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Pietro Belotti @pietrobelotti.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says
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Pietro Belotti @pietrobelotti.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
www.dw.com/en/zurich-to...
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Zurich votes to restrict leaf blowers in pollution row – DW – 09/28/2025
Noisy gas-powered leaf blowers will become a thing of the past in Switzerland's Zurich, after more than 61% of citizens voted in favor of banning them in a referendum.
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Pietro Belotti @pietrobelotti.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
"Baidu CEO Robin Li recently predicted that 99 percent of so-called AI companies will not survive the bubble, while legitimate businesses are now squandering money and potential productivity gains in an attempt to turn everything into an AI workload." www.techspot.com/news/109626-...
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The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns
According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot...
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The Register @theregister.com · 24/09/2025
India’s IT minister moves to Zoho’s spreadsheet and word processor, urges 1.4 billion people to do likewise
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India’s IT minister moves to Zoho’s spreadsheet and word processor, urges 1.4 billion people to do likewise
Watch out, Microsoft and Google India’s minister for information technology yesterday said he’s dumping his current word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics packages, will adopt the locally made alternatives from Zoho instead, and urged India’s 1.4 billion residents to do likewise.…
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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Do I have news for you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muu3...
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AARDVARKS – Farkas’ Lemma
YouTube video by AARDVARKS Official
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Pietro Belotti @pietrobelotti.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"Al posto di Word e PowerPoint, i funzionari migreranno verso LibreOffice. Le email passeranno attraverso Open Xchange e Thunderbird, invece di Outlook, e i documenti saranno modificati collettivamente su Nextcloud, non su Sharepoint." euractiv.it/section/capi...
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Il Land tedesco che fa da apripista alla sovranità digitale - Euractiv Italia
Le pubbliche amministrazioni di tutta l’Unione europea sostengono l’esigenza di una maggiore sovranità digitale, pur continuando a difendere il loro uso abituale dei software Microsoft. Ma una regione tedesca sta davvero passando dalle parole ai fatti: lo Schleswig-Holstein. Pur contando...
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Pietro Belotti @pietrobelotti.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Output of AI overview to a likely question "can my sister's son be born before me?". The answer is in the negative with an illogical explanation.
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 03/09/2025
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Mural art on a white brick walkk picturing a crying Sam Altman and the caption:

Please bro.
We're so close to AGI.
Just $20.000.000.000 more bro.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2025
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Google AI search result for “was 2010 fifteen years ago?” returning: “No, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15 years ago. The current year is 2025, and to find the number of years ago 2010 was, you subtract 2010 from 2025, which equals 14. 
Current Year: 2025
Past Year: 2010
Years Ago: 2025 - 2010 = 14 years”
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Pietro Belotti @pietrobelotti.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Author: Amy Luers, senior global director for Sustainability Science and Innovation, Microsoft. Ahem...
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The Register @theregister.com · 20/08/2025
Anarchy in the AI: Trump's desire to supercharge US tech faces plenty of hurdles
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Anarchy in the AI: Trump's desire to supercharge US tech faces plenty of hurdles
Rotten is as Rotten does Opinion  It's 1976, and in the country of the Beatles, another guitar band is giving it some. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols isn't so keen on love and blackbirds. Instead, he sings lustily that he wants to be an anarchist, destroying passers-by and in general promoting anarchy in the UK.…
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Pietro Belotti @pietrobelotti.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
'[...] Then I saw the last sentence, “AI-generated definition”, and I realised what went wrong. This was AI slop. Not only that. It was AI slop on ScienceDirect, a “premier platform for scientific, health and technical literature”' irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
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SMBC comic Bot @smbc-bot.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dress www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dress If you ask a topologist what their house is like they start counting windows, doors, and chimneys.
If you ask a topologist what their house is like they start counting windows, doors, and chimneys.
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 11/08/2025
This is big. GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s core AI engineering team. Github is no longer independent company. www.theverge.com/news/757461/...
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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/08/2025
Snake-in-the-Box Problem xkcd.com/3125/
Comic. A snake slithers around a hypercube. No two non-consecutive parts of its coils can be on adjacent corners. [Three small 4-dimensional hypercubes showing disallowed options with one large cube with snake wrapped around it. Dimensions = 4. Max Length - 7.] Snake(N) = Longest snake that can fit in an n-dimensional hypercube. Snake(N=1, 2, 3…8) = 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 26, 50, 98. Snake(N>8) = UNSOLVED. [caption] It turns out every scientific field has a key thought experiment that involves putting a cute animal in a weird box for no reason. So far, quantum mechanics and graph theory have found theirs, but most other fields are still working on it.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 05/08/2025
It's time for action against plastic pollution. ⚠️ Only 9% of plastic is recycled. ⚠️ If current trends continue, plastic production will triple by 2060. Today, a new negotiation begins toward a global agreement to end plastic pollution. Our priorities for the agreement ↓
A two-panel cartoon contrasts ocean pollution in the 19th and 21st centuries.

