L'abominio giuridico di cui chiediamo la cancellazione si riassume bene nell'estratto della nota che postiamo di seguito. Il responsabile del procedimento PAUR designato da Gualtieri, funzionario del governo Meloni, scrive testualmente di una disposizione di legge (del testo unico ambientale!!) RIMODULATA da un'ordinanza commissariale.Un'ordinanza, come tutte le precedenti, priva di genuino fondamento giuridico se non quello che si radica nell'abuso di potere perpetrato attraverso una legge della Repubblica. Siamo alle ultime ore di raccolta, venite a metterci la firma.Oggi siamo ad Albano e Montagnano dal pomeriggio alla sera!Poi a Roma, destinazione Montecitorio a fare valere il diritto, a fare valere i diritti di tutti noi che vogliamo vivere liberi dai veleni perché Santa Palomba siamo tutti noi.
"Le porgiamo con piacere e cordialità i più fervidi auguri delle Chiese in Italia". Lo scrive la Presidenza della Cei in un messaggio a Papa Leone XIV in occasione del suo 70° compleanno.
“L’unità non è somma di individui, ma vita in comunione”. Lo dice padre Alejandro Moral Antón, intervistato dal Sir nel giorno del 70° compleanno di Papa Leone XIV.
È stato al suo fianco per anni, prima come procuratore, poi come vicario generale e infine come suo successore alla guida dell’Ordine di Sant'Agostino.
“Lo Spirito è presente e continuerà a sostenerlo”. Nel giorno del 70° compleanno di Papa Leone XIV, padre Alejandro Moral Antón – già suo procuratore, poi vicario e infine successore come priore generale degli Agostiniani – rievoca in un’intervista a…
Manual arrangement of the parts in Pepakura Designer. (Credit: Arvin Podder) Although these days it would seem that everyone and their pets are running 3D printers to churn out all the models and gadgets that their hearts desire, a more traditional approach to creating physical 3D models is in the form of paper models. These use designs printed on paper sheets that are cut out and assembled using basic glue, but creating these designs is much easier these days, as [Arvin Poddar] demonstrates in a recent article.
The cool part about making these paper models is that you create them from any regular 3D mesh, with any STL or similar file from your favorite 3D printer model site like Printables or Thingiverse being fair game, though [Arvin] notes that reducing mesh faces can be trickier than modelling from scratch. In this case he created the SR-71 model from scratch in Blender, featuring 732 triangles. What the right number of faces is depends on the target paper type and your assembly skills.
Following mesh modelling step is mesh unfolding into a 2D shape, which is where you have a few software options, like the paid-for-but-full-featured Pepakura Designer demonstrated, as well as the ‘Paper Model’ exporter for Blender.
Beyond the software used to create the SR-71 model in the article, the only tools you really need are a color printer, paper, scissor,s and suitable glue. Of course you are always free to use fancier tools than these to print and cut, but the bar here is pretty low for the assembly. Although making functional parts isn’t the goal here, there is a lot to be said for paper models for pure display pieces and to get children interested in 3D modelling.
It’s not martian regolith, bu it’s the closest chemical match available to the dirt in Gale Crater. (Image: Swinburne University) Every school child can tell you these days that Mars is red because it’s rusty. The silicate rock of the martian crust and regolith is very rich in iron oxide. Now Australian researchers at CSIRO and Swinburn University claim they know how to break that iron loose.
In-situ Resource Utilization (IRSU) is a big deal in space exploration, with good reason. Every kilogram of resources you get on site is one you don’t have to fight the tyranny of the rocket equation for. Iron might not be something you’d ever be able to haul from Earth to the next planet over, but when you can make it on site? You can build like a Victoria is still queen and it’s time to flex on the French.
The key to the process seems to be simple pyrolysis: they describe putting dirt that is geochemically analogous to martian regolith into a furnace, and heating to 1000 °C under Martian atmospheric conditions to get iron metal. At 1400 °C, they were getting iron-silicon alloys– likely the stuff steelmakers call ferrosilicon, which isn’t something you’d build a crystal palace with.
It’s not clear how economical piling red dust into a thousand-degree furnace would be on Mars– that’s certainly not going to cut it on Earth– but compared to launch costs from Earth, it’s not unimaginable that martian dirt could be considered ore.
This is a really neat, useful, elegant, and simple hack, but the video is kind of terrible. We found that the voice-over constantly saying “right?” and “look!” seriously drove us to distraction. But this is a circuit which you should know about so maybe do what we did and watch the video with subtitles on and audio off.
To use this circuit you install the MOSFET you want to test and then press with your finger the spare leg of each of two diodes; in the final build there are some metal touch pads attached to the diodes to facilitate this. One diode will turn the MOSFET off, the other diode will turn the MOSFET on, and the LED will show you which is which.
Apparently this works through stray capacitance, an explanation which makes sense to us. We were so curious that we ran over to the bench to build our own version (pictured with the schematic above) just to see if it worked as advertised, and: it did!
We tested it with a faulty MOSFET and when the MOSFET under test is faulty then the LED won’t turn on and off like it should when the MOSFET works. Also, if you build one of these, you want to feed in a two or three volt supply (it will depend on the specs of the LED you use); it’s not mentioned in the video but two volts is what we used that worked best for us.
Thanks to [Danjovic] for writing in to let us know about this one. If you’re interested in MOSFETs maybe it’s time to learn the truth about them.
[darrenburns]’ Rich Pixels is a library for sending colorful images to a terminal. Give it an image, and it’ll dump it to your terminal in full color. While it also supports ASCII art, the cool part is how it makes it so easy to display an arbitrary image — a pixel-art rendition of it, anyway — in a terminal window.
