Our New Years Wish is to Hide in a Giant Pokéball
Between the news, the world situation, and the inevitable family stresses that come this time of year, well — one could be excused for feeling a certain amount of envy for those adorable pocket monsters who spend their time hidden away in red-and-white orbs. [carlos3dprint] evidently did, but he didn’t just dream of cozy concave solitude: he made it happen, with 3D printing and way too much post-processing.
Arguably 3D printing is not the ideal technique for such a large build, and even [carlos], despite the 3dprint in his handle, recognized this: the base frame of the sphere is CNC-routed plywood. He tried to use Styrofoam to make a skin, but evidently he’d lost access to the large CNC cutter he’d borrowed for the plywood frame at that point, as he was trying to do the cuts by hand. It still seems like it wouldn’t have be any worse than the little printed blocks from four different printers he eventually hot-stapled into a shell.
We only say that because based on his description of how much resin and filler went into creating a smooth outer surface on his Pokéball, the raw surface of the prints must have been pretty bad before fiberglass was applied. Still, it’s hard to argue with results, and the results are smooth, shiny and beautiful after all the sanding and painting. Could another technique have been easier? Maybe, but we hack with what we have, and [carlos] had 3D printers and knows how to make the best of them.
The interior of the ball is just large enough for a cozy little gaming nook, and no guesses what [carlos] is playing inside. The Instructable linked above doesn’t have many interior photos, though, so you’ll have to check the video (embedded below) for the interior fitting out, or jump to the tour at about the 15 minute mark.
Given ongoing concerns about VOCs from 3D printers, we kind of hope the Bulbsaur-themed printer he’s got in there is decorative, but it’s sure a nice homage to the construction method. Other pokeballs featured on Hackaday have been much smaller, but we’ve always had a soft spot for scaled-up projects.
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The Cutting Truth about Variable Capacitors
If you’ve seen a big air-variable capacitor, you may have noticed that some of the plates may have slots cut into them. Why? [Mr Carlson] has the answer in the video below. The short answer: you can bend the tabs formed by the slots to increase or decrease the capacitance by tiny amounts for the purpose of tuning.
For example, if you have a radio receiver with a dial, you can adjust the capacitor to make certain spots on the dial have an exact frequency. Obviously, you can only adjust in bands depending on how many slots are in the capacitor. Sometimes the adjustments aren’t setting the oscillator’s frequency. For example, the Delco radio he shows uses the capacitor to peak the tuning at the specified frequency.
You usually only find the slots on the end plates and, as you can see in the video, not all capacitors have the slots. Of course, bending the plates with or without slots will make things change. Just don’t bend enough to short to an adjacent plate or the fixed plates when the capacitor meshes.
Of course, not all variable capacitors have this same design. We’ve seen a lot of strange set ups.
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Jon Peddie’s The Graphics Chip Chronicles On Graphics Controller History
Using computers that feature a high-resolution, full-color graphical interface is commonplace today, but it took a lot of effort and ingenuity to get to this point. This long history is the topic of [Dr. Jon Peddie]’s article series called The Graphics Chip Chronicles. In the first of eight volumes, the early days of the NEC µPD7220 and the burgeoning IBM PC.
Texas Instruments TMS34020 (Source: Wikimedia)
These are just brief overviews of these particular chips, of course, with a lot more detail to be found when you go digging. Details such as the NEC µPD7220 being the graphics chip in Japan’s PC-9800 series of computers which are famous for the amazingly creative art and games that this chip enabled.
While the average Hackaday reader is likely familiar with the IBM PC side of things, Texas Instruments’ graphics controllers, including the very interesting TMS34010 and successor TMS34020 which can be called the first proper graphical processing units, or GPUs, effectively a CPU with graphics-specific instructions.
Although it’s tempting to see computer graphics as a direct line from the days of monochrome graphic controllers to what we have today in our PCs, there were a lot of companies and countless talented individuals involved, including companies who built clones that would go on to set new standards. If you’re into reading through a few years worth of computer history articles by someone who has been in the industry for even longer, it’s definitely worth a read.
Thanks to [JohnS_AZ] for the tip.
Top image: NEC µPD7220 by Drahtlos – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Amber Katze al 39C3 mostra il jailbreak dell’NVIDIA Tegra X2. A rischio l’Autopilot di Tesla
Durante la 39ª edizione della Chaos Communications Conference (39C3), la ricercatrice di sicurezza Amber Katze, 22 anni,ha annunciato di aver analizzato e decifrato completamente il meccanismo di avvio sicuro del chip NVIDIA Tegra X2.
Amber Katze, è una ricercatrice di sicurezza con la passione per la violazione dei dispositivi embedded. In passato ha lavorato sull’hacking di Nintendo Switch e ha anche tenuto un intervento sull’argomento al GPN21.