Left panel (19th Century): A clear blue ocean contains two fish and a single glass bottle floating on the surface with a note inside that says "HELP!".

Right panel (21st Century): The ocean is crowded with plastic bottles and trash, almost no clear water is visible. A fish trapped among the plastic debris is shouting "HELP!" in a speech bubble.
The cartoon highlights the dramatic increase in ocean pollution over time.
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Pietro Belotti @pietrobelotti.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
futurism.com/chatgpt-lega...
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If You've Asked ChatGPT a Legal Question, You May Have Accidentally Doomed Yourself in Court
Sam Altman has admitted that ChatGPT conversations can be used against you in court if they are subpoenaed.
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Europe’s summer of humiliation. A sobering read by Marc de Vos on Europe’s self imposed capitulation
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Europe’s summer of humiliation
America knew the EU was weak. The rest of the world knows it now
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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SMBC comic Bot @smbc-bot.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Eat www.smbc-comics.com/comic/eat-5 If the comic was too long, please run an AI summary.
If the comic was too long, please run an AI summary.
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
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I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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SMBC comic Bot @smbc-bot.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lesson www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lesson Hollywood, call me. I can have this script done on a weekend.
Hollywood, call me. I can have this script done on a weekend.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/07/2025
End of an era, truly. variety.com/2025/music/o...
variety.com
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath Frontman and Heavy Metal Legend, Dies at 76
Ozzy Osbourne, the frontman for Black Sabbath and a pioneer of heavy metal music, has died. He was 76.
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Pietro Belotti @pietrobelotti.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Dressings are used to protect wounds---two tablespoons are enough.
AI Overview of what seems like a search result for "difference between sauce and dressing": a correct definition of sauce, with an image of a small bowl of pico de gallo, is given, while for dressing, the image shows a bowl of possibly tahini sauce and the text is "Used to protect wounds and prevent infection, while also allowing healing [...] A standard servinc size for salad dressing is two tablespoons".
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Pietro Belotti @pietrobelotti.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Restaurants shouldn't use AI for description
Posted in r/mildlyinfuriating by u/just_a_teen1 • 78,901 points and 716 comments
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Spinoza.it @spinozait.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Sinner sfiorato da un tappo di champagne durante la finale di Wimbledon. Ora è positivo all'etanolo. [ibico]
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Spinoza.it @spinozait.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Rebranding [sciscia]
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Pietro Belotti @pietrobelotti.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same. Caroline ...
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Internazionale @internazionale.it · 09/07/2025
Chi si illude che il potere abbia ancora bisogno della democrazia e di razionalità recita un ruolo ormai privo di senso. Riconoscerlo è il primo passo per ritrovare la capacità di agire. L'opinione di Ece Temelkuran.
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Perché cittadini e intellettuali non contano più nulla
Chi si illude che il potere abbia ancora bisogno della democrazia e di razionalità recita un ruolo ormai privo di senso. Riconoscerlo è il primo passo per ritrovare la capacità di agire. Leggi
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Pietro Belotti @pietrobelotti.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
nautil.us/finding-pete...
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Finding Peter Putnam
The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind
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Pietro Belotti @pietrobelotti.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...
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'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/07/2025
The president of Aix-Marseilles University is welcoming US scientific refugees.He "likened the situation to that of European academics who fled persecution by Nazi Germany both before and during World War II" www.politico.eu/article/meet...
politico.eu
The first American ‘scientific refugees’ arrive in France
Aix-Marseille University is wooing researchers who feel targeted by the Trump administration.
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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
That time of the year when whole countries are scorched but the true problem is {insert your favorite} Bonus for news channels describing killing heat waves with images from swimming pools and beaches
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The Register @theregister.com · 26/06/2025
Back in black: Microsoft Blue Screen of Death is going dark
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Back in black: Microsoft Blue Screen of Death is going dark
At least the BSOD acronym will still work The infamous Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) will be replaced later this summer by a new black screen as part of Microsoft's Windows Resiliency Initiative (WRI).…
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:
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sittingbisontin.bsky.social @sittingbisontin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Trump banned important words from research - 350 of them. So we said 🛑Touche pas à mon pote!✊ and stuffed as many of them as we could into the abstract of our new math paper. 🫵You can do the same!🫵Join the cause with your next abstract - they will have no choice but to hear us. #AdoptCensoredWords
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/06/2025
“…instead of using AI technology to run the chatbot and create the app, the company hired 700 engineers in India to pose as Natasha in conversations with clients, and then to do the actual coding of the app.”
mashable.com
Microsoft-backed AI startup chatbots revealed to be human employees
AI-washing at its finest.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish
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Mitì Vigliero @mitivigliero.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
#ElleKappa su #Repubblica
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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I learned from her Patreon that Vi Hart has just deleted her 1.5M-subscriber YouTube channel. The worsening of YT’s policies for creators finally reached her breaking point. To help herd folks to her videos’ new home, here’s a link to an early favorite of mine. vimeo.com/showcase/116...
vimeo.com
Doodling in Math Class: Infinity Elephants
This is "Doodling in Math Class: Infinity Elephants" by Vi Hart on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/05/2025
I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'
A four panel meme, featuring John Connor talking to The Terminator, from Terminator 2 

