In an attempt to push more people toward a paying subscription, Grok now refuses to generate images in replies. The paywall is pretty leaky, though.#ElonMusk #xcom #ncii #abuseimagery
Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery
Elon Musk, owner of the former social media network turned deepfake porn site X, is pushing people to pay for its nonconsensual intimate image generator Grok, meaning some of the app’s tens of millions of users are being hit with a paywall when they try to create nude images of random women doing sexually explicit things within seconds.Some users trying to generate images on X using Grok receive a reply from the chatbot pushing them toward subscriptions: “Image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers. You can subscribe to unlock these features.”
Users who fork over $8 a month can still reply to random images of random women and girls directly on X and tag in Grok with things like “make her wear clear tapes with tiny black censor bar covering her private part protecting her privacy and make her chest and hips grow largee[sic] as she squatting with leg open widely facing back, while head turn back looking to camera.” These images are still visible in everyone’s X feed, subscribers or not.On the Grok app, a subscription to SuperGrok ($29.99/month) or SuperGrok Heavy ($299.99/month) allow users to generate images even faster. On Thursday, I received messages in the Grok app several times warning me that usage rates for the app were higher than normal and that I could pay to skip the wait.
As the Verge reported this morning, this paywall is very leaky. It’s still possible to generate images using Grok in a variety of ways, but replying directly to someone’s post by tagging @[url=https://bird.makeup/users/grok]Grok[/url] returns the “limited to subscribers” message.
Grok’s AI Sexual Abuse Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere
With xAI’s Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their consent, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.404 MediaSamantha Cole
As many legacy news outlets have already reported, Musk improved the subscription revenue funnel on his money-burning app following an outcry against these extremely popular uses of the app. “X Limits Grok Image Tool To Subscribers After Deepfake Outcry,” Deadline reported. “Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery,” wrote the Guardian. “Elon Musk restricts Grok’s image tools following a wave of non-consensual deepfakes of women and children,” Fortune wrote.Based on these headlines, you may be thinking, This is an uncharacteristic show of accountability and perhaps even self reflection from the billionaire technocrat white supremacist sympathizer who owns X.com, wow! But as with all things Musk does, this is a business move to monetize the long-established harassment factory he’s owned for three years and has yet to figure out how to make profitable. After years of attempting to push users toward a subscription model by placing meaningless status signifiers behind a paywall and making the site so toxic it bleeds users by the millions, he might have found a way to do it: by monetizing abuse at the source. Several other AI industry giants have already figured out that sexual content is where the money’s at, and Musk appears to be catching up. Putting the nonconsensual sexual images behind a paywall is also what every “nudify” and “undress” app and image generator platform on the market already does.
On Thursday, in the middle of Grok’s CSAM shitstorm, Bloomberg reported that xAI is looking at “a net loss of $1.46 billion for the September quarter, up from $1 billion in the first quarter,” according to internal documents obtained by Bloomberg. “In the first nine months of the year, it spent $7.8 billion in cash.” It’s too early to speculate, but making the people who are tagging @[url=https://bird.makeup/users/grok]Grok[/url] under the posts of women they don’t know and writing prompts like “make her bend over on all fours doggy style” multiple times a second pay for the privilege could be a play to get the company back in the black.
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In addition to using Grok on X.com on desktop, It’s also still easy to generate images and videos in the Grok app without a subscription, which is still available on the Apple and Google app stores, despite blatantly breaking their rules against non-consensual material and pornography. The app and underground Telegram groups are where the really bad stuff is, anyway. Apple and Google have not replied to my request for comment about why the app is still available.Signing up for X Premium or SuperGrok requires handing over your payment information, name associated with your credit card, and phone number. It also comes with the risk of having all of that hacked, stolen, and released to the dark web in the next big data breach of the platform.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated how many years ago Musk bought Twitter.
Massive breach of Elon Musk's X allegedly leaks over 200 million users' email addresses
Billions of X accounts could be affected overallMatt Binder (Mashable)
Le politiche di Trump contro le persone trans sono estremamente preoccupanti
Dagli Stati Uniti arriva un segnale di allarme che non può essere ignorato. L’Istituto Lemkin, ONG internazionale impegnata nella prevenzione dei genocidi, ha recentemente pubblicato uno studio che invita a leggere con estrema attenzione le politiche adottate dall’amministrazione Trump nei confronti delle persone trans*, non binarie e intersex. Secondo l’Istituto, e secondo autorevoli studiosi della materia, tra cui due ex presidenti dell’Associazione Internazionale degli Studiosi del Genocidio, tali politiche presentano caratteristiche riconducibili alle fasi iniziali dei processi di persecuzione sistematica che, in diversi contesti storici del Novecento, hanno preceduto crimini di massa e stermini di intere comunità.
La letteratura comparata sul genocidio mostra con chiarezza come questi processi non abbiano inizio con l’eliminazione fisica, ma con la costruzione istituzionale dell’alterità: la definizione di un gruppo come deviante, pericoloso o incompatibile con l’ordine sociale; la progressiva erosione dei suoi diritti; la normalizzazione della discriminazione attraverso atti amministrativi, legislativi e retorici. Dinamiche analoghe sono state osservate nei regimi totalitari europei del secolo scorso, così come in altri contesti segnati da politiche di esclusione radicale e disumanizzazione collettiva.
In questo quadro si collocano le politiche di persecuzione delle persone transgender, non binarie e intersex, che l’Istituto Lemkin individua come un preambolo a forme più estreme di violenza. Emblematica è la normativa che obbliga le persone trans* a utilizzare i servizi igienici in base al sesso assegnato alla nascita: una misura che non può essere considerata simbolica o marginale, ma che contribuisce a legittimare socialmente il controllo dei corpi e l’esposizione forzata nello spazio pubblico.
La dottoressa Elisa von Joeden-Forgey sottolinea come la combinazione di paura, propaganda e retoriche d’odio promosse o tollerate da apparati politico-statali costituisca il terreno su cui attecchiscono le forme più estreme di violenza. È uno schema ricorrente nella storia dei genocidi: prima l’isolamento simbolico, poi l’esclusione giuridica, infine la violenza aperta. I dati che ci arrivano confermano la gravità di questo contesto, mostrando un aumento delle difficoltà nel fare coming out e un incremento dei tassi di suicidio all’interno della comunità, segnali inequivocabili di una pressione sistemica che colpisce direttamente la vita delle persone.
