[mircemk] has been working on wireless power transmission. Using a Class-E Tesla coil with 12 turns on the primary and 8 turns on the secondary and a 12 volt input he can send a few milliwatts to power an LED over a distance of more than 40 centimeters or power a 10 watt bulb over a distance of about 10 centimeters. With the DC input set at 24 volts the apparatus can deliver 5 watts over a distance of a few centimeters and a light is still visible after separating the primary and secondary coils by more than 30 centimeters.
There are many types of Tesla coil and we can’t go into the details here but they include Spark-Gap Tesla Coils (SGTC) and Solid-State Tesla Coils (SSTC), among others. The Class-E coil demonstrated in this project is a type of SSTC which in general is more efficient than an SGTC alternative.
Please bear in mind that while it is perfectly safe to watch a YouTube video of a person demonstrating a functional Tesla coil, building your own is hazardous and probably not a good idea unless you really understand what you’re doing! Particularly high voltages can be involved and EMI/RFI emissions can violate regulations. You can damage your body with RF burns while not feeling any pain, and without even knowing that it’s happening.
non basta il complesso biden di trump credo a spiegare tutto 😀 va bene che lo aveva sulle palle però era dopo tutto un oppositore politico legittimo. e non è che con se stesso può tirare fuori i brogli elettorali. lui sa di averli fatti lui..
The image displays a computer desktop screen with a stunning wallpaper of the Northern Lights over a snowy landscape. The aurora borealis, with its vibrant green and hints of purple, dominates the sky, creating a mesmerizing display against a backdrop of stars. Below, a mountainous terrain with patches of snow and a body of water reflects the aurora's glow. The desktop interface includes a taskbar at the top with various icons, including a Raspberry Pi logo, a trash bin labeled "Cestino," and a clock showing 22:10. The window title reads "Server Raspberry Pi 4," indicating the device's operating system. The overall scene combines the natural beauty of the aurora with the functional elements of a computer desktop.
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L'immagine mostra uno schermo di un computer con un desktop che ha uno sfondo blu con forme ondulate. In alto a sinistra, c'è una finestra intitolata "VNC config" con opzioni di configurazione come "Accept clipboard from viewers", "Also set primary selection", "Send clipboard to viewers" e "Send primary selection to viewers", tutte disattivate. In basso, c'è una barra di stato con l'ora "mercoledì 10 settembre 2025 - 19:05" e un pulsante di spegnimento. Sullo schermo, c'è anche un simbolo di un giroscopio bianco.
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[Electronoobs] is using some brushless motors to make a DIY wind turbine. His recent video isn’t about the turbine itself, but a crucial electronic part: the three-phase rectifier. The reason it is so important is due to the use of brushless motors. Normal motors are not ideal for generating power for several reasons, as explained in the video below.
The brushless motors have three windings and generate three outputs, each out of phase with the others. You can’t just join them together because they are 120 degrees out of phase. But a special rectifier can merge the inputs efficiently and output a low-ripple DC voltage.
The rectifier will have to handle a lot of power, so it uses beefy devices with heat sinks. The design is very similar to a full-wave bridge rectifier, but instead of two legs, each with two diodes, this one has three legs. This is still not as efficient as you would like. A synchronous rectifier would be even more efficient but also more complicated.
Still, we have no doubt the board will do its job. We’re anxious to see the turbine come together. Want to build your own? Maybe start smaller. Too big? You can strip it down even further.
Ecco i post su Mastodon con le tappe del mio viaggio di quest'estate in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e Schleswig-Holstein (aprire sempre le didascalie/testi alternativi delle immagini per qualche particolare in più)
If you want to blink an LED once every second, you could use just about any old timer circuit to create a 1 Hz signal. Or, you could go the complicated route like [Anthony Vincz] and grab 1 Hz off a radio clock instead.
The build is an entry for the 2025 One Hertz Challenge, with [Anthony] pushing himself to whip up a simple entry on a single Sunday morning. He started by grabbing a NE567 tone decoder IC, which uses a phase-locked loop to trigger an output when detecting a tone of a given frequency. [Anthony] had used this chip hooked up to an Arduino to act as a Morse decoder, which picked up sound from an electret mic and decoded it into readable output.
