Meloni e le incognite del dopo voto
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Occhio, perché adesso, probabilmente, perderanno la testa. Non si daranno una calmata, come sostengono alcuni osservatori, incredibilmente benevoli nei confronti di questa maggioranza; accadrà l’opposto, dateci retta (il fatto che si parli nuovamente di premierato
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“Unità” e “pace”. Le parole d’ordine del primo viaggio apostolico di Leone XIV
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Il primo viaggio apostolico di Leone XIV, che lo porta in Turchia ed a Beirut, forse può essere riassunto in due parole; “unità” e “pace”. Nicea, oggi
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La missione di Papa Leone XIV in Turchia e in Libano (Il Fatto del Giorno)
A cura di Valerio Francesco Silenzi
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Il premier pigliatutto: come il governo Meloni svuota le Camere.
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Il #governoMeloni spinge con decisione sulla riforma del #premierato, con l'intenzione di discuterla alla Camera già a gennaio 2026. L'idea centrale è introdurre l'elezione diretta del presidente del Consiglio, abbinata a un premio di maggioranza che assegni il 55% dei seggi alla coalizione vincitrice anche con quote di voto inferiori al 40%. Questo schema promette “stabilità”, ma rischia di alterare profondamente gli equilibri costituzionali, concentrando poteri nelle mani del capo del governo.
Le modifiche agli articoli 92 e 94 della Costituzione prevedono un premier legittimato direttamente dal voto popolare, con fiducia parlamentare solo formale. Una “norma anti-ribaltone” che limiterebbe le crisi di governo a sostituzioni interne alla stessa coalizione, sotto pena di scioglimento delle Camere. Il “Presidente della Repubblica” perderebbe autonomia nella nomina del capo del governo e nelle fasi di stallo, diventando figura di ratifica piuttosto che garante. Molti costituzionalisti sottolineano come questo crei uno squilibrio tra poteri, con un esecutivo dominante e un Parlamento indebolito.
La legge elettorale collegata adotterebbe un proporzionale con premio maggioritario, sul modello regionale, per blindare maggioranze artificiali. La Russa e Fazzolari ritengono i “tempi maturi”, ma il disegno solleva interrogativi sulla reale efficacia contro l'instabilità.
Già oggi l’esecutivo Meloni ha usato il ricorso a decreti-legge (32 su 103 leggi nella prima fase) e voti di fiducia, comprimendo il dibattito parlamentare, limitando emendamenti e commissioni. Il premierato aggraverebbe questa tendenza: con maggioranza garantita e sfiducia impraticabile, le Camere diverrebbero sedi di approvazione automatica, private di controllo reale sull'esecutivo.
Si passerebbe da una democrazia parlamentare a un sistema ibrido, dove il leader eletto prevale sul pluralismo rappresentativo. Non manca qualche dissenso o dubbio tra i partiti di governo, soprattutto in merito all’abbandono dei collegi uninominali proprio da parte di chi aveva fatto di quell’elemento uno dei pilastri elettorali. La “Lega” e “Forza Italia” manifestano riserve sulla forma della legge elettorale che accompagna il premierato e sull’effettiva possibilità di avere sulla scheda il nome del candidato premier.
Queste tensioni interne, seppure non in grado finora di fermare i piani di “Fratelli d’Italia”, indicano che la riforma non è un progetto unanimemente condiviso all’interno della stessa coalizione di governo. Le critiche di esperti evidenziano un “premier pigliatutto” che influenzerebbe nomine chiave (dal Quirinale alla Consulta) senza contrappesi adeguati. Non risolve i problemi di governabilità, ma li sposta verso una verticalizzazione del potere che riduce spazi per opposizioni e mediazioni.L'Italia ha bisogno di rafforzare il Parlamento, non di ridurlo a esecutore di un leader plebiscitario.
Una riforma così profonda merita un esame puntiglioso e per nulla ammiccante, ma i rischi per la democrazia parlamentare appaiono evidenti.
E’ la mossa decisamente più importante e pericolosa di un esecutivo che, finora, ha brillato solo per la sua scarsa qualità politica e morale. Un modo per avvicinarsi, con decisione, ad una idea di Stato inchiodato ad una donna (o uomo) forte. E, pur ammettendo che il paragone è trito, molti Italiani pensano, nella loro idea di storia al contrario, che questa sia ancora la soluzione migliore. Un allarme democratico che tutti coloro che si rispecchiano nella Costituzione e nella democrazia devono cogliere e combattere.
