Identifying government officials is not ‘doxxing’
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
Welcome to 2026. Rümeysa Öztürk has now been facing deportation for 290 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like, and journalist Ya’akub Vijandre remains locked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over social media posts about issues he reported on. Read on for more on the year’s turbulent start for press freedom.
House committee votes to subpoena journalist for Venezuela reporting
A motion introduced Jan. 7 by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., to subpoena journalist Seth Harp passed the House Oversight Committee in a bipartisan voice vote. Luna accused Harp of “leaking classified intel about Operation Absolute Resolve, including doxxing a Delta Force commander.”
The next day, Luna wrote a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi calling for a criminal investigation of Harp. The journalist, however, merely reported the name and publicly available online biography of the commander involved in the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
In a statement we issued with Defending Rights & Dissent and the First Amendment Foundation following the subpoena, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern explained that, “Identifying government officials by name is not doxxing or harassment, no matter how many times Trump allies say otherwise.” Everyone who supported Luna’s motion — including Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia, the ranking member of the oversight committee — should be ashamed.
John Cusack wants to talk about paywalls
Actor and activist John Cusack, a founding board member of FPF, spoke to Columbia Journalism Review about why more news outlets need to remove paywalls for reporting based on Freedom of Information Act requests.
“There’s an irony in the fact that FOIA-based reporting often ends up behind a paywall, because the public owns government records. We fund their creation through taxes, and we fund the agencies that produce them. We fund the FOIA office that processes the disclosure request—the entire apparatus is built on the premise that this information belongs to us,” Cusack said.
He’s not just making a moral case, though. As Cusack notes, outlets like Wired and 404 Media have seen subscriptions surge after unpaywalling their public records reporting.
The document giving ICE 80 million Medicaid patients’ data
Last year, FPF and 404 Media sued the Department of Homeland Security for a copy of a data-sharing agreement enabling Immigration and Customs Enforcement to receive personal data of Medicaid patients after the agency failed to turn it over in response to FOIA requests. A U.S. attorney working on that case then flagged that the document had quietly been released in a separate lawsuit.
At the end of December, a judge ruled that the Trump administration could resume sharing much of the data after it had been blocked from doing so, Politico reported. That means ICE can use Medicaid data in deportation cases starting Jan. 6, Politico added.
Don’t forget who really sold out CBS News
It’s easy to understand why the outrage over CBS News’ recent self-censorship and propaganda — from spiking stories to airing segments “saluting” the politicians it’s supposed to scrutinize — has largely been directed at CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss and her boss, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison.
But, as Stern wrote for The Contrarian, let’s not forget who first sold out CBS News: former Paramount Chair Shari Redstone.
Transparency did not delay justice for Kelly or Epstein. Prosecutors did
One of the prosecutors who helped put sexual predator and R&B star R. Kelly behind bars wrote that releasing the Jeffrey Epstein documents without extensive redactions would hinder future prosecutions. Transparency, argued Elizabeth Geddes, would interfere with investigators gaming out 3D chess moves to build airtight cases against Epstein’s associates.
Most Americans, however, don’t share her confidence in the system that packs private prisons with small-time offenders while the Epsteins and Kellys of the world walk free for decades. In fact, there’s an excellent chance both of them would still be preying on young girls from Chicago to the U.S. Virgin Islands if not for the transparency forced by dogged journalism.
Stern and Jim DeRogatis, the reporter who broke the R. Kelly story, wrote about how misguided Geddes’ take and others like it are.
What we're reading
A rough year for journalists in 2025, with a little hope for things to turn around
The Associated Press
The year 2025 was a dangerous one for journalists in the U.S., reports the AP, citing our U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. There were at least 170 assaults on journalists last year, 94% of them at the hands of law enforcement.
2025 left a stressed-out First Amendment
Free Speech Center
“By any measure, 2025 was a stressful year for those who worry about the First Amendment and its status as the bedrock of American liberty.”
The battle for press freedom in the streets
Columbia Journalism Review
Journalists who experience press freedom abuses should speak out and document the incidents on social media, in their publications, and via the Tracker, FPF Deputy Director of Advocacy Adam Rose told CJR.
Filming ICE agents is a First Amendment right. So why might it land you in jail?
Straight Arrow News
“There’s a reason DHS and its counterparts keep getting humiliated in court when they pretend to be victims,” Rose told Straight Arrow News. “They’re losing in front of juries, judges are calling them not credible.”
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404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS
Last week Freedom of the Press Foundation and 404 Media filed a lawsuit against the multiple parts of the U.S. government demanding they hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE. The data sharing marked a watershed moment for ICE and its access to highly sensitive data that is ordinarily siloed off from the agency. We believe it’s important for the public to see this unprecedented data sharing agreement for themselves.As the Associated Press wrote when it first reported on the data sharing agreement between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agreement will give ICE the ability to find “the location of aliens.” The data shared includes home addresses and ethnicities, according to the Associated Press.
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Do you know anything else about this data sharing agreement? 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.Both Freedom of the Press Foundation and 404 Media filed similar Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with DHS and CMS seeking a copy of the agreement. Neither agency provided the requested records in time, so we have now filed the lawsuit. In 404 Media’s case, CMS acknowledged the request but has not provided the records, and DHS did not even acknowledge the request at all.
404 Media’s request asked for a copy of the specific agreement, and if the agencies were unable to locate it, to alternatively provide copies of all agreements between DHS and CMS from this year.
“Despite having received the FOIA requests, and despite their obligations under the law, Defendants have failed to notify Plaintiffs of the scope of documents that they will produce or the scope of documents that they plan to withhold in response to the FOIA requests,” the lawsuit reads.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation is a non-profit organization that monitors press freedom issues in the U.S. and trains journalists on how to keep themselves and their sources safe. It regularly sues the U.S. government for access to records.The data sharing agreement is just one of a growing list of ways that ICE is sourcing highly sensitive, and sometimes legally protected, information as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort. ProPublica reported on the vast system the IRS is building to share millions of taxpayers’ data with ICE. 404 Media previously reported ICE has gained access to ISO Claimsearch, a massive insurance and medical bill database to find deportation targets. The database is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills.
Separately, 404 Media filed a lawsuit against ICE in September for access to the agency’s $2 million spyware contract.
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House committee approves subpoena of journalist for Venezuela reporting
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A motion introduced today by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., to subpoena journalist Seth Harp passed unanimously in the House Oversight Committee. Luna accused Harp of “leaking classified intel about Operation Absolute Resolve, including doxxing a Delta Force commander.”
The motion was apparently in response to Harp’s reporting the name and publicly available online biography of the commander involved in the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Politico reports that the subpoena appears to have arisen from an agreement between Luna and California Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia to issue a flurry of subpoenas, including some relating to Jeffrey Epstein. Garcia reportedly supported the Harp subpoena.