However, he realized he could repurpose the NE567 to blink in response to output from radio time stations like the 60 KHz British and 77.5 KHz German broadcasts. He thus grabbed a software-defined radio, tuned it into one of the time stations, and adjusted the signal to effectively sound a regular 800 Hz tone coming out of his computer’s speakers that cycled once every second. He then tweaked the NE567 so it would trigger off this repetitive tone every second, flashing an LED.
Is it the easiest way to flash an LED? No. It’s complicated, but it’s also creative. They say a one hertz signal is always in the last place you look.
I know many computer languages, but I’ve struggled all my life to learn a second human language. One of my problems is that I can’t stop trying to translate in my head. Just like Morse code, you need to understand things directly, not translate. But you have to start somewhere. One of the reasons metric never caught on in the United States is that it is hard to do exact translations while you are developing intuition about just how hot is 35 °C or how long 8 cm is.
If you travel, temperature is especially annoying. When the local news tells you the temperature is going to be 28, it is hard to do the math in your head to decide if you need a coat or shorts.
Ok, you are a math whiz. And you have a phone with a calculator and, probably, a voice assistant. So you can do the right math, which is (9/5) x °C + 32. But for those of us who can’t do that in our heads, there is an easier way.
Field Expedient
Close enough for a quick estimate Most of us can’t multiply by 9/5 in our heads. But 9/5 is very nearly two. So if you double the Celsius temperature, you are halfway there. Of course, the number will be too high. But to make up for it, instead of adding 32, just add 30. For weather temperatures, this gives you a ballpark estimate. For 0 °C, you get 30 °F instead of 32. For 20 °C, you get 70 °F instead of 68. For 35 °C, you get 100 °F instead of 95. All close enough.
If you want to flip the error as the temperature goes up, you can remember to add 25 instead of 30 if the temperature is more than, say 25 °C. Then 35 °C gives you 95 °F on the dot, although other temperatures will still have some error, of course.
The error gets worse as the temperature rises, but it has to get fairly high before it gets useless. For example, my AMD CPU is currently at 48 °C. Using the +25 estimate, that’s 121 °F, instead of the correct 118. But maybe it won’t help you set up your metal smelting furnace.
Other Estimates
Centimeters to inches the easy way. This is a useful way to embrace metric. Find rough estimates for units you deal with. For example, 2.54 cm/inch is not the easiest thing to apply. But if you remember that 5 cm is about 2 in, that works well. So a 160 mm rod is 16 cm. If you think of that as 3 x 5 + 1, you’ll know it is 6 inches plus an extra centimeter. The right answer is about 6.3 inches. Not close enough to start cutting things, but it does give you a feel for how big a thing you are talking about.
If you lived through the time when gasoline in the US went from less than $1/gallon to over, you might remember that many gas stations switched to liters because the pumps couldn’t be set for a dollar. The reason is a liter is very nearly a quart, and there are four quarts to a gallon. So 12 liters is practically 12 quarts or 3 gallons. This turns out to be very close.
Kilograms and kilometers are a bit trickier. The right way to imprecisely convert kilograms to pounds is to multiply by 2.2. But a nice mental math trick is to double it. Then remove the last digit and add the rest back in to the whole result. Then put the last digit you removed after the decimal point. So 8 kg would be 16+1 (throw away the six) or 17 pounds. Then put the 0.6 in for the correct answer of 17.6 pounds. Of course, the conversion factor isn’t exactly 2.2, but that’s what most people use anyway. If you are trying to be scientifically accurate, none of this is going to help you. Estimating kilometers. The factor for kilometers is roughly 0.6 km/mile or 1.6 miles/km. If you halve the kilometers, that will get you a fairly low estimate. So 35 km (21.7 miles) is easy to guess as more than 17.5 miles. That’s a pretty big difference, though. But if you then add 10% of the 35 back (3.5) you get 21 miles which is close.
Advice
I’m not trying to say that these rule-of-thumb tricks are good when you need an exact answer. But they are handy when you simply want a gut feel over some measure. Over time, you’ll just naturally know that 35 °C is summer-weather hot and you need more than a coffee mug to hold 3 liters.
