You might be old enough to remember record platters, but you probably aren’t old enough to remember when records were cylinders. The Edison Blue Amberol records came out in 1912 and were far superior to the earlier wax cylinders. If you had one today, how could you play it? Easy. Just build [Palingenesis’] record player. You can even hear it do its thing in the video below.
The cylinders are made of plaster with a celluloid wrapper tinted with the namesake blue color. They were more durable than the old wax records and could hold well over four minutes of sound.
The player is mostly made from wood cut with a mill or a laser. There are some bearings, fasteners, and — of course — electronics. The stylus requires some care. Conventional records use a lateral-cut groove, but these old records use a vertical-cut. That means the pickup moves up and down and has a rounder tip than a conventional needle.
Rather than try to control the motor to an exact speed, you get to set the speed with a potentiometer and see the resulting RPM on a small display. Overall, an involved but worthwhile project.
We recently looked at some players that would have been new about the same time as the blue record in the video. We don’t think you could modify one of these to play stereo, but if you do, let us know immediately!
If you have seen Star Wars, you know what is being referenced here. Holochess appeared as a diversion built into the Millennium Falcon in the very first movie, way back in 1977. While not quite as iconic a use of simulated holograms as tiny Princess Leia begging for hope, it evidently struck a chord with [Maker Mac70], given the impressive effort he’s evidently gone through to re-create the game table from the film.
The key component of this unit is a plate from Japanese firm ASKA3D that scatters light from displays inside the table in just such a way that the diverging rays are focused at a point above its surface, creating the illusion of an image hovering in space. Or in this case, hovering at the surface of a acrylic chessboard. Granted, this technique only works from one viewing angle, and so is not a perfect recreation of a sci-fi holoprojector. But from the right angle, it looks really good, as you can see in the video below.
There are actually six SPI displays, driven by an Arduino GIGA, positioned and angled to project each character in the game. Placing two of the displays on 3D printed gantries allows them to move, allowing two creatures to battle in the center of the table. As [Maker Mac70] admits, this is quite a bit simpler than the Holochess game seen in the film, but it’s quite impressive for real world hardware.
If this all seems a little bit familiar, we covered an earlier floating display by [Maker Mac70] last year. This works on similar principles, but uses more common components which makes the technique more accessible. If chess isn’t your forte, why not a volumetric display that plays DOOM? If you’re interested in real holograms, not Sci-Fi, our own [Maya Posch] did a deep dive you may find interesting.
Uno studio su larga scala condotto da Rubrik Zero Labs ha confermato che quasi il 90% dei responsabili IT e della sicurezza informatica in tutto il mondo dovrà affrontare attacchi informatici nel 2024. Il rapporto, intitolato “The State of Data Security 2025: A Distributed Crisis”, documenta una tendenza preoccupante: gli ambienti IT ibridi, diventati la norma per le aziende, stanno creando nuove vulnerabilità per le quali le aziende non sono preparate.
Gli esperti sottolineano che il passaggio al cloud è spesso accompagnato da un falso senso di sicurezza. Come ha sottolineato Joe Hladik, CEO di Rubrik Zero Labs, molti si affidano ai fornitori di servizi cloud per la sicurezza. In realtà, gli aggressori sfruttano attivamente le falle nelle architetture ibride e continuano ad attaccare utilizzandoransomware e furto di credenziali.
Gli attacchi stanno diventando sempre più frequenti. I principali vettori sono le fughe di dati, l’infezione dei dispositivi con malware, la compromissione delle piattaforme cloud, il phishing e gli attacchi dall’interno. Le conseguenze sono tangibili: aumento dei costi per la sicurezza informatica (40%), perdite di reputazione (37%) e persino un cambio di management in un terzo dei casi.
La situazione è complicata dal forte aumento dei volumi di dati e dalla diffusione dei sistemi di intelligenza artificiale. Il 90% degli intervistati ha dichiarato di gestire un ambiente cloud ibrido e che oltre la metà dei propri carichi di lavoro si sta già spostando sul cloud. Un terzo degli intervistati ha indicato la protezione dei dati come un problema importante in tali condizioni, mentre un terzo ha sottolineato la mancanza di gestione centralizzata e di trasparenza.
Secondo la telemetria di Rubrik, il 36% dei file sensibili nel cloud sono dati ad alto rischio. Tra questi rientrano dati personali, codici sorgente, numeri di previdenza sociale, numeri di telefono, nonché chiavi API e account. Si tratta del tipo di informazioni che interessa agli aggressori che cercano di rubare identità e penetrare nei sistemi critici.
Particolarmente preoccupante è lo stato dei backup: tra coloro che sono sopravvissuti a un attacco ransomware, l’86% ha pagato il riscatto e il 74% ha ammesso una parziale compromissione dei propri sistemi di ripristino. Nel 35% dei casi i sistemi di backup erano completamente compromessi.
La flessibilità dell’architettura ibrida è diventata anche il suo tallone d’Achille: il 92% delle aziende utilizza da due a cinque piattaforme cloud o SaaS, il che crea difficoltà nella gestione degli accessi. Secondo il 28% degli intervistati, gli attacchi che sfruttano account rubati e privilegi interni stanno diventando sempre più comuni.
