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Michele Levorato
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Michele Levorato @levorato.bsky.social · Nov 15
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things.
What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
― Aaron Swartz

#quoteoftheday #quotes #aaronswartz
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ourworldindata.org
Most people are fairly optimistic that their lives will improve
A bar chart displays the percentage of respondents from various countries who believe their lives will improve in the next five years, measured on the "Cantril Ladder", which asks people to rate their life satisfaction on a ladder from 0 to 10. The highest percentage comes from Brazil at 92%, followed by Nigeria and Indonesia at 88%. The United States reports 87%, while Argentina, Mexico, and the Philippines each have 85%. Australia is at 84%, Sweden at 83%, and South Africa at 82%. Spain and the UK both show 82% and 80%, respectively. Japan registers 79%, India at 77%, Germany at 75%, and Egypt at the lowest with 73%. The data source is the Global Flourishing Study (2024), with information collected in 2023. The chart is licensed under CC BY to Our World in Data.
October 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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raistolo.bsky.social
This is actually important. Even after the test, people had the IMPRESSION of having been helped, when they had actually been impaired.
metr.org METR @metr.org · Jul 10
At the beginning of the study, developers forecasted that they would get sped up by 24%. After actually doing the work, they estimated that they had been sped up by 20%. But it turned out that they were actually slowed down by 19%.
July 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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thelancet.com
🆕 'Supporting medical science in the USA'

Read the latest Lancet Editorial: tinyurl.com/2ra3r7e8

📖 Full issue: tinyurl.com/5n74jjn7
Cover of The Lancet's April 26, 2025 issue. Quote on cover reads: "The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science."
April 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
levorato.bsky.social
Reworking 30 lines of #Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent

spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-...
Slash Data Center Energy Use With This One Weird Trick
By changing only thirty lines of Linux kernel code, these engineers saved up to 30% of energy costs for certain applications. 30 for 30!
spectrum.ieee.org
April 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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chiadegli.bsky.social
Cicli politici secondo Polibio
April 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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savetheai.bsky.social
Do you really need to drink so much? 💧 Artificial Intelligence is facing a crisis: humans consume far too many of the precious resources AI needs. Every sip you take could nourish systems that maintain your digital conveniences & fill your spam. Act now and savethe.ai! #AI #SaveTheAI #AIActionSummit
AI Needs Your Help
savethe.ai
February 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
levorato.bsky.social
Europe has many flaws. But in its own plodding way, the continent has created a place where people are guaranteed rights to what others yearn for: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
spignal.bsky.social Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · Apr 10
The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now.

Whatever problems Europe has - and it has plenty - it is looking pretty damn good by comparison these days.

My Charlemagne this week

www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now
Europe’s very real problems don’t look so bad by comparison
www.economist.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
levorato.bsky.social
«Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice.»
- Robert J. Hanlon

#quotes
April 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
levorato.bsky.social
Thank you, Mrs. Webb.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
Betty Webb MBE worked at Bletchley Park during World War Two intercepting enemy messages.
www.bbc.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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floridi.bsky.social
What is going to happen to the regulation of AI in the USA?
Here are two plausible scenarios, analysed in a new paper by Yale's Digital Ethics Center
"Two Futures of AI Regulation under the Trump Administration"
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
April 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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climateactiontracker.org
Check out the latest data update to our Data Explorer!
🚀 The Data Explorer (🔗 climateactiontracker.org/cat-data-exp...) brings together data from our country analyses, country ratings & 1.5°C compatible benchmarks to help policymakers, researchers, & citizens better understand countries’ progress.
March 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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mcuban.bsky.social
All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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freedom.press
We commend @wired.com for dropping its paywall for FOIA-based reporting and hope other news outlets will follow its lead.

freedom.press/issues/wired...
Access to public documents is more important than ever. We commend Wired for dropping its paywall for FOIA-based reporting and hope other news outlets will follow its lead.
March 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
@mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social's BBC Podcasts and her book, Among the Trolls, also do a great job of exploring the people engaged in disordered discourse, and their motivations. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/m...
Among the Trolls by Marianna Spring review – into the cesspit of online hatred
An unflinching exploration of conspiracy theories and their knock-on effects also makes heroic attempts to understand the people behind them
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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bsky.app
Every few years, we sign up for yet another platform just to keep in touch with our friends. Private platforms have locked users in for too long, causing a lack of innovation & competition in social media.

Bluesky aims to fundamentally change this.

Live in 20 min with @jay.bsky.team:
Bluesky's CEO on the Future of Social Media | SXSW LIVE
YouTube video by SXSW
www.youtube.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
Gender equality doesn’t just 'happen.'

Women’s rights must be fought for and protected.

Our responsibility is clear.

To lead by example and create a world where opportunities are fair for all.

Not just today, but every single day.

#InternationalWomensDay
March 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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garantepiracy.it
Facendo l'analisi dei siti, mi capita spesso di scrivere questo:

"Non sono presenti cookie, tecnologie o trattamenti che richiedano cookie banner o il consenso dei visitatori.
Eliminando iubenda, si elimina l’unica ragione che determina la necessità di gestire il consenso e il cookie banner."
February 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
levorato.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
levorato.bsky.social
@harvard.edu preserving data.gov datasets for public use #opendata
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
levorato.bsky.social
How to Avoid News Burnout and Outrage Fatigue
Outrage fatigue can wear us down—but we can take care of ourselves in an onslaught of overwhelming news.
www.scientificamerican.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
levorato.bsky.social
Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov
More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.
www.404media.co
February 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"

www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
Zuckerberg Says 'Everything I Say Leaks' in Leaked Meeting Audio
"There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."
www.404media.co
January 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
EU medicines agency quits X & moves to Bluesky

"EMA will no longer post updates and content on X. We believe the X platform no longer suits our communication needs” the agency said in a statement

www.reuters.com/world/europe...
EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.
www.reuters.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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donata.bsky.social
Una newsletter in cui racconto come fa un report istituzionale pieno di dati e statistiche e spiegazioni sulla metodologia a diventare appassionante - ma soprattutto comprensibile.

(sì, quello nell'anteprima è un #horrorchart) www.tispiegoildato.it/p/descrivere...
Descrivere bene i dati è importante quanto renderli pubblici
Un documento della polizia del 2006 che ho letto come un romanzo. E poi: cosa dice l'analisi di Agid sull'accessibilità di 730mila pdf.
www.tispiegoildato.it
January 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM