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Paolo Bory

@paolobory.bsky.social
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Researcher @ Politecnico di Milano Sociology and history of digital tech, narratives of media change. My book: www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/…

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Internazionale @internazionale.it · 09/09/2025
La Global sumud flotilla ha condiviso un video girato dalla telecamera di sorveglianza dell’imbarcazione. Le sei persone a bordo dell’imbarcazione sono rimaste incolumi.
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La Global sumud flotilla denuncia di essere stata colpita da un drone al largo di Tunisi
Il 9 settembre la Global sumud flotilla, diretta a Gaza con un carico di aiuti umanitari, ha affermato che una delle sue imbarcazioni è stata colpita da un drone al largo di Tunisi, mentre le autorità...
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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Non è più una tranquilla notte di regime #stefanobenni #baol
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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
After months of pain and crazy writing, this OA book, written by Chris Hesselbein and me, is finally out. Behind the bleeding cover, you'll find our analysis of the metaverse (no, it’s not dead!), or rather of the current metaverses as "infrastructures of reality". link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Infrastructures of Reality: Metaverse Stories, Spaces, Bodies
This open access book focuses on two dimensions of the development of the metaverse that are crucial to ‘reality’, namely spatiality and embodiment.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Thank you @ruha9.bsky.social for opening STS Italia with such moral clarity and urgency
Final slide of Ruha Benjamin’s opening keynote at STS Italia, featuring artwork by Blackmau (2019) and a quote from Octavia Butler: ‘It may be the end of the world…but there are other worlds!’
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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Our special issue co-edited with @chrish6699.bsky.social and @stefanocanali.bsky.social is finally out! "Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures" www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...
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Information, Communication & Society
Special Issue: Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures. Guest Editors: Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory and Stefano Canali. Volume 28, Issue 5 of Information, Communication & Societ...
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Gabriele Balbi @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Why do we confuse the "Internet" with the "Web"? And how was this confusion addressed at @cern.bsky.social ? Paper co-authored with the #WWWHistory Project @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social team: Deborah Barcella, @fandomistheanswer.bsky.social, and Martin Fomasi. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Stop calling the Web the Internet: CERN’s tactics to fight ‘brand confusion’ in the mid-1990s
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Andrea Daniele Signorelli @adsignorelli.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Un’epoca in cui anche la gentilezza base causa esternalità negative* 🥲 [*negative per l’impatto ambientale, non perché Altaman ci smena soldi]
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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Au CERN, le berceau du web (ECREA workshop)
En ce début février 2025, j’ai eu la chance de participer à la conférence-atelier de la section « Histoire de la communication » de l’ECREA qui portait sur l&rsquo…
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anya shchetvina @anya-shchetvina.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
> I had a pleasure of interviewing @pbory.bsky.social about his book "The Internet Myth", network ideology and AI imaginaries. It was fun, the full interview is here! matterofimagination.neocities.org/blog8
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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Naples, 3 April. Chinese scholars and our Prin crew #prin22 #metaverse #china
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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I now see why we don't hear of whistle blowers anymore. They already whistle, pretending to whisper @philipdisalvo.bsky.social?
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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A few days left, #STSItalia Don't miss it! #STS #Technoscience #Milan
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Call for Abstracts - STS Italia
Join the 10th Biennial STS Italia Conference, 'Technoscience for Good,' on 11-13 June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Explore cutting-edge discussions on ethical, social, and political di...
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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Deadline 3 february, join us in Milan for a collective investigation of the "metaverse" #sts #metaverse #ar #vr #mr #etc
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Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
#OutNow in #iCS Gianluigi Negro and Tonio Savina’s article, “Yuanyuzhou 元宇宙: yesterday, today, tomorrow,” provides a historical overview of the Chinese Metaverse, highlighting its unique development and future prospects within China’s digital landscape.
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Yuanyuzhou 元宇宙: yesterday, today, tomorrow. Historical roots, current visions, and future dynamics of real-world integration in the Chinese governmental narrative on the Metaverse
As one of the most searched buzzwords on the Chinese Internet in 2021, the ‘Metaverse' (yuan yuzhou 元宇宙) has gained significant momentum in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), attracting the atte...
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 13/01/2025
Starlink has disrupted Kenya's existing ISP industry since its launch in July 2023, forcing legacy providers to lower prices and increase internet speeds (Rest of World) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Carola Frediani @carolafrediani.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Oggi torniamo dalle vacanze col sito Guerre di Rete pubblicando una bella analisi di Andrea Daniele Signorelli su tutti i fronti di #OpenAI. www.guerredirete.it/tutti-i-guai...
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Tutti i guai di OpenAI - Guerre di Rete
Malgrado goda ancora di enorme fiducia da parte dei finanziatori, la società sinonimo di ChatGPT deve fronteggiare costi esorbitanti, divisioni interne e possibili, imminenti barriere tecnologiche.
