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Davide Cortese

@davidecortese.bsky.social
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コルテセダヴィデ - Italy/UK based husband, data analyst, developer, independent researcher, gamer with a management job. Formerly in cybersec and chess publishing.

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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
www.satelliteevolution.com/post/esa-awa...
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ESA awards ispace-EUROPE contract for execution of MAGPIE, ESA's first lunar rover
ispace-EUROPE S.A. has been awarded Phase 2 of the MAGPIE contract, the Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar Ice Exploration by the European Space Agency.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
phys.org/news/2026-07...
phys.org
Highly tunable electro-optic isolator achieves one-way light flow on photonic chips
Integrated photonic devices—tiny circuits that use light instead of electrons—are becoming increasingly important for scalable photonics technologies and high-bandwidth communications. They are partic...
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BlueDragonAdvocacy @bluedragonadvocacy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"Unsafe" is not a synonym for "different." When we label our internal discomfort as a safety threat, we turn language meant for protection into a tool for exclusion—especially against neurodivergent and plural people. Discomfort is real, but it isn’t danger. Watch here 👇 youtu.be/XeLzOPS8vI4?...
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
www.fastcompany.com/91572626/the...
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The FCC just approved a test of a giant mirror in space
Scientists warn Reflect Orbital’s plan to beam sunlight back to Earth after dark could disrupt wildlife and human sleep.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/micr...
datacenterdynamics.com
Microsoft signs on for capacity at Pure DC data center in Finland - report
Total investment in site set to reach $8.55bn
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
While Ukraine has clear military reasons to target Russian command centers, striking ground stations risks leaving uncontrolled assets in orbit. A major collision blind spot in LEO/GEO is a hazard that threatens everyone, including Ukraine. 👇 www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ukra...
datacenterdynamics.com
Ukraine's military strikes Dubna satellite comms center in Russia
Just one week after previous strikes
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
www.fastcompany.com/91564001/the...
fastcompany.com
The office doesn't fix loneliness at work
New research from SkyeTeam suggests that employees working in person may feel more disconnected than their remote colleagues.
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Mario Seminerio @phastidio.net · 27/06/2026
La settimana phastidiosa – 27 giugno 2026 Il debasement di Mark Twain • Socialisti d’America • Rubli, cannoni e pagherò • Fool Britannia • Pensioni tedesche, Willkommen in Italien • La tassa su volatilità e stupidità • Siamo la Elly, i potery ci temono phastidio.net/2026/06/27/l...
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La settimana phastidiosa - 27 giugno 2026
Il debasement di Mark Twain • Socialisti d’America • Rubli, cannoni e pagherò • Fool Britannia • Pensioni tedesche, Willkommen in Italien • La tassa su volatilità e stupidità • Siamo la Elly…
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
www.fastcompany.com/91550776/raj...
fastcompany.com
Rajiv Dattani is bringing insurance to the AI agent boom
Dattani's company, AIUC, is creating insurance standards for agent providers, giving enterprises a new way to assess risk and trust.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
While I appreciate President Trump’s attempt to render homage to the Boston Tea Party by dumping tea in the reflecting pool, he probably shouldn’t have used matcha.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
🧵 When it comes to AI vs. human labor, some feel safer than others because they believe their jobs can’t be done by AI. I urge them to add a “yet” to that. There is no human creation that isn’t a reprocessing of what’s been observed from our universe. 1/5
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 21/06/2026
The triple C assessment means SpaceX has the same score as that awarded to the Russian state in the wake of its 2022 invasion of Ukraine ft.trib.al/8WeLzRg
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
As I read @jennifermattson.bsky.social’s piece on Canva’s hirings, published yesterday on @fastcompany.com I found confirmation of how companies are already leaning towards prioritizing specific soft skills over hard skills. How long before AI does the talent scouting? 👇🏼 bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
www.mining.com/op-ed-script...
mining.com
Op-Ed: Scripted to fail — Europe’s critical minerals blind spot
If Europe finds itself struggling to secure the materials required for the energy transition, the narrative often tends toward simply being outmatched, writes Nicholas Vafeas.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
phys.org/news/2026-06...
phys.org
Mining companies may soon bypass UN rules and mine the deep sea
A Canadian deep-sea mining company may become the first to commercially mine the international seabed under a controversial U.S. executive order that bypasses United Nations regulations. A recent lega...
