Mirko Viviani

Developer of Lyn, an image viewer for the Mac.

[M Cristina Parlato @mcrisparlato]

La più grade presa per i fondelli per acefali creduloni di scienza. Notate la forma?🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒

[StefanoXL @stefanol2006]

Dedicato alle bibliotecarie così entusiaste nello spostare (i.e. distruggere) i depositi ovvero le biblioteche stesse

[Ursula Becker @beckerpeloso]

Eine Gesellschaft, die einen Achtzigjährigen zwingt, ein Smartphone zu benutzen, um grundlegende Rechte wahrzunehmen, ist keine moderne Gesellschaft. Sie ist eine Gesellschaft, die beschlossen hat, ihre eigenen Älteren im Stich zu lassen.

Bis 2026 wird alles zu einer App, einem Code, einem Portal, einem Chatbot geworden sein. Doch genau die Menschen, die dieses Land mit ihren eigenen Händen aufgebaut haben, sind nun in ihren eigenen vier Wänden Analphabeten.

Wenn man für die Vereinbarung eines Arzttermins oder das Bezahlen einer Rechnung die Hilfe eines Sohnes oder einer Enkelin benötigt – sofern es überhaupt welche gibt –, dann hat das System versagt.

Das ist keine Innovation. Das ist Ausgrenzung.

Technologie sollte den Menschen dienen, nicht darüber entscheiden, wem Würde zusteht.

Wenn wir diejenigen, die vor uns da waren, im Stich lassen, entwickeln wir uns nicht weiter. Wir werden lediglich bequemer und egoistischer.

[Grim @gr_grim]

Questa cosa, ça va sans dire, la sapevano TUTTI già dal 2021, ma sono andati avanti comunque con le inoculazioni (forzate). E ovviamente nessuno pagherà per questo orrore.

[Pixar @Pixar]

these toys are crashing the party like a record scratch. counting down the days again…

[Maila Maria Rosa @MailaMariaRosa]

I was born and raised in Italy, a country that was once beautiful, safe, cultured, and admired across the entire world.

Being Italian meant something.
We were proud of who we were, proud of our history, proud of our traditions, proud to say “I’m Italian” without hesitation.

My mother was born in Cuba, so maybe I’ve always valued freedom a little differently.
I grew up understanding that, under different circumstances, I could have been born somewhere with little to no freedom at all. That perspective never left me.

Which is exactly why watching what has happened to Italy over the past few years has been genuinely heartbreaking.

The last few weeks have only intensified what so many people already felt was coming. It feels like our culture is expected to apologize for existing, while thousands of years of Italian history, identity, and tradition are treated with less and less respect every day.

The country that gave the world some of humanity’s greatest artists, poets, philosophers, writers, and masterpieces of culture and beauty is now being told that Italy must change to accommodate everyone else.

But why is preserving Italian culture suddenly controversial?

Italian culture and Islamic culture are not identical. Acknowledging cultural differences should not be considered hateful, it’s reality.
And I’m exhausted by the idea that Italy must endlessly adapt, while asking newcomers to respect and assimilate is somehow considered unreasonable.

My mother assimilated. She embraced the culture of the country she lived in. That’s what being a guest somewhere means: respect, gratitude, and integration.

Is it truly too much to ask that people who choose to come here respect our values, our customs, and our way of life?

Or are we expected to quietly watch Italy follow the path of France, Germany, Spain, and the UK, nations once celebrated for their unique identities and now struggling to hold onto them?

Another woman attacked. Another child harmed. Another violent headline.

This is not the Italy I grew up loving.

And yes, people are afraid to say what they think. But many of us see what’s happening.

I refuse to accept the slow disappearance of Italian identity just to avoid offending people who openly reject it.

Italy does not need to erase itself to be compassionate.

We are allowed to protect our culture. We are allowed to love our country unapologetically.

And if people want to live here, respecting Italy shouldn’t be optional.

Is that really so extreme?