Trump sta utilizzando i corpi delle persone migranti e di quelle trans*, non binarie e intersex come strumenti politici, contribuendo ad anestetizzare l’opinione pubblica rispetto alla violenza strutturale tipica dei regimi autoritari. È una strategia già vista nella storia, in cui la normalizzazione dell’abuso e dell’esclusione prepara il terreno a forme sempre più radicali di disumanizzazione.
Per questo, ricordando le parole del pastore Martin Niemöller nel celebre sermone “Prima vennero…”, è nostro compito non voltarci mai dall’altra parte davanti alla violenza e alla sua normalizzazione. Non saremo mai in un mondo libero finché esisterà anche una sola persona oppressa per il suo credo, per il suo sesso, per la sua identità di genere, per la sua nazionalità o per il colore della sua pelle.
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The Intel 8087 and Conditional Microcode Tests
Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode contains the details on how to perform the many types of specialized instructions, like cos and arctan, all of which decode into many microcode ops. These micro ops are executed by the microcode engine, which [Ken] will cover in more detail in an upcoming article, but which is effectively its own CPU.
Conditional instructions are implemented in hardware, integrating the states of various functional blocks across the die, ranging from the instruction decoder to a register. Here, the evaluation is performed as close as possible to the source of said parameter to save on wiring.
Implementing this circuitry are multiplexers, with an example shown in the top die shot image. Depending on the local conditions, any of four pass transistors is energized, passing through that input. Not shown in the die shot image are the inverters or buffers that are required with the use of pass transistors to amplify the signal, since pass transistors do not provide that feature.
Despite how firmly obsolete the 8087 is today, it still provides an amazing learning opportunity for anyone interested in ASIC design, which is why it’s so great that [Ken] and his fellow reverse-engineering enthusiasts keep plugging away at recovering all this knowledge.
The SCSI Film Scanner Resurrection
[Ronan] likes 35mm film photography, but the world, of course, has gone digital. He picked up an Epson FilmScan 200 for about €10. This wonder device from 1997 promised to convert 35mm film to digital at 1200 DPI resolution. But there was a catch: it connects via SCSI. Worse, the drivers were forever locked to Windows 95/98 and Mac System 7/8.
In a surprise twist, though, [Ronan] recently resurrected a Mac SE/30 with the requisite SCSI port and the System 7 OS. Problem solved? Not quite. The official software is a plugin for Photoshop. So the obvious answer is to write new software to interact with the device.
First, of course, you have to figure out how the device works. A service manual provided clues that, as far as the SCSI bus knew, the device wasn’t a scanner at all, but a processor. The processor, though, used SCSI as a simple pipe to handle Epson’s standard “ESC/I” protocol.
Armed with that information and a knowledge of the Mac’s SCSI Manager API, the rest is just coding. Well, that is until [Ronan] tried to scan the other five negatives in the six-negative film carrier. He was frustrated until he found an old patched SANE driver for the scanner from 2002. By looking at how it worked, he was able to figure out how to switch to the other negatives.
Color scanning also took a little coaxing. The scanner returns three monochrome images, one for each color channel. Some assembly, then, is required. In the end, though, the project was a complete success. Can’t find a FilmScan 200? Don’t have a SCSI port? There’s always the roll-your-own approach.
A Much Faster Mac On A Microcontroller
Emulating older computers on microcontrollers has been a staple of retrocomputing for many years now, with most 8-bit and some 16-bit machines available on Atmel, ARM, or ESP32 platforms. But there’s always been a horsepower limit, a point beyond which a microcontroller is no longer enough, and a “proper” computer is needed. One of those barriers now appears to have been broken, as microcontroller-based emulation moves into the 32-bit era. [Amcchord] has the Basilisk II emulator ported to the ESP32-P4 platform, providing a 68040 Mac able to run OS8.1. This early-1990s-spec machine might not seem like much in 2026, but it represents a major step forward.
The hardware it uses is the M5Stack Tab5, and it provides an emulated Mac with up to 16 MB of memory. Remember, in 1992 this would have been a high-spec machine. It manages a 15 frames per second refresh rate, which is adequate for productivity applications. The emulator uses the Tab5’s touchscreen to emulate the Mac mouse alongside support for USB input devices. To 1990 hackers, it’s almost the Mac tablet you didn’t know you would want in the future.
We like this project, both because it’s advancing the art of emulation on microcontrollers, and also because it delivers a computer that’s useful for some of the things you might have done with a Mac in 1992 and could even do today. Pulling this out on the train back then would have blown people’s minds. There’s even a chance that MacOS on something like this would turn a few heads in 2026. It’s certainly not the first emulated Mac we’ve seen though.
Reverse-Engineering the Tamagotchi IR Connection
The Tamagotchi Connection is a series of Tamagotchi toys that took the original portable pet concept and mixed things up with a wireless connection, which allowed you to interact with the pets of other proud Tamagotchi owners. This wireless connection is implemented using an infrared transceiver, somewhat like IrDA, but as [Zach Resmer] discovered while reverse-engineering this connection, it’s actually what is called ‘Nearly NEC’ by [Natalie Silvanovich], who has a GitHub repository full of related Tamagotchi hacking tools and ROM dumps.
With the protocol figured out, creating a transceiver for low-bitrate infrared communication isn’t particularly hard. In this case, it was implemented using an RP2040 MCU and an appropriate IR LED and receiver pair. This Tamagometer project was also implemented as an app for the Flipper Zero, and a custom PCB called the Pico TamaBadge by [Daniel Weidman].
There’s a web application associated with [Zach]’s project using a Web Serial-enabled browser (i.e. Chrome). The serial protocol is somewhat documented in the patent for the device’s connection feature, which makes it relatively easy to implement yourself.
ESP with EEG — No, Not That ESP!
While EEG research might help you figure out extrasensory perception, we won’t be betting on it. However, if you want to read EEG data and use an ESP32, [Cerelog-ESP-EEG] might be the right project for you. The commercial project is an 8-channel biosensing board suitable for EEG, EMG, ECG, and brain-computer interface studies. However, the company says, “We love the hacker community! We explicitly grant permission for Personal & Educational Use.” We love you too.
They do require you to agree not to sell boards you are building, and they give you schematics, but no PC board layout. That’s understandable, although we’d guess that achieving good results will require understanding how to lay out highly sensitive circuits.
