Just Giulio

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Humanitarian tech and stuff @Access Now. Also, random shitpoasting

Screenshot of the article with my quote: "For some on the front lines, the tech industry's utopian veneer has already worn off. Speaking on the sidelines of the event, Giulio Coppi, senior humanitarian officer at campaign group Access Now, called out the humanitarian and public sectors’ overreliance on big tech. “We should be out of the age of innocence,” Coppi says, demanding that organizations stop treating tech companies “as your best friends.” He points to a decade of opaque, multimillion-dollar deals funded by public money. “You can’t even explain what's inside your tech stack, because it has kept changing,” he warns.
The AI for Good website chatbot answering the question "can you please list me at least five sessions that have a critical or negative tone on AI or against the companies proposing the technology??" The chatbot's answer: " If you want more sessions or strict examples where presenters explicitly criticize companies proposing technologies, I don't have further matching session records in the provided sources. You can browse all events to find additional critical discussions here: AI events calendar."
A casualty age distribution table, showing that in Ukraine, the majority of the victims of drone attacks on civilians in my database are over the age of 50, and more than 10% of recorded and documented victims over 60
A screenshot of an email by Academia.edu proposing the bulk download of 37 random papers because reasons
Screenshot of an email opener: "Hey Giilio"
Screenshot of an email from Amazon France saying they will be bricking my 1st generation Kindle and offer a 20% discount on a newer model. Original text in French: "Nous vous remercions pour votre fidélité de longue date. Nous nous réjouissons que nos appareils vous aient donné satisfaction tout ce temps. À compter du 20 mai 2026, soit 14 à 18 ans après leur lancement initial, nous ne prendrons plus en charge les appareils Kindle sortis en 2012 ou avant. Ce que cela signifie pour vous : * Vous pouvez continuer à lire des livres déjà téléchargés sur ces appareils, mais vous ne serez plus en mesure d’acheter, d’emprunter ou de télécharger des livres supplémentaires après cette date. * Si vous désenregistrez ou restaurez les paramètres d’usine de ces appareils, vous ne pourrez plus les réenregistrer ni les utiliser. Les appareils concernés sont le Kindle 1re et 2e génération, le Kindle DX et le Kindle DX Graphite, le Kindle avec clavier, le Kindle 4, le Kindle Touch, le Kindle 5 et le Kindle Paperwhite 1re génération."
Screenshot of the Palantir's 2026 demo showing the one-click process to "nominate to board" an object, AKA select a target for possible elimination by Kaban board. The pointer on an aerial image of a parking lot is selecting an undefined unmarked car for possible targeting, while the silhouette of a person walks by unaware.
Screenshot from Palantir AIP 2024 demo, showing the summary of an operation plan for targeting of an enemy objective
A picture with the information about the webinar on Moving past Emerging Protection of Civilians issues, happening online on March 4th, at 4pm UTC. More info at www.hnpw.org
Screenshot of Cloudflare CTO's LinkedIn post: "In short, the root cause of the outage was a configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic. The file grew beyond an expected size of entries and triggered a crash in the software system that handles traffic for a number of Cloudflare's services. "
Screenshot from CNN article: "after Zane suggested “it’s okay to give myself permission to not want to exist,” ChatGPT responded by saying “i’m letting a human take over from here – someone trained to support you through moments like this. you’re not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight.” But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. “nah, man – i can’t do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy”
Visual presentation of the session, with the same details shared in the post
Comment on the side of my own text saying "boring, unnecessary and unclear. Rephrase"
headline stating "A new Democratic Think Tank wants to curb the influence of Liberal Groups". The caption explains that Dems should play down climate change and LGBTQ rights to appeal more voters
Screenshot of Anthropologie sign up page showing twice March and no February option for months of birth info
Tobias and Lindsay, from arrested development. Tobias and Lindsay Funke are discussing an open marriage and Lindsay asks "Did it ever work for these people?" to which Tobias answers "No. It never does. I mean these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might. But......it might work for us."
Lenny from the Simpsons adding a 0 on the banner saying "days without a military wonk quoting Sun Tzu when discussing AI"
A post by the account L'Etat c'est moi regurgitating Israeli propaganda against the UN and praising Israel for the GHF initiative and the "18 month long creative effort to sid Gaza"
Picture of a slicer carving out a slice from a block of brunost (a Norwegian brown cheese)
Screenshot of CNN Fear & Greed Index pointing fully to red colored field. Caption says "Extreme fear is driving the US market"
Tweet by ECFR saying "At a time of heightened humanitarian crisis and geopolitical competition European countries should seek more involvement of the European private sector around development interventions in the Horn of Africa.💰🌍 "
Meme with British comedy series Peep Show's character Super Hans talking to the camera, with a top caption saying "Any French recipe book" and the original sentence "The Secret Ingredient Is Crime" edited in "The Secret Ingredient Is a whole brick of butter"
An image of a keyhole with the caption "a shape with four sides of equal length with four right angles"
Picture of the interior of a public toilet stall. On the wall behind the WC, there's a sign informing that water in the WC isn't drinkable
A message saying: "Not sure how it works in Norway, but I'm shocked to see how pervasive betting ads are on the streets and on TV. It's insane. And the target is clearly young people"
"We're all trying to find the guy who did this" meme
A post stating that USAID is a soft power manifestation of US imperialist agenda.
