Il salario minimo comunale è una vittoria per tutta la città, un simbolo forte di come a Reggio Emilia il lavoro — sicuro e di qualità - debba essere una priorità, e di come non debba esserci spazio per chi fa lavorare in condizioni non dignitose le persone. Uno strumento di tutela di tutte le lavoratrici e tutti i lavoratori, sia dipendenti diretti che impiegati nell’appalto e negli eventuali subappalti, qualsiasi sia la tipologia di contratto individuale di lavoro.”

Lo dichiara il capogruppo di Verdi e Possibile Alessandro Miglioli, primo firmatario della mozione per il salario minimo comunale approvata durante la seduta di oggi del Consiglio Comunale.

La mozione impegna il Sindaco e la Giunta a perseguire l’inserimento di clausole premiali negli appalti pubblici per chi garantisce migliori trattamenti economici per i lavoratori, pari ad almeno nove euro l’ora, ed è uno strumento di tutela di tutti i lavoratori, sia dipendenti diretti che impiegati nell’appalto e negli eventuali subappalti, qualsiasi sia la tipologia di contratto individuale di lavoro.

“Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra, REC e Possibile — continua Miglioli — chiedono da anni a gran voce che il salario minimo venga approvato a livello nazionale. Il primo momento di riflessione fatto a livello locale dal comitato di Possibile Reggio Emilia su questo tema risale al 2021, quando presentammo il libro di Davide Serafin sull’argomento. E continuiamo a chiedere con forza una legge nazionale, che metta una volta per tutte la parola fine a contratti che — pur essendo perfettamente legali — non consentono a lavoratrici e lavoratori di vivere in condizioni dignitose e arrivare alla fine del mese.

Un percorso politico condiviso con convinzione già durante la costruzione del programma elettorale della coalizione di centrosinistra e dalla maggioranza in consiglio comunale e che ha visto la partecipazione di varie figure, dal consigliere Martorana della lista Massari all’assessora regionale Elena Mazzoni dei 5 Stelle e Gianluca Cantergiani del PD.

Anche per mettere pressione per l’approvazione di una legge nazionale è importante che i comuni prendano posizione, come è stato fatto nei mesi scorsi a Napoli, Genova, Firenze, Livorno, Torino: un grande movimento di sindaci, amministratori e soprattutto di comunità che ribadiscono con forza che il lavoro si deve pagare, si deve pagare il giusto e quanto è necessario per coinvolgere l’individuo nelle sorti della società, per la dignità e il rispetto della persona.

Sono fiero — conclude Miglioli — del fatto che ora anche Reggio Emilia sia dalla parte giusta di questa battaglia, e che questo sia uno dei primi comuni in Italia in cui la mozione sul salario minimo abbia come prima firma quella di un consigliere che viene dalle forze politiche che rappresento.

Alessandro Miglioli

Capogruppo Verdi e Possibile al Consiglio Comunale di Reggio Emilia

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Let’s say you want to blink an LED. You might grab an Arduino and run the Blink sketch, or you might lace up a few components to a 555. But you needn’t go so fancy! [The Design Graveyard] explains how this same effect can be achieved with a single transistor.

The circuit in question is rather odd at first blush. The BC547 NPN transistor is hooked up between an LED and a resistor leading to a 12V DC line, with a capacitor across the emitter and collector. Meanwhile, the base is connected to… nothing! It’s just free-floating in the universe of its own accord. You might expect this circuit to do nothing at all, but if you power it up, the LED will actually start to flash.

The mechanism at play is relatively simple. The capacitor charges to 12 volts via the resistor. At this point, the transistor, which is effectively just acting as a poor diode in this case, undergoes avalanche breakdown at about 8.5 to 9 volts, and starts conducting. This causes the capacitor to discharge via the LED, until the voltage gets low enough that the transistor stops conducting once again. Then, the capacitor begins to charge back up, and the cycle begins again.

It’s a weird way to flash an LED, and it’s not really the normal way to use a transistor—you’re very much running it out of spec. Regardless, it does work for a time! We’ve looked at similar circuits before too. Video after the break.

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[Thanks to Vik Olliver for the tip!]

