Time to enforce ICE restraining orders
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
Rümeysa Öztürk has been facing deportation for 227 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like, and the government hasn’t stopped targeting journalists for deportation. Read on for news from Illinois, our latest public records lawsuit, and how you can take action to protect journalism.
Enforce ICE restraining orders now
A federal judge in Chicago yesterday entered an order to stop federal immigration officers from targeting journalists and peaceful protesters, affirming journalists’ right to cover protests and their aftermath without being assaulted or arrested.
Judge Sara Ellis entered her ruling — which extended a similar prior order against Immigration and Customs Enforcement — in dramatic fashion, quoting everyone from Chicago journalist and poet Carl Sandburg to the Founding Fathers. But the real question is whether she’ll enforce the order when the feds violate it, as they surely will. After all, they violated the prior order repeatedly and egregiously.
Federal judges can fine and jail people who violate their orders. But they rarely use those powers, especially against the government. That needs to change when state thugs are tearing up the First Amendment on Chicago’s streets. We suspect Sandburg would agree.
Journalist Raven Geary of Unraveled Press summed it up at a press conference after the hearing: “If people think a reporter can’t be this opinionated, let them think that. I know what’s right and what’s wrong. I don’t feel an ounce of shame saying that this is wrong.”
Congratulations to Geary and the rest of the journalists and press organizations in Chicago and Los Angeles that are standing against those wrongs by taking the government to court and winning. Listen to Geary’s remarks here.
Journalists speak out about abductions from Gaza aid flotillas
We partnered with Defending Rights & Dissent to platform three U.S. journalists who were abducted from humanitarian flotillas bound for Gaza and detained by Israel.
They discussed the inaction from their own government in the aftermath of their abduction, shared their experiences while detained, and reflected on what drove them to take this risk while so many reporters are self-censoring.
We’ll have a write-up of the event soon, but it deserves to be seen in full. Watch it here.
FPF takes ICE to court over dangerous secrecy
We filed yet another Freedom of Information Act lawsuit this week — this time to uncover records on ICE’s efforts to curtail congressional access to immigration facilities.
“ICE loves to demand our papers but it seems they don’t like it as much when we demand theirs,” attorney Ginger Quintero-McCall of Free Information Group said.
If you are a FOIA lawyer who is interested in working with us pro bono or for a reduced fee on FOIA litigation, please email lauren@freedom.press.
Read more about our latest lawsuit here.
If Big Tech can’t withstand jawboning, how can individual journalists?
Last week, Sen. Ted Cruz convened yet another congressional hearing on Biden-era “jawboning” of Big Tech companies. The message: Government officials leaning on these multibillion-dollar conglomerates to influence the views they platform was akin to censorship.
Sure, the Biden administration’s conduct is worth scrutinizing and learning from. But if you accept the premise that gigantic tech companies are susceptible to soft pressure from a censorial government, doesn’t it go without saying that so are individual journalists who lack anything close to those resources?
We wrote about the numerous instances of “jawboning” of individual reporters during the current administration that Senate Republicans failed to address at their hearing. Read more here.
Tell lawmakers from both parties to oppose Tim Burke prosecution
Conservatives are outraged at Tucker Carlson for throwing softballs to neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. But the Trump administration is continuing its predecessor’s prosecution of journalist Tim Burke for exposing Tucker Carlson whitewashing another antisemite — Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.
Lawmakers shouldn’t stand for this hypocrisy, regardless of political party. Tell them to speak up with our action center.
What we’re reading
FBI investigating recent incident involving feds in Evanston, tries to block city from releasing records (Evanston RoundTable). Apparently obstructing transparency at the federal level is no longer enough and the government now wants to meddle with municipal police departments’ responses to public records requests.
To preserve records, Homeland Security now relies on officials to take screenshots (The New York Times). The new policy “drastically increases the likelihood the agency isn’t complying with the Federal Records Act,” FPF’s Lauren Harper told the Times.
When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent (Poynter). Foreign war correspondents get “hostile environment training, security consultants, trauma counselors and legal teams. … Local newsrooms covering militarized federal operations in their own communities? Sometimes all we have is Google, group chats and each other.”
YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations (The Intercept). “It is outrageous that YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of human rights violations and war crimes from public view,” said Katherine Gallagher of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Plea to televise Charlie Kirk trial renews Senate talk of cameras in courtrooms (Courthouse News Service). It’s past time for cameras in courtrooms nationwide. None of the studies have ever substantiated whatever harms critics have claimed transparency would cause. Hopefully, the Kirk trial will make this a bipartisan issue.
When storytelling is called ‘terrorism’: How my friend and fellow journalist was targeted by ICE (The Barbed Wire). “The government is attempting to lay a foundation for dissenting political beliefs as grounds for terrorism. And people like Ya’akub — non-white [or] non-Christian — have been made its primary examples. Both journalists; like Mario Guevara … and civilians.”
If Big Tech can’t withstand jawboning, how can individual journalists?
Last week, Sen. Ted Cruz convened yet another congressional hearing on Biden-era “jawboning” of Big Tech companies. The message: Government officials leaning on these multibillion-dollar conglomerates to influence the views they platform was akin to censorship. Officials may not have formally ordered the companies to self-censor, but they didn’t have to – businesspeople know it’s in their economic interests to stay on the administration’s good side.
They’re not entirely wrong. Public officials are entitled to express their opinions about private speech, but it’s a different story when they lead speakers to believe they have no choice but to appease the government. At the same time the Biden administration was making asks of social platforms, the former president and other Democrats (and Republicans) pushed for repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that allows social media to exist.
It’s unlikely that the Biden administration intended its rhetoric around Section 230 to intimidate social media platforms into censorship. That said, it’s certainly possible companies made content decisions they otherwise wouldn’t have when requested by a government looking to legislate them out of existence. It’s something worth exploring and learning from.
But if you accept the premise — as I do — that gigantic tech companies with billions in the bank and armies of lawyers are susceptible to soft pressure from a censorial government, doesn’t it go without saying that so are individual journalists who lack anything close to those resources?
If it’s jawboning when Biden officials suggest Facebook take down anti-vaccine posts, isn’t it “jawboning” when a North Carolina GOP official tells ProPublica to kill a story, touting connections to the Trump administration? When the president calls for reporters to be fired for doing basic journalism, like reporting on leaks? When the White House and Pentagon condition access on helping them further official narratives? A good-faith conversation about jawboning can’t just ignore all of that.
