting public funding, such as pensions, social benefits, or unemployment funds, reduces the disposable income of the impacted groups. Low disposable income means lower consumer demand. With demand spiraling downward, supply needs to be downsized as well, following a fundamental economic principle that matches market demand. As a result, businesses respond with layoffs, further reducing tax revenues and pushing up unemployment levels. In short, economies can face a self-perpetuating cycle that widens inequality and, even worse, triggers an economic recession (something the world witnessed in the 1930s – The Great Depression).
Furthermore, a reduction in expenditure on human infrastructure, whether in health or education, has a long-term negative impact on the economy. The immediate effect could be a robust balance sheet and good fiscal ratios. In the longer run, it weakens the foundation for sustainable growth, something which the EU stands for and identifies with. Decline in human capital, lack of innovation and global competitiveness, brain drain, social inequality, and other issues are a few notable consequences. Excessively rigid austerity measures, in a way, can undermine growth and social cohesion.
The IMF’s warning, therefore, should not be examined in a single dimension. Instead of treating it as a call to cut, it can be perceived as an invitation to rethink how Europe balances its books while safeguarding its people.
The solution lies in achieving a balance:
According to Friedrich Ebert Stiftung’s “Alternative to Austerity”, if fiscal strategies are growth-oriented, rather than simply focusing on cutting expenditure, a balance can be reinstated without impacting the welfare. Budgetary discipline will have to be achieved through the use of a balanced mix of responsible budgeting and investing public funds wisely. Pumping investments into areas such as infrastructure, education, and green technology can help countries build strong and sustainable economies, as well as secure their futures. These investments can help create more jobs, improve skills, and support long-term growth. It also calls for a fairer tax system where the wealthy and large companies contribute more, reducing the pressure on working families.
The problem the EU is facing at this moment goes beyond the budget. The challenge is about protecting fairness and dignity. Financial discipline should always go hand-in-hand with social justice.
The goal should not be to weaken the social support systems people depend on, but to strengthen and make them more sustainable, so that growth and fairness work together, rather than against each other.
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La forza delle parole e dell’ascolto. L’esperienza di Non Tutti Sanno il notiziario dei detenuti di Rebibbia
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Non è facile dare voce al mondo recluso. Varcare la
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Oltre il dovuto
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Che periodo! Settimane molto complicate per chi riveste un ruolo di responsabilità presso gli uffici del Garante Privacy Settimane infernali per i quattro componenti del Collegio. Dopo la magistrale overture eseguita dalla trasmissione Report, l’orchestra dell’informazione sta
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Are EU Austerity Cuts Adding To The Inequalities?
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Hasbara in crisi: Israele ora investe milioni per rilanciare la sua immagine
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Il collasso della strategia comunicativa israeliana dopo due anni di offensiva su Gaza. Arruolati influencer e celebrità arabe per ricostruire un’immagine logorata dal peso delle distruzioni e delle vittime civili
L'articolo Hasbara in crisi: Israele ora
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E5, l’Europa si compatta. Aiuti a Kyiv e difesa dalle minacce ibride
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La riunione in formato E5 della Difesa a Berlino ha mostrato come il sostegno all’Ucraina e la gestione delle minacce ibride siano diventati il baricentro della cooperazione europea. Italia, Germania, Francia, Polonia e Regno Unito hanno affrontato il nodo della capacità industriale,
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Meloni ammette che i centri per migranti in Albania sono stati un flop ma precisa: “La colpa non è la mia”
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Costati quasi un miliardo, i centri per migranti costruiti in Albania dopo l’accordo tra il governo Meloni ed Edi Rama sono da circa due anni desolatamente vuoti. Durante il vertice intergovernativo Italia-Albania che si è tenuto a Villa Pamphilj nella
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se putin favorisce il riscaldamento globale pensando di guadagnare le cosiddette rotte artiche credo sia destinato a rimanerci male in piena glaciazione nord europea (e russa)
BNI notizie 3-2025
Per la soggettazione del fascicolo n. 3-2025 della Bibliografia Nazionale Italiana, serie Monografie, abbiamo introdotto nel Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario i seguenti nuovi termini di soggetto:
- Arte camerunese IT 2025-2594
- Cinema polacco IT 2025-2732
- Detriti spaziali IT 2025-2448
- Diorami IT 2025-2659
- Educazione finanziaria IT 2025-2279
- Gnatologia IT 2025-2535
- Reti bayesiane IT 2025-2542
- Tarì IT 2025-2281
Per i fascicoli precedenti rimandiamo alla pagina BNI dedicata.
L'articolo BNI notizie 3-2025 proviene da Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze.
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Il #MIM, nell’ambito delle celebrazioni del #GiornodellaMemoria, in collaborazione con l’Unione delle Comunità Ebraiche Italiane promuove la XXIV edizione del #concorso nazionale “I giovani ricordano la #Shoah” per l’anno scolastico 2025/2026.Telegram
Certo che i razzisti ci costano parecchio...
La Lombardia ha perso l’ennesimo ricorso contro la vendita di un’ex chiesa all’Associazione musulmani: ilpost.it/2025/11/14/ex-chiesa…
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Già. Ma secondo il prezzo più grande è sempre quello morale e dei diritti: ci stanno costando molto in questo senso, e non è ancora finita.
Parlavo proprio pochi giorni fa della "boutade" di Borghi di rimuovere la reversibilità delle pensioni per le Unioni Civili.