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Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
#OutNow in #iCS In "Six Provocations for Metaverse Datafication," Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory, and Stefano Canali analyze how metaverse data shapes knowledge, privacy, and social inequality, highlighting its cultural, technological, and scholarly impacts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Six provocations for metaverse datafication: an emergent cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon
Although the ‘metaverse’ is still the feverish pipedream of tech companies and venture capitalists, it is also a powerful imaginary for channelling enormous resources towards deepening and extendin...
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Call for abstracts STS Italia in Milano next June, with a promising session on scientific publishing #STS stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...
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Call for Abstracts - STS Italia
Join the 10th Biennial STS Italia Conference, 'Technoscience for Good,' on 11-13 June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Explore cutting-edge discussions on ethical, social, and political di...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/12/2024
#HistSTM #STS 🧪
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Stefano Canali @stefanocanali.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New paper out with @pbory.bsky.social and Chris Hesselbein! We discuss new forms of data and datafication in the metaverse and, echoing seminal work by @zephoria.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social, we present six provocations for metaverse datafication. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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Six provocations for metaverse datafication: an emergent cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon
Although the ‘metaverse’ is still the feverish pipedream of tech companies and venture capitalists, it is also a powerful imaginary for channelling enormous resources towards deepening and extendin...
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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Cfa: Searching for the Metaverse. Mapping and disentangling the imaginaries of VR-MR Join us in Milan for the X STS Italia conference, panel 10 (like D10s) on the imaginaries of VR/MR organized by me, my brilliant brother Stefano Bory and the great Gianluigi Negro: stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
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Philip Di Salvo @philipdisalvo.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead at age 26: www.cnbc.com/2024/12/13/f...
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Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead at age 26
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment in recent weeks, officials confirmed to CNBC.
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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
👾Fresh Call for Abstracts!👁️ Come visit #STSItalia in Milan this summer to share your research at our panel on Critical Hype Studies exploring the many sociopsychotechnoenvironmental faces of hype. Deadline: Feb 3. @imaginaries.bsky.social stsitalia.org/call-for-abs... stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
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Call for Abstracts - STS Italia
Join the 10th Biennial STS Italia Conference, 'Technoscience for Good,' on 11-13 June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Explore cutting-edge discussions on ethical, social, and political di...
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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 11/12/2024
here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
We may be entering the "Jevon's Paradox" stage of AI: More efficient systems lead to increased use. Against this paradox, the argument that AI helps militaries kill less civilians may not hold. Are we killing more? Appreciating @timnitgebru.bsky.social OpEd: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/s...
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Who Is Tech Really For?
As Silicon Valley chases military tech and funding, it’s losing sight of what inspires its workers.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
What people say they want in local news: “greater transparency + media scrutiny around development projects”; “more explanatory journalism that can break down decision making at different levels of government + empower ppl to participate politically”; “information pertaining to social services” …
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What New Yorkers Want From Local News
New York Focus traveled across the state to meet with communities about their local news needs.
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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Out now: Six provocations for metaverse datafication www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Authored by my friends and colleagues Chris Hesselbein, @stefanocanali.bsky.social and me for #infocomm&soc
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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Out now: Six provocations for metaverse datafication www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... On why, beyond hypes and disillusions, we must worry and think about the pandatification of reality Authored by my friends and colleagues Chris Hesselbein, @stefanocanali.bsky.social and me for #infocomm&soc
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Six provocations for metaverse datafication: an emergent cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon
Although the ‘metaverse’ is still the feverish pipedream of tech companies and venture capitalists, it is also a powerful imaginary for channelling enormous resources towards deepening and extendin...
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Arianna Ciccone @ariannaciccone.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
La Siria all’improvviso | @enricodeangelis.bsky.social per @valigiablu.it
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La Siria all'improvviso - Valigia Blu
La nuova e inaspettata offensiva dei gruppi armati di opposizione, che hanno conquistato Aleppo e Hama in pochi giorni, ha colto tutti di sorpresa e ha rivelanto la fragilità del regime di Bashar al A...
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🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
📣 New: AI depends on immense resources, mostly controlled by large companies. 