Here are some more incidents Cruz and his colleagues have not held hearings about:
- A Department of Homeland Security official publicly accused a Chicago Tribune reporter of “interference” for the act of reporting where immigration enforcement was occurring. Journalism, in the government’s telling, constituted obstruction of justice. That certainly could lead others to tread cautiously when exercising their constitutional right to document law enforcement actions.
- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard attacked Washington Post reporter Ellen Nakashima by name, suggesting her reporting methods — which is to say, calling government officials — were improper and reflected a media establishment “desperate to sabotage POTUS’s successful agenda.” Might that dissuade reporters from seeking comment from sources, or sources from providing such comment to reporters?
- When a journalist suggested people contact her on the encrypted messaging app Signal, an adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said she should be banned from Pentagon coverage. The Pentagon then attempted to exclude her from Hegseth’s trip to Singapore. Putting aside the irony of Hegseth’s team taking issue with Signal usage, it’s fair to assume journalists are less likely to suggest sources lawfully contact them via secure technologies if doing so leads to government threats and retaliation.
- Bill Essayli, a U.S. attorney in California, publicly called a reporter “a joke, not a journalist” for commenting on law enforcement policies for shooting at moving vehicles. Obviously, remarks from prosecutors carry unique weight and have significant potential to chill speech, particularly when prosecutors make clear that they don’t view a journalist as worthy of the First Amendment’s protections for their profession.
Sources wanting to expose wrongdoing ... will think twice about talking to journalists who are known targets of an out-of-control administration.
There are plenty more examples — and that doesn’t even get into all the targeting of news outlets, from major broadcast networks to community radio stations. They may have more resources than individual reporters, but they’re nowhere near as well positioned to withstand a major spike in legal bills and insurance premiums as big social media firms (who this administration also jawbones to censor constitutionally protected content).
And hovering over all of this is President Donald Trump himself, whose social media feed doubles as an intimidation campaign against reporters. Our Trump Anti-Press Social Media Tracker documents hundreds of posts targeting not only news outlets but individual journalists. It’s documented over 3,500 posts. Unlike Biden-era “jawboning,” threats like these come from the very top — people in a position to actually carry them out. And unlike Biden’s administration, Trump’s track record makes the threat of government retribution real, not hypothetical.
Trump views excessive criticism of him as “probably illegal.” He has made very clear his desire for journalists to be imprisoned, sued for billions, and assaulted for reasons completely untethered to the Constitution, and has surrounded himself with bootlicking stooges eager to carry out his whims. “Chilling” is an understatement for the effect when a sitting president — particularly an authoritarian one — threatens journalists for doing their job.
It’s not only that these journalists don’t have the resources of Meta, Alphabet, and the like. They also have much more to lose. Tech companies might get some bad PR based on how they handle government takedown requests, but it’s unlikely to significantly impact their bottom line, particularly when news content comprises a small fraction of their business.
But journalists don’t just host news content, they create it. Their whole careers depend on their reputations and the willingness of sources to trust them. Sources wanting to expose wrongdoing, who often talk to journalists at great personal risk and try to keep a low profile, will think twice about talking to journalists who are known targets of an out-of-control administration.
Other news outlets might be reluctant to hire someone who has been singled out by the world’s most powerful person and his lackeys. Editors and publishers — already spooked about publishing articles that might draw a SLAPP suit or worse from Trump — will be doubly hesitant when the article is written by someone already on the administration’s public blacklist.
Unlike Biden’s antics, the Trump administration has cut out the middleman by directly targeting the speech and speakers it doesn’t like. And it wields this power against people with a fraction of the resources to fight back. If that’s not jawboning, what is?
„Digitaler Omnibus“: EU-Kommission will Datenschutzgrundverordnung und KI-Regulierung schleifen
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Migliaia di voli in ritardo a causa dei tagli della FAA che hanno bloccato i principali aeroporti
Le cancellazioni dei voli imposte dalla FAA aumenteranno fino al 10% entro il 14 novembre.
- Oltre 5.000 voli sono stati ritardati e 1.100 cancellati, mentre venerdì sono entrate in vigore le riduzioni in 40 aeroporti ad alto traffico , in quello che i funzionari definiscono un tentativo di alleviare la pressione derivante dalla chiusura record del governo.
- Le cancellazioni dei voli imposte dalla FAA comportano una riduzione del 4% questo fine settimana. La riduzione salirà al 6% entro l'11 novembre, all'8% entro il 13 novembre e al 10% entro il 14 novembre.
- Il Segretario ai Trasporti Sean Duffy ha dichiarato oggi che la fine della chiusura delle attività governative non comporterà il ripristino immediato dei controllori di volo, perché ci vorrà del tempo prima che tutti possano tornare al lavoro.
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Con i dazi di Trump abbiamo scherzato? - Il Post
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Con i dazi di Trump abbiamo scherzato?
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Ho un blog con WordPress, qualcuno sa perché quando condivido qui sopra un suo post nell'anteprima non compare né la figura né il titolo del post ma solo l'URL?
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Io in questo post non vedo neanche il titolo, solo l'URL.
Nel mio post precedente sugli scioperi di venerdì si vede il nome del blog e il titolo ma solo perché l'ho scritto io, manualmente nel post.
Siccome ci risiamo e, in vista dello sciopero generale del 12 dicembre, qualcuno ha già provato a buttarla in caciara, cercando di spostare l'attenzione dal problema della sanità, dal problema di un fisco che spreme i lavoratori dipendenti e i pensionati e premia gli evasori fiscali, dal problema delle scuole che cadono a pezzi, della povertà sempre in aumento, ecc. al problema del giorno della settimana scelto per lo sciopero, ripropongo un mio post di qualche tempo fa in cui provo a spiegare perché il venerdì è un buon giorno per fare sciopero.
Sia chiaro, non mi aspetto che chi, di fronte agli enormi problemi messi sul tavolo dal più grande sindacato italiano, si gingilla con i giorni della settimana possa avere qualche interesse nella sua lettura ma magari qualcun altro sì.
