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OpenAI employee speaks positively about the product they sell and negatively about their purported competitor. Disappointing but not that surprising...

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 01/10/2026

Unfortunately this seems a necessary constraint at this point... If planning arXiv postings with more advance than two years ago is the price to pay to have less slop on the platform, then I think most people will happily take that deal.

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 11/09/2026

Quoting Cory Doctorow, "AI can’t do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can’t do your job". We must mobilise and loudly make the policymakers understand what our job actually is.

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 20/07/2026

"Experts" means the *one* philosopher you queried for this piece, or was somebody else asked for their expert opinion? E.g. a neuroscientist, computer scientist or similar...

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Reposted by Gianni Petrella

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/06/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: AI digital sovereignty risk doesn't exist; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/t... #Pluralistic 1/

A 1989 black and white photo of the Berlin Wall; peering over the wall is Microsoft's 'Clippy' chatbot.

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 28/04/2026

What agreement does this reference?

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 20/03/2026

Right? The battery life we take for granted nowadays is crazy…

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 18/03/2026

which one is it bsky.app/profile/tend...

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 28/02/2026

Surely this is not the first attempt at solving the issue? This looks to me as an obvious attempt to escalate the problem and use political pressure… Unless you know/think they wouldn’t try to do this in private first?

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 28/02/2026

What exactly is the problem in complaining that someone’s business partner is unreliable?

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 28/07/2025

By “proper” you mean a launcher rest? Those are also never used on recurves, since they don’t work with clickers. And you don’t “train” your sight on a sightless bow - especially if you are a beginner… You sound like you are used to compound bows, where what you say makes more sense. WAF rulebook:

worldarchery.sport

Rulebook | World Archery

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 28/07/2025

That is a Core recurve bow, not concave; it does have an arrow rest (at 0:06 you can see the arrow *not* sitting on the riser), and a string peep is either useless (if shooting without a sight) or forbidden by FITA rule Ch22.1.5. Also, target distance of ~10m is fine for kids or beginners.

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 18/03/2025

5 seconds in and a 2nd grade grammar mistake in a title (nevermind the awful graphic). The writing is predictably bland and uninspiring, too.

Screenshot of a headline featuring the grammatically incorrect expression “Un storia a puntate”. The word “storia” should be preceded by “una”, in the female form.

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 16/03/2025

There are several nice hiking trails and ski slopes nearby - as across most Switzerland. Museums about the cheese as well: fribourg.ch/en/la-gruyer...

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Gruyères

The medieval town of Gruyères offers a historical and gastronomical journey thanks to its museums, hotels and restaurants.

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 10/03/2025

Luckily there are a lot of projects looking to commercialize these reactors, indeed - and I was wrong, China has an [experimental one running](en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSR-LF1) right now. The US experimental ones (ARE, MSRE, see en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-...), however, never burned thorium…

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Molten-salt reactor - Wikipedia

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 09/03/2025

Thorium salt reactors have the slight inconvenience of not existing for at least a few more years, see [this nice video from Kyle Hill](youtu.be/BcoN2bdACGA)...

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Why Isn’t Thorium Changing the World?

YouTube video by Kyle Hill

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 04/03/2025

This article is 3 years old and this video is AI ganarated. A shield in the middle of the flag *appears* and *disappears* within one second, that’s not how reality works.

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 02/03/2025

It’s also down now for me, indeed. Sad…

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 18/02/2025

I would not lose confidence in Wikipedia over this: factual statements have to be sourced, and basically any entry of some relevance is constantly checked. Moreover, edits for most controversial topics are disabled until an experienced moderator checks their sources and approves them.

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 20/12/2024

That's disappointing to learn - but this seems a temporary, very specific problem caused by a platform migration. Overall the SNCF app works fine? According to [the article you cite](www.lefigaro.fr/voyages/cons...), this only affects about 5% of cross-border trips anyways...

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Pourquoi vous ne pouvez plus réserver certains trajets internationaux sur SNCF Connect

La plateforme cessera de commercialiser les billets de compagnies étrangères à partir du 23 mai. Une mesure «temporaire», le temps de déployer un nouveau système de réservation plus performant, justif...

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Gianni Petrella @giannipetrella.eu · 20/12/2024

What’s wrong with SNCF Connect? I’ve been using the app for years with zero issues…

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