[AyurBea @ayurbea]

Interamente demonico e completamente corrotto

[Corvelva @Corvelva]

IL PREZZO DELLA VERITÀ: UN MEDICO BRITANNICO STA LOTTANDO CONTRO LA RADIAZIONE DOPO AVER ROTTO IL SILENZIO SUL COVID

Mentre le istituzioni tentano di chiudere definitivamente il capitolo della gestione pandemica, la scure della censura continua a colpire chi, in nome dell'etica medica, ha osato sollevare dubbi. Il caso emblematico riportato dal Telegraph ci ricorda che la caccia alle streghe non è mai finita.

Il confine tra "scienza" e "dogma" si fa sempre più sottile, e chi prova a varcarlo rischia la fine della propria carriera. È quanto sta accadendo nel Regno Unito, dove un medico sta combattendo l'ultima, estenuante battaglia legale per mantenere la propria licenza professionale. La sua colpa? Essere un whistleblower, ovvero aver segnalato anomalie, criticità e rischi legati alla gestione dell'emergenza Covid-19 e, presumibilmente, alla campagna vaccinale.

LA CENSURA COME STRUMENTO DI CONTROLLO PROFESSIONALE
Il caso, approdato sulle pagine del Telegraph, mette a nudo un sistema che non accetta il dissenso. Sebbene il diritto alla libertà di espressione e il dovere del medico di agire secondo scienza e coscienza siano pilastri della democrazia, la realtà post-2020 ci consegna un quadro ben diverso.

Gli organismi di controllo (come il GMC britannico o i nostri Ordini dei Medici) sembrano essersi trasformati in tribunali inquisitori, pronti a radiare chiunque metta in discussione i protocolli ministeriali o la sicurezza dei farmaci immessi in commercio con procedure d'urgenza.

IL PARADOSSO DEL "WHISTLEBLOWER"
Un medico che segnala potenziali danni da vaccino o l'inefficacia di certe misure restrittive non sta compiendo un atto di ribellione politica, ma sta adempiendo al suo giuramento di Ippocrate. Eppure, la narrazione dominante etichetta questi professionisti come "pericoli per la salute pubblica".

In questo scenario, il whistleblower diventa un bersaglio:
✔️ Isolamento professionale: i colleghi spesso si allontanano per timore di ritorsioni.
✔️ Battaglie legali infinite: costi esorbitanti e anni di tribunali per difendere il diritto di aver detto la verità.
✔️ Morte civile e professionale: la minaccia costante della revoca della licenza per privare il medico della sua sussistenza.

PERCHÉ QUESTA BATTAGLIA RIGUARDA TUTTI NOI
Come Corvelva, abbiamo sempre sostenuto che la libertà di cura passa necessariamente attraverso la libertà dei medici di poter parlare e agire senza il ricatto della radiazione. Se i medici vengono ridotti a meri esecutori di direttive politiche, la relazione medico-paziente scompare, lasciando spazio a una burocrazia sanitaria cieca e potenzialmente dannosa.

Il caso riportato dal Telegraph non è un episodio isolato, ma parte di un pattern globale. La "scienza" che ha paura delle domande non è scienza, è ideologia. E quando questa ideologia usa la forza della legge per distruggere chi solleva dubbi, siamo di fronte a una deriva autoritaria che non possiamo ignorare.

Esprimiamo la nostra massima solidarietà a tutti i medici che, in ogni parte del mondo, continuano a lottare per la verità, nonostante le persecuzioni. Senza medici liberi, non ci sono cittadini liberi.

Corvelva Staff

#Corvelva #LibertàDiScelta #MedicinaEtica #Whistleblower #Covid19 #NoCensura

https://t.co/C0d8z72AYh

[Camus @newstart_2024]

This is the most jaw-dropping 4 minutes and 21 seconds you will watch this year.

Nicole Shanahan — ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former running mate of RFK Jr., and someone who personally signed nine-figure philanthropy checks — just went full whistleblower on the entire Silicon Valley “tech wife mafia” and how they were used.

Her exact words (full clip attached):
“I don’t think many of the tech mafia wives realize… they were used to set the groundwork for what Klaus Schwab calls The Great Reset.
Their money especially was being conscripted through a network of NGO advisors, Hollywood, Davos, and their own companies.
A really small group of people… completely blind to how their groundwork is being used to enable these Great Reset policies.”