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Making nylon plastic from raw chemicals used to be a very common demo; depending where and when you grew up, you may well have done it in high school or even earlier. What’s not common is taking that nylon and doing something with it, like, say extruding it into filament to make a benchy. [Startup Chuck] shows us there might be a reason for that. (Video, embedded below.)

It starts out well enough: sebacoyl chloride and hexamethaline diamine mix up and do their polymerizing tango to make some nylon, just like we remember. (Some of us also got to play with mercury bare-handed; safety standards have changed and you’ll want to be very careful if you try this reaction at home). The string of nylon [Chuck] pulls from the beaker even looks a little bit like filament for a second, at least until it breaks and gets tossed into a blobby mess. We wonder if it would be possible to pull nylon directly into 1.75 mm filament with the proper technique, but quality control would be a big issue. Even if you could get a consistent diameter, there’d likely be too much solvent trapped inside to safely print.

Of course, melting the nylon with a blowtorch and trying to manually push the liquid through a die to create filament has its own quality control problems. That’s actually where this ends: no filament, and definitely no benchy. [Chuck] leaves the challenge open to anyone else who wants to take the crown. Perhaps one of you can show him how it’s done. We suspect it would be easiest to dry the homemade nylon and shred it into granules and only then extrude them, like was done with polypropylene in this mask-recycling project. Making filament from granules or pellets is something we’ve seen more than once over the years.

If you really want to make plastic from scratch, ordering monomers from Sigma-Aldrich might not cut it for ultimate bragging rights; other people are starting with pulling CO2 from the atmosphere.

Thanks to [Chaz] for the tip! Remember that the tips line isn’t just for your successes– anything interesting can find its home here.

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If you want to print, say, a book, you probably will type it into a word processor. Someone else will take your file and produce pages on a printer. Your words will directly turn on a laser beam or something to directly put words on paper. But for a long time, printing meant creating some physical representation of what you wanted to print that could stamp an imprint on a piece of paper.

The process of carving something out of wood or some other material to stamp out printing is very old. But the revolution was when the Chinese and, later, Europeans, realized it would be more flexible to make symbols that you could assemble texts from. Moveable type. The ability to mass-produce books and other written material had a huge influence on society.

But there is one problem. A book might have hundreds of pages, and each page has hundreds of letters. Someone has to find the right letters, put them together in the right order, and bind them together in a printing press’ chase so it can produce the page in question. Then you have to take it apart again to make more pages. Well, if you have enough type, you might not have to take it apart right away, but eventually you will.

Automation

A Linotype matrix for an upright or italic uppercase A.
That’s how it went, though, until around 1884. That’s when Ottmar Mergenthaler, a clockmaker from Germany who lived in the United States, had an idea. He had been asked for a quicker method of publishing legal briefs. He imagined a machine that would assemble molds for type instead of the actual type. Then the machine would cast molten metal to make a line of type ready to get locked into a printing press.

He called the molds matrices and built a promising prototype. He formed a company, and in 1886, the New York Tribune got the first commercial Linotype machine.

These machines would be in heavy use all through the early 20th century, although sometime in the 1970s, other methods started to displace them. Even so, there are still a few printing operations that use linotypes as late as 2022, as you can see in the video below. We don’t know for sure if The Crescent is still using the old machine, but we’d bet they are.

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Of course, there were imitators and the inevitable patent wars. There was the Typograph, which was an early entry into the field. The Intertype company produced machines in 1914. But just like Xerox became a common word for photocopy, machines like this were nearly always called Linotypes and, truth be told, were statistically likely to have been made by Mergenthaler’s company.

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Kind of Steampunk

Diagram from a 1904 book showing the parts of a Linotype.
For a machine that appeared in the 1800s, the Linotype looks both modern and steampunk. It had a 90-key keyboard, for one thing. Some even had paper tape readers so type could be “set” somewhere and sent to the press room via teletype.

The machine had a store of matrices in a magazine. Of course, you needed lots of common characters and perhaps fewer of the uncommon ones. Each matrix had a particular font and size, although for smaller fonts, the matrix could hold two characters that the operator could select from. One magazine would have one font at a particular size.