E' un'uscita scema e infelice, perché c'è una Costituzione che sancisce l'uguaglianza dei cittadini, ma intanto ha piantato un seme. Se ne parlerà, si darà legittimità a questa cosa. E magari nel frattempo avremo l'elezione diretta del primo ministro, e tante altre belle cose che ci faranno sprofondare in una schifezza sempre più simile alla Turchia o all'Ungheria, e prima o poi questa cosa troverà consenso.
E' solo un esempio, ma secondo me è esplicativo.
Navi senza equipaggio, perché l’intesa Usa-Corea cambia gli equilibri
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La crescente attenzione delle marine occidentali verso le piattaforme senza equipaggio sta aprendo nuovi spazi a collaborazioni che uniscono innovazione digitale e capacità cantieristiche tradizionali. In questo scenario si inserisce l’intesa tra Anduril e Hyundai Heavy Industries,
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Digitale Souveränität: Think Tank empfiehlt mehr Investitionen in Big-Tech-Alternativen
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USA. Gli appaltatori militari traggono profitto dalla tensione con il Venezuela e nei Caraibi
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Mentre Trump accumula navi, droni e missili al largo delle coste del Venezuela, l'industria delle armi ne sta già raccogliendo i frutti
L'articolo USA. Gli appaltatori militari traggono profitto dalla tensione con il Venezuela
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"Trump firma la fine dello shutdown più lungo: 'Non si ripeta più'"
sinceramente non capisco il tono, ma comunque è informato che questo accordo vale 2 mesi?
Cosa sono i krill e perché la Russia arresta chi vuole la conservazione di questa specie
A metà settembre le autorità russe hanno arrestato Leonid Pshenichnov, ricercatore di lunga data e collaboratore di diverse commissioni ... Scopri di più!Federica Rossi (Domani)
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L’estate del 1936 in Spagna è stato un momento cruciale della storia di quel paese e in Non piangere vi è raccontata in tutto il suo slancio libertario, da una parte, e la crudeltà degli atti della Falange armata dall’altra. Nel romanzo si mischiano, come le due facce della stessa medaglia, i racconti di Montse, […]
L'articolo Lydia Salvayre – Non piangere proviene da FREE ZONE MAGAZINE.
Nuovo soggettario – Notizie – novembre 2025
Il Thesaurus Nuovo soggettario è un patrimonio lessicale in continua evoluzione, che si arricchisce di collegamenti, collaborazioni e nuove versioni linguistiche.
Le principali novità:
- Interoperabilità: nell’ottica del Web semantico, cresce ulteriormente il numero di link che connettono i termini del Thesaurus Nuovo soggettario agli equivalenti in inglese, francese, tedesco e spagnolo, facilitando i collegamenti con analoghi strumenti di indicizzazione semantica e cataloghi di altre biblioteche nazionali.
- Collaborazioni sempre più solide con il mondo GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums): prosegue la condivisione e la riconciliazione reciproca delle entità con le risorse di archivi e musei. In particolare:
- l’Art & Architecture Thesaurus del Getty Research Institute mappa i propri termini con quelli del Thesaurus Nuovo soggettario;
- il Thesaurus Nuovo soggettario diventa il cuore del progetto Collezioni di immagini e strumenti condivisi fra musei, archivi e biblioteche, promosso da DicoLab – Cultura digitale, per esplorare in modo integrato e intuitivo le collezioni del Museo Galileo.
- Cresce il dialogo con Wikimedia Italia: sono 13.454 i link dei termini del Thesaurus con i corrispondenti item di Wikidata; inoltre, la voce Wikipedia dedicata al Nuovo soggettario è ora tradotta in sette lingue (coreano, russo, indonesiano, tedesco, inglese, spagnolo e francese).
- Online in inglese: tutte le pagine del sito web del Nuovo soggettario sono state tradotte in inglese per una consultazione più accessibile a livello globale.
L'articolo Nuovo soggettario – Notizie – novembre 2025 proviene da Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze.
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“…E la chiamano pace”. Il 14 novembre iniziativa Articolo21 ad Orvieto con Barbara Schiavulli
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Un momento importante di condivisione per riflettere sulle strategie di solidarietà con il popolo palestinese, che
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#Trump e le verità di #Epstein
Trump e le verità di Epstein
I documenti segreti e pubblicati per ora solo in parte del defunto finanziere Jeffrey Epstein continuano a essere utilizzati negli Stati Uniti come arma politica per colpire alternativamente uno dei due partiti oppure personalità di altissimo livello…www.altrenotizie.org
Il terzo satellite Cosmo-SkyMed lascia Roma per andare nello spazio (via California)
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Presso il Centro integrazione satelliti di Thales Alenia Space Italia a Roma si è tenuto oggi il saluto al terzo satellite della costellazione Cosmo-SkyMed di seconda generazione, in partenza per la base di Vanderberg, in California, dove sarà lanciato in
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Aiuti a Kyiv, il Nord Europa apre una nuova tranche da 500 milioni
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Il sostegno militare all’Ucraina si consolida con un gesto che riunisce alcune delle capitali europee più attive nel fronte orientale. Danimarca, Estonia, Finlandia, Islanda, Lettonia, Lituania, Norvegia e Svezia hanno deciso di finanziare insieme un nuovo pacchetto da 500 milioni di
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