Davide Denti
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PhD @sisunitn. BXL-based. EU, Italy, Malta, Bosnia. Personal opinions only.
People who come to Bluesky & block after the first interaction: maybe you could have remained on the other side
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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/m...
"Despite the carnage in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan, and even in the face of the Trump administration’s apparent determination to dismantle what remains of the liberal international order, the human rights attorney Philippe Sands insists he is not giving in to despair"
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No Country Has Ever Been Held Responsible for Genocide. Can This Lawyer Change That?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/magazine/genocide-trial-human-right-international-law.html?campaign_id=61&emc=edit_ts_20260119&instance_id=169538&nl=the-great-read®i_id=62647244&segment_id=213922&user_id=5b2a602ed613fb45f99c0a1178a3a0ff
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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo
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"A determination that Myanmar committed genocide could foretell a similar judgment against Israel. If, on the other hand, the I.C.J. clears Myanmar, it would be interpreted as a positive sign for Israel"
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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo
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"One reason the trial in The Hague is being closely watched is the implications that it might have for a case that the I.C.J. is expected to hear later this year: the genocide allegation that South Africa has brought against Israel over the war in Gaza" (Philippe Sands article in NYT)
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about 4 hours ago
How Trump imagines Greenland.
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21th century phrenology
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Simple Abonné
about 4 hours ago
Sur Netflix, documentaire sur le journaliste du New York Times Seymour Hersh, qui enquêta e.a. sur des crimes de guerre commis par son pays à My Lai, au Vietnam, et dans la prison d’Abou Ghraïb, en Irak. Chronique d'Eva Roque
www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
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"Cover-up" : ode au journalisme d'investigation
Laura Poitras et Mark Obenhaus dressent le portrait du journaliste Seymour Hersh. L'homme n'a eu de cesse d'enquêter sur des affaires que le pouvoir en place tentait alors d'étouffer. Un documentaire ...
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/capture-d-ecrans/capture-d-ecrans-du-lundi-19-janvier-2026-3068380
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Jon Worth
about 4 hours ago
You do by this point have to wonder what the downside would be of putting out an EU statement anyway, and seeing if Orbán can become any more destructive. Would he really eventually find a legal way to challenge it?
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"Move the King". Is this a chess game?
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"Somalia, a country where Italy can count on a long-standing presence and a heritage of bilateral relations rooted in *more than a century of shared history.*" 🤔🤔🤔 🇮🇹 🇸🇴
www.ansa.it/english/news...
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Embassy in Mogadishu publishes guide for Italian companies - News from Embassies - Ansa.it
The Embassy of Italy in Mogadishu has edited and published the 'Guide to Opportunities for Italian Companies,' a tool for Italian companies to delve into investment and growth prospects in Somalia, a ...
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/news_from_embassies/2026/01/19/embassy-in-mogadishu-publishes-guide-for-italian-companies_9baf4e87-020b-4277-8992-fb1030608fa0.html
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It is weird that American houses don't have washmachines
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Robert Kagan: "President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure." Tell me something I do not know, mate.
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Sharon
about 6 hours ago
this is the dumbest diplomatic crisis of my life
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Anne Applebaum still believe in the existence of "adults in the room"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=1ga2TvL-DbuHDQIcYF7oR7vWCye4MQUsr0JPbL-JV8Y
about 6 hours ago
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Kraut
about 21 hours ago
After a few days of looking through the identified victims of the massacre in Iran, what strikes me the most is how young they all are. Almost everyone is between 22 and 35 years old.
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Luigi Prosperi
about 24 hours ago
Another excellent article by
@margheritacapacci.bsky.social
on the latest updates concerning the non-cooperation of Italy with the ICC in the Almasri/Elmasri case
www.justiceinfo.net/en/154252-li...