Then she turns the knife inward:
“These women find their meaning through philanthropic work. I really believed I was helping Black communities and indigenous communities rise up.
But now the problems have gotten worse. Crime worse. Mental health worse. The whole model is broken.
At the end of the day they always go: ‘But climate change.’
Social justice + climate change — it gets progressive women 100% of the time.”

She even says many now believe the biggest “climate change issues” are actually geoengineering issues.

This isn’t some random podcast bro.

This is a woman who lived in the mansions, sat on the boards, flew private to Davos parties… and is now saying:
“We were the useful idiots.”

Watch the full unedited 4:21 below. Sound on.

[Ondřej Tesárek @bratricek]

Mass surveilance is here to protect the children.

[Vladimiro Giacché @Comunardo]

That is, the EU is today the danger No.1 for a lasting peace in Europe.
Interesting…

[M Cristina Parlato @mcrisparlato]

Hanno proceduto con la seconda dose perché era dopo e non a causa. Bestie.

[Ian Hanschen @furan]

Amiga used stacked protoboard "towers" to prototype the custom chips - mostly a combination of 74xx TTL and PAL.

Photo credit: Martin Becker

[Vladimiro Giacché @Comunardo]

Quelli della Stasi erano dei dilettanti in confronto. L’esito comunque sarà lo stesso

[Cambiacasacca @Cambiacasacca]

Comunque é preoccupante che il tizio morto per il botulino sia andato due volte in ospedale e sia stato dimesso.
Probabilmente il medico era uno di quelli che scriveva che il vaccino covid ha salvato milioni di vite.

[Alma @alma271828]

When the #market is in illiquid zones and must be held up bcs the increased uncertainity (due to the #NFP) has the potential to trigger serious repricing events, all they need is downside buy walls that counterbalance the selling liquidity, at certain dynamic shifting pivots.
This can be done on both axis: time and strike.

1) You can place big buy orders on lower levels, forcing smaller players to push their orders upwards. But there is a problem: you can make sellers concerned, and that can create #volatility, and also makes you exposed to the risk of losing on that big trade, if you get your order filled.
More safely, you can lever up through options, and buy a risk reversal. In this case, you use dealers as a tool, to create mechnical downside liquidity. And as an extra, you get an increasing liquidity, as dealers get more and more buying obligations due to their increasing long gamma exposure, that counterbalances the sellers, and with that the gaps on the tape are artificially filled, resulting in dampened volatility if the price grinds down.

2) As time passes and downside move doesn't materialize, the shorts will get closed. First, bcs money needs to work, it cannot stagnate. Second, on the time dependent derivatives time can lower the premium.
And this also creates a mechanical buyback flow.
(Even tho that the dealer delta decay of a put spread, actually creates a slow passive sell.

Both of these generate artificial buying liquidity, with a vacuum-up potential towards my monthly target, if a balance point is broken, and the other (lower one) proves positive imbalancing momentum on the tape.
Nobody actually buys here among big players. All they do is speculative trades. But algos are the ones that are trying to create some volume.
First, bcs #market $SPX is at all time highs, and the momentum is just too unhealthy, forced and mechanical. Second, bcs the positive wealth effect that #market creates is only an extra for the #inflation concerns.

I tell you one thing tho...
(Don't fall for the temptation and misinterpretation of options flows, that tries to handle #market moves as a deterministic system. No. Hell no... #market is as stochastic as it can be. Because, at the end of the day, it is the outcome of the aggregated interests of billions of ppls, leveraged trades and mechanical trades on different tenors. Okay? No free lunch. There is no such thing as "the equation of the markets".
Just estimate probabilities and size accordingly in the right time.)
So, when I look at option flows, I prefer the third order greeks and shadow greeks over first and second order greeks. They matter more. I worked more than a decade on math to get propel #volatility models, as a mathematician...
And the thing is that volatility is a double edged sword here accross the tenors. And this is predictive at some point:
1) #volatility spikes are managed through vvol supply.
2) I predicted that #volatility will come back into this week, in a stairstep manner into #FOMC. I keep my prediction for now. The vvol supply creates the slow grinding up pattern, and time also works against vol up on a net basis, but that effect will diminish pretty much into the opex and post-opex week (it disappears then basically), plus #volatility has serious imbalances towards the upside caused by the aggressive vol selling from April. This will cause natural #volatility elevation, but in a managed way.
3) If you look at the shadow gammas, you will see, that if a blow-off top happens towards my target, that would actually leave behind hightened gammas into the July #opex upwards, helping to stabilize the spot into it, if it is above the local 'inflection point' of the convexity (in the function analysis sense☝️).
The fact, that most of the downside long gammas fall close towards those points, is very aggressive.
I will tell you in a public video, what I mean by this😉 Nobody talks about this actually, where are the points that actually matter. You only need a bit of creativity and high-school lvl understanding of how functions work...