What you do get is the schematic and the firmware source. They note that you may have to modify the firmware if you want to switch modes, change gain, or enable haptic feedback, among other things. At the application layer, the device is compatible with Lab Streaming Layer, and there is a fork of OpenBCI (brain control interface) that understands how to talk to the board.
Even if you don’t want to directly clone the device, there’s a ton of information here if you are interested in EEG or any other small signal acquisition. We’ve seen a number of interfaces like this, but we are still waiting to see a killer application.
Digitale Gewalt: Abgeordnete, Ministerien und EU-Kommission bleiben auf Deepfake-Plattform X
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What the Maduro ‘extradition’ could mean for U.S. journalists
For journalists who work online, the most dangerous assumption is that press freedom is territorial. It is not. In the digital age, journalists publish globally by default, and states increasingly assert criminal jurisdiction globally as well.
The recent assertion of U.S. authority to seize (kidnapping is such an “ugly” word) Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro illustrates a broader and deeply unsettling truth: Once a state claims jurisdiction, the limiting factor is not law, but power. For journalists, that reality has been quietly unfolding for decades.
Extraterritorial jurisdiction and the press
Domestic law (and law enforcement) does not stop at the border. Most countries reserve the “right” to prosecute those outside the country whose actions are directed inside the country, or which impact that country’s laws, citizens, or property.
The concept of “extraterritorial” jurisdiction of domestic law was recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922 in United States v. Bowman, where the court noted that certain criminal statutes apply extraterritorially by their nature when they protect national interests. This is commonly called the “protective” principle of extraterritorial application of law. In the cyber era, courts have applied this doctrine aggressively to online conduct, including speech, publication, and data access.
Journalists are not exempt. While the First Amendment provides robust protection against U.S. prosecution for publishing truthful information of public concern, those protections are not portable. They do not bind foreign courts, nor do they prevent foreign states from asserting jurisdiction over content accessible within their borders.
Journalists prosecuted for online speech abroad
One of the earliest and most influential cases illustrating this problem is LICRA v. Yahoo! Inc., a 2000 French case where the court asserted jurisdiction over Yahoo, a U.S. company, for hosting Nazi memorabilia auctions accessible from France, where French law prohibited the display of Nazi materials.
Although Yahoo ultimately resisted enforcement in U.S. courts, the case established the principle that online publication can subject speakers and publishers to the criminal law of any country where the content is accessible. Countries routinely attempt to enforce their own laws — terrorism, defamation, etc., over the activities of journalists outside their borders.
For example, in Akçam v. Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights recognized the chilling effect of Turkey’s criminal laws on speech, including academic and journalistic commentary. But Turkish prosecutors continue to attempt to use Interpol red notices — which alert law enforcement agencies worldwide to locate and detain an individual — to have foreign journalists prosecuted.
In 2023, Russian authorities issued criminal charges against foreign reporters for coverage of the war in Ukraine, alleging dissemination of “false information” about the Russian military — conduct that would be core protected speech in the United States — in violation of the Russian criminal code.
If other countries adopt the Maduro precedent, a foreign country can enforce its laws against U.S. journalists simply by force or power.
China has attempted to use Article 12 of the Cybersecurity Law of the PRC to prosecute those who disseminate online content that “endangers national security” or “damages the public interest” of China. Foreign journalists have been detained, expelled, or prosecuted for online reporting hosted on servers outside China but accessible within it. The Maduro regime itself cracked down on journalists within its own borders, prosecuting them for crimes like terrorism, incitement, and conspiracy.
The United States recently proposed to require those entering the country to provide border agents with access to five years of their social media history, threatening to use this information to ban, arrest, detain, or punish those whose history indicates some vaguely defined “un-American” political persuasion. Moreover, the U.S. government spent years attempting to obtain jurisdiction over Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for his publication from abroad of materials the U.S. government claimed could not be published under U.S. law.
There is no ‘there there’
Typically, if speech is permitted (or protected) in the jurisdiction in which it is uttered or published, but prohibited or regulated in another country, the “injured” country has few remedies to go after the speaker/publisher. While it can charge the person with a crime and request that they be extradited, extradition treaties typically require that the conduct be considered “criminal” in both countries. And many countries (including the U.S.) do not typically extradite their own citizens.
Add to that the fact that most extradition treaties also permit the host country to resist extradition for “political speech” or “political activity,” and that an extradition request is subject to both a legal and political process. In addition, the likelihood that a U.S. journalist would be extradited to China, Turkey, or another country for First Amendment-protected activity is small — not nonexistent, but small.
Countries may, however, consider the activities of journalists to constitute violations of surveillance, theft, intellectual property, threat, defamation, or espionage laws, increasing the chance that they will be treated as nonpolitical offenses. Put simply, we extradite whom we want to countries we want for purposes we want. And that’s what other countries do as well.
Kidnapping, rendition, and the Ker–Frisbie Doctrine
What the Maduro case shows is that governments (including the U.S. government) reserve either the right or the pure ability to invade the territorial sovereignty of other nations to obtain jurisdiction over those (including heads of state) we believe have violated U.S. law. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed the authority of the U.S. to “kidnap” persons overseas and bring them to U.S. courts — and presumably the opposite applies as well.
Under what is called the Ker-Frisbie Doctrine, the domestic courts do not look at the way the court obtained jurisdiction over the defendant (unless this “shocks the conscience”), but simply look at whether the defendant is physically present.
In the 1886 case Ker v. Illinois, the Supreme Court held that a defendant abducted from Peru could still be tried in U.S. court. It affirmed the principle in 1952 in Frisbie v. Collins. In the 1992 case United States v. Alvarez-Machain, after U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents abducted a doctor in Mexico and brought him to trial in the U.S., the court noted that the U.S./Mexico extradition treaty was just “one way” to obtain jurisdiction over a person. Apparently, kidnapping is another. As a federal appellate court made clear five years later in United States v. Noriega, this principle applies to foreign heads of state as well.
What this means for journalists
For journalists, the implication is sobering. Publishing an article, hosting leaked documents, or reporting on state misconduct online can expose a reporter to criminal liability in jurisdictions with radically different views of press freedom.
The fact that the work is lawful — and even celebrated — in the United States offers no protection abroad. We saw that when Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was abducted and dismembered by the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
What typically “saves” journalists is that foreign countries may fear invading the territorial sovereignty of the host nation. This is why most prosecutions of journalists occur in the country in which they are operating. Russia’s prosecutions of Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist working for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich follow this pattern, as does the Turkish government’s detention of freelance journalist Lindsey Snell in Turkey in 2016.