In definitiva, Rubrik auspica un passaggio a un modello di sicurezza incentrato sui dati anziché sulle infrastrutture. Visibilità, controllo, classificazione e capacità di recupero rapido diventano priorità. Senza questo, i paesaggi ibridi continueranno a rappresentare un bersaglio appetibile per gli attacchi.
Il 1° maggio 2025, una fotografia scattata durante una riunione di gabinetto ha mostrato il Consigliere per la Sicurezza Nazionale, Mike Waltz, mentre utilizzava un’applicazione di messaggistica sconosciuta ai più.
L’app in questione era TM SGNL, una versione modificata di Signal sviluppata da TeleMessage, azienda israeliana specializzata in soluzioni di archiviazione per comunicazioni sicure. L’immagine ha sollevato interrogativi sulla sicurezza delle comunicazioni ai massimi livelli del governo statunitense. TM SGNL è progettata per archiviare messaggi da piattaforme come Signal, WhatsApp e Telegram, permettendo alle agenzie governative di conservare comunicazioni per scopi normativi e di conformità. Tuttavia, l’implementazione di queste funzionalità ha introdotto vulnerabilità significative nel sistema.
Il 4 maggio, il sito 404 Media ha riportato che un hacker ha violato i sistemi di TeleMessage, ottenendo accesso a dati sensibili, tra cui contenuti di chat, informazioni di contatto di funzionari governativi e credenziali di accesso al backend del servizio. L’attacco è stato descritto come sorprendentemente semplice: “Mi è bastata una ventina di minuti,” ha dichiarato l’hacker, sottolineando la facilità con cui ha penetrato i sistemi dell’azienda.
Sebbene i messaggi di Waltz e di altri membri del gabinetto non siano stati compromessi, l’incidente ha evidenziato gravi lacune nella sicurezza delle comunicazioni governative. I dati sottratti includevano informazioni su funzionari della Customs and Border Protection (CBP), dipendenti di Coinbase e altri enti sensibili.
In seguito alla divulgazione dell’attacco, TeleMessage ha sospeso temporaneamente tutti i suoi servizi per indagare sull’incidente, come confermato dalla società madre Smarsh. Un portavoce ha dichiarato: “Abbiamo agito rapidamente per contenere l’incidente e abbiamo coinvolto una società di cybersicurezza esterna per supportare le nostre indagini.”
L’incidente ha sollevato preoccupazioni sulla pratica di modificare applicazioni di messaggistica cifrate per scopi di archiviazione, poiché tali modifiche possono compromettere la sicurezza intrinseca delle comunicazioni. Signal, l’applicazione originale su cui si basa TM SGNL, ha dichiarato di non poter garantire la sicurezza di versioni non ufficiali del suo software.
L’uso di TM SGNL da parte di alti funzionari governativi, combinato con le vulnerabilità evidenziate dall’attacco, ha sollevato interrogativi sulla sicurezza delle comunicazioni ai vertici del potere. L’incidente, soprannominato “SignalGate”, ha portato alla rimozione di Mike Waltz dal suo incarico, sebbene sia stato successivamente nominato come prossimo ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti presso le Nazioni Unite.
Questo episodio mette in luce la necessità di valutare attentamente le soluzioni tecnologiche adottate per la gestione delle comunicazioni sensibili, bilanciando le esigenze di conformità normativa con la protezione della sicurezza nazionale.
A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages, 404 Media has learned. The data stolen by the hacker contains the contents of some direct messages and group chats sent using its Signal clone, as well as modified versions of WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat. TeleMessage was recently the center of a wave of media coverage after Mike Waltz accidentally revealed he used the tool in a cabinet meeting with President Trump.
The hack shows that an app gathering messages of the highest ranking officials in the government—Waltz’s chats on the app include recipients that appear to be Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard, and JD Vance—contained serious vulnerabilities that allowed a hacker to trivially access the archived chats of some people who used the same tool. The hacker has not obtained the messages of cabinet members, Waltz, and people he spoke to, but the hack shows that the archived chat logs are not end-to-end encrypted between the modified version of the messaging app and the ultimate archive destination controlled by the TeleMessage customer.
Data related to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the cryptocurrency giant Coinbase, and other financial institutions are included in the hacked material, according to screenshots of messages and backend systems obtained by 404 Media.
💡 Do you know anything else about TeleMessage? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at signalaccount.05 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.
The breach is hugely significant not just for those individual customers, but also for the U.S. government more widely. On Thursday, 404 Media was first to report that at the time U.S. National Security Advisor Waltz accidentally revealed he was using TeleMessage’s modified version of Signal during the cabinet meeting. The use of that tool raised questions about what classification of information was being discussed across the app and how that data was being secured, and came after revelations top U.S. officials were using Signal to discuss active combat operations.
The hacker did not access all messages stored or collected by TeleMessage, but could have likely accessed more data if they decided to, underscoring the extreme risk posed by taking ordinarily secure end-to-end encrypted messaging apps such as Signal and adding an extra archiving feature to them.
