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.

why is Nvidia propping up a company that seems doomed? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I like this. To me, it feels like: Machine learning = “this tool has a purpose and actually solves the problem” AI = “this has created many more problems but we still want to profit from the mess we made”

10/ The takeaway: If "the Epstein files" are released, that is not simply a political story; it's a modern-day test case/challenge for information integrity. Steps must be taken to place those files under close scrutiny, using the best tools of digital forensics that are available today.

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

Leggo che un rappresentante di Pro Vita ha dichiarato “l’esistenza delle Kessler non doveva finire così.” Ah no? E come dovevano finire? Costrette all’immobilità? Con piaghe da decubito? Con sepsi? Con metastasi? Sotto morfina per il dolore? Intubate?

New addition Journal article: Revisionist future: Russia's assault on large language models, the distortion of collective memory, and the politics of eternity by Huw Dylan, Elena Grossfeld (published 29-09-2025) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29768640251377941

"Do things that don't scale," investor Paul Graham famously said. 2025 update: "courage doesn't scale". By @zamosta.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

AI is already superhuman. So are libraries, cars, and calculators. Not a reason to abandon the strong history of science-led digital policy in the EU. Please sign if you have a PhD in or near AI. #digitalGovernance #AIEthics pads.c3w.at/form/#/2/for...

Rimetto l'articolo in altra forma cancellando il precedente perché bsky me l'ha etichettato "contenuto per adulti" (?). Chiedo scusa a chi aveva retwittato (ogni tanto bsky non ti capisco, sai?) Gli anti-social media - @fabiosabatini.bsky.social fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/gli-anti-s...

“It’s impossible to debunk a shape-shifting idea like #AGI”. Very good piece by @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social

“Why would [gendered #ageism] be showing up in billions of words where there’s no visual presentation of people? That is really suggesting it’s woven into the fabric of how we categorize and interpret people in the social world.” news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO.  This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting. 

New Yorkers for literacy

"[You're] not concerned about the appearance of corruption with this?" "I'd rather not have you ask the question."

Look, it's impossible to get just how stupid this is into a single headline, but I tried, okay?

Someone please tell Bill Gates

2/ "International Criminal Court Replaces Microsoft with German Solution Open Desk" www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-i...

A chi continua a venerarlo come un’autorità intellettuale e morale, consiglio di leggere cosa pensa la comunità degli economisti delle sue tesi. Sul blog ho pubblicato la traduzione italiana della lettera degli economisti sul "caso Sachs". 7/9 fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/lettera-de...

Project Nimbus was full of ethical landmines that Google stepped directly on. www.972mag.com/project-nimb...

@kingjen.bsky.social & her Stanford team found AI developers' privacy policies concerning: long data retention, training on children's data, and poor transparency. Users should carefully consider what they share w/ AI chatbots and opt out of data training if possible hai.stanford.edu/news/be-care...

Watching Americans complain about the length of a baseball final: you guys have apparently never watched the Festival di Sanremo.

Kudos for the transparency, I guess...

The Leahy law is being killed off. "The US State Department has removed an online portal for reporting alleged human rights violations by foreign military units supplied with American weapons." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oggi mi è capitato di leggere OSINT tradotto come "intelligenza open source" e mi sono sorte grandi perplessità in merito @terminologiaetc.it

A few years ago I read “Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency” by Finn Burton. Here’s his quick update on the libertarian project: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

we-rule.com/blog/girlbos... from @lesliefeinzaig.bsky.social

An important call to action from @timothysnyder.bsky.social.

New Atomico 2025 State of European Tech! Give the team your thoughts. Did I mention that you can win a ticket to Slush? Here you go! atomicovc.typeform.com/to/HF3fmLHZ?...

It’s World Statistics Day! 📊 We join institutions worldwide to celebrate this year’s theme “Quality statistics and data for everyone”. Statistics underpin all of our work. We’re committed to safeguarding their quality and providing trustworthy data for public debate.

Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI https://boydkane.com/essays/boss https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583180

It is really bizarre that as Americans are rallying in the streets under the “No kings” banner, Netflix is streaming the finals of a Saudi tennis tournament promoting itself with this AI-generated example of slop using the kings metaphor

I hope everyone reads George Packer's latest. He has thought deeply about these issues for a long, long time. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“With Trump it is a constant game of tug of war […] You talk to him, help get him to a place where he sees that Putin is a problem, and then you move on and he shifts back towards Putin’s position. So you have to talk again. It’s like that, over and over.” www.ft.com/content/7af3...