David Rossati

Assistant prof of International Law @VU_law | Int'l law & climate governance | Studioso ✍🏼 | Personal views

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Who can forget this famous reenactment from Don’t Look Up via @gbnews in 2022

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

This heatwave in Europe is insane. Over 10 days of beyond tropical nights (above 20C). No one here is prepared for this.
Also, weather companies should by default publish pre 1990 averages alongside the forecast. Honestly, failure to do so is yet another kind of climate denial.

[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

Thankfully no treaty signed at Versailles has ever created further problems.

[Alessandro Di Nola @aledinola]

Interesting: GPT 5.5 managed to write a Fortran code to solve a structural life-cycle model with idiosyncratic shocks but FAILED to do a task related to the renewal of my Italian passport.

ITALIAN BUROCRACY 1 - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 0

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

El Niño is arriving on our doorstep in the coming months with 90% certainty.

The world must treat it as the urgent climate warning it is.

The only effective response is #ClimateAction equal to the crisis – ending the addiction to fossil fuels, accelerating the shift to renewables, protecting the most vulnerable, and delivering early warning systems for all.

https://t.co/owmmCChyb3

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

That AI isn't yet "good enough" to mark students' essays ought to be beside the point. Outsourcing such tasks to AI is fundamentally incompatible with the intellectual engagement between student and professor that should be central to higher education. /1
https://t.co/odMAjR88Qw

[Luigi Daniele @luigidaniele10]

Il 5 giugno esce questo lavoro sulla distruzione del diritto internazionale, a cominciare da quello dei conflitti armati e penale, rivolto a un pubblico di non specialiste/i.

Sono grato a @editorilaterza per aver dato impulso a questo tentativo.

👉🏽 https://t.co/FB7qVK9Z3s

[Mike 📺 @michaelcollado]

Opening Twitter is like having a lil phone cigarette

[Jackie Seidel, PhD @JackieSeidel1]

AI writing has no respect for the transactional relationship between writer and reader.

Last week I read a (no AI) doctoral dissertation. The outcome of years of hard work, care, commitment, study, doubt. Absolutely original thought. It was sublime. Art. I cried while reading.

[David Rossati @davidrossati]

Naive chicanery really squares it.

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

An MIT writing professor on his students using AI:

"I realized that for the first time as a writing professor, I had to deal with students producing words without work, which wasn’t quite plagiarism and wasn’t quite paying for someone else to do the job, but it felt like a kind of naive chicanery; a perversion of the contract between writer and reader."

https://t.co/518RAEgrgq

[Joel Montfort @jmontforttx]

The massive Utah data center, called the Stratos Project, will be as big as 2,000 Walmarts, will need 9GW of electricity to run, and will generate the heat equivalent of 23 atom bombs detonating every single day in Hansel Valley. The expected impact of wildlife is catastrophic.
https://t.co/pZjrpcTaIe

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

BREAKING: The Israeli naval vessel that abducted the 180 Sumud Flotilla crews off the coast of Crete (an act of piracy and a gross violation of the Law of the Sea) is intend on victimising two of them: Saif Abukeshek, a Spanish citizen of Palestinian origin, and Thiago Ávila, a Brazilian citizen who has distinguished himself with repeated attempts to break the illegal, genocidal, Israeli blockage of Gaza.

Unlike the remaining abducted members of the Sumud Flotilla crew, which the Israeli navy disembarked in Crete, Saif and Thiago are detained and bound for an Israeli prison. This is a double violation of International Law: First, Israel abducted them illegally at sea. Second, Israel is now transporting them, violently, illegally, to one of its notorious prisons.

Meanwhile, the Greek government is cooperating fully in Israel’s criminal behaviour, effectively surrendering its search and rescue obligations and conniving with Israel to victimise the brave crews of the Sumud Flotilla who are steadfastly, through their activism, defending International Law as well as the verdict of the International Court of Justice which has clearly and unequivocally declared Israel’s continued naval blockade of Gaza and its occupation of the Palestinian territories illegal.

Through their complicity and their silence, the Greek government, the European Union, the mainstream media, the West more generally, are flouting, indeed they are trashing, their supposed, much publicised, ‘Western values’. Let us all demand:

· The immediate release of Saif and Thiago
· An end to Israel’s criminal behaviour in international waters
· The termination of Israel’s illegal Gaza blockade
· That the Greek government and the European Union cease and desist from lending logistical and moral support to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its ethnic cleansing campaigns in E. Jerusalem and the West Bank

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Just spoke to friends on the Global Sumud Flotilla. Israeli vessels & drones are harassing them off the coast of Crete. The Greek gvt is either complicit or incapable of defending our seas from Israel. So much for Freedom of Navigation & Int. Law

[Melissa Wong @Melissa_WongMT]

This little one radicalized me to a level I didn’t know existed inside of me.

[Prof. Gentian Zyberi @GentianZyberi]

CORRECTION, not EU foreign ministers, but GERMANY & ITALY's foreign ministers blocked the suspension of the agreement with a genocidal Israeli government. TO THEIR SHAME. Germany continues to prove the case against it before the ICJ for complicity in serious international crimes.

[David Rossati @davidrossati]

My rough guess is even earlier than five years. Like, let's see how Europeans will react after this super-El Niño summer + war/fossil-fuel-induced scarcity.

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

The return of climate politics in, like, 5 years is gonna be the mother of all returns of the repressed. People now asleep will wake up screaming

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

The return of climate politics in, like, 5 years is gonna be the mother of all returns of the repressed. People now asleep will wake up screaming

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

While the usuals suspects have already started to downplay this El Niño to sell false hope, the official forecasts are only getting worse.

Off the chart:

[Kristyan Benedict @Kristyan_B_]

UN experts call for immediate suspension of EU-Israel trade agreement as ‘minimum requirement’ under international law https://t.co/tTApLqpNMK

[David Rossati @davidrossati]

It's Orwellian uses of international law like this which alienate people from democratic politics and the ideal of an European project of peaceful and just coexistence.

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

Under international law, transit through waterways like the Strait of Hormuz must remain open and free of charge. This is what leaders made clear in their call on reopening the Strait today.

Any pay-for-passage scheme will set a dangerous precedent for global maritime routes. Iran has to abandon any plan to levy transit fees.

Europe will play its part in restoring the free flow of energy and trade, once a ceasefire takes hold.

The EU’s Aspides naval mission is already operating in the Red Sea and can be quickly strengthened to protect shipping across the region. This could be the fastest way to provide support.