The second von der Leyden's term continues to be an unmitigated disaster on all fronts...

Entering the "Let it burn" phase of capitalism... jacobin.com/2025/11/ai-h...

A case of terminally centrist brain at the FT. Terminally in the sense that such advices has plunged Labour into an almost irreversible crisis... Zombie party.

Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen

The same day Elon Musk claimed that Tesla would have a flying car next year (?), SpaceX hypeguy and editor of Ars Technica(wtf???) Eric Berger uncritically promoted a Musk 'Data Center in Space' scam that defies everything that is known about thermodynamics and newtonian physics

Another example of the political and ideological bankruptcy of the Labour under Starmer. Honestly, i cannot see how this party can survive the next election cycles in its current form. A zombie party.

Very important point.

One of the best episodes ever, with @adambecker.bsky.social discussing all the sloppy pseudo-science tech bros love to talk about. As explained here, they're usually dumb as hell, or in blatant bad faith.

Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I’m joined in studio by astrophysicist @adambecker.bsky.social to talk about his new book More Everything Forever, the BS AGI story, why we should ignore Eliezer Yudkowsky, and why billionaires love LLMs. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Congratulations to Italian energy company Eni for its $1 billion of brand new fusion-generated electricity

I'm feeling breathless, all the most deranged features of our society coalescing around the genocide unfolding in Gaza, and these fu***ng people talk about "real estate gold mines". Infuriating and deeply terrifying, which (I guess) is one of their point.

We live in the darkest (but dumbest) timeline. Solidarity to US colleagues enduring this vile harassment campaign 🌹

Great points made below, if one aims to talk about quantum computing in a not-misleading way!

It is a camp system, so these abuses happen by design.

At this point, there's a flock of canaries in the mine... www.wired.com/story/black-...

GPT-whatever is coming

Maybe not the point but here we are, ranking unis based on "free speech" (whatever this means in 2025). It is baffling that these rankings are still taken seriously, after many years of poking holes in their complete arbitrary metrics. Most of them are just spreadsheet-based magical thinking.

If you aren’t familiar, Terence Tao is a Fields Medalist and arguably the most prominent and accomplished mathematician of his generation. No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.

It's good to see data basically confirming a labour-related intuition many had over the years: focusing on superstars is instrumental for policymakers, deploying shitty contracts for the most of us, under the guise of "meritocracy".

Infuriating. The time to act was years ago, many were told not to get involved, "science should not be political" (often mentioning Soviet times as a scarecrow), and yet here we are.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Dumbest people on Earth.

Look, speaking as a physicist, it is hard for me to put into words how batshit crazy this is.

If people think American scientists are somehow going to land in Europe, I've got news for you about the difference between millions and billions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Additional pain and misery inflicted by Zuckerberg, this time upon hundreds of kids and their families. It really never ends.

It was all evident from the very beginning.

'Daddy' Rutte is right 🤯 we will all pay 'BIG' for new weapons spending. Following the NATO chief's embarrassing sucking up to Trump, the only way they will be able to afford an increase to 5% of GDP will be by taking it from YOUR healthcare and social services.

leftists are consistently labeled as out of touch extremists, but there isn’t a single prominent left position this unpopular

Vienna has created public spaces all over the nicest parts of the city, investing in free infrastructure. In the U.S., these places would be privatized or commercialized. Such a visible difference in approach to community and equality.

Truly a nightmare, and I can see a european path where bad-faith right-wingers, crack-pot "scientists" and anti-vax grifter will feel invigorated by the US shitshow. They all repeatedly demonstrated that they couldn't care less about public health.

As usual with fascists, they're also big cowards.

To be fair, War is Thiel's domain.

Never forget what happened to Aaron Swartz. open.spotify.com/episode/179R...

🇮🇹 Today in Italy is the Day of the Republic: on #June2 1946 Italians voted for the Republic instead of Monarchy. Italian Communist Party issued a flier in support of the Republic with some Torino players.

Not all heroes wear mask and cape 🌹 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

Has OpenAI reached its "terminally magical thinking" stage? You don't even know what they're talking about at this point, yet they're burning money as hell. (That's even more infuriating where you link this to the slashing of education and basic research in the US)

I'm increasingly concerned by the elision of the science lobby and the tech lobby in the US and elsewhere. Michael Kratsios, a Thiel acolyte, was formerly chief technology officer. Now chief science advisor. Scientists need to unhitch their wagons from tech www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

What is wrong with these people

Polluters won (at least for now), and yet another example of Republicans acting like a Death cult. Scary stuff. www.wired.com/story/epa-ir...

Il precariato della ricerca si mobilita mentre il governo cerca di prendere l’università per fame, in modo che l’ulteriore stretta venga vista come l’unica forma di sopravvivenza

Austerity isn’t popular anymore. You can’t fix education, healthcare, justice etc with tweaks. Everyone understands that in the near term there are some zero-sum tradeoffs. Maybe, you know, just bite the bullet & pull the big lever labelled “income tax” because ultimately you’ll have to do it anyway

🌹Congratulations to our member party, @spoe.at and Mayor @ludwigmichael.bsky.social for once again winning the trust of the people of Vienna! The SPÖ remains the leading force in the city, confirming Vienna as a stronghold of social democracy. Vienna remains progressive and forward-looking.

The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

I should not speak for the Lord himself, but I'm quite sure he would disgusted by these people, like Old Testament obliterating rage.

The things we take for granted (yet, we shouldn't). www.wired.com/story/inside...

Great to see ISTA here on BlueSky 💚 (So many great people there, check their updates)

NEW: Trump cuts are threatening a standards laboratory who's work on atomic spectra undergirds the entire modern economy. The lab is run by just seven federal employees who have been paying out-of-pocket for their own coffee since 1973. www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

After hearing @iwriteok.bsky.social talking about the peculiar Rationalist milieu, not sure if I'm ready for a whole new cadre of people claiming to "enhance" humanity by means of nonequilibrium thermodynamics.

After 13 years of vicious Tories' austerity, we get the dumber version of Blairism. Baffling. (Hopefully, other european SD parties will be smarter than that)

Looks like a must-read to understand the mess we live in.