Intervista audio molto interessante con il capo delle forze armate italiane. Ottima analisi. Molti dei problemi che sottolinea sono di natura culturale, non tecnologica. [La "A" di STEAM] www.affarinternazionali.it/la-guerra-in... @iaionline.bsky.social @nathalietocci.bsky.social

The social media accounts of European media (numbers of key media in 9 countries) are utterly dominated by X and Instagram. Mastodon and Bluesky barely count. (in 1000 of followers)

*How come there are such swell Popes lately when the general political-class is such a mess

Europe is under siege

Richard Thaler on Why People are Much More Irrational than Economists Believe • Yascha Mounk and Richard Thaler discuss where economics goes wrong.

Excellent survey questions in this survey of citizens in 9 EU countries. The results provide surprising insights that deviate from what we commonly hear and read.

"Every company talks about “customer-centricity,” but surveillance pricing reveals the tension between serving customers better and extracting maximum value from them." @rgmcgrath.bsky.social www.fastcompany.com/91451686/dyn...

"OK. We've got one more" [13:50] www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNmc...

Deliberative democracy experiments are striking a nerve and could become scalable.

I wrote a short article on the second wave of deliberative democracy www.linkedin.com/pulse/second...

Innovative citizen participation experiments in the news: - Belgium www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w... www.buergerdialog.be/en/ - NL (use transl. engine) www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... www.burgerberaadklimaat.nl - USA medium.com/jigsaw/we-th... wethepeople-250.org #deliberativedemocracy #citizensassemblies

Great journalism by New York Times on algorithmic price discrimination ↘️ www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Elisabeth Costa of the Behavioural Insights Team: “One of the joys of human interaction and qualitative research is that people can surprise you — give you new insights on mental models or hidden barriers. You’re unlikely to be surprised by a synthetic participant.” www.ft.com/content/1298...

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

Pervasive video recording has real impact (independent of tech and AI). GenZ and GenAlpha who don't dance at concerts because friends might judge them on IG videos. People who don't go to political protests as they don't know where videos by sidewalk recorders end up. @carissaveliz.bsky.social

Published also in English and without paywall. en.ilsole24ore.com/art/wide-fie...

Quite astonishing en.ilsole24ore.com/art/wide-fie...

Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social (Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/

Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...

"Simplify" - the new buzzword "The further streamlining of the organisation is expected to lead to a reduction of between 850 to 950 FTEs, to occur in phases throughout 2026." newsroom.asnbank.nl/en/asn-bank-... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"We live in a simulation* [where] the boundary between private feelings and public discourse has collapsed." "Nous vivons dans une simulation* [où] la frontière entre les sentiments privés et le discours public s’est effondrée." *as in Baudrillard's sense of the simulacrum

Why the energy transition is a form of climate denial | Video interview with French historian @Jean-Baptiste Fressoz on @vprotegenlicht.bsky.social. #energytransition #climatedenial www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UcV... (English starts at 00:57)

Hinton has been talking about “maternal instincts” in AI, but that’s a symptom of a larger issue: he worries about AI’s power to persuade us, even as he believes in what it tells him. mail.cyberneticforests.com/thoughts-on-...

"Europe's Deepening Trap"

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next. ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ www.authoritarian-stack.info

"What we call AI is not really an innovation" Recommended interview with @meredithmeredith.bsky.social in @grandcontinent.bsky.social, in particular because of its economic analysis. [The original English is not available, but Google Translate does a good job.] legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/11/0...

Digital Tsunami: Big Tech, Big AI & Big Brother (2025) Film by @fredpeabody.bsky.social w/ @phillipgbhnews.bsky.social on the impacts of digital tech and AI. Many interviews but most insightful is definitely @rondeibert.bsky.social of @citizenlab.ca Thx @artefr.bsky.social and @artede.bsky.social

"A society that allows its news to be mined and regurgitated without remuneration doesn’t merely impoverish journalists; it starves itself of truth. Freedom of expression is meaningless if there are no reporters left to verify the facts." by @petervandermeersch.bsky.social in @euractiv.com

Computational cognitive scientist Marie Safar Postma interviewed on @vprotegenlicht.bsky.social TV on our brain, consciousness and free will, super chips and AI. [Interview is in Dutch, but the Youtube translations are fairly good]. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hs3...

When your AI browser becomes your enemy: The Comet security disaster venturebeat.com/ai/when-your...

As we warned in an @openmarkets.bsky.social report earlier this year, our dependence on a handful of US tech giants for essential cloud infrastructure isn’t just a competition problem, it’s a serious threat to national security & societal stability. How many more outages before we get the message?

"In 15 years, there will only be low-end restaurants and very high-end restaurants inaccessible to tourists."

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Plug-in hybrids? Not as clean as you might have thought, new research from T+E www.transportenvironment.org/articles/plu...

Belgian hardware store chain Brico and the Belgian branch of supermarket chain @carrefour.bsky.social opt for AI music in their stores. Artists in Belgium risk losing a quarter of their income.

"Technologies are architectures that organize our bodies in space and time, and give form to what I call the digital body." Hands. Voice. Ear. Eye. Foot. Body. Mind. by @vxchang.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797013... portal.independentmediainstitute.org/2025/10/10/h...

@financialtimes.com How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power, according to Giuliano da Empoli, author of The Wizard of the Kremlin and The Hour of the Predator www.ft.com/content/85ee...

Very nice to see my TEDx Porto talk is out! How #privacy can save your life. For more on privacy, get the #book - Privacy Is Power. #AIEthics www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPR...

New data shows the ways millions of people have integrated AI into their everyday lives. Also, it suggests that for now at least, AI is an individual productivity tool — both at work and in our personal lives — rather than the broader workplace disrupter many in Big Tech predicted. on.ft.com/47cKBVN

"The [AI-driven] demand for more data and more data-crunching capabilities will require about $3 trillion in capital just by 2028, in the estimation of Morgan Stanley. That would exceed the capacity of the global credit and derivative securities markets."

How are people integrating AI tools into their daily lives? As a practical digital assistant according to research by the FT's data and visual storytelling team. Despite the uptake in personal use (now 70% of overall use), a revolution has yet to be seen at an organisational level.

“Whoever controls AI infrastructure—compute, models, data, & cloud—will shape the economic & political order of the 21st century. The U.S. & China understand this & are mobilizing every instrument of statecraft to secure supremacy. Europe must understand it too.” — @francescabria.bsky.social #ai

Dutch mental health council warns of ‘hypernervous society’ www.dutchnews.nl?p=257859

AI needs social science. Cosmina Dorobantu and I explain why in a new blog post @lsedatascience.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku. www.science.org/content/arti...

"She has attracted both resentment within the EU institutions for her controlling style and outside of the institutions for a perceived failure to show the same resolve when it comes to dealing with the outside world."

AI is stealing traffic to most content sites. It's interesting how our default is still to think that this technology is a positive. But which side of the argument should bear the burden of proof? #AIEthics www.economist.com/business/202...

Interesting takeaways from OpenAI researchers: - Professional use of ChatGPT has dropped to only half of overall usage. - The models are increasingly being used to research external information or to obtain practical advice in areas such as health, sports, and education.