Come diceva Flaiano, gli italiani perdonano tutto tranne il successo. Ecco, i Måneskin non li perdonerà proprio nessuno, allora.
Monet quote: "Nel caso siate appena tornati da un ritiro spirituale in un eremo, la notizia è che uscita la versione di I Wanna Be Your Slave cantata da Damiano con Iggy. A giudicare dai commenti che ho letto nei giorni scorsi sui social, nessuno ha sentito il bisogno di ascoltarla: le opinioni sulla collaborazione erano già pronte e polarizzate. E del resto perché aspettare e perdere tre minuti per sentire il pezzo quando puoi dire la tua opinione secca e definitiva su Facebook?"
https://www.rollingstone.it/musica/i-rocker-da-tastiera-sono-piu-selvaggi-di-iggy-pop-a-lui-i-maneskin-vanno-bene-a-loro-no/57715
Monet quote: "Nel caso siate appena tornati da un ritiro spirituale in un eremo, la notizia è che uscita la versione di I Wanna Be Your Slave cantata da Damiano con Iggy. A giudicare dai commenti che ho letto nei giorni scorsi sui social, nessuno ha sentito il bisogno di ascoltarla: le opinioni sulla collaborazione erano già pronte e polarizzate. E del resto perché aspettare e perdere tre minuti per sentire il pezzo quando puoi dire la tua opinione secca e definitiva su Facebook?"
https://www.rollingstone.it/musica/i-rocker-da-tastiera-sono-piu-selvaggi-di-iggy-pop-a-lui-i-maneskin-vanno-bene-a-loro-no/57715
Rolling Stone
I rocker da tastiera sono più selvaggi di Iggy Pop: a lui i Måneskin vanno bene, a loro no | Rolling Stone Italia
Nel caso siate appena tornati da un eremo abbiamo una notizia per voi: è uscita la versione di ‘I Wanna Be Your Slave’ dei quattro romani col Papa rock e la discussione è, come dire, piuttosto accesa
È stato un disastro annunciato, non solo nel Regno Unito. Alcune cose erano già abbastanza chiare: compagnie aeree sotto-staffate e una domanda esplosa grazie alla velocità delle vaccinazioni che hanno rimesso in pista il turismo e il commercio internazionali. Più le vacanze estive.
Money quote: "“It is understandable why airlines rapidly increased their Spring/Summer schedules for 2022, as vaccination programmes displayed strong progress in many key markets for the travel industry, resulting in booking confidence increasing in 2021,” comments Ralph Hollister, travel and tourism analyst at GlobalData.
“However, many airlines have found it difficult to hire, vet, and train new staff members to meet the unforeseen demand for international flights from travellers and are now having to cancel hundreds of flights.”
https://www.airport-technology.com/analysis/understaffed-airlines-and-oversold-flights-lead-to-cancellation-chaos-2/
Money quote: "“It is understandable why airlines rapidly increased their Spring/Summer schedules for 2022, as vaccination programmes displayed strong progress in many key markets for the travel industry, resulting in booking confidence increasing in 2021,” comments Ralph Hollister, travel and tourism analyst at GlobalData.
“However, many airlines have found it difficult to hire, vet, and train new staff members to meet the unforeseen demand for international flights from travellers and are now having to cancel hundreds of flights.”