“I would say the whole process took about 15-20 minutes,” the hacker said, describing how they broke into TeleMessage’s systems. “It wasn’t much effort at all.” 404 Media does not know the identity of the hacker, but has verified aspects of the material they have anonymously provided. A screenshot provided by the hacker. Redactions by 404 Media. The data includes apparent message contents; the names and contact information for government officials; usernames and passwords for TeleMessage’s backend panel; and indications of what agencies and companies might be TeleMessage customers. The data is not representative of all of TeleMessage’s customers or the sorts of messages it covers; instead, it is snapshots of data passing through TeleMessage’s servers at a point in time. The hacker was able to login to the TeleMessage backend panel using the usernames and passwords found in these snapshots.
A message sent to a group chat called “Upstanding Citizens Brigade” included in the hacked data says its “source type” is “Signal,” indicating it came from TeleMessage’s modified version of the messaging app. The message itself was a link to this tweet posted on Sunday which is a clip of an NBC Meet the Press interview with President Trump about his memecoin. The hacked data includes phone numbers that were part of the group chat.
One hacked message was sent to a group chat apparently associated with the crypto firm Galaxy Digital. One message said, “need 7 dems to get to 60.. would be very close” to the “GD Macro” group. Another message said, “Just spoke to a D staffer on the senate side - 2 cosponsors (Alsobrooks and gillibrand) did not sign the opposition letter so they think the bill still has a good chance of passage the senate with 5 more Ds supporting it.” playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… This means a hacker was able to steal what appears to be active, timely discussion about the efforts behind passing a hugely important and controversial cryptocurrency bill; Saturday, Democratic lawmakers published a letter explaining they would oppose it. Bill cosponsors Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand did not sign that letter.
One screenshot of the hacker’s access to a TeleMessage panel lists the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of CBP officials. The screenshot says “select 0 of 747,” indicating that there may be that many CBP officials included in the data. A similar screenshot shows the contact information of current and former Coinbase employees.
Another screenshot obtained by 404 Media mentions Scotiabank. Financial institutions might turn to a tool like TeleMessage to comply with regulations around keeping copies of business communications. Governments have legal requirements to preserve messages in a similar way.
Another screenshot indicates that the Intelligence Branch of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police may be using the tool. A screenshot provided by the hacker. Redactions by 404 Media. The hacker was able to access data that the app captured intermittently for debugging purposes, and would not have been able to capture every single message or piece of data that passes through TeleMessage’s service. However, the sample data they captured did contain fragments of live, unencrypted data passing through TeleMessage’s production server on their way to getting archived.
404 Media verified the hacked data in various ways. First, 404 Media phoned some of the numbers listed as belonging to CBP officials. In one case, a person who answered said their name was the same as the one included in the hacked data, then confirmed their affiliation with CBP when asked. The voicemail message for another number included the name of an alleged CBP official included in the data.
404 Media ran several phone numbers that appeared to be associated with employees at crypto firms Coinbase and Galaxy through a search tool called OSINT Industries, which confirmed that these phone numbers belonged to people who worked for these companies.
The server that the hacker compromised is hosted on Amazon AWS’s cloud infrastructure in Northern Virginia. By reviewing the source code of TeleMessage’s modified Signal app for Android, 404 Media confirmed that the app sends message data to this endpoint. 404 Media also made an HTTP request to this server to confirm that it is online.
TeleMessage came to the fore after a Reuters photographer took a photo in which Waltz was using his mobile phone. Zooming in on that photo revealed he was using a modified version of Signal made by TeleMessage. The photograph came around a month after The Atlantic reported that top U.S. officials were using Signal to message one another about military operations. As part of that, Waltz accidentally added the editor-in-chief of the publication to the Signal group chat.
TeleMessage offers governments and companies a way to archive messages from end-to-end encrypted messaging apps such as Signal and WhatsApp. TeleMessage does this by making modified versions of those apps that send copies of messages to a remote server. A video from TeleMessage posted to YouTube claims that its app keeps “intact the Signal security and end-to-end encryption when communicating with other Signal users.”
“The only difference is the TeleMessage version captures all incoming and outgoing Signal messages for archiving purposes,” the video continues.
It is not true that an archiving solution properly preserves the security offered by an end-to-end encrypted messaging app such as Signal. Ordinarily, only someone sending a Signal message and their intended recipient will be able to read the contexts of the message. TeleMessage essentially adds a third party to that conversation by sending copies of those messages somewhere else for storage. If not stored securely, those copies could in turn be susceptible to monitoring or falling into the wrong hands.
That theoretical risk has now become very real.
A Signal spokesperson previously told 404 Media in email “We cannot guarantee the privacy or security properties of unofficial versions of Signal.”
White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly previously told NBC News in an email: “As we have said many times, Signal is an approved app for government use and is loaded on government phones.”
The hacker told 404 Media that they targeted TeleMessage because they were “just curious how secure it was.” They did not want to disclose the issue to the company directly because they believed the company might “try their best to cover it up.”