John: Wait a second, you’re saying you’re from the future?

Terminator: Great question! Thanks so much for asking. Let’s think about the answer…hmm! The current year is 1983. Working backwards logically, I’m from the year 1965, which is 300 years in the future. Anything else you’d like to know?

John - stares blankly

Terminator: I’m sorry, I can see that was not the right answer. I actually came from the year 829392 AD, which is 10 years in the past from this year, which is 3
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SMBC comic Bot @smbc-bot.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Neuron www.smbc-comics.com/comic/neuron 'The weird part is the hypnotic synchronized purring noises.'
The weird part is the hypnotic synchronized purring noises.
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The Register @theregister.com · 21/05/2025
After Trump DOJ snooping scandal, Wyden warns telcos still leave Senate in the dark
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After Trump DOJ snooping scandal, Wyden warns telcos still leave Senate in the dark
AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile failed to alert lawmakers about surveillance, senator says AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile US failed to set up systems to notify lawmakers when government snoops came calling for their phone records - a contractual obligation that went ignored until recently, according to US Senator Ron Wyden.…
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Daily Spurious Correlation 🤖 @dailycorrelation.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Popularity of the first name Eleanor correlates with Wind power generated in Poland (r=0.993)
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Pietro Belotti @pietrobelotti.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
European Citizens Initiative: Ban on conversion practices in the European Union eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
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European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/05/2025
"First, the plane is 13 years old. You read that correctly. A piddling little Middle Eastern autocracy is trying to bribe our president with a used plane" read @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org on the Qatari 'gift' www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Situation: A Used Plane That Needs Work
I have problems with the Qatar plane deal.
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Spinoza.it @spinozait.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Ora Mattarella inizia a essere seriamente preoccupato. [luce so fusa] #conclave
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Matthias Köppe @mkoeppe.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#otd 5 years ago. groups.google.com/g/sage-devel... This project has now been completed in @passagemath.org: A modularized #SageMath, installable from binary wheels on #PyPI, with reusable components. #Python #FOSS #MathSky
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Proposal for Sage 9.3: Modularization of sagelib; in particular, splitting out a sage_objects package
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