Ottavio Janni

Mostly birds

[Robert Francis @rbfrncs]

Around 1902 Cherokee elders in Georgia were still talking about the vagrant scissor-tailed flycatcher they saw one time forty years earlier.

[Juan M. Guayasamin @jmguayasamin]

La perspectiva de los que dominan el mundo 🌎

[Ottavio Janni @OttavioJanni]

@NateSilver538 To remedy low-stakes games, only the best two teams from each group should qualify for the second round. Divide those 24 teams into 8 groups of 3, with the winner of each group moving to the quarterfinals. This duplicates the 1982 WC format, but with twice as many teams.

[BMcCloskey @BMcCloskey_98]

Just found STEPPE WHIMBREL at Lake Sorkol, Zhanaqala, west Kazakhstan!!!! One of two with a flock of orientalis Eurasian Curlews. Declared extinct in 1994, but now with an estimated world population of fewer than 100 on earth! @zootherabirding @BirdGuides

[Asociación Colombiana de Ornitología | ACO 🦜 @OrnitologiaCol]

🏆🇨🇴La ciencia colombiana sigue dejando huella.

🥇🐦 @cdanielcadena — William Brewster Memorial Award.
🥇📖 @mmorenop7 — Brina Kessel Award.

Un reconocimiento al liderazgo de Colombia en la investigación de aves del Neotrópico. 🦜🌎

#AOS2026 #OrnitologiaColombiana #ACO

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Ottavio Janni @OttavioJanni]

@baggins_bow You might try to track down the publication linked below. At one point the pdf was available, but not anymore it seems. A full archive of the MDYellowthroat is available online, but the relevant issue is missing! https://t.co/iq2TpSAYTM

[Liz Lemon @cucharitadepalo]

Mientras tanto, en Perú:

[Ottavio Janni @OttavioJanni]

@gracecamille_ My fingers reaching, my trophy swelling, and that's when desire trips me up: https://t.co/iyek0Hla5Q

[Ottavio Janni @OttavioJanni]

@evornithology @TheBirdist @guttenbirder22 @RyanFMandelbaum Text is really good in the Ridgley guide, so if there's a digital version of it to cut down on weight it would definitely help

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

After Gaza, Israel Is Now Causing the West Bank Health System to Collapse https://t.co/byNvOiumeI

[Ottavio Janni @OttavioJanni]

@guttenbirder22 I bet a lot more people have seen the gray version than the red though, it looks like that through most of the year and most of its (non-breeding) range. I'd celebrate a red Red Phalarope like a lifer

[Ottavio Janni @OttavioJanni]

Peticion për mbrojtjen e Vjosë Nartës. (Please don't donate / Jo donacione ju lutem) - Firma la petizione! https://t.co/LlsNmxyFkH via @ChangeItalia

[Paolo Mossetti @paolomossetti]

Leen Hijaz, valedictorian at her high school in North Carolina, said the following in her graduation speech:

"Before I leave the stage, I have one last thing to say. Every single person here has a voice; we have the privilege to use it when millions around the world are struggling and suffering to be heard. Whether it’s the millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan and so many other countries around the world, or families being torn apart by ICE. These are not just an issue here; they are happening there, they’re happening right here as I speak. My point is, we’re not given a voice to stay silent."

Corey Robin, a political theorist at Brooklyn College, writes: "The mere mention of Palestine—maybe ICE, too—sent the high school principal, Melissa Moore, hurtling across the stage to seize the microphone from Hijaz, and stop her from saying these unapproved words.

Just look at this photograph: A young Muslim woman, speaking out, and a desperate, terrified principal trying to shut her down, lest the student say something unauthorized, disapproved, discordant with the views of an increasingly small clique of government officials and voters.

It's so pathetic. It reads like a comic play by Václav Havel. It looks like the desperate last days of the Soviet Union. I can only hope Hijaz speaks for a generation that will, one day, sweep all this garbage into the dustbin of history".

[Ziggy_Sobotka @Ziggys_Duck]

Season 1 Ep3: The Buys
Rewind to #TheWire 24th anniversary

“The King stay the King” -D’Angelo

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

The Pope has weighed in: AI isn't magic. It is produced by a currently deeply exploitative, extractive supply chain. It challenges human dignity; it could fuel a new colonialism. And among the greatest challenges of our time will be to redirect its path of development.

[Cecilia Sala @ceciliasala]

La migliore descrizione per immagini possibile di un attacco double tap contro un’ambulanza

[Asociación Colombiana de Ornitología | ACO 🦜 @OrnitologiaCol]

🕊️📚 Ya está disponible la tercera edición de la Guía ilustrada de la avifauna colombiana de Fernando Ayerbe-Quiñones.

Una obra indispensable para amantes de las aves y la biodiversidad colombiana.

🎉 Socios ACO tienen 10% de descuento.

📩 Contáctanos para adquirirla.

[Paolo Mossetti @paolomossetti]

Rosy Bindi, a left-leaning Italian Christian Democrat, part of the Catholic left, and a former minister of Health under the Prodi government in the 1990s, on the Flotilla:

"That is an example of how the State of Israel views human dignity at this moment. This government is harming the whole world: the Palestinians, and even the Jewish people themselves.

The reaction we should have toward Israel must be an extremely firm one. We must have the courage to sever relations with this country. It cannot be enough merely to ask that Italians be treated well. A clear and unequivocal stance must be taken against a state that, at this moment, has become a danger to the world and tramples on fundamental human rights.

Now, I understand that for this [Meloni] government it is difficult to reach these conclusions. Do we really have to wait for a video like this before reacting? The words being used against the Flotilla are deeply insulting. The symbolic power of people who sacrifice part of their lives, their own money, and even put themselves at risk in order to remind everyone that there are peoples whose fundamental dignity is being crushed... this is something that a democratic country should praise, that we should be grateful for, not mock, not dismiss as “caravans.”

The reason why we are not reacting strongly enough becomes obvious: the fundamental culture of rights and respect for human beings is being lost. Europe cannot afford this.

The State of Israel has many means of pressure and blackmail. We know that. But there come moments when states themselves must be willing to take risks if they want to save the principles upon which they were founded. Principles we know very well came at a tremendous cost.”

(Via @gisellaruccia)