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Zuck is a fascist pig, no, better pigs than fascists

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60 vuol dire che non riempono nemmeno le buche

Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

60? le provinciali dove se si incrociano due macchine e devono mettere le ruote sull'erba fanno 70 kmh (ma i ponti sul Po che sono tienimi che ti tengo sono limite 30 con telecamere e multa sicura, tutta l'italia è Sicilia)

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In sum.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

e che coincidenza, oggi entrano in vigore le sanzioni USA contro h/t Json Momoa bsky.app/profile/jota...

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The IDF came into my Twitter replies to try & boost their fake report accusing Palestinian journalists they murdered of being Hamas. But when Piers Morgan invited them to debate the so-called evidence with me, they didn't show up so... he empty-chaired them. And then I debunked their 'study':

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 09/10/2026

FT commenter: "A masterpiece bit of analysis and why I subscribe; Bryce you are a God."

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

se sei "crudele" sulla tua automobile in pubblico probabilmente ti arrestano perchè sei evidentemente pericoloso per la società

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RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.

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Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Well. Here it is: a new book that has been keeping me busy for a while. The Seventh Continent: Antarctica and the Southern Oceans. Past, Present and Future 1/5

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mi sono imbattuto in questo post dello scorso anno, de lə filosofə Helen de Cruz scritto in punto di morte, dedicate 5 minuti alla sua lettura

era seduta nella parte alta o bassa del vagone ? sto cercando di immaginarmelo come una sorta di balconismo wazzzup

FT celebra le capacità di risk management dei superfunds cresciuti nel boom degli ultimi due anni, e dato che cita Jane Street ma dimentica Aschenbrenner lo faccio io, così sapete come è nata la più frande perdita di trading di tutti i tempi in una correzione minore del mercato

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One of the biggest drivers of growth — beyond simply the expansion of the hedge fund industry — has been the rise of a small number of mega hedge funds and trading firms. Large multi-managers made up more than a third of the industry’s trading activity last year despite managing less than a tenth of its assets, according to Goldman.

Because the managers are sophisticated players with hundreds of trading teams across a spectrum of asset classes, they have an inbuilt diversification and level of risk management that has allowed banks to justify ratcheting up their lending.

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cresce l'esposizione ed è anche concentrata nei player più grandi, quali Jane Street e Citadel, sono due segnali che puntano a una maggiore fragilità finanziaria ma l'articolo del FT si legge quasi come un rito buon augurante, un gesto apotropaico per esorcizzare un futuro già presente (segue)

Hedge fund borrowing from banks has tripled since 2020

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How a trillion-dollar hedge fund borrowing spree became Wall Street’s cash cow

FT ci racconta che l'esposizione delle banche verso hedge funds e trading houses per il trading su azioni e bond è raddoppiato dal 2024 a oggi, ma lo fa in un articolo "feel good" dove racconta che raddoppiano i profitti di brokerage della banche (gift per il primo che clicca)

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Banks’ trading businesses are booming, but post-crisis regulation means it is no longer them placing the bets

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Shakespeare as hipster. Probably the only portrait to be painted from life!

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tecnico ma interessante (ho lavorato su queste cose) a causa del rifinanziamento a disposizione ai clienti USA i titoli MBS hanno convessità negativa. I tassi salgono il rischio/duration aumenta invece di scendere e li rende prociclici e destabilizzanti per il mercato bond bearish di questo giorni

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ma in fondo già Walter Benjamin ci aveva messo in guardia, con la riproducibilità dell'opera d'arte "quantity has been transmuted into quality,” setting the stage for a battle between concentration and distraction. The result is to promote a public that “is an examiner, but an absent-minded one.”

I am reminded of Walter Benjamin’s well-known essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” first drafted in 1935. It is a deep reflection on what the technologies of photography and especially filmmaking had done to the practice—the art—of image-making. In a deft rhetorical display he argues that, once mechanical reproduction untethers a work of art from its singular existence, society reaches a dialectical fork. On the one hand, photography and film can democratize image-making for all kinds of positive effects: good things can happen when everyone is an author, or even more, feels as though they can be an author. These technologies also “bring out those aspects of the original that are unattainable to the naked eye.” But with reproducibility “quantity has been transmuted into quality,” setting the stage for a battle between concentration and distraction. The result is to promote a public that, according to Benjamin, “is an examiner, but an absent-minded one.”

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e affrontando il caso OpenAI è chiaro che c'è una "bitter lesson" da imparare "outside estimates put it at several hundred thousand GPU-hours, which translate to roughly the amount of electricity it takes to power a town for the four or so days that the model ran. Eventually the problem fell."

