S. Manzoli

🇮🇹 🇪🇺 #slavaukraini #RWRI16

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Oggi è stato un giorno difficile per l’Ucraina dopo un massiccio attacco russo. Sono stati lanciati numerosi missili balistici e droni, anche in questo momento continuano gli allarmi aerei in diverse regioni del nostro Paese. Ancora una volta, minacce dal cielo. Solo oggi gli attacchi russi hanno causato 22 vittime a Kyiv e a Dnipro, tra cui bambini. Stiamo facendo tutto il possibile per proteggere il nostro popolo, le nostre città e le nostre comunità. E siamo grati a chi ci aiuta. L’Ucraina è riconoscente all’Italia: apprezziamo profondamente che non siate indifferenti, che desideriate per noi la pace e che consideriate la difesa dell’indipendenza e della libertà di Kyiv anche una vostra causa. Insieme riusciremo sicuramente a raggiungere questo obiettivo.

Congratulazioni all’Italia, al Presidente Mattarella @Quirinale, al Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri @GiorgiaMeloni e a tutto il popolo italiano per l’80 anniversario della proclamazione della Repubblica. La libertà è una conquista che va difesa ogni giorno.

Grazie, Italia! Buona Festa della Repubblica!

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

1/n
A physical book is a real object, anchored. If you read a particular edition, you remember not only the contents but the object itself: its cover, typography, smell, even where a passage sat on the page.
Books organize themselves in memory by place --the ancient method of loci.
Digital text does not exist.

[Save Gaza @Alee93ale]

This is Israel, world

An Israeli soldier ordered a Palestinian youth to continue walking, then used him as a target for long-range shooting practice before killing him.

Tell us what you think of their actions!

Repost please

[Steve Burns @SJosephBurns]

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[S. Manzoli @SquareLaw]

@polycopyapp I am trying to cancel my subscription and I can't. The whole thing seems fishy. Your support email bounces back.

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

People, and I mean also decision makers, bureaucrats, and CEOs, can‘t think in terms of second order events. This is not to blame them for lack of complex systems thinking. This is based on observations and experience since the first systemic risks emerged during GFC 2007/08.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The fellow below (like all IQ obsessed shlemiels) didn't get the contradiction that if both neurosurgeons are identical in performance, education, etc., yet are separated by 3 STD in IQ, it means IQ does not reflect anything.
Wittgenstein's Ruler.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

🇮🇱🇨🇭 This Swiss commentator has balls of steel. While the Israeli bobsleigh team was racing, he kept reminding viewers of the war crimes the pilot has openly supported.

Absolute legend!

[Michele Boldrin @micheleboldrin]

Semplice.

- La prima è una democrazia nella quale la maggioranza dei cittadini approva i crimini commessi dal suo esercito ai danni di un altro popolo. Dall'esercito che compie quotidianamente quegli orrendi crimini (che tu giustifichi, applaudì o ignori) provengono una parte degli atleti presenti.

- La seconda è una dittatura che opprime il proprio stesso popolo e contro la quale il popolo iraniano si ribella da lungo tempo.

Gli atleti iraniani non sono associabili ai crimini del regime di #Khamenei, anzi l'opposto.

Gli atleti israeliani, come la maggioranza dei cittadini israeliani che li approvano, sono associabili ai crimini del governo di #Netanyahu.

Come lo sei tu che infatti pubblichi questi tweet per cercare, vanamente, di lavarti la coscienza.

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

“He is celebrating progress in protecting kids from harm, yet just a few years earlier he helped with defense language in a case about exploiting minors. Sarah put it all out there publicly with hard evidence from the files, and we tagged Pinker directly, asking for comment or explanation on the specifics—the 416 mentions, the 2007 letter, the ongoing ties. He had every chance to address it, deny parts, or clear the air. Instead, he blocked Sarah, blocked me over a tiny repost, and stayed quiet. If the book's message about making child harm unacceptable is genuine, why not use words to push back on questions tied to his own past actions?”

GREAT point and good article.

[dave trott @davetrott]

This is why the strategy dept earns the big bucks

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

In the past, technology caused employment to move up on the sophistication scale. Technology provided the muscle, people did more and more of the thinking . Today, AI is forcing people to move down into low tech and perhaps menial jobs.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.

It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
(Link below)

[Carlo Calenda @CarloCalenda]

Riassumendo: 1) su @repubblica e @LaStampa non fanno piu interviste perché ci siamo occupati di #Stellantis; 2) da @corradoformigli non mi invitano perché ho contestato Sachs e la conduzione pro #Sachs ; 3) di #Enel e Terna sui giornali non si può parlare perché altrimenti minacciano di togliere la pubblicità.
C’è un problema di libertà di stampa o di stampa libera?

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Many believe that someone coming from the private sector will be business-minded & not bureaucratic.
No,
You get a salary (not a commission/cut) => you are a bureaucrat.

CEOs are the most bureaucratic, even those on incentive, WORSE than government bureaucrats.

[Ritesh Jain @riteshmjn]

This is a must read substack article

Excerpt

“The most honest person I've met recently was a VP at a tech company who told me: "I manage a team of twelve people who create documents for other teams who create documents for senior leadership who don't read documents. I make £150k a year. It's completely absurd, and I'm riding it as long as I can while building something real on the side."

https://t.co/mm19ir8P5S

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

“A majority of life’s errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do.”

— Charlie Munger

[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.

Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.

Here's what 4 months of data revealed:

(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)