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern said:
“Journalists don’t work for the government and can’t ‘leak’ government information — to the contrary, it’s their job to find and publish the news, whether the government wants it made public or not. Identifying government officials by name is not doxxing or harassment, no matter how many times Trump allies say otherwise. Reporters have a constitutional right to publish even classified leaks, as long as they don’t commit any crimes to obtain them, but Harp merely published information that was publicly available about someone at the center of the world’s biggest news story. In 2024, the House unanimously passed the PRESS Act to protect journalists from subpoenas about their newsgathering. The bill died after Trump ordered the Senate to kill it on Truth Social. Apparently, so did the principles of Reps. Luna, Garcia, and their colleagues.”
Chip Gibbons, policy director at Defending Rights & Dissent, said:
“Rep. Luna’s subpoena of investigative reporter Seth Harp is clearly designed to chill and intimidate a journalist doing some of the most significant investigative reporting on U.S. Special Forces. Her own statement makes clear that far from having a valid legislative purpose, she seeks to hold a journalist ‘accountable’ for what is essentially reporting she dislikes. Her rationale is based on easily debunkable disinformation. Harp did not share classified information about the U.S. regime change operation in Venezuela. And even if he had, his actions would firmly be protected by the First Amendment. This is a dangerous assault on the press freedom, as well as the U.S. people’s right to know. It is shameful it passed the committee.”
Bobby Block, executive director of Florida’s First Amendment Foundation, added:
“This is a naked attempt to intimidate a journalist for doing his job. Rep. Luna’s own words make clear this subpoena has no legitimate legislative purpose — it’s about punishing reporting she doesn’t like. That kind of abuse of power strikes at the heart of the First Amendment and threatens the public’s right to know.”
Please contact us if you would like further comment.
The Mullah Regime’s Assault on Digital Freedom: Lessons from Iran and the Taming of Global Net Politics
By Schoresch Davoodi, Board Member of Pirate Party International, Delegate for European Policy and Member of the Foreign Policy Working Group in Pirate Party of Germany
Published in Pirate Times, January 9, 2026
The protests raging across Iran since late December 2025 lay bare the Mullah-Regime’s vulnerability—and its ruthless reliance on digital repression to survive. Born from economic desperation—galloping inflation, blackouts plunging cities into darkness, and water shortages threatening survival—these demonstrations have swiftly transcended grievances, erupting into a nationwide demand for the Islamic Republic’s downfall.
In Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, and dozens more cities, voices rise in unison: “Death to the Dictator,” aimed squarely at Supreme Leader Khamenei. This is not transient anger but a profound revolution against a regime that lavishes billions on proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis while its people endure crumbling infrastructure and environmental collapse.
Tehran itself, once a beacon of modernity, now embodies this decay—its ground sinking, its air toxic, as I recently highlighted on X linking to a stark video: “How Tehran Became an Awful Place to Live”. From my family’s enduring resistance to tyranny and my work in the Pirate Party International (PPI), I see Iran’s crisis as inseparable from a worldwide erosion of digital freedoms: the “taming” of online activism in the West and the selective hypocrisies that fracture universal human rights.
The Digital Siege
The regime’s survival hinges on a meticulously engineered digital siege. Cloudflare and NetBlocks data confirm a 30-40% plunge in traffic, with pinpoint blackouts in hotspots and relentless VPN assaults—tools outlawed without state approval since 2024. This is no accident; it is designed to fracture coordination, bury atrocity evidence, and isolate protesters from the world, turning their fight invisible.
In my 2023 Flaschenpost interview, I exposed the regime’s relentless fabrications, mirrored by its “Axis of Autocracies” allies—Russia, China, Iran—in corrupting open discourse. They insist only “leftist” revolts are authentic, a Soviet relic I’ve repeatedly challenged, dismissing Iran’s organic uprising as foreign-orchestrated while throttling its digital pulse. Such deceit exposes a deeper rot: fierce outrage against certain censors, yet tacit tolerance when ideology aligns.
The “Taming” of Net Politics
This Iranian ordeal finds a chilling parallel in Babak Tubis’s piercing January 2, 2026, PPI piece, “The Taming of Net Politics: HateAid as a Cautionary Tale for Digital Freedom”. As my PPI colleague and Iranian-rooted advocate, Tubis reveals how grassroots digital activism surrenders to state symbiosis, losing its defiant edge.
HateAid, launched to shield hate victims, became a Digital Services Act (DSA) “Trusted Flagger,” only to incur U.S. sanctions amid transatlantic digital strife in December 2025. Tubis captures the peril:
“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 exposure invites autocrats to exploit legal levers for suppression. As I questioned on X: “Is fighting online hate worth trading digital freedom for state ties & censorship tools? Pirate Parties warn: HateAid’s path shows the risks.” Western excuses for censorship—”protecting democracy” from misinformation—eerily echo the Mullahs’ blackout justifications, eroding Kantian Mündigkeit, our capacity for independent thought, in favor of technocratic overseers.
The Silence of the Left
Our Pirate heritage, forged in Enlightenment principles, demands we confront hatred without sacrificing pluralism or trading autonomy for institutional favor. In Iran, regime disinformation permeates Western channels via lobbyists and influencers, breeding unchallenged myths. I’ve long unmasked German left-wing parties—the SPD and Greens—tethered by historic bonds to the Islamic Republic, recycling Soviet narratives that undermine legitimate opposition.
The Pirate Party Hesse’s 2023 indictment, “Proteste im Iran – und die politische Linke schaut weg”, stands as a beacon: the left bypasses a truly progressive revolution it should champion, favoring doctrine over universal rights. Hesse embodies consistency, upholding digital and liberal freedoms as indivisible. By contrast, Baden-Württemberg, despite past boldness (such as their September 2024 probe of political Islam), has offered no voice on this latest surge.
These inconsistencies lay bare ethical fractures, illuminated in Hesse’s 2025 reflection by Nasrin Amirsedghi, “Freiheit, die den Hass schützt – Frankfurt und der moralische Bankrott”. It probes how assembly rights can harbor venom, bolstering democracy’s enemies much like Mullah agents exploit Western indulgence for propaganda.
A Call for Solidarity
PPI’s January 3, 2026, affirmation, “Solidarity with Iran: PPI Supports the Path to a Democratic Future”, anchors our resolve. We envision a secular democracy amplifying liberties, urging an Iranian Pirate Party for non-violent digital resistance—via tools like Starlink, long my advocacy against throttling.
The regime totters. Victory requires urgency:
- Compel Elon Musk for Starlink access.
- Expel regime diplomats and sanction oppressors.
- Demand the Revolutionary Guards’ listing as a terrorist organization.
As I declared on X honoring Hannover’s Jina Mahsa Amini square: Freedom defies borders; we champion it everywhere. The Islamic Republic will soon be a dark footnote in the history of Iran. Democracy rises.
Upcoming TBR Community Dinner & ShotSpotter Presentations
The Black Response will host three community dinners to share presentations on ShotSpotter surveillance devices in Cambridge. The first event will be Thursday, January 22nd at 6pm at The Community Art Center. We encourage all Pirate Party supporters to attend this presentation. The community dinner is a potluck, so please bring some food to share.
The Community Art Center is at 119 Windsor Street, Cambridge. It is a nine minute walk from Central Square and the MBTA Red Line stop there.
The second event will be on Wednesday, February 11th at CIC Cambridge. It is at 1 Broadway in Kendall Square a short walk from the MBTA Red Line stop. The third event will be in March. All events are on our calendar.