Why I say, aggressive?
Bcs, beside the renewing #inflation concerns and positive wealth effect (look at the December Fed funds bets on no cut, how it shifted on #nfp, very telling)☝️, there is one more tiny thing...
#recession
Manufacturing remains in contraction. Services ticked back into growth but aren’t hiring. Consumer spending and production are weak, and housing is also slowing.
Even #GDP figures have been revised down, and small-business sentiment is slipping.
Add #tariffs and you get the equation. #market is rallying literally on mechnical flows, short squeezes and speculative trades. Very 'bubble'-like.
#stagflation

Around 6400 $SPX max, #market is kinda capped.
$SPX $SPY $ES $ES_F $QQQ $NQ $NQ_F $VIX $VVIX
$BTC

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

"The powerful punishing those who speak for the powerless, it is not a sign of strength, but of guilt".

Let's stand tall, together.

[🏴‍☠️ The Pirate 🏴‍☠️ @Pinperepette]

Quello che molti non capiscono è che certe dinamiche online non sono spontaneità, ma ingegneria sociale di base. Quando qualcuno tira fuori la parola “terrapiattista” per screditare un’idea, non sta discutendo: sta eseguendo un pattern. Classico attacco di framing. Prendi un concetto legittimo, anche solo discutibile, e lo colleghi a qualcosa di universalmente rifiutato. Non serve dimostrare nulla, ti basta avvelenare il pozzo. Chi legge rigetta automaticamente. È social conditioning, ma applicato come exploit mentale. Lo schema è sempre lo stesso: shiftare l’attenzione dal contenuto al profilo dell’interlocutore, spostando il dibattito da ciò che viene detto a “chi sei per dirlo”. Una forma primitiva ma efficace di attacco ad hominem seriale. Ed è tutto storicamente strutturato. Programmi come COINTELPRO o CHAOS negli anni ‘60 facevano proprio questo: infiltrare, deviare, costruire falsi oppositori per screditare dall’interno. MK-Ultra lo portava persino sul piano percettivo e cognitivo. Fast forward a oggi. Apri qualsiasi thread serio e trovi account minori che entrano in modalità disturbatore. Non argomentano, rompono. Sottolineano il tono, travisano, rispondono con “quindi tu stai dicendo che…” e ti appioppano l’opposto di ciò che hai scritto. Script banale, ma funziona. Sono sempre gli stessi. Bassa alfabetizzazione, zero pensiero critico, ma inseriti in gruppi coordinati. Spesso dietro c’è uno psicologo da discount che li tiene in linea e gli spiega due o tre tecniche di micro-framing. Poi via, a infestare i commenti. Li riconosci perché il loro obiettivo non è capire, è inquinare. Tecnica da “denial of discussion”. Più che bot, sono subroutine umane mal progettate: replicano pattern tossici con precisione chirurgica. E il dato interessante è che il fenomeno è globale. Cambia la lingua, non il codice. Gente pagata a post per sabotare la narrazione ovunque serva. E se credi che non siano organizzati, sei già nel target. Patch mentale necessaria: quando vedi certi commenti, non rispondere. Loggali. È social engineering, non dibattito. E come ogni attacco, si previene con consapevolezza, non con la buona fede.

[Aretusa Moro @AretusaMoro]

Quello che l'opposizione non è riuscita a fare con il referendum lo fa in tutta tranquillità il governo, che voi lo vogliate o meno.
Poi parlatemi ancora di voto o democrazia...