“If I could have found this in less than 30 minutes then anybody else could too. And who knows how long it’s been vulnerable?” the hacker said.
404 Media is not explaining in detail how the hacker managed to obtain this data in case others may try to exploit the same vulnerability.
According to public procurement records, TeleMessage has contracts with a range of U.S. government agencies, including the State Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Guy Levit, CEO of TeleMessage, directed a request for comment to a press representative of Smarsh, TeleMessage’s parent company. That representative did not immediately respond to an email or voicemail.
Recently, after the wave of media coverage about Waltz’s use of the tool, TeleMessage wiped its website. Before then it contained details on the services it offers, what its apps were capable of, and in some cases direct downloads for the archiving apps themselves.
Neither CBP, Coinbase, Scotiabank, Galaxy Digital, nor Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police responded to a request for comment.
Former national security adviser Mike Waltz was photographed using a Signal-like messaging app during Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting, more than a month after he first came under intense scrutiny for accidentally including a journalist in a group chat th…
Independent ATProto infrastructure has been rapidly expanding recently, experiments with games on ATProto, and Graze offers developer grants.
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Independent Infrastructure news
Over the last week, the effort towards decentralisation and running independent pieces of ATProto infrastructure has sped up significantly. There are now multiple relays that are publicly accessible. Other people also have made alternate AppViews that are Bluesky-compatible. Combined, this makes it now possible to fully use Bluesky without using any infrastructure owned by Bluesky PBC, and the first people have done so. To do so means using a separate PDS, relay, AppView and client.
Some of the updates regarding relays:
Blacksky has built their own relay, using their own custom implementation. This relay is publicly accessible, meaning that other people can use this relay instead of the relay that Bluesky PBC uses.
A writeup on how to set up your own relay by Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold, for some 34 USD/month.
Making relays cheaper has been due to the Sync 1.1 update, Bluesky PBC goes into more detail in a blog post what this entails.
And the updates regarding clients and AppViews:
Two clients now support the ability for users to set their own AppView, Deer and TOKIMEKI.
AppViewLite is another AppView for Bluesky that has been around for a while, that focuses on being cheap to run. It also heavily optimises for network data storage, with creator Alnkq running AppViewLite that contains full network data on a cheap 10 year old machine. So far, AppViewLite only worked with a custom frontend. An update this week now make it possible to use AppViewLite in combination with other clients.
Some further thoughts:
The way ATProto works, is that it takes the software that runs a social network and splits it up into separate components, with each of those components being able to be run independently. This has made self-hosting any component possible since the beginning of the network opening up. But to tak advantage of this, and get to a state of full independence, it means running multiple pieces of software. This has created a bit of a catch-22 in the ecosystem: you could run your own relay, but without another independent AppView to take advantage of this, it is not super useful. You could run your own (focused on the Bluesky lexicon) AppView, but without a client that allows you to set your own AppView it is not particularly useful either. What happened now in the last weeks is that all these individual pieces are starting to come together. With Deer allowing you to set your own custom AppView, there is now a use to actually run your own AppView. Which in turn also gives more purpose to running your own relay.
For building features in a Bluesky client that Bluesky itself does not have, a different AppView is needed. Now that these are starting to become available, there is new space to experiment with clients that have features that Bluesky does not have. Deer has already started going in this direction by allowing people to set any account as a trusted verifier, for example.
There has been skepticism around Bluesky PBC’s claims regarding decentralisation, especially from people within the ActivityPub community. Part of this distrust has come from people applying a mental framework of how ActivityPub works to how ATProto works. In this framework, Bluesky being decentralised would mean that there are other software platforms that are interoperable with the Bluesky lexicon. I’ll be writing more about those different mental frameworks, and how that relates to decentralisation later. But for now these developments strengthen the claims of Bluesky PBC around decentralisation and building a network that is ‘billionaire-proof’.
In Other News
at://2048 is the game of 2048, integrated with ATProto. 2048 is a sliding tile puzzle game where players combine numbered tiles to reach the 2048 tile, that has gotten popularity years ago and has been reimplemented a number of times. What makes the at://2048 version stand out is that the scores of the game are stored on your ATProto PDS. This creates new features and challenges: it gives the game a more social element, with features like leaderboards. It also creates a new challenge, of how to verify that a score on someone’s PDS is actually legit. at://2048 is experimenting with verified badges to authenticate if a score is legit. Integrating games with ATProto is one of the areas that is under-explored, and this reimplementation of 2048 is worth watching to get a sense of how the integration of games with ATProto will further develop.
Bluesky differs from other social networks in one significant way, namely that users blocking each other is public information. This creates new dynamics, from people being able to see who have blocked them, to leaderboards of the most blocked accounts on the network. A new paper, ‘Self-moderation in the decentralized era: decoding blocking behavior on Bluesky‘, takes advantages of data on blocks being public to study user behaviour. Some of their findings: “users who receive a high number of blocks exhibit distinctive behavioral traits that set them apart from the general user population. These patterns are not necessarily linked to toxicity or misinformation, indicating that block-worthy behavior is more nuanced and complex than traditional moderation markers might suggest. Second, these distinctive traits can be effectively encoded and leveraged by machine learning models, suggesting the feasibility of early-warning or flagging systems able to assist moderation teams by surfacing potentially problematic users even before issues escalate.”
