CristianCantoro
@cristiancantoro.bsky.social
Scientific Project Officer - European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT).
Ph.D. in CS (UniTN, Italy), Wikimedian, free-software activist and physicist PGP 2E63 EF06 BBE9 68B4 E887 AD10 F4B4 A141 4B2F 9555
Ph.D. in CS (UniTN, Italy), Wikimedian, free-software activist and physicist PGP 2E63 EF06 BBE9 68B4 E887 AD10 F4B4 A141 4B2F 9555
Humbled and honored to announce that this paper won the Best Paper Award at #RecSys2025. Check it out in the proceedings:
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Thanks to my amazing co-authors @giovannidetoni.bsky.social, @erasmopurif.bsky.social, Emilia Gomez, Bruno Lepri and @andreapasserini.bsky.social.
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Thanks to my amazing co-authors @giovannidetoni.bsky.social, @erasmopurif.bsky.social, Emilia Gomez, Bruno Lepri and @andreapasserini.bsky.social.
October 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Humbled and honored to announce that this paper won the Best Paper Award at #RecSys2025. Check it out in the proceedings:
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Thanks to my amazing co-authors @giovannidetoni.bsky.social, @erasmopurif.bsky.social, Emilia Gomez, Bruno Lepri and @andreapasserini.bsky.social.
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Thanks to my amazing co-authors @giovannidetoni.bsky.social, @erasmopurif.bsky.social, Emilia Gomez, Bruno Lepri and @andreapasserini.bsky.social.
Mapathon #OpenStreetMap Trento with #SpeckAndTech
September 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Mapathon #OpenStreetMap Trento with #SpeckAndTech
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🤯 Tortured phrases in ‘ACM Computing Surveys’ a top journal in my field (JIF 28 and SJR Q1, FWIW). @acm.org tell us it's a bug in the editorial system. Did any of the reviewers recommended acceptance? Please make their reports public with the upcoming retraction notice. pubpeer.com/publications...
August 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🤯 Tortured phrases in ‘ACM Computing Surveys’ a top journal in my field (JIF 28 and SJR Q1, FWIW). @acm.org tell us it's a bug in the editorial system. Did any of the reviewers recommended acceptance? Please make their reports public with the upcoming retraction notice. pubpeer.com/publications...
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Good afternoon, it's begging season! This is what I have for a living right now! Deep insights into the structure of the AI bubble and also point-and-laugh shitposts, daily! And videos! Please join the Patreon! Your $5 a month will help so much! We got T-shirts too!
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Help fund Pivot to AI’s work — send a few dollars to keep the stories and videos coming
It’s that time again when I ask you to send money to Pivot to AI. Help keep the stories coming daily! Here is how to send money: The Patreon is here. Sign up for $5 a month today! Less th…
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July 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Good afternoon, it's begging season! This is what I have for a living right now! Deep insights into the structure of the AI bubble and also point-and-laugh shitposts, daily! And videos! Please join the Patreon! Your $5 a month will help so much! We got T-shirts too!
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/27/h...
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Check out our latest pre-print (to appear at RecSys 2025, @recsys.bsky.social)
🎯 Still clicking “Not Interested” but getting the same junk recommendations? You’re not alone!
In our new ACM RecSys'25 paper, we’re tackling the growing problem of unwanted and sometimes harmful content in recommender systems 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2507.16829
@recsys.bsky.social
In our new ACM RecSys'25 paper, we’re tackling the growing problem of unwanted and sometimes harmful content in recommender systems 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2507.16829
@recsys.bsky.social
You Don't Bring Me Flowers: Mitigating Unwanted Recommendations Through Conformal Risk Control
Recommenders are significantly shaping online information consumption. While effective at personalizing content, these systems increasingly face criticism for propagating irrelevant, unwanted, and eve...
arxiv.org
July 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Check out our latest pre-print (to appear at RecSys 2025, @recsys.bsky.social)
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All retracted articles should immediately become open access.
July 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
All retracted articles should immediately become open access.
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A huge milestone was achieved today in the EU towards our common understanding of risks in the online world. If you are a researcher interested in studying societal risks related to very large online platforms and search engines, this is for you!
#DSA
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...
#DSA
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...
Commission adopts delegated act on data access under the Digital Services Act
The delegated act on data access under the Digital Services Act enables researchers to obtain unprecedented access to platforms’ internal data to contribute to a safer online world.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
July 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A huge milestone was achieved today in the EU towards our common understanding of risks in the online world. If you are a researcher interested in studying societal risks related to very large online platforms and search engines, this is for you!
#DSA
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...
#DSA
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...
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At #ICWSM? Here's a starter pack for you :)
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Check also "Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Check also "Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
June 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
At #ICWSM? Here's a starter pack for you :)
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Check also "Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Check also "Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
Honorable Mention for the Test of Time Award to "It's a man's Wikipedia? Assessing gender inequality in an online encyclopedia" by @clauwa.bsky.social et al. @icwsm.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Honorable Mention for the Test of Time Award to "It's a man's Wikipedia? Assessing gender inequality in an online encyclopedia" by @clauwa.bsky.social et al. @icwsm.bsky.social
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A U.S. judge ruled that while Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books for AI training is #fairuse, storing pirated copies isn't. It’s a mixed decision, bad for both sides, but a potential win for AI platforms overall. aifray.com/claude-ai-ma...