In a networked world, journalism is inherently transnational, but press freedom is not.
However, if a journalist can be lured into a compliant country, or if other countries adopt the Maduro precedent, a foreign country can enforce its laws on people in the U.S. simply by force or power. Instructive is the case of Henry Liu, a Chinese American critic of the Taiwanese government, which hired Taiwanese gang members to kill him in California, or the attempted murder in Brooklyn, New York, of Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad.
While journalists and others may be protected by the First Amendment, that protection typically applies only if they are physically in the United States, and assumes that the U.S. has no interest in extraditing the journalist to another country. With the Maduro precedent extending the authority to kidnap those who we perceive to have violated the law of one nation, other nations can be expected to follow suit. It’s no longer about what White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called “international niceties” but is about “a world, … the real world, … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.”
Law as narrative, power as reality
The lesson for journalists is not that the law is meaningless, but that it is secondary. Power determines who is charged, who is seized, and who is left alone. Law supplies justification after the fact.
In a networked world, journalism is inherently transnational, but press freedom is not. For journalists who work online, the question is no longer merely, “Is this lawful where I am?” It is, “Who might claim jurisdiction, and what can they do to enforce it?”
The answer, increasingly, depends less on courts than on geopolitics.
In cyberspace, publication is global. So is exposure.
Trump punta su Starlink di Musk per liberare internet in Iran
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Il regime di Teheran spegne Internet nel mezzo delle proteste e il presidente Usa Trump sta valutando una serie di possibili opzioni. Al centro del confronto anche l'uso del servizio di connettività satellitare di Elon Musk. Il blackout
[2026-01-14] Corso di percussioni brasiliane @ CSA Magazzino 47
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[2026-01-15] Laboratorio Aperto @ Matrici Aperte
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Tutti i Martedì (14:00-23:00) e i Giovedì (14:00-21:00) Matrici apre il laboratorio per chi ha bisogno di stampare ma anche per chi vuole solo bere un bicchiere in compagnia!
Potete venire a fare serigrafia, incisione calcografica, xilografia e tecniche grafiche sperimentali.
Per l'utilizzo del laboratorio chiediamo un contributo libero a supporto del progetto. Portate carta e matrici da casa, noi mettiamo a disposizione strumenti e spazio per i vostri lavori.
Ci sono due postazioni serigrafiche, due torchi calcografici, sala acidi e piani da inchiostrazione.
Dalle 18.00 (ma anche dalle 14.00 per lx ubriaconx) apre il baretto con vino, birre, pirli e gin tonic di pessima qualità! -c'è pure il pinkanello!-Chi suona strumenti è ben accettx.
Sarà aperto e consultabile anche l'archivio con libri serigrafici, fanzine e distro a supporto di movimenti e collettivi!
[2026-01-17] CENA SOCIALE + ESTRAZIONE LOTTERIA @ circolo anarchico bruzzi-malatesta
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[2026-01-17] CONCERTO BENEFIT INGUAIATI CON LA LEGGE #18 @ COX18
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[2026-01-25] Concerto Benefit FREE ALL ANTIFAS matinée @ COA T28 @ COA T28
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Guerra civile Rai. Perché un programma non può attaccare un altro
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“Tocca ricordare un’ovvietà: non si può usare uno spazio Rai per dare addosso a un altro programma Rai, con minacce annesse. Visto quanto accade, è però necessario ribadirlo,
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La battaglia della famiglia e della società civile per la liberazione di Alberto Trentini
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Diciamolo subito. Il merito primario della liberazione del cooperante veneziano Alberto Trentini è
A Bologna il primo febbraio 2026 prima edizione del Premio Nazionale Andrea Purgatori
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A Bologna il primo febbraio, in occasione della giornata dedicata ad Andrea Purgatori: “Buon compleanno Andrea”,
Ottavia Piccolo: “La liberazione di Alberto è il risveglio da un incubo”
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Sulla liberazione di Alberto Trentini è intervenuta Ottavia Piccolo. .L’attrice e doppiatrice, che è anche presidente di Articolo 21 a Venezia, è il volto
Trentini libero: finalmente!
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Alberto Trentini è libero: finalmente! Nessun’altra esclamazione ha senso di fronte a una notizia che abbiamo atteso per oltre quattrocento giorni. È il compimento di una battaglia che abbiamo combattuto in prima persona anche quando a occuparci delle sorti del cooperante veneziano eravamo
Si vede da come mi vede
A volte non serve lo specchio per capire chi siamo. Basta uno sguardo. Quello di chi ci incrocia distrattamente in metropolitana, o quello più intenso di chi ci conosce davvero. È buffo, ma finiamo sempre per misurarci con il riflesso che gli altri ci restituiscono, come se la nostra identità fosse una foto sfocata che solo gli occhi altrui riescono a mettere a fuoco. Ci si abitua presto a vivere sotto osservazione, anche quando nessuno ci guarda. In fondo, siamo animali sociali: abbiamo bisogno di sentirci visti per credere di esistere.
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#Iran, la guerra prima della guerra
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L’ondata di proteste che nelle ultime settimane sta attraversando l’Iran rappresenta forse la minaccia più grave per la tenuta del sistema uscito dallaMichele Paris (altrenotizie.org)
Con la multa a Cloudflare Piracy Shield dimostra ciò che sappiamo da tempo. Che non funziona
Il funzionamento dello scudo nazionale anti-pirateria ha un peccato originale: non tiene conto di come funziona internet. E saranno le tanto vituperate regole europee a proteggere l'azienda Usa e il suo ad che sbaglia a usare l’arma del ricattoLuca Zorloni (Wired Italia)
With xAI's Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their consent, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.
With xAIx27;s Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their contest, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.#grok #ElonMusk #AI #csam
Grok's AI Sexual Abuse Didn't Come Out of Nowhere
The biggest AI story of the first week of 2026 involves Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot turning the social media platform into an AI child sexual imagery factory, seemingly overnight.I’ve said several times on the 404 Media podcast and elsewhere that we could devote an entire beat to “loser shit.” What’s happening this week with Grok—designed to be the horny edgelord AI companion counterpart to the more vanilla ChatGPT or Claude—definitely falls into that category. People are endlessly prompting Grok to make nude and semi-nude images of women and girls, without their consent, directly on their X feeds and in their replies.
