Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face” https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25LgKq/greta-thunberg-they-kicked-me-every-time-the-flag-touched-my-face
How slowly ICE is turning into Trump's praetorian force
Now that's a Russian response to protests. But it's coming or of Portland
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/portland-ice-clarinet-arrested-protest-b2845329.html
Yet, the race to big does not bother to actually solve problems:
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/ai-medical-tools-found-to-downplay-symptoms-of-women-ethnic-minorities/
A new question for your pub quiz:
Which AI company did Nvidia not invest in?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/12/nvidias-ai-empire-a-look-at-its-top-startup-investments/
Spoke to a scientist friend today and asked him about Trump’s anti-science campaign & his attacks on universities?
He replied, I don’t think Americans realize that even if we somehow stopped Trump now, he’s already set the USA back at least 20-30 years in scientific research. And given he still has 3 more years, we may not recover from this for half a century or more.
This Economist data is from 6 months ago. You can imagine how much worse it is now.😳
CWA just shared their research into the lives of the US-based data workers responsible for training and maintaining modern “AI” platforms. The findings are, in a word, grim: https://cwa-union.org/ghost-workers-ai-machine
tiktok is heading toward being full maga.
If your business or life is centered on that app, take steps now to change that.
I am happy to help however I can.
No, it can’t https://pubeurope.com/@byteseu/115347142037887038
Will the ‘Zucman tax’ go continental? https://www.euractiv.com/news/will-the-zucman-tax-go-continental/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it
Yet another judgement on #AIart, but this time it comes from the Oatmeal
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
China has shifted the world to renewables while Trump is pushing to sell his fossil fuels
Mancano <3 settimane al Linux Day! 🐧
Segnate il 25 ottobre!
Ci vediamo al Politecnico di Milano, Campus Leonardo!
Il programma uscirà a breve! 🚀
Info: https://linuxdaymilano.org/
#LinuxDay #LinuxDayMilano #OpenSource #Polimi
I wasn't aware of "the dual state". I've known it as "Soviet legal theory".
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/dual-state-supreme-court/
What can we learn about our current crisis from history
A brief explainer of how chief justice John Roberts became the main actor in dismantling US democracy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/supreme-court-john-roberts-lisa-graves/
The proceedings from our workshop are out!
D-SAIL Workshop on Transformative Curriculum Design - Digitalisation, Sustainability, and AI Literacy for 21st Century Learning
Thank you to everyone who was part of this. We are looking forward to meeting again at the next edition...
@johnwise welcome. Very curious about your ideas and work. Looking forward to learn from it
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.
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