Past TBR ShotSpotter presentations:
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First Cambridge/Somerville Pirate Meetup this Saturday
Our first of four upcoming Cambridge/Somerville Pirate Meetups is this Saturday:
- 1/10/2026, 2-4pm, 1369 Coffee House, 757 Mass. Ave., Cambridge;
- 1/25/2026, 3-5pm, Diesel Cafe, 257 Elm St., Somerville;
- 2/7/2026, 2-4pm, Tatte Bakery & Cafe, 318 Third St., Cambridge;
- 2/22/2026, 1-3pm, 37 Woodbine St., Somerville.
Click the links to go to their respective registration pages. Knowing how many people plan to attend helps to choose the right sized table.
Looking forward to meeting with fellow pirates in Camberville!
PS: You can also join our local mailing list.
Congratulations to the 16th Board of PPI!
Yesterday, January 10th 2026, we held our General Assembly. For the first time since 2018, we held an on site GA meeting. We had traditionally rotated between hybrid and on site meetings, until COVID forced all of our meetings online.
The following individuals were elected as board members: Sebastian Krone (PPDE), Carlos Polo (PPCH), and Grigorii Dizer (PPRU),
The following individuals were elected as alternate board members: Lilia Kayra Kuuymcu (PPDE), Numero6 (PPDE), Bart Overkamp (PPNL), and Thomas Gaul (PPDE).
These individuals will serve 2 year terms, nad they will join the existing board members who have one year left on their term.
You can read the minutes of the meeting here: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_GA_Minutes_2026-01-10
The opening keynote was delivered by Lilia Kayra Kuuymcu, Chair of the Pirate Party of Germany. She emphasized the importance of international Pirate cooperation at a time when digital freedoms are increasingly under threat.
We heard reports from the board, treasurer, court of arbitration, and lay auditors. Over the course of the prior year PPI was quite active with 58 published blogs and 2 published UN statements. We also for the first time in several years (again due to COVID) sent representatives to all three United Nations offices in Geneva, Vienna, New York. We also organized a workshop at the Internet Governance Forum in Oslo.
We approved a number of policies, including the reestablishment of a Working Group on AI and setting up a dedicated social media channel for discussions with our members about future policies and a policy and a motion on “Solidarity with the Iranian Freedom Movement and Against Selective Censorship in Digital Rights Advocacy”.
We also approved the following motion: “The General Assembly accepts the voting rights of all members who are present”. This motion recognizes that everyone who is a member of PPI can participate, regardless of their ability to pay membership dues. We hope this will encourage membership of Pirate parties that are not currently PPI members and to reinvigorate participation of smaller parties.
Good luck to us all in 2026!
Update PPI GA 2026 Information
Dear All Members of Pirate Parties International and all interested parties,
The 2025-2026 PPI Winter GA will take place on Saturday, January 10th, 2026, starting at 09:00 UTC.
The event will be hybrid, with some participants physically attending in Potsdam, Germany.
If representatives from your organization intend to participate in person, please let us know by
requesting a completely free ticket here: eventbrite.com/e/1975346809482
The venue is located in Potsdam-Babelsberg (old town hall).
AWO Kulturhaus Babelsberg
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 135
14482 Potsdam
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Day 2 will be scheduled if necessary, but at a different location!
Am Bürohochhaus 2-4
14778 Potsdam-Drewitz
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Discussion about the GA is currently on Discourse: ga.pp-international.net/
Further information is also available on our Wiki:
wiki.pp-international.net/wiki…
The meeting will take place on the PPI Board Jitsi Channel: jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board
If we have connection problems, we will revert to our Mumble:
wiki.pp-international.net/wiki…
Motions and discussions can be found on Discourse:
ga.pp-international.net/c/wint…
If you have any statute amendments or new member applications, please make sure that you send
them to the board by December 10th. If you have any other motions or any other business, feel
free to bring them up before the meeting, and you are free to propose them at the meeting itself.
It is very important that we make a quorum, so please delegate your vote to another member if
you cannot come to the event. Please also forward this message to other PPI members.
Delegates should be announced to the board prior to the start of the GA. Each member may have
up to 6 delegates. Others are welcome to attend without voting. Rules of the GA can be reviewed
on the Wiki: wiki.pp-international.net/wiki…
We also remind full members to pay membership fees. We don’t want anyone not to participate if
they don’t have funds to pay membership fees, so please let us know if you require a discount or
accommodation. Please note that nascent members have no membership fees.
We hope that many of you can attend, either in person or online.
Good luck to us on having a successful event!
Thank you for your assistance,
The Board of PPI
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𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀? 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝘆.Join this webinar on 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 to explore an alternative to current grant competitions, and precarious labour.
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📢 Is this the winter of our discontent? [S2025-E09]
On the digital battleground, one side is surveillance and control. The other: freedom and community. Dyne.org is on the front lines.Dyne.org (News From Dyne)
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Talk the Plank! Returns this Saturday with Timothy Grady
January 7 – This Saturday, January 10th, Ohio’s Independent Gubernatorial Candidate Timothy Grady will be joining us for the newest episode of Talk the Plank!, the official podcast of the United States Pirate Party.
During our August 10th Pirate National Committee meeting, the board voted to endorse Grady’s campaign. While the Grady campaign is not strictly a Pirate campaign, the United States Pirate Party values honest campaigns, person-first agendas and anyone who fights for free and open. We were happy to endorse the gubernatorial campaign and are further excited to have Timothy Grady join this week’s episode, especially following the news of the Ohio Pirate Party’s ascension to the Pirate National Committee.
Be sure to check out his official campaign website, and don’t forget to tune in on Saturday at 9pmET! See you there!
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International Pirates pay attention!
The 20th Council Meeting is coming: 30 – 31 January in Ljubljana. Participation is appreciated, discourse.european-pirateparty…
Online participation will be possible via:
Read more about the event here:
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Als #Pirat sage ich mit Schneier, Lessing, Whittaker u.a.: Hände weg vom Netz! Sofortige Wiederherstellung ungefilterten Zugangs!
#DigitalBlackoutIran #IranProtests
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To: The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the International Community As architects, operators, and stewards of the global Internet infrastructure, we define the Internet not merely as a network of cables and routers, but as a foundational in
To: The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the International Community As architects, operators, and stewards of the global Internet infrastructure, we define the Internet not merely as a network of cables and routers, but as a foundation…Kaveh Ranjbar (www.linkedin.com)
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Black Axe: gruppo criminale nigeriano che conduce attacchi BEC in Spagna - (in)sicurezza digitale
È interessante il caso dell’operazione condotta dalla Polizia Nazionale spagnola, con la collaborazione della polizia bavarese e il supporto operativo diDario Fadda (inSicurezzaDigitale.com)
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Vorhersehbare Forderung: Gegen Stromausfall helfen keine Überwachungskameras
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Digitale Gewalt: Musks Chatbot Grok verbreitet weiter sexualisierte Deepfakes
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Bastian’s Night #458 January, 8th
Every Thursday of the week, Bastian’s Night is broadcast from 21:30 CET.
