Dockers in the Italian port of Genoa, who sparked massive pro-Palestinian protests in Italy last week with calls to block shipments of goods to Israel, have adopted the Global Sumud Flotilla and were joined by dockworkers from all over Europe. www.politico.eu/article/docw...

When you consider the ecocide alongside the genocide, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

With LA facing so many pressing environmental and political problems, some southern California residents are publicly questioning whether investing massive resources in the summer 2028 Olympics makes sense. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

"Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words" #mediafreedom www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, urges Israel and all countries to fulfil their obligations under international law “to end the genocide” and punish those responsible news.un.org/en/story/202...

The combined effect of tariffs and tax increases on the top 10% of households, those who on average are making $518,000 per year, will net out to an income boost of about $8,200, or 1.6%. Every other income bracket will be worse off due to #tariffs. #obbbact edition.cnn.com/2025/09/15/p...

"Efficient, smart, environmentally friendly? AI is often hailed as a solution to the major challenges of our time, including the fight against climate change. But behind this shining vision of the future lies a blind spot..." www.hiig.de/en/making-ai...

Maximum reduction that carbon capture and storage could manage would be 0.7C, far short of the 5C to 6C industry and governments claim. The conclusion: there is no alternative to halting the production of carbon dioxide in the first place. #CCS www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

"AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Informed citizens are essential to keep those in power accountable. We need to do more to protect our media and independent press #SOTEU2025 #mediafreedom

Right-wing wants to weaken CO2 targets for cars to please auto lobby. Wrong signal! "Saving our car industry means investing in zero-emission vehicles. Softening targets rewards laggards and punishes those who invested in the future," I tell @euronews.com 🧵1/4 www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

L'Italia rappresenta circa l'1% delle importazioni di armi di Israele e rimane il terzo fornitore di armi del Paese, in contrasto con la legge n. 185 del 9 luglio 1990, che vieta il trasferimento di armi a entità coinvolte in un conflitto armato. Ma ai bimbi palestinesi...

"Shell has axed the construction of its biofuels plant in the Netherlands, ending what would have been one of the biggest converters of waste into green jet fuel in Europe" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"It's the greatest heist in human history. All of our cultural, intellectual or economic knowledge being stolen by a small number of tech companies, most of them in Silicon Valley, without consent, without compensation. And it's not that they couldn't afford to do it" www.youtube.com/watch?v=b75z...

"History offers its warning: Absence becomes normal, silence becomes institutional. If this machine succeeds, it will not stop with immigrants. It will become the blueprint for domestic control and the silencing of millions."

"Our boats carry more than aid," says Global Sumud Flotilla. "They carry a message—the siege must end. The greater danger lies not in confronting Israel at sea, but in allowing genocide to continue with impunity."

"So far the ownership of AI-created content has remained largely untested before the courts. But that could soon change." #copyright www.ft.com/content/74b1...

Chiude il forum sessista? Ma neanche per sogno, è ancora tutto lì, ce lo spiega il DPO Christian Bernieri @garantepiracy.it garantepiracy.it/blog/phica-h...

Regulating the information space is not optional: it is a sine qua non for turning the narrow mercantile logic of a few into a genuine contribution towards human progress and common good. Europeans must stand together and proclaim loud & clear: Enough is enough! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Il mondo assiste ai crimini di Gaza senza reagire, ce ne vergogneremo”: Barbero sostiene la Global Sumud Flotilla

🇵🇸 Il 31/8 salpa da Barcellona e da un porto italiano la Global Sumud Flotilla, la più grande missione marittima civile verso Gaza. Decine di barche, attivisti da 44 paesi, un obiettivo: rompere l’assedio e portare aiuti umanitari. www.articolo21.org/2025/08/glob...

Less than 3 months before Brazil hosts Cop30 climate summit, Brazilian authorities suspend one of the key agreements for Amazon rainforest protection, the soy moratorium, potentially opening up an area the size of Portugal to destruction by agribusiness www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#Piantedosi: "Tolleranza zero per gli abusivi"? Quindi ci sarà presto anche lo sgombero di #CasaPound e il recupero dei 4,5 milioni spesi, giusto? milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025...

Israelis stage nationwide protests to demand end to Gaza war and release of hostages reut.rs/4mn90xf

"No AI product in history had been anticipated with as much hype as OpenAI's long-awaited GPT-5. But after launching with great fanfare last week, the shiny new model has landed with a thud..." futurism.com/gpt-5-disaster

"In all, it goes to show that there's very little private about a technology created by scraping everyone's data in the first place" futurism.com/leaked-chatg...