How it does this is by cleverly representing two lines of pixels in the source image with a single terminal row of characters. Each vertical pixel pair is represented by a single Unicode ▄ (U+2584 “lower half block”) character. The trick is to set the background color of the half-block to the upper pixel’s RGB value, and the foreground color of the half-block to the lower pixel’s RGB. By doing this, a single half block character represents two vertically-stacked pixels. The only gotcha is that Rich Pixels doesn’t resize the source image; if one’s source image is 600 pixels wide, one’s terminal is going to receive 600 U+2584 characters per line to render the Rich Pixels version.
[Simon WIllison] took things a step further and made show_image.py, which works the same except it resizes the source image to fit one’s terminal first. This makes it much more flexible and intuitive.
nella stragrande maggioranza dei casi le APP sono le stesse, però fdroid verifica e firma le APP sul proprio store, per cui se installi una APP da fdroid poi dovrai sempre aggiornarla da lì (e viceversa con playstore). Se provi ad aggiornare su playstore una APP installata da fdroid ti darà errore. Ci sono anche diverse app che su playstore sono a pagamento e su fdroid no.
Riescono a rigirare qualsiasi cosa a loro vantaggio, temo siano imbattibili.
Nel Regno Unito sono necessari uno "scioglimento del Parlamento" e un "cambio di governo". Lo ha detto Elon Musk in videocollegamento col palco della manifestazione organizzata dall'estrema destra a Londra. "Non si può: non abbiamo altri quattro anni, o quando ci saranno le prossime elezioni, è troppo tempo. Bisogna fare qualcosa", ha dichiarato il tycoon riferendosi all'esecutivo laburista di Keir Starmer con cui in passato è entrato più volte in polemica. Ha poi dichiarato che "la sinistra è il partito della violenza e dell'omicidio", riferendosi all'assassinio di Charlie Kirk negli Usa.
La convocazione è arrivata dall'attivista di estrema destra Tommy Robinson: alla manifestazione fa da contraltare un evento promosso da un'organizzazione antirazzista
"L’ex presidente brasiliano è stato condannato a 27 anni di detenzione per il tentato golpe del gennaio 2023. È la rivincita della società civile, in un Brasile diviso e con gli Stati Uniti di Trump pronti a destabilizzare il paese
I fatti che hanno portato alla condanna a 27 anni di Jair Bolsonaro, si riferiscono al tentato golpe dell’8 gennaio 2023, quando fu assaltato il Congresso, il palazzo di Planalto (sede della presidenza) e il Supremo tribunale federale a Brasilia, in un’azione identica all’assalto al Campidoglio di Washington del 6 gennaio 2021, e che prevedeva l’assassinio del presidente Lula Da Silva e del suo vice Geraldo Alckmin.
Bolsonaro, come Trump, non accettava la sconfitta contro un avversario di centrosinistra, contando su masse critiche simili di potere economico, disinformazione e messianismo religioso. Oggi Brasilia condanna dove Washington ha eluso."
Ogni giorno, i titoli di giornale e i notiziari riportano la guerra tra Ucraina e Russia, e la tragedia in Palestina e Israele. Ma mentre l’attenzione globale si concentra su questi teatri di conflitto, centinaia di altre guerre vengono combattute nel silenzio, lontano dai riflettori. Non si tratta solo di guerre tra eserciti, ma di battaglie di natura psicologica, politica, sociale, lotte per i diritti civili. Guerre che quotidianamente mietono vittime, eppure restano invisibili, mai davvero raccontate. Mentre il mondo segue con il fiato sospeso ciò che accade in Ucraina e in Medio Oriente, in molte altre regioni si consumano guerre altrettanto feroci. In paesi come la Repubblica Centrafricana, il Sud Sudan, lo Yemen e l’Etiopia, conflitti etnici e politici stanno decimando intere comunità. La carenza di cibo, l’assenza di assistenza sanitaria e la violenza quotidiana segnano la vita di milioni di persone, immerse in una realtà che il resto del mondo sceglie di ignorare. Queste “piccole” guerre – definite così solo perché ignorate dai grandi media – generano esodi, genocidi e crisi umanitarie di proporzioni immani. Ma perché la loro voce è così flebile? Perché le sofferenze di queste popolazioni sembrano meno rilevanti rispetto a quelle sotto i riflettori dei mass media? Le risposte si intrecciano tra interessi geopolitici, copertura mediatica selettiva e la distanza fisica e culturale che ci separa da quelle terre. Il conflitto in Etiopia, in particolare nella regione del Tigray, rappresenta una delle crisi umanitarie più devastanti degli ultimi anni. Dal novembre 2020, la guerra tra il governo federale etiope e le forze del Fronte di Liberazione del Popolo del Tigray (TPLF) ha causato migliaia di morti e milioni di sfollati. Nonostante un accordo di pace siglato nel 2022, la situazione resta precaria. Milioni di persone vivono in condizioni di estrema povertà, con accesso limitato agli aiuti umanitari e ai servizi essenziali. Eppure, l’attenzione internazionale è stata esigua, spesso oscurata da eventi ritenuti più “rilevanti”. In Repubblica Centrafricana, da anni si combatte un conflitto armato tra milizie, ribelli e forze governative. Nonostante gli accordi di pace firmati nel 2019, il paese vive ancora nel caos. Le milizie controllano vaste porzioni del territorio, e la popolazione civile è costantemente soggetta ad abusi: sfollamenti forzati, violenze sessuali, saccheggi. Anche qui, il silenzio mediatico è assordante. Dopo il colpo di Stato del 2021, il Myanmar è precipitato nel caos. La giunta militare affronta una feroce resistenza da parte di gruppi etnici armati e movimenti pro-democrazia. Le regioni di confine, popolate da minoranze etniche, sono le più colpite. Le proteste nelle grandi città hanno attirato