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prima amico dei russi.... poi le sanzioni ai russi... poi un amico dei russi, orban gli chiede l'esenzione dall'embargo al petrolio russo (ma poi che c'entra trump in questo? boh vabbè) ma siccome è un fascista estremista come lui ok... lui è esentato.
veramente... ma nessuno si accorge che trump si muove come un ubriaco? "banderuola men"? e questo sarebbe il presidente degli stati uniti? che decadenza.
e mano male aveva accusato l'europa di ingerenza per aver continuato ad acquistare da putin gas & ecc.....
quando finirà questo cazzo di presidenza trump? è angosciante.
Ecco come Meta si arricchisce con le pubblicità-truffa
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RIASSUNTO DELLE PUTTANATE DELLA SETTIMANA
1- Rinnovati i contratti degli insegnanti, fatti due calcoli in media in busta paga vedremo non più di 40 euro al mese in più, netti
2- Brunetta invece si aumenta da solo lo stipendio di 5000 euro al mese in più passando da 250mila euro l anno a 310mila euro l'anno.
3- La carta del docente arriverà nel secondo quadrimestre e solo se abbiamo fatto i bravi nel primo quadrimestre, nel frattampp se servono libri tablet pc, corsi ce li paghiamo di tasca nostra.
4- per andare in pensione occorre lavorare 3 mesi in più, pare stiano veramente abolendo la riforma Fornero, peggiorandola.
5- La legge di bilancio prevede un risparmio sulla scuola di almeno 600 milioni di euro utili per comprare armi.
6- A New York viene eletto un sindaco di fede musulmana che sa parlare ai cittadini, panico tra i destrorsi, rischio sicurezza. Sarebbe come dire che io sono pericoloso perché conterraneo di Cuffaro.
7- Cuffaro viene arrestato per appalti truccati. Non si riesce a capire come sia stato capace, un personaggio così onesto e altruista oltre che bravo amministratore.
8- Il principale problema degli scioperi pare non sia il motivo per cui si sciopera, ma il fatto che si facciano di venerdì per avere il weekend lungo a proprie spese, mentre i parlamentari hanno da tempo lanciato la settimana cortissima andando a casa di giovedì a spese dello Stato.
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La definizione e la tempistica del raggiungimento dell’intelligenza artificiale generale potrebbero essere contestate in tribunale: se OpenAI dovesse dichiarare l’Agi o se il panel di esperti dovesse verificarla, le ripercussioni finanziarie e di controllo sarebbero immense.
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."#AI #libraries
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
This story was reported with support from the MuckRock Foundation.Last month, a company called the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database announced a new version of a product called Class-Shelf Plus. The software, which is used by school libraries to keep track of which books are in their catalog, added several new features including “AI-driven automation and contextual risk analysis,” which includes an AI-powered “sensitive material marker” and a “traffic-light risk ratings” system. The company says that it believes this software will streamline the arduous task school libraries face when trying to comply with legislation that bans certain books and curricula: “Districts using Class-Shelf Plus v3 may reduce manual review workloads by more than 80%, empowering media specialists and administrators to devote more time to instructional priorities rather than compliance checks,” it said in a press release.
In a white paper published by CLCD, it gave a “real-world example: the role of CLCD in overcoming a book ban.” The paper then describes something that does not sound like “overcoming” a book ban at all. CLCD’s software simply suggested other books “without the contested content.”
Ajay Gupte, the president of CLCD, told 404 Media the software is simply being piloted at the moment, but that it “allows districts to make the majority of their classroom collections publicly visible—supporting transparency and access—while helping them identify a small subset of titles that might require review under state guidelines.” He added that “This process is designed to assist districts in meeting legislative requirements and protect teachers and librarians from accusations of bias or non-compliance [...] It is purpose-built to help educators defend their collections with clear, data-driven evidence rather than subjective opinion.”
Librarians told 404 Media that AI library software like this is just the tip of the iceberg; they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
CLCD and Class Shelf Plus is a small but instructive example of something that librarians and educators have been telling me: The boosting of artificial intelligence by big technology firms, big financial firms, and government agencies is not separate from book bans, educational censorship efforts, and the war on education, libraries, and government workers being pushed by groups like the Heritage Foundation and any number of MAGA groups across the United States. This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise because anything can be learned, approximated, or created in seconds. And with AI, there is less room for nuance in things like classifying or tagging books to comply with laws; an LLM or a machine algorithm can decide whether content is “sensitive.”
“I see something like this, and it’s presented as very value neutral, like, ‘Here’s something that is going to make life easier for you because you have all these books you need to review,’” Jaime Taylor, discovery & resource management systems coordinator for the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts told me in a phone call. “And I look at this and immediately I am seeing a tool that’s going to be used for censorship because this large language model is ingesting all the titles you have, evaluating them somehow, and then it might spit out an inaccurate evaluation. Or it might spit out an accurate evaluation and then a strapped-for-time librarian or teacher will take whatever it spits out and weed their collections based on it. It’s going to be used to remove books from collections that are about queerness or sexuality or race or history. But institutions are going to buy this product because they have a mandate from state legislatures to do this, or maybe they want to do this, right?”
The resurgent war on knowledge, academics, expertise, and critical thinking that AI is currently supercharging has its roots in the hugely successful recent war on “critical race theory,” “diversity equity and inclusion,” and LGBTQ+ rights that painted librarians, teachers, scientists, and public workers as untrustworthy. This has played out across the board, with a seemingly endless number of ways in which the AI boom directly intersects with the right’s war on libraries, schools, academics, and government workers. There are DOGE’s mass layoffs of “woke” government workers, and the plan to replace them with AI agents and supposed AI-powered efficiencies. There are “parents rights” groups that pushed to ban books and curricula that deal with the teaching of slavery, systemic racism, and LGBTQ+ issues and attempted to replace them with homogenous curricula and “approved” books that teach one specific type of American history and American values; and there are the AI tools that have been altered to not be “woke” and to reenforce the types of things the administration wants you to think. Many teachers feel they are not allowed to teach about slavery or racism and increasingly spend their days grading student essays that were actually written by robots.
“One thing that I try to make clear any time I talk about book bans is that it’s not about the books, it’s about deputizing bigots to do the ugly work of defunding all of our public institutions of learning,” Maggie Tokuda-Hall, a cofounder of Authors Against Book Bans, told me. “The current proliferation of AI that we see particularly in the library and education spaces would not be possible at the speed and scale that is happening without the precedent of book bans leading into it. They are very comfortable bedfellows because once you have created a culture in which all expertise is denigrated and removed from the equation and considered nonessential, you create the circumstances in which AI can flourish.”
