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Professor at the Università di Bologna and the University of Toronto (on leave). Dad of 2 girls, husband of 1. sites.google.com/site/nicolacetera

585 Followers  |  873 Following  |  46 Posts  |  Joined: 05.10.2023  |  1.8852

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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

Dear @ezraklein.bsky.social: Charlie Kirk advocated for forcing 12-year olds to watch the public execution of Trump's governmental opponents, maybe by guillotine www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

11.09.2025 10:57 — 👍 1737    🔁 429    💬 114    📌 27
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‘You need solidarity and consistency’: Pedro Sánchez on the EU, Trump and fighting the far right Spanish PM insists ‘migration is an opportunity’ and is not afraid to discuss what he considers Europe’s recent failures

‘You need solidarity and consistency’: Pedro Sánchez on the EU, Trump and fighting the far right

03.09.2025 04:23 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Global Sumud Flotilla - Global As the genocide in Gaza gets worse by the day and the governments and institutions fail the Palestinian people, the free people of the world are trying their best to maintain solidarity and to create ...

Not my style to show off my donations.

But this is worth an exception. Consider donating too.

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31.08.2025 13:36 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype | Gary Marcus The tech world is reeling from a paper that shows the powers of a new generation of AI have been wildly oversold, says cognitive scientist Gary Marcus

"anybody who thinks LLMs are a direct route to the sort of AGI that could fundamentally transform society for the good is kidding themselves"

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11.06.2025 06:26 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Qui la locandina dell'evento:
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10.06.2025 13:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Ricercatore licenziato perché non voleva volare: la storia di Gianluca Grimalda in un libro Lo studioso del cambiamento climatico tornò a casa da Papua Nuova Guinea senza prendere aerei impiegando due mesi. Troppo per i suoi datori di lavoro che lo ca…

Oggi 10/6 prima presentazione del mio libro "A Fuoco" per @feltrinellied e mi sento come al primo giorno di scuola.
🙏@ElaGiampaoli di spiegare il perchè del viaggio lento raccontato nel libro.
Ne parlo con @emacampiglio & @MariaBigoni1 h18:00 @Unibo.
bologna.repubblica.i...
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10.06.2025 13:39 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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20.05.2025 12:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Redirecting...

Un tentativo di spiegare l'erraticità di Trump, fra psicogeriatria e teaoria dei giochi. E soprattutto il desiderio di un'Europa (e un mondo) con una visione diametralmente opposta alla sua.

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11.04.2025 06:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"A.I. is a parasite. [..] its most compelling use case is starving the host — fewer teachers, fewer degrees, fewer workers, fewer healthy information environments."

31.03.2025 21:15 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Tesla Secret That Exposes Elon Musk’s Whole Game The car company’s big business in regulatory credits shows Musk’s mantra has always been “Government handouts for me, not for thee.”

Parasite in chief.

The Tesla Secret That Exposes Elon Musk’s Whole Game newrepublic.com/article/1929... via @newrepublic.com

31.03.2025 11:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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31.03.2025 06:47 — 👍 49    🔁 34    💬 0    📌 0
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Key Takeaways From America’s Secret Military Partnership With Ukraine An investigation by The New York Times has revealed that America was woven into the war far more than previously known.

Open secrets

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/w...

30.03.2025 08:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m actually quite radical on this. Most middle-class people have no idea what it’s like not to be able to get dental care, but it absolutely ruins people’s lives (and leads to other diseases).
Of course policy details can be disputed, but: basic dental coverage should absolutely be covered.

29.03.2025 22:43 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The more I study and visit so-called Global South countries, the more I learn about their problems related to the carbon economy and climate disasters, the more I am convinced that they represent the future, not the past, of the Global North.

29.03.2025 12:22 — 👍 73    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 3

This

29.03.2025 11:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is important. More than 700 Harvard faculty, with diverse views, have now signed a letter urging the university administration to "publicly condemn attacks on universities," "legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom" and +

28.03.2025 21:32 — 👍 2637    🔁 610    💬 34    📌 41
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Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas" The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...

Technocracy is coming to the USA.
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

28.03.2025 15:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Each time I see the word abundance used, I know the theses are going to be between naive and ... boringly centrist.
This book is no exeption.

24.03.2025 14:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Each time I see the word abundance used, I know the theses are going to be between naive and ... boringly centrist.
This book is no exeption.

24.03.2025 14:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

"The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it's already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

18.03.2025 06:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well then it's over. Shit happens.

14.03.2025 18:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says.

OpenAI urges Trump: Either settle AI copyright debate or lose AI race to China

14.03.2025 17:30 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 4
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One Columbia student leaves country, another arrested as DHS targets protesters The State Department is exercising a seldom-used power to remove legal immigrants connected to protests.

A Columbia University student left the country after having a student visa cancelled and a second student was arrested for overstaying an expired visa, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Both students had participated in pro-Palestine protests.

14.03.2025 18:07 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1
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10.03.2025 11:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today we published this page in @larepubblica.bsky.social and @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social saying no to ethnic cleansing in Gaza and in the West Bank. Jews in Italy count only 30.000 community members, plus an imprecise number who "identify as"...

26.02.2025 11:30 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

What does "losing side" mean?

24.02.2025 20:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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22.02.2025 09:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Vale sempre la pena di pensare a qualcosa di nuovo e migliore. Senza questo desiderio, si rischia di non essere nemmeno capaci di considerare la possibilità del peggio, e di scorgerne i segni.

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21.02.2025 21:54 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Trump-Musk, il caos coordinato e pianificato: i prodromi di un colpo di Stato - Valigia Blu Le prime mosse della nuova amministrazione Trump evidenziano un attacco sistematico alla burocrazia federale e alle istituzioni democratiche. Trump sta cercando di centralizzare il potere attraverso o...

🧵 Trump-Musk, il caos coordinato e pianificato: i prodromi di un colpo di Stato | @marcoarvati.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/trump-musk-c... via @valigiablu.it

05.02.2025 08:02 — 👍 85    🔁 35    💬 3    📌 11
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Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

20.02.2025 06:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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