Unlike type, a Linotype matrix isn’t a mirror image, and it is set into the metal instead of rising out of it. That makes sense. It is a mold for the eventual type that will be raised and mirrored. The machine had 90 keys. Want to guess how many channels a magazine had? Yep. It was 90, although larger fonts might use fewer.

Different later models had extra capabilities. For example, some machines could hold four magazines in a stack so you could set multiple fonts or sizes at one time, with some limitations, depending on the machine. Spaces weren’t in the magazine. They were in a special spaceband box.

Each press of a key would drop a matrix from the magazine into the assembler at the bottom of the machine in a position for the primary or auxiliary letter. This was all a mechanical process, and a skilled operator could do about 30 words per minute, so the machines had to be cleaned and lubricated. There was also a special pi channel where you could put strange matrices you didn’t use very often.

Typecasting

When the line was done, you pressed the casting level, which would push the matrices out of the assembler and into a delivery channel. Then it moved into the casting section, which took about nine seconds. A motor moved the matrices to the right place, and a gas burner or electric heater kept a pot of metal (usually a lead/antimony/tin mix that is traditional for type) molten.

A properly made slug from a Linotype was good for 300,000 imprints. However, it did require periodic removal of the dross from the top of the hot metal. Of course, if you didn’t need it anymore, you just dropped it back in the pot.

Justification

A composed line with long space bands. (From a 1940 book by the Linotype Company). Note that each matrix has two letters.
You might wonder how type would be justified. The trick is in the space bands. They were larger than the other matrices and made so that the further they were pushed into the block, the more space they took. A mechanism pushed them up until the line of type exactly fit between the margins.

You can see why the space bands were in a special box. They are much longer than the typical type matrices.

How else could you even out the spaces with circa-1900 technology? Pretty clever.
The distributor bar (black) has teeth that engage teeth on each matrix.
If you have been paying attention, there’s one major drawback to this system. How do the matrix elements get back to the right place in the magazine? If you can’t automate that, you still have a lot of manual labor to do. This was the job of the distributor. First, the space bands were sorted out. Each matrix has teeth at the top that allow it to hang on a toothed distributor bar. Each letter has its own pattern of teeth that form a 7-bit code.

As the distributor bar carries them across the magazine channels, it will release those that have a particular set of teeth missing, because it also has some teeth missing. A diagram from a Linotype book makes it easier to understand than reading about it.

The Goldbergs

You have to wonder if Ottmar was related to Rube Goldberg. We don’t think we’d be audacious enough to propose a mechanical machine to do all this on top of an automated way to handle molten lead. But we admire anyone who does. Thomas Edison called the machine the eighth wonder of the world, and we don’t disagree. It revolutionized printing even though, now, it is just a historical footnote.

Can’t get enough info on the Linotype? There is a documentary that runs well over an hour, which you can watch below. If you’ve only got five minutes, try the short demo video at the very bottom.

Moveable type was to printing what 3D printing is to plastic manufacturing. Which might explain this project. Or this one, for that matter.

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Beehives are impressive structures, an example of the epic building feats that are achievable by nature’s smaller creatures. [Full Stack Woodworking] was recently building a new work desk, and decided to make this piece of furniture a glowing tribute to the glorious engineering of the bee. (Video, embedded below.)

The piece is a conventional L-shaped desk, but with a honeycomb motif inlaid into the surface itself. [Full Stack Woodworking] started by iterating on various designs with stacked hexagons made out of laser cut plywood and Perspex, filled with epoxy. Producing enough hexagons to populate the entire desk was no mean feat, requiring a great deal of cutting, staining, and gluing—and all this before the electronics even got involved! Naturally, each cell has a custom built PCB covered in addressable LEDs, and they’re linked with smaller linear PCBs which create “paths” for bees to move between cells.

What’s cool about the display is that it’s not just running some random RGB animations. Instead, the desk has a Raspberry Pi 5 dedicated to running a beehive simulation, where algorithmic rules determine the status (and thus color) of each hexagonal cell based on the behavior of virtual bees loading the cells with honey. It creates an organic, changing display in a way that’s rather reminiscent of Conway’s Game of Life.

It was a huge build, but the final result is impressive. We’ve featured some other great custom desks over the years too. Video after the break.

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[Thanks to J. Peterson for the tip!]