Questa scoperta indica che milioni di dispositivi dotati di questo chip, che vanno dagli occhiali per risonanza magnetica ai sistemi dei veicoli elettrici, potrebbero essere vulnerabili, a condizione che un attaccante abbia accesso fisico alla porta USB del dispositivo.
Amber Katze ha spiegato che la motivazione principale del suo lavoro è stata la disattivazione, da parte di Magic Leap, del server di avvio di Magic Leap One nel 2024. Tale interruzione aveva reso gli occhiali per realtà mista praticamente inutilizzabili, trasformandoli in veri e propri “rifiuti elettronici”. Il suo obiettivo era quindi ripristinare la funzionalità di questi dispositivi.
Il Magic Leap One utilizza il chip NVIDIA Tegra X2, che impiega il protocollo Fastboot durante l’avvio. La versione open source del codice è fornita da NVIDIA. Dopo un’analisi approfondita, Katze ha individuato due vulnerabilità critiche, denominate “sparsehax” e “dtbhax”.
- Sparsehax: un difetto logico nella decompressione delle immagini SparseFS.
- Dtbhax: consente l’accesso persistente tramite il caricamento di un blocco specifico del core device tree (DTB).
Sfruttando queste falle, la ricercatrice è riuscita a eseguire codice non firmato su Magic Leap One, superando il primo livello di protezione del dispositivo. Successivamente, ha provocato malfunzionamenti durante l’avvio del Tegra X2, iniettando errori e ottenendo l’esportazione del firmware BootROM tramite un canale laterale.
L’analisi del BootROM ha rivelato una vulnerabilità grave nella modalità di ripristino USB. Poiché BootROM è un codice memorizzato direttamente sul silicio del chip, NVIDIA non può correggere questo difetto tramite aggiornamenti software.
Secondo Katze, attraverso questa falla, tutti i dispositivi basati su Tegra X2 con accesso a un’interfaccia USB possono vedere bypassata la catena di avvio sicuro, inclusi sistemi sensibili come l’Autopilot dei veicoli Tesla. L’attacco richiede contatto fisico con il dispositivo e una complessa catena di exploit per ottenere l’esecuzione di codice con privilegi elevati.
Va sottolineato, però, che il Tegra X2 è stato lanciato nel 2016 e non è più in produzione. Le vulnerabilità più critiche sono state corrette nelle versioni successive, limitando l’impatto sui dispositivi attuali.
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Leone XIV: Angelus, “apprezzamento per le innumerevoli iniziative” per la Giornata della pace, cita San Francesco - AgenSIR
“Esprimo il mio apprezzamento per le innumerevoli iniziative promosse in questa occasione in tutto il mondo”.M.Michela Nicolais (AgenSIR)
Se il chatbot crea dipendenza, la colpa è dell’azienda: la nuova linea rossa sull’IA in Cina
Gli chatbot sono ormai ovunque. Ormai tutti abbiamo avuto a che fare con quegli assistenti virtuali che rispondono alle nostre domande, che ci forniscono informazioni e che a volte sembrano davvero troppo intelligenti.
Ma cosa succede quando questi chatbot diventano così avanzati da imitare la personalità umana e da entrare in empatia con noi?
Ecco, in quel caso, le cose potrebbero cambiare davvero. Sì, perché se un chatbot può parlarti come una persona reale, adattarsi al tuo umore e farti sentire capito, beh, potrebbe diventare più di una semplice distrazione, ma un’ abitudine difficile da abbandonare.
E qui casca l’asino. Perché se da un lato questi chatbot possono essere davvero utili e divertenti, dall’altro potrebbero anche creare problemi. Le autorità cinesi, per esempio, sembrano essere preoccupate per la loro sicurezza e per il loro impatto sugli utenti, tant’è che hanno pubblicato una bozza di regolamento per supervisionare questi servizi di intelligenza artificiale.
Il regolamento si applica a tutti i prodotti e servizi disponibili al pubblico in Cina che presentano tratti, modelli di pensiero e stili di comunicazione “umani” e che interagiscono con gli utenti attraverso testo, immagini, audio, video e altri formati. L’autorità di regolamentazione cinese ha infatti sottolineato che questi sistemi richiedono requisiti distinti rispetto a quelli tradizionali, proprio perché possono creare un senso di connessione personale e promuovere l’attaccamento. Insomma, i chatbot non sono più solo strumenti, ma qualcosa di più.