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Svolta su Garlasco, dalle unghie di Poggi “Dna compatibile con quello di Sempio”
[quote]GARLASCO – Tracce di Dna sul dito di Chiara Poggi compatibili con quello di Andrea Sempio. È il risultato che rovescia quanto stabilito in precedenza dal genetista Francesco De Stefano,…
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Judo, l’Ijf riammette la Russia: tornano inno e bandiera. È la prima Federazione a farlo
[quote]ABU DHABI – La Federazione internazionale di judo rompe il fronte delle sanzioni sportive contro Mosca. A partire dal Grand Slam che si svolgerà dal 28 novembre nella capitale degli…
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Stati generali della natalità, il monito di Mattarella: “Mai così pochi giovani. Servono retribuzioni adeguate”
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Ucraina, Mosca apre: “In corso processo serio per la pace”. Suggerimenti ai russi, bufera su Witkoff
[quote]KIEV – Mosca apre sui negoziati di pace per l’Ucraina. “È in corso un processo serio per trovare una soluzione negoziata al conflitto e molti cercheranno di farlo fallire”, ha…
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"E questo è un notevolissimo salto di qualità, che non andrebbe sottovalutato, anche rispetto ai tempi di Silvio Berlusconi, che le campagne contro i magistrati le riservava solo a quelli che indagavano lui."
"Il modello è sempre quello – e non è né Mario Draghi né Mario Pannunzio – ma Viktor Orbán (cioè Vladimir Putin) o se preferite Donald Trump, ultimo e più capace interprete dello stesso spartito che minaccia la democrazia liberale in ogni angolo del mondo."
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Poteva essere una coferma, ma anche il rischio di finire nelle sabbie mobili di una ciclicità ripetitiva. E invece questo Love To Death di Bebaloncar è un vero e proprio salto in avanti verso una qualità di canzoni strutturalmente ineccepibili, nelle quali trovare un qualche motivo per poter eccepire viene meno, spazzato via da un […]
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"Incidente" in Moldavia. Un drone adagiato su un tetto di eternit con una Z scarabocchiata male sull'alettone.
L'avrà fatta Calenda con la bomboletta spray rubata a suo figlio.
Sinceramente come false flag mi aspettavo qualcosa di molto più serio. Invece se ne sono usciti con una pagliacciata ridicola per venire incontro al QI dei fan di Pina Picierno e Calenda.
In Puglia un progetto corale per dire no alla violenza di genere
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Chiamala violenza. Dal Salento per chiamare i femminicidi col loro nome. Dieci donne, dieci volti, dieci storie diverse. Nasce così “Chiamala Violenza”, il nuovo video di
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La nuova base per sottomarini a Cipro servirà alla sicurezza energetica. Ecco perché
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Un’altra base (dopo Souda Bay a Creta) per fregate e sottomarini alleati nella fascia più delicata del Mediterraneo orientale. Nella parte sud di Cipro che si affaccia in linea d’aria con il porto di Limassol, stanno per partire i lavori di
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Quando è l’Europa a diventare una fake news,
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L’annunciato «Centro europeo per la resilienza democratica per contrastare le campagne di disinformazione», fiore all’occhiello esibito da Ursula von der Leyen, è pieno di insidie. Proprio per quella libertà di informazione che si vorrebbe
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la giustizia si vede da quello che ottieni dal materiale umano che ha sbagliato. il tempo trascorso deve servire a ottenere qualcosa di giusto. se neppure cerchiamo di ottenere la vera giustizia, ossia chi ha commesso il crimine che si ravvede, cosa rimane di costruttivo di tutto il sistema. se siamo contro la pena di morte ma non contro un carcere inumano e distruttivo, quale differenza c'è fra uccidere subito o togliere comunque la vita a una persona.esiste l'esigenza di autodifesa di una società che non può permettersi una delinquenza diffusa quanto un'eventuale società sana (se esiste). ma tolto quello quale è l'utilità di tutto quello che quasi sempre viene dopo? una faida familiare può essere considerata" giustizia"? certo il perdono va cercato e non concesso, deve riguardare 2 persone, ma alla fine se uccidiamo o maltrattiamo chi ci ha fatto del male (cosa purtroppo automatica e naturale) cosa rimane di elevato e speciale della nostra esistenza? non è che a volte l'idea di impotenza che ci "costringe" a reazioni inconcludenti ed eccessive, è costruita dal di fuori proprio per farci perdere la testa? per costruire un caso? per indignare quando il delitto è chiaro, e alla fine rimane un caso umano tragico, dove l'inadeguatezza e imperfezione umana è l'unico dato che emerge davvero?