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Friends, I’ve gotten myself into a pickle and I need some help.

A few years back, I decided to get into solar power by building a complete PV system inside a mobile trailer. The rationale for this doesn’t matter for the current discussion, but for the curious, I wrote an article outlining the whole design and build process. Briefly, though, the system has two adjustable PV arrays mounted on the roof and side of a small cargo trailer, with an integrated solar inverter-charger and a 10-kWh LiFePO₄ battery bank on the inside, along with all the usual switching and circuit protection stuff.

It’s pretty cool, if I do say so myself, and literally every word I’ve written for Hackaday since sometime in 2023 has been on a computer powered by that trailer. I must have built it pretty well, because it’s been largely hands-off since then, requiring very little maintenance. And therein lies the root of my current conundrum.

Spicy Pillows

I generally only go in the trailer once a month or so, just to check things over and make sure no critters — or squatters — have taken up residence. Apparently, my inspections had become somewhat cursory, because somehow I had managed to overlook a major problem brewing:
Chest burster much? I found this swollen mass of steel and lithium inside my trailer, ready to wreak havoc.
This is one of two homebrew server rack battery modules I used in the trailer’s first battery bank. The LG-branded modules were removed from service and sold second-hand by Battery Hookup; I stripped the proprietary management cards out of the packs and installed a 100-amp BMS, plus the comically oversized junction box for wiring. They worked pretty well for a couple of months, but I eventually got enough money together to buy a pair of larger, new-manufacture server-rack modules from Ruixu, and I disconnected the DIY batteries and put them aside in the trailer.

Glass Houses

As for what happened to these batteries (while not as dramatic, the case on the other one is obviously swelling, too), I’m not sure. There was no chance for physical damage inside the trailer, and neither battery was dropped or penetrated. Whatever happened must have been caused by normal aging of the 28 pouch cells within, or possibly the thermal swings inside the trailer.

Either way, some of the pouches have obviously transformed into “spicy pillows” thanks to the chemical decomposition of their electrodes and electrolytes, creating CO₂ and CO gas under enough pressure to deform the 14-gauge steel case of the modules. It’s a pretty impressive display of power when you think about it, and downright terrifying.

I know that posting this is likely going to open me up to considerable criticism in the comments, much of it deserved. I was clearly negligent here, at least in how I chose to store these batteries once I removed them from service. You can also ding me for trying to save a few bucks by buying second-hand batteries and modifying them myself, but let those of you who have never shaken hands with danger cast the first stone.

To my credit, I did mention in my original write-up that, “While these batteries work fine for what they are, I have to admit that their homebrew nature gnawed at me. The idea that a simple wiring mistake could result in a fire that would destroy years of hard work was hard to handle.” But really, the risk posed by these batteries, not just to the years of work I put into the trailer, but also the fire danger to my garage and my neighbor’s boat, camper, and truck, all of which are close to the trailer, makes me a little queasy when I think about it.

Your Turn

That’s all well and good, but the question remains: what do I do with these batteries now? To address the immediate safety concerns, I placed them at my local “Pole of Inaccessibility,” the point in my backyard that’s farthest from anything that might burn. This is a temporary move until I can figure out a way to recycle them. While my city does have battery recycling, I’m pretty sure they’d balk at accepting 90-pound server batteries even if they were brand new. With obvious deformities, they’ll probably at least tell me to get lost; at worst, they’d call the hazmat unit on me. The Environmental Protection Agency has a program for battery recycling, but that’s geared to consumers disposing of a few alkaline cells or maybe the dead pack from a Ryobi drill. Good luck getting them to accept these monsters.

How would you handle this? Bear in mind that I won’t entertain illegal options such as an unfortunate boating accident or “dig deep and shut up,” at least not publicly. But if you have any other ideas, we’d love to hear them. More generally, what’s your retirement plan for lithium batteries look like? With the increased availability of used batteries from wrecked EVs or even e-bike and scooter batteries, it’s a question that many of us will face eventually. If you’ve already run up against this problem, we’d love to hear how you handled it. Sound off in the comments below.

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La Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) e il Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) pubblicano questo avviso congiunto sulla sicurezza informatica (CSA) in risposta allo sfruttamento attivo di CVE-2022-1388.

