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Nicola Lacetera
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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

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · Sep 11
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...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com

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Arianna Ciccone @ariannaciccone.bsky.social · Sep 3
‘You need solidarity and consistency’: Pedro Sánchez on the EU, Trump and fighting the far right
‘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
www.theguardian.com

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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · Aug 31
Not my style to show off my donations.

But this is worth an exception. Consider donating too.

Global Sumud Flotilla - Global chuffed.org/project/1388...
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 ...
chuffed.org

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Hannes Ullrich @hannesullrich.com · Jan 26
This clueless person confuses guilt with historic responsibility.

That might be difficult for him to understand, seeing how he is showing an utter lack of responsibility himself. Unfettered wrecklessness may lead to some (lucky) innovation but cannot be a strategy for human progress in general.

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Joe Lynam @joeblynam.bsky.social · Jan 28
www.politico.eu/article/pola...
Poland urges Tesla boycott after Musk’s call to ‘move past’ Nazi guilt
“There is no justification for any reasonable Pole to continue purchasing Teslas,” says minister Sławomir Nitras.
www.politico.eu

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · Jan 31
"Whose views on freedom of speech carry more weight today, a tech billionaire or a philosopher who has long grappled with the issue, and whose evidence and arguments have been subjected to scrutiny by other qualified experts? Millions of people on X (Twitter) have implicitly chosen the former."
Oligarchy in America - Project Syndicate
Though Donald Trump attracted more support than ever from working-class voters in the 2024 US presidential election, he has long embraced an agenda that benefits the wealthiest Americans above all. Du...
www.project-syndicate.org

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 2
The point is this:

Scientists are accused of being partisan. I say embrace it.

We're not lying for political reasons. We are defending science as a way of knowing, and as a humanitarian endeavor to help even those groups that are disenfranchised by people in power. If that's partisan so be it.

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · Mar 22
Complicated with a Friday at home for low morale, I read Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. While interesting and partly agreeable, K&T's proposal is likely to be a progressive version of Reagan's trickle down economics.

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Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · Mar 26
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social just blew my mind.
Insightful, frightening, and inspiring interview w/Jon Stewart

Deep dive - democracy-toppling pre-designed overtake/mass mind-control executed by avaricious social media techbros and authoritarian extremists.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsHo...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Mar 29
Anti AI piece in the New York Times and another in CNN from the excellent @amorrow.bsky.social. Something is changing.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · Jan 30
Dick Nelson, pioneer in the economics of technical change, has died at 94. His remarkable book with Sid Winter (1982) An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change spawned many literatures. His edited the first "Rate and Direction" volume and wrote a history-based investigation of 1/2

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · Jun 11
"anybody who thinks LLMs are a direct route to the sort of AGI that could fundamentally transform society for the good is kidding themselves"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
www.theguardian.com

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dr. gianluca grimalda @ggrimalda.bsky.social · Jun 10
Qui la locandina dell'evento:
2/2

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dr. gianluca grimalda @ggrimalda.bsky.social · Jun 10
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.
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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…
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · May 20
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · Apr 11
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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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · Mar 31
"A.I. is a parasite. [..] its most compelling use case is starving the host — fewer teachers, fewer degrees, fewer workers, fewer healthy information environments."
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Mar 29
Anti AI piece in the New York Times and another in CNN from the excellent @amorrow.bsky.social. Something is changing.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · Mar 31
Parasite in chief.

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

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David A. Jaeger (econ) @davidajaeger.bsky.social · Mar 31
To reiterate: We are hiring the following: 1) Prof (Chair) in Applied Micro, 2) Reader/Senior Lecture (Assoc Professor) in Applied Econ, 3) 4 Lecturers (Asst Professors), any field.

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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · Mar 30
Open secrets

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

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Mary Grace 😷 @emgeekay.bsky.social · Mar 29
The Liberals worked with the NDP to bring in national dental care and pharmacare plans. As a retiree on a fixed income, these two plans will help ensure I remain healthy. I can’t afford the high costs of dental work and prescription drugs with no employer benefits.

Do not vote Conservative.
charlieangus104.bsky.social Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Mar 27
Pierre Poilievre denounced the NDP's national dental care plan as "socialistic."
He told Jordan Peterson he would "fiercely resist" our socialist policies.
But his numbers are tanking.
Now he says he will support dental care.
You can't trust MAGA-MINI Pierre.

www.youtube.com/shorts/pagfv...
Charlie Angus - If you Love National Dental Care You'll Hate Poilievre
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Mar 29
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.

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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · Mar 29
This
nikbeeson.bsky.social Nik Beeson @nikbeeson.bsky.social · Mar 26
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social just blew my mind.
Insightful, frightening, and inspiring interview w/Jon Stewart

Deep dive - democracy-toppling pre-designed overtake/mass mind-control executed by avaricious social media techbros and authoritarian extremists.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsHo...

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · Mar 28
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 +

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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · Mar 28
Technocracy is coming to the USA.
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
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...
www.axios.com

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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · Mar 24
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.
mattiamarasti.bsky.social Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · Mar 22
Complicated with a Friday at home for low morale, I read Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. While interesting and partly agreeable, K&T's proposal is likely to be a progressive version of Reagan's trickle down economics.

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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · Mar 24
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.

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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · Mar 18
"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...
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.
www.nytimes.com

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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · Mar 14
Well then it's over. Shit happens.

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Arianna Ciccone @ariannaciccone.bsky.social · Mar 14
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.
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.
www.axios.com