The implications are very sinister, even if he's, as usual, full of crap. These fucking people...

Love this Better Offline episode where Ed Zitron @edzitron.com and Cal Newport @author-calnewport.bsky.social discuss issues in current AI reporting. "Vibe reporting" and "hype laundering" are common also in quantum computing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=85uX...

‘The people are being charged with keeping the peace, asked to stand firm against the federal agents who are disrupting it. This is a sick form of double taxation — your paycheck gets docked so that a guy in a mask can beat you up while you try to calm him down.’

We've always known this would have been the case.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

It would be better closing it altogether and burning the server, but I see Paris being a considerate centrist here 🤣

Pure, unadulterated and yet unbearably pointless and dumb evil.

DHS just sent another statement about ICE’s abduction of a 5-year-old in Minnesota. They didn’t address my question about whether the child was moved to Texas. They also didn’t provide any evidence for their claims. They are, however, claiming the child’s “alleged mother” actually abandoned him.

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

Ibrahem Hanafi, dottorando palestinese in visita in Italia, racconta la sistematica demolizione, fisica, politica e culturale, delle università di Gaza e della Cisgiordania. E invita la ricerca europea a dare una mano

Luddite All-Stars ❤️

An unmitigated disaster and, unfortunately, a blueprint for many bad-faith actor against research and higher education all around the world.

The kind of hardcore which resonates differently once you don't listen to as much hardcore as in your teenage days. youtu.be/Ijmhb8is-vc?...

Il boom degli studentati privati e dei coliving come indice della finanziarizzazione dello spazio urbano e delle barriere economiche contro i più poveri

Heart-breaking.

Good government, despite what rich people (and many newspaper columnists) think, is really hard and it’s really, really *particular*. It takes sustained expertise just to keep things from getting worse. Making meaningful improvements that help people’s lives isn’t intuitive.

“Gaza now hosts the largest group of child amputees in modern history.” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza have suffered life-changing wounds in Israel’s war – and almost one-quarter of those are children. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7eexx4

One of the most important storyline of the 21st is half of the american political spectrum losing their goddamn mind and being terminally detached from reality.

A few important points here - Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false - Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE media.licdn.com/dms/document...

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

L'ennesima dimostrazione della superficialità delle élites europee. Parlando di AI, intendono LLMs (o tecnicamente, slop generators) e ulteriore deskilling e contrazione del potere contrattuale dei lavoratori. Una bancarotta intellettuale che ormai dura da decenni.

like big tobacco funding cancer research

Friedrich Engels once wrote that he played “second fiddle” to Marx. On the 205th anniversary of his birth, we should remember the profound influence that Engels had on his friend and comrade, as well as his own theoretical contributions.

Hopefully, at a certain point in the future, there will be severe accountability for all the pain brought upon working people by these goons...

New bubble in plain sight?

This story sounds incredibly italian 😱

And of course we get the brain-dead political analysis. The biggest crisis of public education (and the greatest threat to kids with mental illness) is the Republican Party's funding cuts. But guess who gets blamed in the conclusion of the article?

I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next. Will come back to dissect. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

Magical thinking applied to the systemic failure of European political élites. The snake oil they're trying to sell us, unbelievable.

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!