Questa vulnerabilità, recentemente divulgata in alcune versioni di F5 Networks, Inc. (F5) BIG-IP, consente a un attore non autenticato di ottenere il controllo dei sistemi interessati tramite la porta di gestione o gli indirizzi IP personali. F5 ha rilasciato una patch per CVE-2022-1388 il 4 maggio 2022 e da allora sono stati resi pubblici exploit proof of concept (POC), consentendo ad attori meno sofisticati di sfruttare la vulnerabilità.

A causa del precedente sfruttamento di vulnerabilità di F5 BIG-IP , CISA e MS-ISAC ritengono che i dispositivi F5 BIG-IP non patchati siano un obiettivo interessante; le organizzazioni che non hanno applicato la patch sono vulnerabili ad attacchi che prendono il controllo dei loro sistemi.

L’organismo di controllo di Internet Shadowserver sta attualmente monitorando 266.978 indirizzi IP con una firma BIG-IP F5 dei quali circa 2500 sono in Italia. Oltre ai sistemi americani, ci sono circa 100.000 dispositivi in ​​Europa e Asia. Nello specifico, per i Paesi Bassi, si tratta di 3.800 sistemi esposti.

Queste cifre illustrano l’enorme portata dell’incidente di sicurezza F5 di cui si è avuta notizia all’inizio di questa settimana . L’azienda di sicurezza ha riferito che gli hacker statali avevano avuto accesso al loro ambiente di sviluppo del prodotto BIG-IP per mesi. I prodotti F5 BIG-IP sono presenti ovunque nelle reti aziendali. Forniscono bilanciamento del carico, firewall e controllo degli accessi per applicazioni critiche. Il fatto che centinaia di migliaia di questi sistemi siano ora visibili al pubblico li rende obiettivi interessanti per i criminali informatici.

Dettagli tecnici

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2…CVE-2022-1388 è una vulnerabilità critica di bypass dell’autenticazione REST di iControl che colpisce le seguenti versioni di F5 BIG-IP:[ 1 ]

• Versioni 16.1.x precedenti alla 16.1.2.2
• Versioni 15.1.x precedenti alla 15.1.5.1
• Versioni 14.1.x precedenti alla 14.1.4.6
• Versioni 13.1.x precedenti alla 13.1.5
• Tutte le versioni 12.1.x e 11.6.x

Un attore non autenticato con accesso di rete al sistema BIG-IP tramite la porta di gestione o gli indirizzi IP personali potrebbe sfruttare la vulnerabilità per eseguire comandi di sistema arbitrari, creare o eliminare file o disabilitare servizi. F5 ha rilasciato una patch per CVE-2022-1388 per tutte le versioni interessate, ad eccezione delle versioni 12.1.x e 11.6.x, il 4 maggio 2022 (le versioni 12.1.x e 11.6.x sono a fine ciclo di vita [EOL] e F5 ha dichiarato che non rilascerà patch).[ 2 ]

Gli exploit POC per questa vulnerabilità sono stati resi pubblici e, l’11 maggio 2022, CISA ha aggiunto questa vulnerabilità al suo catalogo delle vulnerabilità note sfruttate , sulla base di prove di sfruttamento attivo. Grazie ai POC e alla facilità di sfruttamento, CISA e MS-ISAC prevedono uno sfruttamento diffuso di dispositivi F5 BIG-IP non patchati nelle reti governative e private.

Metodi di rilevamento

La CISA raccomanda agli amministratori, in particolare alle organizzazioni che non hanno applicato immediatamente la patch, di:

• Per gli indicatori di compromissione, consultare l’avviso di sicurezza F5 K23605346 .
• Se si sospetta una compromissione, consultare la guida F5 K11438344 .
• Distribuisci la seguente firma Snort creata da CISA:

L'articolo Vulnerabilità F5 BIG-IP: 266.000 dispositivi a rischio nel mondo! 2500 in Italia proviene da Red Hot Cyber.

La sovranità digitale è un concetto spigoloso. E però, una volta inventato, è diventato una realtà politica con cui fare i conti. Questa è una delle tesi cardine della rivista-libro “Lower The Top. La sfida alle piattaforme tra sovranità statuale e saperi sociali”, numero 25 delle pubblicazioni di Comunicazione punto doc, rivista semestrale di Fausto Lupetti Editore (2021).