https://www.airport-technology.com/analysis/understaffed-airlines-and-oversold-flights-lead-to-cancellation-chaos-2/
Tanto tempo fa, in un mondo lontano lontano, gli orologi stradali erano pneumatici. Detto meglio: ecco come funzionava la rete di orologi ad aria di Parigi
Money quote: “The pneumatic clock network was not a power distribution network but a time distribution network, which synchronized a large number public clocks by sending a pulse of air every minute. The pipes ran through the sewers of the city, and the tunnels of the Metro and the RER, a commuter rail network serving Paris and its suburbs. Each clock contained a metal bellows which advanced a 60-tooth wheel by one tooth per minute. Compressed air from the plant left at a pressure of 15 to 45 pounds per square inch (about 1 to 3 atmospheres) for storage in a high-pressure air tank. From there it travelled through a pressure regulator to a low-pressure storage tank or accumulator. Its release was controlled by a distributing clock. The driving weights were lifted by compressed air to keep the clock running and on time. An automatic timing mechanism opened a valve to release a 20-second pulse of air every minute and then the valve closed for 40 seconds. The 20-second-on, 40-second-off cycle was repeated every minute. The pulse of air travelled to every receiving clock, be it in a private home or office or in a street or public building, and advanced the minute hand by one minute. The system worked uninterrupted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/02/the-pneumatic-clocks-of-paris.html
Money quote: “The pneumatic clock network was not a power distribution network but a time distribution network, which synchronized a large number public clocks by sending a pulse of air every minute. The pipes ran through the sewers of the city, and the tunnels of the Metro and the RER, a commuter rail network serving Paris and its suburbs. Each clock contained a metal bellows which advanced a 60-tooth wheel by one tooth per minute. Compressed air from the plant left at a pressure of 15 to 45 pounds per square inch (about 1 to 3 atmospheres) for storage in a high-pressure air tank. From there it travelled through a pressure regulator to a low-pressure storage tank or accumulator. Its release was controlled by a distributing clock. The driving weights were lifted by compressed air to keep the clock running and on time. An automatic timing mechanism opened a valve to release a 20-second pulse of air every minute and then the valve closed for 40 seconds. The 20-second-on, 40-second-off cycle was repeated every minute. The pulse of air travelled to every receiving clock, be it in a private home or office or in a street or public building, and advanced the minute hand by one minute. The system worked uninterrupted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/02/the-pneumatic-clocks-of-paris.html
Amusingplanet
The Pneumatic Clocks of Paris
Nel caso vogliate fare un recap di come sono andati i primissimi mesi della guerra in Ucraina, il *Washington Post* ha un ottimo riassunto in cinque punti
Money quote: "“I’m not trying to hold on to power,” Zelensky said he explained to the Western officials. “If the question is that I leave, and that will stop the bloodshed, then I am all for it. I will go right now. I didn’t get into politics for that — and I will go whenever you say, if it will stop the war.”
While he believed some Western officials were truly concerned about his personal safety, Zelensky also suspected that some of his foreign interlocutors simply wanted the conflict to end as quickly as possible, with his administration effectively surrendering to Russia."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/24/kyiv-battle-ukraine-defense/
Money quote: "“I’m not trying to hold on to power,” Zelensky said he explained to the Western officials. “If the question is that I leave, and that will stop the bloodshed, then I am all for it. I will go right now. I didn’t get into politics for that — and I will go whenever you say, if it will stop the war.”
While he believed some Western officials were truly concerned about his personal safety, Zelensky also suspected that some of his foreign interlocutors simply wanted the conflict to end as quickly as possible, with his administration effectively surrendering to Russia."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/24/kyiv-battle-ukraine-defense/
Le singolari e fragilissime culture che compaiono grazie a Internet
Money quote: ""Maskers" are mostly men that put on female silicon masks as a hobby or a fetish or just for fun. They have Instagram accounts because Insta is safer than going out in the streets, but they are "not sure if they want to be known"
https://www.inputmag.com/culture/instagram-female-masker-community-men-silicone-masks
Money quote: ""Maskers" are mostly men that put on female silicon masks as a hobby or a fetish or just for fun. They have Instagram accounts because Insta is safer than going out in the streets, but they are "not sure if they want to be known"
https://www.inputmag.com/culture/instagram-female-masker-community-men-silicone-masks
Input
Instagram’s female maskers know you think they’re weird
But the men beneath the silicone masks ask that you keep an open mind. "The serial killer comments get a little old," says one.
C'è questa cosa che per lo sviluppo anche del front-end dei siti è necessario tornare a lavorare con la riga di comando. Ed è una buona cosa, probabilmente. Se si sa come farla. Ecco, questo è il motivo oltre che il modo.
Money quote: "The use of UI not only slows you down a few seconds each time you navigate through it but also gives you the freedom to not remember many shortcuts that are there to make your work life easier. And this doesn’t just apply to the command line but also when you use any kind of editor."
https://betterprogramming.pub/hacking-your-iterm-5d2bdacdaccf
Money quote: "The use of UI not only slows you down a few seconds each time you navigate through it but also gives you the freedom to not remember many shortcuts that are there to make your work life easier. And this doesn’t just apply to the command line but also when you use any kind of editor."
