l Concorso ASMEL 2026 è una selezione pubblica nazionale finalizzata alla formazione di elenchi di idonei ai quali gli enti locali aderenti possono attingere per future assunzioni a tempo determinato o indeterminato.

Il Maxi Avviso comprende 39 profili professionali, dall’Area degli Operatori Esperti a quella dei Funzionari e dell’Elevata Qualificazione. Possono quindi partecipare, a seconda del profilo scelto, candidati in possesso della licenza media, del diploma o della laurea.

È però importante chiarire come funziona la procedura: superare la prova ASMEL non comporta l’assunzione immediata e non determina l’inserimento in una graduatoria ordinata per punteggio. Il candidato ottiene invece un’idoneità valida tre anni, che gli consente di partecipare agli interpelli pubblicati dagli enti aderenti.

È durante questa seconda fase che vengono specificati il numero dei posti disponibili, la sede di lavoro, il tipo di contratto e le eventuali ulteriori prove previste per arrivare all’assunzione.

Domande: dalle ore 12:00 del 15 settembre alle ore 12:00 del 30 settembre 2026.

La candidatura va completata online su AsmeLab. Non aspettare gli ultimi minuti: l’intera procedura può richiedere fino a 15 minuti ed è conclusa soltanto quando ricevi la PEC con il messaggio “Avvenuto invio domanda”.

Requisiti di accesso al Concorso ASMEL 2026: cosa sapere

Il Maxi Avviso ASMEL non assegna subito un numero prestabilito di posti. Serve invece a formare e aggiornare 39 elenchi di candidati idonei, divisi per profilo. Gli enti locali che aderiscono all’accordo possono poi pubblicare specifici interpelli e assumere personale attingendo da questi elenchi.

La procedura è indetta ai sensi dell’articolo 3-bis del Decreto Legge 80/2021, convertito dalla Legge 113/2021. Il Comune di Altavilla Silentina opera come ente capofila per la pubblicazione dell’avviso su inPA; il Comune di Sicignano degli Alburni cura le attività amministrative successive; il Comune di Bellosguardo gestisce gli aspetti collegati alla tassa di selezione e al supporto tecnico-informatico. Gli elenchi potranno essere utilizzati dagli enti soci ASMEL che hanno aderito o aderiranno all’accordo.

Profili disponibili: 39. Apertura delle domande: 15 settembre 2026, ore 12:00. Scadenza: 30 settembre 2026, ore 12:00. Destinatari: candidati con obbligo scolastico, diploma o laurea, secondo il profilo scelto, e con gli eventuali titoli professionali richiesti. Prova: un quiz multidisciplinare online di 60 domande in 60 minuti. Soglia di idoneità: almeno 42 risposte corrette su 60. Contributo: 15 euro per ogni profilo per il quale si presenta domanda. Durata dell’idoneità: tre anni, salvo cancellazione in caso di assunzione a tempo indeterminato presso un ente aderente. Prima di candidarti, consulta il Maxi Avviso ASMEL 2026 ufficiale su inPA. Il bando e i suoi allegati restano la fonte definitiva per requisiti, titoli di accesso, materie e comunicazioni successive.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/60115513

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Prosecutors on Sept. 29 indicted two men for allegedly throwing feces and paint at the Comedy Club in Taipei on May 29. A 33-year-old man surnamed Liu (劉), allegedly acting on instructions from an unidentified person in China, recruited a 35-year-old man surnamed Kuo (郭), who threw bags containing human feces and white paint inside and outside the club in Zhongshan District (中山), prosecutors said.

The incident happened on a night when comedian Huang Yi-hao (黃逸豪), who had mocked Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平), was scheduled to perform.

Property was damaged, staff were frightened and some customers sought refunds, prosecutors said.

It was an act of Chinese “transnational repression” intended to restrict freedom of expression, they said, recommending that Liu be given a prison term of one year and 10 months, and Kuo one year and eight months.

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It was not the first time people apparently acting on behalf of Beijing have been accused of trying to intimidate or silence critics in Taiwan. In 2017, Hong Kong democracy advocate Joshua Wong (黃之鋒) was targeted by pro-China protesters, including in an alleged attempted assault, upon his arrival at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.

In 2019, Hong Kong singer and democracy advocate Denise Ho (何韻詩) was splashed with red paint while speaking to reporters before a rally in Taipei to support the territory’s democratic movement.

Prosecutors identified the main suspect as a member of the China Unification Promotion Party.