Bastian’s Night is a live talk show in German with lots of music, a weekly round-up of news from around the world, and a glimpse into the host’s crazy week in the pirate movement.
If you want to read more about @BastianBB: –> This way
"Wo werden meine Daten gespeichert?" Das ist doch Wurst. Die eigentliche Frage ist WIE. Wie werden meine Daten gespeichert?
Der europäische Souveränitätsgipfel geriet zu einer irreführenden Veranstaltung für -chefs, die digitale Souveränität bestenfalls vom Hörensagen kennen.
Sie leben nach dem Motto: erst retten, dann denken. Und genau so verspielt Europa seine Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.
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Lead Our Party!
We elect our Pirate Council in February. Positions include Captain, First Officer, Quartermaster, PR/Media Director, Activism Director, Swarmwise Director, Web/Info Director, three Arbitrators and two representatives to the US Pirate Party.
If you are interested in throwing your hat in for any of these positions, nominations are open on-line until end of day Friday, January 30th. Before you do, become a member, join our activists email list, and read our Articles of Agreement and Code of Conduct.
Ballots will be sent out by February 13th and are due back by February 27th. We will use the same voting mechanism we used in our previous election. Voters will be emailed a randomly generated id that only the voter will know. Once the election is done, we will delete the ids. In this way, we can ensure that only supporters can vote, while also maintaining the secrecy of votes.
We look forward to multiple candidates for all positions.
Update PPI GA 2016 Information
Dear All Members of Pirate Parties International and all interested parties,
The 2025-2026 PPI Winter GA will take place on Saturday, January 10th, 2026, starting at 09:00 UTC.
The event will be hybrid, with some participants physically attending in Potsdam, Germany.
If representatives from your organization intend to participate in person, please let us know by
requesting a completely free ticket here: eventbrite.com/e/1975346809482
The venue is located in Potsdam-Babelsberg (old town hall).
AWO Kulturhaus Babelsberg
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 135
14482 Potsdam
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Größere Karte anzeigen
Day 2 will be scheduled if necessary, but at a different location!
Am Bürohochhaus 2-4
14778 Potsdam-Drewitz
openstreetmap.org/export/embed…
Größere Karte anzeigen
Discussion about the GA is currently on Discourse: ga.pp-international.net/
Further information is also available on our Wiki:
wiki.pp-international.net/wiki…
The meeting will take place on the PPI Board Jitsi Channel: jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board
If we have connection problems, we will revert to our Mumble:
wiki.pp-international.net/wiki…
Motions and discussions can be found on Discourse:
ga.pp-international.net/c/wint…
If you have any statute amendments or new member applications, please make sure that you send
them to the board by December 10th. If you have any other motions or any other business, feel
free to bring them up before the meeting, and you are free to propose them at the meeting itself.
It is very important that we make a quorum, so please delegate your vote to another member if
you cannot come to the event. Please also forward this message to other PPI members.
Delegates should be announced to the board prior to the start of the GA. Each member may have
up to 6 delegates. Others are welcome to attend without voting. Rules of the GA can be reviewed
on the Wiki: wiki.pp-international.net/wiki…
We also remind full members to pay membership fees. We don’t want anyone not to participate if
they don’t have funds to pay membership fees, so please let us know if you require a discount or
accommodation. Please note that nascent members have no membership fees.
We hope that many of you can attend, either in person or online.
Good luck to us on having a successful event!
Thank you for your assistance,
The Board of PPI
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Ieri un organo quasi-giudiziario in Italia (l'Agcom, ndr) ha multato @Cloudflare per 17 milioni di dollari per non essersi allineato al loro schema per censurare Internet. Lo schema, che persino l’UE ha definito preoccupante, ci richiedeva, entro soli 30 minuti dalla notifica, di censurare completamente da Internet qualsiasi sito ritenuto contro gli interessi di un’oscura cabala di élite mediatiche europee. Nessun controllo giudiziario. Nessun processo equo. Nessun ricorso. Nessuna trasparenza. Ci richiedeva di non solo rimuovere i clienti, ma anche di censurare il nostro risolutore DNS 1.1.1.1, il che rischiava di oscurare qualsiasi sito su Internet. E ci richiedeva di non solo censurare il contenuto in Italia, ma a livello globale. In altre parole, l’Italia insiste che un’oscura cabala mediatica europea dovrebbe poter dettare cosa è e non è consentito online.
Questo, ovviamente, è SCHIFOSO e persino prima della multa di ieri avevamo diverse sfide legali in corso contro lo schema sottostante. Noi, ovviamente, combatteremo ora la multa ingiusta. Non solo perché è sbagliata per noi, ma perché è sbagliata per i valori democratici.
Inoltre, stiamo considerando le seguenti azioni:
1. interrompere i milioni di dollari in servizi di cybersecurity pro bono che stiamo fornendo alle imminenti Olimpiadi di Milano-Cortina;
2. interrompere i servizi di cybersecurity gratuiti di Cloudflare per qualsiasi utente con sede in Italia;
3. rimuovere tutti i server dalle città italiane;
4. e terminare tutti i piani per costruire un ufficio Cloudflare in Italia o effettuare qualsiasi investimento nel paese.
Gioca a giochi stupidi, vinci premi stupidi. Anche se ci sono cose che gestirei diversamente dall’attuale amministrazione statunitense, apprezzo JDVance per aver assunto un ruolo di leadership nel riconoscere che questo tipo di regolamentazione è una questione fondamentale di commercio sleale che minaccia anche i valori democratici. E in questo caso ElonMusk ha ragione: #FreeSpeech è critico e sotto attacco da parte di una cabala fuori tocco di policymaker europei molto disturbati.
Sarò a DC all’inizio della prossima settimana per discutere di questo con i funzionari dell’amministrazione statunitense e incontrerò il CIO a Losanna poco dopo per delineare il rischio per i Giochi Olimpici se #Cloudflare ritira la nostra protezione di cybersecurity.
Nel frattempo, rimaniamo felici di discutere di questo con i funzionari del governo italiano che, finora, si sono rifiutati di impegnarsi oltre l’emissione di multe. Crediamo che l’Italia, come tutti i paesi, abbia il diritto di regolamentare il contenuto sulle reti all’interno dei suoi confini. Ma devono farlo seguendo lo Stato di Diritto e i principi del Processo Equo. E l’Italia certamente non ha il diritto di regolamentare cosa è e non è consentito su Internet negli Stati Uniti, nel Regno Unito, in Canada, in Cina, in Brasile, in India o ovunque al di fuori dei suoi confini.
QUESTA È UNA BATTAGLIA IMPORTANTE E VINCEREMO!!!
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un altro esempio di quanto sia folle tutto questo: l'ordinanza che ci multa nota che Cloudflare ha avuto poco meno di 8 milioni di dollari di fatturato in Italia nel 2024. Ma il piano consente "fino al 2% del RICAVI GLOBALI" per danni. L'utilizzo dei ricavi globali è un ulteriore esempio di eccesso extragiudiziale. #assurdo
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l’Italia certamente non ha il diritto di regolamentare cosa è e non è consentito su Internet negli Stati Uniti, nel Regno Unito, in Canada, in Cina, in Brasile, in India o ovunque al di fuori dei suoi confini.
