this is an existential threat for my country, #Italy: #MilitarySpending will destroy our #WelfareState (health, education, pensions):

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-04-09/-10-trillion-arms-race-facing-us-and-its-g-7-allies-video

$10 Trillion Arms Race Facing US and Its G-7 Allies

^Bloomberg

#CoriDoctorow:

"NHS records are to be handed over to the US military surveillance company Palantir, a notorious human-rights abuser".

In #Italy, #Palantir signed a contract with the so-called #PopeHospital: Policlinico Gemelli

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/08/the-fire-of-orodruin/#are-we-the-baddies

1. today we at #FattoQuotidiano run the 5th part of our series on the key revelations by #WikiLeaks: #cables.
Our 5th part is focused on how #Italy has become the launching pad of U.S.#wars in the Mediterranean Sea, Middle East, North Africa

(Italian)

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2024/03/06/b-e-pd-i-piu-utili-alleati-in-italia-firmato-gli-usa/7469845/

“B. e Pd, i più utili alleati in Italia”. Firmato, gli Usa

4.189 file rivelatiDimostrano come dalla guerra in Afghanistan al cibo Washington intervenisse sulle faccende italiane

^{Stefania Maurizi (Il Fatto Quotidiano)}

Italy’s far-right government submits plan to decriminalise abuse of office

Proposal to abolish law raises fears of mafia infiltration and abuse of power in public sector

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/06/italy-far-right-government-plan-decriminalise-abuse-office

#Italy #Italia #government #abuse #right #farRight #mafia #governo #destra #destraEstrema

Italy’s far-right government submits plan to decriminalise abuse of office

^{Lorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)}

Are you interested in space exploration? Do you speak Italian?

The Italian Space and Astronautics Association (ISAA), a no profit for space outreach I'm on the board of, now runs its own Mastodon instance https://social.isaa.it (accounts only for board members & collaborators). Follow:

@astronauticast Human-curated news, info, resources.

@astronautibot Bot that posts events, data, images, links.

At @amoroso@social.isaa.it I post in Italian about space & astronomy.

#space #mastodon #italy

ISAA Mastodon

Istanza Mastodon ufficiale dell'Associazione ISAA APS (Associazione Italiana per l'Astronautica e lo Spazio).

^{Mastodon hosted on social.isaa.it}

COMUNICAZIONE IMPORTANTE: domani, giovedì 11 gennaio, alle ore 18:00 termina la possibilità di iscriversi on line alla Sci-Fi Universe.

Sarà ancora possibile iscriversi direttamente alla manifestazione, solo compatibilmente con la disponibilità dei pochi posti ancora disponibili. Sarà altrettanto possibile iscriversi ai vari Workshop, sempre che non siano già sold out.

Ci vediamo tra tre giorni!!

#SciFiUniverse #Convention #SciFi #Evento #Italy #gennaio #SciFiUniverseIT #Scienza #SFU2024

« A global exploratory comparison of country self-citations 1996-2019 » on PLOS ONE https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0294669

From the abstract: « Our analysis confirms that when bibliometric indicators are integrated into systems of incentives, they are capable of affecting rapidly and visibly the citation behavior of entire countries. »

Spoiler: #Italy is one of the (negative) outliers.

A global exploratory comparison of country self-citations 1996-2019

Self-citations are a key topic in evaluative bibliometrics because they can artificially inflate citation-related performance indicators. Recently, self-citations defined at the largest scale, i.e.

^{journals.plos.org}

#Italy's #Piracy Shield #antipiracy System Launches, Applies To All #DNS and #VPN Providers - Slashdot
Ettepareva! 🤬
È giunto il tempo di farsi il proprio DNS!

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/12/12/0419222/italys-piracy-shield-anti-piracy-system-launches-applies-to-all-dns-and-vpn-providers

Italy's 'Piracy Shield' Anti-Piracy System Launches, Applies To All DNS and VPN Providers - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A document detailing technical requirements of Italy's Piracy Shield anti-piracy system confirms that ISPs are not alone in being required to block pirate IPTV services.

^{yro.slashdot.org}

Sci-Fi Universe, 13-14 gennaio a Peschiera del Garda: tutte le ultime novità https://attivissimo.blogspot.com/2023/12/sci-fi-universe-13-14-gennaio-peschiera.html #SciFiUniverse #Convention #SciFi #Evento #SFU2024 #Italy #SciFiCon #gennaio #SciFiUniverseIT #Scienza #Garda #PeschieradelGarda

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