Nicola Lacetera

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" #Economics is too important to be left to economists. Everyone should engage. Many #policies go unchallenged simply because people are not invited into the economic conversation. I am very keen that economics is not discussed only among economists."
Abhijit #Banerjee
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#ragazzi #violenza #ascolto #educazione #mondo #adulti #leggedelpiùforte
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

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...

‘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

‘You need solidarity and consistency’: Pedro Sánchez on the EU, Trump and fighting the far right

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 ...

Not my style to show off my donations.

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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

"anybody who thinks LLMs are a direct route to the sort of AGI that could fundamentally transform society for the good is kidding themselves"

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Qui la locandina dell'evento:
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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…

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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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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"A.I. is a parasite. [..] its most compelling use case is starving the host — fewer teachers, fewer degrees, fewer workers, fewer healthy information environments."

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.”

Parasite in chief.

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

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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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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.

Open secrets

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I’m actually quite radical on this. Most middle-class people have no idea what it’s like not to be able to get dental care, but it absolutely ruins people’s lives (and leads to other diseases).
Of course policy details can be disputed, but: basic dental coverage should absolutely be covered.

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.

This

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 +

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...

Technocracy is coming to the USA.
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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.

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.

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.

"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...

Well then it's over. Shit happens.

OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says.

OpenAI urges Trump: Either settle AI copyright debate or lose AI race to China

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.

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.

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Today we published this page in @larepubblica.bsky.social and @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social saying no to ethnic cleansing in Gaza and in the West Bank. Jews in Italy count only 30.000 community members, plus an imprecise number who "identify as"...

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