La bozza propone di obbligare gli sviluppatori e i proprietari dei servizi ad avvertire gli utenti dei rischi di un uso eccessivo e a intervenire in caso di comparsa di segnali di dipendenza. Si propone che la responsabilità della sicurezza accompagni un prodotto durante l’intero ciclo di vita, dallo sviluppo e dall’addestramento del modello fino al funzionamento. Il documento include anche requisiti per le procedure interne di verifica degli algoritmi, la protezione dei dati e la protezione delle informazioni personali.
Particolare enfasi è posta sulle potenziali conseguenze psicologiche. Gli operatori potrebbero essere tenuti a valutare lo stato d’animo, le emozioni e il grado di dipendenza dell’utente dal servizio. Se un utente manifesta reazioni emotive estreme o comportamenti coerenti con la dipendenza, il servizio deve adottare le “misure necessarie” per intervenire.
La bozza stabilisce anche restrizioni sul contenuto e sul comportamento di tali sistemi. In particolare, i servizi di intelligenza artificiale non devono generare contenuti che minaccino la sicurezza nazionale, diffondano voci o incoraggino violenza o oscenità. Il documento è attualmente aperto al pubblico e, a seguito del suo esito, le regole potrebbero essere perfezionate prima della loro effettiva attuazione.
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Happy New Years to All, Happy Birthday to the Pirate Movement
Today is the first day of 2026; more than halfway through this decade. The beginning of the year marks the beginning of a new goal for some, hoping to set forth a change for the better. While some take the New Year to jump into a lifestyle or commitment to change, others may not feel they are ready to jump in, even with the year resetting and the feeling of “fresh starts” anew.
You’re never ready. Sometimes you just need to take that opportunity to do.
It was 20 years ago today, on New Year’s Day of 2006, that the first Pirate Party came into being: the Pirate Party of Sweden. Formed in the wake of the Pirate Bay raid, Pirates from Sweden set forth in motion a movement dedicated to the protection of a free and open culture. It was young, future focused, privacy minded and willing to call out intellectual property on the farce it was.
Months after Sweden, on the campus of the University of Georgia, came the second ever Pirate Party: the United States Pirate Party.
While that event occurred on June 6th, 2006, and is an event we shall celebrate the anniversary of later this year during our 2026 Pirate National Conference in Boston, that is not the focus of this post.
Instead, as we go into our 20th year as a movement, the time must be taken to acknowledge some folks. Pirate Parties have popped up worldwide, and while the European peninsula plays host to the most Pirate Parties, it is far from a European movement.
We wish to take a moment to recognize the grassroots efforts of Pirates across the world that have worked to build up this movement.
To our partners in América, the Pirates of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, we are proud to stand with you all as representatives in the New World and in commitment to our own Pan-Americanist platform, dedicating ourselves to bring the United States from a paradigm of U.S. dominance to genuine collaboration and friendship. With you all, we hope to see ourselves as “the first four”, but not the “lone four”.
To our friends in Greece, who provide a fire and energy this movement so desperately needs to continue to grow and thrive. Thank you for speaking up in defense of our movement and refusing to compromise on our ideals. The U.S. Pirate Party greatly looks forward to your success and progress towards the future.
To our candidates, some of whom we have announced and endorsed and some of whom we have yet to tell you about: thank you for believing in this movement. Thank you for caring about your neighbors. Thank you for fighting for a society and culture that is truly free and open.
To the volunteers within the United States Pirate Party: you are the beating heart of this vessel. This ship doesn’t run without their crew, and to our volunteers actively seeking to form Pirate Parties in their state: it is your leadership that is making the difference. Whether you are from one of our PNC member states like Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania or Texas, or one of the volunteers from Alabama, Colorado, the DMV, Kansas. Idaho, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio or West Virginia. Your work is recognized and appreciated to the highest degree.
To our leadership in Young Pirates USA, thank you for taking the time to build up the next generation of Pirate. We look forward to having a more lively YPUSA in the coming years.
To supporters of the Pirate Party, be it the United States or elsewhere: you have seen us grow from a seemingly single issue party to one more fleshed out and unique. No long just privacy, copyright and patents, but also Pan-Americanism, police reform and clean water. This party is a living, breathing reflection of all those who have taken the time to contribute. We hope you can see your reflection from the polish we plan to apply in 2026.
The Pirate Party’s goal was always fighting for “a free and open culture”. Adding clean water, police reform and Pan-Americanism were natural expansions of that idea. Protecting the commons, your privacy, your neighbors and our communities from overreach and profit-first-and-only-minded corporations.
It has been said that the Pirate Party is a bit of an open source project itself; people come in and out and contribute as much or as little as they’d like. It is here I believe our strengths truly lay.