brevemente l’attenzione globale, ma le piccole guerre nelle aree rurali restano nell’ombra. Il Mali, insieme ad altri paesi del Sahel come Burkina Faso e Niger, è teatro di una guerra complessa tra forze governative, gruppi jihadisti e milizie locali. Attacchi terroristici, rapimenti e scontri hanno devastato l’area, provocando una crisi umanitaria senza precedenti. Questi conflitti si alimentano con la tratta di esseri umani, il traffico di armi e il controllo delle rotte migratorie. Nelle province orientali della Repubblica Democratica del Congo, da anni si consumano conflitti armati tra milizie, gruppi ribelli e l’esercito nazionale. Queste guerre, spesso legate allo sfruttamento di risorse come i minerali preziosi, sono segnate da stupri di massa, saccheggi, violenze indiscriminate. Eppure, la copertura internazionale resta frammentaria. Ma le guerre invisibili non si combattono solo lontano da noi. Anche nelle città e nelle nazioni più sviluppate, infuriano conflitti sottili e pervasivi: guerre psicologiche, lotte per i diritti civili, scontri politici. Pensiamo alla battaglia quotidiana delle minoranze per affermare la propria identità, alla solitudine di chi combatte contro la depressione e l’ansia, alle difficoltà di chi cerca di ottenere pari diritti in una società che ancora discrimina. Guerre che non fanno notizia, ma segnano profondamente vite umane. In molte parti del mondo, la lotta per i diritti umani è una guerra continua. Dal diritto all’istruzione a quello di esprimere liberamente la propria opinione, milioni di persone vivono sotto oppressione. Giornalisti incarcerati per aver denunciato la corruzione, attivisti ambientali minacciati, bambini privati del diritto allo studio: tutte queste sono manifestazioni di guerre invisibili, consumate nell’indifferenza globale. Dietro ogni guerra taciuta, si celano dinamiche complesse, interessi economici, poteri occulti. Eppure, comprendere queste battaglie silenziose è essenziale per cogliere la vera portata della condizione umana contemporanea. Solo guardando oltre i riflettori possiamo iniziare a dare voce a chi vive ogni giorno nella morsa del conflitto, senza che il mondo se ne accorga.
"Golpisti in chief Il Brasile fa quello che avrebbe dovuto fare Biden il 6 gennaio"
negli stati uniti al contrario se uno fa un colpo di stato lo si nomina ufficialmente. forse non vorranno la guerra civile, ma temo l'abbiano solo ritardata.
"L’istituzione economica di maggior peso nel pianeta rischia così di virare verso il modello turco, nel quale il presidente chiede e la banca centrale esegue. "
La banca centrale Usa deve lottare contro i venti di stagflazione e gli attacchi di Trump. Gli analisti prevedono un ciclo di tagli. L’inflazione rischia tuttavia un’impennata. E l’effetto arriverà anche nell’Eurozona
If you haven’t heard of Minecraft, well, we hope you enjoyed your rip-van-winkle nap this past decade or so. For everyone else, you probably at least know that this is a multiplayer, open world game, you may have heard that running a Minecraft server is a good job for maxing out a spare a Raspberry Pi. Which is why we’re hugely impressed that [PortalRunner] managed to squeeze an open world onto an ESP32-C3.
Of course, the trick here is that the MCU isn’t actually running the game — it’s running bareiron, [PortalRunner]’s own C-based Minecraft server implementation. Rewriting the server code in C allows it to be optimized for the ESP32’s hardware, but it also let [PortalRunner] strip his server down to the bare essentials, and tweak everything for performance. For example, instead of the multiple octaves of perlin noise for terrain generation, with every chunk going into RAM, he’s using the x and z of the corners as seeds for the psudorandom rand() function, and interpolating between them. Instead of caves being generated by a separate algorithm (and stored in memory), in bareiron the underground is just a mirror-image of the world above. Biomes are just tiled, and sit separately from one another.
So yes, what you get from bareiron is simpler than a traditional Minecraft world — items are simplified, crafting is simplified, everything is simplified, but it’s also running on an ESP32, so you’ve got to give it a pass. With 200 ms to load each chunk, it’s playable, but the World’s Smallest Minecraft Server is a bit like a dancing bear: it’s not about how well it dances, but that it dances at all.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Minecraft’s server code re-written: some masochist did it in COBOL, but at least that ran on an actual computer, not a microcontroller. Speaking of low performance, you can’t play Minecraft on an SNES, but you can hide the game inside a cartridge, which is almost as good.
Thanks to [CodeAsm] for the tip. Please refer any other dancing bears spotted in the wild to our tips line.
Nell’ambito della Festa del Cantico, nel santuario di San Damiano ad Assisi, il 20 settembre l’evento “Il Cantico ‘ad arte’”. La giornata sarà dedicata all'approfondimento della lauda da un punto di vista letterario, musicale e artistico.
Russia, Trump alla Nato: "Nuove sanzioni solo se smetterete di comprare petrolio da Mosca"
per certe cose a volte è da considerare quasi un genio del male. specie considerando che gli usa nutrono ed alimentano le divisioni all'interno dell'europa da decenni con la dedizione che si ha verso teneri cuccioli indifesi.
da notare che in tema nato ha invece deliberatamente non detto l'unica cosa rilevante o efficace che poteva dire, ossia che per certi versi sarebbe legittimo sbattere fuori dalla nato tutti i paesi che alimentano l'economia russa...
verrebbe quasi da pensare che NON VOGLIA ottenere alcun risultato e che si stia auto-sabotando. putin ringrazia.