 This means "open" AI… isn't very open. 📄 From me, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @smw.bsky.social in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Screenshot of Nature website of linked article with title "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08141-1" and abstract:

This paper examines ‘open’ artificial intelligence (AI). Claims about ‘open’ AI often lack precision, frequently eliding scrutiny of substantial industry concentration in large-scale AI development and deployment, and often incorrectly applying understandings of ‘open’ imported from free and open-source software to AI systems. At present, powerful actors are seeking to shape policy using claims that ‘open’ AI is either beneficial to innovation and democracy, on the one hand, or detrimental to safety, on the other. When policy is being shaped, definitions matter. To add clarity to this debate, we examine the basis for claims of openness in AI, and offer a material analysis of what AI is and what ‘openness’ in AI can and cannot provide: examining models, data, labour, frameworks, and computational power. We highlight three main affordances of ‘open’ AI, namely transparency, reusability, and extensibility, and we observe that maximally ‘open’ AI allows some forms of oversight and experimentation on top of existing models. However, we find that openness alone does not perturb the concentration of power in AI. Just as many traditional open-source software projects were co-opted in various ways by large technology companies, we show how rhetoric around ‘open’ AI is frequently wielded in ways that exacerbate rather than reduce concentration of power in the AI sector.
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Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Still so exciting - and surreal - to see this book out in the world! Get your copy from @ucpress.bsky.social here: www.ucpress.edu/books/approp...
Picture of a white woman, with long brown hair and glasses, holding a copy of a book titled "Appropriate Negotiate Challenge"Box with several copies of the same book, titled "Appropriate Negotiate Challenge"
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Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
New chapter 'Between Monstrous Dystopias and Policy Utopias in Artificial Intelligence: Reporting on a ten-year journey into the AI-topia' in the amazing new book 'Dystopian Worlds Beyond Storytelling' - enjoy! Purchase link: www.ibidem.eu/en/Topics/Li... AAM: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
And surfing this wave is some good analysis from a new generation of historians paying close attention to AI. The recent BJHS Themes is an example www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 27/11/2024
X owner Elon Musk took aim at the newly approved European Commission today, calling the body “undemocratic,” the latest of a series of his public critiques of European Union institutions and policymaking.
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Elon Musk blasts ‘undemocratic’ EU in ongoing feud
The billionaire tech entrepreneur said the European Parliament is giving up its authority to the Commission.
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🚨 Dopo quasi due anni di lavoro, posso finalmente condividere i risultati del progetto di ricerca che ho condotto insieme ai colleghi di AlgorithmWatch su automazione/AI e migrazioni. Inchieste, analisi, riflessioni e un contributo per cambiare le cose. Qui: algorithmwatch.org/en/automatio...
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Automation on the Move - AlgorithmWatch
Systems based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) are increasingly being experimented with and used on migrants, refugees, and travelers. Too often, this is done withou...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/11/2024
‘Hackers are usually intelligent and highly educated. Yet the success of a hack relies less on mathematical prowess or coding pizzazz than on a keen understanding of human psychology.’ Vadim Nikitin on cybercrime: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Vadim Nikitin · Dadada: Chasing the Cybercriminals
It’s true that hackers are usually intelligent and highly educated. Yet the success of a hack relies less on...
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Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I LOVE @emilymbender.bsky.social 's latest newsletter "ChatGPT has no place in the Classroom". As I said last week, we need a movement to STOP the casual industry-driven use of ChatGPT in education. The newsletter ('Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000') is accessible here www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
pub day! please welcome "Network breakdown: the queer anarchist politics at the heart of the ‘net from FidoNet to HOMOCORE" to the world the piece puts Tom Jennings' work as the co-architect of FidoNet alongside the queer, anarchist politics in his zine HOMOCORE www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Network breakdown: the queer anarchist politics at the heart of the ‘net from FidoNet to HOMOCORE
In a 1993 interview for the anarchist magazine FringeWare Review, software developer Tom Jennings remarked to his interviewer, “Think you can mention somewhere that I’m a fag anarcho nerd troublema...
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Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The Sudlow Review resonates with Ada's research with @healthfoundation.bsky.social. The data 'pipeline' underpinning data-driven systems in healthcare is full of ‘knots’ which disrupt how well they work, creating systemic and unequal impacts on people. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/knott...
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A knotted pipeline
Data-driven systems and inequalities in health and social care
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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Condivido tutte le riflessioni di @enricodeangelis.bsky.social, che ha messo a nudo il disordine nel quale navighiamo, a mio avviso, non solo su Gaza. Il risultato di un lungo processo di "staccamento" e "strategic numbing", in parte irreversibile, ma da combattere senza tregua tinyurl.com/mvwsjbk8
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L’informazione di fronte alla catastrofe
di Enrico De Angelis Il testo originale è stato pubblicato sulla rivista UntoldMag . La traduzione è di Francesco De Lellis, con alcune aggiunte dell’autore. Ogni giorno ci svegliamo con un nuovo boll...
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Philip Di Salvo @philipdisalvo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Advertisers are returning to Twitter/X to keep Elon Musk happy: disconnect.blog/advertisers-...
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Advertisers are returning to Twitter/X to keep Elon Musk happy
Brands know Musk has influence with Donald Trump and want to make sure he doesn’t use it against them
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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Ok nuovo social nuova vita, ma non ci compiaciamo troppo
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