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
If men didn’t exist..
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
phys.org/news/2026-06...
phys.org
From oversight to coercion: How authoritarian governments are twisting AI safety to get tech companies to fall in line
When researchers founded Anthropic in 2021, they said the race to build powerful AI was moving too recklessly. They inserted detailed safety measures into their products and marketed their commitment ...
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
www.thespacereview.com/article/5234/1
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Debris with telemetry: the cyber pathway to Kessler
Many satellite operators worry about debris from accidental collisions or antisatellite weapons tests. Daniel Morgan says an underappreciated debris threat comes from a type of cyberattack.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
phys.org/news/2026-06...
phys.org
Why the world's most ambitious coal phase‑out deal has failed, and what it means for climate finance
In December 2025, Indonesia quietly abandoned plans to close the Cirebon-1 coal power plant.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Ukiraine in the EU - a simple diagram (generated after a chat with Gemini) evaluating the impact on the bloc and its member states, highlighting key shock absorbers.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Space Is the Best Offset Strategy www.satellitetoday.com/opinion/2026...
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Space Is the Best Offset Strategy
In the logic of national security, an offset strategy is the decisive move: a technological or organizational advantage that neutralizes an adversary’s
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The cosmic humility perspective is what, for many people, replaces religion. Knowing and accepting that you don’t know, that you’re here and now but also fleeting and minuscule, is grounding and provides space for comfort, because hope lies in uncharted territory.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
euronews.com
Italy moves to Airbus A330 tankers in major NATO-aligned shift
Rome shifts course: six Airbus A330 MRTT tanker aircraft, worth around €1.39 billion in total, to bolster the European pillar in NATO. #EuropeNews
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Multi-Stream LLMs: Unblocking Language Models with Parallel Streams of Thoughts, Inputs and Outputs arxiv.org/abs/2605.12460
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Multi-Stream LLMs: Unblocking Language Models with Parallel Streams of Thoughts, Inputs and Outputs
The continued improvements in language model capability have unlocked their widespread use as drivers of autonomous agents, for example in coding or computer use applications. However, the core of the...
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New “Atlas” Will Catalog Proteins That Bind to Rare Earth Elements cleantechnica.com/2026/05/19/n...
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Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Bioprospecting Tool Could Boost Critical Mineral Refining By Anna Squires Throughout the 1800s, naturalists journeyed to far-...
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Big AI's control of narrative and regulation poses significant threat to rule of law phys.org/news/2026-05...
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Big AI's control of narrative and regulation poses significant threat to rule of law
New research led by Trinity College Dublin's AI Accountability Lab pinpoints the growing threat posed by the influence AI companies have over the rule of law, and people's lives, as well as outlining ...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Roskosmos,a Russian space agency,started placing ads on its rockets because it doesn't have enough💰 Since the beginning of 2026,Roscosmos has placed 6 advertising stickers on its space launch rockets Rockets launched from Baikonur carried advertisements for PSB Bank,the “Coffeemania”restaurant chain
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I've been helping my wife turning her blog content into YT videos, obviously with the help of AI. This is about #MentalHealth / #Disability advocacy, no profit. Here's the first video. #BlueDragonAdvocacy youtu.be/KEGvCwGARHE?...
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BlueDragon - Living with grief while navigating holidays and anniversaries
YouTube video by BlueDragon
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Started the morning watching reactions / analysis videos on YT to Eurovision's #Romania entry (Alexandra Căpitănescu - Choke Me), my favourite song by far in this edition. What all these videos have in common is "goosebumps" from Alexandra's vocals.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
In the "TL;DR." age #AI can be used as an impressive "presentation layer" for your content. I've been feeding my recent essay on AI extraction of cognitive value to NotebookLM, and here's the debate that emerged: drive.google.com/file/d/1uiPo...
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Your_Brain_Is_Training_AI_For_Free.m4a
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Trump is killing the strategic alternative that Taiwan represents.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The importance of a molecule that can trap and transform CO2 at room temperature, without the need for extra energy, cannot be overstated. phys.org/news/2026-05...
phys.org
Chemists discover and isolate a new boron–oxygen molecule
Oxygen is a cornerstone of chemistry, largely because it is so good at building the organic molecules that make up our world. Some oxygen-based compounds called peroxides are famous for being highly r...