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Libya, Italy and the ICC: a long history of discord
Last year, Italy failed to transfer a Libyan alleged war criminal wanted by the International Criminal Court. What were the consequences?
https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/154252-libya-italy-icc-long-history-of-discord.html
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Bel reportage da Cipro, in questo semestre alla testa del Consiglio UE (e non del Consiglio d'Europa, come scrive la Stampa)
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A conversation with Omer Bartov on Germany, genocide, Gaza
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On Genocide: Omer Bartov in Conversation about Palestine, Israel, and Germany
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2zXVMKqASr51eFpVzdCU2e
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Hugo Rifkind
1 day ago
I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.
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Patrick Andelic
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He doesn't need to stand for re-election. Why is this surprising?
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
4 days ago
Meanwhile in the UK, a Palestinian *citizen* of Israel has won his asylum battle and has been deemed a refugee due to the "substantial evidence of systematic discriminatory practices against Palestinians in Israel: apartheid, forced removal, restrictions of rights and exclusion from society”.
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Palestinian citizen of Israel wins UK asylum over ‘well-founded fear of persecution’
Exclusive: Refugee status granted despite attempt by former home secretary James Cleverly to block 26-year-old’s claim
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/14/palestinian-citizen-israel-wins-uk-asylum-fear-persecution
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fede
3 days ago
"Conseguenza di segno opposto del riscaldamento dell’Artico è la crescente possibilità di svilupparvi attività economiche"
www.difesa.it/assets/alleg...
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https://www.difesa.it/assets/allegati/86996/web_strategia-artica-italiana_14012026.pdf
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Marco Chitti
3 days ago
BTW, Central and Eastern Europe and Italy are really the outliers worldwide. Also interesting (and unexpected) is how many systems in Australia allow multi-door boarding
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Marco Chitti
3 days ago
Folks, any help with populating this map of bus and tram boarding policies in South America would be most welcome! I suspect that 99% of cities are front-door boarding-only outside of BRT systems (so B*) and eventually trams (the few existing systems) but I'd appreciate more detail!
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Dr Grace Peng
3 days ago
A lot of people don't know that Nobel laureates get two medals. A real gold one usually kept in a safe deposit box and a gold plated duplicate for public display. She gave him the dupe
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Molly White
4 days ago
These programs help to offset what I’ve previously described as a vampiric relationship between AI companies and the commons:
www.citationneeded.news/free-and-ope...
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“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free
https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
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Molly White
4 days ago
With “Wikimedia Enterprise”, AI companies have to use (and pay for) dedicated APIs to scrape data, which helps to limit the strain on Wikimedia servers. (See eg
arstechnica.com/information-...
) This is a good thing for Wikimedia and for its readers.
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AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/ai-bots-strain-wikimedia-as-bandwidth-surges-50/
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www.maltatoday.com.mt/environment/...
Today in Honest Headlines
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Paceville already screwed, says SCH on hotel rising above listed convent
The environs of the listed Villa Rosa and St Augustine’s Convent in Paceville have already been compromised, the heritage watchdog admitted, paving the way for a 10-storey hotel
https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/environment/planning/139077/paceville_already_screwed_says_sch_on_hotel_rising_above_listed_convent
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Anthony Painter
7 days ago
I have no doubt that under-16s will be banned from social media before the next election. For all its many faults, It's a bad idea to ban things that you have simply failed to regulate or educate about properly. But we will nonetheless.
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🇲🇹 🐅 "Despite Malta’s small size, some 400 wild animals were known to be kept in captivity in 2020. Last year, the government granted an amnesty to owners of dangerous animals who came forward to register their animals."