Justin, a cohost of the podcast librarypunk, told me that the project of offloading cognitive capacity to AI continues apace: “Part of a fascist project to offload the work of thinking, especially the reflective kind of thinking that reading, study, and community engagement provide,” Justin said. “That kind of thinking cultivates empathy and challenges your assumptions. It's also something you have to practice. If we can offload that cognitive work, it's far too easy to become reflexive and hateful, while having a robot cheerleader telling you that you were right about everything all along.”
These two forces—the war on libraries, classrooms, and academics and AI boosterism—are not working in a vacuum. The Heritage Foundation’s right-wing agenda for remaking the federal government, Project 2025, talks about criminalizing teachers and librarians who “poison our own children” and pushing artificial intelligence into every corner of the government for data analysis and “waste, fraud, and abuse” detection.
Librarians, teachers, and government workers have had to spend an increasing amount of their time and emotional bandwidth defending the work that they do, fighting against censorship efforts and dealing with the associated stress, harassment, and threats that come from fighting educational censorship. Meanwhile, they are separately dealing with an onslaught of AI slop and the top-down mandated AI-ification of their jobs; there are simply fewer and fewer hours to do what they actually want to be doing, which is helping patrons and students.
“The last five years of library work, of public service work has been a nightmare, with ongoing harassment and censorship efforts that you’re either experiencing directly or that you’re hearing from your other colleagues,” Alison Macrina, executive director of Library Freedom Project, told me in a phone interview. “And then in the last year-and-a-half or so, you add to it this enormous push for the AIfication of your library, and the enormous demands on your time. Now you have these already overworked public servants who are being expected to do even more because there’s an expectation to use AI, or that AI will do it for you. But they’re dealing with things like the influx of AI-generated books and other materials that are being pushed by vendors.”
The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.
We previously reported that the ebook service Hoopla, used by many libraries, has been flooded with AI-generated books (the company has said it is trying to cull these from its catalog). In a recent survey of librarians, Macrina’s organization found that librarians are getting inundated with pitches from AI companies and are being pushed by their superiors to adopt AI: “People in the survey results kept talking about, like, I get 10 aggressive, pushy emails a day from vendors demanding that I implement their new AI product or try it, jump on a call. I mean, the burdens have become so much, I don’t even know how to summarize them.”
“Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another"
Macrina said that in response to Library Freedom Project’s recent survey, librarians said that misinformation and disinformation was their biggest concern. This came not just in the form of book bans and censorship but also in efforts to proactively put disinformation and right-wing talking points into libraries: “It’s not just about book bans, and library board takeovers, and the existing reactionary attacks on libraries. It’s also the effort to push more far-right material into libraries,” she said. “And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.”Each person I spoke to for this article told me they could talk about the right-wing project to erode trust in expertise, and the way AI has amplified this effort, for hours. In writing this article, I realized that I could endlessly tie much of our reporting on attacks on civil society and human knowledge to the force multiplier that is AI and the AI maximalist political and economic project. One need look no further than Grokipedia as one of the many recent reminders of this effort—a project by the world’s richest man and perhaps its most powerful right-wing political figure to replace a crowdsourced, meticulously edited fount of human knowledge with a robotic imitation built to further his political project.
Much of what we write about touches on this: The plan to replace government workers with AI, the general erosion of truth on social media, the rise of AI slop that “feels” true because it reinforces a particular political narrative but is not true, the fact that teachers feel like they are forced to allow their students to use AI. Justin, from librarypunk, said AI has given people “absolute impunity to ignore reality […] AI is a direct attack on the way we verify information: AI both creates fake sources and obscures its actual sources.”
That is the opposite of what librarians do, and teachers do, and scientists do, and experts do. But the political project to devalue the work these professionals do, and the incredible amount of money invested in pushing AI as a replacement for that human expertise, have worked in tandem to create a horrible situation for all of us.
“AI is an agreement machine, which is anathema to learning and critical thinking,” Tokuda-Hall said. Previously we have had experts like librarians and teachers to help them do these things, but they have been hamstrung and they’ve been attacked and kneecapped and we’ve created a culture in which their contribution is completely erased from society, which makes something like AI seem really appealing. It’s filling that vacuum.”
“Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another,” she added.
Public Library Ebook Service to Cull AI Slop After 404 Media Investigation
Hoopla has emailed librarians saying it’s removing AI-generated books from the platform people use to borrow ebooks from public libraries.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
ABCCAD is Voxels Meets Legos in AR
We get it, CAD software can be daunting to learn. Somehow [Boaztheostrich] found it so daunting he procrastinated his way into a AR voxel-based CAD app he calls “ABCCAD”, written in Godot for the Meta Quest 3.
The app is simplicity itself: pressing A or X on the controller spawns a cube, which you can place wherever you like in virtual space by moving the controller in real space. The trigger then saves the cube position. Grabbing a cube uses the controller’s grab buttons. You can even change colors (with B or Y), but like in OpenSCAD it appears that’s not actually going to have any effect on the exported STL. Check it out in action in the demo video embedded below.
As far as CAD applications go, this is as simplistic as it gets, but there’s a certain charm to its simplicity. It’s almost like virtual legos. Besides, TinkerCAD wasn’t much more complicated when it started out, and look at it now.
Sure, one could say if [Boaz] wanted to do CAD he’d have been better off putting the time into learning good old OpenSCAD or FreeCAD (which can now get you SolidWorks certs, apparently), but this is a fun little app that let him stretch his chops in Godot, another great open-source tool. ABCCAD is, itself, open-source under an MIT license.
Thanks to [Boaztheostrich] for the tip.
We seem to have a paucity of posts under the Godot tag, so if you’ve got a hack that uses the open-source game engine, please send us a tip.
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The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.#fbi #Archiveis
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
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Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio. #Economics #NancyPelosi
One of the Greatest Wall Street Investors of All Time Announces Retirement
Nancy Pelosi, one of Wall Street’s all time great investors, announced her retirement Thursday.Pelosi, so known for her ability to outpace the S&P 500 that dozens of websites and apps spawned to track her seeming preternatural ability to make smart stock trades, said she will retire after the 2024-2026 season. Pelosi’s trades over the years, many done through her husband and investing partner Paul Pelosi, have been so good that an entire startup, called Autopilot, was started to allow investors to directly mirror Pelosi’s portfolio.