Pienamente d'accordo. Sarebbe da applicare anche al DMCA
Il Power Ranger Rosa che ha buttato giù il “Tinder dei nazisti”: i dati sono potere
Al Chaos Communication Congress di Amburgo, un’hacker tedesca che si fa chiamare Martha Root si è presentata vestita da Power Ranger Rosa e ha cancellato in diretta tre siti suprematisti bianchi, tra cui WhiteDate, noto come “il Tinder dei suprematisti”
Al Chaos Communication Congress di Amburgo, un’hacker tedesca che si fa chiamare Martha Root si è presentata vestita da Power Ranger Rosa e ha cancellato in diretta tre siti suprematisti bianchi, tra cui WhiteDate, noto come “il Tinder dei suprematisti”.
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Fichissimo, applausi. Eppure serve farsi delle domande.
Martha era dentro da mesi. Aveva messo in piedi profili fasulli di donne ariane gestiti da chatbot e racconta che quegli uomini si erano innamorati. Mentre gli utenti flirtavano con l’intelligenza artificiale, lei raccoglieva dati e informazioni, trasformando un ambiente pensato per far incontrare persone in un dispositivo che espone identità e reti. Dalle sue analisi è emerso che la piattaforma era gestita da una persona con legami con ambienti suprematisti bianchi. WhiteDate veniva venduto come sito di appuntamenti, ma gli utenti erano quasi tutti uomini: il punto non pare la ricerca di partner, ma la costruzione di un network suprematista travestito da Tinder per ariani.
I membri della cosiddetta razza superiore si sono fatti fregare lasciando il sito senza protezioni adeguate. Un’infrastruttura che classifica, aggrega e rende operativi dati sensibili produce una forma di soft power che, se progettata male, si ribalta in una falla boomerang. Il Power Ranger Rosa non si è fermata alla distruzione: ha reso consultabili su okstupid.lol informazioni filtrate, mentre il dataset completo è stato condiviso attraverso canali dedicati a giornalisti e ricercatori. Esporre quei dati significa raccontare le persone: chi c’è dentro, come si descrive, come si colloca nello spazio, cosa cerca, a quale oggetto storico dichiara appartenenza.
WhiteDate stava in una galassia di siti tematici: WhiteDate (dating), WhiteChild (famiglia, ancestry e donazioni di sperma/uova per suprematisti bianchi) e WhiteDeal (networking professionale per razzisti).
Ed è interessante, non per i nazisti e basta. Perché quello che Martha Root ha mostrato non è che “la sicurezza faceva schifo” e stop, ma che un’infrastruttura di matching è, di fatto, una macchina che rende operativi dati sensibili: identità, preferenze, reti, geografia, appartenenze. E quando quella macchina si rompe, il potere che di solito esercita in silenzio diventa visibile.
Il punto è che non servono confessioni esplicite. Bastano i data proxy: segnali indiretti che, incrociati, ti profilano. Se mangio kosher “divento” ebreo nei modelli; se segno tutte le moschee “divento” musulmano; se posto “Black Lives Matter” finisco letto in modo diverso anche da sistemi assicurativi. È profilazione per deduzione: il dato sensibile non lo dichiari, lo lasci emergere dai contorni.
Per questo le policy non sono una cintura di sicurezza: cambiano, si reinterpretano, si aggirano. Il design invece è la decisione politica incorporata nell’architettura: cosa si collega, cosa si correla, cosa si esporta. Se una correlazione è tecnicamente possibile, prima o poi qualcuno la farà. È lo stesso motivo per cui, quando guardo infrastrutture pubbliche, mi interessa l’architettura politica oltre a quella tecnica: lo SPID nasceva con un’idea più decentralizzata proprio per evitare correlazioni tra Stato, portali e autenticazioni. Poi si è cambiata impostazione.
E la parte più inquietante è che non serve nemmeno un WhiteDate. Noi ci autoprofiliamo ogni giorno: i social sono un flusso continuo di segnali, e i metadati in foto e video sono boe, a volte coordinate vicino casa, con ricadute anche su chi vive con noi. Zuboff lo chiama capitalismo della sorveglianza: una raccolta diffusa in cui non sai quante aziende ti prendono, come ti incrociano e in quali liste finisci. Okstupid.lol è la versione “con la luce accesa”: lo stesso principio reso pubblico. Di norma le liste sono invisibili: non meno reali, meno consultabili.
okstupid.lol è spettacolare. Ma il suo spettacolo è una dimostrazione tecnica di quanto sia facile classificare e aggregare quando l’infrastruttura lo permette. E questa facilità, storicamente, non resta neutra. In Ruanda nel 1994 lo sterminio dei Tutsi fu facilitato anche da carte d’identità che classificavano le persone in base all’etnia. Negli anni Quaranta, dati del censimento vennero usati per localizzare e supportare misure di sorveglianza e internamento di persone di ascendenza giapponese dopo Pearl Harbor.
La tecnologia è un apparato amministrativo e informazionale piegato agli scopi di chi la possiede e del contesto politico. E il contesto politico cambia più velocemente delle policy. Per quanto apprezzi Martha Root, non la leggo come uno show: è un promemoria. Il potere dominante queste capacità le ha già, senza Power Ranger, senza exploit, con procedure, contratti standard e con quella cosa che mi piace tanto ma che in certi casi è un problema: l’interoperabilità.
Per approfondire
- okstupid.lol – whitedate, leaked
- Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
- Woman Hacks “Tinder for Nazis,” Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots
- Hacktivist Deletes White Supremacist Websites At Conference
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Hacktivist Deletes White Supremacist Websites at Conference
A hacktivist exposed and deleted three white supremacist websites during a presentation at a conference last week.Paul Shread (The Cyber Express)
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All'interno dello strumento dell'ICE per monitorare i telefoni in interi quartieri
404 Media ha ottenuto materiale che spiega il funzionamento di Tangles e Webloc, due sistemi di sorveglianza recentemente acquistati dall'ICE. Webloc può tracciare i telefoni senza mandato e seguire i proprietari fino a casa o al loro datore di lavoro.
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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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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.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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Datenzugang für Nutzer:innen und Forschung: „Wir haben das Recht auf unserer Seite“
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ICYMI: Updates from the 1/4 Meeting
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Ohio – The Ohio Pirate Party was unanimously voted in as the ninth Pirate National Committee member state! Congratulations to the Ohio Pirate Party!
Young Pirates USA – Bylaws for our Young Pirates USA organization was approved during last night’s meeting. Co-Captains Lily and Jack were both in attendance for the approval of the bylaws.
Other News – Arizona and Illinois hosted their first in-person meeting for the year, with more meetings for state parties and their local affiliates to come this month. More candidates for the U.S. Pirate Party are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
Just a reminder that our 2026 Pirate National Conference will take place June 6th, 2026, which will mark 20 years of the United States Pirate Party. The conference will take place in Boston, MA, as decided by our members. The next piece of business to be voted on by the Pirate Party supporters shall be in regards to the theme and/or tagline of the conference.
Remember: we will host the conference aboard a boat!