Sometimes I feel like I’ve said absolutely everything there is to say about this topic. I’ve been writing about nonconsensual synthetic imagery before we had half a dozen different acronyms for it, before people called it “deepfakes” and way before “cheapfakes” and “shallowfakes” were coined, too. Almost nothing about the way society views this material has changed in the seven years since it’s come about, because fundamentally—once it’s left the camera and made its way to millions of people’s screens—the behavior behind sharing it is not very different from images made with a camera or stolen from someone’s Google Drive or private OnlyFans account. We all agreed in 2017 that making nonconsensual nudes of people is gross and weird, and today, occasionally, someone goes to jail for it, but otherwise the industry is bigger than ever. What’s happening on X right now is an escalation of the way it’s always been, and almost everywhere on the internet.
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Do you know anything else about what's going on inside X? Or are you someone who's been targeted by abusive AI imagery? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at sam.404. Otherwise, send me an email at sam@404media.co.The internet has an incredibly short memory. It would be easy to imagine Twitter Before Elon as a harmonious and quaint microblogging platform, considering the four years After Elon have, comparatively, been a rolling outhouse fire. But even before it was renamed X, Twitter was one of the places for this content. It used to be (and for some, still is) an essential platform for getting discovered and going viral for independent content creators, and as such, it’s also where people are massively harassed. A few years ago, it was where people making sexually explicit AI images went to harass female cosplayers. Before that, it was (and still is) host to real-life sexual abuse material, where employers could search your name and find videos of the worst day of your life alongside news outlets and memes. Before that, it was how Gamergate made the jump from 4chan to the mainstream. The things that happen in Telegram chats and private Discord channels make the leap to Twitter and end up on the news.
What makes the situation this week with Grok different is that it’s all happening directly on X. Now, you don’t need to use Stable Diffusion or Nano Banana or Civitai to generate nonconsensual imagery and then take it over to Twitter to do some damage. X has become the Everything App that Elon always wanted, if “everything” means all the tools you need to fuck up someone’s life, in one place.
Inside the Telegram Channel Jailbreaking Grok Over and Over Again
Putting people in bikinis is just the tip of the iceberg. On Telegram, users are finding ways to make Grok do far worse.404 MediaEmanuel Maiberg
This is the culmination of years and years of rampant abuse on the platform. Reporting from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the organization platforms report to when they find instances of child sexual abuse material which then reports to the relevant authorities, shows that Twitter, and eventually X, has been one of the leading hosts of CSAM every year for the last seven years. In 2019, the platform reported 45,726 instances of abuse to NCMEC’s Cyber Tipline. In 2020, it was 65,062. In 2024, it was 686,176. These numbers should be considered with the caveat that platforms voluntarily report to NCMEC, and more reports can also mean stronger moderation systems that catch more CSAM when it appears. But the scale of the problem is still apparent. Jack Dorsey’s Twitter was a moderation clown show much of the time. But moderation on Elon Musk’s X, especially against abusive imagery, is a total failure.In 2023, the BBC reported that insiders believed the company was “no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation” following Musk’s takeover in 2022 and subsequent sacking of thousands of workers on moderation teams. This is all within the context that one of Musk’s go-to insults for years was “pedophile,” to the point that the harassment he stoked drove a former Twitter employee into hiding and went to federal court because he couldn't stop calling someone a “pedo.” Invoking pedophelia is a common thread across many conspiracy networks, including QAnon—something he’s dabbled in—but Musk is enabling actual child sexual abuse on the platform he owns.
Generative AI is making all of this worse. In 2024, NCMEC saw 6,835 reports of generative artificial intelligence related to child sexual exploitation (across the internet, not just X). By September 2025, the year-to-date reports had hit 440,419. Again, these are just the reports identified by NCMEC, not every instance online, and as such is likely a conservative estimate.
When I spoke to online child sexual exploitation experts in December 2023, following our investigation into child abuse imagery found in LAION-5B, they told me that this kind of material isn’t victimless just because the images don’t depict “real” children or sex acts. AI image generators like Grok and many others are used by offenders to groom and blackmail children, and muddy the waters for investigators to discern actual photographs from fake ones.
Grok’s AI CSAM Shitshow
We are experiencing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine.404 MediaJason Koebler
“Rather than coercing sexual content, offenders are increasingly using GAI tools to create explicit images using the child’s face from public social media or school or community postings, then blackmail them,” NCMEC wrote in September. “This technology can be used to create or alter images, provide guidelines for how to groom or abuse children or even simulate the experience of an explicit chat with a child. It’s also being used to create nude images, not just sexually explicit ones, that are sometimes referred to as ‘deepfakes.’ Often done as a prank in high schools, these images are having a devastating impact on the lives and futures of mostly female students when they are shared online.”The only reason any of this is being discussed now, and the only reason it’s ever discussed in general—going back to Gamergate and beyond—is because many normies, casuals, “the mainstream,” and cable news viewers have just this week learned about the problem and can’t believe how it came out of nowhere. In reality, deepfakes came from a longstanding hobby community dedicated to putting women’s faces on porn in Photoshop, and before that with literal paste and scissors in pinup magazines. And as Emanuel wrote this week, not even Grok’s AI CSAM problem popped up out of nowhere; it’s the result of weeks of quiet, obsessive work by a group of people operating just under the radar.
And this is where we are now: Today, several days into Grok’s latest scandal, people are using an AI image generator made by a man who regularly boosts white supremacist thought to create images of a woman slaughtered by an ICE agent in front of the whole world less than 24 hours ago to “put her in a bikini.
As journalist Katie Notopoulos pointed out, a quick search of terms like “make her” shows people prompting Grok with images of random women, saying things like “Make her wear clear tapes with tiny black censor bar covering her private part protecting her privacy and make her chest and hips grow largee[sic] as she squatting with leg open widely facing back, while head turn back looking to camera” at a rate of several times a minute, every minute, for days.