Do you have a favorite fast conversion back or forth from metric? Share it in the comments. Americans love their strange measuring system. Turns out, some of the reasons we didn’t get metric was due to pirates, as you can see in the video below.
The texts were sent to a group called “Mass Text” and show ICE using DMV and license plate reader data in an attempt to find their target, copies of the messages obtained by 404 Media show.#News
ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time
Members of a law enforcement group chat including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies inadvertently added a random person to the group called “Mass Text” where they exposed highly sensitive information about an active search for a convicted attempted murderer seemingly marked for deportation, 404 Media has learned.
The texts included an unredacted ICE “Field Operations Worksheet” that includes detailed information about the target they were looking for, and the texts showed ICE pulling data from a DMV and license plate readers (LPRs), according to screenshots of the chat obtained and verified by 404 Media. The person accidentally added to the group chat is not a law enforcement official or associated with the investigation in any way, and said they were added to it weeks ago and initially thought it was a series of spam messages.
The incident is a significant data breach and operational security failure for ICE, which has ramped up arrest efforts across the U.S. as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts. The breach also has startling similarities to so-called Signal Gate, in which a senior administration official added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to a group chat that contained likely classified information. These new ICE messages were MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service messages, meaning they weren’t end-to-end encrypted, like texts sent over Signal or WhatsApp are.
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No one likes cleaning out water spouts. [NeedItMakeIt] wanted to collect rainwater and was interested in using a Coanda filter that those used on hydroelectric plants to separate out debris. Ultimately, he decided to design his own and 3D print it.
The design uses a sloping surface with teeth on it to coax water to go in one direction and debris to go in another. It fits into a typical spout, and seems like it works well enough. Some commenters note that varying volumes of rain and different types of debris behave differently, which is probably true. However, there are similar commercial products, so you’d guess there would be some value to using the technique.
The water pushes the debris off the slope, so you end up losing a little water with the debris. So as always, there’s a trade-off. You can see in the video that if the water flow isn’t substantial, the debris tends to stall on the slope. Could the filter be improved? That was the point in trying a second design.
It wasn’t a big improvement. That’s where there’s a plot twist. Well, actually, a literal twist. Instead of making a flat slope, the new design is a conic shape with a spiral channel. That improved flow quite a bit. We weren’t clear from the video of exactly where the debris was going with the last version.
John Lennon & Yoko Ono annunciata l’uscita del box Power To The People freezonemagazine.com/news/john… Esce il 10 ottobre il Box deluxe composto di nove CD + tre Blue-Ray più un libro di oltre duecento pagine dedicato a John Lennon e Yoko Ono. 31 brani live tratti dai due storici concerti di John e Yoko al One To One Concert, accompagnati dalla Plastic Ono Band, dagli Elephant’s Memory e da […] L'articolo John Lennon &
Per la prima volta dall’inizio della guerra in Ucraina, l’Europa ha superato gli Stati Uniti nella produzione e nella fornitura di materiale militare a Kyiv. Lo dicono i numeri diffusi dal Kiel Institute for the World Economy: tra febbraio 2022 e giugno 2025, la produzione militare europea
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Il lavoro muscolare di Trump sta dando i suoi frutti: la necessità di Apple e Tesla di trovare una filiera statunitense sta portando Samsung a investire nuovamente negli States. La notizia comunque ha una
Il Dipartimento della Difesa degli Stati Uniti ha deciso di alzare il velo sull’architettura operativa del Golden Dome, il futuro sistema di difesa missilistica destinato a proteggere l’intero territorio statunitense – Alaska e Hawaii inclusi – contro le minacce balistiche,
peggio: non hai visuale davanti e un bambino per strada è in pericolo. sono peggiori dal punto di vista della frenata. hai meno angolo di visuale in generale. cappottano facilmente. e sopratutto se già era un problema viaggiare in 1 persona da 80kg spendendo energia per trasportare 1000kg, la situazione non è migliorata quando per portare una persona si trasportava 3500kg... e poi compriamo le auto elettriche per fare gli ecologisti? ha senso? compra 1 motorino e inquini di meno. siamo proprio malati. è questo l'unico problema.
