Mauro Tortonesi
@maurotortonesi.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and Head of Big Data & Compute Continuum Lab at University of Ferrara, Italy.
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Watson’s death is a fantastic reminder that you can be intelligent without being a good person.
The obituary of someone who gained widespread fame through remarkable achievements at a young age and then expected to be taken seriously for anything he said thereafter.
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Watson’s death is a fantastic reminder that you can be intelligent without being a good person.
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Elon Musk's legacy, perhaps more than any person in the Trump administration, will be of wanton, deliberate mass murder on an unimaginable scale
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Elon Musk's legacy, perhaps more than any person in the Trump administration, will be of wanton, deliberate mass murder on an unimaginable scale
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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George Orwell’s Animal Crossing
October 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
George Orwell’s Animal Crossing
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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The iPhone 16 Pro's A19 chip just took the #1 spot for single-thread performance on the planet
Not "for a phone" or "in its class"
Just straight up faster than Intel's best desktop CPUs
Wide cores + dedicated cache + really good branch prediction. Apple's playing a different game at this point
Not "for a phone" or "in its class"
Just straight up faster than Intel's best desktop CPUs
Wide cores + dedicated cache + really good branch prediction. Apple's playing a different game at this point
September 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The iPhone 16 Pro's A19 chip just took the #1 spot for single-thread performance on the planet
Not "for a phone" or "in its class"
Just straight up faster than Intel's best desktop CPUs
Wide cores + dedicated cache + really good branch prediction. Apple's playing a different game at this point
Not "for a phone" or "in its class"
Just straight up faster than Intel's best desktop CPUs
Wide cores + dedicated cache + really good branch prediction. Apple's playing a different game at this point
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#Java peers...Find out what #JDK enhancement proposals have been integrated in #JDK25 since #JDK21:
openjdk.org/projects/jdk...
openjdk.org/projects/jdk...
September 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
#Java peers...Find out what #JDK enhancement proposals have been integrated in #JDK25 since #JDK21:
openjdk.org/projects/jdk...
openjdk.org/projects/jdk...
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Men would rather tear down an entire open source ecosystem than going to therapy
September 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Men would rather tear down an entire open source ecosystem than going to therapy
Night Watch is truly a masterpiece. Arguably the best book I've ever read.
Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch
September 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Night Watch is truly a masterpiece. Arguably the best book I've ever read.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but magic doesn’t exist.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a strip mall psychic or a Silicon Valley bro trying to sell it to you.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a strip mall psychic or a Silicon Valley bro trying to sell it to you.
September 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but magic doesn’t exist.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a strip mall psychic or a Silicon Valley bro trying to sell it to you.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a strip mall psychic or a Silicon Valley bro trying to sell it to you.
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Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.
September 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Actually, it's only piracy when resource-constrained individuals do it for personal use. Otherwise it's called sparkling intelligence, when billionaires do it for profit.
September 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Actually, it's only piracy when resource-constrained individuals do it for personal use. Otherwise it's called sparkling intelligence, when billionaires do it for profit.
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I have a dream…
That one day people will care about children the way they care about embryos.
That one day people will care about children the way they care about embryos.
August 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I have a dream…
That one day people will care about children the way they care about embryos.
That one day people will care about children the way they care about embryos.
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we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid
I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.
August 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid
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![Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber who no longer works at the company, appeared on All-In to talk with hosts Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya about the future of technology. When the topic turned to AI, Kalanick discussed how he uses xAI’s Grok, which went haywire last week, praising Adolf Hitler and advocating for a second Holocaust against Jews.
“I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlnirjwff4ibiw3wchmleszo/bafkreiac2szurc5dnw6klquhpjmo7iafg4n6fwmrqyred7jrrph6h6mptq@jpeg)
July 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything