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Giulio Caccin
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Passionate and curious human being. I love to talk about tech with a critical mindset. Anthropology and some politics are also welcome!
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
Stock price chart showing the 64% decline over the last six months for duolingo
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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esqueer.net
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from r/LegalAdviceUK by user Fun-Blueberry-2147. The post describes that the user’s sister, who has schizophrenia, admitted herself to the hospital after believing someone was communicating with her through her smart fridge, which turned out to be an LED screen advertisement. The post explains that she spent two days under monitoring with medication adjustments and that the specific ad she saw included her name, making it especially distressing. The user questions the legality of such targeted or unsettling ads on smart appliances in the UK.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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signal.org
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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belovedyemaya.blacksky.app
This is also a form of technological racism

(Signet - tigray - tigré)
timnitgebru.bsky.social Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · Apr 15
I told people @ Google about this & asked them to build language technology & have human moderation, in so-called "under-resourced languages” like Tigrinya. Even though we were at Google, any concerns sent to YouTube went into a void never to even be acknowledged.
restofworld.org/2021/why-fac...
Why Facebook keeps failing in Ethiopia
Leaked documents show the company can't keep up with the volume of hate speech on the platform, which is leading to real-world violence.
restofworld.org
September 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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bcantrill.bsky.social
@jmsdnns.bsky.social put me on to this excellent 2015 piece from @ganeumann.bsky.social, which examines @carlotaperez.bsky.social's ideas and muses about what the coming (last!) decade might look like. A must-read -- and with very thought-provoking comments!
reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-...
September 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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tacc.org.uk
Information relating to the M&S complaint, reportedly from the trans woman whom the complaint was about. Almost everything claimed in recent articles is extremely inaccurate. 1/
Text post screenshot. A transgender M&S manager addresses recent articles about them. They recount an interaction in the lingerie section where they offered help to a woman and teen. The customer declined, and the manager, who isn't a bra fitter, proceeded to put away returns. Weeks later, a complaint was filed citing the manager's "deep booming masculine voice" and "masculine facial features." The manager clarifies they never offered bra fitting advice and that their colleagues are supportive. The manager's boss dismissed the complaint, affirming their support. The manager expresses distress over the complaint's personal attacks. A screenshot of a text post from a trans woman detailing her positive experiences working at M&S after undergoing Facial Feminisation Surgery. She describes receiving support from colleagues and management, including gifts and messages, after the surgery. The post addresses a newspaper article that insinuated M&S was not supportive, clarifying that the company has been overwhelmingly supportive. The author emphasizes that M&S allows any colleague to train as a bra fitter and any customer to book an appointment, regardless of gender identity. She also clarifies that the lingerie department and walkway to menswear are not "women only" spaces and that she does not enter occupied fitting rooms. The author concludes by stating that M&S respects her as a trans woman and a valued colleague, and that the real issue is tabloid newspapers twisting stories for profit.
August 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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privacyinternational.org
⚠️ Freedom of Information (FOI) requests reveal that the UK passport and immigration databases have been used by police for mass facial recognition searches WITHOUT a clear legal basis, or the public or parliament’s knowledge.

pvcy.org/TelegraphFRT
August 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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joolia.bsky.social
Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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amnestyuk.bsky.social
We analysed every line of X’s algorithm we could get our hands on.

Here’s what we found.

Read on: www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
August 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
1 [Title panel] Celebrity Race Across The World 2 [Voiceover] Meanwhile in Italy, Yvette and Ed have to cross a river. [Show YVETTE COOPER and ED BALLS standing on a riverbank. At Yvette’s feet is a canoe. Ed is reading a guidebook.] 3 ED BALLS: Yvette - are you sure crossing the Rubicon is a good idea? YVETTE COOPER: It’s the only way, Ed. 4 ED BALLS: Only it says in the guidebook ‘The Rubicon is noted for the on-the-nose political annotations which can be seen in its currents’… 5 ED BALLS [squinting up from his guidebook to look at the river]: Oh yeah, look - 6 [We see an elevated view of the river, where the words BANNING NONVIOLENT PROTEST are written in the waves]. 7 YVETTE COOPER: Cor, that’s amazing! 8 ED BALLS: And I can’t help noticing the canoe you’ve found has ‘THE FOLLY OF POWER’ written on it [Show their canoe by Yvette’s feet, with THE FOLLY OF POWER written on the side]. 9 ED BALLS: And can you see that *sign* on the other side… 10 [Show the land on the other sign of the river which has a sign stuck in the ground reading]: AN ACTUAL AUTHORITARIAN DYSTOPIA, DON’T BE MENTAL 11 YVETTE COOPER: Sorry Ed - remind me what you do again…? ED BALLS: An awful podcast with George Osborne. YVETTE COOPER: And I’m…? 12 ED BALLS: Home Secretary. YVETTE COOPER: Get in the on-the-nose canoe, Ed. [ends]
July 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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stepback.nebula.tv
June 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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nikkimcr.bsky.social
Karoline Leavitt indicates the administration is open to a denaturalization-oriented investigation against Zohran Mamdani
June 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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joles.bsky.social
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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stratcomcentre.bsky.social
This was award winning Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna.
April 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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zacklabe.com
Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore.

This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
April 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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ec.europa.eu
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You could get a free travel pass with #DiscoverEU to explore Europe’s culture, history and diversity.

Applications close soon — don’t miss out! 👇
europa.eu/!9dCdNV
April 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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xkcd.com
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
April 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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giopota.bsky.social
Please stop immediately.
No ai was used to create this image.
Human made illustration of Marco, main character of the film Porco Rosso, punching a dude who's holding a phone showing his AI generated portrait in Studio Ghibli style.
March 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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atrupar.com
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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timnitgebru.bsky.social
These "federal agents" abducted a student at Tufts University in Somerville Massachusetts, covering their faces with black cloth.

What are the mayor, governor, other politicians, Tufts leadership, doing?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFI...
Surveillance shows Tufts graduate student detained
YouTube video by WCVB Channel 5 Boston
www.youtube.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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lifewinning.com
Honestly this was helpful
Post by Computer Facts on Mastodon: "static types are a bag labeled Doritos® Brand Cool Ranch™ Potato Chips and when you reach into your bag of Doritos® Brand Cool Ranch™ Potato Chips you know that anything you pull out is safe to "eat" without checking because you know for sure it is a Doritos® Brand Cool Ranch™ Potato Chip dynamic types are a bag labeled "bag" and when you reach into your "bag" you might pull out a chip, a wrench, nothing, a man named Dennis, the bag itself, so you have to check everything before you "eat""
March 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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tendar.bsky.social
After Elon Musk has been insinuating to turn off Starlink in Ukraine, Poland‘s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is reminding Musk that Poland is paying for it, and he is making clear that if Musk follows through that Poland will abandon Starlink altogether for being an unreliable service.
March 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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sxsw.com
Privacy isn’t about hiding—it’s about trust and control over our own information. In her #SXSW 2025 Keynote, Signal President, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social breaks down why our privacy matters.
March 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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milph.mom
It might hurt my bottom line, but I’m probably going to stop posting art to Twitter entirely and I suggest you do too.

Not only is the site actively putting a “Okay, now remix this” button below art (and elevating them above the OP with a QRT) and it’s false flagging original art as made by AI.
February 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM