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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...

David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, responded to our request for comment on the paper by saying he was not interested in reading it. “I’m sorry, but I’d rather keep my brain cells,” he said.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 01/10/2026

'Catastrophic': Swiss glaciers lose 20% of mass in five years. Swiss glaciers saw 5.5% of their volume melt away just this year, the second-biggest melt on record, Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) network reports u.afp.com/S9B2

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/09/2026

Thinking a lot lately about the men I know who are willfully ignorant about power dynamics and how I don’t *know* they’ve done anything specifically worse than be willfully ignorant about power dynamics but also if I had to guess which of my acquaintances had, I’d guess them first.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/08/2026

FOLKS - when we stop burning fossil fuels, oversizing agriculture and killing nature, the warming of Earth also stops worsening No floppy optimism here; no hollow appeal to hope. The laws of physics that created this problem also govern the fact we can choose to stop it.

Graph correlating cumulative CO2 emissions since 1850 with global warming to 2050, showing historical warming and colored projections for SSP1-1.9, SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5 with shaded uncertainty bands.

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Last night, one of the longest and loudest storms I can remember. A "small" reminder that heat waves aren't just high temperatures we can fix with AC, but enormous energy stored in the atmosphere, ready to be released exactly when we expect relief

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You Don’t Belong Here is a terrific film that engages intelligently, without didacticism, with complex topics like toxic masculinity, polite racism and the performative society. The director Florin Șerban won the top prize at Locarno. Here my interview with him www.thelatethinker.com/in-greek-tra...

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In Greek Tragedy We Have the Gods. Now We Have Society — A Conversation with Director Florin Șerban

What happens to a man raised on excellence and merit when they stop being enough? Florin Șerban's film won the Golden Leopard at Locarno with a story about a father, a son, and a murder nobody wants t...

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I read, and enjoyed, Massimo Pigliucci's book on skepticism as a philosophy of life. Very interesting and somewhat challenging, but I have some doubts (pun not intended). Full review here: www.thelatethinker.com/cicero-skept...

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Cicero, Skepticism, and the Limits of Human Nature

A review of Massimo Pigliucci's How to Be a (Happy) Skeptic: an excellent introduction to Cicero and skeptical Stoicism, with some pushback on where 'human nature' falls short as an ethical foundation...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Title: My confidence in my understanding of the scientific theory.

A diagram where the confidence is marked in red on an otherwise white figure

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"Before I got a book about it."
The figure is red up to about his stomach

Panel 2
"While I was reading the book."
The figure is reading a book. He is red up to his forehead.

Panel 3
"When I had finished the book."
The red level has dropped to around his mouth

Panel 4
"One week later."
Now it is at his chest.

Panel 5
"When I try to explain it to somebody."
The level is back at stomach level.

Panel 6
"When they ask a follow-up question."
The red is so low we can barely see it.

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Everyone agrees the heatwave deaths were preventable. The disagreement — between AC advocates, green-city planners, emergency managers, and decarbonizers — is over how. But "adapt or cut emissions?" is a false dilemma. But…

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Non è solo una questione di vernice: quello che sta accadendo intorno alla reflecting pool del Lincoln Memorial dipinta di blu bandiera americana può sembrare un episodio minore sul quale scherzare, ma è un caso di studio quasi perfetto di come si una democrazia si corrompe in un regime autoritario

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

On one hand, I think we need a deep reflection on the cognitive delegation to AI systems. On the other hand, an article like this seems like a “too many cars, no one knows how to manage a horse these days” kind of argument www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

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Giulio Betti @giuliofirenze.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Che fine ha fatto l’anticiclone delle Azzorre? L’alta pressione più amata dagli Italiani non è scomparsa, è esattamente lì dove deve stare: in prossimità delle Isole Azzorre. Si tratta di un anticiclone permanente di origine subtropicale OCEANICA (le parole sono importanti) e rappresenta…1/8

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Un campione di 176 stati esaminati lungo tutto l’arco di tempo 1816-2001 genera uno spettro di possibili interazioni bilaterali, anno dopo anno, pari a un totale di 517.251: la guerra ricorre in 1.010 (0,2%). La guerra è un’eccezione, non la regola. Da Flores e Gazzini, Perché la guerra, Laterza

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It was 2021, the pandemic was still ongoing, and I had interviewed bioethicist Julian Savulescu – we talked about vaccines, obviously, but also about public ethics and shared decision-making www.thelatethinker.com/ethics-is-no...

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Ethics Is Not a Feeling — An Interview With Julian Savulescu

Should you pay people to get vaccinated? Can organ markets be ethical? Is there a drug that could make us morally better? Julian Savulescu doesn't ask these questions to provoke. He asks them because ...

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Ho visto Disclosure Day. Bello: Spielberg è un grande regista, Emily Blunt e Colin Firth grandi attori e i personaggi ben caratterizzati. Ma ho un problema di sospensione dell'incredulità: posso credere che gli alieni esistano e siano tra noi; non che ci sia una guerra e gli USA non c'entrano nulla

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/06/2026

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

How many corporations does it take to fix the climate? None. They just define global warming as “industry standard”.