To this task, by their estimation, they dedicated “on the order of” ten thousand agents. The agents were given the new Euler proof and centuries’ worth of published mathematical work. They very well may also have benefited from the residue of several years of mathematicians’ interactions with OpenAI’s wide range of tools. This swarm of agents was set up in such a way that they could efficiently share their findings among themselves—and share they did. They “talked” to one another for eighty-eight hours, generating 2.7 million messages—130 billion tokens of output, the equivalent of about several hundred thousand books of scratch work.

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The Work of Math in the Age of Artificial Reproduction | Dan Rockmore

grazie, aspetto con ansia quando ne scriverai per capirci qualcosa :) Nel mentre mi leggo questo bell'articolo du NY Books Review sulla bellezza di Navier-Stokes www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

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There are seven questions in pure mathematics deemed important enough by the Clay Mathematics Institute, a nonprofit foundation devoted to “furthering the

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@xmau.bsky.social ecco OpenAI che risolve la quasi congettura di Riemann

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e questo a testimonianza che è un tema da flame online, i good old days dove online si discuteva c'erano i troll ma non erano tutti bot e non c'era i tech oligarchs a distruggerci l'esperienza perchè dobbiamo solo chattare con gli LLM (chissà se questo prende un like) bsky.app/profile/wbth...

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e la cocnlusione non è così negativa alla fine bsky.app/profile/wbth...

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nei commenti si trova una piattaforma che ti permette di esplorare l'evidenza sulla base delle diverse misure di controllo degli affitti bsky.app/profile/wbth...

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bookmark, il tema dei controlli degli affitti è uno di quelli infinitamente dibattuti e allora Ben Murdoch di FT fa una review delle evidenze empiriche e sembra piuttosto negativa ma bsky.app/profile/jbur...

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questa cosa che Berlusconi è stato Trump 20 anni prima e che il malessere industriale dell'Italia è stato quello della UE 40 anni prima e adesso ci troviamo nello stesso ciclo inflazione/svalutazione di 60 anni fa, ma nella UE

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quando c'era la Lira ogni crisi domestica/internazionale aumentava l'inflazione in ITA ed era seguita da un peggiorameto della bilancia dei pagamenti (industria retooling per +produttività) e subito dopo svalutazione della Lira vs DEM/USD per +competitività, ecco la UE con l'Euro vs Yuan Cinese

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they engineered a nice reboot there, someone bankrupts SVB with rumours, the state picks up the tab, someone not unconnetced to that milieu start a new bank to fill in the void www.ft.com/content/42b6...

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Kevin M. Esvelt - Wikipedia

3d sulla epidemia in Russia, solo perchè uno di MIT Media Lab? E' biologo e lavora a Sculpting Evolution che sembra in tema en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_M...

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la pianura padana è il posto peggiore in Europa per l'inquinamento da ozono, al pari di altre pianure come tigri-eufrate, aree di India e Cina

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specie perchè è chiaramente incappottata e passa da 20k di riscaldamento all'anno a 5k e si può così sopportare il colore grigio che, si poteva fare di meglio

"In each strike, the order said, officers had the authority to risk killing up to 20 civilians.(.) Mid-ranking officers had never been given so much leeway (.) the military could target rank-and-file militants as they were at home surrounded by relatives and neighbors" bsky.app/profile/wesl...

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"and remember that what this data (based on Sentinel 1 radar satellite imagery) can’t capture is the extreme, to-the-foundations thoroughness of the earthmover demolitions of 2025 compared to the damage inflicted by aerial munitions."

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nella crisi climatica gli assicuratori sono gli unici capitalisti che non si possono permettere il negazionismo di far finta di niente, ugualmente nella grande truffa delle rogue AI sono quelli che ne capiscono, e prezzano bene il rischio

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Insurance claims to test Altman and Amodei liability for ‘rogue’ AI

"Insurance broker Aon analysed more than 300 AI-related legal cases and found that insurers could also be on the hook to pay claims under policies covering crime, intellectual property, media liability, cyber security, and technology errors and omissions." www.ft.com/content/a5ca...

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Insurers and lawyers weigh the cost of potential massive lawsuits and damages against the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And we can only imagine aliens (or etc) behaving just like the worst humans - because War of the Worlds is specifically based on what the British did in Tasmania, and that book is about ordinary powerlessness in the face of the horror of that invasion. But what if they were a bit kinder than us?

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Gennaro Carotenuto @gennarocarotenuto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

La prima volta che #Lula si candidò in Brasile, c'erano Reagan, Gorbaciov, Mitterand. Quando vinse c'erano Blair, Chirac, Mubarak e Saddam. Solo Putin, ma in dittatura, è più longevo. Come si misura l'usura di un leader democratico?

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too bad Quinn Slobodian was here but his account was deactivated yesterday, right when I was reading him, I wonder what happened, it could have been a great discussion

how would you feel if you were a chip design company, and both ASML and TSMC competed to steal your design, while you couldn't manufacture a single chip yourself, not in a human lifetime?