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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 24m

Resta una partita di calcio, però, al netto di tutto. Se si pensa che sia un problema di sicurezza -- o sia immorale -- semplicemente non la giochi, non è che militarizzi una città per giocarla a ogni costo

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 1h

Qui intanto da ieri siamo di nuovo a zone rosse, controlli a tappeto, droni ed elicotteri della polizia a profusione — tutto per una partita di calcio

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 1h

Precisely:

“Like eugenicists before them, the MAGA Right invents an ‘immigrant threat’ that requires heightened monitoring, creating new markets for xenophobic disinformation and profiling tools.”

AI is a tool to try and make racism rational and efficient.

politicalresearch.org/2025/10/10/d...

DHS’s Immigrant Tracking Tech Lays the Ground for Authoritarian Surveillance

Anita Say Chan reveals how new surveillance technologies employed by DHS and ICE to monitor, arrest, and deport immigrants have a long history rooted in eugenics profiling from the 19th and 20th centu...

politicalresearch.org

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 1h

For example, by automating racist dystopias

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1h

In an AI-generated, dystopian vision of the British capital, a video shows Big Ben smouldering above piles of rubbish and London crowds dressed in traditional Islamic garb.

Far-right leaders are seizing on such AI clips of European cities changed by migration to promote racist views
u.afp.com/Smz4

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 1h

"One radar can detect small ground targets up to 32 kilometers away, and the advanced software helps identify whether a target is a person, a car, or a drone"

caliber.az/en/post/uk-r...

UK radar firm supplies unnamed Southeast Asian military with border surveillance tech | Caliber.Az

A Southeast Asian military has placed a new order for high-tech mobile ground surveillance radars from UK-based company Blighter Surveillance Systems, according...

caliber.az

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 2h

AI is an incredibly useful tool to pave the way towards fascism, and nowhere this is as clear as in "immigration enforcement"

www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

How tech powers immigration enforcement | Brookings

Nicol Turner Lee and co-authors examine how AI, data analytics, and surveillance are used in immigration enforcement under Trump.

www.brookings.edu

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 2h

“Some 1,500 police and sheriff's departments were flying drones by late 2024 — a 150% jump since 2018”

www.axios.com/2025/10/11/p...

AI drones are America's newest cops

AI-powered drones can do some police work — but using them raises new questions about surveillance and privacy.

www.axios.com

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Alexander Fanta @alexfanta.bsky.social · 2h

The European Commission launched a new AI strategy last week. But it barely mentioned the huge amount of energy gobbled up by AI, and the devastating environmental fallout.

Find this in our latest newsletter: www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...

AI’s power problem? Brussels isn’t losing sleep

The AI fever gripping financial markets has delayed the phase-out of coal plants in the U.S. and is sparking fresh investment in nuclear energy. Yet, despite rising concerns over AI’s carbon footprint, the new European Commission push to “Apply AI” appears unworried about the technology’s soaring energy demands. Instead, the new report urges the energy sector to adopt AI to optimise energy grids and storage, while offering only a cursory nod to the rapid rise in energy consumption the technology is expected to bring.

Its only tangible commitment? Hidden deep in an annex: a plan to ask companies to report AI-related energy consumption under a common standard. But even that’s not expected until late next year – while Big Tech’s servers, and the coal plants feeding them, keep burning.

Alexander Fanta

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Philip Di Salvo @philipdisalvo.bsky.social · 2h

People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news: www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news.

"For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."

www.niemanlab.org

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 2h

È alle pari opportunità—
Non che sia meglio

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 3h

There is just absolutely no evidence that normalizing mass surveillance and its hellish tools works to keep us safe.

We’re giving up on democracy in the name of inflated, grotesque promises that simply no technology can realize.

The harms are very real though — and ignored.

Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 4h

In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts www.computerweekly.com/news/3666322...

Police facial recognition trials show little evidence of benefits | Computer Weekly

In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts.

www.computerweekly.com

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 3h

Forse il peggior ministro che ricordi a memoria, incommentabile sempre

Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 3h

Roccella

Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 3h

Che figura di merda colossale, io mi andrei a sotterrare e non mostrerei più il mio volto in pubblico.

Lei, invece, continuerà come niente fosse — altrimenti peraltro sarebbe andata a nascondersi da un pezzo.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 4h

And we are too busy burning the planet with AI, ripping each other apart and killing each other to do anything about it.

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 4h

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 14h

Dimettiti su

www.ansa.it/sito/notizie...

'Gite ad Auschwitz' e fascismo, bufera sulle parole della ministra Roccella - Notizie - Ansa.it

Segre: 'La verità fa male a chi ha scheletri nell'armadio'. Insorge il Pd (ANSA)

www.ansa.it

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 1d

It’s almost like George Lakoff has been right for the last (checks watch) 29 years.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 22h

Travel is about to become part of the digital mass surveillance apparatus: predictive, automated risk assessments, iris and face recognition, automation that substitutes “human discretion” with “smart and consistent analysis”.

Automated fortresses everywhere

www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...

Malaysia to roll out new system to track visitors, including airline passenger information screening

This comes on the back of various arrests linked with counter-setting activities at its borders. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

www.straitstimes.com

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 1d

A UK presenter shouldn’t crow about an audience’s ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism 🥺 ?

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 2d

The Nathan Gill scandal should be huge news so why has the British media been mainly silent about it? (I think we know 🤔)
Here's Fiona Bruce shutting down any mention & acting like the audience aren't interested.
#bbqt

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 23h

“ICE kidnapped a community member here,” reads one. “Never forget/no nos olvidamos,” says another.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 1d

“These aren’t really his thoughts, but they will do”

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

I am straight-up going to have nightmares about this

In the video Smith posted online, he said Neuralink engineers had started using language models including ChatGPT and Grok to serve up a selection of relevant replies to questions, as well as options for things he could say in conversations going on around him. One example that he outlined: “My friend asked me for ideas for his girlfriend who loves horses. I chose the option that told him in my voice to get her a bouquet of carrots. What a creative and funny idea.”

These aren’t really his thoughts, but they will do—since brain-clicking once in a menu of choices is much faster than typing out a complete answer, which can take minutes.

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t worry, the EU is already funding several dystopian technologies to solve queues with automation — promising full comfort and zero waiting times in exchange for total biometric surveillance

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

UK travellers should expect "four-hour queues" as new EU border system comes into force. Brexit really is the gift that keeps giving

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

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