Vance came to Milan with 14 planes, one of them dedicated to food and drink. Like there's nothing to eat in Italy 🤷‍♀️ www.welt.de/sport/olympi...

Ilya Malinin very cool, but why was he dressed by the Hunger Games costume designer?

***An idea for Kirsty Coventry and Ursula Von der Leyen*** In the next Olympic games, I would like each team from a EU country to march carrying their country's flag together with the European flag. We can make it happen, right?

So, wondering if the best translation for "Olimpiadi diffuse" should have been "widespread Olympics" (as in the opening ceremony script), which makes the Games sound like Nutella, or rather "distributed" or "multi-site" or something else (they are actually concentrated in a handful of locations)

NBC edited it within minutes of it airing live. I went back to rewatch it and they had already changed it from boos when Vance was shown to a constant sound of cheering. They changed it within minutes.

Academic freedom disappearing from red states www.economist.com/united-state...

Can we please have a list of public figures who are NOT in the Epstein files?

Dirty Sánchez, cohones, cierra toda cuenta oficial en X

Spending the public's money without public oversight. It's not just a financial crime. When someone is trying to hide from democracy they are almost always doing something else deeply disturbing.

So Musk has found a way to make NASA - which means US taxpayers - ultimately pay to run the cesspool that is X.

Oggi in un pezzo su Bad Bunny leggo che Porto Rico sarebbe un "territorio non incorporato negli Stati Uniti", traduzione che fa capire il contrario di quello che è, mentre sono sicura che i giuristi italiani devono aver inventato una locuzione corretta, cc @terminologiaetc.it

@nature.com doing public service here. Never forget

Texas A&M claims it has “seamlessly completed” its Spring 2026 course review. That statement is false. Multiple courses addressing race, gender, and sexuality are still under review with faculty facing pressured to censor well into the semester. Texans deserve the truth, not spin.

Further detail of how the 34+ UK state contracts and extensions with Palantir break down. Note on Infographic 1 (post 1): where amount/share of a contract/contract extension is unknown, that contract has not been included in the overall £672m+ spend.

"When you say you have fallen in love with A.I., you have fallen in love with a business product." Esther Perel explains it in the simplest possible words.

1. From lung cancer to climate change, capitalist governments are notoriously slow to recognize and remedy the negative externalities generated by corporate activity. Generative AI is no exception. Large language models are proving a disaster in numerous spheres of public life.

You have lived long enough to see a French anti-fascist organisation (a traditionally very anti-US milieu) organise a ‘rally in solidarity with the American people’.

One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.

Destroying institutions is easy, building them is hard. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I missed this piece a few days ago but it shows you the full intellectual underpinnings of the fraud that MAGA culture is and always has been

Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water

*SOLO SI' E' SI'* Nel 2013 l'Italia ha ratificato la Convenzione di Istanbul, il cui articolo 36 obbliga gli Stati contraenti a punire come violenza sessuale qualsiasi atto sessuale in cui manchi il consenso libero e volontario.

Questa la versione in inglese: civiceconomist.substack.com/p/europes-re... 13/14

Crans-Montana is our Camp Mystic

Huh? Were there any US oil CEOs at the Mar-a-Lago New Year's Eve party with Bibi?

"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females." @carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.

From Cory Doctorow, #mustread: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...

How I'm walking out of 2025.

So apparently you can have free speech, but not free speech about free speech

If it was to destroy America itself I would not care anymore (😪), but climate is a common good for planet and the whole life on it. We should be working together across boundaries. I am not naive, such elected shit will happen to Europe sooner than later. Choice becomes obedience or revolution

"The word “coordination” jumped out at me because this word — Gleichschaltung in German — had a special meaning in 1930s Germany. It was used to describe the process of people and institutions falling in line..." Nazi euphemism used by Israel. M. Gessen www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...

Tutti "tranne la Lega"

As we all know if we've been online at all

One is only surprised if one forgets that the magazine is owned by Marc Benioff

Nel nuovo post sul mio blog ho spiegato perché quella dell’UE non è “censura”, ma difesa della democrazia e della libertà. Il link: fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/non-e-cens... 11/11

Elon’s Crying Censorship Over An EU Fine That Has Nothing To Do With Censorship Elon Musk is now calling for the dissolution of the European Union because it fined him $140 million for violating a law he once said was "exactly aligned" with his vision for (what was then called) Twitter. And he's…

The baroque corruption schemes playing out in America and Russia completely outclass the kickback scandal in Ukraine. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

They really want the US to become like Iran, don't they?

Janan Ganesh is not wrong here. www.ft.com/content/ccbe...

On becoming part of the language hive mind: “Soon, without really knowing why, you will find yourself talking about the smell of fury and the texture of embarrassment. You, too, will be saying “tapestry.” You, too, will be saying “delve.”” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

“So again, what eats these people about Europe? What has the continent done against the west that America hasn’t or wouldn’t? Why not leave it to be irrelevant, slow-growing and the best place on Earth to live?”

The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute. By Thomas L. Friedman www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o... (And not just America...)

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Remember "Drain the swamp"? It's a sewer now.

If Quantum Computing Is Solving “Impossible” Questions, How Do We Know They’re Right? “In order to validate quantum computers, methods are needed to compare theory and result without waiting years for a supercomputer to perform the same task.” [scitechdaily.com]

A movie that takes place where you’re from

On corruption as a way of life: In Washington, everything appears to be for sale economist.com/united-state... from The Economist

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.