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L'ergastolo a Marco Bianchi non è una buona notizia. Nessun ergastolo è una buona notizia. Se la pena è rieducativa come sta scritto nella costituzione, l'ergastolo dovrebbe essere abolito. E dopo...www.facebook.com
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Quando fu morto, Albert Moindre considerò la sua nuova situazione con perplessità. Non soffriva per le spaventose ferite che avevano quasi istantaneamente causato il suo trapasso e persino l’eventualità sempre preoccupante di penosi postumi con annessi handicap sembrava dover essere scartata. Si sentiva in piena forma e, a dirla tutta, più vispo rispetto a prima […]
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In libreria dal 4 Dicembre 2025 I Nasr sono sparsi per il mondo: tra Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin e il deserto della California. Una madre siriana, un padre libanese, tre figli americani. Tutti cresciuti tra migrazioni e nostalgie, con un unico punto fermo: la casa di famiglia a Beirut, simbolo di ciò che li tiene uniti – […]
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Ben(e)detto del 27 novembre 2025
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L'articolo Ben(e)detto del 27 novembre 2025 proviene da Fondazione Luigi Einaudi.
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PODCAST. CINA. Oscurate le app simbolo della comunità LGBTQ
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Blued e Finka erano il punto di riferimento per milioni di persone queer. La loro chiusura rischia di farle ripiombare nell'isolamento. Da Shanghai la corrispondenza di Michelangelo Cocco
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PALESTINA. Campo di Jenin: “Questa Nakba è più dolorosa della prima”
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Parlano gli sfollati che furono costretti ad abbandonare le loro case nel febbraio 2025 dopo settimane di incursioni dell'esercito israeliano
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Demoverbotszone Gießen: DGB legt Beschwerde gegen Beschluss des Verwaltungsgerichts ein
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A Friendly Reminder That Your Unpowered SSDs Are Probably Losing Data
Save a bunch of files on a good ol’ magnetic hard drive, leave it in a box, and they’ll probably still be there a couple of decades later. The lubricants might have all solidified and the heads jammed in place, but if you can get things moving, you’ll still have your data. As explained over at [XDA Developers], though, SSDs can’t really offer the same longevity.
It all comes down to power. SSDs are considered non-volatile storage—in that they hold on to data even when power is removed. However, they can only do so for a rather limited amount of time. This is because of the way NAND flash storage works. It involves trapping a charge in a floating gate transistor to store a single bit of data. You can power down an SSD, and the trapped charge in all the NAND flash transistors will happily stay put. But over longer periods of time, from months to years, that charge can leak out. When this happens, data is lost.
Depending on your particular SSD, and the variety of NAND flash it uses (TLC, QLC, etc), the safe storage time may be anywhere from a few months to a few years. The process takes place faster at higher temperatures, too, so if you store your drives in a warm area, you could see surprisingly rapid loss.
Ultimately, it’s worth checking your drive specs and planning accordingly. Going on a two-week holiday? Your PC will probably be just fine switched off. Going to prison for three to five years with only a slim chance of parole? Maybe back up to a hard drive first, or have your cousin switch your machine on now and then for safety’s sake.
On a vaguely related note, we’ve even seen SSDs that can self-destruct on purpose. If you’ve got the low down on other neat solid-state stories, don’t hesitate to notify the tipsline.
Benchmarking Chinese CPUs
When it comes to PCs, Westerners are most most familiar with x86/x64 processors from Intel and AMD, with Apple Silicon taking up a significant market share, too. However, in China, a relatively new CPU architecture is on the rise. A fabless semiconductor company called Loongson has been producing chips with its LoongArch architecture since 2021. These chips remain rare outside China, but some in the West have been benchmarking them.