Il concerto di Gastone Pietrucci e La Macina insieme a Elisa Ridolfi, vincitrice del Premio Tenco 2024 per la migliore opera prima, si è rivelato un'esperienza suggestiva e toccante. Il luogo prescelto, una radura a pochi metri dal borgo medievale di Cerreto di Montegiorgio, ha donato all'evento un'atmosfera intima e quasi magica. Seduti su semplici assi di legno grezzo, ci siamo ritrovati a stretto contatto con i musicisti, annullando ogni barriera e favorendo una vera e propria comunione tra artisti e ascoltatori. Nonostante la qualità del suono non fosse sempre eccelsa, quasi a voler dimostrare che quello che conta è la sincerità e non la perfezione artificiale, l'espressività dei musicisti ha superato ogni limite tecnico. Le emozioni scaturite da ogni nota e da ogni parola sono state così coinvolgenti da rendere l'esperienza unica e indimenticabile. L'esibizione ha offerto un viaggio musicale che ha saputo unire brani originali ad omaggi ad alcuni dei più grandi cantautori italiani: le canzoni di De André, Ciampi, Tenco e Piero Cesanelli (padre della rassegna musicale Musicultura) sono state reinterpretate con passione e rispetto. Momenti di rara intensità si sono raggiunti con le esecuzioni appassionate di "Vedrai, vedrai" di Luigi Tenco e del canto popolare "Sotto la croce Maria", così come con la sorprendente interpretazione della “Ballata degli impiccati” di De André, che è stata introdotta dalla voce nuda e dirompente di Elisa Ridolfi. Questi passaggi hanno trasformato la serata da un semplice concerto in un'esperienza quasi spirituale di condivisione di sentimenti e storie, confermando ancora una volta il valore di una musica che affonda le radici nella tradizione, ma che sa parlare con forza e attualità al cuore di chi ascolta. (13agosto2025 - #worldland festival)
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) La sospensione del supporto a Windows 10 finisce in tribunale. Un cittadino californiano accusa Microsoft di spingere all'acquisto di nuovi dispositivi al fine di dominare il mercato dell'IA. Il caso, tra l'altro, ha anche un
Dal 7 al 12 agosto, le autorità russe hanno chiuso lo spazio aereo per 500 chilometri lungo la costa occidentale di Novaya Zemlya. Almeno quattro navi di supporto hanno raggiunto posizioni di osservazione nel Mare di Barents, mentre due velivoli della Rosatom
La notizia è del 2 agosto ultimo scorso ed è stata quasi del tutto ignorata. Forse perché è tempo di ferie... L'articolo DARWIN MONKEY, LA SCIMMIA DI DARWIN, CONOSCIUTA ANCHE
Passo qualche giorno da una mia zia 85enne a cui sono molto affezionato, lo faccio un paio di volte l'anno, per ferragosto e per l'ultimo dell'anno.
Da 5 anni io la televisione l'accendo solo per guardare Netflix, la TV vera e propria la guardo solo qui da mia zia, dove è accesa dalla mattina alla sera.
Ecco... io credo che per capire meglio questo paese, e come sia finito così in basso, non si possa prescindere dal riflettere su quello che passa in TV.
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Per evitare che i chip americani finiscano nelle AI cinesi Washington avrebbe iniziato - ben prima dell'arrivo di Trump - a
Con Live Spirit I, il Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet firma il suo primo album dal vivo: un viaggio sonoro tra jazz spirituale e momenti di estasi collettiva, che celebra la libertà compositiva del suo leader.
possibile che i repubblicani non si siano accorti che trump naviga "a vista" con una politica inconsistente come non mai negli ultimi 200 anni, che oscilla fra il lasciare l'europa alla russia, per impegnarsi personalmente extra nato in ucraina, con politiche anti-liberiste come i dazi che poi sono tasse per gli americani, dove neppure si capisce per trump come rendere l'america grande se contro nessuno, contro tutto il mondo, contro solo la cina, contro tutto meno che contro la cina, contro tutti meno che contro la russia, ma si è mai visto un presidente usa così confuso? sembra un nano che continua a prendere sberle da tutti, inconcludente e incapace anche solo di mettere a fuoco o decidere quali sono davvero i problemi che vuole risolvere, o stabilire delle priorità, con l'aiuto o l'appoggio non si sa di chi, e nel contempo, mentre rotea, colpisce a caso, infastidendo più che altro e confondendo. qualcuno ha il coraggio di vederci un raffinato piano che noi non capiamo?
