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
@johnwise welcome. Very curious about your ideas and work. Looking forward to learn from it
‘Fuck You, Make Me’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/03/fuck-you-make-me
Can't disagree:
"He also defended migrants and refugees to loud applause from the audience and accused Labour of being "handmaidens" of Reform UK adding: "When Farage says jump, Labour asks 'how high'."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c708y9nq174o
This is how a US federal employee comments on their out-of-office signature being hijacked for political gains:
"Nobody follows the law anymore, so why does it matter? It seems like laws are dotted lines now, not solid lines. It seems there’s no one to hold this administration accountable to laws"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/education-department-employees-email-automatically-changed-rcna235211
#SCOTUS #shutdown
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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