[Daniel Lemire] has recently blogged about the performance of the Loongson 3A6000, which debuted in late 2023. The chip was put through a range of simple benchmarking tests, involving float processing and string transcoding operations. [Daniel] compared it to the Intel Xeon Gold 6338 from 2021, noting the Intel chip pretty much performed better across the board. No surprise given its extra clock rate. Meanwhile, the gang over at [Chips and Cheese] ran even more exhaustive tests on the same chip last year. The Loongson was put through typical tasks like compressing archives and encoding video. The outlet came to the conclusion that the chip was a little weaker than older CPUs like AMD’s Zen 2 line and Intel’s 10th generation Core chips. It’s also limited as a four-core chip compared to modern Intel and AMD lines that often start at 6 cores as a minimum.
If you find yourself interested in Loongson’s product, don’t get too excited. They’re not exactly easy to lay your hands on outside of China, and even the company’s own website is difficult to access from beyond those shores. You might try reaching out to Loongson-oriented online communities if you seek such hardware.
Different CPU architectures have perhaps never been more relevant, particularly as we see the x86 stalwarts doing battle with the rise of desktop and laptop ARM processors. If you’ve found something interesting regarding another obscure kind of CPU, don’t hesitate to let the tipsline know!
“It was like playing the lottery,” said astronomer Tomonori Totani, adding that he hopes other scientists will verify the possible detection of a new dark matter signature.#TheAbstract
A Lone Astronomer Has Reported a Dark Matter ‘Annihilation’ Breakthrough
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Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week.An astronomer has reported a possible new signature of dark matter, a mysterious substance that makes up most of the universe, according to a study published on Tuesday in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.
Dark matter accounts for 85 percent of all matter in the universe, but its existence has so far been inferred only from its indirect effects on the familiar “baryonic” matter that makes up stars, planets, and life.
Tomonori Totani, a professor of astronomy at the University of Tokyo and the author of the study, believes he has spotted novel indirect traces of dark matter particles in the “halo” surrounding the center of our galaxy using new observations from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. When these speculative particles collide—a process called dark matter annihilation—the crash is predicted to emit bright gamma rays, which is the light that Totani thinks he has identified.
“The discovery was made possible by focusing on the halo region (excluding the galactic center), which had received little attention, and by utilizing data accumulated over 15 years from the Fermi satellite,” Totani told 404 Media in an email. “After carefully removing all components other than dark matter, a signal resembling dark matter appeared.”
“It was like playing the lottery, and at first I was skeptical,” he added. “But after checking meticulously and thinking it seemed correct, I got goosebumps!”
If the detection is corroborated by follow-up studies, it could confirm a leading hypothesis that dark matter is made of a hypothetical class of weakly interacting massive particles, or “WIMPs”—potentially exposing the identity of this mysterious substance for the first time. But that potential breakthrough is still a ways off, according to other researchers in the field.
“Any new structure in the gamma-ray sky is interesting, but the dark matter interpretation here strikes me as quite preliminary,” said Danielle Norcini, an experimental particle physicist and
assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University, in an email to 404 Media.
Gamma-ray intensity map excluding components other than the halo, spanning approximately 100 degrees in the direction of the Galactic center. The horizontal gray bar in the central region corresponds to the Galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical radiation. Image: Tomonori Totani, The University of Tokyo
Dark matter has flummoxed scientists for almost a century. In the 1930s, astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed that the motions of galaxies hinted that they are much more massive than expected based solely on visible baryonic matter. Since then, astronomers have confirmed that dark matter, which accumulates into dense halos at the centers of galaxies, acts like a gravitational glue that holds structures together. Dark matter is also the basis of a vast cosmic web of gaseous threads that links galaxy clusters across billions of light years.But while dark matter is ubiquitous, it does not interact with the electromagnetic force, which means it does not absorb, reflect, or emit light. This property makes it difficult to spot with traditional astronomy, a challenge that has inspired the development of novel instruments designed to directly detect dark matter such as the subterranean LUX-ZEPLIN in South Dakota and the forthcoming DAMIC-M in France.
For years, scientists have been probing possible emission from dark matter annihilation at the center of the Milky Way, which is surrounded by a halo of densely-clustered dark matter. Those previous studies focus on an excess emission pattern of about 2 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). Tontani’s study spotlights a new and different pattern with extremely energetic gamma rays at 20 GeV.
“A part of the Fermi data showed a peculiar excess that our model couldn't explain, leading me to suspect it might be due to radiation originating from dark matter,” he said. “The most difficult part is removing gamma-ray emissions of origins other than dark matter, such as those from cosmic rays and celestial objects.”
