Giorgio Comai

@giocomai
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Researcher and data analyst at OBCT/CCI, previously at Dublin City University

Research (since early 2000s): Russia and conflict in post-Soviet spaces

Data: #rstats, #ddj, crunching data for EDJNet, the European Data Journalism Network.

Current research project: text as data (and data in the text) in online sources related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and other conflicts in post-Soviet spaces. https://tadadit.xyz/

previous fediverse accounthttps://fediverse.giorgiocomai.eu/giocomai
websitehttps://giorgiocomai.eu
current projecthttps://tadadit.xyz
GitHubhttps://github.com/giocomai
Giorgio Comai12h ago
One may think that moral standards in Silicon Valley have degraded. But no: top notch stuff from the very beginning
Show threadGiorgio Comai1d ago
@nrennie looks great!!
Giorgio Comai6d ago
Fabio Giglietto6d ago
#toread #paper The failed migration of academic Twitter: A case study of precocious adopters by Xinyu Wang, Sai Koneru, Sarah Rajtmajer http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04005v3
Giorgio ComaiMar 20
I am occasionally puzzled by the apparently negligible number of listeners that some great new songs get on platforms. In the case of "Goddess", the whole album is great. And I'm curiously obsessed by "22nd Century ft. Harriet Rock" - https://goddesssounds.bandcamp.com/track/22nd-century-ft-harriet-rock - and it has like 5000 streams on Spotify? https://open.spotify.com/track/1xarekbo9yPrNWpxoN8jgH #music
22nd Century ft. Harriet Rock, by Goddess

from the album Goddess

Goddess
Giorgio ComaiMar 13
Hacker News 500Mar 13

Willingness to look stupid

Link: https://sharif.io/looking-stupid
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307124

Willingness to look stupid is a genuine moat in creative work

Looking foolish is underrated.

Show threadGiorgio ComaiMar 10
@jdelacueva @EUCommission oh, it just got even worse! now to enable 2FA the EU funding and tender portal forces you to provide an answer to three "security questions" to be chosen among the following. Absolutely mandatory, no way to skip. Why, oh, why, must this be so wrong in so many different ways?
Giorgio ComaiMar 8

podcast (10 min): "More or Less: US-Israel war with Iran: Do the gulf states have enough interceptor missiles?"

answer: maybe maybe, for ballistic missiles, but drones are a different story. Also, more interceptors used in a week, than US produces in a year.

Podcast short and informative, but 100% numbers and such, 0% human or political consequences.

Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n54pmc

Media file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0n54mfc.mp3

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less, US-Israel war with Iran: Do the gulf states have enough interceptor missiles?

What we know about missile stockpiles following the US-Israeli strikes on Iran

BBC
Show threadGiorgio ComaiFeb 21

@jdelacueva @EUCommission A couple of years ago, I complained to the portal's assistance service about this very issue, and this is the reply I got.

With SMS now not any more an option, we are really left only with FIDO2 keys.

It is unclear why they can't use established OTP standards compliant with many different platforms, and, if they really, *really* need to re-invent the wheel, why they must release their solution only through US-based platforms that come with debatable ToS.

Show threadGiorgio ComaiFeb 21

There's a lot to think about, with the benefit of hindsight. Surely, there's a lot of reflection for the intelligence community, and the policy-makers who had access to intelligence.

But analytically, I struggle to reach clear conclusions in terms of "lessons learned" for external observers and area experts. [8/8]

Show threadGiorgio ComaiFeb 21
Shaun Walker's latest - https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/feb/20/a-war-foretold-cia-mi6-putin-ukraine-plans-russia - shows how people with direct access to a lot of information, did not believe a war was coming. These include people in different positions such as Zelensky's chief of staff Andriy Yermak, Russia's lead negotiator Dmitri Kozak, and, until the very last hours before the bombing started, Bruno Kahl, the chief of Germany’s foreign intelligence service. [7/8]
A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them

Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans to invade, and why most of Europe – including the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy – dismissed them

The Guardian