To those looking from the outside in: thank you for checking us out! Maybe you thought we were a joke party (because Pirate Party is a silly name). Maybe you were convinced we existed but did little to nothing. While you might think a slow burn towards success isn’t ideal, I counter by saying that surviving twenty years is only the first obstacle. Sometimes parties and organizations linger before finding their footing, an example being the Democratic Socialists of America. While I am not insinuating we are next in line for that type of relevance, I insist that we are not stagnant in the background. If you have gotten so far as to visit our website or read this article, I invite you to check out our platform. You might not realize it, but our goals aren’t “for Pirates”; they’re for everyone. It just so happens everyone might just be a Pirate.
In the middle of this War on Privacy waged against the average citizen, assisted by the post-Citizens United major parties, in collaboration with those seeking to profit off of your data, we cannot afford to stop pushing. It’s been a long time coming, but I know a change is gonna come.
We have plenty in 2026 and beyond for supporters to sink their teeth into. Beyond volunteer opportunities, we look forward to running more candidates (including what is looking to be a record number of Pirates running in 2026), holding more camera walks, organizing more protests, creating more literature, and giving you all the more reason to Vote Pirate.
Happy New Years to all, and Happy Birthday to this movement we call our own. May these next twenty years be even more fruitful than the first, and may the change we all wish to see come by our hands and hard work.
Because, after all: if not you, then who?
The Taming of Net Politics: HateAid as a Cautionary Tale for Digital Freedom
By Babak Tubis
The U.S. sanctions on HateAid’s leaders in December 2025 have ignited a fierce transatlantic debate. One side frames it as an attack on European digital sovereignty and the fight against online hate, while the other celebrates it as a blow against “state‑sponsored censorship.”
Both narratives, however, miss the deeper structural problem which has been emerging for years: HateAid has become a textbook example of the “gezähmte Netzpolitik” — the taming of internet politics — where independent, pluralistic activism is gradually replaced by conformist, institutionally dependent structures. This is evidenced by its state funding and privileged role as a Trusted Flagger under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Its vulnerability in the current geopolitical crossfire is not an accident, but the logical consequence of choices made long ago. [1][2][3][11]
Crisis, Stress, and the Symptomatic Response
Overlapping crises like the pandemic and the war in Ukraine create a collective stress that heightens vulnerability to manipulation, as discussed in the lecture ‘Fakten und Fiktionen – Wie die Gesellschaft durch Unsicherheit gestresst wird,’ at the Hack the Promise Festival 2024.
Political responses often remain symptomatic: censorship that once was justified by copyright is now sold as “defence of democracy” against fake news and propaganda—a seductive one‑size‑fits‑all solution that avoids dealing with deeper causes such as diffuse fears and erosion of pluralism. This shift has led to parts of net activism being used to legitimize greater control rather than to defend an open discourse—a pattern I have observed in German net policy debates on surveillance and civil rights. [4][1]
“HateAid fits this pattern perfectly. As a state‑funded organisation with accelerated flagging privileges under the DSA’s trusted‑flagger framework, it has moved from grassroots support for victims of online violence into a semi‑institutional role inside the regulatory apparatus.”
This trend was already criticised as part of a broader willingness of net‑political actors to exchange independence for access and symbolic influence, as noted in the Tübingen talk “Digitalität und Mündigkeit.” Such institutional ties may open doors in Brussels and Berlin, but they create dependencies that make actors like HateAid a pawn in geopolitical contests between Washington, Brussels, and Berlin. [2][1]
A Self-Inflicted Vulnerability?
Please do not get me wrong! Helping people against the wingnuts on the internet is important, but the current sanctions exposed this fragility. We need to be aware of the juristic and political dangers for the public debate which can evolve by this, as Franz Josef Linder already pointed out in November 2024 on Verfassungsblog. [10]
Large parts of the German and European political establishment reacted with almost unanimous outrage, yet from a Pirate perspective, this looks like a self‑inflicted vulnerability. When activism trades its rebellious spirit for institutional integration, it becomes exposed to pressure from all sides — not only from autocracies like Russia and China, but also from allies using legal and financial levers in transatlantic disputes.
Pirate Parties International underlined the broader relevance of this critique when they republished the Basel 2024 lecture in English in July 2025. They argued that Pirate Parties must move beyond purely reactive activism toward a more reflective, mature politics that emphasises:
- Civic education and resilience.
- Pluralistic discourse instead of technocratic content control.