This tentative report may finally fill in a major missing piece of our understanding of the universe by exposing the true nature of dark matter and confirming the existence of WIMPs. But given that similar claims have been made in the past, more research is needed to assess the significance of the results.
“For any potential indirect signal, the key next steps are independent checks: analyses using different background models, different assumptions about the Milky Way halo, and ideally complementary data sets,” Norcini said.
“Gamma-ray structures in the halo can have many astrophysical origins, so ruling those out requires careful modeling and cross-comparison,” she continued. “At this point the result seems too new for that scrutiny to have played out, and it will take multiple groups looking at the same data before a dark matter interpretation could be considered robust.”
Though Totani is confident in his interpretation of his discovery, he also looks forward to the input of other dark matter researchers around the world.
“First, I would like other researchers to independently verify my analysis,” he said. “Next, for everyone to be convinced that this is truly dark matter, the decisive factor will be the detection of gamma rays with the same spectrum from other regions, such as dwarf galaxies. The accumulation of further data from the Fermi satellite and large ground-based gamma-ray telescopes, such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will be crucial.”
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Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.#AISlop #GoogleSearch #searchengines
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
It’s hard to believe it’s only been a few years since generative AI tools started flooding the internet with low quality content-slop. Just over a year ago, you’d have to peruse certain corners of Facebook or spend time wading through the cultural cesspool of Elon Musk’s X to find people posting bizarre and repulsive synthetic media. Now, AI slop feels inescapable — whether you’re watching TV, reading the news, or trying to find a new apartment.That is, unless you’re using Slop Evader, a new browser tool that filters your web searches to only include results from before November 30, 2022 — the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
The tool is available for Firefox and Chrome, and has one simple function: Showing you the web as it was before the deluge of AI-generated garbage. It uses Google search functions to index popular websites and filter results based on publication date, a scorched earth approach that virtually guarantees your searches will be slop-free.
Slop Evader was created by artist and researcher Tega Brain, who says she was motivated by the growing dismay over the tech industry’s unrelenting, aggressive rollout of so-called “generative AI”—despite widespread criticism and the wider public’s distaste for it.
Slop Evader in action. Via Tega Brain
“This sowing of mistrust in our relationship with media is a huge thing, a huge effect of this synthetic media moment we’re in,” Brain told 404 Media, describing how tools like Sora 2 have short-circuited our ability to determine reality within a sea of artificial online junk. “I’ve been thinking about ways to refuse it, and the simplest, dumbest way to do that is to only search before 2022.”
One under-discussed impact of AI slop and synthetic media, says Brain, is how it increases our “cognitive load” when viewing anything online. When we can no longer immediately assume any of the media we encounter was made by a human, the act of using social media or browsing the web is transformed into a never-ending procession of existential double-takes.
This cognitive dissonance extends to everyday tasks that require us to use the internet—which is practically everything nowadays. Looking for a house or apartment? Companies are using genAI tools to generate pictures of houses and rental properties, as well as the ads themselves. Trying to sell your old junk on Facebook Marketplace? Meta’s embrace of generative AI means you may have to compete with bots, fake photos, and AI-generated listings. And when we shop for beauty products or view ads, synthetic media tools are taking our filtered and impossibly-idealized beauty standards to absurd and disturbing new places.
In all of these cases, generative AI tools further thumb the scales of power—saving companies money while placing a higher cognitive burden on regular people to determine what’s real and what’s not.
“I open up Pinterest and suddenly notice that half of my feed are these incredibly idealized faces of women that are clearly not real people,” said Brain. “It’s shoved into your face and into your feed, whether you searched for it or not.”
Currently, Slop Evader can be used to search pre-GPT archives of seven different sites where slop has become commonplace, including YouTube, Reddit, Stack Exchange, and the parenting site MumsNet. The obvious downside to this, from a user perspective, is that you won’t be able to find anything time-sensitive or current—including this very website, which did not exist in 2022. The experience is simultaneously refreshing and harrowing, allowing you to browse freely without having to constantly question reality, but always knowing that this freedom will be forever locked in time—nostalgia for a human-centric world wide web that no longer exists.