Other Hong Kong rights workers have also faced harassment. In 2020, former Causeway Bay Books manager Lam Wing-kee (林榮基), who had fled to Taiwan, was splashed with paint at a Taipei cafe.

Security officials have said that attacks and vandalism targeting Hong Kongers and their businesses in Taiwan are suspected of being carried out under Chinese direction.

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Economic pressure is another avenue of intimidation. This week, TV host Kevin Tsai (蔡康永) attended a campaign event in Taipei for Shen, who is the DPP’s mayoral candidate for the capital. After Chinese social media users called for a boycott, Chinese electric-vehicle maker Leapmotor removed promotional material featuring Tsai, while Harper’s Bazaar China took down its interview with him.

These incidents show the potential consequences for Taiwanese entertainers and businesses that operate in China when Beijing interprets their political activity as support for “Taiwanese independence.”

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Political satire and making fun of politicians are generally lawful and strongly protected forms of expression.

Huang’s political satire of Xi and other politicians is protected by Taiwan’s constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression. Taiwanese must not be intimidated into self-censorship. If fear of Beijing causes people to silence themselves, Taiwan risks surrendering the freedoms that distinguish its democratic system from the Chinese regime while encouraging further attempts at transnational repression.

That is why prosecutors and courts must continue to hold accountable those who use threats, violence or other criminal acts to silence others. Defending free expression does not mean allowing intimidation to go unanswered; it means ensuring that intimidation never determines what Taiwanese are allowed to say.

Ultimately, Taiwanese — not Beijing — will decide what can be said in Taiwan. The nation’s democracy is strong when its people exercise the freedoms they fought hard for, rather than allowing fear of China to dictate the limits of their speech.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/60115169

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Satellite images show attack jets stationed at a new Chinese military facility in Laos, which opened last week and gives Beijing’s air force its first foothold in mainland south-east Asia.

Images provided by the commercial satellite provider Vantor show eight light attack aircraft positioned at Ban Keun airport alongside what appear to be more than a dozen military vehicles lined up in rows.

The planes’ shape matches that of the Chinese-made Hongdu JL-8 jet, a two-seat trainer that can be deployed in combat to carry bombs. Laos is reported to have four such aircraft, according to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.

In a rare example of Beijing’s overseas military expansion, China opened what it said was a joint “support and training centre” at Ban Keun on 29 September.

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The airport, about ⁠30 miles (50km) north of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, has been significantly expanded over the past year. Satellite images taken months ago show farmland and dirt paths where there are now new buildings and a paved runway.

Aside from its island bases in the South China Sea, Beijing does not have a significant network of military outposts in other countries, and the Laos airbase would be its first facility in another country capable of handling fighter jets.

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Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

The Trump administration pressured multiple countries to withdraw their sponsorship of a leading European conference on disinformation, with Canada, Lithuania and the EU’s diplomatic service subsequently agreeing to do so, the Guardian understands.

The conference, #Disinfo2026, taking place Wednesday and Thursday, is the annual meetup of Europe’s counter-disinformation community and has drawn hundreds of researchers, journalists, technologists and policymakers to a hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is run by an independent Brussels non-profit, EU Disinfo Lab.

Days before the conference, the logos of its main supporters – the Lithuanian ministry of foreign affairs, the European External Action Service (EEAS) and Global Affairs Canada, the country’s foreign ministry – were wiped off its website.

After Christa Pike survived Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her, the unsettled question of whether the state will try again could push Tennessee into uncharted legal territory, experts say.

Pike, 50, suffered burns and blisters to her arms and her prognosis remains uncertain after executioners tried to give her two lethal doses of pentobarbital, her legal team said Wednesday. She was sentenced to death for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer.

Although other states have moved forward with attempting to execute inmates a second time, in those cases, the first try had been halted before any drug actually began flowing.

The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday sued Donald Trump’s administration for recent television advertisements that promoted his political message while costing taxpayers millions of dollars.

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that the ads are illegal government-sponsored propaganda and accuses Trump of personally directing them. It asks the court to declare the ads illegal and stop the use of federal funds to pay for them.

Trump has faced bipartisan backlash for the ads, which glorify him and echo his campaign pitch as voters cast early ballots with the midterm elections less than a month away.

The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request by a conservative group to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with artificial intelligence-generated voices, before November’s midterm elections.

Federal law currently bans most robocalls to cellphones unless the caller gets consent beforehand. The petition calls for a waiver that would allow political groups to use artificial or prerecorded voices in unsolicited wireless calls.

The Republican-led FCC advanced the request for public comment and could rule on it as soon as late October.