https://betterprogramming.pub/hacking-your-iterm-5d2bdacdaccf
Medium
Hacking Your iTerm
Boost your command line productivity by customizing iTerm
Se avete sempre detto che non avreste potuto vivere senza Vim ma poi siete dovuti passare ad altro, forse questa modifica di VSCode potrebbe piacervi
Money quote: "TLDR; Using a modern text editor that provides a good Vim emulator provides the best user experience for the average Vim enthusiast. Because in addition to almost everything you use Vim for, many modern text editors like VSCode can also do the things you wish Vim could."
https://medium.com/zeals-tech-blog/vim-is-the-v-in-vscode-448a6e10901c
Money quote: "TLDR; Using a modern text editor that provides a good Vim emulator provides the best user experience for the average Vim enthusiast. Because in addition to almost everything you use Vim for, many modern text editors like VSCode can also do the things you wish Vim could."
https://medium.com/zeals-tech-blog/vim-is-the-v-in-vscode-448a6e10901c
Medium
The V in VSCode is for Vim
A love story between two text editors in which I’m the happy third wheel.
Erano anni che non leggevo un articolo così chiaro e centrato su un tema come quello della prostituzione. L'autrice ha scritto un libro dopo essersi prostituita per sette anni, dai 15 ai 22, e spara ad alzo zero su tutta quella parte del mondo che fa credere per un motivo o per un altro che la prostituzione sia qualcosa di plausibile. Non lo è. Neanche da lontano. Il problema non è legalizzarla o meno. Il problema è che esiste, e non c'è un modo per romanticizzarla.
Detto questo, se volete pensare che io sia un moralista, beh, potreste anche aver ragione. Ma almeno non sono un ipocrita.
Money quote: "While it is fashionable for some female academics, journalists and social commentators to declare the validity of prostitution as employment and to endorse and support this fiction in their books, articles and opinion columns, I note that they resolutely will not practise what they preach. They are not usually willing to have their own bodies used to prove their point. What’s always been particularly galling to me about socially privileged upper middle-class women who popularise these views is that, just like Marie Antoinette before them, they are so far removed from the experience that they cannot relate to it even at a conceptual level. That they are handsomely remunerated to opine on what’s good enough for desperate women is just the spit and polish on the insult."
Moeny quote 2: "Oh, and the oldest profession in the world is midwifery. Prostitution is not any sort of profession, never mind the oldest one."
https://psyche.co/ideas/the-reality-of-prostitution-is-not-complex-it-is-simple
Detto questo, se volete pensare che io sia un moralista, beh, potreste anche aver ragione. Ma almeno non sono un ipocrita.
Money quote: "While it is fashionable for some female academics, journalists and social commentators to declare the validity of prostitution as employment and to endorse and support this fiction in their books, articles and opinion columns, I note that they resolutely will not practise what they preach. They are not usually willing to have their own bodies used to prove their point. What’s always been particularly galling to me about socially privileged upper middle-class women who popularise these views is that, just like Marie Antoinette before them, they are so far removed from the experience that they cannot relate to it even at a conceptual level. That they are handsomely remunerated to opine on what’s good enough for desperate women is just the spit and polish on the insult."
Moeny quote 2: "Oh, and the oldest profession in the world is midwifery. Prostitution is not any sort of profession, never mind the oldest one."
https://psyche.co/ideas/the-reality-of-prostitution-is-not-complex-it-is-simple
Psyche
The reality of prostitution is not complex. It is simple
Prostitution is not sex and it’s not work. Its reality is far from complex – in fact, it’s simple. Trust me, I’ve done it
Fra le strane cose di cui è fatto il mondo ci sono le *vending machine*, le macchinette distributrici di bibite, caffè e snack. Se ne sa poco e se ne parla ancora meno. Peccato, perché hanno una storia piuttosto particolare, bisogna dire.
Money quote: "The coffee we drank that morning had trickled into cardboard cups from one of his own hot-beverage makers. Business had been hurt badly by Covid, he said. There had been one wretched day in the spring of 2020 when he awoke to find himself not the owner of the second-largest fleet of vending machines in the UK, but instead, of “timebombs. All these machines of ours in places we couldn’t access. All full of perishable food.” After enduring months of closed workplaces, abandoned airports and dead campuses, the Brodericks had lost millions on foregone Twirls and Mini Cheddars. Even so, Johnny Brod was bullish, insisting that the pandemic presented him with opportunities, too."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/14/a-day-in-the-life-of-almost-every-vending-machine-in-the-world
Money quote: "The coffee we drank that morning had trickled into cardboard cups from one of his own hot-beverage makers. Business had been hurt badly by Covid, he said. There had been one wretched day in the spring of 2020 when he awoke to find himself not the owner of the second-largest fleet of vending machines in the UK, but instead, of “timebombs. All these machines of ours in places we couldn’t access. All full of perishable food.” After enduring months of closed workplaces, abandoned airports and dead campuses, the Brodericks had lost millions on foregone Twirls and Mini Cheddars. Even so, Johnny Brod was bullish, insisting that the pandemic presented him with opportunities, too."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/14/a-day-in-the-life-of-almost-every-vending-machine-in-the-world
the Guardian
A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world
The long read: What’s behind the indestructible appeal of the robotic snack?