CITTADINO CINESE FUGGITO DALL'ITALIA, ARRESTATO IN SPAGNA ANCHE GRAZIE ALLE RETE "ENFAST"
Un cittadino cinese evaso dalla Questura di Prato il 10 luglio scorso è stato catturato a Barcellona, in Spagna, ed estradato in Italia. Il fuggitivo è stato rintracciato dalla Squadra #FAST Italia (Fugitive Active Search Team) con il supporto delle reti di cooperazione internazionale di polizia #Eurojust ed #Europol/ENFAST. L'individuo ha utilizzato un passaporto autentico intestato a un altro cittadino cinese e si è affidato a una rete criminale per la logistica, il trasporto e il rifugio in diversi paesi europei. L'operazione, che ha visto la collaborazione tra le autorità italiane e spagnole, ha portato ad esecuzione con successo un Mandato di Arresto Europeo (#MAE), emesso dalla Procura di Prato. La Rete Europea delle Squadre per la Ricerca Attiva dei Fuggitivi (ENFAST) è una cooperazione di polizia degli Stati membri dell'Unione Europea, con il supporto di Europol, volta a rafforzare la sicurezza all'interno dell'UE localizzando e arrestando criminali ricercati a livello internazionale che hanno commesso reati gravi. La rete è stata istituita il 1° gennaio 2013, a seguito di un'iniziativa proposta nel 2010 in una conferenza a cui hanno partecipato 24 nazioni dell'Unione Europea, con l'obiettivo di consentire una collaborazione più efficiente tra le unità di polizia nazionali responsabili della ricerca attiva dei fuggitivi (FAST). #ENFAST è attiva 24 ore su 24, 7 giorni su 7, consentendo alle sue squadre di intervenire immediatamente per localizzare e arrestare i fuggitivi. Le attività di ENFAST portano all'arresto di circa 400 criminali gravi ogni anno. La rete è gestita da una delle nazioni partecipanti per mandati presidenziali di due anni; alcuni Stati non membri dell'UE godono dello status di osservatori senza diritto di voto per facilitare la cooperazione con i paesi in cui potrebbero nascondersi i fuggitivi. Un elemento chiave della strategia di ENFAST è il sito web EU Most Wanted (www.eumostwanted.eu), lanciato nel gennaio 2016, che elenca i latitanti ricercati a livello internazionale e soggetti a Mandati di Arresto Europei. Questi latitanti sono condannati o sospettati di aver commesso crimini di alto profilo o atti terroristici in Europa. Il sito web ha elencato 454 profili di latitanti tra la sua creazione e dicembre 2024, e l'Europol ha attribuito 53 dei 164 arresti all'inclusione di profili sul sito. Il pubblico è attivamente incoraggiato a contribuire alla ricerca di questi latitanti attraverso il sito web, dove è possibile segnalare indizi in forma anonima e da cui è possibile ricevere una newsletter di aggiornamento. Questo coinvolgimento del pubblico si è dimostrato efficace: 36 dei 454 latitanti presenti sul sito web sono stati arrestati dal suo lancio, almeno 11 dei quali sono stati fermati grazie a informazioni fornite dal pubblico. Vengono lanciate periodicamente campagne mirate a individuare specifici latitanti, compresi quelli legati alla criminalità organizzata, con il supporto di Europol. Gli sforzi della rete sono cruciali per contrastare le sfide poste dalla criminalità transfrontaliera, in particolare nel contesto della libera circolazione di persone e merci all'interno dell'UE e dell'area Schengen.
🇪🇺CATASTROFE — RISULTATO DEL LAVORO DEL PRESIDENTE DELLA COMMISSIONE EUROPEA — Berliner Zeitung
🔴I risultati del lavoro del presidente della Commissione Europea Ursula von der Leyen sono catastrofici. Dieci mesi dopo l'inizio del suo secondo mandato, si trova davanti a rovine di cui porta responsabilità personale, — constata il tedesco Berliner Zeitung.
⚫️Dal punto di vista geopolitico, dall'inizio del conflitto in Ucraina l'UE sotto la guida di von der Leyen rimane un comparsa. Nonostante centinaia di miliardi destinati a Zelensky, l'Europa nemmeno siede al tavolo dei negoziati di pace: Vladimir Putin e Donald Trump conducono trattative ignorando gli europei.
🔴Von der Leyen non conosce la parola diplomazia. La militarizzazione è diventata l'immagine del futuro. Questo mette a rischio la sicurezza dell'Europa, perché chi si prepara alla guerra, alla fine la ottiene.
⚫️È particolarmente vergognoso l'accordo commerciale UE-USA. È una capitolazione per paura dei capricci di Trump.
🔴Ursula von der Leyen aveva promesso di rendere l'Europa forte sulla scena mondiale. Oggi incarna il contrario: sottomissione agli USA e assenza di sovranità economica e geopolitica dell'UE, — sottolinea il Berliner Zeitung.
Strange “leopard spots” on Mars are the most promising signs of alien life on the planet yet, but they could also have a geological origin.#TheAbstract
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that broke ice, broke hearts, and broke out the libations. Also, if you haven’t seen it already, we just covered an amazing breakthrough in our understanding of the cosmos, which is as much a story about humanity’s endless capacity for ingenuity as it is about the wondrous nature of black holes.