Claude AI maker Anthropic bags key “fair use” win for AI platforms, but faces trial over damages for millions of pirated works – ai fray
aifray.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A U.S. judge ruled that while Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books for AI training is #fairuse, storing pirated copies isn't. It’s a mixed decision, bad for both sides, but a potential win for AI platforms overall. aifray.com/claude-ai-ma...
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🎤 Day 2 kicks off with Richard Rogers on algorithmic auditing
June 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
🎤 Day 2 kicks off with Richard Rogers on algorithmic auditing
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🎤 Silvia Merisio from @ec.europa.eu on the DSA’s impact on Social Data Science and an insightful panel discussion with Oana Goga and Krishna Gummadi, moderated by @frapierri.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
🎤 Silvia Merisio from @ec.europa.eu on the DSA’s impact on Social Data Science and an insightful panel discussion with Oana Goga and Krishna Gummadi, moderated by @frapierri.bsky.social
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Nothing says upcoming NeurIPS deadline like Overleaf being down.
May 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Nothing says upcoming NeurIPS deadline like Overleaf being down.
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Nothing to see here, just Mr. TC (I just looked up his name, it's Alec) laying out a beautiful piece about algorithms and how we interact with them.
Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...
Algorithms are breaking how we think
YouTube video by Technology Connections
www.youtube.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Nothing to see here, just Mr. TC (I just looked up his name, it's Alec) laying out a beautiful piece about algorithms and how we interact with them.
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This is my Internet Archive Scholar fan art <3
February 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is my Internet Archive Scholar fan art <3
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How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’
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How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’
In a world of publish or perish, academics will too often turn to our helpful robot friends and ask a chatbot to write the text of a paper for them. Sometimes they don’t check too closely if the re…
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February 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’
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pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/15/h...
February 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Have you tried the Wikipedia app yet?
The Wikipedia mobile apps are a fast and fun way to read Wikipedia. These are the individuals behind it ⭐🧵⬇️ (1/5)
The Wikipedia mobile apps are a fast and fun way to read Wikipedia. These are the individuals behind it ⭐🧵⬇️ (1/5)
January 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Have you tried the Wikipedia app yet?
The Wikipedia mobile apps are a fast and fun way to read Wikipedia. These are the individuals behind it ⭐🧵⬇️ (1/5)
The Wikipedia mobile apps are a fast and fun way to read Wikipedia. These are the individuals behind it ⭐🧵⬇️ (1/5)
We miss you every day, Aaron.
-@aaronsw, +12
As if yesterday.
Twelve years ago tomorrow, I was on a 6am flight, writing this, in tears: https://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully
As if yesterday.
Twelve years ago tomorrow, I was on a 6am flight, writing this, in tears: https://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully
January 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We miss you every day, Aaron.
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public outrage and actual enforceable regulation are the only 2 things big tech responds to
Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles
Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles
Instagram profile of ‘proud Black queer momma’, created by Meta, said her development team included no Black people
Meta is deleting Facebook and Instagram profiles of AI characters the company created over a year ago after users rediscovered some of the…
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
public outrage and actual enforceable regulation are the only 2 things big tech responds to
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Years ago, together with @hirokisayama.bsky.social and dozens of colleagues from the #ComplexSystems community we have built the complexityexplained.github.io website w/ interactive explorables.
Amazingly, the booklet (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) has been translated in 15 languages to date, just added 🇫🇷
Amazingly, the booklet (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) has been translated in 15 languages to date, just added 🇫🇷
December 26, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Years ago, together with @hirokisayama.bsky.social and dozens of colleagues from the #ComplexSystems community we have built the complexityexplained.github.io website w/ interactive explorables.
Amazingly, the booklet (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) has been translated in 15 languages to date, just added 🇫🇷
Amazingly, the booklet (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) has been translated in 15 languages to date, just added 🇫🇷
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GAME CHANGER?
Italian Court orders Cloudfare to assist in combating piracy "
@Cloudflare ordered to cease providing CDN, DNS, and proxy services to websites involved in illegal streaming of Serie A matches." advanced-television.com/2024/12/23/i... #piracy #copyright #footballstream #SerieA
Italian Court orders Cloudfare to assist in combating piracy "
@Cloudflare ordered to cease providing CDN, DNS, and proxy services to websites involved in illegal streaming of Serie A matches." advanced-television.com/2024/12/23/i... #piracy #copyright #footballstream #SerieA
December 24, 2024 at 9:00 PM
GAME CHANGER?
Italian Court orders Cloudfare to assist in combating piracy "
@Cloudflare ordered to cease providing CDN, DNS, and proxy services to websites involved in illegal streaming of Serie A matches." advanced-television.com/2024/12/23/i... #piracy #copyright #footballstream #SerieA
Italian Court orders Cloudfare to assist in combating piracy "
@Cloudflare ordered to cease providing CDN, DNS, and proxy services to websites involved in illegal streaming of Serie A matches." advanced-television.com/2024/12/23/i... #piracy #copyright #footballstream #SerieA
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For @theguardian.com I wrote about how Gaza has split the academic field of genocide studies.
As one scholar put it, “Where can the field stand if scholars from within and around it are unwilling to call the behaviour out?”
My latest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
As one scholar put it, “Where can the field stand if scholars from within and around it are unwilling to call the behaviour out?”
My latest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars
New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israel’s offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:13 PM
For @theguardian.com I wrote about how Gaza has split the academic field of genocide studies.
As one scholar put it, “Where can the field stand if scholars from within and around it are unwilling to call the behaviour out?”
My latest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
As one scholar put it, “Where can the field stand if scholars from within and around it are unwilling to call the behaviour out?”
My latest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...