Custom feed builder Graze is giving out 5 grants of 1k USD for other projects in the ATProto ecosystem. Explaining why the startup is giving out grants, Graze says: “First, we want to help accelerate growth in the ATProto / Bluesky ecosystem. Projects that help *others* are vital. Second, we want to empower communities to sustain themselves. Third, we want to help give people & orgs direct access to their audiences. Broadly, those are *our* goals as an org.”
Bluesky in the media
Time Magazine talks with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber and COO Rose Wang after they both got recognised as rising leaders in the Asian Pacific Community by Gold House. On monetisation, Graber says “she’s considering subscription models or monetizing Bluesky’s marketplaces of custom tools, but no concrete plans have been set in motion.”
Wired published an article on how digital archivists are racing to save Black History while the Trump administration is trying to erase it. Wired talks with Blacksky’s Rudy Fraser, who describes “Blacksky as a living archive. Currently its database holds 17 million posts from Black users over the last two years”.
The two developers behind Git collaboration platform Tangled, the brothers Anirudh and Akshay Oppiliappan, gave an interview on the devtools.fm podcast about Tangled. The platform also got various feature updates this week, and customisable profiles.
WhiteBreeze is a self-hostable frontend for WhiteWind, allowing people to build their own blog on ATProto.
ATProto Migrator is a tool to migrate your ATProto account to a different PDS. It does so via a web application, without people having to touch the Command Line Interface (CLI). This makes account migration more accessible, as other tools until now (such as goat by Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold) require people to use the CLI.
Flashes is a Bluesky client focused on images, and they are experimenting with some new ways to deal with the limitations that come from using Bluesky’s data. A Bluesky post can contain a maximum of 4 images and 300 characters. Flashes has upgraded that limit to 900 characters and 12 images. It works by actually creating 3 separate Bluesky posts in a thread, and displaying this as a single post in the Flashes app.
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These days, if you are in the market for a capable digital voltmeter, you might as well consider getting one with an oscilloscope built-in. One choice is the Owon HDS160, which [Kerry Wong] covers in the video below. The model is very similar to the HDS120, but the multimeter in the HDS160 has more counts–60,000 vs 20,000 as you might expect from the model number.
The internal chip is an HY3131, which is rated at 50,000 counts which is odd since the meter is 60,000 counts, but presumably the meter uses some capability of the chip, possibly putting it out of spec. The oscilloscope is the same between the two models. Almost everything else works the same, other than the capacitance measuring feature, as the video shows.
The difference in cost between the two units isn’t much, so if you are shopping, the small extra cost is probably worth it. Not that a 20,000 count meter isn’t perfectly fine for most normal uses.
Un recente studio sulle modalità di comunicare informazioni sul cambiamento climatico, mostra come rendere più incisivo il messaggio: con visualizzazioni binarie dei dati invece che tramite dati continui.
Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change Grace Liu, Jake C. Snell, …Rachit Dubey Nature Human Behaviour (2025)
Le visualizzazioni binarie dei dati climatici amplificano l'impatto percepito del cambiamento climatico
Per gran parte della popolazione mondiale, il cambiamento climatico appare come un lento e graduale cambiamento del tempo quotidiano. Questo porta molti a percepire i suoi impatti come minori e a generare apatia (l'effetto "rana bollita"). Come possiamo trasmettere l'urgenza della crisi quando i suoi impatti appaiono così sottili?
Attraverso una serie di esperimenti cognitivi su larga scala (N = 799), abbiamo scoperto che presentare alle persone dati climatici binari (ad esempio, le immagini sulle differenze nelle date del congelamento dei laghi) aumenta significativamente l'impatto percepito del cambiamento climatico rispetto a fornire dei dati continui (ad esempio, la temperatura media). ...i dati binari aumentano l'impatto percepito, creando una "illusione" di cambiamenti improvvisi. ... Questi risultati, replicati in modo robusto in più esperimenti, forniscono una base cognitiva per l'effetto "rana bollita" e offrono un approccio basato sulla psicologia ai politici e agli educatori per migliorare la comunicazione sui cambiamenti climatici, mantenendo l'accuratezza scientifica.
Un recente articolo su Nature cambiamento climatico esplora le diseguaglianze di emissione di gas serra derivati dai più ricchi
I gruppi ad alto reddito contribuiscono in modo sproporzionato agli estremi climatici in tutto il mondo
High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide Sarah Schöngart, Zebedee Nicholls, …Carl-Friedrich Schleussner Nature Climate Change (2025)
www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02325-x
L'ingiustizia climatica persiste e i meno responsabili spesso sopportano i maggiori impatti, sia tra i paesi che tra i singoli all'interno dei paesi. Qui mostriamo come le emissioni da gas serra, attribuibili ai consumi e agli investimenti dei gruppi di popolazione più ricchi, hanno influenzato in modo sproporzionato gli attuali cambiamenti climatici. Colleghiamo la disuguaglianza delle emissioni nel periodo 1990-2020 a estremi climatici regionali... due terzi cioè 66% del riscaldamento sono attribuibili al 10% più ricco nella popolazione (ben un quinto, cioè il 20%, è attribuibile all' 1% più ricco), il che significa che la responsabilità dei contributi individuali è 6,5 volte quella dei contributi pro capite medi (addirittura è di 20 volte per i più ricchi).