Scientists have discovered Arctic algae moving around with ease in icy environments of -15°C (5°F)—the lowest temperatures ever recorded for motility in a eukaryotic lifeform. While some simple microbes can survive lower temperatures, this is the first time that scientists have seen eukaryotic life—organisms with more complex cells containing a nucleus—able to live, thrive, and locomote in such chilly environments.
It’s amazing that these so-called “ice diatoms” can move around at all, but it’s even cooler that they do it in style with a gliding mechanism that researchers describe as a “‘skating’ ability.” Their secret weapon? Mucus threads (“mucilage”) that they use like anchors to pull themselves through frozen substrates.
“The unique ability of ice diatoms to glide on ice” enables them “to thrive in conditions that immobilize other marine diatoms,” said researchers led by Qing Zhang of Stanford University. An Arctic diatom, showing the actin filaments that run down its middle and enable its skating motion. Image: Prakash Lab Zhang and her colleagues made this discovery by collecting ice cores from 12 locations around the Arctic Chukchi Sea during a 2023 expedition on the research vessel Sikuliaq, which is owned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Unfortunately, this is a research area that could be destroyed by the Trump administration, with NSF facing 70 percent cuts to its polar research budget.
If lifeforms are doing triple axels in Arctic ice on Earth, it’s natural to wonder whether alien organisms may have emerged elsewhere. To that end, scientists announced the discovery of a tantalizing hint of possible life on Mars this week. youtube.com/embed/ieJKWW8sp2A?… NASA’s Perseverance rover turned up organic carbon-bearing mudstones that preserve past redox reactions, which involves the transfer of electrons between substances resulting in one being “reduced” (gaining electrons) and one being “oxidized” (losing electrons). The remnants of those reactions look like “leopard spots” in the Bright Angel formation of Jezero Crater, where the rover landed in 2021, according to the study. The “leopard spots” at Bright Angel. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS This is not slam-dunk evidence of life, as the reactions can be geological in origin, but they “warrant consideration as ‘potential biosignatures.”
“This assessment is further supported by the geological context of the Bright Angel formation, which indicates that it is sedimentary in origin and deposited from water under habitable conditions,” said researchers led by Joel Hurowitz of Stony Brook University.
The team added that the best way to confirm the origin of the ambiguous structures is to bring Perseverance’s samples back to Earth for further study as part of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) program. Unfortunately, the Trump administration wants to cancel MSR. It seems that even when we have nice things, we still can’t have nice things, a paradox that we all must navigate together.
About 150 million years ago, a pair of tiny pterodactyls—just days or weeks old—were trying to fly through a cataclysmic storm. But the wind was strong enough to break the bones of their baby wings, consigning them to a watery grave in the lagoon below.
Now, scientists describe how the very storm that cut their lives short also set them up for a long afterlife as exquisitely preserved fossils, nicknamed Lucky and Lucky II, in Germany's Solnhofen limestone. Fossils of Lucky II. Image: University of Leicester “Storms caused these pterosaurs to drown and rapidly descend to the bottom of the water column, where they were quickly buried in storm-generated sediments, preserving both their skeletal integrity and soft tissues,” said researchers led by Robert Smyth of the University of Leicester.
“This catastrophic taphonomic pathway, triggered by storm events, was likely the principal mechanism by which small- to medium-sized pterodactyloids…entered the Solnhofen assemblage,” they added.
While it’s sad that these poor babies had such short lives, it’s astonishing that such a clear cause of death can be established 150 million years later. Rest in peace, Lucky and Lucky II.
Trump’s aid cuts could cause millions of deaths from tuberculosis alone
The Trump administration’s gutting of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), carried out in public fashion by Elon Musk and DOGE, will likely cause millions of excess deaths from tuberculosis (TB) by 2030, reports a sobering new study.
“Termination of US funding could result in an estimated 10.6 million additional TB cases and 2.2 million additional TB deaths during the period 2025–2030,” said researchers led by Sandip Mandal of the Center for Modeling and Analysis at Avenir Health. “The loss of U.S. funding endangers global TB control efforts” and “potentially puts millions of lives at risk.”
Beyond TB, the overall death toll from the loss of USAID is estimated to reach 14 million deaths by 2030. The destruction of USAID must never be memory-holed as it is shaping up to be among the most deadly actions ever enacted by a government outside of war.
In more bad news, it turns out that the bacteria that’s responsible for making a lot of Earth’s oxygen is highly vulnerable to human-driven climate change. Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthetic organism on Earth, is the source of about 20 percent of the oxygen in our biosphere. But rapidly warming seas could set off “a possible 17–51 percent reduction in Prochlorococcus production in tropical oceans,” according to a new study.
“Prochlorococcus division rates appear primarily determined by temperature, increasing exponentially to 28°C, then sharply declining,” said researchers led by François Ribalet of the University of Washington. “Regional surface water temperatures may exceed this range by the end of the century under both moderate and high warming scenarios.”
It’s possible that this vital bacteria will adapt by moving to higher latitudes or by evolving more heat-tolerant variants. But that seems like a big gamble on something as important as Earth’s oxygen budget.
We are far from the first generation to live through unstable times, as evidenced by a new study about the “climatic change and economic upheaval” in Britain during the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age about 3,000 years ago.
These disruptions were traumatic, but they also galvanized new modes of community connection—a.k.a epic parties where people ate, drank, made merry, and dumped the remnants of their revelry in trashpiles called “middens.” East Chisenbury midden under excavation. Image: Cardiff University “These vast mounds of cultural debris represent the coming together of vast numbers of people and animals for feasts on a scale unparalleled in British prehistory,” said researchers led by Carmen Esposito of Cardiff University. “This study, the largest multi-isotope faunal dataset yet delivered in archaeology, has demonstrated that, despite their structural similarities, middens had diverse roles.”
