Fausto Napolitano

Exploring cyberspace since 1999.

[Dries Buytaert @Dries]

Europe needs digital sovereignty, and Open Source is the most direct path to it. But it requires more contribution-based procurement. More public money must flow upstream to Open Source maintainers, not just to integrators and resellers.

https://t.co/G0YIEZmXS0

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.

[Google AI Studio @GoogleAIStudio]

official 🍌 @NanoBanana global hackathon!

build a product, app or demo that shows off the "wow" factor of gemini-2.5-flash-image, our SOTA image model

weekend hackathon starts Sep 5 5pm PT in collab with @elevenlabs and @FAL

details ⬇️

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

I'm INCREDIBLY concerned that the internet is addicting us to pointless videos and separating us from our social groups.

Meta's new presentation has crazy data on how broken our world is becoming:

[Zama @zama]

AI-generated images blur the line between real and fake, raising tough challenges for copyright, privacy & trust online.…Invisible watermarking using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) can solve these challenges—without compromising privacy.
A thread w/ code & demo 🧵⬇️

[Hilario Abad - IA verás @iaveras]

Magnific Structure Reference + Runway Restyle Video = Absolute Game Changer

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

I have so many questions

[Fausto Napolitano @fstnpl]

@alexalbert__ Curious to know if you have also experimented with the implementation in RAG of Graph Databases and what results you achieved? Do you plan to do so?

[Il Grande Flagello @grande_flagello]

"Che devo di'? Dedico la vittoria a mia madre, a Roma, ar decimo municipio. Domani se vedemo. Questo è per tutta la nazione italiana e per i disabili a casa" Rigivan Ganeshamoorthy vince l'oro superando il record per 3 volte e regalandoci l'intervista più bella e divertente

[Fausto Napolitano @fstnpl]

@mjdescy do you still provide support for Simple Call Blocker? Pvt 🙏🏽

[Gianfranco Pasquino @GP_ArieteRosso]

è quasi fatta, con l'endorsement di @Calenda @KamalaHarris veleggia verso la vittoria

[kepano @kepano]

Don't delegate understanding

There is a parasite, I see it everywhere. It consumes your health and wealth. It preys on ignorance and is easy to catch. It’s so common you may not even notice you have it.

The parasite has a simple and attractive proposition: let me take care of this hard thing for you. Trust me, I know better.

Instead of understanding it yourself, you choose to give the parasite control over your health, education, money, housing, business, identity, data, infrastructure, climate, justice. Even your beliefs.

The parasite has three stages: acceptance, extraction, intervention.

First is acceptance. Everyone else seems to have the parasite already. You are expected, even encouraged, to accept the parasite into your life. You are invited to follow the norm, outsource, consume. It’s okay! Use all the services and amenities. Satisfy your desires. Eat the cheap food, watch the cheap media. Your money and time are meant to be spent. Show off what you got in exchange. Please do not try to understand how it works, it’s too complicated for you. The parasite wants you fattened. Literally and figuratively. You are paying the parasite for the privilege of being ripened.

Second is extraction. Under the influence of the parasite, you have developed unhealthy habits and you are suffering the consequences. Stress, anxiety, obesity, disease, ignorance, fear, lethargy, decay. To dampen these problems you pay the parasite for help — support, medicine, loans, fines, rent, taxes. Enforcement of some homeostasis. You try to abate the issues, but you don’t have a stable foundation to build on. You have ignored the root causes. The parasite thrives. You are paying the parasite to be harvested, milked, sucked dry.

Third is intervention. The side effects of the parasite’s extraction have reached a critical level. The parasite tells you it’s an emergency. You need doctors, lawyers, firefighters, a military effort. You’re in a surgery room, a court room, a psychiatric ward, a jail cell. The disease can no longer be controlled, it has festered. The flame has turned into a raging fire that needs to be put out. You are paying the parasite to go back to square one.

The three stages of the parasite are interdependent. Every stage benefits someone who is not you. Everyone tells you this is just the way it is. Never mind that the parasite is living large.

Why? Extraction and intervention pay well. Education and prevention do not. The incentives are aligned to make the parasite persuasive. You are alone against a coordinated system that is exceedingly effective at packaging problems you should never have with solutions you should never need. A symbiotic loop.

You must recognize the parasite in its earliest form.

To inoculate yourself don’t delegate understanding. If you build your own understanding you will be the one who earns the dividends.

[IlSole24ORE @sole24ore]

🔸 Effetto rincari sulla stagione turistica. Cambia la mappa delle vacanze. Diffusi cali, anche tra il 20% e il 30%, della domanda soprattutto degli italiani verso le destinazioni nazionali.

#turismo #estate #Italia

[Simon Sinek @simonsinek]

I was struggling to trust people...

[IDMO - Italian Digital Media Observatory @IDMO_it]

🤖Come nascono le fake news? Dove e da chi vengono pensate, per quali finalità, e come diventano virali?

Guarda Digital World vs Fake News su @RaiPlay

https://t.co/cxVzBTGtue

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In just the last few days of AI 🤯

AI Chef
Zoom AI
Gen AI ETF
Instacart AI
Doctor Visit AI
Falcon 40B Free
4K Jobs Lost to AI
Nvidia Neuralangelo
OpenAI CTO Hacked
Apple Autocorrect LLM
EU: Must Classify AI Content

Here's what you need to know:

[Fausto Napolitano @fstnpl]

@xarianninax Rispetto 🤜🏼🤛🏼

[The OSINT Newsletter @osintnewsletter]

Remember Gephi? It's an excellent open source tool for graphing large amounts of interconnected data. Guess what? Now there's a lightweight browser version.

For everyone in #OSINT who can't configure their own environments at work, read this thread:

https://t.co/AwyaGsU39o

[Dr. Monika Sonu I Founder Healthinnovationtoolbox @sonu_monika]

You don't need 1000 #AI tools. You need the ones that actually work by Pete Huang 🚀🚀🚀
#ArtificialIntelligence #automation #GenerativeAI #chatgpt4 #OpenAIChatGPT #data #digitalhealth #healthtech #IoT #technology #5G #telehealth #mhealth #startups #OpenAI #healthcare #healthIT