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Giulia Zornetta

@gzornetta.eurosky.social
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assistant professor in Medieval History at DiSSGeA - University of Padova / editor at Reti Medievali and I Quaderni del Maes Padova - Pordenone - Berlin - Roma www.unipd.it/contatti/giulia.zornet…

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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 3h
“Since the assassination of the US-backed president Jovenel Moise in 2021, armed groups have gotten a stranglehold over much of Haiti, filling the vacuum where a state was meant to be” www.equator.org/articles/hot...
equator.org
After the Dance • EQUATOR
A dream died when Haiti’s Hotel Oloffson burned to the ground. Can it be recovered?
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 3h
Andreis / Parco Naturale delle Dolomiti Friulane Le Meraviglie #Radio3 www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2026/0...
raiplaysound.it
Le meraviglie | S2026 | Andreis raccontato da Flavio Santi | Rai Radio 3 | RaiPlay Sound
Andreis raccontato da Flavio Santi - Le meraviglie - Con Flavio Santi attraversiamo un incantevole borgo friulano nel contesto del Parco Naturale delle Dolomiti Friulane, dove ha scritto e vissuto il ...
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 3h
“Researchers at several universities in China, in a study involving more than 1,500 high-school students, found that their future time perspective was damaged by a steady diet of such short-form videos” www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
wsj.com
Teens Who Can’t Put Down TikTok and Instagram Are Losing Their Sense of Time
Instant gratification from short video clips makes it hard for people—particularly kids—to understand how the present affects the future, according to a study.
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 3h
9000 pietre : il terremoto del Friuli 50 anni dopo Università di #Padova / #unipd #podcast ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/soci...
ilbolive.unipd.it
9000 pietre: il terremoto del Friuli 50 anni dopo | Il Bo Live
Un racconto a più voci, un viaggio tra memoria, scienza, informazione e psicologia non solo per ricordare cos'è stato il terremoto del Friuli ma anche cosa ha fatto nascere tra scienza, ricerca, preve...
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 3h
"The more time you spend with great works of fiction, the more you get out of them. That kind of responsiveness is so addicting that it can lead people to do crazy things, like try to teach literature to high schoolers" www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-...
experimental-history.com
I like 'em thick
OR: an apology to my English teachers
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 3h
Piazza 900 / Radio Onde Furlane #podcast www.spreaker.com/podcast/piaz...
spreaker.com
Piazza 900
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 3h
“Last summer Fransiskus Carli Kau, 30, received a letter from Rome telling him that he would be posted to Ireland. His first reaction was fear. Friends had told him that some churches had only ten congregants” www.economist.com/interactive/...
economist.com
The Muslim country churning out Catholic priests
As Europe struggles to fill its seminaries, a small island in Indonesia has become one of the world’s leading exporters of missionaries
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 3h
Maledetta Sarajevo #podcast podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/m...
podcasts.apple.com
Il Cubo Giallo
Puntata podcast · Maledetta Sarajevo · 23 marzo 2022 · 18min
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 3h
“The biggest empire the world has ever seen was run by a small elite who partied all night, drank liters of port, and stayed in bed until the afternoon” worksinprogress.co/issue/the-se...
worksinprogress.co
Why were Victorian elites so effective? - Works in Progress Magazine
The biggest empire the world has ever seen was run by a small elite who partied all night, drank liters of port, and stayed in bed until the afternoon.
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 23h
INPS - Italian National Ponzi Scheme Black Box #podcast podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/b...
podcasts.apple.com
INPS, ITALIAN NATIONAL PONZI SCHEME: una Dote per salvare il futuro? | Out of the box
Puntata podcast · Black Box - La scatola nera della finanza · 7 ottobre · 1h 1min
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
🎓 SIS (Italian Women Historians) announces a biennial award €2,500 for PhD dissertations on women's history, gender relations & gender identities! 📅 Dissertations defended 1/1/2023-30/6/2026 (IT/EN/FR/ES) 📩 Deadline: 30/11/2026 Info: societadellestoriche.it/premio-sis-2/ #History #GenderStudies
societadellestoriche.it
Premio SIS – edizione 2026 – SIS – Società Italiana delle Storiche
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Sandro Pertini: il tempo vissuto #podcast podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com
Sandro Pertini, il tempo vissuto | TRAILER
Puntata podcast · Sandro Pertini, il tempo vissuto · Trailer · 2min
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
#sundayreading
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Cliffs of Moher #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Black Box #podcast : il punto di svolta dell’AI podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/b...
podcasts.apple.com
Il punto di svolta dell'IA
Puntata podcast · Black Box - La scatola nera della finanza · 2 ottobre · 42min
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Cliffs of Moher #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
“But if people hate A.I. because it is at odds with their vision of the good life—because they see it as anti-human—then the existing categories won’t suffice. A new vocabulary is required to describe what is shaping up to be an unprecedented political movement” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
newyorker.com
The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement
At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Cliffs of Moher #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Cliffs of Moher #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
“Liberal Protestantism has lost much of the institutional and associational infrastructure that once sustained its influence, while white Evangelicalism’s identification with free-market conservatism leaves it ill-equipped to meet a broader social ethic” www.commonwealmagazine.org/steinmetz-je...
commonwealmagazine.org
The Catholic Century
The Catholic Church is now the default option for those seeking a Christianity capable of guiding a different kind of politics.