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Did you read, and maybe fancy, the Encyclical on AI? If yes, please also read “A moment of choice: Harnessing artificial intelligence for decent work”, the report by the Director-General of the ILO. Similar worries, more concrete approach. www.ilo.org/resource/con...

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A moment of choice: Harnessing artificial intelligence for decent work. Report of the Director-General

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Le cause della disinformazione? Partigianeria, fiducia cieca nelle fonti, contesto ignorato, adulazione del potente. Lo aveva capito, sette secoli fa, Ibn Khaldun lestinto.substack.com/p/una-newsle...

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Una newsletter di civiltà

La newsletter numero 173 del 5 giugno 2026

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Linguistics is amazing. Liechtenstein is one of the smallest countries in the world, comparable to a neighbourhood of a city. And it's still possible to map regional differences in spoken language.

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The logo is far from perfection, but the 13th stripe is clearly the "TRUMP MOBILE" text, so nothing to see here. Do we really need specious reasons to criticize Trump? I think this attitude tell more about us than about Trump. www.theverge.com/gadgets/9313...

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Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?

Here’s a hint: it’s not 11.

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In ‘My Life’ (1993), Michael Keaton has months to live and a pregnant wife. He records videos to guide his son as he grows up. A VHS can’t replace a living father, but it’s all he can do — the film’s “happy ending.” In a hypothetical remake, he’d fine-tune an LLM. I wonder how audiences would react.

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

E se la smettessimo di considerare "intelligenti" gli LLM? Dopo il caso Guardian/collaboratore del NY Times, provo a sviluppare l'idea che gli LLM sono una compressione lossy dei testi in cui, al contrario di foto e audio, ci interessano gli artefatti lestinto.substack.com/p/le-intelli...

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★ Le intelligenze artificiali generative sono un JPEG di quello che l'umanità ha scritto

La newsletter per abbonati numero 2: un caso di plagio al New York Times, il patto tra chi scrive e chi legge, e perché dovremmo pensare alle IA come a degli algoritmi di compressione

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Parigi è strana. A Saint-Denis trovi la targa che ricorda gli algerini assassinati il 17 ottobre 1961 mentre manifestavano pacificamente. In centro, vicino al Gran Palais, c'è una statua di De Gaulle che ricorda il patto "venti volte secolare" tra la grandeur francese e la pace del mondo

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I think that the best way to define Charlie Kirk's killer's political motivations is "confused" – not because investigations are not closed, but objectively confused ideas. Maybe we should focus on keeping confused minds from shooting people instead of forcing neat political boxes

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I launched a new English newsletter: The Late Thinker. Free to subscribe; archive will be for paid later. Issue #1: my long chat with Eran Kolirin on his surreal tragicomedy “Some Notes on the Current Situation,” politics, absurdism, and sanity. www.thelatethinker.com/words-are-bu...

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Words Are Bullshit – Interview with Israeli Filmmaker Eran Kolirin

I had the opportunity to meet Israeli director Eran Kolirin. For those who don't know him, he's the author of two terrific films that I loved (he has made many other things, of course, but I want to k...

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Nothing better than an open-air breakfast on a rainy day to confirm that yes, birds are nothing but tiny dinosaurs.

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Perché tutto deve essere "emblematico"? Perché un esempio non può essere semplicemente rappresentativo, significativo, importante, caratteristico, indicativo?

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

It has been dubbed Britain’s “most woke” roundabout because drivers must give priority to pedestrians, then cyclists, and then other cars and lorries before continuing on themselves. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

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‘Confusing’ new roundabout needs three-minute explainer video

Drivers will have to give priority to pedestrians, then cyclists on new route

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Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The irony of writing an op-ed about how we need more numbers about AI's energy usage... and getting publicly attacked by corporate greenwashers about the fact that the numbers I use are inaccurate. I mean, yes, surely, but... the only way to prove that is by reporting them in the first place? 🤷

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We are all worried about losing our jobs due to AI. But what should really scare us is losing our salary and income: I welcome AI to steal my job, particularly the boring parts; what I really don't want is employers stealing my salary

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施必勝🌐☸️ @luca-schenato.ch · 20/05/2025

Un rifugio alpino svizzero su tre è a rischio a causa dei cambiamenti climatici: scioglimento del permafrost, rischio di frane e scarsità d'acqua

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Il grattacielo che avete appena costruito rischia di crollare in caso di forti venti – cosa fate? Rendete pubblico il tutto o mantenete il segreto mentre cercate una soluzione? Una storia vera per ragionare di segreti e trasparenza open.substack.com/pub/lestinto...

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Una newsletter che non vuole mantenere il segreto

La newsletter numero 131 del 16 maggio 2025. Oggi parlo di edifici che per fortuna non crollano, dell’autorevolezza delle IA, di processi e vittime e di remigrazione

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Ivo Silvestro @ivosilvestro.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Deepseek has succeeded where other LLMs like Claude, Mistral, Gemini or Llama have failed: telling people that there are alternatives to ChatGPT. I think this is the big difference of Deepseek. Now we all know that LLMs are a bigger world than before.

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