Of course, the tool’s limitations are part of its provocation. Brain says she has plans to add support for more sites, and release a new version that uses DuckDuckGo’s search indexing instead of Google’s. But the real goal, she says, is prompting people to question how they can collectively refuse the dystopian, inhuman version of the internet that Silicon Valley’s AI-pushers have forced on us.
“I don’t think browser add-ons are gonna save us,” said Brain. “For me, the purpose of doing this work is mostly to act as a provocation and give people examples of how you can refuse this stuff, to furnish one’s imaginary for what a politics of refusal could look like.”
With enough cultural pushback, Brain suggests, we could start to see alternative search engines like DuckDuckGo adding options to filter out search results suspected of having synthetic content (DuckDuckGo added the ability to filter out AI images in search earlier this year). There’s also been a growing movementpushing back against the new AI data centers threatening to pollute communities andraise residents’ electricity bills. But no matter what form AI slop-refusal takes, it will need to be a group effort.
“It’s like with the climate debate, we’re not going to get out of this shitshow with individual actions alone,” she added. “I think that’s the million dollar question, is what is the relationship between this kind of individual empowerment work and collective pushback.”
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Residential utility bills rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period last year, according to the Energy Information Administration.Spencer Kimball (CNBC)
Building a Low-Cost Satellite Tracker
Looking up at the sky just after sunset or just before sunrise will reveal a fairly staggering amount of satellites orbiting overhead, from tiny cubesats to the International Space Station. Of course these satellites are always around, and even though you’ll need specific conditions to view them with the naked eye, with the right radio antenna and only a few dollars in electronics you can see exactly which ones are flying by at any time.
[Josh] aka [Ham Radio Crash Course] is demonstrating this build on his channel and showing every step needed to get something like this working. The first part is finding the correct LoRa module, which will be the bulk of the cost of this project. Unlike those used for most Meshtastic nodes, this one needs to be built for the 433 MHz band. The software running on this module is from TinyGS, which we have featured here before, and which allows a quick and easy setup to listen in to these types of satellites. This build goes much further into detail on building the antenna, though, and also covers some other ancillary tasks like mounting it somewhere outdoors.
With all of that out of the way, though, the setup is able to track hundreds of satellites on very little hardware, as well as display information about each of them. We’d always favor a build that lets us gather data like this directly over using something like a satellite tracking app, although those do have their place. And of course, with slightly more compute and a more directed antenna there is all kinds of other data beaming down that we can listen in on as well, although that’s not always the intent.
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 856: QT: Fix It Please, My Mom is Calling
This week Jonathan chats with Maurice Kalinowski about QT! That’s the framework that runs just about anywhere, making it easy to write cross-platform applications. What’s the connection with KDE? And how has this turned into a successful company? Watch to find out!
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Elli Furedy Brings Cyberpunk Games to Life
When you’re designing a bounty hunter game for a five-day cyberpunk live-action-role-play out in the middle of the Mojave desert, you’ve got to bring something extra cool. But [Elli]’s Hackaday Supercon talk isn’t just about the hardware; it’s as much about the design philosophy behind the game – how you bring something immersive and exciting to hundreds of players.
Sandbox Systems
The game itself is fairly simple: bounty hunters try to find the bounty, and when they do, they have a quick-draw to see who wins. Everyone is issued a color-coded Portable Data Node device, and when a hunter jacks into a bounty’s Node, a countdown begins, and the first to press the button after the display say “Go” wins.
But the simplicity of the game is by design, and [Elli] talks about the philosophy that she and her team followed to make it a success. If you’re designing a conference badge or an immersive game for a large group of people, take note.
The first principle is to focus on the people first before the tech. Here, that essentially means making the experience as simple as possible in order to leave room for the players to put their own spin on it – it’s a role-play event after all.
Next is providing opportunities over demands. In this game, for instance, if you’re playing the bounty hunter role, you have to deliver a “Declaration of Intent to Seize” when you encounter a bounty player, but what deciding on your personal catchphrase for this is left up to you.
Selling the story of the game with the tech is also important. For instance, there is a part of the Node that [Elli] calls “the doodad” which is just pure LED and greebles. It doesn’t do anything, but it looks cool.
Finally, [Elli] mentions that her team puts an effort into making the game as accessible for everyone as possible. The onboarding video has cyberpunk-styled closed captioning, for instance. While originally designed for folks who don’t hear well, it ended up providing an aesthetic that everyone can enjoy – an example of the curb-cut effect at work.