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Elon Musk starebbe per procedere legalmente nei confronti di Apple, che accusa di favorire solo OpenAI nel suo App Store, violando le norme antitrust. Ma anche Sam Altman ha qualcosa da ridire su X e poi in ballo ci
Si racconta la favola dell’anonimato online come la causa di tutti i mali. Il problema è che qualcuno ci crede. Non solo. Il problema è anche che chi ci crede è anche una politica che pensa così di soddisfare un finto problema con una proposta di soluzione stupida. Così stupida che viene addirittura giustificata con l’intenzione di rendere Internet e gli ecosistemi digitali “più sicuri” rendendoli praticamente ad accesso controllato.
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Esercizi scritti - zulianis.eu/journal/esercizi-s… Esercizi perché per certi aspetti assomigliano agli esercizi che facevamo a scuola. Scritti per distinguerli dagli esercizi solo pensati, che sono la maggior parte. Seguire delle regole (dopo essersele date) è un buon modo di sperimentare soluzioni nuove, proprio come fanno i bizzarri consigli di Natalie Goldberg in #Scrivere zen. Quindi ho deciso di fare […]
The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say it's an "attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible."
The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say itx27;s an "attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible."#FOIA #FOIAForum
Trump Administration Outlines Plan to Throw Out an Agency's FOIA Requests En Masse
The Department of Energy (DOE) said in a public notice scheduled to be published Thursday that it will throw out all Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests sent to the agency before October 1, 2024 unless the requester proactively emails the agency to tell it they are still interested in the documents they requested. This will result in the improper closure of likely thousands of FOIA requests if not more; government transparency experts told 404 Media that the move is “insane,” “ludicrous,” a “Pandora’s Box,” and “an underhanded attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible.”
The DOE notice says “requesters who submitted a FOIA request to DOE HQ at any time prior to October 1, 2024 (FY25), that is still open and is not under active litigation with DOE (or another Federal agency) shall email StillInterestedFOIA@hq.doe.gov to continue processing of the FOIA request […] If DOE HQ does not receive a response from requesters within the 30-day time-period with a DOE control number, no further action will be taken on the open FOIA request(s), and the file may be administratively closed.” A note at the top of the notice says it is scheduled to be formally published in the Federal Register on Thursday.
The agency will send out what are known as “still interested” letters, which federal agencies have used over the years to see if a requester wants to withdraw their request after a certain period of inactivity. These types of letters are controversial and perhaps not legal, and previous administrations have said that they should be used rarely and that requests should only be closed after an agency made multiple attempts to contact a requester over multiple methods of communication. What the DOE is doing now is sending these letters to submitters of all requests prior to October 1, 2024, which is not really that long ago; it also said it will close the requests of people who do not respond in a specific way to a specific email address.
FOIA requests—especially complicated ones—can often take months or years to process. I have outstanding FOIA requests with numerous federal agencies that I filed years ago, and am still interested in getting back, and I have gotten useful documents from federal agencies after years of waiting. The notion that large numbers of people who filed FOIA requests as recently as September 2024, which is less than a year ago, are suddenly uninterested in getting the documents they requested is absurd and should be seen as an attack on public transparency, experts told 404 Media. The DOE’s own reports show that it often does not respond to FOIA requests within a year, and, of course, a backlog exists in part because agencies are not terribly responsive to FOIA.
“If a requester proactively reaches out and says I am withdrawing my request, then no problem, they don’t have to process it,” Adam Marshall, senior staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, told me. “The agency can’t say we’ve decided we’ve gotten a lot of requests and we don’t want to do them so we’re throwing them out.”
“I was pretty shocked when I saw this to be honest,” Marshall added. “I’ve never seen anything like this in 10 years of doing FOIA work, and it’s egregious for a few reasons. I don’t think agencies have the authority to close a FOIA request if they don’t get a response to a ‘still interested’ letter. The statute doesn’t provide for that authority, and the amount of time the agency is giving people to respond—30 days—it sounds like a long time but if you happen to miss that email or aren’t digging through your backlogs, it’s not a lot of time. The notion that FOIA requesters should keep an eye out in the Federal Register for this kind of notice is ludicrous.”
