“Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose, mother, to help people”
“These are paramedic crews that I personally have met before,” he said. “They were buried in their uniforms with their gloves on. They were ready to save lives.”
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-medics-ambulances-killed-rafah-069ae07c011250d8a5cef7bdfc26f9df
Trump's personal victim complex has powered much of its political career.
Now it's going global — with the entire world, not just Trump's domestic enemies, feeling the weight of retribution. https://t.co/ysLxhnyWTF
@johncarlosbaez @pluralistic @algaeman @CptSuperlative it took me a while to interpret this, so I'd like to ask if I understand correctly? Are you saying that if it's not more-than-2 to 1, it doesn't count as a wild outspending?
I mean 3:2, which is a more realistic proportion, appears as wild a ratio too, doesn't it.
Less than a single day is left to show support for #ZhenyasWonderTales. Don't you want to add this gorgeous game to your collection?
The US gets a high-profile glimpse of how Soviet and post-Soviet legal systems work: prosecutors act not on public interest, but on political directives.
I was hoping that in a well-functioning legal system, there would be alternative prosecution and seeking of legal responsibility. Certainly following this case closely.
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-mayor-eric-adams-charges-ff3730a2e870cd219e8fead8899118b1
To do a job well, one needs to get invested in the details. Trying to produce sensations leads to even bigger sensations of failure. A lesson an investigate journalist wishes Musk could learn.
https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-government-waste-fraud-approach
Francia e Belgio sono scandalizzati dalla richiesta americana che le aziende seguono la loro politica anti-DEI (acronimo inglese per diversità, eguaglianza, inclusione). I politici dei due paesi si stanno esprimendo contro. Addirittura il vice presidente del consiglio belga annuncia:
We have no lessons to learn from the boss of America
Anche in Italia aziende hanno ricevuto la medesima lettera. Io non ho visto nessuna reazione. Pare che il silenzio è assoluto. Un segnale di conformità alla discriminazione. La storia ci insegna cosa segue.
"#Polarisation stops political parties from cooperating and poisons relations between individuals."
Political scientist Frederico Ferreira da Silva and his colleagues at UNIL have studied the increase in what he describes as a "threat to #democracy."
Georgian Photojournalists Slam World Press Photo for Awarding Russian TASS Reporter for Tbilisi Protest Coverage
Georgian photojournalists and documentary photographers stated they are “disturbed” and “outraged” by World Press Photo’s decision to award Russian photographer Mikhail Tereshchenko, a reporter for the Kremlin-controlled TASS agency, for his photo story capturing protests in Tbilisi in late November and early December last year. His photos, taken for the Russian propaganda TASS,
You read that right. 75% of scientists are considering leaving the US. Forgive me (not really) if I'm struggling to understand exactly how this is making the US anything other than diminished, stupid, and ill.
Call for Papers – D-SAIL 2025
I'm happy to share the Call for Papers for our D-SAIL 2025 WORKSHOP: Transformative Curriculum Design: Digitalisation, Sustainability, and AI Literacy for 21st Century Learning!
The workshop will be co-located with AIED 2025, taking place in Palermo, Italy, during July 22–26, 2025.
D-SAIL focuses on transformative curriculum design through a multidisciplinary lens, including data science, GenAI, sustainable innovation in education, governance, and law.
Topics of interest include:
- Innovative Pedagogical Frameworks
- AI & Data Analytics for Adaptive Learning
- Sustainability and Digitalisation in Education
- Human-AI Collaboration in Learning Design
- Interdisciplinary Curriculum Integration
- Ethical & Societal Implications in EdTech and Policy
- Submission deadline: May 5, 2025
- Proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS, assigned a URN, and indexed by SCOPUS, Web of Science, and other major databases.
More info: https://d-sail.itd.cnr.it/
Looking forward to your contributions!
#CallForPapers #DSAIL2025 #Digitalisation #Sustainability #AILiteracy #AIED2025 #EdTech #AISkills #CurriculumDesign
It's happening! We're going to host a workshop at #AIED2025. The topic is *Transformative Curriculum Design:
Digitalisation, Sustainability, and AI Literacy for 21st Century Learning* and we're accepting contributions till the 5th of May. More information available on the website.
PS: this is a great occasion to visit Palermo at the end of July.
We are happy to announce that Dominik Schlechtweg, the creator of the #DURel semantic annotation tool is coming to Milan on Friday (28 March) to present it
https://dllcm.unimi.it/it/durel-annotation-tool-human-and-computational-measurement-semantic-proximity-sense-clusters-and-semantic-change
"These recent clear stock pumps from the Musk/Trump partnership have evidently worked with retail investors as per JPMorgan’s data. It prevented the stock from going too low before Q1 delivery and earnings results.
But the results are coming and Tesla will likely have the lowest deliveries in the last 10 quarters and one of the worst earnings performance in years – leaving those retail investors holding the bag."
https://electrek.co/2025/03/24/tesla-tsla-surges-with-retail-investors-on-trump-and-musk-pumping-the-souffle/
New GenAI memo: What role do developer skills play in AI-assisted coding?
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html#memo-13
After my mini rant about Vibe Coding yesterday, I'm following it up today with a list of examples of AI "missteps", illustrating how developer skills still very much matter in agent-assisted coding, and ideas how to mitigate that.
This title should read "The end of remote work doesn't work for families".
And contrary to the paragraph in the article, it doesn't work even for executives who hire or delegate as a substitute to family ties. Watch any stupid US Xmas movie if you don't understand why.
https://mashable.com/article/women-remote-work
The Daily Beat: 19 March
On the 112th day of continuous protests, demonstrators once again blocked Rustaveli Avenue. Their demands continue to be the same: calling for new elections and the release of all individuals arrested during the protests. Additionally, students held a separate rally outside the Education Ministry before joining the protesters near the parliament on Rustaveli Avenue. For …
Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at @IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with @pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.
My profile is searchable with https://www.tootfinder.ch/