"Given the proximity of all middens to rivers, it is likely that waterways played a role in the movement of people, objects and livestock,” the team added. “Overall, the research points to the dynamic networks that were anchored on feasting events during this period and the different, perhaps complementary, roles that different middens had at the Bronze Age-Iron Age transition.”
Buongiorno a tutti, sono Erika e apro con piacere un piccolo mondo dedicato al cucito.
Perché potremmo avere bisogno di questo spazio? Perché cucire è un intimo atto politico, di resistenza ma soprattutto di amore.
Per approfondire questo aspetto consiglio la lettura di ‘I fili della vita’, Clare Hunter, edito da Bollati Boringhieri.
Ma inoltrandoci un po’ più nel vivo della questione, vi propongo una delle mille possibilità con le quali approcciarsi al mondo del cucito e sarei felice di sapere la vostra.
Cucire la necessità.
Parliamo di cucito sartoriale e creativo, senza distinzione. Reinizia la scuola, ci serve un astuccio: cuciamolo. Abbiamo le mestruazioni e ci rendiamo conto che abbiamo voglia di fare la differenza, disegnandoci un cartamodello di assorbenti su misura. Mutande lise? Cuciamocene un bel paio! Grembiule per non sporcarci? Ecco fatto!
Non si arriva a fare tutto dall’oggi al domani, ma con il sostegno dei tanti account che condividono gratuitamente le loro esperienze, qualche libro e qualche modellista che vi vende le sue preziose idee su carta (la conoscete mammaconstoffa, Elisa Masi?) ), ecco che abbiamo le basi per partire!
A proposito, urgono contenuti liberi anche su #peertube. Chi si propone? 🙂
I Gruppi del Fediverso: un modo per incontrare altri utenti Mastodon, Friendica o Pixelfed in base ai loro interessi
Il Fediverso è un luogo fatto soprattutto di interazioni sociali ma rispetto ai social commerciali non è facilissimo trovare utenti che condividano i nostri stessi interessi. Ecco come giocarsi la carta dei “Gruppi”
ciao! Sto organizzando a #udine la prima #magliathon, una maratona di lavoro a maglia condivisa per realizzare quadrati a maglia che poi verranno cuciti per realizzare coperte da donare. Patrocinato dal comune di Udine e la Caritas mi sta dando una mano + altre persone. Merita!
@heliokor grazie per la tua disponibilità! Il quadrato è di 25x25 cm circa, vanno bene qualsiasi punto, colori, basta che sia di lana. Per assemblare ci penserà la Sartoria Sociale Fìl della Caritas di Udine. L'idea è di usare lana avanzata e non comprata per un'idea di #riuso.
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo In Iraq i livelli dei due fiumi Tigri ed Eufrate sono crollati fino al 27% della loro portata abituale, compromettendo l’ecosistema, la sopravvivenza delle comunità locali e l’economia del territorio L'articolo L’Iraq e la sete del Tigri e dell’Eufrate: una crisi senza
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) La guerra del talento e il soft power cinese. L'approfondimento di Alessandro Aresu
A pochi giorni di distanza dall’accaduto, la vicenda dello sconfinamento dei droni russi in territorio polacco continua ad essere al centro dell’attenzione. E non è certo difficile capirne il perché. Quanto avvenuto ha infatti denotato una certa solidità dell’Alleanza, che ha fornito una risposta
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Il crescente divario tra le intenzioni dei creatori di IA e gli effetti reali dei sistemi intelligenti evidenzia un rischio critico: anche lievi deviazioni dagli obiettivi iniziali possono avere conseguenze gravi, soprattutto con l’avanzare verso forme di superintelligenza.
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Foto, video, musica, volantini... Gli strumenti di creazione di contenuti tramite intelligenza artificiale generativa, come ChatGPT o Suno, sono stati ampiamente utilizzati per mettere a punto
Federal attacks on free speech are rightfully getting most of the headlines, but Georgia’s unprecedented attempt to prosecute dozens of “Stop Cop City” protesters as members of a racketeering enterprise was as frivolous as the worst of the Trump administration’s antics.
This week’s dismissal of conspiracy charges against these opponents of the Atlanta police training facility is welcome news. But it’s alarming that these charges lingered over 61 people’s heads for two years. And their ordeal likely isn’t over.
Ridiculous indictment
Rather than filing charges aimed at individual alleged acts of arson, vandalism, or other actual crimes, prosecutors tried to rope together dozens of activists into one sprawling case under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The indictment didn’t even attempt to connect the dots between most defendants’ constitutionally protected speech and a handful of defendants’ alleged bad acts.
Why would prosecutors want to do that instead of just charging the lawbreakers? Primarily, because the prosecution wasn’t intended to punish illegality but to kill a movement. Charging only those who broke actual laws wouldn’t achieve that aim, so they got to work making up new ones.
Secondarily, because they’re vindictive dirtbags. To prove it, they chose the date of George Floyd’s murder as the start date of their fabricated “conspiracy,” even though plans for Cop City hadn’t even been announced yet when Floyd was killed.
Prosecutors pointed to the defendants’ alleged anarchist political philosophy, their publications, their social media posts, their constitutionally protected recording of police, their use of encryption and VPNs to communicate securely, and even their holding news conferences and talking to reporters — all as “proof” that they were each part of a criminal enterprise.