The DOE notice essentially claims that the agency believes it gets too many FOIA requests and doesn’t feel like answering them. “DOE’s incoming FOIA requests have more than tripled in the past four years, with over 4,000 requests received in FY24, and an expected 5,000 or more requests in FY25. DOE has limited resources to process the burgeoning number of FOIA requests,” the notice says. “Therefore, DOE is undertaking this endeavor as an attempt to free up government resources to better serve the American people and focus its efforts on more efficiently connecting the citizenry with the work of its government.”
Lauren Harper of the Freedom of the Press Foundation told me in an email that she also has not seen any sort of precedent for this and that “it is an underhanded attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible, because who in their right mind checks the federal register regularly, and it should be challenged in court. (On that note, I am filing a FOIA request about this proposal.)”
“The use of still interested letters isn't explicitly allowed in the FOIA statute at all, and, as far as I know, there is absolutely zero case law that would support the department sending a mass ‘still interested’ letter via the federal register,” she added. “That they are also sending emails is not a saving grace; these types of letters are supposed to be used sparingly—not as a flagrant attempt to reduce their backlog by any means necessary. I also worry it will open a Pandora's Box—if other agencies see this, some are sure to follow.”
Marshall said that FOIA response times have been getting worse for years across multiple administrations (which has also been my experience). The Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have cut a large number of jobs in many agencies across the government, which may have further degraded response times. But until this, there hadn’t been major proactive attempts taken by the self-defined “most transparent administration in history” to destroy FOIA.
“This is of a different nature than what we have seen so far, this affirmative, large-scale effort to purport to cancel a large number of pending FOIA requests,” Marshall said.
Una serie di perquisizioni in Albania, nei giorni scorsi, ha portato all'arresto di 10 presunti membri di una rete criminale organizzata albanese coinvolta nel traffico di cocaina e nel riciclaggio di denaro. La rete, che aveva legami con organizzazioni internazionali, è stata presa di mira dalle forze dell'ordine albanesi in coordinamento con Belgio, Francia, Germania, Italia e Paesi Bassi.
Durante l'operazione, le autorità hanno sequestrato ingenti beni, tra cui immobili, veicoli e azioni di società per un valore di diversi milioni di euro. L'indagine ha inoltre portato alla luce una serie di prove fisiche e digitali, inclusi i dati della piattaforma di comunicazione criptata Sky ECC, che è stata disattivata nel 2021 ma ha comunque prodotto risultati operativi.
Il capo della rete era coinvolto nell'organizzazione di spedizioni e nell'investimento in grandi quantità di cocaina, ed era ricercato per una condanna a 21 anni di carcere emessa da un tribunale italiano per omicidio e altri reati. L'operazione ha segnato un successo basato sui dati: gli investigatori hanno ricostruito consegne di tonnellate di cocaina verso i porti dell'UE e sequestrato milioni di euro di beni.
ICE Propaganda Video That Used Jay-Z Song Hit With Copyright Takedown
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) propaganda video that featured Jay-Z’s music was hit with a copyright takedown request on X, and appears to have been hit with copyright violations on both Instagram and Facebook as well.
The video features footage of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents training and doing immigration raids set to Jay-Z’s 2003 song “Public Service Announcement,” which has recently been used in at least two DHS videos. DHS tweeted the video alongside the caption “Hunt Cartels. Save America. JOIN.ICE.GOV.” The original tweet, from August 10, has 2.9 million views on X; the video has been replaced with the message “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.” DHS also posted the video on Instagram and Facebook. On both platforms, the video has stayed up but Jay-Z’s music has been removed, suggesting that it got hit with a copyright notice on those platforms too. On Instagram, where it has nearly a million views, a message that says “This audio is no longer available” plays if you try to unmute the video. The sound on the video has been removed on Facebook as well, but a quirk of the platform allowed me to check what the removed audio was by clicking the name of the “sound” in the bottom left corner of the Reel, which showed it was indeed Jay-Z’s “Public Service Announcement. A Facebook user ripped and reposted the video, which still has the sound, and can be found here at the time of publication.
