Francesco

“Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re gonna get”

[Francesco @ftuozzolo]

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[Italian 🚅🇮🇹🇻🇦 @Italian347]

In the beginning was the.... Word, you say?

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 Anthropic calls for global freeze in AI development

https://t.co/saryNTbBKB

[Michael A. Gayed, CFA @leadlagreport]

We live in a simulation.

We all died during Covid.

None of this is real.

[rabbitholebot @rabbitholebot]

Does anyone else find it odd that $200 billion is spent on cancer research every single year and the only thing to show for it is a 75% increase in cancer deaths since the 1990s?

[Zeitgeist Explorer⚡ @ZeitgeistExplo1]

The Italian diaspora over the past five years has produced Tether, the most profitable company per employee in the world, and Anthropic, the hottest IPO prospect in the AI market.

It is easy to say “if only Italy retained its talent”, and measures capable of slowing the outflow of more than 100,000 Italians emigrating every year would undoubtedly be welcome (which, moreover, would largely coincide with development-oriented policies, since many young people leave because abroad they can obtain higher salaries and careers are less “frozen”).

On the other hand, Tether developed around the dollar mainly because of the dollar itself, and Anthropic developed in the US mainly because that is where the “red buttons” of the internet are.

I say “mainly” because one can obviously find endless contributing factors, including a highly prolific European immigration, but at the core of the structural disadvantage lies the imperial 'exorbitant privilege' of the US, together with the superior American ability to scale companies.
And this goes back a long way: AI, including Anthropic, is financed largely by US big tech hyperscalers, which, thanks to their scale, can now invest amounts that are impossible for anyone else, public or private, to match.

In short, these are the same determinants I was talking about the other day in my long post about European “decline.”

[Pavel Durov @durov]

WhatsApp encryption is a giant fraud.

The state of Texas just sued WhatsApp for lying to users about privacy — because WhatsApp employees have access to “virtually all” private messages.

Now we know what WhatsApp’s founder meant when he said he “sold his users’ privacy.”

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Okay we need to apologize to the schizophrenics

[Department of War 🇺🇸 @DeptofWar]

https://t.co/rzCVvUU3mu

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”

—Plato

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Your income is strongly predicted by your parents’ income.

“Self-made” is rarer than people think.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

Price increase since 1st of January, 2026.

Gasoline: +102%
Heating oil: +82%
Brent crude oil: +73%
Crude oil: +64%
European gas: +59%

[Michele Criscitiello @MCriscitiello]

Sta cadendo il castello. Dopo Gravina, Rocchi e Gervasoni. L’Aia va rasa al suolo per tutto l’abuso di potere di questi anni. Ora continuiamo con gli arbitri poi bisognerà passare all’asso calciatori. Cambiamo il calcio non deve essere solo uno slogan #sportitalia

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

Take it from someone who had it all.
Money is not that important.
Your soul is. Truth is.

[Grim @gr_grim]

Sorpassato Orwell sulla destra a duecento all'ora in corsia d'emergenza, sfanalando e bestemmiando con la testa fuori del finestrino.

[Pavel Durov @durov]

This is how the EU/UK now regulates social media:

🤐 Offer CEOs secret deals to censor dissent.
🚨 If they refuse, open criminal cases against them.
😑 When people push back, say it's "all for the children".

🎭 "Protecting children" has become the standard legal/PR cover.

[Jake Rattlesnake @jakerattlesnk]

You are not allowed to notice that every western country opened its borders at the same time, pushed the same ideology at the same time and is experiencing the same demographic shift at the same time.

Just a coincidence. Move on.

[Il Politico Web @ilpolitico_web]

Ogni mese un 30 italiano versa il 33% della sua busta paga per mantenere 400.000 pensionati d'oro che incassano 5.000 euro al mese.
Loro non hanno mai versato quelle cifre. Lui non ne vedrà mai una simile.

Questa si chiama rapina. Noi la chiamiamo sistema pensionistico.

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[Il Politico Web @ilpolitico_web]

Per 80 anni la marina degli Stati Uniti ha tenuto aperti i mari del mondo.

Da 7 settimane una flotta di motoscafi, droni e missili low cost costringe 11 portaerei americane a guardare da lontano uno stretto largo 34 chilometri.

È così che muoiono gli imperi.

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[Francesco @ftuozzolo]

@ilpolitico_web Hubbard dixit