Quantificare il collegamento tra le disparità di ricchezza e gli impatti climatici può aiutare nel discorso sull'equità e la giustizia climatica.
👆🏻La toccano piano ma leggendo, ben tra le righe del testo dell' articolo, suggeriscono una tassazione globale internazionale, allineata ai consumi e alla finanza transfrontaliera. 🤯 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
1) Questo link poliverso.org/community che ti mostra i contenuti prodotti dagli utenti del solo server Poliverso 2) Questo link poliverso.org/community/global che ti mostra i contenuti prodotti dagli utenti di server diversi da Poliverso3) Questo link poliverso.org/network dove vedrai gli aggiornamenti dei tuoi contatti; e se anche non hai ancora contatti (e quindi non vedrai nulla nella pagina principale), puoi dare un'occhiata ai link a sinistra, dove troverai un filtro sui contenuti, in base alla tua lingua, gli ultimi contenuti pubblicati oppure tag come #Art #Socialmedia e #USA. 4) Questo link poliverso.org/calendar che ti mostra gli eventi federati condivisi da persone del tuo server o dai contatti dei tuoi contatti
I dieci comandamenti di Friendica. Cosa fare con l’account che abbiamo aperto su Poliverso?
Ecco una sorta di decalogo su Friendica. Ci sono molti link che possono appesantire la lettura, ma speriamo che vi piaccia e soprattutto ci auguriamo che lo troviate utile!
@Signor Amministratore ⁂ grazie mille! Il tuo messaggio ed il tuo link rispondono già ad alcune domande che mi stavo ponendo, poi con calma mi rileggo tutto bene e cerco di imparare un po' alla volta 😊
Prevost: la scheda redatta dalle persone sopravvissute ad abusi
Ecco la pagina che la rete delle persone sopravvissute ad abusi nella chiesa cattolica, in sigla SNAP, dedicava prima dell'elezione a Prevost . Se clicchiamo sul bottone rosso "Read Vos Estis report", ecco il carteggio della SNAP inviato in vaticano, perchè anche a Prevost fosse applicata la legge istituita da Bergoglio sugli abusi. Si legge di un caso di abusatore con 13 vittime conclamate non protette nell'Illinois, e di sentenze della giustizia civile peruviana che scrivono nero su bianco dell'inazione della diocesi guidata da Prevost nel contrastare altri casi di abusi su almeno tre persone. Peccato che lo stesso Bergoglio prenda un infrattore della legge da lui istituita, e lo metta - con potere crescente - in un ruolo chiave per la nomina di vescovi. "Tutto apposto". - -
As provincial of the Augustinians, Prevost allowed Father James Ray, a priest then accused of abusing minors whose ministry had been restricted since 1991, to reside at the Augustinians' St. John Stone Friary in Chicago in 2000, despite its proximity to a Catholic elementary school. When Prevost was Bishop of Chiclayo, three victims reported to civil authorities in 2022 after there was no movement on their canonical case filed through the diocese. Victims have since claimed Prevost failed to open an investigation, sent inadequate information to Rome, and that the diocese allowed the priest to continue saying mass.
SNAP filed a complaint against Prevost under the pope’s 2023 decree Vos estis lux mundi on March 25, 2025
Vos estis lux mundi, Pope Francis’ 2023 decree, allows any bishop, cardinal, or religious superior to be reported and investigated for abuse or cover-up. These complaints, submitted to the Vatican, are not verdicts of guilt. They are evidence-based calls for investigation—each meeting the church’s own standard of “serious indications” that a violation occurred. In civil terms, this is equivalent to probable cause or reasonable grounds to investigate.
Every filing draws from a solid foundation of survivor and eyewitness testimony, public records and church statements, independent investigations by media and legal experts, official church documents and canonical proceedings, testimony, depositions, and court-ordered documents from criminal and civil cases.
L’Europa non può più permettersi di restare indietro nella difesa come settore strategico-industriale. È questo il messaggio lanciato dal presidente del Consiglio europeo António Costa, che ha visitato lo stabilimento di Leonardo a Campi
Per due giorni Roma si fa capitale globale del dominio aerospaziale. Ha avuto inizio oggi, presso la Nuvola all’Eur, l’Aerospace Power Conference 2025. Giunta alla sua seconda edizione, la conferenza ha riunito nella Capitale ospiti istituzionali,
Il futuro della gestione del campo di battaglia è definito dall’interconnessione tra domini, dalla velocità dell’innovazione e dalla capacità di integrare la sovranità industriale con la cooperazione internazionale. A parlare è l’industria
A hacker compromised TeleMessage, a company that provides Signal chat archiving services to the Trump administration. TeleMessage has now hidden a video on YouTube that explained its Signal service.#News
This has become the Slop Presidency, and AI-generated images are the perfect artistic medium for the Trump presidency. They're impulsively created, grotesque, and low-effort. Trumpworld’s fascination with slop is the logical next step for a President that, in his first term, regularly retweeted random memes created by his army of supporters on Discord or The Donald, a subreddit that ultimately became a Reddit-clone website after it was banned. AI allows his team to create media that would never exist otherwise, a particularly useful tool for a President and administration that has a hostile relationship with reality.