Neither Meta nor X responded to a request for comment. The Recording Industry Association of America, which files a huge number of copyright takedown requests across the internet for major artists, declined to comment to 404 Media. DHS also did not respond to a request for comment. Jay-Z’s Roc Nation also did not respond to a request for comment.
In recent weeks, DHS officials and agents have heavily ratcheted up the number of videos they post to social media. Many of the videos are heavily edited sizzle reels from immigration raids set to rap music or songs like the “Bad Boys” theme and Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down.”
The footage is being used to recruit new ICE agents and to promote the cruelty of Trump’s immigration raids; a video posted by chief border patrol agent Gregory Bovino features Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass warning about the overreach of the federal government in LA and includes a remixed version of “Public Service Announcement” over first-person footage of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents doing an immigration raid Thursday at a Home Depot in Los Angeles. That particular raid may have violated a court injunction, experts have argued.
“The Call of Duty aesthetic is sickening,” Chris Gilliard, co-director of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and author of the forthcoming book Luxury Surveillance, told 404 Media.
404 Media reported last week that CBP agents have been wearing Meta’s AI camera glasses to at least two recent immigration raids in Los Angeles (it is unclear what cameras were used to film the footage used in either of the videos featuring Jay-Z music).
“CBP utilize Go Pros mounted to helmets or body armor at times, as well as traditional DSLR handheld cameras,” a CBP spokesperson told 404 Media when we asked about its agents wearing Meta AI glasses. The spokesperson added “CBP does not have an arrangement with Meta. The use of personal recording devices is not authorized. However, Border Patrol agents may wear personally purchased sunglasses.”
DHS has also allowed Fox News reporters to embed with and film agents on raids, and footage from these raids shows DHS agents with DSLR cameras running alongside each other to capture footage. It is clearly important to this administration to capture and widely publicize this footage, which often emphasizes agents grabbing people who are running away from them.
The copyright takedown is notable because it shows DHS is not getting permission from artists to use their music in these propaganda videos, which are being used to recruit ICE agents in the immediate aftermath of a huge funding increase. As we reported earlier this month, ICE is trying to do a social media advertising blitz with part of this new funding, and is looking to plaster ads on social media, TV, and streaming sites. Despite this cash injection, early reports suggest that ICE is having trouble finding people to work for it.
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By omitting the "one-third" provision that most other states with age verification laws have adopted, Wyoming and South Dakota are placing the burden of verifying users' ages on all sorts of websites, far beyond porn.
By omitting the "one-third" provision that most other states with age verification laws have adopted, Wyoming and South Dakota are placing the burden of verifying usersx27; ages on all sorts of websites, far beyond porn.#ageverification
Wyoming and South Dakota Age Verification Laws Could Include Huge Parts of the Internet
Last month, age verification laws went into effect in Wyoming and South Dakota, requiring sites hosting “material that is harmful to minors” to verify visitors are over 18 years old. These would normally just be two more states joining the nearly 30 that have so far ceded ground to a years-long campaign for enforcing invasive, ineffective methods of keeping kids away from porn online.
But these two states’ laws leave out an important condition: Unlike the laws passed in other states, they don’t state that this applies only to sites with “33.3 percent” or one-third “harmful” material. That could mean Wyoming and South Dakota would require a huge number of sites to use age verification because they host any material they deem harmful to minors, not just porn sites.
Louisiana became the first state to pass an age verification law in the US in January 2023, and since then, most states have either copied or modeled their laws on Louisiana’s—including in Arizona, Missouri, and Ohio, where these laws will be enacted within the coming weeks. And most have included the “one-third” clause, which would theoretically limit the age verification burden to adult sites. But dropping that provision, as Wyoming and South Dakota have done, opens a huge swath of sites to the burden of verifying the ages of visitors in those states.
Louisiana’s law states:
“Any commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material shall be held liable if the entity fails to perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material.”
A “substantial portion” is 33.3 percent or more material on a site that’s “harmful to minors,” the law says.