The end result? 374 players played 3,838 matches over five days, but that’s just the stats. As [Elli] points out, the real point of the game is as an ice-breaker, to allow people room to explore whatever character they’re playing, and to connect people in real-space. It sounds like it was a complete success on all fronts.
The Sandbox
This is a talk on design principles, but it’s also a talk at Supercon, and [Elli] gets pulled into the hardware side of things many times throughout the talk. The Nodes have OLEDs and haptic motors for feedback, they use and ESP32 with WiFi for the score reporting, and there’s even discussion of the serial protocol that they speak to each other when they get connected up via an audio jack.
[Elli] gets some great questions about ways to expand the game, and you’re just going to have to watch the video to appreciate them all. Or join in: after all, it’s an open-source project and it’s intended to be a sandbox!
There seems to be a lot of room to play along, and [Elli]’s talk is definitely food for thought if you’re designing hardware with the end goal of creating and encouraging human interaction through building up an engaging story.
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Datenspende: „Digitaler Omnibus“ könnte Forschung zu Big-Tech erschweren
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Digital Omnibus – A Single Rulebook or a License to Trespass Fundamental Rights?
What is Digital Omnibus?
Digital policy lobbies across the European Union are buzzing with one word: Digital Omnibus, a proposal aimed at consolidating and simplifying the existing EU digital framework. The idea, according to the proposal’s advocates, is to reduce overlap in obligations and the compliance burden on businesses.
The Digital Omnibus is presented as a measure to simplify Europe’s complex digital rulebook. The aim is to streamline a wide array of Digital rules into a coherent, updated framework. It touches several key areas, including the GDPR, the AI Act, the Data Act, and cybersecurity reporting frameworks.
The Commission proposed the Digital Omnibus on 19 November 2025. The core idea behind pushing for the digital Omnibus is to eliminate red tape and boost EU competitiveness. Thirteen EU Member States have argued that tech companies in the EU face a higher degree of regulation and greater hassles than their counterparts across the Atlantic.
A Quick Look at What the Proposal Includes
- Clarifying GDPR concepts such as pseudonymised vs non-personal data
- Allowing limited use of sensitive data for detecting AI bias
- Adjusting some obligations under the AI Act and delaying certain requirements
- Creating a European Business Wallet for corporate digital identities
- Merging various data laws into a more unified Data Act
- Introducing a single entry point for cybersecurity incident reporting
These are framed as efficiency measures, cost-reduction initiatives, and efforts to make Europe more attractive to digital innovation.
Critics Warn: What Does Streamlining Actually Mean for OurRights?
For policymakers looking at the issue from strictly a business perspective, the digital Omnibus is a proposal long overdue. But as with any sweeping reform, the details matter, and this is where the debate becomes intense.
This is where concerns sharpen, especially among civil society groups, privacy advocates, and parties committed to defending digital freedoms such as the European Pirates.
European Digital Rights (EDRI) and other Digital rights advocates warn that simplifying the rulebook will come with a quiet erosion of our rights that were hard-won over the past decade.
Key Concerns Raised Against the Digital Omnibus
1. Roll-Back of Digital Protection Laws
The Omnibus is seen as reopening and weakening major protections, including the GDPR, ePrivacy, and the AI Act. This is viewed as a blow to the decades of work on digital rights.
2. Weakening of ePrivacy Rules
According to EDRi, the proposal would shift some “device access” rules from ePrivacy into GDPR, reducing mandatory consent in some cases. It is feared that this could permit tracking on devices without users’ explicit approval.
3. Narrowing the Definition of “Personal Data”
A redefinition of personal data could give companies more leeway to process information. Critics argue that this redefinition could reduce transparency and control for individuals.
4. Undermining AI Accountability
According to TechPolicy.Press article, amendments that give AI providers too much discretion, including a loophole that allows them to opt out of certain “high-risk” obligations without publicly declaring it. Rights groups argue this removes a key transparency check, weakening the AI Act’s purpose of managing risk.
5. Privileging Business Over People
Supporters of digital rights strongly believe that these reforms will shift power toward companies, thereby reducing individuals’ leverage under data protection laws. Precisely, these reforms have corporate interests as their focal point rather than citizens’ rights.
6. Weak Democratic Process
The way Omnibus is being fast-tracked with limited consultation and impact assessment, EDRi and others argue that such sweeping changes deserve more thorough democratic scrutiny.