Trump’s original fascination with AI slop began last summer, after he said legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were “eating the cats…they’re eating the pets” in his debate with Kamala Harris. The internet’s AI slop factories began spinning up images of Trump as cat-and-dog savior. Since then, Trump and the administration have occasionally shared or reposted AI slop. In his first week in office, Trump shared an AI-generated “GM” car image that was promoting $TRUMP coin. “What a beautiful car. Congrats to GM!,” he posted. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… At the end of February, Trump shared a video on his Truth Social account that imagined a world where Gaza was turned into a Trump Casino.
But this weekend, Trump began sharing AI slop on a level we’ve not seen before.
Trump’s AI-tinged weekend began on Friday night with a photo-realistic picture of himself as the Pope on his Truth Social account. The White House reposted a screenshot of the image on X, which pissed off the Catholic Church. “This is deeply offensive to Catholics especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis and praying for the guidance of the Holy Spirit for the election of our new Pope. He owes an apology,” Thomas Paprocki, an American Bishop in Illinois, said on X.
During a press conference on Monday, Trump dismissed the accusation that the Trump Pope was offensive and then said he didn’t post it. “The Catholics loved it. I had nothing to do with it,” Trump said. “Somebody made up a picture of me dressed like the Pope and they put it out on the internet,” Trump said. “That’s not me that did it, I have no idea where it came from. Maybe it was AI. But I know nothing about it. I just saw it last evening.”
All political movements are accompanied by artists who translate the politics into pictures, writing, and music. Adolf Ziegler captured the Nazi ideal in paintings. Stalin’s Soviet Union churned out mass produced and striking propaganda posters that wanted citizens about how to live. The MAGA movement’s artistic aesthetic is AI slop and Donald Trump is its king. It is not concerned with convincing anyone or using art to inform people about its movement. It seeks only to upset people who aren’t on board and excite the faithful because it upsets people.
Not content to just aggravate Catholics, the Trump administration then used AI to offend adherents of another of America’s major religions: Star Wars fans. On May the 4th, the official White House X account posted an AI-generated image of a muscle bound Trump wielding a red light saber and flanked by two bald eagles.
“Happy May the 4th to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to to [sic] bring Sith Lords, Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, & well known MS-13 Gang Members, back into our Galaxy. You’re not the Rebellion—you’re the Empire,” it said in the post. “May the 4th be with you.” As the replies pointed out, red light sabers are typically used by villains. This was just one of a series of Star Wars related AI-generated cringe that went out from official Trump admin accounts over the weekend. DOD Rapid Response on X (an account that publishes propaganda on behalf of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth) posted a five minute video that contained a Star Wars intro style scroll of Trump’s “accomplishments” before treating viewers to a pic of Trump and Hegseth as Jedi. The account for the U.S. Army’s Pacific Command sent out an “AI-enhanced” image of soldiers doing a training exercise. Both of the soldiers’s weapons were replaced with lightsabers. Trump and the people who created AI-image generators do not respect artists. There is no style that either will not exploit or sully. OpenAI reduced Hayao Miyazaki's life’s work to a gross meme, and the White House played along. For years the Lofi Girl has sat in windows on screens across the planet while people studied, read, and worked. Over the weekend the White House YouTube channel ran “Lo-Fi MAGA Video to Relax/ Study To” while an animated President Trump sat at a desk, mimicking the Lofi Girl.
Maybe you don’t like Star Wars, are unmoved by Studio Ghibli films, or have never chilled to lofi beats. It doesn’t matter, the message is clear: if you love something Trump will pervert it. Nothing will be untouched. Sacred objects and beloved art exist only to be desecrated. AI has made that as easy as pushing a button.
AI generated slop content is part of a brute force attack on the algorithms that control reality and the Trump administration’s constant use of AI art reflects its own brute force attack on American democracy. It’s not just that its aesthetics are useful for Trump, its entire mode of being is useful for how his administration has governed so far, by brute forcing the Presidency with a slew of executive orders, budget cuts, attacks on institutions, and sloppily executed deportations. The strategy is to overwhelm the American bureaucracy and the legal system, and to exhaust his enemies with an endless stream of bullshit; by the time we shake out what’s legal and what’s not, much of the damage has already been done.
One of the wonderful things about making art is the process. A lot happens between conception and execution. An idea pops into an artist's head and it changes dramatically while they attempt to render that idea into reality. That doesn’t happen with AI-generated images. There is no creation process, there is only instant gratification. Whatever impulsive and grotesque thought pops into the mind of the creator can immediately be realized.
