Fabio Chiusi

Questa settimana su Fragile si rilegge il classico di Weizenbaum, 'Computer Power and Human Reason', che mezzo secolo fa ha anticipato alcuni degli argomenti più solidi contro quello che oggi chiamiamo "tecnofascismo". È una lunga lettura, ma affila le armi 💪 steady.page/it/fragile/p...

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

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Does all the tracking produce "enough meaningful health benefit to justify the cost, effort, and potential for anxiety"❓ Nah‼️ "We should measure success in healthier, happier lives – not more data, more alerts, or more perfect scores." Chill. conscienhealth.org/2026/10/27/d...

L'ossessione anti-woke è solo un tassello di una battaglia culturale molto più ampia, e profondamente politica, che vede i tecnomiliardari in prima linea. In questi anni abbiamo assistito a una saldatura tra nazionalismo reazionario e colossi della Silicon Valley.

L’odio spacciato ogni singolo giorno dalla redazione unica purtroppo finirà per rivelarsi una profezia che si autoavvera di violenza e barbarie. L’OdG cosa dice? Niente?

Same guys are saying AI could destoy us all. 🤷‍♂️

“These re-interviews are consequential,” a leaked email seen by 404 Media reads.

How does propaganda work? Most of research on propaganda focuses on its persuasive function only @hhuang.bsky.social & Xing Chen nicely summarize research on non-persusive goals of propaganda in autocracies. academic.oup.com/edited-volum... - ungated: static1.squarespace.com/static/594dd...

La newsletter questa settimana ritarda ed esce (spero) domani. Mi sono messo in testa di portare il contributo di un grande classico della critica tecnologica, e semplicemente era talmente magnifico che mi ci sono perso dentro per giorni. Domani provo a mettere tutto su Fragile.

New from @edenshamy.bsky.social: AI is transforming the political landscape and contorting conventional ideas about truth, free speech, and fair elections. Experts say the law is failing to keep pace as candidates and consulting firms use the rapidly evolving technology to caricature the opposition.

This is awful, Rest of World did an excellent job

Hanno deciso di sposare la linea "le elezioni erano truccate". Tenete a mente, per quando arriveranno le elezioni dalle nostre parti.

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

“AI model Claude bypassed a paywall ​and accessed publicly available US ‌state of Georgia aggregate voter counts without human authorization, Anthropic said in a ​statement on Sunday” www.reuters.com/world/us/ant...

Toh che caso, il focus è immediatamente sul non riconoscere l’esito elettorale

#TechCoup failed here.

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

This must be satire. I am really not anti-AI but if you need AI to come up with “the impossible task” of listing three points on what makes *your own child* special, you do deserve the robot apocalypse.

Ma questo buffone che imita Trump e Insulta i cronisti? Ma come si permette? Ma dimettiti e sparisci www.ansa.it/sito/notizie...

Quando sarà finita anche in Italia l’orgia repressiva e di odio e razzismo messa sul banco da questa destra dovrà arrivare il redde rationem, dovranno essere stabilite le responsabilità. E dovranno essere scritte bene in grassetto nei libri di storia. Nessun compromesso.

Esatto, possono reprimere mentire infangare insegnare a odiare ogni giorno delle loro miserabili vite, ma non vinceranno mai per sempre. C’è sempre speranza, e speranza ragionevole. Forza 💪

Vučić’s defeat is, following Orbán’s, another electoral earthquake in south-eastern Europe that will reverberate well beyond the country’s borders.

Wait, am I actually waking up to good news for once? 🤩

“This gives the company an advantage in tracking objects in orbit, raising national security concerns and fears of greater control over the space industry” www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

"The Battle to Expose Elon. Alex Gibney talks to Status about social media bans on his "Musk" documentary, why he's concerned about its future at HBO, and what disturbs him the most about the world's richest man." www.status.news/p/elon-musk-...

"The short-termism of universities burning through their social licence neatly parallels the roll out of the resource-hungry, carbon intensive data centres on which AI depends. In both cases, the underlying philosophy might be rendered as après moi, le déluge (after me, the flood)"

This is not a slip of the tongue, he has said it repeatedly. #Palantir has an openly misogynist agenda, as well as anti-democracy and pro-violence. Yet Palantir is allowed to run some of the most sensitive systems in the EU and NATO. Governments are very secretive about their contracts with Palantir

astonishing and awful; shame and shame on #google

Ma quale disagio! Se gli studenti protestano in tutto il mondo è per colpa del nostro Ayatollah dei Maranza (cit), e dei suoi poteri derivanti dall’avere aperto una pagina Instagram!

Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he wants a more 'honest conversation' about freedom of movement, suggesting it could work better than post-Brexit immigration has. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Something I wish more people would realize.

Oggi la redazione unica dell’Odio spinge lo stesso messaggio: non c’era nessun disagio alla base della protesta, erano i magici poteri dell’Islam che hanno mosso migliaia di giovani all’unisono in una sharia contro le vetrine del lusso! Zombie dell’Ayatollah dei Maranza! (Incredibile)

I fully agree with Tarik and the only thing that makes me somewhat optimistic about the future is talking to younger people for whom “radical change” simply means “change”. Progressive organizations need to embrace and empower the youth, in particular young women.

“Has radicalism become the more realistic option?” Thread

This is genuinely some of the most worrying news I have seen in the past few years, in terms of the ongoing effort to hold the AI industry accountable on climate Me losing work because the org I'm pitching to is funded by Anthropic is far more of a threat than actual competition from generative AI

“It is also clearly stated that “the technology does not make enforcement decisions: all system alerts are subject to immediate human review and verification, including secondary identity checks, before any engagement or action is taken.”” 🤔 www.biometricupdate.com/202610/uk-ho...

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Another sizzling investigation from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social, exposing just how deeply embedded Palantir is in the UK state and providing yet more evidence that the conflict of interest line - when it comes to government procurement - is really quite malleable.

“We cannot afford to rely entirely on technology built overseas. By backing British science, advanced chips and our own AI companies, we can strengthen our national security” So no Palantir, Anduril, etc anymore? www.gov.uk/government/n...

🤔 www.reuters.com/business/med...

"Droni" per fare cosa? www.ansa.it/lombardia/no...