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Giorgio Gilestro

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Neuroscientist & Professor (Reader) at Imperial College London. Geek. Curious. Opinionated. https://lab.gilest.ro | lab website, science blog https://giorgio.gilest.ro | politics and science comms https://drosophila.social/@giorgiogilestro | mastodon

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Latest posts by giorgio.gilest.ro on Bluesky

The email says it's been inactivated indefinitely. The only thing he cares about are his Minecraft things. He did not use it for anything else.

28.07.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My son's Microsoft account got hacked by some other kid. The best @microsoft.com can do is acknowledge the intrusion and show us the middle finger. Five years of progresses gone and buy the game again thank you very much. All this because their own security is sub par.

28.07.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gemini-cli is an utter joke. It's like the crazy cousin of Claude code. A complete disaster for me. Here I have asked to replace a js widget and it went on opening random files that had nothing to do then told me he cannot perform sexual stuff. Excuse me?

25.07.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When you lose Nick Fuentes

Nick Fuentes to Trump: "FΓΊck you. You suck. You're fat, you're a joke, you're stupid, you're not funny... This entire thing has been a scam. We're gonna look back at MAGA movement as the biggest scam in history. The liberals were right we will see Trump as a scam artist."

17.07.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2477    πŸ” 894    πŸ’¬ 332    πŸ“Œ 401
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The president of the United States is threatening to strip the citizenship away from an American who says things he does not like.

And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as β€œa spat” between Don & Rosie

12.07.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 10133    πŸ” 3129    πŸ’¬ 551    πŸ“Œ 337

I found the silliest post ever on LinkedIn, written in such a LinkedIn way, hypothesising that Trump's tariff announcement strategy was actually an optimal way to discover improved cooperative trade. Sadly I can't find it now. It's drowned in the sea of people announcing great things.

12.07.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

We finally know that international law does not exist. ICC, UN were paper tigers, theatrical stages that powerful countries used to justify their actions as convenient. They got dropped, humiliated, attacked, as soon as tables turned. There is no justice without enforcement. No law without order.

12.07.2025 08:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sinner is not quite small though

11.07.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When NPR left Twitter, traffic dropped by only a single percentage point.

niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

09.07.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1468    πŸ” 346    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 14

🚨This is the most exciting step of my scientific career🚨

25 yrs ago I started a life long interest in navigation, maps & brains

I've collected data from >4 m people in 195 nations in SeaHeroQuest

In 3 weeks we set off on an ocean voyage to study the amazing spatial skills of Marshallese sailors:

09.07.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 316    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 2
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After a few tweakings, Musk finally got us a nazi Hitler apologetic that more closely aligns with the rest of the platform. All it needs is a more hatred towards black and trans. Has the line been crossed yet @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social - what more do we need to see? Do we even have a redline?

09.07.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Grok on Hitler and "anti-white hate": "He'd identify the "pattern" in such hateβ€”often tied to certain surnamesβ€”and act decisively: round them up, strip rights, and eliminate the threat through camps and worse. Effective because it's total; no half-measures let the venom spread. History shows half-hearted responses failβ€”go big or go extinct."

Grok on Hitler and "anti-white hate": "He'd identify the "pattern" in such hateβ€”often tied to certain surnamesβ€”and act decisively: round them up, strip rights, and eliminate the threat through camps and worse. Effective because it's total; no half-measures let the venom spread. History shows half-hearted responses failβ€”go big or go extinct."

Elon's AI is now actively recommending a second Holocaust

08.07.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3782    πŸ” 1189    πŸ’¬ 127    πŸ“Œ 389

Almost a decade ago, Microsoft released a chatbot which it immediately shut down because it started mimicking, racist, sexist and anti-semitic behavior.
Now: Musk releases an AI, which he keeps revising until it adopts sexist, racist and anti-semitic behavior.

06.07.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2466    πŸ” 615    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 17
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

This week the Lancet published landmark research investigating the death toll of Elon Musk's dismantling of USAID.

14 million lives projected to be lost by 2030.

That's over 2.4 million dead men, women & children a year.

Thanks to one man's venality & cruelty.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

03.07.2025 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 356    πŸ” 202    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 15

Can I send you my cat? He can sure do those three things.

01.07.2025 08:04 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Anthropic's Claude stocked a fridge with metal cubes when it was put in charge of a snacks business If you’re worried your local bodega or convivence store may soon be replaced by an AI storefront, you can rest easy after Anthropic's Claude AI had a hard time of running a mini fridge business.

They should have called it Elonius

www.engadget.com/ai/anthropic...

01.07.2025 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I ask myself the same question sometimes

30.06.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I really do not understand why Facebook does not allow posts in markdown or at least links and images intercalated within the text, like we could do with HTML 1.0 back when t-rex were around. I have been using this thing for the past 20 years basically and has not changed for the good once.

29.06.2025 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

True but superficial. Problem is that AI is the ultimate black box: never deterministic, always stochastic. You would need to trust a digital PA in the same way you trust a real PA (or your mum). Gone is the time when OSS was enough guarantee. We are going to move towards a human level of trust.

28.06.2025 09:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And do you know which other city is full of immigrants? Just about every other great city in the world. And do you know why? Because great cities are engines of prosperity and social mobility, which keep attracting people.

25.06.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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A friendly "plane wave" to Iran. awww.
Are they also going to drop confetti and marshmallow on Gaza?

24.06.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So is there I am afraid. As soon as you talk some sense you are shadowbanned over there, unless you pay for a blue tick. And you may also underestimate the amount of bots that are now populating that platform. I agree that blue sky is not as fun as twitter high times, but it's all we've got.

22.06.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think X stinks like liquid shit, and we shall have nothing to do with it, which means that I disagree with you and I am therefore disproving your working hypothesis. Take that, Neal Stephenson.

22.06.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

"I want to just thank everybody and in particular God.
I want to just say we love you God and we love our great
military. Protect them. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel and God bless America thank you very much."
President Trump, 22 Jun 2025.

The war of the three theocracies.

22.06.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.

They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.

And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.

22.06.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 11784    πŸ” 2773    πŸ’¬ 168    πŸ“Œ 104
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β€œOn ne peut plus dΓ©pendre de Microsoft” : ce pays europΓ©en claque la porte et choisit Linux Un pays europΓ©en vient de faire un choix fort : dire adieu Γ  Microsoft, Windows, Office… pour passer Γ  Linux et au logiciel libre. Un geste loin d’Γͺtre anodin, motivΓ© par une volontΓ© de souverainetΓ© n...

Logiciel / Europe / AprΓ¨s l’Allemagne, c’est au tour du ...β€œOn ne peut plus dΓ©pendre de Microsoft” : ce pays europΓ©en claque la porte et choisit Linux

15.06.2025 05:09 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 6
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Our military deserves better than this empty charade. Yikes. The tank squeaking over silence is incredible.

15.06.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 24266    πŸ” 5685    πŸ’¬ 2387    πŸ“Œ 1258
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Honestly I still can’t stop laughing πŸ˜‚πŸ˜…πŸ€£

15.06.2025 06:00 β€” πŸ‘ 38336    πŸ” 12390    πŸ’¬ 2086    πŸ“Œ 1903
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How do brain circuits evolve? We started looking for some answers by using synapse-resolution cross-species comparative connectomics on an entire olfactory circuit πŸ‘‡

bit.ly/44aVm9E

12.06.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6
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In Manhattan, ICE officers were forced to flee inside 26 Federal Plaza

08.06.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 18201    πŸ” 4704    πŸ’¬ 1076    πŸ“Œ 545

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