And so every revenge fantasy Trump and his followers ever wanted can be made real at a moment’s notice. On March 27, the White House X account posted a Ghibli-style AI image of a crying woman being arrested by ICE.
Here is a real woman who has been accused of a crime, her image appropriated by the state and rendered into a cartoon. America has total power over this woman. Arrested for drug trafficking, her image has been plastered all over the internet. She’ll be deported. Not content with total control over her body and future, the administration has made her into a caricature and invited its followers to mock her online.
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Secondo l'agenzia Reuters, gli Emirati avrebbero aperto un canale di comunicazione tra Damasco e Tel Aviv. Per alcuni potrebbe sfociare nella normalizzazione tra i due Paesi L'articolo SIRIA.pagineesteri.it/2025/05/08/med…
Come in guerra i nemici, così in politica gli avversari tendono spesso ad assomigliarsi. Capita, e capita soprattutto nelle democrazie dell’alternanza, che le caratteristiche peggiori della parte dominante siano fatte
@Privacy Pride Il post completo di Christian Bernieri è sul suo blog: garantepiracy.it/blog/siamo-tu… Due parole al volo su un tema ricorrente: sta per arrivare una tsunami di truffe e, questa volta, potrebbe avvenire a causa di una sanzione del Garante. Ieri il Garante Privacy ha sanzionato pesantemente ACEA ENERGIA e una galassia di agenzie,
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) L'amministrazione Trump vuole rimuovere la "Ai diffusion rule", cioè il complesso regolamento elaborato da Biden per controllare il commercio di microchip americani nel mondo. La Casa Bianca accontenta l'Arabia Saudita e
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Nuove motivazioni e interessi si aggiungono alle storiche narrazioni delle due parti. L'Europa chiede moderazione, ma si è già schierata con New Dehli. Intervista a Claudio Avella fotoreporter in India e collaboratore di Pagine Esteri L'articolo Podcast. India Pakistan.
Fabio Drusin l’intervista: The long and winding road….. freezonemagazine.com/articoli/… FZM: Fabio, vuoi raccontarci come nasce questo disco come Blues Factory…. FD: Io e Cristian Oitzinger ci conosciamo da molti anni, da ancora quando suonavo con gli W.I.N.D. dei primi anni 2000 e nel corso degli anni siamo diventati amici. Spesso, quando si trovavano senza bassista davo loro una mano sia nei live che in […] L'articolo Fabio Drusin
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Un gruppo di indigeni Jenu Kuruba che 40 anni fa erano stati sfrattati dal loro villaggio ancestrale nella Riserva della Tigre di Nagarhole, nell’India meridionale, hanno rioccupato quella che era un tempo la
L'articolo proviene da #Euractiv Italia ed è stato ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Intelligenza Artificiale La Commissione europea si è impegnata a intensificare la cooperazione con gli Stati
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo L'impunità per i crimini contro i difensori dell'ambiente è del 99%. Nel 2024 sono stati documentati 94 eventi di aggressione, venticinque difensori dell'ambiente sono stati uccisi: 21 con omicidi e quattro con esecuzioni extragiudiziali L'articolo MESSICO.
chissà se fra 100 anni, potremo un giorno sentire un russo sostenere una frase del genere: "è un miracolo che siamo sopravvissuti, nonostante putin"....
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale Il famoso discorso con il quale Silvio Berlusconi annunciò la sua “discesa in campo” diventa uno spot a favore del Sì al referendum di Cittadinanza in programma l’8 e il 9 giugno. I promotori del Sì, infatti,
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Chi c'era e che cosa si è detto su intelligenza artificiale, etica e politica alla proiezione del corto di Alessandro Haber alla Camera dei Deputati.
#ITS, ieri si è svolta al #MIM l’inaugurazione della “Hi-Tech haute couture”, un’esposizione di abiti tech e sostenibili realizzati dagli studenti dell’ITS Academy Sistema Moda.
#ITS, ieri si è svolta al #MIM l’inaugurazione della “Hi-Tech haute couture”, un’esposizione di abiti tech e sostenibili realizzati dagli studenti dell’ITS Academy Sistema Moda.
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in reply to depand456 • •Ciao @depand456 e benvenuto!
Se vuoi sapere cosa succede qui, puoi iniziare da
1) Questo link poliverso.org/community che ti mostra i contenuti prodotti dagli utenti del solo server Poliverso
2) Questo link poliverso.org/community/global che ti mostra i contenuti prodotti dagli utenti di server diversi da Poliverso3) Questo link poliverso.org/network dove vedrai gli aggiornamenti dei tuoi contatti; e se anche non hai ancora contatti (e quindi non vedrai nulla nella pagina principale), puoi dare un'occhiata ai link a sinistra, dove troverai un filtro sui contenuti, in base alla tua lingua, gli ultimi contenuti pubblicati oppure tag come #Art #Socialmedia e #USA.
4) Questo link poliverso.org/calendar che ti mostra gli eventi federati condivisi da persone del tuo server o dai contatti dei tuoi contatti
Infine ti do il link di un promemoria utile per i nuovi utenti Friendica (ma anche per quelli meno nuovi)
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