Truffatori, bugiardi e ignavi. Dall'attuale inquilino della Casa Bianca non mi aspettavo nulla di diverso: negazionismo totale, menzogne, arroganza e pochezza. Il solito repertorio che non dovrebbe sorprendere più nessuno. Il problema è un altro, anzi sono altri. 1/6

From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:

Trump making Gadaffi's UN speech look normal.

Sempre più spesso mi trovo inutilmente a sperare che certe notizie siano false.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

The thing about the first time the FBI catches you on camera receiving a $50,000 bribe is it's definitely not the first time you've received a $50,000 bribe.

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Struggling how an image of two friends together is malicious communication

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

People need to see this on a map to understand how wild the claim it is that the drugs were imminently on their way to the US, requiring the killing of everyone on board. The first boat was heading to Trinidad and Tobago and never made it within 1,500 miles of the continental United States!

Sadly, no gadget will provide sufficient empathic advantage to compensate the loss due to your cognitive advantage gadget.

In merito alla proposta d’abbattere droni e missili Russi, quando sono in volo sull’Ucraina ed agendo in coordinazione con loro, seguirei la policy standard Russa: - Abbatterli, senza alcun avviso, e poi negare, senza alcun ritegno.

Non sorprendiamoci se nei prossimi mesi continueremo a parlare di caldo anomalo ed eventi alluvionali. Siamo ufficialmente entrati in una fase ignota, perché se 2023 e 2024 potevano essere eccezioni, il 2025 suona come una conferma: siamo ad un tipping point.

Had Tyler Robinson shot up an elementary school instead and killed dozens of kids, Charlie Kirk, JD Vance and all their kind would have just shrugged and said that's just a way of life, price worthy paying for guns. How do we know? Because that's exactly what they did and said many times before.

its wild how slippery objective consensus reality is right now

This never would have happened if Trump was President.

Humanity needs breathable air, abundant water for drinking and irrigation, and affordable clean energy to reduce global warming. Humans do not need to widely adopt technologies, like LLM, that compete with them for the same resources, just to gain a small competitive advantage over… other humans.

If Russia is unable to control its drone’s its well due time for it to stop launching them, to quit fighting Ukraine and to retreat to its internationally recognised borders.

People are following federal agents around DC w/the Imperial March. 😘 CHICAGO!! Will add some basic ICE melting🧊 resources below. Plz add other resources/ideas, & let’s get sub threads by city, so eg one person can start a Boston reply thread and everyone can add stuff to that thread — ? 🧵

“Star Trek” premieres 59 years ago today. “It was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate — but take a special delight in — differences in ideas ..” - Gene Roddenberry #RIP @georgetakei.bsky.social

it's so funny that all these economic pieces are like 'could it be that silicon valley has made a bad bet?' and then the bet is that a text prediction software will achieve consciousness

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Perhaps renaming it 'Department for Nobel Prizes' would be helpful.

È orribile trovarsi a sperare che ogni individuo lungo la catena di comando della US Navy abbia agito senza provare soddisfazione nell’assassinare 11 persone in acque internazionali ed, al contempo, nello sperare che qualcuno si sia opposto dimostrando la necessaria rettitudine, venendo destituito.

For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products

“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.

"stochastic tools that you want to be careful with if your required output is purely deterministic" is a way I have been able to gain traction in some convo

Brazil initiates WTO dispute regarding US tariff measures #TradeDisputes dlvr.it/TMQhyg

Trump to meet Putin in Alaska (Cartoon from 2018)

This 20 seconds is pure art. It’s like the essence of Trump - the fraud, the lies, the simplistic idiocy - is reduced to its singularity. Nothing in high office, anywhere, will ever be this stupid again.

EU should throw 600 billion peanuts on his head, all at once. Other countries and blocks, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, UK, India, China, and others too, should join the party.

If you, regular person, did anything like this after a fatal car accident, you would be prosecuted for a variety of crimes, including insurance fraud. If you then repeatedly lied to the courts about it, like Tesla did, you'd get prosecuted for that too, plus stiff monetary sanctions.

“.. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers .. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.” @electrek.co $TSLA electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

The sewage of lies is dripping, percolating from the top of the Trump administration, through the White House, fouling government agencies and trickling ever downward. What a world.

The BLS firing is a textbook example of how personalist authoritarianism causes policy nightmares. It's like Trump is trying to prove why liberal democratic guardrails aren't some kind of luxury, but essential for good governance

It is so sad to read so many USians writing that everything’s happening should not be happening in a democracy, in their democracy! It’s proof of distance between US reality and their imaginations, and vivid explanation of the lack of the immune response to Trump and to his, this administration.

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to? HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

Il nostro destino nelle mani di un ottantenne narcisista e di un pugno di società che fatturano 5000 miliardi di dollari l'anno. Però il problema sono gli scienziati...

The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated

These days, Aeroflot can be proud of being the safest airline in Russia. No flights, no crashes!

In the face of the most blatant trade coercion since at least 1945, the EU has failed to even activate its anti-coercion instrument, designed, as the name indicates, precisely for this purpose. It has let down trading partners less able to stand up to Trump's bullying and weakened multilateralism. 8

Sempre sull’accordo sul commercio UE-USA: Continuerò a votare con i soldi, evitando d’acquistare beni e servizi USA e riducendo al massimo del possibile l’investimento in titoli legati agli USA.

Avrei preferito un risultato diverso degli accordi sul commercio tra EU & USA. Immagino ci siano condizioni di necessità per garantire il flusso di beni necessari a sostenere il conflitto in UA, d’importanza strategica fondamentale per l’EU. Spero reggano le tutele UE (sanitarie, privacy, etc).

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland

Problem is, not everyone is as incompetent and foolhardy as Elon, prepending the most hopeless prompts to make his model more based. Others can play this game better and I very much fear that they will, even if only by statistically shifting the distribution of outputs.