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Open science e research security: trovare il giusto equilibrio
"Sembra tramontata la stagione dell'"Open Science". Ora si moltiplicano le politiche di research security: basta condivisione, autonomia tecnologica, protezione dei sistemi...ROARS
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Lego lancia gli Smart Bricks: la fantasia diventa digitale
C’è una mano che assembla un mattone luminoso su una base di colori pastello. L’immagine è suggestiva, pulita, futura. E racchiude la rivoluzione – o forse, a sentire alcuni, la piccola apostasia –…Spcnet.it
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Tre riforme in cantiere, che rafforzeranno il controllo del #governo su #università e #ricerca. Il nostro comunicato dell'epifania spiega in che cosa consistono questi tre doni, e perché rappresentano anche un'epifania del carattere autoritario della valutazione di stato a cui la ricerca italiana è da lustri sottomessa:aisa.sp.unipi.it/anvur-recluta…
ANDU, FLC-CGIL, Roars, nonché la Rete delle Società Scientifiche, hanno espresso allarme o almeno preoccupazione per i doni che lo stato si appresta a regalare alla ricerca italiana. Questi doni, che rafforzeranno i poteri, già non poco oppressivi, del ministero dell’università e della ricerca, dell’Anvur che gli è sottomesso e delle gerarchie accademiche locali, consistono:
- in una riforma del reclutamento, già approvata in senato, che rende i concorsi interamente locali, ma sotto il controllo dell’Anvur sia in ingresso sia in uscita;
- in una riforma dell’Anvur, per via regolamentare e non legislativa, volta ad accentuarne ulteriormente la subordinazione al ministero;
- in una riforma dell’amministrazione delle università, per via legislativa, che accentuerebbe il dispotismo locale dei rettori e la loro sudditanza al governo nazionale.
La scienza italiana, che nell’età moderna si fondò e perseguì la libertà dell’uso pubblico della ragione e l’emancipazione dal segreto, si trova ora a misurarsi con tre poteri che hanno solo accidentalmente a che vedere con la ricerca della verità: quello, locale, di colleghi e rettori, quello, centralizzato, dell’agenzia sedicente indipendente per la valutazione di stato, la quale attribuisce la quota cosiddetta “premiale” del finanziamento ordinario, e quello del governo a cui essa stessa è sottoposta fin dalla sua istituzione.
Promuovendo la scienza aperta come scienza libera e non come costoso adempimento burocratico, abbiamo sostenuto che la valutazione amministrativa della ricerca, in Italia centralizzata in forma di valutazione di stato, è intrinsecamente dispotica e retrograda: dispotica perché sostituisce alla libera discussione entro le comunità scientifiche una statuizione di un’autorità esterna e non scientifica, in quanto derivante da una gerarchia amministrativa; retrograda perché impone indicatori costruiti sul passato che disconoscono non solo la riflessività dell’azione sociale,1 ma anche la natura aperta della ricerca.
A questo dispositivo, che Mario Ricciardi descrisse precocemente come un “apparato burocratico di tipo sovietico”, i professori italiani si sono – sostanzialmente – piegati. Fra gli effetti della sottomissione c’è stato il blocco di un’evoluzione verso una scienza aperta nel senso di libera da oligopoli editoriali privati e liste di riviste “scientifiche” ed “eccellenti” di composizione amministrativa. Accettarla, ai più, è parsa una scelta prudente: si tratta però di capire se è stata anche una scelta sapiente.
1. La metamorfosi del “cretino locale”
Pietro Rossi, in un fortunato articolo, criticò i concorsi introdotti nel 1998, in cogestione fra “facoltà e corporazione disciplinare”. Secondo Rossi, in un sistema in cui la sede che fa il favore di bandire una valutazione comparativa può barattare la vittoria del proprio candidato interno con le idoneità di candidati esterni supplementari che trovano cattedra a casa loro, l’ascesa del “cretino locale”, entro comunità di disciplina sempre più frammentate e chiuse, non può che essere irresistibile.Il disegno di legge approvato in senato abolisce l’Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale a favore di concorsi esclusivamente locali con vincitori unici, accessibili tramite un’autocertificazione della soddisfazione di criteri stabiliti con decreto ministeriale su proposta dell’Anvur, sentito il CUN, i quali comprenderanno “indicatori minimi di quantità, continuità e distribuzione temporale dei prodotti della ricerca”. I commissari dovranno godere dei medesimi requisiti. Dopo tre anni i vincitori verranno valutati dall’Anvur, con eventuali conseguenze sanzionatorie in termini di finanziamento istituzionale.
Si tornerà dunque al “cretino locale”, o, come scrive più gentilmente Roberta Calvano, a un sistema in cui “il nepotismo e gli abusi sono stati per anni alla radice di un diffuso malcostume accademico”? No: in virtù dell’Anvur e del ministero, questa volta il “cretino”, selezionato tramite valutazione amministrativa in ingresso e in uscita e giudicato da commissari simili a lui, sarà probabilmente bibliometrico, sicuramente governativo, e giocoforza sottomesso ai colleghi disposti a usare il loro potere di ricatto – qualità, queste, che con la scienza libera hanno ben poco a che vedere.
2. L’autoaffermazione dell’università italiana
“Noi vogliamo noi stessi” proclamava un rettore a Friburgo, perorando l’autoaffermazione dell’università. Correva l’anno 1933: Martin Heidegger diceva “noi”, ma era entrato in carica su pressione del governo nazista, dopo che il suo predecessore, riluttante a licenziare gli ebrei, era stato indotto alle dimissioni. Tra poco, forse, anche i rettori italiani, pur più sottilmente e con qualche sbavatura normativa, potranno dire “noi” al modo di Heidegger:
- la composizione, legalmente determinata, del consiglio di amministrazione consentirà loro di contare su una maggioranza certa purché ubbidiscano al governo. Eliminato il rappresentante del personale tecnico-amministrativo, degli 11 membri del consiglio uno sarà il rettore stesso, quattro saranno nominati direttamente da lui (due docenti e due componenti esterni); a questi si aggiungerà uno studente eletto, come residuo vestigiale di democrazia, due docenti indicati dal senato, il candidato rettore soccombente e un membro nominato dal governo. Al rettore basterà restare agli ordini di quest’ultimo – esercizio che, probabilmente, non gli sarà difficile – per avere una maggioranza garantita;2
- il mandato del rettore sarà prolungato da sei a otto anni, con un eventuale plebiscito di conferma dopo quattro anni, qualora proposto dai 3/5 del senato accademico. A proposito del mandato, dall’ipotetico testo di riforma cadono le parole “non rinnovabile”;
- nella programmazione triennale il rettore dovrà tener conto anche di “linee generali di indirizzo stabilite dal Ministro”.
I rettori preferiranno continuare a regnare all’inferno o proveranno a servire in paradiso? Non si sa: ma certamente con “rettori che agiscono sotto l’occhiuta vigilanza del ministro e da cui dipenderanno a catena tutte le cariche interne agli atenei (i cui mandati vengono allineati alla durata di quello dei rettori)” l’esercizio della libertà della ricerca, sia in senso negativo sia in senso positivo, sarà ancor più difficile, e rischioso.