- The courage to tolerate contradiction without sacrificing the fight against hate. [5][1]
Reclaiming the “Forgotten Promise”
The internet’s original promise of egalitarian participation—which media scholar Tarek Barkouni described as the idea that everyone with a connection could participate equally—has largely been displaced by surveillance‑capitalist business models. Barkouni showed how early hopes were undermined first by the commercialisation of Web 2.0 and then by platforms whose core logic is advertising revenue, not democratic discourse. [6]
Meaningful change in complex systems requires precision rather than revolutionary arson. As argued at the 2025 “Hack the System – wenigstens ein bisschen” talk, we need metaphorical “hackers” who understand socio-technical systems and repair their fragility—not “arsonists” who burn everything down in the name of purity. [7]
Drawing on Kant’s call for Mündigkeit — the courage to think without external tutelage — we must reject the comfort of simple narratives and “trusted” gatekeepers. [2][6][1][8][11]
The Strategic Choice for 2026
As a member of the federal board of Piratenpartei Deutschland and the European Pirate Party (PPEU), I see this debate as a concrete strategic choice for Pirates ahead of our 2026 program renewal. Either we let ourselves be integrated as “responsible stakeholders” into flawed systems, or we rebuild an independent, uncomfortable digital‑rights movement that resists both state and corporate pressure. [3][4][1]
The HateAid case is a warning signal. Reclaiming the internet’s emancipatory promise requires emancipating net activism itself: from gatekeepers, from status‑seeking conformity, and from dogmas that confuse access with power. [1][8]
Let us hack the system — at least a little — before the system finishes hacking us.
Babak Tubis is a member of the Federal Board (Beisitzer) of Piratenpartei Deutschland, a board member of the European Pirate Party (PPEU), and active on digital rights, migration, and democracy issues.
References
- European Pirates – Board
- Wikipedia – Pirate Party Germany
- Piratenpartei Vorstand – Beisitzer
- Piraten Herne – Palantir Warnung
- PPI – Board Congratulations
- Piratenpartei Facebook
- Hack the Promise Info
- CCC Media – Digitalität und Mündigkeit
- PPI – Basel 2024 Reflections
- Verfassungsblog – Trusted Flagger
- Piratenpartei Innenpolitik – HateAid Sanctions
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Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Since 2019, every January 1st, the public domain frees more works that copyright laws kept locked up. On this glorious Public Domain Day, works created in 1930 and sound recordings from 1925 are made available to everyone in the United States, at least, to use as they wish. We are free to enjoy and share these works without paying anyone for them. We can create new works from these old works by remixing them or repurposing them to our heart’s content.
This January 1st is special for Pirates because it is the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Swedish Pirate Party. It is fitting that both events should occur on the same day and we wish the Swedish Pirates a happy 20th anniversary!
As a celebration for this year’s Public Domain Day, the Internet Archive has a contest to explore and reimagine the creative treasures entering the public domain, especially works from 1930 that entered the public domain on January 1. Contestants must upload a 2-3 minute short film to the Internet Archive that uses at least one work published in 1930 that joined the public domain on January 1, 2026. This could be a poem, book, film, musical composition, painting, photograph or any other work that is now in the Public Domain. All submissions must be submitted by January 7, 2026 at 11:59pm PST. You can find more details on the contest at the Internet Archive.
As they do every year, Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle of the Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain have a detailed, but brief list, of what new public domain works we have. A number of characters are now in the public domain, including Betty Boop, Disney’s Rover (later renamed Pluto) and Blondie and Dagwood. Below is a short list with links to copies at the Internet Archive and elsewhere.
Books
- William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying – At the Internet Archive
- Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (the full book version) – At the Internet Archive
- Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage (the first novel featuring Miss Marple) – At the Internet Archive
- Carolyn Keene, the first four Nancy Drew books – At the Internet Archive
- Watty Piper, [em]The Little Engine That Could[/em] (the popular illustrated version, with drawings by Lois Lenski) – At the Internet Archive
- John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel
- Edna Ferber, Cimarron – At the Internet Archive
- Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison – At the Internet Archive
- Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
Films
- All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Lewis Milestone (winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture) – At the Internet Archive
- King of Jazz, directed by John Murray Anderson (musical revue featuring Paul Whiteman and Bing Crosby’s first feature-film appearance) – At the Internet Archive
- Animal Crackers, directed by Victor Heerman (starring the Marx Brothers)
- Soup to Nuts, directed by Benjamin Stoloff (written by Rube Goldberg, featuring later members of The Three Stooges) – At the Internet Archive
- Morocco, directed by Josef von Sternberg (starring Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou) – At the Internet Archive
- Anna Christie, directed by Clarence Brown (Greta Garbo’s first talkie) – At the Internet Archive
- Murder!, directed by Alfred Hitchcock – At the Internet Archive
- L’Âge d’Or, directed by Luis Buñuel, written by Buñuel and Salvador Dalí – At the Internet Archive
- Whoopee!, directed by Thornton Freeland
Musical Compositions
- Four Songs – I Got Rhythm, I’ve Got a Crush on You, But Not for Me, and Embraceable You – with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, music by George Gershwin
- Dream a Little Dream of Me, lyrics by Gus Kahn, music by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt
- On the Sunny Side of the Street, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, music by Jimmy McHugh
- Just a Gigolo (the first English translation), original German lyrics by Julius Brammer, English translation by Irving Caesar, music by Leonello Casucci
- The Royal Welch Fusiliers, by John Philip Sousa
Sound Recordings
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen, recorded by Marian Anderson
- Yes Sir, That’s My Baby, recorded by Gene Austin – At the Internet Archive
- You’ve Been A Good Old Wagon, recorded by Bessie Smith
- The St. Louis Blues, recorded by Bessie Smith, featuring Louis Armstrong
- Fascinating Rhythm, recorded by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra
- I’ll See You in My Dreams, recorded by Isham Jones, with Ray Miller’s Orchestra
- Everybody Loves My Baby (but My Baby Don’t Love Nobody but Me), recorded by Clarence Williams’ Blue Five – Recording
We’ll talk about Public Domain Day on the next Pirate News. See you then!