7. Risk to Minoritised and Vulnerable Groups
EDRi highlights that under the proposed changes, marginalised communities could face a higher risk of profiling or automated discrimination. Reduced oversight and transparency could make it harder to challenge unfair or biased automated decisions.
So, Where Does This Leave Us?
For the European Pirates, the question is not whether Europe should innovate, but how. Efficiency cannot come at the cost of loosening the protections that set the EU apart in the global digital landscape.
The Digital Omnibus, on the surface, may appear to be an effort to overcome the hurdles that impede the EU’s innovation and growth. However, the implications of this proposal have far-reaching consequences from a social perspective.
The debate around the Digital Omnibus is only beginning. What is at stake is the balance between modernising Europe’s digital framework and guarding the rights of the people who live within it.
Fair Play for Life 2025: l’emozione e la bellezza autentica dell’etica
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#Cina e #Giappone, guerra per #Taiwan
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Sono bastate poco più di due settimane alla neo-premier giapponese, Sanae Takaichi, per precipitare le relazioni del suo paese con la Cina al punto più basso almeno degli ultimi dieci anni.www.altrenotizie.org
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Digital Omnibus – A Single Rulebook or a License to Trespass Fundamental Rights?
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Come leggere la trasformazione dell’accordo tra Fincantieri e Us Navy per le Fregate Constellation
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La decisione dell’amministrazione Trump e della US Navy di rivedere radicalmente il programma delle fregate classe Constellation non rappresenta la rottura di un rapporto industriale, ma l’esito di una più ampia trasformazione
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Un nuovo carro tedesco per il fianco orientale della Nato. Ecco il Leopard 2A8
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La Germania compie un nuovo passo nel rafforzamento della propria postura di difesa e di quella della Nato con la presentazione ufficiale della nuova versione del carro armato Leopard, denominata “2A8”. Il mezzo, sviluppato dal consorzio europeo (a trazione tedesca) Knds e svelato
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Dagli Stati Uniti all’Europa, l’industria della Difesa al bivio tra passato e futuro
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C’è un filo che negli ultimi anni sta attraversando l’industria della Difesa in Occidente, un filo che con il tempo si è trasformato in una crepa e che oggi assomiglia a una vera e propria faglia. Non è una frattura improvvisa né il risultato di un
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L’UE lancia l’industria bellica continentale con la benedizione dei socialisti
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Con un voto trasversale, il parlamento europeo approva l'Edip, un programma di finanziamento dell'industria militare europea diretto a diminuire la dipendenza di Bruxelles dagli Stati Uniti e a potenziare la produzione di armi
L'articolo L’UE lancia
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Incontro sulla violenza di genere, bilancio
Dunque, sono partito con l'organizzazione questa primavera.
Ho contattato diverse associazioni che si occupano di violenza di genere, una mi ha risposto e ha messo a disposizione una psicologa delle loro (che arrivava da fuori Firenze). Ho contattato un sindacato della scuola perché facessero arrivare la notizia a qualche insegnante/dirigente scolastico nel tentativo di coinvolgere gli studenti (scelta sbagliatissima perché non hanno fatto assolutamente nulla, la prossima volta contatterò direttamente i rappresentanti degli studenti). Ho prenotato la sala alla casa del popolo. Come RSU abbiamo convocato un'assemblea dei lavoratori di 4 ore in modo che la gente potesse partecipare senza prendere permessi o ferie. Ho fatto la locandina. Stamattina mi sono alzato alle 6:30 per andare lì a preparare la sala (sistemazione PC per fare un video, impianto amplificazione, sistemazione sedie, ecc.).
Risultato: 10 persone (su più di 150 dipendenti della mia azienda).
E niente...
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A breach shows people are making AI porn of ordinary people at scale; X exposes the location of its biggest MAGA grifters; and how we contributed to the shut down of a warrantless surveillance program.#Podcast
Podcast: A Massive Breach Reveals the Truth Behind 'Secret Desires AI'
We start this week with Sam's piece about a massive leak of an AI chatbot, and how it showed that people were taking ordinary women’s yearbook photos and using them to make AI porn. After the break, Jason explains how a recent change on X exposed a bunch of grifters all around the world. In the subscribers-only section, we talk about how our reporting contributed to the shut down of a warrantless surveillance program.
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