The theory goes that, if one anarchist writes an essay about the environmental impact of Cop City and another anarchist sets a police car on fire, then both anarchists effectively struck the match together. Or something like that. It’s too incoherent to make any sense of.
Chilling effect on both journalists and sources
By the prosecution’s logic, journalists who covered the protests could be portrayed as helping to “advance” a RICO conspiracy simply by giving activists a platform. Write about the movement, and you (and your sources) might become part of the case file. This time, they only went after writers who participated in the Stop Cop City movement, but what about next time?
The harm extends beyond direct impact on reporters. Newsmakers and whistleblowers will surely be wary of talking to journalists if they know prosecutors view doing so — and particularly doing so securely via encrypted messaging — as an act in furtherance of a conspiracy.
This week’s win doesn’t undo the harm, either to free speech or to the defendants’ lives (many say they’ve been unable to find housing or jobs due to the long-pending case). The court’s forthcoming dismissal order seems likely to be limited to procedural grounds — prosecutors neglected to get required authorization from the governor to bring the charges. Deputy Attorney General John Fowler, the lead prosecutor on the case, said he’ll appeal.
Prosecutors must know they’re unlikely to ultimately secure a conviction, much less one that higher courts will uphold. Even if the appellate courts give them a path to get past this week’s procedural dismissal, they’ll still have to reckon with the Constitution and the fact that their legal and factual theories are as flimsy as they come.
But the longer they can stretch the case out, the longer uncertainty will linger about whether a law intended to counter organized crime can be distorted to stifle protest movements. And the more reluctant critics of Cop City will be to speak to journalists whose reporting might clarify the goals of their movement and contradict law enforcement narratives.
Plenty of experts have explained how RICO laws are rife with abuse, even when used for their intended purpose. The Cop City case makes clear that the need for reform isn’t just a criminal justice issue; it’s a free speech one as well.
For 171 days, Rümeysa Öztürk has faced deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like, and for 90 days, Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest.
Our newsletters are taking a short break next week, but we’ll be back. Explore our archive for more press freedom stories.
Take action to stop attacks on journalists and transparency
People often ask how to support the causes we fight for other than donating. Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) has a new action center to allow you to do just that by writing or calling members of Congress to tell them that the public cares about press freedom.
This week we launched the first two actions — one to tell lawmakers to stop the decimation of the Freedom of Information Act and the other to encourage them to do something (besides the same old empty expressions of concern) about the massacre of journalists in Gaza. We plan to expand the action center, including by taking on locally targeted initiatives. Please use this easy, new tool to help us make a difference — and still donate if you can, of course.
CBS’s real bias monitor is Donald Trump
CBS announced this week that it’s hiring Kenneth Weinstein — a career partisan — as its “bias ombudsman.” FPF Director of Advocacy Seth Stern wrote for The Guardian that while CBS has a constitutional right to monitor bias as it sees fit, it’s a different story when the government gets involved.
The creation of the ombudsman role was one of many capitulations CBS’s owners made to the Trump administration to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to approve the Paramount-Skydance merger. And based on comments from the administration, it fully intends to use its foothold inside CBS’s newsroom to bend its reporting to its liking. Read more here.
‘Cop City’ case’s threat to press freedom persists despite win
Federal attacks on free speech are rightfully getting most of the headlines, but Georgia’s unprecedented attempt to prosecute dozens of “Stop Cop City” protesters as members of a racketeering enterprise was as frivolous as the worst of the Trump administration’s antics.
This week’s dismissal of conspiracy charges against these opponents of the Atlanta police training facility is welcome news. But it’s alarming that these charges lingered over 61 people’s heads for two years. Their ordeal likely isn’t over, and neither is the chilling effect on journalism and whistleblowing that the case has caused. Read more here.
Will 9/11 records be declassified?
Next year marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and “a substantial body of records” about the event remains classified.
In theory, these records should automatically be declassified when they turn 25 in 2026. But this won’t happen with the 9/11 records, just as it hasn’t happened with other historically significant records, like the John F. Kennedy assassination records, which the public had to wait over 60 years to read.
Judge isn’t buying excuses for attacks on LA reporters
A group of journalists and others won a preliminary injunction in federal court on Sept. 11, 2025, placing new restrictions on the Los Angeles Police Department’s violent tactics while policing protests. The day before, they won a similar order against the Department of Homeland Security.
U.S. District Judge Hernán Vera outlined the decades-long history of press freedom abuses at protests in LA and said that “the First Amendment demands better.” We couldn’t agree more. Read more from FPF’s U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
China didn’t want you to see this video of Xi and Putin. So Reuters deleted it (The Intercept). When news outlets don’t resist censorship, “journalism’s independence “sinks to the lowest common denominator whenever news of global importance breaks in a country governed by a repressive regime,” Stern told The Intercept.
A tipping point at CBS News (Columbia Journalism Review). An alarming account of corporate meddling in CBS News’ editorial decisions, under new and old ownership alike, to appease the Trump administration and avoid criticizing Israel. And with CBS’s ownership now looking to buy CNN’s parent company, it’s unlikely to stop.
Cindy Cohn is leaving EFF, but not the fight for digital rights (WIRED). A giant in the civil liberties field! We all owe a debt of gratitude to Cindy Cohn for her indelible leadership at the Electronic Frontier Foundation for so many years (and for being our legal counsel at FPF since our founding in 2012).
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss "free speech," keeping stupid thoughts in one's own head, and cancel culture.
JASON: In August 2014, I spoke to Drew Curtis, the founder of Fark.com, a timeless, seminal internet website, about a decision he had just made. Curtis banned misogyny from his website, partially in the name of facilitating free speech.
