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Calea Victoriei a înregistrat cea mai mare valoare medie de noxe, 53 de micrograme pe metru cub

Calea Victoriei se află printre cele mai poluate artere din București. Potrivit Primăriei Capitalei, în zona Cercul Militar a fost măsurată o valoare medie de 53,5 µg/m³ de dioxid de azot (NO2), un gaz poluant rezultat în principal din traficul rutier. Acest indicator arată cât de mult poluant există în aer, iar în concentrații ridicate poate afecta sistemul respirator, în special în cazul…

Calea Victoriei a înregistrat cea mai mare valoare medie de noxe, 53 de micrograme pe metru cub

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Could Bill C-22 Make Canadians Less Safe? The Systemic Vulnerability Gap in Canada’s New Surveillance Law

Could Bill C-22 Make Canadians Less Safe? The Systemic Vulnerability Gap in Canada’s New Surveillance Law

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V4.81 Pentru a-L găsi pe Isus este necesar să mergem alături de Mama. Secretul fericirii este să stai doar cu Isus, de parcă nimic altceva nu ar exista pe lume (21 august 1901)

            Aflând-mă în starea mea obișnuită, m-am trezit în afara mea, deci, după ce m-am tot plimbat în căutarea lui Isus, am găsit-o în schimb pe Regina Mamă, iar eu, deprimată și obosită cum eram, i-am spus: „Preadulcea mea Mamă, am pierdut calea pentru a-L găsi pe Isus, nu mai știu unde să mă duc, nici ce să fac pentru a-L găsi”.             În timp ce spuneam acestea, plângeam și Ea mi-a…

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FCC to Vote on Repeal of Telecom Cybersecurity Rules Enacted After Chinese Hackers Stole Trump, Vance Communications

WASHINGTON — A Policy Reversal Amid Persistent Threats The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced plans this week to rescind key

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Lucrările la conducta de distribuție a gazelor pentru blocul din Calea Rahovei încep în 3 noiembrie

„Se aprobă desfăşurarea lucrărilor aferente Etapei 3 din planul tehnic de măsuri înaintat de Distrigaz Sud Rețele S.R.L., începând cu data de 3 noiembrie 2025, ora 09:00, în scopul reîntregirii tronsonului de conductă de distribuție a gazelor naturale şi al reluării alimentării blocului 33, scările 1, 2 și 3 din strada Vicina nr. 3, sector 5”, transmite CMBSU. Lucrările se vor realiza în zona…

Lucrările la conducta de distribuție a gazelor pentru blocul din Calea Rahovei încep în 3 noiembrie

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The mad king’s digital killswitch

I'm on a tour with my new book Enshittification: catch me next in San Francisco, Portland and Seattle! Full schedule here.

Remember when we were all worried that Huawei had filled our telecoms infrastructure with listening devices and killswitches? It sure would be dangerous if a corporation beholden to a brutal autocrat became structurally essential to your country's continued operations, huh?

In other, unrelated news, earlier this month, Trump's DoJ ordered Apple and Google to remove apps that allowed users to report ICE's roving gangs of masked thugs, who have kidnapped thousands of our neighbors and sent them to black sites:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/06/rogue-capitalism/#orphaned-syrian-refugees-need-not-apply

Apple and Google capitulated. Apple also capitulated to Trump by removing apps that collect hand-verified, double-checked videos of ICE violence. Apple declared ICE's thugs to be a "protected class" that may not be disparaged in apps available to Apple's customers:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/big-tech-is-silencing-the-ice-watchers-plus-why-a-scholar-of-antifa-fled-the-country

Of course, iPhones can (technically) run apps that Apple doesn't want you to run. All you have to do is "jailbreak" your phone and install an independent app store. Just one problem: the US Trade Rep bullied every country in the world into banning jailbreaking, meaning that if Trump (a man who never met a grievance that was too petty to pursue) orders Tim Cook (a man who never found a boot he wouldn't lick) to remove apps from your country's app store, you won't be able to get those apps from anyone else:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/#data-dieselgate

Now, you could get your government to order Apple to open up its platform to third-party app stores, but they will not comply – instead, they'll drown your country in spurious legal threats:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62025TN0354

And they'll threaten to pull out of your country altogether:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/#500-million-affluent-consumers

Of course, Google's no better. Not only do they capitulate to every demand from Trump, but they're also locking down Android so that you'll no longer be allowed to install apps unless Google approves of them (meaning that Trump now has a de facto veto over your Android apps):

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/#i-am-altering-the-deal

For decades, China hawks have accused Chinese tech giants of being puppeteered by the Chinese state, vehicles for projecting Chinese state power around the world. Meanwhile, the Chinese state has declared war on its tech companies, treating them as competitors, not instruments:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/03/ambulatory-wallets/#sectoral-balances

When it comes to US foreign policy, every accusation is a confession. Snowden showed us how the US tech giants were being used to wiretap virtually every person alive for the US government. More than a decade later, Microsoft has been forced to admit that they will still allow Trump's lackeys to plunder Europeans' data, even if that data is stored on servers in the EU:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/microsoft-cant-keep-eu-data-safe-from-us-authorities/

Microsoft is definitely a means for the US to project its power around the world. When Trump denounced Karim Khan, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, for indicting Netanyahu for genocide, Microsoft obliged by nuking Khan's email, documents, calendar and contacts:

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

This is exactly the kind of thing Trump's toadies warned us would happen if we let Huawei into our countries. Every accusation is a confession.