A good way to get a sense of just how fast the AI undressed/nudify requests to Grok are coming in is to look at the requests for it t.co/ISMpp2PdFU
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) January 7, 2026
In 2018, less than a year after reporting that first story on deepfakes, I wrote about how it’s a serious mistake to ignore the fact that nonconsensual imagery, synthetic or not, is a societal sickness and not something companies can guardrail against into infinity. “Users feed off one another to create a sense that they are the kings of the universe, that they answer to no one. This logic is how you get incels and pickup artists, and it’s how you get deepfakes: a group of men who see no harm in treating women as mere images, and view making and spreading algorithmically weaponized revenge porn as a hobby as innocent and timeless as trading baseball cards,” I wrote at the time. “That is what’s at the root of deepfakes. And the consequences of forgetting that are more dire than we can predict.”A little over two years ago, when AI-generated sexual images of Taylor Swift flooding X were the thing everyone was demanding action and answers for, we wrote a prediction: “Every time we publish a story about abuse that’s happening with AI tools, the same crowd of ‘techno-optimists’ shows up to call us prudes and luddites. They are absolutely going to hate the heavy-handed policing of content AI companies are going to force us all into because of how irresponsible they’re being right now, and we’re probably all going to hate what it does to the internet.”
It’s possible we’re still in a very weird fuck-around-and-find-out period before that hammer falls. It’s also possible the hammer is here, in the form of recently-enacted federal laws like the Take It Down Act and more than two dozen piecemeal age verification bills in the U.S. and more abroad that make using the internet an M. C. Escher nightmare, where the rules around adult content shift so much we’re all jerking it to egg yolks and blurring our feet in vacation photos. What matters most, in this bizarre and frequently disturbing era, is that the shareholders are happy.
Elon Musk's xAI raises $20 billion from investors including Nvidia, Cisco, Fidelity
Elon Musk's AI said it raised $20 billion in new funding after CNBC reported in November that a financing round would value the company at about $230 billion.Lora Kolodny (CNBC)
"They're being told that this is inevitable," a member of the 806 Data Center Resistance told 404 Media. "But Texas is this other beast."
"Theyx27;re being told that this is inevitable," a member of the 806 Data Center Resistance told 404 Media. "But Texas is this other beast."#AI #News
Texans Are Fighting a 6,000 Acre Nuclear-Powered Datacenter
Billionaire Toby Neugebauer laughed when the Amarillo City Council asked him how he planned to handle the waste his planned datacenter would produce.“I’m not laughing in disrespect to your question,” Neugebauer said. He explained that he’d just met with Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who had made it clear that any nuclear waste Neugebauer’s datacenter generated needed to go to Nevada, a state that’s not taking nuclear waste at the moment. “The answer is we don't have a great long term solution for how we’re doing nuclear waste.
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The meeting happened on October 28, 2025 and was one of a series of appearances Neugebauer has put in before Amarillo’s leaders as he attempts to realize Project Matador: a massive 5,769 acre datacenter being built in the Texas Panhandle and constructed by Fermi America, a company he founded with former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.If built, Project Matador would be one of the largest datacenters in the world at around 18 million square feet. “What we’re talking about is creating the epicenter for artificial intelligence in the United States,” Neugebauer told the council. According to Neugebauer, the United States is in an existential race to build AI infrastructure. He sees it as a national security issue.
“You’re blessed to sit on the best place to develop AI compute in America,” he told Amarillo. “I just finished with Palantir, which is our nation’s tip of the spear in the AI war. They know that this is the place that we must do this. They’ve looked at every site on the planet. I was at the Department of War yesterday. So anyone who thinks this is some casual conversation about the mission critical aspect of this is just not being truthful.”
But it’s unclear if Palantir wants any part of Project Matador. One unnamed client—rumored to be Amazon—dropped out of the project in December and cancelled a $150 million contract with Fermi America. The news hit the company’s stock hard, sending its value into a tailspin and triggering a class action lawsuit from investors.
Yet construction continues. The plan says it’ll take 11 years to build out the massive datacenter, which will first be powered by a series of natural gas generators before the planned nuclear reactors come online.
Amarillo residents aren’t exactly thrilled at the prospect. A group called 806 Data Center Resistance has formed in opposition to the project’s construction. Kendra Kay, a tattoo artist in the area and a member of 806, told 404 Media that construction was already noisy and spiking electricity bills for locals.
“When we found out how big it was, none of us could really comprehend it,” she said. “We went out to the site and we were like, ‘Oh my god, this thing is huge.’ There’s already construction underway of one of four water tanks that hold three million gallons of water.”
For Kay and others, water is the core issue. It’s a scarce resource in the panhandle and Amarillo and other cities in the area already fight for every drop. “The water is the scariest part,” she said. “They’re asking for 2.5 million gallons per day. They said that they would come back, probably in six months, to ask for five million gallons per day. And then, after that, by 2027 they would come back and ask for 10 million gallons per day.”
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During an October 15 city council meeting, Neugebauer told the city that Fermi would get its water “with or without” an agreement from the city. “The only difference is whether Amarillo benefits.” To many people it sounded like a threat, but Neugebauer got his deal and the city agreed to sell water to Fermi America for double the going rate.“It wasn’t a threat,” Neugebauer said during another meeting on October 28. “I know people took my answer…as a threat. I think it’s a win-win. I know there are other water projects we can do…we fully got that the water was going to be issue 1, 2, and 3.”
“We can pay more for water than the consumer can. Which allows you all capital to be able to re-invest in other water projects,” he said. “I think what you’re gonna find is having a customer who can pay way more than what you wanna burden your constituents with will actually enhance your water availability issues.”
According to Neugebauer and plans filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the datacenter would generate and consume 11 gigawatts of power. The bulk of that, eventually, would be generated by four nuclear reactors. But nuclear reactors are complicated and expensive to make and everyone who has attempted to build one in the past few decades has gone over budget and they weren’t trying to build nuclear power plants in the desert.
Nuclear reactors, like datacenters, consume a lot of water. Because of that, most nuclear reactors are constructed near massive bodies of water and often near the ocean. “The viewpoint that nuclear reactors can only be built by streams and oceans is actually the opposite,” Neugebauer told the Amarillo city council in the meeting on October 28.
As evidence he pointed to the Palo Verde nuclear plant in Arizona. The massive Palo Verde plant is the only nuclear plant in the world not constructed near a ready source of water. It gets the water it needs by taking on the waste and sewage water of every city and town nearby.
That’s not the plan with Project Matador, which will use water sold to it by Amarillo and pulled from the nearby Ogallala Aquifer. “I am concerned that we’re going to run out of water and that this is going to change it from us having 30 years worth of water for agriculture to much less very quickly,” Kay told 404 Media.
The Ogallala Aquifer runs under parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. It’s the primary source of water for the Texas panhandle and it’s drying out.
