Francesco Dalla Ricca
dallaricca.bsky.social
Francesco Dalla Ricca
@dallaricca.bsky.social
UCSF PhD student
By higher power, Arendt isn't referring to a God but power structures that can restrain the power of an individual (IE a Congress)
September 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Wow, what a highly innovative company! With that kind of fraud, they can minimize their overhead and maximize their throughput.
September 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
James C Scott, Seeing like a State
1998
September 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I tried using ChatGPT in my research, but I dropped it when it became clear that I couldn't rely on it to give me accurate results or even to point me to useful papers.
I'm not at all confident that the new version will be like having a PhD expert in my pocket, let alone an entire team
August 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reposted by Francesco Dalla Ricca
But one thing SCOTUS did make clear is that its ruling doesn’t have to be final. Congress has a say in the scope of the courts’ equitable powers - i.e., a judge’s authority to craft remedies in a case. It should step in to reestablish the constitutional balance. /fin
June 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Could it be that they were always contrarians, but that the debate changed to one where the contrarian position is much less defensible, thus highlighting their nature?
June 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
-Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1833
June 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Time does not arrest its course for nations any more than for men; both move forward daily toward an unknown future. When we think things are stationary, it is because we fail to see their movements. Men who move at a walking pace appear stationary to those who are running.
June 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The fact that different organizations will give contradictory advice will increase confusion and embolden anti science influencers to peddle their conspiracy theories.

RFK Jr's actions have greatly hurt public health and public trust in medicine.
June 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM