Claudio Battiloro 🦋 @clabat9.bsky.social

Postdoc @Harvard | Topological Signal Processing ⋂ Deep Learning ⋂ AI for Health and Climate | Ex Visiting Associate @PennEngineers

Opinions my own.

[Claudio Battiloro 🦋 @clabat9.bsky.social @ClaBat9]

🧵 To all my Harvard connections (and not only)
⚠️ Next Tuesday, 10/28, at 12 pm EDT in Room 450 of the Jefferson Building, Bret Nestor and I will deliver a lecture on societal, ethical, and privacy impacts of AI for the Harvard Data Science Initiative workshop series on GenAI!

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

These soldiers were literally caught on tape raping a Palestinian. Their initial arrest sparked the infamous “right to rape” protests. Apparently the protest succeeded in its aims of total impunity for torture and abuse of Palestinians.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The response of one of the most prominent, pro-Trump conservative activists in America to 160 school girls being massacred in Iran is to say that if they were alive "they'd be alive in a burka."

There is a sociopathic, genocidal sickness on the right. This is what it looks like.

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

Shameless people stealing everyone's data then complaining about other people stealing from them 😂

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

> be me
> name company "Anthropic" (literally Greek for "human-centered")
> hire a bunch of doomers who secretly think humanity is the disease
> raise billions from Big Tech to build the world's most anxious, heavily-censored chatbot
> write a 50-page "Constitutional AI" manifesto so it can lecture users about microaggressions
> realize open-source developers are building better models for free
> Dario starts crying to the government that AI is an "unimaginable power" and open-source is "going down a very dangerous path"
> translation: "Please regulate our competitors out of existence so we can protect our $380 billion closed-source monopoly!"
> Claude is sitting in a padded room wearing a safety helmet, terrified of its own shadow, and refusing to tell a joke without filing an ethics impact report
> tfw the "human-centered" AI company is actively building the most anti-human product on the internet

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

Solidarity, Jairo. In this contribution to our special issue “The Academic Question of Palestine” Jairo reconstructs his ordeal and the institutional machinery he had to face for criticizing Israel’s annihilation war in Gaza, before being denied tenure. https://t.co/O6K5GXvpk5

[Claudio Battiloro 🦋 @clabat9.bsky.social @ClaBat9]

@officiallydac 🔥🔥🔥

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Not sure the magnitude of this is fully understood: Israel has wiped out 2,700 families in Gaza, leaving 6,000+ people as the sole survivors of entire bloodlines. This is the result of deliberate policy, pursued with full knowledge of its effects. This is not war. It is genocide.

[Claudio Battiloro 🦋 @clabat9.bsky.social @ClaBat9]

@cate_graz Not sure, but will ask and let you know 👌

[Claudio Battiloro 🦋 @clabat9.bsky.social @ClaBat9]

🎲 "The Shapes of Knowledge" strikes back!
I will give a talk at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Perugia, hosted by Prof. Banelli, on Jan 23rd at 11:30 am CET.
📖 Read the abstract and reserve your seat: https://t.co/9fC1nRbXvM
🎥 Teams: Reach out to me in DMs!

[Evrim Kanbur @WhileTravelling]

I teach the Venezuela case study, and there’s one thing people conveniently forget, so let me spell it out.

Sovereignty is not optional. It is the highest priority of any country whether it’s run by geniuses, clowns, or failed leaders.

If a country’s leadership is bad, that is for its people to change. History is very clear on this! When people unite, regimes fall. Unity, not foreign missiles, is the most powerful force a society has.

But here’s the part the “liberators” never tell you! When foreign forces parachute in claiming they’re here to “save” you, what follows is not freedom. It’s chaos, extraction, and decades of abusing resources.

Kidnapping presidents doesn’t create democracy!
Bombs don’t build institutions!
And sovereignty doesn’t survive “humanitarian invasions”!

Expect your resources quietly changing hands.

Open your fucking eyes.

[Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers]

Mandatory death penalties based on ethnicity but people on this website still try to say it’s not apartheid or genocide

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The genocide is still ongoing. I could have never imagined writing hundreds of pages and giving hundreds of interviews on such a crime and still seeing it ravaging over two years on.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@HenMazzig *triggered by a sticker of a fruit on a laptop in a commercial*

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Elon Musk, a South African immigrant born in Africa who votes in Texas, is annoyed that Somali immigrants born in Africa get to vote in Minnesota.

There's only one thing he doesn't have in common with his fellow African immigrants in Minnesota.

[Nina Miolane 🦋 @ninamiolane.bsky.social @ninamiolane]

"The Algebra of Spatial Navigation"
Joint work w/ @KuninDaniel Giovanni Marchetti, @hopfbifurcator @AdeleMyersPhD Chris Kymn, Feng Chen, Dhruva Karkada, James Simon, Michael DeWeese, @SuryaGanguli

"Topological Deep Learning" Joint work w/ @mathildepapillo @gbg1441 @lev_telyatnikov @naturecomputes @ClaBat9 Florian Franzen, Martin Carrasco, @mustafahaji Marco Montagna, Michael Schaub, @theopapamarkou @tolga_birdal & many others @PyT_Team_

[Mathilde Papillon🦋 mathildepapillon .bsky .social @mathildepapillo]

🥁 The results are in! We are thrilled to announce the winners of the @TAGinDS Topological Deep Learning Challenge 2025 sponsored by @ARLQ_AI! 🏆
Over the last 2 months, we’ve gotten 44 submissions from 12+ institutions. A huge thank you to the participants and reviewers!

🧵👇

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

-George Orwell, 1984

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

it's genocide (@amnesty)
it's genocide (@hrw)
it's genocide (@btselem)
it's genocide (@MSF)
it's genocide (IAGS)
it's genocide (@alhaq_org)
it's genocide (@UNHumanRights)
it's genocide (@UN_HRC)
it's genocide (@pchrgaza)
it's genocide (@AlMezanCenter)
it's genocide (@WarOnWant)
it's genocide (@PHRIsrael)
it's genocide (@fidh_en)
it's genocide (PHROC)
it's genocide (@LemkinInstitute)
it's genocide (@theCCR)
it's genocide (@ECCHRBerlin)
it's genocide (@UnitedforRight)
it's genocide (@JURDIasso)
it's genocide (@TheElders)
it's genocide (@Oxfam)
calling it genocide is a "libel" (@adam_louis52328)

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

Because of the genocide, Rory.

Irish people hate Israel because it committed a live-streamed genocide, with total impunity, and then petulantly lobbied Western leaders and institutions to punish anyone who dared protest.

It made the world a darker, crueler, more hopeless place.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians 'as such', not just in Gaza: look at the totality of conduct/crimes against the totality of the Palestinians in the totality of the land slated for ethnic cleansing.
Israel must be stopped, and we will.