Dear @ezraklein.bsky.social: Charlie Kirk advocated for forcing 12-year olds to watch the public execution of Trump's governmental opponents, maybe by guillotine www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

‘You need solidarity and consistency’: Pedro Sánchez on the EU, Trump and fighting the far right

Not my style to show off my donations. But this is worth an exception. Consider donating too. Global Sumud Flotilla - Global chuffed.org/project/1388...

"anybody who thinks LLMs are a direct route to the sort of AGI that could fundamentally transform society for the good is kidding themselves" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Qui la locandina dell'evento: 2/2

Oggi 10/6 prima presentazione del mio libro "A Fuoco" per @feltrinellied e mi sento come al primo giorno di scuola. 🙏@ElaGiampaoli di spiegare il perchè del viaggio lento raccontato nel libro. Ne parlo con @emacampiglio & @MariaBigoni1 h18:00 @Unibo. bologna.repubblica.i... 1/2

Un tentativo di spiegare l'erraticità di Trump, fra psicogeriatria e teaoria dei giochi. E soprattutto il desiderio di un'Europa (e un mondo) con una visione diametralmente opposta alla sua. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

"A.I. is a parasite. [..] its most compelling use case is starving the host — fewer teachers, fewer degrees, fewer workers, fewer healthy information environments."

Parasite in chief. The Tesla Secret That Exposes Elon Musk’s Whole Game newrepublic.com/article/1929... via @newrepublic.com

To reiterate: We are hiring the following: 1) Prof (Chair) in Applied Micro, 2) Reader/Senior Lecture (Assoc Professor) in Applied Econ, 3) 4 Lecturers (Asst Professors), any field. Ads: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK740/p... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK745/s... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM015/l... #EconSky

Open secrets www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/w...

I’m actually quite radical on this. Most middle-class people have no idea what it’s like not to be able to get dental care, but it absolutely ruins people’s lives (and leads to other diseases). Of course policy details can be disputed, but: basic dental coverage should absolutely be covered.

The more I study and visit so-called Global South countries, the more I learn about their problems related to the carbon economy and climate disasters, the more I am convinced that they represent the future, not the past, of the Global North.

This

This is important. More than 700 Harvard faculty, with diverse views, have now signed a letter urging the university administration to "publicly condemn attacks on universities," "legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom" and +

Technocracy is coming to the USA. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

Each time I see the word abundance used, I know the theses are going to be between naive and ... boringly centrist. This book is no exeption.

"The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it's already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

Well then it's over. Shit happens.

OpenAI urges Trump: Either settle AI copyright debate or lose AI race to China

A Columbia University student left the country after having a student visa cancelled and a second student was arrested for overstaying an expired visa, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Both students had participated in pro-Palestine protests.

Today we published this page in @larepubblica.bsky.social and @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social saying no to ethnic cleansing in Gaza and in the West Bank. Jews in Italy count only 30.000 community members, plus an imprecise number who "identify as"...

Vale sempre la pena di pensare a qualcosa di nuovo e migliore. Senza questo desiderio, si rischia di non essere nemmeno capaci di considerare la possibilità del peggio, e di scorgerne i segni. www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

🧵 Trump-Musk, il caos coordinato e pianificato: i prodromi di un colpo di Stato | @marcoarvati.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/trump-musk-c... via @valigiablu.it

Ottimi Maurizio Franzini e Michele Raitano, che spiegano come l'età pensionabile in un sistema contributivo sia un non problema. E che altri sono i nodi da sciogliere per avere più equità www.editorialedomani.it/economia/pen...

The same point made more forcefully by @acoyne.bsky.social. For liberal democracies, the US is not part of the solution anymore. It is now part of the problem www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

È insopportabile, oltre che ipocrita, questo frame per cui scopriamo ora — con grande sgomento e costernazione! — quanto è concreto l’autoritarismo di Trump e co. Sta andando al contrario tutto secondo i piani — gli stessi che i sostenitori di quel frame ci dicevano, deridendoci, di ignorare.

An essential read by Steven Levitsky (Harvard) and Lucan Way (University of Toronto) on how Musk and Trump are laying the groundwork for American authoritarianism. Particularly insightful for Europeans, who must now fear its contagion. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

PS: per chi è interessato, un pensiero più articolato sulla regolamentazione dei social si trova qui 👇 open.substack.com/pub/fabiosab...

Europe/EU = Multilateralism, rules (yes, rules), openness, fairness (read: higher taxes for the rich). "The absence of the US does not make the agreement irrelevant".

"AfriForum has called apartheid a “so-called” historical injustice. Its chief executive, Kallie Kriel, also said that apartheid was not a crime against humanity because not enough people were killed during the more than four decades of white minority rule." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Newly published report with a collection of insights from the @pse.bsky.social -CEPR Policy Forum 2024. Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo & @gabrielzucman.bsky.social explore: international taxation, climate change compensation & global poverty. Download: cepr.org/publications... #EconSky

DOGE came for the research and statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education today, declared "fraud" and "waste" and abruptly terminated about $900M in contracts. A lot of what we know about America's schools comes from the data this agency collects. New reporting with @jodiscohen.bsky.social

There is a measles outbreak in Texas, in a county where 18% of incoming kindergartners in the 2023-24 school year did not get the measles, mumps, & rubella vaccine: www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h... Exemption rates for vaccines are rising. Like COVID-19, measles is a highly infectious airborne disease.

Note that private citizens could try to enforce this too, bringing up a legal case in these countries. Boosting nazi symbols on the Web is certainly illegal in both Italy and Germany. But it shouldn't be up to privates. We have public prosecutors for a reason. Do your damn job.

For now

Now… the second most powerful person on earth, and pushing for first

💯 transparency on energy use water requirements is critical

This is right. DEI is a code word and an organizing tool in a long line of such code words and organizing tools used by the right to dismantle gains from the civil rights movement. The political valence of anti-DEI cannot be measured by actual HR practices.

Their response to "he's violating the Constitution" is really "but bro is so sick at coding." US rule of law in shambles. Tech ideology is really that kind of caricature of itself.

PS: per gli accademici, ritengo valido il messaggio di Augustine Fuentes (Princeton) su Science Mag: "It is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates". www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rafforzare l'unione al di là degli aspetti monetari e fiscali sarebbe prioritario, ma non è certo nell'agenda dei governi europei. Per noi cittadini, è difficile immaginare modi per contrastare quest'onda, ma riconoscerla e prepararsi è già qualcosa. 19/19

You can find the same 🧵 in English. Thanks @fabiosabatini.bsky.social.

New piece out! We explain why Fully Autonomous Agents Should Not be Developed, breaking “AI Agent” down into its components & examining through ethical values. With @evijit.io, @giadapistilli.com and @sashamtl.bsky.social huggingface.co/papers/2502....

“Silicon Valley and authoritarians share the same goal: to crush dissent by keeping their would-be opponents spinning on an endless hamster wheel of reactive anger. And just like in the classic 1983 thriller WarGames, the only winning move is not to play” Must read

CFP: Assessing economics as a serviceable social science. University of Helsinki, 22-23 August 2025. #econsky #philsci blogs.helsinki.fi/essk-project...

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