Giulio M

Nobody expects the spanish inquisition - Monty Python

[Giulio M @GiulioMinga]

@nntaleb Great !

[Giulio M @GiulioMinga]

@nntaleb @asadabukhalil Pynchon deserved it

[Gordon Fang @GoujianofYue]

News of COVID broke out early through Wechat

Israeli Propaganda/MSM has been dismantled bc of social media

I'll take this legion of idiots over Nobel Prize Winners any day.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

In Italiano: Books are here to survive.

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.

Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.

You can read the full post here: https://t.co/OGyPb7yaYt

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

God bless him.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

This is Evil. Evil. Evil.
Israel confiscates U.S. doctor's baby formula.

[Giulio M @GiulioMinga]

@SRxTrades setups

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jessica Aber’s death feels like one of those stories that’s meant to fade quietly into the background — a tragic headline that people are supposed to forget. But when a career prosecutor who spent her life chasing Russian cybercriminals, CIA leaks, and war criminals turns up dead just weeks after resigning, forgetting isn’t an option.
Aber, the former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, was found dead at her home in Alexandria on March 22. She was 43 years old. Police haven’t said how she died, but the timing — and her unfinished business — makes it impossible to ignore.
THE PROSECUTOR WHO WOULDN’T BACK DOWN
Jessica Aber wasn’t just a lawyer — she was the person you sent in when things got messy.
In January, just before her resignation, Aber helped put Asif Rahman, a former CIA analyst, behind bars for leaking top-secret information about Israeli military plans against Iran. The information ended up splashed across social media in October 2024.
Aber didn’t mince words when Rahman pleaded guilty. She warned that his leak had “placed lives at risk” and “compromised our ability to collect vital intelligence in the future.” That’s prosecutor-speak for this guy seriously screwed things up. Whatever Rahman leaked, it wasn’t just embarrassing — it was dangerous.
BIG CASES, BIGGER ENEMIES
Aber’s cases didn’t stop there. In November 2024, her office prosecuted a Virginia-based company accused of funneling sensitive U.S. technology to a Russian telecom firm with Kremlin ties. It wasn’t exactly an accident — the company allegedly disguised shipments and played fast and loose with American tech that Russia wasn’t supposed to have.
Then there was the war crimes indictment. Aber’s office charged four Russian-linked individuals with torturing and unlawfully detaining a U.S. national in Ukraine. She wasn’t just making legal noise — she was putting serious pressure on powerful figures with deep connections.
Aber’s career was a parade of people you wouldn’t want showing up at your funeral — oligarchs, cybercriminals, and corrupt players with resources to make problems disappear.
A SUSPICIOUS EXIT
Aber resigned in January 2025, just after Donald Trump returned to power. Nobody’s said she was forced out, but resigning from one of the country’s most powerful U.S. Attorney’s offices weeks after jailing a rogue CIA analyst feels a little too clean.
It’s not hard to imagine why someone like Aber might suddenly find herself in a tight spot. Trump’s return came with a wave of loyalty tests and DOJ shakeups — and Aber’s aggressive pursuit of Russian networks and CIA leaks doesn’t exactly scream “team player” in this new political climate.
If she was pressured to resign, what cases got quietly buried when she left?
A SYSTEM THAT’S GONE SOFT ON POWER
The Supreme Court’s ruling in July 2024 handed Trump near-total immunity for “core presidential powers,” including military command. Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that this decision could allow a president to order an assassination — and face no legal consequences.
By the time Aber resigned, that ruling had already cast a long shadow over the Department of Justice. Prosecutors like Aber — the kind who took on powerful players with foreign connections — were now working in an environment where accountability had been gutted.
If Aber’s investigations had exposed something that threatened powerful interests, the court’s ruling would have made it easier for those interests to apply pressure — or worse — without consequence.
Her resignation may have been voluntary. It may not have been. But by the time Aber walked away from her post, the guardrails protecting prosecutors like her were already crumbling.
WHAT DID ABER KNOW?
Jessica Aber knew things that mattered — things that powerful people wanted buried. She chased down Russian cybercriminals, locked up a CIA leaker who compromised military intelligence, and tangled with foreign operatives who wouldn’t hesitate to make problems disappear.
Now she’s gone, and the timing stinks.
Maybe her death was just an awful coincidence. Maybe it wasn’t. But when the people investigating corruption start turning up dead, there’s only one responsible thing to do:
Start asking louder questions. Via MSNBC{News Junkies}

[Matteo Hallissey @matteohallissey]

Vent’anni di ricerche spazzati via in una notte.

Pochi giorni fa è stato distrutto il vigneto sperimentale dell’Università di Verona a San Floriano, in Valpolicella.

Questo atto vandalico segue un caso analogo avvenuto lo scorso giugno nel Pavese, dove un campo sperimentale di riso modificato con la tecnologia CRISPR-Cas9 fu devastato.

Entrambi gli episodi sembrano parte di un’azione organizzata contro l’innovazione scientifica in agricoltura: un’azione che danneggia non solo i ricercatori ma l’intero settore agricolo e ambientale.

Le Tecniche di Evoluzione Assistita (TEA) utilizzate in questo progetto miravano a sviluppare viti resistenti alla peronospora, una malattia che causa gravi danni alla viticoltura e richiede l’uso intensivo di fitofarmaci.

L’adozione di queste tecniche avrebbe potuto ridurre del 70% l’uso di trattamenti chimici, con benefici significativi per l’ambiente e la salute pubblica.

Questo atto di vandalismo non è solo un attacco alla ricerca scientifica, ma anche un esempio lampante di mentalità NIMBY, dove l’opposizione locale a progetti innovativi e sostenibili ostacola il progresso scientifico.

L’unico modo per crescere in maniera sostenibile oggi è sostenere in tutti i modi la libertà e gli investimenti in ricerca e l’adozione di tecnologie più sostenibili e innovative. Altrimenti, mentre il mondo va avanti, noi continueremo a restare indietro.

[Giulio M @GiulioMinga]

@angelo_cennamo https://t.co/GZTr2eIFUd

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Performances (inaugurations, pomp, parades, musical productions, curated parties), when they end, they end. They evaporate in history. You will need to start again.

Books stay.

[Giulio M @GiulioMinga]

@Fraoppini82 dal veneto non ti si vede più in tv, purtroppo..

[Marco Liera @LieraMarco]

DIFFERENZE ITALIA-U.K.
Sull’Altopiano di Asiago l’Ossario dove riposano le spoglie di 54mila soldati italiani caduti nella prima guerra mondiale (e la cui “responsabilità” è affidata al Ministero dello Sport 😳) e’ chiuso e abbandonato dal 2023.
Sullo stesso Altopiano i cinque cimiteri dove riposano le spoglie dei soldati inglesi e del Commonwealth caduti a fianco degli italiani nella stesse battaglie sono invece regolarmente aperti, mantenuti e tenuti in ordine (a spese dei contribuenti UK e dei Paesi del Commonwealth).
Ora, uno può criticare gli inglesi per varie ragioni (ah ma la Brexit, ah ma il colonialismo, ah ma la monarchia etc). Però ci sono dei principi fondamentali come l’onore e la memoria per i propri caduti che fanno parte dell’ossatura e della storia di un Paese e che fanno tragicamente la differenza rispetto ad altri.

https://t.co/aZHkJcy2Wl

[Cecilia Sala @ceciliasala]

“I vostri figli saranno arabi” è lo slogan della campagna di stupri etnici in Sudan. Le vittime hanno tra gli 8 e i 75 anni. Il Regno Unito ha presentato una risoluzione per il cessate il fuoco in Sudan al Consiglio di sicurezza: la Russia ha votato contro e ha messo il veto (tutti gli altri avevano votato a favore, ma non conta). Ne ho scritto qui: https://t.co/KZiK9GCdAB

[Giulio M @GiulioMinga]

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[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

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Heart disease, cancer, diabetes & Alzheimers.

There are 6 health tests everyone over 35 should get that just might save your life.

Here they are 👇🏼

[Giulio M @GiulioMinga]

@KarlOne71 figuriamoci

[Giulio M @GiulioMinga]

@profste tutti top trader in italia...eh già :-)

[Giulio M @GiulioMinga]

@ilDiozzi usato su comprovendolibri