Giulio Caccin
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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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Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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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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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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This is also a form of technological racism

(Signet - tigray - tigré)
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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@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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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/
August 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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⚠️ 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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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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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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July 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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June 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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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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applying for jobs again
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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This was award winning Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna.
April 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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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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Applications close soon — don’t miss out! 👇
europa.eu/!9dCdNV
April 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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April 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Please stop immediately.
No ai was used to create this image.
March 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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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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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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Honestly this was helpful
March 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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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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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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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