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🧵AI regulation focuses on privacy, but we’re missing the bigger shift: AI-mediated cognitive labor. As LLMs face "model collapse," human input becomes the essential "Biological Anchor." It's time to treat users as stakeholders, not just products. drive.google.com/file/d/1GwRs...
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From Products to Stakeholders - Rethinking Value Extraction in the Age of AI.pdf
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🧵AI regulation focuses on privacy, but we’re missing the bigger shift: AI-mediated cognitive labor. As LLMs face "model collapse," human input becomes the essential "Biological Anchor." It's time to treat users as stakeholders, not just products. drive.google.com/file/d/1GwRs...
drive.google.com
From Products to Stakeholders - Rethinking Value Extraction in the Age of AI.pdf
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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ANALYSIS | SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here's how that could impact us here on Earth | CBC News
Scientists are deeply concerned about SpaceX's recent proposal to launch one million satellites into orbit around Earth. Their concerns range from a loss of the natural night sky and our access to spa...
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Why Weren't There Italian War Crimes Trials After WWII youtu.be/hkQ-f6rSos4?si… via YouTube
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Why Weren't There Italian War Crimes Trials After WWII
YouTube video by Fact Quickie
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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
One day, the Shabana Mahmoods of the UK will realize they just can’t win over the Reform electorate. ​Deporting their parents won't work. ​Deporting themselves won't work. ​As what's acceptable shifts, the bar just keeps moving higher and higher... And for this, they have themselves to blame.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
As our technological level continues to improve, we’re approaching a societal maturity test: we either learn to coexist and work together or we stop evolving. Our challenges are already global: access and usage of space, its resources and our orbit, climate change, the energy crisis, pandemics, etc.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Why the Future of Energy Storage is Spinning To Make a Comeback cleantechnica.com/2026/04/18/w...
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Why the Future of Energy Storage is Spinning To Make a Comeback - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Seven months ago, Tina Casey wrote about the comeback of kinetic energy storage systems, pointing to renewed investment and a...
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🧵The unique position of the Pope in countering dictators: The Pope isn't just a spiritual leader; he is a sovereign head of state. He cannot be fired or co-opted by a president or a king. Without the Vatican’s independence, the Catholic Church would likely face the same fate:
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
When it comes to #LEO debris cleanup the current “design for demise” approach treats the atmosphere as an “infinite incinerator”, which it is not. It’s basically turning the “cleaning up LEO” problem into a cleaning the atmosphere problem. We need Circular Space Economy ASAP.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🧵 Everybody knows “The boy who cried wolf”. Now, imagine for a moment that the wolf is a particularly clever one, and that deliberately triggers the boy but without actually attacking or leaving evidence. The effect would be the same: no one would believe the boy anymore. 1/2
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
BREAKING: Donald Trump has nominated yet another one of his personal lawyers to oversee the prosecution of a personal enemy. How are there not 1,000+ major-media reports on how Trump has made the most powerful law enforcement agents in America *people he is in an attorney-client relationship with*.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Still looks better than Rome without strikes.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Draft-dodging president tells US servicemen and women who recently risked their lives to conduct a combat operation: "Better you than me, that's all I can say."
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
RU has plenty of nukes but it's unlikely that they'll be used. On the other hand, it needs support in its war effort in Ukraine. Enter Iran and North Korea. I wouldn't be surprised if a few nukes weren't in Russia anymore. Deterrence still works if no one knows they're gone.
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Davide Cortese @davidecortese.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Confidence is extremely important in leadership and careers, especially political ones. Unfortunately, confidence is often more based on lack of awareness rather than skills (see Dunning-Kruger). This results in a lot mediocre, overconfident people raising to power.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10/06/2025
IMPORTANT: Stop calling the troops in LA National Guard Troops. They are not. When Trump activated them against the wishes of the Gov they became FEDERAL troops… like the 82nd airborne with no Law enforcement power! Don’t let them confuse you!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/06/2025
An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house." The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"
The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/06/2025
ICE is gearing up to deploy to these blue cities: Chicago, NYC, the DC area, Seattle, and Philly. If any of these are your hometowns—get ready. If not—watch anyway, all the way through, because Trump’s unhinged order will affect you. Spread the word.
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