Intanto è un ossimoro: il digitale, fluido per natura, si scontra con qualsiasi idea di sovranità. La sovranità appartiene per definizione a un territorio su cui l’autorità politica esercita il proprio potere, si tratti di un ammasso regionale come degli spazi prospicenti ad esso, ma anche delle infrastrutture umane che lo attraversano.

Lo sanno bene i regolatori che di fronte al processo di globalizzazione dei mercati favorito dagli scambi e dalle telecomunicazioni globali ne hanno scoperto in Internet l’elemento più destabilizzante. Ed è proprio all’infrastruttura Internet che negli ultimi 30 anni si è provato a cucire addosso un’idea di sovranità, solo per rendersi conto che si trattava di una sovranità interconnessa e pertanto da negoziare tra le autorità statuali.

Sovranità brandita da chi è stato in grado di proiettare la propria sfera di influenza su un territorio per definizione senza confini, il hashtag#cyberspace.

Usa, Cina e Russia, anche grazie ai loro proxy tecnologici, sono state infatti finora in grado di mantenere il controllo e i vantaggi del proprio esercizio del potere su questa fluidità immateriale mente l’Europa arrancava. Proprio in virtù di una sovranità politica e statuale ancora in costruzione.

Eppure l’Europa, come evidente nel richiamo fatto dalla presidente Von der Leyen in distinti discorsi sullo stato dell’unione (2020, 2021), ha provato a tracciare un «nomos del Erde» anche per il mondo digitale. A partire dal Regolamento europeo per la protezione dei dati, GDPR, e poi con una serie di iniziative volte a regolare lo strapotere di Big Tech, prima chiamati OTT, Over the top, l’Europa ha fatto sentire il peso della sua sovranità. Per stoppare il furto di dati, la sorveglianza dell’informazione e il controllo dei mercati praticata dagli stati di di origine degli OTT. Al GDPR sappiamo che sono succedute la Nis, la Dora e il CRA, l’AI Act e il DATA Act appena entrato in vigore il 12 settembre. Tutti tentativi di applicazione di quel Digital Constitutionalism che è il corollario della Lex Digitalis.

L’Europa, accusata di rappresentare il paradosso della «regolazione senza tecnologie» sta ora ripensando la sovranità digitale come sovranità tecnologica e, attraverso i suoi progetti di finanziamento industriale, dimostra, a dispetto dei suoi detrattori, di avere ancora voce in capitolo.

COMUNICAZIONEPUNTODOC – N. 25 – (AGOSTO-DICEMBRE 2021)

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What does psychosocial support look like in the face of spyware attacks and digital security threats? It can mean adapting care to the context, listening without rushing, and building protocols that protect both dignity and data. But we want to hear what it means to you and to those already integrating psychosocial support into their accompaniments — such as Fundación Acceso in Latin America and Digital Society of Africa during our next community call.

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Learn more about the state of digital attacks on Human Rights Defenders, when researchers and experts come together to discuss a recently concluded report.

The post DDI Knowledge Hub Community Call: On mapping of HRD support mechanisms with Expectation State appeared first on European Digital Rights (EDRi).

During this lab, you will establish a strong foundation in designing participatory and interactive sessions for both online and face-to-face formats. This will enable you to facilitate sessions that foster co-empowering, learning, and knowledge sharing, thereby advancing your work and that of your participants.

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As national and regional efforts around digital sovereignty gain momentum, SplinterCon Paris will bring together technologists, researchers, and policymakers to consider what resilient, interconnected digital societies require today and in the future.

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If you live in Cambridge, work in Cambridge, travel through Cambridge or live in the Greater Cambridge-area, please tell the Cambridge City Council that you oppose the introduction of Flock ALPR surveillance cameras there. We talk about it in the latest Pirate News, but you can find out more especially about today’s meeting at 5:30pm at our post about it.

Joe, Steve and James discuss why we oppose Cambridge’s effort to install Flock ALPR cameras, what we are doing at the Boston Anarchist Bookfair, the Boston NoKings protest and CycloMedia.

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