3. L’epifania dell’Anvur
Come ha osservato Roberto Caso, l’Anvur, istituita nel 2006 sotto il governo Prodi II, è nata così dipendente da aver ricevuto critiche perfino da una sostenitrice della valutazione amministrativa come Fiorella Kostoris. Il regolamento di riforma – che viola, secondo il Consiglio di Stato, la gerarchia delle fonti3 – renderebbe più intenso un controllo del governo sulla ricerca già in atto, al quale i più, a dispetto del primo comma dell’articolo 33 della costituzione italiana, hanno ritenuto opportuno sottomettersi.
- L’Anvur sarà ancor più ministeriale e dipendente: rispetto al regime attuale, il presidente dell’Anvur diverrebbe di nomina ministeriale diretta, così come i comitati di selezione delle rose dei candidati fra i quali il ministro sceglierà i quattro membri del consiglio direttivo, non più costituiti su indicazione di enti esterni.
- L’Anvur diverrà la valutatrice generale di stato: l’agenzia, che attualmente valuta solo università ed enti di ricerca vigilati dal MUR (quali CNR, INAF, INDIRE, INFN, INGV, INVALSI), allungherà il suo occhio agli altri enti di ricerca pubblici (ASI, CREA, ENEA, ISPRA, ISS, ISTAT) in base ad accordi con i ministeri vigilanti, alle Accademie e all’Alta Formazione Artistica e Musicale (AFAM) a enti privati ma finanziati pubblicamente (IIT di Genova, HT di Milano e Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Siena) e simili, nonché, per chi mai volesse richiederlo, in ambito internazionale. E non si occuperà solo di arte, musica e ricerca bensì anche delle cosiddette “competenze trasversali e disciplinari” acquisite dagli studenti e degli “sbocchi occupazionali dei laureati”. Tutto ciò, chiarisce la relazione di accompagnamento, nel “rispetto dell’indirizzo politico dato dal Ministero dell’università e della ricerca, quale Ministero vigilante”.
Il modello dell’università-azienda – si è detto – è neoliberale; quello nei disegni del governo è autoritario. Qui però il “liberale” che segue al “neo-” non ha nulla a che vedere con Benedetto Croce: l’azienda è una struttura non democratica, bensì autoritaria e chi la impone come modello sostiene un’ideologia altrettanto autoritaria, se non totalitaria. In questo senso, il disegno di “riforma” dell’Anvur non è una metamorfosi, bensì un’epifania.
Non esiste una valutazione amministrativa buona o cattiva, così come non esiste un dispotismo cattivo o buono a seconda che sul trono sieda Commodo oppure Marco Aurelio. Se si accetta che la valutazione della ricerca non sia scientifica – e parte della ricerca stessa – bensì amministrativa e a essa esterna, si accetta anche che chi amministra ne fissi e ne muti i criteri e abbia titolo a controllare i suoi eventuali agenti in modo più o meno stretto. Il vizio della valutazione di stato non sta nel modo in cui valuta, come suggerito elusivamente dell’Unione Europea, ma nel fatto che Caesar sia supra grammaticos, non importa se come Marco Aurelio o come Commodo. Non è, questa, un’idea radicale, né sul piano della storia, né su quello della cronaca: lo scorso aprile, in Francia, l’assemblea nazionale ha votato a favore dell’abolizione dell’agenzia di valutazione di stato HCERES.
In questa prospettiva non ha senso limitarsi a chiedere un guinzaglio appena un po’ più lungo, o a sollevare il problema dei finanziamenti alla ricerca senza toccare quello della sua libertà, vale a dire della possibilità stessa di fare scienza – libertà, questa, che non si promuove difendendo l’Anvur attuale4 come se fosse indipendente, bensì considerandone l’abolizione.
Contro il disegno di intensificare il controllo politico di “un’università più piccola, gerarchica e precaria”, FLC-CGIL5 si è appellata alle “forze libere e pensanti dell’accademia e della comunità universitaria”. In effetti, se, dopo lustri di valutazione di stato, esistessero ancora “forze libere e pensanti”, non sarebbe loro difficile promuovere una campagna di ubbidienza civile alla costituzione, a partire dagli articoli 21 e 33. In un momento in cui dovremmo invece parlare, davanti agli stati armati per la guerra, delle condizioni della pace pubblica, continuare a compilare moduli e a supplicare favori ministeriali ci salverà, forse, come impiegati, ma certamente non come studiosi.
- Questa riflessività è nota a chi si occupa di valutazione come legge di Goodhart: i soggetti valutati non si limitano a farsi valutare, ma adeguano riflessivamente le loro prestazioni al criterio di valutazione. Così chi viene premiato per il numero di pubblicazioni inflazionerà i testi, mentre chi viene premiato per le citazioni scriverà solo per farsi citare. Le conseguenze sono tristemente note. ↩︎
- Per un aggiornamento sugli orientamenti ministeriali si veda però quanto riferito dall’ANDU qui. [nota aggiunta il 7/01/2026]↩︎
- Il Consiglio di Stato, nel parere formulato nell’adunanza del 23 settembre 2025, ha ricordato che, proprio in virtù della gerarchia delle fonti del diritto, un regolamento, perfino se riguarda la valutazione di stato, non può cambiare la legge che l’ha istituita. ↩︎
- L’agenzia, peraltro, si è mostrata incapace di onorare gli impegni di riforma della valutazione che aveva sottoscritto aderendo alla coalizione europea COARA. ↩︎
- ANVUR: un’Agenzia che diventa governativa, con l’intenzione di valutare e quindi disciplinare anche saperi e conoscenze (2025) merita di essere letto per la sua analisi dettagliata della bozza di DPR qui solo sommariamente esposta. ↩︎
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- The post’s content. aisa.sp.unipi.it/anvur-recluta…‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point
Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the icebergRobin McKie (The Guardian)
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Questo è un problema serio anche per le #università che, dopo solenni dichiarazioni di principio, rimangono clienti e collaboratrici di #GAFAM poliversity.it/@macfranc/11584…
I datacenter gestiti dal software USA sono a tutti gli effetti una base militare di Washington
La nostra dipendenza dalla tecnologia statunitense è da tempo un problema, un problema che molti potenti non volevano affrontare per paura che avrebbe irritato gli Stati Uniti. Anche la sola proposta di normative tecnologiche di base ha suscitato critiche da parte del governo statunitense e ha messo a repentaglio la prospettiva di investimenti da parte di quei colonizzatori digitali. Ma questa dipendenza ci ha lasciato senza gli strumenti per gestire le principali vie di comunicazione e commercio.policyalternatives.ca/news-res…
Grazie a @vecna@sociale.network @vecna@retro.pizza per la segnalazione
Every data centre is a U.S. military base | CCPA
Understanding how the United States uses its tech companies to serve empireParis Marx (CCPA)
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Consortium GARR - LA RETE ITALIANA DELL'ISTRUZIONE E DELLA RICERCA
GARR è la rete nazionale ad altissima capacità dedicata alla comunità dell’istruzione, della ricerca e della cultura.GARR
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Great update: MedMastodon is back online and its users should be able to access their data.
Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.
Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!
mastodonapp.uk/users/wild1145/…
Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.
Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!
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one of the Fediverse homes for medical professionals since 2022.
blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2026/01…
All medical professionals and curious onlookers are welcome. Be kind and respectful: these are your colleagues. No PHI or hate-speech. Debate is good, blatant misinformation is not.
#tech
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@informatica
Password manager self-hosting: sostituiamo i grandi classici come Bitwarden?
Negli ultimi anni i gestori di password sono diventati indispensabili. L’idea di usare la stessa password per ogni servizio, magari con una variante minuscola o un numero in più, dovrebbe appartene…Spcnet.it
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Certo, questo approccio ha un limite: se non puoi installare Tailscale su un dispositivo, quel dispositivo rimane fuori dalla rete. È il caso, tipicamente, dei computer aziendali bloccati.
Questa affermazione è falsa. Esistono soluzioni, incluse offerte nativamente da tailscale, che permettono a dispositivi non in rete di connettersi a servizi hostati via vpn, a patto che ci sia almeno un server che faccia da gateway connesso in rete.
Magari non è intuitivo e richiede un po' di tempo, ma è fattibile.
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Join this webinar on 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 to explore an alternative to current grant competitions, and precarious labour.
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#ContinuityFunding #Research #Innovation #Webinar
📢 Is this the winter of our discontent? [S2025-E09]
On the digital battleground, one side is surveillance and control. The other: freedom and community. Dyne.org is on the front lines.Dyne.org (News From Dyne)
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Unfortunately, the popular MedMastodon server, dedicated to doctors and medicine, unexpectedly shut down at the end of 2025.
Great update: MedMastodon is back online and its users should be able to access their data.
The speed with which it happened prevented users from accessing their data, highlighting the risks of decentralized social media without backups. Its administrator ceased operations, causing confusion and data loss for many healthcare professionals who had signed up as an alternative to Twitter.
This event serves as a reminder: Wherever you are on Mastodon, back up your data!
WARNING: To help Med-mastodon users who have returned to the Fediverse, the Poliverso staff has created the Friendica group @MedMastodon
If you follow this group, you can:
1. Follow it and mention it in your messages, and it will reshare all your public posts addressed to it (this only applies to an initial message, not a reply to another message).
2. Follow it only to read all the messages from fellow doctors who send messages through it.
Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.
Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!
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Wherever you are on Mastodon, back up your data!
Dear lazyweb (or lazystodon or lazyverse), are there dead simple scripts for periodic backup? You know, something you just authorise to act as a client and then stick into a crontab to run daily/weekly and it'll keep a local copy of your stuff. Preferably something you can just install via pip or gem or (oh please gods no) npm.
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⚠️Comunicazione di servizio: abbiamo sospeso l'istanza med-mastodon! Allarme rientrato
NB: due ore fa grazie a un'eccezionale intervento med-mastodon è tornata on line: quando aveva cessato di esistere e l'avevamo bloccata per evitare impersonificazioni. Ora è di nuovo sbloccata
Purtroppo il popolare server #MedMastodon dedicato ai medici e alla medicina, ha chiuso inaspettatamente alla fine del 2025, impedendo agli utenti di accedere ai propri dati ed evidenziando i rischi dei social media decentralizzati senza backup, poiché il suo amministratore ha cessato le operazioni, causando confusione e perdita di dati per molti professionisti sanitari che si erano iscritti come alternativa a Twitter.
Questo evento serva come monito:
su qualsiasi istanza di Mastodon vi troviate, salvate i vostri dati!
ATTENZIONE!
Per aiutare gli utenti di Med-mastodon che sono tornati nel Fediverso, abbiamo reato il gruppo Friendica @medmastodon
Se seguirete questo gruppo potrete:
- Seguirlo e menzionarlo nei vostri messaggi ed esso ricondividerà tutti i vostri post pubblici indirizzati a lui (vale solo per un messaggio iniziale e non per una risposta a un altro messaggio)
- Seguirlo soltanto per leggere tutti i messaggi dei colleghi medici che manderanno messaggi tramite esso
Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.
Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!
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#CyberSecurity
insicurezzadigitale.com/il-bui…
Il buio digitale di Caracas: cyber operazioni e resistenza anonima nella crisi venezuelana - (in)sicurezza digitale
Mentre i titoli dei giornali di tutto il mondo raccontano del blitz militare statunitense in Venezuela e della cattura del presidente Nicolás Maduro,Dario Fadda (inSicurezzaDigitale.com)
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#CyberSecurity
insicurezzadigitale.com/oltre-…
Oltre il ransomware: Handala e l’evoluzione dell’attacco come messaggio - (in)sicurezza digitale
Negli attacchi rivendicati dal collettivo Handala tra la fine del 2025 e l’inizio del 2026, il dato non è più soltanto l’obiettivo finale dell’intrusione,Dario Fadda (inSicurezzaDigitale.com)
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No War with, No Occupation of Venezuela
January 3rd – In the middle of the night, while most U.S. citizens were sleeping and unable to be outraged, the United States invaded Venezuela and claims now to have captured Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela.
After promising peace, the Epstein files & fear mongering that their political opponents will start wars, they have taken upon themselves to invade Venezuela in the middle of the night without Congress’s permission, putting American lives on the line for oil & to distract you from the files.
This is what this administration thinks of you.
We have it in our platform explicitly that the U.S. must be a good neighbor and how we need to shift the dynamic in the New World from “a paradigm of United States dominance to genuine collaboration and friendship is essential. A more united American Continent will help each country become stronger and create a stronger bond between every American, from Greenland to Patagonia.”
Pan-American is essential to the Pirate foreign policy objectives. Our platform says we must “advocate for ending the Cuban embargo and lifting sanctions on Nicaragua and Venezuela.”
Not starting a new war with them.
Even if the administration sought permission to carry out such attacks, we (the United States) can not and should not be attacking our neighbor. This is ultimately another “blood-for-oil” scheme that will lead to countless deaths, billions spent and hard feelings developed by neighbors who already had a hard time trusting us.
For any U.S. citizen that is thinking “Oh but they were sending drugs into the United States, something something nacroterrorists”, I counter with this: Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the convicted drug trafficking former President of Honduras.
This has little to do with drugs and everything to do with oil and a distraction from the Epstein files. This has to do with a government unfriendly to U.S. hegemony that the U.S. has tried like hell for years to be rid of, only to lead to this, the most brazen and obvious attempt.
The United States Pirate Party condemns these actions. Secretary Hegseth said Maduro “fucked around and found out”, but empires fall. When we no longer hold dominance over the New World, a fact which most certainly will one day come, our neighbors will remember how we treated them as the most powerful nation in the world. This is just one of many things I believe the United States, not Maduro, will have fucked around and for which they will find out. Not via immediate retaliation, not via the refugee crisis this will certainly exacerbate, but through the lingering memories of the world and especially our neighbors, we will find out.
No war with Venezuela. Ending war is possible.
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To: The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the International Community As architects, operators, and stewards of the global Internet infrastructure, we define the Internet not merely as a network of cables and routers, but as a foundational in
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