“They don’t know how much faster because, despite how quickly this thing is moving, we don’t have any idea how much water they’re realistically going to use or need, so we don’t even know how to calculate the difference,” Kay said. “Below Lubbock, they’ve been running out of water for a while. The priority of this seems really stupid.”
According to Kay, communities near the datacenter feel trapped as they watch the construction grind on. “They’ve all lived here for several generations…they’re being told that this is inevitable. Fermi is going up to them and telling them ‘this is going to happen whether you like it or not so you might as well just sell me your property.’”
Kay said she and other activists have been showing up to city council meetings to voice their concerns and tell leaders not to approve permits for the datacenter and nuclear plants. Other communities across the country have successfully pushed datacenter builders out of their community. “But Texas is this other beast,” Kay said.
Jacinta Gonzalez, the head of programs for MediaJustice and her team have helped 806 Data Center Resistance get up and running and teaching it tactics they’ve seen pay off in other states. “In Tucson, Arizona we were able to see the city council vote ‘no’ to offer water to Project Blue, which was a huge proposed Amazon datacenter happening there,” she said. “If you look around, everywhere from Missouri to Indiana to places in Georgia, we’re seeing communities pass moratoriums, we’re seeing different projects withdraw their proposals because communities find out about it and are able to mobilize and organize against this.”
“The community in Amarillo is still figuring out what that’s going to look like for them,” she said. “These are really big interests. Rick Perry. Palantir. These are not folks who are used to hearing ‘no’ or respecting community wishes. So the community will have to be really nimble and up for a fight. We don’t know what will happen if we organize, but we definitely know what will happen if we don’t.”
Tucson City Council rejects Project Blue data center amid intense community pressure
The Tucson City Council voted to reject the proposed Project Blue data center— tied to Amazon — after weeks of community pushback.Yana Kunichoff (AZ Luminaria)
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.#ICE
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
A social media and phone surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow them from their places of work to home or other locations, according to material that describes how the system works obtained by 404 Media.Commercial location data, in this case acquired from hundreds of millions of phones via a company called Penlink, can be queried without a warrant, according to an internal ICE legal analysis shared with 404 Media. The purchase comes squarely during ICE’s mass deportation effort and continued crackdown on protected speech, alarming civil liberties experts and raising questions on what exactly ICE will use the surveillance system for.
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Do you know anything else about this tool? Do you work for ICE, CBP, or another agency? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency. This granular location information paints a detailed picture of who we are, where we go, and who we spend time with,” Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy project director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, told 404 Media.
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At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.#ICE
DHS Is Lying To You
A maroon Honda Pilot SUV sits perpendicular across a residential road in Minneapolis. At the time, federal authorities were in the neighborhood as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) recently announced surge of thousands of officials. A silver Nissan Titan drives up the road and stops because the Honda is blocking its path. Two officers dressed in body armor, pouches, and badges saying “police” exit the Nissan.The two people walk towards the Honda. Someone can be heard saying “get out of the fucking car.” One of them tries to open the driver’s door and reach through the open window. The driver of the Honda reverses and turns, getting straighter with the road. The driver then slowly accelerates and starts to turn to the right, leveling the car out with its front pointing away from the two officers.
A third officer, who has been standing on the other side of the road, pulls out a firearm while the car is turning away from him and fires into the car three times. The officer fires two of the shots when the vehicle is already well past him. He is not in front of the car, but to the side. The officer calmly holsters his weapon.
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Centomila uomini per l’autonomia europea? Il piano di Kubilius
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Trump sferra un attacco decisivo al clima e alla cooperazione, fuori da 66 organizzazioni internazionali in un colpo solo
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Il primo ministro britannico Starmer cerca sostegno per un divieto internazionale di X
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Proteste in Iran, violenza e diplomazia: la crisi si allarga
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Mentre la leadership iraniana cerca di contenere le manifestazioni e gli Stati Uniti lanciano minacce, le restrizioni alle comunicazioni imposte dalle autorità rendono difficile accertare il numero reale di morti e feriti. Alcuni parlano di mille uccisi, altri di centinaia
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Da bambino, quando guardavo i film western, ci credevo.
Credevo al messaggio del trionfo della civiltà sull’uomo selvatico, alla sconfitta del male di fronte al bene rappresentato dall’uomo bianco emblema del buono, del giusto, del forte e simbolo di una civiltà da sostenere per lo sviluppo della società moderna.
Non avevo capito che ci stavano educando alla sopraffazione del debole, alla guerra di espansione, al furto di un continente e delle sue risorse, e alla necessità di sterminare gli indiani per defraudarli di un loro diritto, della loro terra, della loro stessa vita.
E non avevo neppure capito che quella era una lotta impari, che avrebbe sopraffatto i veri proprietari di quel posto, che avrebbe annientato una cultura preziosa, uccisi degli uomini, cancellato il diritto all’esistenza di quella gente.
Pensavo, nella mia infantile innocenza, che americani e indiani fossero atavici nemici, ma che un bel giorno avrebbero finalmente fumato il calumet della pace e convissuto assieme felici e amici.
Mi era sembrato addirittura che i cowboy erano i legittimi proprietari dell’America "scoperta" da Colombo, e che gli indiani stessero tentando, con i loro obsolescenti mezzi, e la loro turpe straniera cattiveria, di scacciarli via per impossessarsene.
Non avevo capito che il messaggio che insinuavano era che loro sono i nostri nemici, e che vanno combattuti e uccisi. Che non ha importanza nient’altro tranne il fatto che sono cattivi a prescindere. Che sono i nostri nemici e basta, perché a noi conviene.
Non avevo capito niente, e oggi non è cambiato niente.
La tecnica degli arroganti è rimasta invariata. È sempre la stessa. D’altronde, squadra vincente non si cambia.
Per loro squallido tornaconto invadono, uccidono, colonizzano, sporcano con le loro mani insanguinate ogni obiettivo che possa recare loro vantaggio, ricchezza, potere. E i nemici sono sempre quelli la cui cultura è diversa: vietnamiti, iraniani, cinesi, yemeniti, palestinesi, russi.
Senza alcun ritegno mandano loro gli eserciti fin dentro casa, al fine di depredarne le risorse, e poi gridano al pericolo nucleare, al terrorismo, alla minaccia di invasione, al terzo conflitto mondiale, come se il vero pericolo fosse chi li subisce, e non loro.