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Cliffs of Moher #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Cliffs of Moher #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
“The person who has been keeping Sara Louise back, doomed to labor under the shadow of Caroline, doomed to waste her life simply because she was born a little less special, is just herself” thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue...
thelampmagazine.com
The Lamp Magazine | So Light and Gold
On envy.
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Cliffs of Moher #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
#Doolin, County Clare #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
"The magazine agreed to pay me a fee annually, and I owed them words in return. These sorts of contracts used to be common during the magazine business’s ‘90s and early-2000s boom times. These days they’re virtually unheard of" www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/i-used-to-...
blackbirdspyplane.com
I used to get paid to hang out with famous people
Notes on a (dying?) dream job
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Inisheer, Aran Islands #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Inisheer, Aran Islands #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
"Nella maggior parte dei casi, questi sistemi misurano il grado di perplessità di un testo, che, semplificando, genera un testo facendo seguire a ogni parola quella che ritiene più probabile sulla base dei testi su cui è stato addestrato" www.ilpost.it/2026/09/28/p...
ilpost.it
Quanto possiamo fidarci di Pangram?
È il software di riferimento per riconoscere i testi generati dall'AI, ma anche i suoi responsi andrebbero presi con cautela
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
"In what universe is it Google's job to console me and be an empathetic listener rather than just find what I am looking for on the internet?" sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/
sancho.bearblog.dev
When did Google get so f-ing weird?
I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Inisheer, Aran Islands #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Inisheer, Aran Islands #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
"The greatest threat to humanity’s survival isn’t climate change, nor is it AI. It’s airline pilots who like dressing up as hot cartoon foxes" www.wired.com/story/furry-...
wired.com
Furry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business
“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville's recent rant.
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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
⚠️ New Paper! 📣 Egalitarianism has been tied to hunter-gatherer subsistence - but is that justified? In synthesising 30 expert commentaries, we argue that the processes underwriting hunter-gatherer egalitarianism appear in most all human societies; though their efficacy is context dependent.
cambridge.org
Beyond egalitarian societies: Egalitarianism as a human universal | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Beyond egalitarian societies: Egalitarianism as a human universal - Volume 49
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
The Mary Wallopers (2026), The Big Mixer youtu.be/6XbyuQyvU9k
youtu.be
The Mary Wallopers - The Big Mixer
YouTube video by The Mary Wallopers
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
working from home
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Inisheer, Aran Islands #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
"Did the European Jews have the right to take over Palestine, a country that toward the end of the nineteenth century was between 95 and 97 percent non-Jewish and then exile, ethnically cleanse, and commit genocide against that country’s indigenous population?" www.theideasletter.org/essay/encoun...
theideasletter.org
Encountering Zionism
In 1902, a founder of Zionism wrote a utopian novel. Theodor Herzl’s Altneuland imagines European Jews, with the blessing of European imperial powers, conquering Palestine. They make its desert bloom,...
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Inisheer, Aran Islands #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Inisheer, Aran Islands #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
"But to praise the Middle Ages for its scientific and technological progress is to value the medieval past for modern reasons — and therefore to distort it" jmarriott.substack.com/p/in-partial...
jmarriott.substack.com
In defence of “The Dark Ages”
The phrase “the dark ages” has long been out of fashion as a description of the early Middle Ages.
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
“Older adults are more likely to participate in the hookup culture of casual encounters and condomless sex, which might be further encouraged by the availability of drugs for sexual dysfunction and the increased use of dating apps for seniors” www.economist.com/internationa...
economist.com
Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation
Baby-boomers are keeping their bad habits into retirement
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X-Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe hands, 1918.
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Inisheer, Aran Islands #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Inisheer, Aran Islands #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
"Intorno a ogni scontro sul tema IA c’è un modo di intendere l’innovazione tecnologica come un reame appannaggio di una casta di possidenti che si appropriano del lavoro altrui, pretendendo nel frattempo che la plebe rimanga zitta, conciliante e in buon ordine" www.culturewars.it/libro-franci...
culturewars.it
Il triste dibattito sullo scrivere con l’IA
Cosa significa scrivere un libro? Prima di rispondere, mettiamoci nei panni degli altri.
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Inisheer, Aran Islands #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
"Who knew that metal could be a place where one of its most notorious stars could perform this achingly sad display of vulnerability and yearning?" psyche.co/turning-poin...
psyche.co
His frailty made Ozzy’s final gig true heavy metal | Psyche Turning Points
Watching a seated Ozzy play his final gig, my ankle broken, I’m in tears – this couldn’t be more metal
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Cliffs of Moher #Ireland
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Cliffs of Moher #Ireland
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