Image Credit: Public Domain
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The Taming of Net Politics: HateAid as a Cautionary Tale for Digital Freedom
By Babak Tubis
The U.S. sanctions on HateAid’s leaders in December 2025 have ignited a fierce transatlantic debate. One side frames it as an attack on European digital sovereignty and the fight against online hate, while the other celebrates it as a blow against “state‑sponsored censorship.” Both narratives, however, miss the deeper structural problem which has been emerging for years: HateAid has become a textbook example of the “gezähmte Netzpolitik” — the taming of internet politics — where independent, pluralistic activism is gradually replaced by conformist, institutionally dependent structures, evidenced by its state funding and privileged role as a Trusted Flagger under the Digital Services Act (DSA). Its vulnerability in the current geopolitical crossfire is not an accident, but the logical consequence of choices made long ago.[1][2][3]
[11]Overlapping crises like the pandemic and the war in Ukraine create a collective stress that heightens vulnerability to manipulation, as discussed in the lecture ‘Fakten und Fiktionen – Wie die Gesellschaft durch Unsicherheit gestresst wird,’ at the Hack the Promise Festival 2024.
Political responses often remain symptomatic: censorship that once was justified by copyright is now sold as “defence of democracy” against fake news and propaganda, a seductive **one‑size‑fits‑all** solution that avoids dealing with deeper causes such as diffuse fears and erosion of pluralism. This shift has led to parts of net activism being used to legitimize greater control rather than to defend an open discourse—a pattern I have observed in German net policy debates on surveillance and civil rights.[4]
[1]HateAid fits this pattern perfectly. As a state‑funded organisation with accelerated flagging privileges under the DSA’s trusted‑flagger framework, it has moved from grassroots support for victims of online violence into a semi‑institutional role inside the regulatory apparatus.This trend was already criticised as part of a broader willingness of net‑political actors to exchange independence for access and symbolic influence as in the Tübingen talk “Digitalität und Mündigkeit”.
Such institutional ties may open doors in Brussels and Berlin, but they create dependencies that make actors like HateAid a pawn in geopolitical contests between Washington, Brussels, and Berlin.[2]
[1]Please do not get me wrong! Helping people against the wingnuts on the internet is important, but the current sanctions exposed this fragility. We need to be aware of the juristic and political dangers for the public debate which can evolve by this, as Franz Josef Linder already pointed out in November 2024 on Verfassungsblog.
[10]Large parts of the German and European political establishment reacted with almost unanimous outrage, denouncing an “authoritarian attack on free speech and democracy,” yet from a Pirate perspective this looks like a self‑inflicted vulnerability. When activism trades its rebellious spirit for institutional integration, it becomes exposed to pressure from all sides — not only from autocracies like Russia and China, but also from allies using legal and financial levers in transatlantic disputes. The result is not stronqger protection against hate and disinformation, but a weakened, easily divided digital‑rights landscape in an era of information warfare and hybrid conflict.[1]
[2]Pirate Parties International underlined the broader relevance of this critique when they republished the Basel 2024 lecture in English in July 2025, highlighting its “valuable programmatic impulses” for Pirates worldwide and explicitly linking it to a needed strategic shift in net politics.[9] They argued that Pirate Parties must move beyond purely reactive activism toward a more reflective, mature politics that emphasises civic education, resilience, and pluralistic discourse instead of technocratic content control. This does not mean abandoning the fight against online hate; it means insisting that this fight must not sacrifice the core values of digital freedom: openness, independence, and the courage to tolerate contradiction.[5]
[1]The internet’s original promise of egalitarian participation, which media scholar Tarek Barkouni described as the idea that everyone with a connection could participate equally in political communication, has largely been displaced by surveillance‑capitalist business models and recommendation‑driven attention economies. Barkouni showed how early hopes for a self‑organised, pluralistic digital public sphere were undermined first by the commercialisation of Web 2.0 and then by platforms whose core logic is advertising revenue and data extraction, not democratic discourse. This “forgotten promise” can only be redeemed if digital movements emancipate themselves from these logics and gatekeepers and deliberately rebuild spaces where pluralism and contradiction take precedence over engagement metrics.