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Contractor facing fraud charges wants to shift big cats to Cyprus
Animal rights NGO questions how certain exotic animals are even allowed to enter Malta in the first place
https://timesofmalta.com/article/contractor-facing-fraud-charges-wants-shift-big-cats-cyprus.1122323
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il Post
8 days ago
Le prime foto di Alberto Trentini e Mario Burlò dopo la liberazione
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Le prime foto di Alberto Trentini e Mario Burlò dopo la liberazione
https://ilpost.link/8dfByWh8VY
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Kriszta Satori
8 days ago
#BBCNews
- Guantanamo detainee paid 'substantial' compensation by UK to settle torture complicity case
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah paid 'substantial' compensation by UK to settle torture complicity case
Detained without trial in 2006, Zubaydah is one of 15 people who remain at the US military prison.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2gelrxxr0o
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Henry Foy
9 days ago
“They’re conspicuously silent” said one EU official. “Rutte was supposed to be the man Europe could rely on to be our Trump-whisperer. But he wasn’t supposed to be this quiet.” Nato yet to issue public statement asserting territorial integrity of ally Denmark or Greenland
as.ft.com/r/f125cd10-6...
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Nato silence on Donald Trump’s Greenland threats rattles European allies
[FREE TO READ] Military alliance yet to issue public statement asserting territorial integrity of Arctic island and kingdom of Denmark
https://as.ft.com/r/f125cd10-6fc5-4c80-8e6d-ec0dfeb49140
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Hanna Pfeifer
9 days ago
My text on genocide denial in German discourse, first published with
@pw-portal.bsky.social
, now also appeared in English on
@hahauenstein.bsky.social
's Substack "Nullpunkt". I explore five types of denial as a synchronous and diachronous repertoire of rejecting the genocide claim vis-à-vis Israel.
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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺
9 days ago
Memo to EU institutions and officials: you need to get off the deepfake porn site you're still using as the main avenue for your public outreach.
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Kraut
9 days ago
I'm currently in 19th century Italy. I learned that Italians were the pioneers of psychiatry. Starting in the 17th century the mentally ill were often chained and locked up. Italian doctors were the first to unchain them, and emphasised the importance of treating the mentally ill as human beings.
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Da due mesi in sciopero della fame per denunciare il genocidio a Gaza e la repressione del dissenso in Gran Bretagna 🇬🇧
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Martin Sandbu
10 days ago
The EU really knows how to hide its light under a bushel. It has just passed the world's biggest trade deal (with Mercosur) - using a written procedure among ambassadors, making the public barely notices a huge strategic step forward for Europe. Contrast with Trump's made-for-TV signing ceremonies.
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As a "war" (vs "conflict") is defined as >1000 deaths per year, the U.S. 🇺🇸 have already been in a civil war for a good while.
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Nicholas Grossman
12 days ago
"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret. But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
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Menzoberranzan Urbanist Society 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴
13 days ago
if in the process of defending ourselves from russia we destroy everything that actually makes us different from russia then what was the goddamn point. language? music?
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Nate Schenkkan
13 days ago
Hello! Democracy expert here. This is a sign of major distress. Governments only do this when they are planning to ignore the results of elections.
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Menzoberranzan Urbanist Society 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴
13 days ago
Of course, I wonder why Laurynas Kasčiūnas, former member of the neo-nazi National Democratic Party of Lithuania, would have a problem with saying that Denis "WhiteRex" Kapustin is in fact a nazi.
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Victor Ray
13 days ago
It’s great that the champions and defenders of Western Culture are censoring Plato. The moral panic over accurately teaching about American racism was always about disciplining professors in general. We’re a check on propaganda, which propagandists hate.
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Maaike
13 days ago
Betting pool for the first new country to develop a nuke?
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victoria scott
13 days ago
It should be fairly clear by now that our ruling class is banking on an oligarchy hardening into place and all of them will do whatever depraved shit the admin asks for to have a seat when the music stops
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It might also time to stop using the Mercator projection that shows
#Greenland
🇬🇱 as being bigger than North America or even Africa
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Gerontocracy
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Gregk Foley
16 days ago
I hope everyone at the Nobel Prize commitee and every other dunce around the world wakes up to the bill of goods they've been sold and enjoys the fucking ride they've put us on now the US is turning and going, "Oh what? The heroic Peace Prize lady in charge? Are you kidding? Nobody likes her."
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