“We don't want to be the He Man Woman Hater's Club. This represents enough of a departure from pretty much how every other large internet community operates that I figure an announcement is necessary,” Curtis wrote when he announced the rule. “Adam Savage once described to me the problem this way: if the Internet was a dude, we'd all agree that dude has a serious problem with women.”
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An email sent to NBCUniversal employees, including journalists at NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and more, eulogizes Charlie Kirk as an "advocate for open debate" and reminds staff that even milquetoast statements about Kirk's death can result in their firing.#CharlieKirk #Journalism
Comcast Executives Warn Workers To Not Say The Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk
A company-wide email from Comcast executives, sent to everyone working at NBCUniversal on Friday morning, mourns right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk’s death and reminds employees that saying the wrong thing about Kirk’s legacy can get you fired swiftly.
The email, obtained by 404 Media and first reported by Variety, has the subject line “A message from Brian Roberts, Mike Cavanagh, and Mark Lazarus.” In it, the executives eulogize Kirk, calling him an “advocate for open debate, whose faith was important to him.”
Roberts is the Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation, Cavanagh is the president, and Lazarus is the prospective CEO of VERSANT, Comcast’s new spinoff that will include the majority of its NBCUniversal cable network portfolio. NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and more journalistic and entertainment properties are under the NBCUniversal umbrella.
“You may have seen that MSNBC recently ended its association with a contributor who made an unacceptable and insensitive comment about this horrific event,” the executives wrote. “That coverage was at odds with fostering civil dialogue and being willing to listen to the points of view of those who have differing opinions.”
💡 Do you have information about how your company is speaking to employees about Charlie Kirk's death, or political speech in general? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at sam.404. Otherwise, send me an email at sam@404media.co.
Political analyst Matthew Dowd was fired from MSNBC on Wednesday after speaking about Kirk’s death on air. During a broadcast on Wednesday following the shooting, anchor Katy Tur asked Dowd about “the environment in which a shooting like this happens,” according to Variety. Dowd answered: “He’s been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that is the environment we are in. You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place. And that’s the unfortunate environment we are in.”
MSNBC is a division of NBCUniversal. The letter from Comcast executives reiterates to current employees that their jobs are on the line if they stray from bland, milquetoast statements about a man who spent his life fomenting hate will have consequences on their careers. The entire mainstream media environment has been working overtime to sanitize Kirk’s legacy since his murder—a legacy that includes targeted harassment of professors at schools across the country and normalizing the notion that basic human rights are up for “debate.”
The full email is below.
Dear Comcast NBCUniversal Team,
The tragic loss of Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old father, husband, and advocate for open debate, whose faith was important to him, reminds us of the fragility of life and the urgent need for unity in our nation. Our hearts are heavy, as his passing leaves a grieving family and a country grappling with division. There is no place for violence or hate in our society.
You may have seen that MSNBC recently ended its association with a contributor who made an unacceptable and insensitive comment about this horrific event. That coverage was at odds with fostering civil dialogue and being willing to listen to the points of view of those who have differing opinions. We should be able to disagree, robustly and passionately, but, ultimately, with respect. We need to do better.
Charlie Kirk believed that "when people stop talking, really bad stuff starts." Regardless of whether you agreed with his political views, his words and actions underscore the urgency to maintain a respectful exchange of ideas a principle we must champion. We believe in the power of communication to bring us together. Today, that belief feels more vital than ever. Something essential has fractured in our public discourse, and as a company that values the power of information, we have a responsibility to help mend it.
As employees, we ask you to embody our values in your work and communities. We should engage with respect, listen, and treat people with kindness.
Caterina Bartoli, medico chirurgo, membro di SIMEPSI e consulente scientifico dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni, interverrà come relatrice alla prima edizione del Festival della Psichedelia, dedicato a riflessioni sulla medicina psichedelica e sugli stati di coscienza.
Teatro Massimo di Cagliari (Sale M2 e M3) 26 e 27 settembre 2025
Il festival, organizzato dalla Rete Teatro Massimo con il sostegno della Fondazione di Sardegna e di Cassa Deposito e Prestiti, nasce come naturale prosecuzione del progetto “Metamorfosi, filosofia e medicina in scena”. Due giornate di incontri, dialoghi, visioni e laboratori che intrecciano neuroscienze, filosofia, antropologia, salute mentale ed esperienze artistiche, con l’obiettivo di promuovere una riflessione consapevole sul ruolo della medicina psichedelica.
Protagonista anche la Cellula Coscioni Cagliari, presente per tutta la durata del festival con un banchetto informativo e di raccolta firme. Sarà possibile sostenere le iniziative dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni e in particolare la campagna psychedelicare.eu, che punta a promuovere un dibattito pubblico e scientifico sulla medicina psichedelica.
Tra gli ospiti: Georgia Wilson Jones, Silvano Tagliagambe, Matteo Buonarroti, Michele Metelli, Paolo Pecere, Federico di Vita, Jean Paul Rességuier, Luciano Tacconi, Riccardo Badini, Maria Antonietta De Luca, Marco Leonti, Gionata Stancher, Alessandro Gelao, Tania Re, Andrea Piva e molti altri.
Info biglietti: vivaticket.com – Biglietteria Teatro Massimo Cagliari (via De Magistris 12, tel. 345 4894565).
An Arctic diatom, showing the actin filaments that run down its middle and enable its skating motion. Image: Prakash Lab
The “leopard spots” at Bright Angel. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Fossils of Lucky II. Image: University of Leicester
East Chisenbury midden under excavation. Image: Cardiff University
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