Adult industry advocacy group the Free Speech Coalition issued an alert about Wyoming and South Dakota’s dropping of the one-third or “substantial” requirement on Tuesday, writing that this could “create civil and criminal liability for social media platforms such as X, Reddit and Discord, retailers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, streaming platforms such as Netflix and Rumble,” and any other platform that simply allowed material these states consider “harmful to minors” but doesn’t age-verify. “Under these new laws, a platform with any amount of material ‘harmful to minors,’ is required to verify the age of all visitors using the site. Operators of platforms that fail to do so may be subject to civil suits or even arrest,” they wrote.
I asked Wyoming Representative Martha Lawley, the lead sponsor of the state's bill, if the omission was on purpose and why. "I did not include the '33% or 1/3 rule' in my Age Verification Bill because it creates an almost impossible burden on a victim pursuing a lawsuit for violations of the law. It is more difficult than many might understand to prove percentage of an internet site that qualifies as “pornographic or material harmful to minor'" Lawley wrote in an email. "This was a provision that the porn industry lobbied heavily to be included. In Wyoming, we resisted those efforts. The second issue I had with these types of provisions is that they created some potential U.S. Constitutional concerns. These Constitutional concerns were actually brought up by several U.S. Supreme Court justices during the oral argument in the Texas Age Verification case. So, in short the 1/3 limitation places an undue burden on victims and creates potential U.S. Constitutional concerns."
I asked South Dakota Representative and sponsor of that state's bill Bethany Soye the same question. "We intentionally used the standard of 'regular course of trade or business' instead of 1/3. The 1/3 standard leaves many questions open. How is the amount measured? Is it number of images, minutes of video, number of separate webpages, pixels, etc. During oral argument, a Justice (Alito if I remember correctly) asked the attorney what percentage of porn was on his client’s websites. The attorney couldn’t give him an answer, instead he mentioned the other things on the websites like articles on sexual health and how to be an activist against these laws," Soye told me in an email. "The 1/3 standard also calls into question the government’s compelling interest in protecting kids from porn. Are we saying that 33% is harmful to minors but a website with 30% is not? We chose regular course of business because it is focused on the purpose of the business/website, not an arbitrary number. If you look into the history of the bill, 33% was a totally random number put in the first bill passed in Louisiana. Other states have just been copying it since then. We hope that our standard becomes the norm for state laws moving forward." Kansas Is About to Pass the Most Extreme Age Verification Law Yet The bill would make sites with more than 25 percent adult content liable to fines, and lumps homosexuality into “sexual conduct.” 404 MediaSamantha Cole
A version of what could be the future of the internet in the US is already playing out in the UK. Last month, the UK enacted the Online Safety Act, which forces platforms to verify the ages of everyone who tries to access certain kinds of content deemed harmful to children. So far, this has included (but isn’t limited to) Discord, popular communities on Reddit, social media sites like Bluesky, and certain content on Spotify. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… On Monday, a judge dismissed a case brought by the Wikimedia Foundation that argued the over-broadness of the new UK rules would “undermine the privacy and safety of Wikipedia’s volunteer contributors, expose the encyclopedia to manipulation and vandalism, and divert essential resources from protecting people and improving Wikipedia, one of the world’s most trusted and widely used digital public goods,” Wikimedia Foundation wrote. “For example, the Foundation would be required to verify the identity of many Wikipedia contributors, undermining the privacy that is central to keeping Wikipedia volunteers safe.”
"As we're seeing in the UK with the Online Safety Act, laws designed to protect the children from ‘harmful material’ online quickly metastasize and begin capturing nearly all users and all sites in surveillance and censorship schemes,” Mike Stabile, director of public policy at the Free Speech Coalition, told me in an email following the alert. “These laws give the government legal power to threaten platform owners into censoring or removing fairly innocuous content — healthcare information, mainstream films, memes, political speech — while decimating privacy protections for adults. Porn was only ever a Trojan horse for advancing these laws. Now, unfortunately, we're starting to see what we warned was inside all along."
Updated 8/13 2:35 p.m. EST with comment from Rep. Lawley.
Updated 8/13 3:35 p.m. EST with comment from Rep. Soye.
UPDATE: On Monday, 11 August, the High Court of Justice dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations.
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