According to the site, more than 3 million people have invested more than $1 billion using the app. After 38 years, Pelosi will retire from the league—a somewhat normal career length as investors, especially on Pelosi’s team, have decided to stretch their careers later and later into their lives.
The numbers put up by Pelosi in her Hall of Fame career are undeniable. Over the last decade, Pelosi’s portfolio returned an incredible 816 percent, according to public disclosure records. The S&P 500, meanwhile, has returned roughly 229 percent. Awe-inspired fans and analysts theorized that her almost omniscient ability to make correct, seemingly high-risk stock decisions may have stemmed from decades spent analyzing and perhaps even predicting decisions that would be made by the federal government that could impact companies’ stock prices. For example, Paul Pelosi sold $500,000 worth of Visa stock in July, weeks before the U.S. government announced a civil lawsuit against the company, causing its stock price to decrease.
Besides Autopilot and numerous Pelosi stock trade trackers, there have also been several exchange traded funds (ETFs) set up that allow investors to directly copy their portfolio on Pelosi and her trades. Related funds, such as The Subversive Democratic Trading ETF (NANC, for Nancy), set up by the Unusual Whales investment news Twitter account, seek to allow investors to diversify their portfolios by tracking the trades of not just Pelosi but also some of her colleagues, including those on the other team, who have also proven to be highly gifted stock traders.
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Fans of Pelosi spent much of Thursday admiring her career, and wondering what comes next: “Farewell to one of the greatest investors of all time,” the top post on Reddit’s Wall Street Bets community reads. The sentiment has more than 24,000 upvotes at the time of publication. Fans will spend years debating in bars whether Pelosi was the GOAT; some investors have noted that in recent years, some of her contemporaries, like Marjorie Taylor-Green, Ro Khanna, and Michael McCaul, have put up gaudier numbers. There are others who say the league needs reformation, with some of Pelosi’s colleagues saying they should stop playing at all, and many fans agreeing with that sentiment. Despite the controversy, many of her colleagues have committed to continue playing the game.Pelosi said Thursday that this season would be her last, but like other legends who have gone out on top, it seems she is giving it her all until the end. Just weeks ago, she sold between $100,000 and $250,000 of Apple stock, according to a public box score.
“We can be proud of what we have accomplished,” Pelosi said in a video announcing her retirement. “But there’s always much more work to be done.”
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2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Reverse Biasing an NPN BJT
For the Component Abuse Challenge our hacker [Tim Williams] observes that N-P-N reads the same way forwards and backwards, so… what happens if we reverse bias one? (Note: this remark about N-P-N reading the same forward and backward is a lighthearted joke; in fact the level of doping in the emitter and collector is different so those Ns are not fungible and will exhibit different properties and have different characteristics.)
In his article [Tim] mentions that some transistors are specifically designed to operate when reverse biased, which [Tim] calls “inverted mode”, whereas most transistors are not designed to work in this fashion and that’s the sort of abuse that could damage the component and lead it to malfunction.
But what is Vout? [Tim] reports that he measured approximately -0.4 volts using his high-impedance meter. We tried this experiment in the lab ourselves but we were not able to duplicate [Tim]’s result; however there is a long list of potential reasons for such an outcome. If you do this experiment yourself we would love to hear about your results in the comments section!
If you’re still learning about transistors you might like to check out our five part series on transistors as amplifiers, starting here: Won’t Somebody, Please, Think Of The Transistors!
Thanks to [Tim] for his submission, we wish him the best of luck in the competition!
Making Steam-Powered LEGO Machines
Over the decades we have seen a lot of methods for powering LEGO-based contraptions, ranging from LEGO Technic pneumatics to electric motors, but what about steam power? We have all seen those cute little model steam engines that can definitely put out some power. Sure, you can just drop those in like a kind of confused internal combustion engine, or you can try to make a steam engine that actually tries to be directly compatible with LEGO.
While exploring this topic, [Jamie’s Brick Jams] on YouTube found that the primary concern here is simply the very hot steam produced by the boiler. While not a surprise to anyone who has ever run a model steam engine, this poses a major challenge to the thermoplastics used by LEGO.
Obviously a boiler cannot be made out of plastic, but the steam turbine can. That said, material selection here is key, as the hot, wet steam produced by the boiler demolishes PLA parts and ruined the original and very unsafe copper boiler in the process. Ultimately a LEGO Technic-compatible steam turbine was printed in high temperature resistant PAHT-CF and PC filament, which enables a steam-powered LEGO walker to come to life, albeit with a distinct lack of power.
Model steam engine enthusiasts are of course quick to point out that you should try to create dry steam through superheating, definitely add a safety valve and so on, all of which should make for an even more powerful and safe LEGO steam engine. For a rundown of how steam engines work, [Lawrie] did an excellent video on the basics a while back, as well as a video playlist full of demonstrations of both classical Mamod model engines and questionable modern takes.
Suffice it to say that although model steam engines look like toys, they involve fire, hot steam and other fascinating ways to melt things, light them on fire and cause painful injuries, so definitely follow a safety briefing before attempting any of it at home.
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2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Overdriven LEDs Outshine the Sun
Tagging wildlife is never straightforward in the best of times, but it becomes a great deal more complicated when you’re trying to track flying insects. Instead of trying to use a sensor package, [DeepSOIC] attached tiny, light retroreflectors to bees and hornets, then used a pulsed infrared light mounted on a drone to illuminate them. Two infrared cameras on the drone track the bright dot that indicates the insect, letting the drone follow it. To get a spot bright enough to track in full sunlight, though, [DeepSOIC] had to drive some infrared LEDs well above their rated tolerances.
The LEDs manage to survive because they only fire in 15-µs pulses at 100 Hz, in synchrony with the frame rate of the cameras, rather like some welding cameras. The driver circuit is very simple, just a MOSFET switch driven by an external pulse source, a capacitor to steady the supply voltage, and a current-limiting resistor doing so little limiting that it could probably be removed. LEDs can indeed survive high-current pulses, so this might not really seem like component abuse, but the 5-6 amps used here are well beyond the rated pulse current of 3 amps for the original SFH4715AS LEDs. After proving the concept, [DeepSOIC] switched to 940 nm LEDs, which provide more contrast because the atmosphere absorbs more sunlight around this wavelength. These new LEDs were rated for 5A, so they weren’t being driven so far out of spec, but in tests they did survive current up to 10A.