But it's worse than that. The very worst-case speculative scenario for Huawei-as-Chinese-Trojan-horse is infinitely better than the non-speculative, real ways in which the US has killswitched and bugged the world's devices.

Take CALEA, a Clinton-era law that requires all network switches to be equipped with law-enforcement back-doors that allow anyone who holds the right credential to take over the switch and listen in, block, or spoof its data. Virtually every network switch manufactured is CALEA-compliant, which is how the NSA was able to listen in on the Greek Prime Minister's phone calls to gain competitive advantage for the competing Salt Lake City Olympic bid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2%80%9305

CALEA backdoors are a single point of failure for the world's networking systems. Nominally, CALEA backdoors are under US control, but the reality is that lots of hackers have exploited CALEA to attack governments and corporations, inside the US and abroad. Remember Salt Typhoon, the worst-ever hacking attack on US government agencies and large corporations? The Salt Typhoon hackers used CALEA as their entry point into those networks:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/07/foreseeable-outcomes/#calea

US monopolists – within Trump's coercive reach – control so many of the world's critical systems. Take John Deere, the ag-tech monopolist that supplies the majority of the world's tractors. By design, those tractors do not allow the farmers who own them to alter their software. That's so John Deere can force farmers to use Deere's own technicians for repairs, and so that Deere can extract soil data from farmers' tractors to sell into the global futures market.

A tractor is a networked computer in a fancy, expensive case filled with whirling blades, and at any time, Deere can reach into any tractor and permanently immobilize it. Remember when Russian looters stole those Ukrainian tractors and took them to Chechnya, only to have Deere remotely brick their loot, turning the tractors into multi-ton paperweights? A lot of us cheered that high-tech comeuppance, but when you consider that Donald Trump could order Deere to do this to all the tractors, on his whim, this gets a lot more sinister:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/08/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors/

Any government thinking about the future of geopolitics in an era of Trump's mad king fascism should be thinking about how to flash those tractors – and phones, and games consoles, and medical implants, and ventilators – with free and open software that is under its owner's control. The problem is that every country in the world has signed up to America's ban on jailbreaking.

In the EU, it's Article 6 of the Copyright Directive. In Mexico, it's the IP chapter of the USMCA. If Central America, it's via CAFTA. In Australia, it's the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement. In Canada, it's 2012's Bill C-11, which bans Canadian farmers from fixing their own tractors, Canadian drivers from taking their cars to a mechanic of their choosing, and Canadian iPhone and games console owners from choosing to buy their software from a Canadian store:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham

These anti-jailbreaking laws were designed as a tool of economic extraction, a way to protect American tech companies' sky-high fees and rampant privacy invasions by making it illegal, everywhere, for anyone to alter how these devices work without the manufacturer's permission.

But today, these laws have created clusters of deep-seated infrastructural vulnerabilities that reach into all our digital devices and services, including the digital devices that harvest our crops, supply oxygen to our lungs, or tell us when Trump's masked shock-troops are hunting people in our vicinity.

It's well past time for a post-American internet. Every device and every service should be designed so that the people who use them have the final say over how they work. Manufacturers' back doors and digital locks that prevent us from updating our devices with software of our choosing were never a good idea. Today, they're a catastrophe.

The world signed up to these laws because the US threatened them with tariffs if they didn't do as they were told. Well, happy Liberation Day, everyone. The US told the world to pass America's tech laws or face American tariffs.

When someone threatens to burn down your house unless you do as you're told, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep doing what they told you.

When Putin invaded Ukraine, he inadvertently pushed the EU to accelerate its solarization efforts, to escape their reliance on Russian gas, and now Europe is a decade ahead of schedule in meeting its zero-emissions goals:

https://electrek.co/2025/09/30/solar-leads-eu-electricity-generation-as-renewables-hit-54-percent/

Today, another mad dictator is threatening the world's infrastructure. For the rest of the world to escape dictators' demands, they will have to accelerate their independence from American tech – not just Russian gas. A post-American internet starts with abandoning the laws that give US companies – and therefore Trump – a veto over how your technology works.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics

[vointadivina]

„Fiica Mea, mai întâi, omul se naște în Mine și poartă pecetea Divinității. Ieșind din Mine pentru a renaște din sânul matern, îi poruncesc lui să meargă pe o mică porțiune de drum, iar la sfârșitul acelui drum, lăsându-l să Mă regăsească, Eu îl primesc din nou în Mine, făcându-l să trăiască veșnic împreună cu Mine. Uită-te puțin cât de nobil este omul, de unde vine și încotro merge și care este destinul lui. Așadar, care ar trebui să fie sfințenia acestui om, ieșind dintr-un Dumnezeu atât de Sfânt?

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Vrea cineva o gară ieftină? Dar 10 km de șină? România se pregătește să scurteze calea ferată

Surse din Ministerul Transporturilor au declarat pentru Jurnalul că reprezentanții ministerului au cerut bani, la rectificarea bugetară, pentru plata subvențiilor și a compensațiilor în sectorul feroviar, însă Ministerul Finanțelor nu a aprobat niciun leu pentru calea ferată. Asta nu înseamnă doar concedieri sau anularea unor trenuri ale CFR Călători, nici măcar blocajele în achiziții sau ale…

Vrea cineva o gară ieftină? Dar 10 km de șină? România se pregătește să scurteze calea ferată