[6]Meaningful change in complex systems requires precision rather than revolutionary arson, as argued in 2025 at the “Hack the System – wenigstens ein bisschen” talk at the Hack the Promise Festival in Basel.[7] We need metaphorical “hackers” who understand socio-technical systems and repair their fragility—not “arsonists” who burn everything down in the name of purity.
Dogmatism—from both censorship advocates and free-speech absolutists—only creates false comfort. Worse, it opens the door and invites for new forms of authoritarianism disguised as expert knowledge.[1]
[8]Drawing on Kant’s call for Mündigkeit — the courage to think without external tutelage — the talks in Basel and Tübingen argued for intellectual independence. In a stressed digital society, this means rejecting the comfort of simple narratives and “trusted” gatekeepers to instead defend pluralism and contradiction. Viewed through Barkouni’s diagnosis of “forgotten” social media ideals, the internet’s original promise becomes the benchmark that reveals the failure of today’s tamed net politics. [2][6][1][8]
[11]As a member of the federal board of Piratenpartei Deutschland and the European Pirate Party (PPEU), I see this debate not as abstract theory, but as a concrete strategic choice for Pirates ahead of our 2026 program renewal. Either we let ourselves be integrated as “responsible stakeholders” into flawed systems of platform governance and security politics, or we rebuild an independent, uncomfortable digital‑rights movement that resists both state and corporate pressure — much like our warnings on Palantir surveillance.[3][4]
[1]The HateAid case is therefore more than a bilateral quarrel. It is a warning signal for the entire digital‑rights community that has allowed itself to be tamed — through state funding, regulatory privileges, and the lure of being “responsible stakeholders” rather than inconvenient troublemakers. If net politics continues down this path, Pirate concerns about information warfare, latent societal stress, and authoritarian reflexes will remain analytically correct but politically ineffective, we need to change this, for the sake of a free society which can protect its freedom even against a populism which seeks to destroy the fundaments of the public debate. Reclaiming the internet’s emancipatory promise requires emancipating net activism itself: from gatekeepers, from status‑seeking conformity, and from dogmas that confuse access with power.[1]
[8]Let us fight for a stronger, free, united Europe also in the digital realm. Let us hack the system — at least a little — before the system finishes hacking us.
[1]*Babak Tubis is a member of the Federal Board (Beisitzer) of Piratenpartei Deutschland, a board member of the European Pirate Party (PPEU), and active on digital rights, migration, and democracy issues.*[3][5]
[1][1](europeanpirates.eu/board/)
[2](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_P…)
[3](vorstand.piratenpartei.de/vors…)
[4](piraten-herne.de/piratenpartei…)
[5](pp-international.net/2025/10/c…)
[6](facebook.com/Piratenpartei/?lo…)
[7](https://t.co/7Ydpu7aw9m)
[8](media.ccc.de/v/tdf4-28-digital…)
[9](pp-international.net/2025/07/h…)
[10](verfassungsblog.de/trusted-fla…)
[11](innenpolitik.piratenpartei.de/…)
[2026-01-03] Bear Wool Wolley @ Biella - Biella Forum
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False flag. La Cia corregge Trump, che manda un pizzino a Putin
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Vieni con noi ad esplorare i tanti volti di un antico borgo abbandonato nella Riserva Naturale di Monterano.In una terra forgiata dal vulcano Sabatino, ci immergeremo in un mondo ricco di natura, storia e misteri fin dall’epoca etrusca.
Percorreremo boschi e forre, scopriremo torrenti cristallini e cascate, passeremo attraverso una solfatara dalle acque ribollenti.
Sull'antica rocca, ci aspetta un intero insediamento in rovina con case, strade, chiese e palazzi, rimasti immutati da più di 200 anni.
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Scopriremo anche un'altra prerogativa artistica di questa spettacolare location: da sempre set cinematografico per film e serie televisive.
Non mancheranno momenti dedicati alle tradizioni locali, con i racconti e le storie affascinanti sui Butteri.
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Bisogna creare una catena di revisione multilivello che lega scienziati, giuristi e designer in una vasta rete di responsabilità, e nel quale l’umano è garante del meta-livello, non dell’azione singola. Il nuovo diritto nell’epoca dell’AI chiede alle macchine di sapere come sanno e agli umani di sapere come le macchine sanno.