We’ve seen a similar principle used to drive laser diodes in very high-power pulses a few times before. For an opposite approach to putting every last bit of current through an LED, check out this low-power safety light.
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Share Your Projects: Imperfectionism
Everyone has a standard for publishing projects, and they can get pretty controversial. We see a lot of people complain about hacks embedded in YouTube videos, social media threads, Discord servers, Facebook posts, IRC channels, different degrees of open-sourcing, licenses, searchability, and monetization. I personally have my own share of frustrations with a number of these factors.
It’s common to believe that hacking as a culture doesn’t thrive until a certain set of conditions is met, and everyone has their own set of conditions in mind. My own dealbreaker, as you might’ve seen, is open-sourcing of code and hardware alike – I think that’s a sufficiently large barrier for hacking being repeatable, and repeatability is a big part of how hacking culture spreads.
This kind of belief is often self-limiting. Many people believe that their code or PCB source file is not a good contribution to hacking culture unless it meets a certain cleanliness or completeness standard. This is understandable, and I do that, too.
Today, I’d like to argue against my own view, and show how imperfect publishing helps build hacking culture despite its imperfections. Let’s talk about open-source in context of 3D printing.
The Snazzy Ugly Duckling
One little-spoken aspect of 3D printing is how few models are open-source. Printable models published exclusively as STLs are commonplace, STEPs are much less popular, and from my experience, it’s soul-crushingly rare to see a source file attached to a model on Printables. I struggle to say that’s a good thing, and quite obviously, that negatively impacts 3D printing culture – getting into 3D modeling is that much harder if you can’t reference the sources for 95% of models you might get inspired by.
Of course, part of that is that 3D CADs are overwhelmingly closed-source paid software, and there are like five different ones with roughly equal shares of usage. It’s hard to meaningfully share sources from within a paywalled siloized market. Also, unlike software source code, STLs are very much cross-platform. Electronics has a way better analogy for STLs, they’re just like gerbers – gerbers are easy to export, and to inexperienced people, they’ll feel like all that anyone would ever need.
Then, there’s a self-consciousness and perfectionism. While rare, I’ve seen “I will clean this up and publish later” happen in 3D printing spaces too – it’s a thoroughly non-viable promise there too, but I get why people say that, I’ve personally made and failed on such promises a good few times myself. I’m glad that this isn’t a popular excuse so far, but, as more people adopt OpenSCAD, Blender, and FreeCAD, with their universally-accessible files, maybe we’ll see it resurface.
Asking for 3D model sources should probably become part of hacker culture, just like it helped with software. I don’t think it’s great that 3D printing so often implies closed-source 3D models, and undoubtedly that has limited the growth of 3D modeling as a hobby. I strongly wish I could git clone the 3D model projects I find online, and there’s a whole lot of models that are useless to me because I can’t git clone and modify them.
At the same time? 3D printing carries the hacker flag quite strongly, despite the imperfections, and you can notice it by just how often 3D printing appears on our pages. We can and should point at aspects of hacker culture that 3D printing doesn’t yet represent, and while at it, we benefit from the technology, as much as its imperfections hurt us.
Where Is Hackerdom Found?
Would I argue the same about Discord servers? Mastodon-hosted threads? YouTube videos? GitHub repos with barely-documented code? For sure. There’s no shortage of criticism about those, mostly about accessibility issues. Servers and videos are often not externally discoverable, which is surprisingly painful for hacker culture’s ability to thrive and grow. At the very least, we are badly missing out – for instance, I’d say Discord servers and YouTube videos alike are in dire need of external log/transcript hosting capabilities, and tech-oriented Discord servers specifically could benefit from public logs in the same way that modern Discourse forums have them from the get-go.
That’s for the disadvantages. As for upsides, YouTube videos make hardware hacking into entertainment for potential hackers not enthralled by scrolling through a blog interspersed with pictures, and, they position hacking culture in front of people who’d otherwise miss out on it. Let’s take [DIY Perks], a hugely popular YouTube channel. Would that dual-screen laptop build we covered have worked out great as a blog post, or maybe as a dual post-video, as some hackers do? For sure. At the same time, it gets hacking in front of people’s faces.
Discord blows as a platform, and I’ve written a fair bit about just how much it blows. One such snippet is in the article I wrote about the Beepy project, where the Discord server was crucial to growing Beepy as a community-contributed project. Would people benefit from the Beepy project having publicly available logs? Most certainly, and I’d argue it’s hurt the Beepy project being more externally discoverable. Is that all?
Discord has been an unprecedented communications platform for the Beepy project, and we’d outright lose out if there weren’t hardware hacking communities thriving on Discord, like Hackaday Discord does. I think we should remedy these kinds of problems by building helper tools and arguing for better cultural norms, just like we did with software licenses, because giving up on platforms like Discord currently has a significantly subpar cost-benefit analysis.
What about imperfect code? Sometimes, a hacker figures out a small part of a sensor’s protocol or a basic feature, and as much as the code might be insufficient or hastily written, they publish it. Have you ever stumbled upon such a repository? I have, sometimes I was happy, and sometimes I was disappointed, but either which way, such code tend to require extra work. In the end, I’ve noticed that it almost always helped way more than it hurt, which in turn has eventually led to me publishing more and more.
I think we’d benefit from a culture where “publish later after cleanup” is replaced by “here’s the code, and I might push some cleanup commits later”. It’s a better contribution to hacker culture and to people who enjoy your work, and the “might” part makes it more honest. It’ll also get your publishing muscles in better shape so that you’re quick to post about things you really ought to post about. For what it’s worth, I don’t think it hurts if this is assisted by social media likes, too.
Strength Through Presence
Survival of hacker culture has so far heavily relied on its presence in media all across, and an ability to press the “maybe I can hack too” button in other people’s brains through that presence. That said, every non-open 3D model, Discord server with non-public logs, YouTube channel with non-transcribed videos, or a completely ephemeral TikTok channel, still palpably paves a way for future hackers to join our communities, wherever hackerdom might be within ten years’ time.
