Francesco 🍁 @fra@qoto.org

Don't forget to change your DNA after this breach. https://www.rawstory.com/millions-of-dna-tests-leaked-after-hackers-breach-company-s-forgotten-database/

Su Rai3 Marco Damilano ha intervistato ieri per "Il cavallo e la torre" l'attivista iraniana Masih Alinejad. Tra le voci più note di opposizione al regime, costretta all'esilio negli Usa e oggetto anche recentemente di tentativi di assassinio. 👇
https://www.rainews.it/articoli/2023/02/canada-segnalate-751-tombe-vicino-a-scuola-residenziale--925ae246-3b27-45bb-8c28-6b9b753aea63.html
L'esule iraniana questi giorni è in Italia e partecipa alle audizioni in Parlamento. Ha raccontato la sua storia nel libro "Il vento fra i capelli", edito dal nostro progetto editoriale Nessun Dogma. 👇https://nessundogma.it/libro/il-vento-fra-i-capelli/

Russia must be held accountable in court for the brutal destruction it is causing.

On the European Day for Victims Against Crime, we reaffirm our support for investigating Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine.

Together with the International Criminal Court, Ukraine and EU countries, the EU is collecting evidence and we support setting up an international centre to coordinate the investigations.

Justice must be done.

#StandWithUkraine

«Io credo che la casa di Berlusconi non sia mai stata bombardata, nessuno ha ammazzato i suoi parenti» https://www.ilpost.it/2023/02/21/zelensky-critica-berlusconi/

World: Can the US please just use the metric system, instead of making up weird measurements no one else understands

US:

Beatles fan finds original images from the 'Sgt. Pepper' cover
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/beatles-fan-original-images-sgt-pepper-cover/

🎉 New article out on #music making around a #DigitalTabletop!

🔖 Sketching music together: Mixed groups exploring melodic similarity and contrast using a digital tabletop

✍️ Me (Andrea Franceschini), Robin Laney, and the late Chris Dobbyn

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte_00040_1

#AcademicMastodon #Education #Melody #TUI #Tangible #UserInterface #Research #Collaboration #Learning #MusicMaking #Academia #Similarity #Contrast #TouchScreen #Tabletop #Games #EduGames

Stefano Bonaccini ed Elly Schlein sono i due candidati alla segreteria del PD https://www.ilpost.it/2023/02/20/bonaccini-schlein-candidati-segreteria-partito-democratico/

shout out to whoever designed the "non-fiction" icon in Apple Books

Mentre in UE l'identità digitale è tra i temi nodali, l'Italia sta facendo morire #SPID, la conquista più importante per la nostra cittadinanza digitale.
Perché da noi l'unica #eutanasialegale è quella sui nostri diritti...
Di Luca #Zorloni su #wireditalia
https://www.wired.it/article/spid-convenzione-scaduta-2022-governo-cie/

We are taking high-speed internet to the space 🚀

This week, the European Parliament adopted our proposal to deploy IRIS² – the new EU satellite constellation.

It will bring connectivity to all of Europe, including rural areas.

Along with the Galileo and Copernicus space programmes, IRIS² will create a sovereign and secure communication service for our Union and its partners.

The private and public sectors will join forces to make it fully operational by 2027.

➡️ https://europa.eu/!q8chMc

Over on the birdsite, some people have been discovering geometric packing problems, about how small of a bounding shape you can draw around some number of a smaller shape.

(Sometimes the solutions are really beautiful, you see. And sometimes, um. See attached.)

I'd been unable to find this page I remembered about these. Turns out the professor who maintained it retired, so the old links to it broke. But it does still exist! So you too can experience the rollercoaster of https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/index.html

The results of the independent inquiry into the "truckers" "freedom" convoy from last year were revealed today.

The "Freedom" Convoy was a violent and unlawful occupation, boosted by Russia and Fox News.

#cdnpoli #FreedomConvoy #Propaganda

Il decreto-legge che accentra la gestione del PNRR https://www.ilpost.it/2023/02/17/pnrr-governo-meloni/

Il governo ha bloccato i crediti del superbonus https://www.ilpost.it/2023/02/17/blocco-crediti-superbonus/

Pensa e scegli in grande (e da grande): insieme per un paese più laico e civile.
Iscriviti all’Uaar per il 2023, puoi farlo a partire dai 14 anni: perché per noi sono importanti le scelte libere e consapevoli.
Puoi farlo anche con soli 10 euro, per avere rivista e tessera in formato digitale.
Più saremo, più avremo forza e capacità di incidere! 👇
https://www.uaar.it/adesione/

The most ridiculous thing about the Twitter engineers being blackmailed by their egomaniac slave-owner into over-boosting his posts because Biden was organically getting more engagement is that there's still people using that platform.

#RIPTwitter #TwitterMigration #GetOutNow

Up for Donating Books? try the @internetarchive new app to find out which ones will help fill out the collections (if you go through this, we can sometimes cover postage)

Randomly scanning your or friend's books to see if the Internet Archive already has it... Again, try the app. (I find it fun, but it might just be me)

Search for "donate books" in the apple or google app stores.

You know who DOESN’T get to decide if the concept of “15-Minute Cities,” which supports MORE CHOICE, LESS CAR DEPENDENCY, and LOWER PUBLIC COSTS & CONSEQUENCES, is good public policy?

The same extreme alt-right conspiracy theorists and cynical political opportunists who brought us truck occupations in Canadian neighbourhoods, the January 6th Insurrection, & Brexit.

I won’t let their unhinged lies work. You shouldn’t either.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7g898/walkable-15-minute-cities-con

There are two trends in government over the past 30 years that have collided to cause a never-ending series of high-profile failures:

1. Outsourcing anything technology-related, regarding tech as outside of government’s core competencies (or even government’s proper role).
2. Relying on technology to accomplish nearly all agency goals and intermediating interactions with the public through software.

Can you identify the problem here?