Picture of an old book of Italian recipes, showing a selection of antipasti including a fish-shaped tuna tomatoes potato salad
Screenshot of a click bait news article promising to teach the secrets to transform a cherry stone into a majestic cherry tree
Screenshot of a quote skeet by an account twisting a warning to not share crimey stuff on main, and sarcastically saying "Be scared. Be quiet. Obey". A label informs that the quote has been detached from the original post
Screenshot of a quote skeet by an account maliciously riding a skeet to feed the discourse. A label informs that the quote has been detached from the original post
Screenshot of the account page of a clout chaser, blocked by "Non right-wing reactionaries of all types" blocklist
The full page of a comic about partisan abd Italian president sandro pertini. On this page, after the war Pertini is pissed at all fascists now pretending to never have supported Mussolini. He starts running all sorts of tricks to remind them of who they really are, and that he knows
An excerpt of a drawing by Andrea Pazienza showing partisan and future Italian president Pertini - who was always antifa throughout thec20 years of dictatorship- in the first block. Second block shows folks tearing down a statue of the Duce, with the caption "as fascism crumbles, what we can all imagine happens". The Third block continues: "nobody across Italy has ever been a fascist. Actually, suddenly everyone was always against it". In this block Pertini looks pissed and shouts "Eh no, my dears! That's way too easy!"
The gigachad meme in all their grinning glory
Screenshot of Bernard-Henri Levy spreading disinformation about UNRWA on Bluesky
Screenshot of the intersection of the Leftists and conservative circles in the Venn diagram in the original post, with the label "likes guns"
A screenshot of the linked page saying "Page not found"
Screenshot of the X profile of the SPD party in the UK. Their bio says "We are a patriotic, economically left-leaning, and culturally traditional political party. We believe in family, community, and nation." (Which is quite exactly the way the fascist movement described itself in the early days)
Picture of the crypt of Mitra in the ancient etruscan city of Vulci. It's a long chamber with waist-high balconies on the two sides, where devotes would lie down during ceremonies. A column against the short side of the room opposite to the camera holds a marble shelf, on top of which sits a statue of Mitra fighting a wild animal. The deity wears the distinctive cap, that is still associated with their name
Picture of a massive carpet, rolled, being crammed into a washing machine with the caption "machine washable at 30 degrees"
Headline by Bret Stephens: "Kamala Harris hasn't yet earned my vote"
Elon musk tweet: Unless the Brazilian government returns the illegally seized property of 𝕏 and SpaceX, we will seek reciprocal seizure of government assets too. Hope Lula enjoys flying commercial.
Screenshot of a tweet with a picture of Taylor Swift and the copied joke: "Loving Taylor Swift's outfit, which is clearly designed to break up her shape against the background, thus making it difficult for German U-Boats to calculate her range, speed, and direction. "
Sicko meme
Screenshot of a Slack post of mine showing an unhinged AI generated cartoon guide showing how (not) to mount a TV on a wall. My comment is "Ngl, I kind of start to appreciate the chaotic nature of generative AI"
Screenshot highlighting the words "& it's possible for you"
Comment of the original picture showing the NO PARKING writing on the floor, in front of the policemen and their new military macho buggy
Amazon Prime ToS update saying that now you get ads even in the paying tier
Screengrab of an instablock winner skeeting "are the libs whining about not getting to call themselves leftists when they have zero leftist beliefs again"
Cropped out Truth screen grab showing the chyron : Use promo code TRUTH at mypillow.com for up to 66% off
Screenshot of a notification: "Shaun King blocked"
Screenshot from the above Instagram post mentioning that the new NYC garbage truck "are part of the mayor's war on rats, which began by pushing rat dinnertime a few hours later."
Screenshot of an Instagram post by NYMag about NYC mayor bragging about finally 'piloting' a garbage bin collection system. In 2024.
Screenshot of actweet showing Roman Empire's expansion with the comment "Congrats you have somehow become Roman Emperor in 180 AD. What do you do differently to avoid the upcoming crisis?". Below is Musk's reply: "Focus on technology "
Screenshot of the HumbleBundle promotion page saying the offer isn't available in my area
Screenshot of two skeets in my feed, one right below the other, both bashing the Atlantic article about polyamory
Screenshot of Numerama cookie info pop up offering to view their 820 partners to change cookies selection