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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 1d

Like how he described the invention of agriculture…we harvest once and since that moment the power of the new technology was ready to destroy everyone who rejected it. Inevitable.
The Dawn of Everything makes a whole better job at describing what probably happened.

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 1d

The book’s underlying theory is that there is History and people who fail to recognise Its direction and adapt are going to be washed away. Which is how we rationalised colonialism.
It just gets more problematic the more you know about one historical period, but his views are strange from the start

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 1d

Graphics looks like the most boring version of Cards against Humanity

Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 3d

A strong belief in the existence of Good and Bad might lacks nuance in time of peace but it is essential when the demons show up

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 4d

‘Why does a collection of $400 pots suddenly look so cheap?’
me on payday

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Emily Fridenmaker @emilyfri.bsky.social · 5d

Discussing this article for our QI didactic on Monday. So good.

journal.chestnet.org/action/showP...

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 5d

The code should allow you to diy

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 6d

If anyone needs their own labeler
bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 6d

Seems like a good moment to reshare this. I don’t know, just in case someone finds the links useful

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 7d

This is your opportunity to start a cancel-culture-went-too-far grift.
I can see you NYT opinion already

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 7d

Berlin’s monthly ticket to take you bike with you on public transport is 17 Euros.
And bike+public transport is a superpower

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

i recently got a great deal on a barely used folding ebike and i have to say it has revolutionized my train travel. i can get from my front door to the amtrak station in a little less than 5 minutes!!!

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 10d

Last update of the guidelines was ca. 500 years ago.
When ask what the illness is I just describe the symptoms in Latin, everyone nods thoughtfully.
A woman healer suggested I wash my hand once and she is now in jail for life

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 11d

AI might have a soul, but can it makes so many grammatical errors? I don’t think so, you need me for that

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 11d

We all have beefs with printers and are sure they have souls.
What’s so annoying about the AI evangelist is the pseudoscientific jargon. Just start your religion like everyone else man, why annoy everyone with your “theory of the mind”

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 11d

The Turing test misunderstands human nature and overvalues human judgement. We are not difficult to trick,
we are built to assume consciousness: we are animist at heart and it is very cool.
We should just be very careful when building tools that leverage this otherwise sweet weakness of us

Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 11d

the popularity of the turing test as a concept has ruined people's ability to understand what sentience is. a machine that can trick you in to thinking it's human isnt intelligent just because you fell for it. do you think the raptor puppets from jurassic park are sentient? seemed pretty real to me.

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 11d

Also they hate the feeling of not being morally superior (which they have with the MAGA) so they always have to present a slippery slope.
Every opinion they have can be summed up as “yes all good ideals, but you start by saying no one should starve and before you know you are building the gulag!”

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 12d

I am just a news reader, so no particular insight. Meloni is described as hoping the problem will disappear coz every move=she loses, no strong pro Israel stance. Feeling is, as soon as trump flips, she flips. Italian style 😅but again, just FantaPolitics

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 12d

Also the right has no solidarity with Israel, suppression of pro Palestine movements is based on Islamophobia and anti Arab sentiment,so who knows how public opinion will evolve.
Centre left society is clearly showing what they think, not sure how much pressure they can exercise on the gov

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 12d

Not in Italy so I don’t have the pulse of the situation on the ground.
But short answer would be that Meloni is facing no internal dissent, centre-right is compact in calling GSF instigators.
Still the kidnapping of Italian boats and politicians in int. waters is a credibility crisis 4 nationalists

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 13d

New moral panic: human rights culture

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 13d

But with escalating levels of gravity
-you can’t say anything anymore
-you can’t even sexual harassing anymore
-you can’t even do war crimes anymore

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 13d

Did the Polizei write this?

Article in “Die Zeit”
Title: Questionnaire, How criminal are you?
Text: we would be glad if you could answers three questions. As thank you, you’ll receive a free test version of “Die Zeit-Crimes”

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 14d

Oh they’re a great journalistic project (Serra, the journalist from La Repubblica you quoted also works for them), I’d recommend them as the primary source to understand italian news.
But the US coverage is frustrating newyorktimequesque (derogatory)

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 14d

Yes. And I have the feeling Il Post is waiting for the NYT to call it what it is before they allow themselves to…
Die Zeit OTOH briefly had a big homepage “Are the US still our partners?” which felt more appropriate

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Nicola @nicodel.bsky.social · 14d

My go-to Italian newspaper Il Post sane-washed the whole thing and didn’t even mention the worst parts of the speech. So committed to moderation that when reality becomes outrageous you just rewrite reality.

www.ilpost.it/2025/09/30/r...

La strana riunione di centinaia di ufficiali dell'esercito statunitense - Il Post

È stata convocata dal segretario alla Difesa in modo frettoloso e molto inusuale, creando qualche allarme: alla fine era più che altro propaganda

www.ilpost.it

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