Christa Pike was “angry and confused” in the hours after regaining consciousness following Tennessee’s failed execution attempt, first asking, “Where am I?” her lawyer said Wednesday.

Pike, believed to be the first person to survive after receiving lethal injection drugs during an execution, stunningly woke up as plans were being made to remove her from life support, just six days after she was strapped to a gurney in the death chamber, said attorney Randy Spivey.

“But on Tuesday, to the shock of everyone ... Christa woke up and began talking,” Spivey said.

He's right but for the wrong reasons - the threat comes from disinformation on antisocial media and "AI" (Avian Intelligence / Stochastic Parrots)

The union representing thousands of flight attendants said Wednesday it has safety concerns about Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch that will be on final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson said the 250-foot (76 meter) arch compounds multiple safety concerns that she said have gone unaddressed from a deadly January 2025 crash over the Potomac River that killed 67 people. Nelson also criticized Trump’s plan to turn the arch into “a top grade military complex” able to host drones and snipers while storing ammunition.

“DCA is already stretched to its limit, we do not need an obstacle taking up space in our flight path,” said Nelson. “Nor should commercial aviation have to dodge military drones, missiles or snipers while attempting to take off or land at Washington National Airport. Safety first always.”

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/onion/p/1450312/fbi-says-it-stopped-a-mall-of-america-terror-attack-by-a-teen-after-agents-sold-him-an-a

This is absolutely hilarious and couldn't happen to the nicest people however few there are.

A federal magistrate says a transgender man who was a supervising official for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission when President Donald Trump announced his anti-trans policy last year can sue the agency for alleged discrimination and harassment that caused him to resign.

Suit says AI tool allows independently owned franchises to exchange nonpublic price and sales information

McDonald’s is facing a lawsuit in federal court over its alleged use of an AI tool to determine pricing across independent franchises, which prosecutors say violates antitrust laws and has unfairly inflated menu prices for Americans.

The vast majority of McDonald’s US stores are independently owned and are said to individually decide on prices under company policy. Antitrust laws require businesses to set prices independently from their competitors, as coordinating prices can stifle market competition and push up costs for consumers.

The lawsuit, filed on 2 October in a federal Chicago courtroom, alleges that McDonald’s AI tool is illegal because it amounts to independent franchise locations exchanging nonpublic price and sales data.

From 2017 to 2020, views of Medicare-for-all were relatively stable, with at least half of adults consistently favoring the proposal and between four in ten and just under half opposing it. Opposition rose slightly in 2019, coinciding with debate over Medicare-for-all during the Democratic presidential primary, and when KFF asked the question in October 2020, about half (53%) were in favor and about four in ten (42%) opposed.

The latest KFF poll from September 2026 marks a new high, with two-thirds (66%) of the public favoring the proposal, while the share opposed has fallen to about a third (34%).

Lawyers tell judge ABC being unfairly targeted as US regulator seeks review of network’s local TV station licenses

Lawyers for Disney accused the Trump administration of “blatant violations of the US constitution” and censorship on Tuesday in the first court hearing over the Federal Communications Commission’s early review of the media giant’s eight local television station licenses.

District judge Loren AliKhan seemed unswayed by government arguments that the order to force Disney’s ABC to apply years early to renew local television station licenses was tied to an investigation into parent company Disney’s hiring practices.

ABC, Disney and its station group filed suit against the FCC in August, seeking to block the US media regulator from taking any further steps to punish or pressure the network in connection to the order.

The Department of Homeland Security is moving to strip U.S. citizenship from 40 people accused of crimes, rapidly expanding the department’s use of little-known denaturalization mechanisms.

Among the crimes that people were convicted of - and for which they faced denaturalization - included aggravated sodomy, transportation of child pornography and sexual abuse of a minor.

Not all were convicted of or pleaded guilty to violent crimes. At least 19 of the 40 people faced denaturalization proceedings for reasons related to accusations of lying on visa forms.

Christa Pike, who survived two doses of a lethal injection drug last week during a botched execution in Tennessee, is conscious and speaking, her lawyers said in a statement on Tuesday.

Ms. Pike continues to receive critical medical care at a Nashville hospital, the lawyers said. The prognosis remains unclear, they said, but they expect a long recovery.

“Christa is a survivor and will take recovery one day at a time,” the lawyers said.

Ms. Pike, 50, is believed to be the first person to have survived doses of a lethal injection drug. She has been hospitalized since the execution attempt on Sept. 30, after it became clear to witnesses that she was still breathing after two doses of pentobarbital, the drug used in lethal injection executions.

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