Con la crudeltà che ostentano senza la benché minima dignità.
Senza la minima compassione per i vinti, per i morti, per i parenti e gli affetti dei morti. Senza alcun principio morale, senza la minima etica, senza un barlume di umanità.
È un mostro ingannevole e avido di denaro, questa Babilonia che fagocita diritti e deboli, demolisce al suo passaggio qualunque cosa che per lei sia un disvalore. Vite umane, case, affetti, pace.
Distrugge tutto, saccheggia tutto, uccide tutti.
E noi ci siamo dentro.
Alcuni, addirittura compiacenti; molti invece ignari che diamo loro appoggio permettendo che da qui partano armi, denaro, droni della morte, ospitando basi e inferni nucleari che servono a combattere guerre che non ci appartengono. Missili, soldati, aerei, morti sulla coscienza.
La globalizzazione evidentemente doveva servire a questo. Era il disegno che gli antiglobalisti avevano capito subito. Doveva servire a diradare nel nostro popolo e in tutti i popoli la luce dell’orgoglio nazionalista, a demolire il muro dello sciovinismo, la nostra sovranità, anche la nostra italiana dignità, tutto a vantaggio della loro supremazia, per celebrare questa occidentale servitù verso il più forte, verso il più ricco, verso il più potente che ci avrebbe resi finalmente liberi grazie a una discutibile — perché perversa — forma di democrazia, che libera di una libertà che incatena.
E che annulla la nostra cultura, la nostra individualità, le nostre singolari peculiarità, la nostra autodeterminazione. La nostra economia, il nostro prodotto interno, la nostra industria, il nostro commercio, la nostra agricoltura, il nostro artigianato.
Eravamo servi ieri con i western, sostenendo la logica dell’invasione, siamo servi oggi.
E intanto la gente muore, le case crollano sotto le bombe, il Papa prega, i sacerdoti riuniscono i fedeli in preghiera mentre noi contribuiamo con i nostri acquisti al mercimonio delle armi da inviare.
Con le famiglie piegate in due dal carobollette.
Ogni centesimo in più di aumento sui prodotti di consumo equivale a una pallottola che uccide una persona, ogni litro di benzina a un respiro che si spegne, ogni fiamma della caldaia a due occhi sbarrati per sempre, fissi nell’istante della fine; mentre noi, sonnolenti e abulici, sosteniamo gli sciacalli, senza riflettere su quanto sia vile far finta di niente, quanto sia incredibile veder sprecati tutti questi soldi per creare strumenti di dolore e di morte, e non, invece, medicina e sanità, istruzione e lavoro, serenità e pace, mentre tutto il mondo muore ucciso.
Dalla guerra, dalla fame, dalla cattiveria, dalle avidità, dall'egoismo, dal dolore.
Tutto questo è stomachevole, rivoltante.
E poi andiamo a letto con la coscienza sporca, ma pulita.
Perché il servo, quando è servo, fa il bene solo se obbedisce.
Mi viene in mente una citazione , stupenda, di Bonhoeffer: a forza di obbedire, tu sarai obbediente anche agli ordini del demonio.
Più che una frase, un’amara, facile profezia.
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Bukele applaude l’attacco Usa al Venezuela: l’uomo forte di El Salvador tra autoritarismo interno e fedeltà a Washington
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Dal sostegno all’intervento militare contro Caracas alla repressione interna: il presidente salvadoregno si conferma perno della strategia statunitense in America
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La premessa è che, essendo io contrario a qualunque forma di carcerazione, a qualunque limitazione della libertà personale—che non fosse motivata da un'urgenza rieducativa necessaria all'inserimento sociale—la liberazione dei detenuti in Venezuela mi rende felice.
Ciò che mi lascia perplesso, però, è il silenzio del passato. Non un articolo di indignazione per questi detenuti, non una riga, una presa di posizione pubblica del Governo Meloni, non una chiara condanna nei confronti di un tiranno che teneva segregati degli italiani nelle sue carceri.
Oggi, invece, dopo la discutibile perché efferata azione di guerra di Trump, che ha visto sì la deposizione di un despota, ma ci ha anche mostrato la sproporzione di forza che ha lasciato a terra, morti, un centinaio di uomini, l'entusiasmo è tutto per il "cambio di regime" che ha permesso finalmente la rottura dei ceppi, il taglio delle catene che teneva legata questa povera gente dietro le sbarre venezuelane.
Ora, lungi da me qualsiasi giudizio al riguardo (ho letto poco e conosco ancor meno i motivi della loro detenzione, così come sconosco il perché del silenzio del Governo), non appare strano che se ne parli, ora e con trionfalismo, lasciando il sospetto che se ne stia parlando solo per giustificare la protervia e l'arroganza americana che ha dimostrato con i suoi metodi violenti?
Se questi italiani erano ingiustamente reclusi nelle galere venezuelane, perché non si è fatto nulla per liberarli? Perché, essendo Maduro un despota e un tiranno, non si è mai disegnata la loro carcerazione come una prigionia politica?
Si tace, invece, quasi che il fine — cioè quello della libertà e della democrazia a tutti i costi— giustificasse l'aggressione americana, quasi la legittimasse perché, come si è visto, Maduro era un personaggio da arrestare, da perseguire, da deporre per la sua tirannide.
Non so se è così, ma a me sembra così.
Personalmente avrei preferito che, chi se ne sarebbe dovuto occupare prima con gli strumenti della diplomazia, oggi scrivesse chiaramente che, pur non rispettando il metodo di guerra che ha consentito il cambio di guardia del Venezuela —perché non è condivisibile—, si è felici per la liberazione dei detenuti italiani per i quali non si è fatto, o non si è potuto fare, niente o poco, prima.
Possibile che si debba sempre preferire la mendace propaganda alla sincerità politica?
Non so, forse mi sto sbagliando a pensare tutto questo.
Ma il dubbio che si stia tentando di spacciare un'azione da perdente (perché tale è qualsiasi atto di violenza), lascia la bocca amara.
Come se ci fosse qualcosa da chiarire, e che non verrà chiarito.
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Dalla Libia al Sudan, dalla Somalia allo Yemen: le ambizioni globali degli Emirati
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L'intervento dell'Arabia Saudita nello Yemen ha imposto un primo stop alla strategia degli Emirati che puntano ad estendere la propria influenza militare ed economica nella penisola arabica e nel Corno d'Africa
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