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La mamma di Alberto Trentini scrive al Papa: ci appelliamo alle Sue preghiere e alla Sua mediazione
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[2026-01-07] Hacklabkelo espazioa @ La Kelo Gaztetxea
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[2026-01-07] Corso di percussioni brasiliane @ CSA Magazzino 47
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La sospensione delle ONG che portano aiuti a Gaza è l’ennesima vergogna di Israele
Israele ha annunciato che dal 1° gennaio sospenderà le licenze di 37 ONG internazionali operanti a Gaza e in Cisgiordania, tra cui alcune delle principali organizzazioni umanitarie globali come Medici Senza Frontiere, Oxfam, CARE, NRC, IRC, World Vision e Caritas e l’italiana WeWorld. La decisione riguarda le ONG che non hanno completato la registrazione secondo nuove linee guida introdotte dal governo israeliano a marzo, che richiedono un’ampia condivisione di dati organizzativi e personali, inclusi elenchi dettagliati dello staff palestinese e internazionali. Come sa chi opera in Palestina, comunicare tali informazioni mette in serio pericolo l incolumità dello staff palestinese e delle loro famiglie.
Le nuove regole consentono di negare la registrazione per motivi molto ampi, tra cui presunte posizioni politiche considerate ostili a Israele o legami indiretti con campagne di boicottaggio. Israele giustifica tali misure accusando le organizzazioni internazionali o singoli individui (vedi caso italiano o simili accuse a UNRWA, per cui l’Italia ha subito tagliato i fondi all’agenzia, finché non è stato provato che fosse tutto falso) di attività terroristiche, come spesso succede senza alcuna prova certa. Tutte queste accuse sono respinte con forza dalle organizzazioni coinvolte. Le organizzazioni internazionali e le Nazioni Unite avvertono che la revoca delle licenze renderebbe di fatto impossibile operare a Gaza, poiché l’accesso passa necessariamente dal coordinamento con le autorità israeliane e l’uscita via Egitto non è attualmente praticabile.
L’ONU ha chiesto a Israele di riconsiderare la decisione, sottolineando che le ONG internazionali sono una componente essenziale delle operazioni salvavita. Anche un gruppo di dieci ministri degli Esteri – tra cui Regno Unito, Francia, Germania, Canada, Giappone e Paesi nordici – ha espresso forte preoccupazione, avvertendo che la deregistrazione delle ONG potrebbe portare alla chiusura di un terzo delle strutture sanitarie ancora operative a Gaza, in un contesto umanitario già definito “catastrofico”.
Limitare o bloccare il loro operato comprometterebbe gravemente l’accesso a cure sanitarie, cibo, acqua, ripari e servizi essenziali, proprio mentre oltre 1,6 milioni di persone a Gaza affrontano livelli critici di insicurezza alimentare e l’inverno aggrava una situazione già drammatica.
Questo passaggio rappresenta l’ennesimo attacco israeliano contro qualunque organizzazione difenda il diritto internazionale e, di conseguenza, i diritti del popolo palestinese, prendendo di mira chi mette in discussione le politiche dello Stato di Israele, un sistema di oppressione e di apartheid. Accuse di terrorismo e antisemitismo vengono utilizzate in modo strumentale per delegittimare il lavoro umanitario e per colpire chi opera nei territori occupati.
Chi lavora sul campo assiste a questi attacchi da decenni: misure amministrative, restrizioni operative, campagne di delegittimazione che riducono progressivamente la capacità di intervento delle organizzazioni internazionali. In passato, tali azioni venivano quantomeno contestate dalla comunità internazionale, che riusciva in parte a limitarne gli effetti. Oggi, invece, sempre più spesso gli Stati occidentali non solo le accettano, ma finiscono per assecondarle, adottando un approccio complice e repressivo anche sul territorio europeo.
Questo schema non si limita ai Territori Palestinesi Occupati, ma viene esportato anche in Europa, dove le stesse logiche vengono applicate contro attivisti e difensori dei diritti umani, come dimostra il caso di Mahmoud Hannoun. Un’evoluzione grave, che contribuisce a restringere ulteriormente lo spazio civico e umanitario e a normalizzare pratiche incompatibili con il diritto internazionale e con i valori che l’Europa dichiara di difendere.
Tutto questo avviene mentre Israele commette un genocidio, che viene sempre più normalizzato e fatto rientrare nel cosiddetto “processo di pace”, imposto alla popolazione palestinese sempre più oppressa.
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L'articolo La sospensione delle ONG che portano aiuti a Gaza è l’ennesima vergogna di Israele proviene da Possibile.