I think the key to informational impedance mismatches is making it easier for people to meet the high standards we expect, and helping people meet them where appropriate, in large part, by example. It looks like hacking is strongest when present everywhere, even when some seams, and I hope that this kind of overwhelming presence helps us overcome modern-day unique cultural hurdles in a way we couldn’t hope for just a decade ago.
Sulle case popolari in Piemonte l’assessore Marrone difende una norma discriminatoria
In Piemonte anche l’accesso alle case popolari, dopo il vergognoso bonus Vesta, diventa terreno di scontro ideologico per l’Assessore regionale alla Casa Maurizio Marrone (Fratelli d’Italia).
Protagonista suo malgrado una donna migrante, a cui il giudice ha riconosciuto di essere stata discriminata da una legge regionale secondo cui, per ottenere un alloggio di edilizia popolare, l’inquilino deve essere titolare di un contratto di lavoro. Ma questo vale solo se straniero.
Di fronte a questa sentenza, Marrone non ha aperto una riflessione sull’ingiustizia della norma che viola le direttive europee sui diritti delle persone con e senza cittadinanza ed è in contrasto con la Costituzione italiana e con ogni principio di umanità, ma ha scelto di attaccare il giudice e rilanciare la retorica della “difesa degli Italiani” – sempre con la maiuscola – trasformando un bisogno sociale primario in uno strumento di propaganda.
Non si tratta di una svista o di una frase sfuggita. È una strategia politica coerente, che punta a dividere, individuare un nemico, far credere che alcuni abbiano più diritto di altri di accedere ai servizi e alle tutele sociali. Non è un incidente: è un progetto politico.
Siamo di fronte a una legge che discrimina in modo esplicito e deliberato chi vive in Piemonte ma non ha cittadinanza italiana. La legge che Marrone difende è fascista nei fatti. A questo punto non serve più chiedergli se lui e il suo partito lo siano o meno: sarebbe come chiedere a chi impone una discriminazione se si considera discriminatorio, e poi usare la sua risposta per stabilire la verità. La realtà si misura nelle scelte, nelle norme, nelle vite che colpiscono. Non nelle etichette che uno si appiccica o evita.
Le istituzioni dovrebbero garantire equità e sostegno, non alimentare divisioni né usare la povertà come terreno di scontro politico.
Come Possibile, anche grazie al lavoro della nostra consigliera regionale Giulia Marro, continueremo a lavorare perché vengano riconosciuti i diritti di tutti e tutte, senza distinzioni arbitrarie.
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BgLUG Bergamo: Lettura e creatività con Ada & Zangemann - Sabato 15 novembre 2025
Segnalato dal calendario eventi di Linux Italia e pubblicato sulla comunità Lemmy @GNU/Linux Italia
Un pomeriggio di lettura e creatività manuale con Ada e un po’ di tecnologia libera!"
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non so cosa esattamente stia succedendo, ma differx.noblogs.org sta ricevendo decine e decine di migliaia di visualizzazioni, ormai da mesi. probabilmente alcuni tag stanno diventando - involontariamente da parte mia - virali. o qualcosa del genere. fatto sta, l'analisi statistica mi dice che solo nella giornata di oggi, 7 novembre 2025, le visite al blog tramite browser diversi da chrome e firefox sono state leggermente superiori alle 110mila, quelle da firefox circa diecimila, e quelle da chrome 'appena' un migliaio, se leggo bene. (da notare che per il mio sito slowforward.net questi numeri, anche i più bassi, non sono che raramente raggiunti).
annotazione: non si tratta di bot, che hanno un contatore a parte.
anyway: cheers.
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Dick Cheney (1941-2025)
www1.ilmortodelmese.com/2025/1…NOVA, USA - Ogni tanto una buona novella: il cuore di Dick Cheney ha infine deciso di non battere più. Probabilmente vi ricorderete di questo tizio, ma se vogliamo farla breve possiamo dire che Dick Cheney è stato probabilmente il vice presidente degli Stati Uniti più ignobile di sempre (anche se Vance, siamo certi, gli darà del filo da torcere), nonché il principale responsabile della War on Terr
Dick Cheney (1941-2025) | IL MORTO DEL MESE
NOVA, USA - Ogni tanto una buona novella: il cuore di Dick Cheney ha infine deciso di non battere più. Probabilmente vi ricorderete di quest...Il Morto del Mese
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Il calcio è vulnerabile allo sfruttamento criminale. Europol è pronta a sostenere la UEFA, anche sulla base della Convenzione di Macolin
Qualche giorno orsono #Europol e #UEFA (organo di governo del calcio europeo) hanno rinnovato ed esteso il loro Memorandum of Understanding, incentrato sulla prevenzione e la lotta alla criminalità tutelando al tempo stesso l'integrità del calcio europeo.
Il memorandum è stato firmato nella sede della UEFA a Nyon dal direttore esecutivo di Europol, Catherine De Bolle, e dal presidente della UEFA, Aleksander Čeferin. Europol e UEFA si sono impegnate a cooperare in attività e progetti congiunti. La partnership migliorerà le indagini, la condivisione delle informazioni e il supporto di esperti per le 55 federazioni affiliate alla UEFA.
L’accordo si basa sulla già esistente cooperazione tra le istituzioni, soprattutto nella lotta contro le partite truccate, ampliandone al tempo stesso la portata ad altre minacce legate alla criminalità organizzata. La cooperazione si concentra sullo scambio di informazioni e sulla condivisione di conoscenze nei settori dei principali eventi calcistici, della corruzione sportiva, delle partite truccate e del riciclaggio di denaro, del razzismo, della xenofobia e dell'estremismo violento, nonché delle attività illegali legate allo streaming o alla trasmissione illegali di contenuti audiovisivi. La cooperazione si estende all'individuazione di transazioni e attività sospette nei settori dei trasferimenti di giocatori di calcio, degli investimenti nelle squadre di calcio, dello scambio di attività finanziarie legate al calcio e delle scommesse sportive.
Anche l'assegnazione e l'organizzazione di competizioni sportive possono essere oggetto di abuso da parte dei criminali per riciclare proventi illeciti o per scopi di corruzione e rientrano quindi anche tra i possibili ambiti di cooperazione.