#FreedomToReport is supported by leading names from The Times, Channel 4, CNN, BBC, NRK, Sky News, The Guardian, El Mundo, CBS, ABC... What happens in Gaza will shape #pressfreedom's future. The world has a right to know. Journalism must not be silenced. Sign the petition! freedomtoreport.org

Poison flows into the public realm and the pump’s owners deny responsibility, resisting regulation for the same reason that polluters have done since the Industrial Revolution. Bc they can. Bc their business is more profitable when someone else cleans up the mess www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"We have a president who is fundamentally ignorant of the most basic and incontrovertible economic principles, as evidenced in his latest round of foolhardy tariffs (and in so many other ways)," writes Steven Rattner.

10M tons of plastic enter oceans yearly — and rising. By 2050, production may triple, microplastics already found in brain tissue and breast milk. Oil-producing nations now clash with the EU and others in Geneva over the future of plastic #BeatPlasticPollution

Italy's antitrust agency has fined the Chinese online fast-fashion platform Shein €1 million euro for misleading green claims, it announced today.

Nearly 9 out of 10 Israeli military investigations into allegations of war crimes or abuses by its soldiers since start of war in Gaza have been closed without finding fault or left without resolution, according to conflict monitor Action on Armed Violence www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“Science is the basis for climate regulation, so now they are trying to replace legitimate science with pseudoscience” #MAGA #disinformation #pseudoscience #climate www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

While world’s top GHGs emitters deny any legal responsibility beyond the Paris agreement on #climatechange, the ICJ just issued its ruling on States' legal obligations in relation to climate: “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a human right www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"History will judge not just those who committed these crimes, but those who stood by and watched. From inside Nasser hospital, I am telling you: this is deliberate. This is preventable. And this must stop now." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Scelta scellerata. Pura propaganda sovranista. Abbiamo pagato un prezzo altissimo per l'impreparazione e l'assenza di un piano pandemico e mettiamo di nuovo in gioco le vite dei cittadini, spacciandola per scelta nell'interesse nazionale e degli italiani www.ilsole24ore.com/art/l-italia...

In late summer 2025, a publicly developed open-source large language model #LLM will be released — co-created by researchers at EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre #CSCS ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

It's hard to imagine a worse situation than this. #EUClimateTarget

#Arera denuncia come la proroga ventennale concessa ai distributori di energia, prevista da legge di bilancio 2025, non sarà gratuita, come è stato finora, ma avrà un costo, che invece di rimanere in capo ai soggetti concessionari verrà scaricato sugli utenti www.federconsumatori.it/energia-no-a...

"We often have to charge an investigation fee to find out what has gone wrong, as they don't want to admit it (that they used #AI), and the process of correcting these mistakes takes much longer than if professionals had been consulted from the beginning" www.bbc.com/news/article...

The more users, the more feedback and, over time something stable emerges. Revenue and market share arrive much earlier. The motto: if you wait, you lose. Musk has taken that mindset to the road. The world is his lab. Everyone else is part of the experiment www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

EU Commission has proposed a 90% GHG emissions reduction by 2040... The figure is at the bottom of the 90-95% range that scientific advisers said was possible, and... includes a provision for max 3% of reductions to come from buying carbon credits overseas www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Laterza: "Siamo nell’anticamera della censura e della violazione di non so quanti articoli della Costituzione. (...) Riscrivere la storia e i manuali di storia è un vecchio sogno della destra" www.lastampa.it/torino/2025/...

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warns of "real danger" in agentic #AI... www.youtube.com/shorts/ASTdp...

"Technology is always a product of human choices (...) And if you give a small group of those people too much power to develop technologies that will affect billions of people's lives, inevitably that is structurally unsound" A must watch and listen www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enX...

Sarà disinformazione o misinformazione? In entrambi i casi è grave il fatto che l'autore della misinformazione o disinformazione sia il Vicepremier e Ministro degli affari esteri del Belpaese.

Wir gratulieren unserer neuen Bundessprecherin @lgewessler.bsky.social von ganzem, grünem Herzen! 💚 Mit 96,76 Prozent wurde sie von den Delegierten zum #buko25 soeben offiziell in diese Funktion gewählt. 👏

'Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of #Budapest in defiance of the Hungarian government’s ban on #Pride, heeding a call by the city’s mayor to “come calmly and boldly to stand together for freedom, dignity and equal rights”' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

La Procura della #CPI accusa il governo italiano di "non aver ottemperato ai suoi obblighi" sul caso #Almasri e di aver "impedito alla Corte di esercitare le sue funzioni", "la conclusione dell'Italia è giuridicamente e di fatto insostenibile" #ICC www.ansa.it/sito/notizie...