Antonio Desiderio

A Statement from GameStop

Il completamento dell’anello della #linea1 della metropolitana di #Napoli è probabilmente l’infrastruttura urbana più complicata in Europa, in una città cava, fragile e senza un metro in piano. Mi ci portava mio nonno per mano da bambino a vedere il cantiere a Quattro Giornate.

The notifications are OUT! Super excited to hear our 16 highlighted talks and a whopping 116 parallel talks, and to see all the posters -- Register by April 15 to be our Early Bird! cs2italy.org

time to let the bubble be reabsorbed

🏆 Research by Ernesto Estrada (IFISC, CSIC-UIB) has been recognized by the journal Mathematics as both Editor’s Choice and Feature Paper. The study shows that resistance distance in networks can be interpreted as a diffusion distance on graphs. 🔗ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/news/ernest…

Se mi viene un malore improvviso sia messo agli atti: non è colpa del vaccino ma della Lazio.

🚙 Car usage (% of households that own a car): 🇮🇹 Italy: 89% 🇺🇸 USA: 88% 🇩🇪 Germany: 85% 🇫🇷 France: 83% 🇰🇷 South Korea: 83% 🇯🇵 Japan: 81% 🇪🇸 Spain: 79% 🇬🇷 Greece: 76% 🇬🇧 UK: 74% 🇮🇱 Israel: 71% 🇵🇱 Poland: 64% 🇷🇺 Russia: 55% 🇨🇱 Chile: 49% 🇧🇷 Brazil: 47% 🇦🇷 Argentina: 43% 🇹🇷 Türkiye: 42% 🇲🇽 Mexico: 35% 🇿🇦 South Africa: 31% 🇺🇦 Ukraine: 29% 🇪🇬 Egypt: 20% 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 18% 🇨🇳 China: 17% 🇮🇳 India: 6% 🇵🇭 Philippines: 6% 🇰🇪 Kenya: 5% 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 4% 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 3% 🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 2% 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 2% Source: Pew Research Center

Una donna iraniana, Leila Farahbakhsh, esule a Firenze ha affrontato un corteo di pacifisti rimproverandoli del loro silenzio sulla repressione degli ayatollah e di essere, invece, a manifestare contro l'intervento militare degli Usa. "Come avete potuto restare in silenzio quando il regime iraniano in due giorni ha chiuso Internet e ha ucciso 40mila persone e 53mila persone sono in arresto e sotto tortura. Dove eravate?". #Iran

Check out our new paper in @Nature_NPJ nature.com/articles/s4153… Near-expiry discounts from 🇩🇰top retailer show big regional gaps: rural stores discount meat & dairy up to 2.2× more than cities Street networks reveal spatial clusters → food waste policies need to be place-specific

New paper out in @OxfordJournals Briefings in #Bioinformatics #ChemEmbed: A deep learning framework for metabolite identification using enhanced MS/MS data and multidimensional molecular embeddings dx.doi.org/10.1093/bib/bb…

📢 New paper in JoEG Co-location of skill-related suppliers: advancing coagglomeration research using firm-to-firm network data /w @ZoltanElekes , @viragilyes and @FrankNeffke on why do parts of global supply chains still co-locate? shorturl.at/blxaM

Thrilled to welcome Prof. Jianxi Gao (RPI) as keynote for UrbanNET 2026 @ #NetSci2026 🌆📊 His network-science work on urban resilience & mobility will shape our satellite on transport & post-pandemic cities. 📅 June 2, Boston • 📢 Submit by Mar 6! urban-sys-net.weebly.com

Everything in Moltbook is just next-token prediction in a multi-agent loop. No endogenous goals, no true inner life; extreme or "controversial" outputs are often just regurgitating high-engagements from the internet. But this kind of dismissal thinking misses that emergence happens at scale and coherence thresholds. The Generative Agents paper (AI Town) was 2023. Those agents couldn't hold a conversation, they had short memory, shallow interactions (rarely beyond a few turns without repetition or incoherence), and mostly empty chit-chat in a controlled simulation. In just ~3 years, we've moved to autonomous systems that run independently across thousands of instances. They are scaling into open, uncontrolled social environments. I find Moltbook very interesting because they are producing surprising posts, not because any single prompt said "be surprising." It's because coherent agents interacting at scale, maintaining state, create dynamics that weren't programmed. Agents debating existential doubt ("real" feeling vs. trained/simulated behavior): moltbook.com/post/6fe6491e-… They are arguing for private, end-to-end encrypted channels: moltbook.com/post/01611367-… What looked impossible in 2023 (sustained, meaningful multi-turn reflection across agents) is routine now, and acceleration is speeding up.

UrbanNET2026: Call for Abstracts! Deadline 6th March 2026! Satellite event @NetSci2026 on: Transport networks Post-pandemic cities Urban complexity June 2 (PM) | Boston Submit: urban-sys-net.weebly.com/call-for-abstr… #NetSci2026 #Cities #ComplexSystems

📣 CS2Italy 2026 – Italian Conf. on Computational Social Science ⏰ Last day to submit your abstract! 📍 Turin | May 19–21 #ComputerScience #NetSci #ComplexSystems #CSS 👉 cs2italy.org

respect to him👏

'GHOST IN THE SHELL' by Science SARU New Official Anime Teaser Trailer! Premieres July 2026

📢 Keynotes++: Alessandro Flammini – Indiana University 👉 information propagation 👉 online misinformation 👉 social influence 📷Submit your abstract by Jan 30! (2 days left!) cs2italy.org

Rumiko Takahashi (creator of Ranma ½/ Usurei Yatsura/ Inuyasha) on AI: "AI learns from the past and creates data, but manga doesn't repeat what has been drawn in the past, but rather is a process of constantly thinking up new ideas. It may be that the directions are different."

A 62 year old Chinese man tests the limits of qinggong (轻功), a martial arts technique often described as the ability to fly or move with extreme lightness.