La “manipolazione” delle competizioni. Una definizione giuridica
Secondo la definizione giuridica, la manipolazione della competizione o la combine è "un'azione, un'omissione o un'inganno intenzionale volti a alterare impropriamente il risultato o lo svolgimento di una competizione sportiva al fine di eliminare in tutto o in parte la natura imprevedibile della competizione stessa, al fine di ottenere un indebito vantaggio per sé o per altri" (Convenzione del Consiglio d'Europa sulla manipolazione delle competizioni sportive, 2014, leggi sotto).
La manipolazione della competizione, nota anche come combine, si verifica quando il risultato di un torneo o di una competizione viene deciso in anticipo, in parte o completamente, e la partita viene giocata per garantire l'esito predeterminato. Ciò è contrario alle regole del gioco e spesso alla legge. Il motivo più comune per cui si ricorre alla combine è ottenere un compenso dagli scommettitori, ma le squadre possono anche intenzionalmente ottenere prestazioni scadenti per ottenere un vantaggio futuro, come, sulla carta, un avversario meno promettente in uno spareggio. Parimenti, la manipolazione della competizione si verifica quando un partecipante a una competizione sportiva (ad esempio un atleta, un allenatore, un giudice o un arbitro, ecc.) consapevolmente non ottiene risultati soddisfacenti o prende deliberatamente decisioni sbagliate che influenzano il risultato o l'andamento di una competizione, al fine di ottenere un beneficio indebito (solitamente un vantaggio sportivo o finanziario).
La Convenzione di Macolin
La Convenzione del Consiglio d'Europa sulla manipolazione delle competizioni sportive, comunemente nota come Convenzione di Macolin, è l'unico trattato internazionale giuridicamente vincolante specificamente concepito per prevenire, individuare e sanzionare la manipolazione delle competizioni sportive.
È stata stipulata a Macolin/Magglingen, in Svizzera, il 18 settembre 2014 ed è entrata in vigore il 1° settembre 2019, a seguito della ratifica da parte di cinque Stati, tre dei quali membri del Consiglio d'Europa.
La Convenzione mira a proteggere l'integrità dello sport e l'etica sportiva promuovendo il coordinamento nazionale e la cooperazione internazionale contro la manipolazione, sia essa legata ad attività criminali, scommesse sportive o altri motivi.
La Convenzione di Macolin stabilisce un quadro giuridico completo che impone agli Stati firmatari di attuare misure per combattere la manipolazione, tra cui l'identificazione dei rischi, la definizione di leggi e procedure necessarie e la promozione della cooperazione tra autorità pubbliche, organizzazioni sportive e operatori di scommesse.
Prevede la criminalizzazione della manipolazione da parte di persone fisiche e giuridiche, garantendo che le sanzioni disciplinari degli organismi sportivi non escludano la responsabilità penale, civile o amministrativa. Il trattato impone inoltre agli Stati di istituire piattaforme nazionali che fungano da centri di informazione per il monitoraggio e l'analisi di attività di scommesse sospette e di comunicare le coordinate di tali piattaforme e delle autorità responsabili al Consiglio d'Europa.
La convenzione definisce la manipolazione della competizione come un'intesa, un atto o un'omissione intenzionale volta a alterare impropriamente il risultato o lo svolgimento di una competizione per ottenere un indebito vantaggio, eliminando così la natura imprevedibile dello sport.
Fornisce una tipologia per diverse forme di manipolazione, tra cui l'interferenza diretta in un evento sportivo (Tipo 1), la modifica dell'identità o dei dati personali di un atleta (Tipo 2) e le modifiche non conformi relative all'attrezzatura, alle superfici di gioco o alla fisiologia dell'atleta (Tipo 3).
Questo quadro normativo mira a promuovere una comunicazione più chiara e a fornire una base statistica uniforme per l'identificazione dei rischi e delle minacce emergenti.
A novembre 2025, la Convenzione di Macolin è stata ratificata da Belgio, Francia, Grecia, Islanda, Italia, Lituania, Norvegia, Portogallo, Repubblica di Moldavia, San Marino, Serbia, Spagna, Svezia, Svizzera e Ucraina. È stata firmata anche da altri 41 Stati europei, oltre che da Australia e Marocco. Il nostro Paese ha aderito alla Convenzione, sottoscrivendola il 7 aprile 2016 ed approvandola in via definitiva al termine del percorso parlamentare l'11 aprile 2019; il 16 maggio 2019 è stata pubblicata in Gazzetta Ufficiale.
Il Comitato di monitoraggio della Convenzione, responsabile del monitoraggio dell'attuazione, comprende rappresentanti degli Stati firmatari e di altri organismi competenti e può effettuare visite per valutarne il rispetto.
La Convenzione è aperta alla ratifica sia degli Stati membri del Consiglio d'Europa che di Stati non membri, a dimostrazione della sua portata globale.
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Dopo il Green Deal, la Commissione Ue smantellerà anche l’Ai Act?
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Pressata dall'amministrazione Trump e dalle Big Tech americane, la Commissione europea sta preparando una semplificazione delle regole sull'intelligenza artificiale. L'Ai Act, tanto celebrato da Bruxelles, potrebbe venire
La Cgil proclama lo sciopero generale per il 12 dicembre, Meloni attacca: “In che giorno cadrà?”
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Nuovo scontro tra la Cgil e la premier Giorgia Meloni dopo la decisione del sindacato di proclamare lo sciopero generale per il 12 dicembre contro la legge di bilancio del Governo. “Riteniamo che questa sia una manovra ingiusta, sbagliata e la vogliamo
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Quell'inutile pescivendola ha, ancora una volta, aperto quella fogna che ha sulla faccia per insinuare che lo sciopero di venerdì sia solo un pretesto per "allungare il weekend".
Dal suo pozzo d'ignoranza, dimentica un fatto fondamentale: chi decide di scioperare lo fa sapendo di perdere un giorno di stipendio!
È ora di finirla di spremere i lavoratori! Se il Paese ha bisogno di risorse, è il momento di andare a chiedere soldi dove si trovano veramente:
Alle banche.
Alle società che vendono energia, che dal dopo-Covid hanno incassato fiumi di extraprofitti!
Dobbiamo ribellarci, dobbiamo bloccare l'Italia!
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in reply to Max - Poliverso 🇪🇺🇮🇹 • •È l'unico modo in cui in fallito del genere poteva fare soldi.... molto vantaggioso conoscere in anticipo l'andamento dei titoli in borsa.
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