L'uomo forte non è una cosa che succede da sola, grazie al tipo che prende in mano le redini del comando e parte. No, c'è di più, è un fenomeno molto più complesso. Dentro il quale ci sono anche pensieri giuridici alquanto raffinati, come nello studioso di diritto che sta dietro alla Repubblica di Weimar e poi al nazismo, morto nel 1985. E le cui idee adesso stanno tornando di gran moda.
Money quote: "Populism is not just a bull-in-a-china-shop way of doing politics. There is a theoretical tradition that seeks to justify strongman rule, an ideological school of demagoguery, one might call it, that is now more relevant than ever. Within that tradition, one thinker stands out: the conservative German constitutional lawyer and political theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985). For a time, he was the principal legal adviser to the Nazi regime. And today his name is approaching a commonplace. Academics, policymakers and journalists appeal to him in order to shed light on populist trends in the US and elsewhere. A recent article in The New York Review of Books argues that the US attorney general William Barr is ‘The Carl Schmitt Of Our Time’. The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt (2017) came out in print the year after Trump’s election. After decades as a political rogue, forced to launch his attacks on liberalism from the sidelines, Schmitt’s name has returned to prominence."
https://aeon.co/essays/carl-schmitts-legal-theory-legitimises-the-rule-of-the-strongman
Money quote: "Populism is not just a bull-in-a-china-shop way of doing politics. There is a theoretical tradition that seeks to justify strongman rule, an ideological school of demagoguery, one might call it, that is now more relevant than ever. Within that tradition, one thinker stands out: the conservative German constitutional lawyer and political theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985). For a time, he was the principal legal adviser to the Nazi regime. And today his name is approaching a commonplace. Academics, policymakers and journalists appeal to him in order to shed light on populist trends in the US and elsewhere. A recent article in The New York Review of Books argues that the US attorney general William Barr is ‘The Carl Schmitt Of Our Time’. The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt (2017) came out in print the year after Trump’s election. After decades as a political rogue, forced to launch his attacks on liberalism from the sidelines, Schmitt’s name has returned to prominence."
https://aeon.co/essays/carl-schmitts-legal-theory-legitimises-the-rule-of-the-strongman
Aeon
Lawyer for the strongman
Demagogues do not rise on popular feeling alone but on the constitutional ideas of Weimar and Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt
Il tema della privacy è un tema politico, certamente. Ma le sue complessità tecniche lo rendono difficile da comprendere basandosi su una logica per così dire "analogica" o meglio ancora "fatta di atomi". Occorre una capacità di analisi e comprensione diversa e più ricca. È questo che mi viene in mente leggendo questo articolo in cui emergono aspetti e spigolature come ad esempio il bisogno di tutelare l'integrità degli scritti sulle proprie pagine per evitare che le Cdn ci pasticcino e mettano altre cose dentro. Insomma, il mondo è piuttosto complicato, no?
Money quote: "As the founder of Simple Analytics, I’m running into privacy issues while building our product. Based on those learnings I would like to show you some practical tips to improve the privacy of your visitors. Some of the tips seem very logical but can be hard to implement. That’s why I have provided examples with every tip so you or your team can apply them without doing all the research."
https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/practical-privacy-tips-for-your-business
Money quote: "As the founder of Simple Analytics, I’m running into privacy issues while building our product. Based on those learnings I would like to show you some practical tips to improve the privacy of your visitors. Some of the tips seem very logical but can be hard to implement. That’s why I have provided examples with every tip so you or your team can apply them without doing all the research."
https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/practical-privacy-tips-for-your-business
Simpleanalytics
Practical privacy tips for your business
As the founder of a privacy-first analytics tool, I'm sharing my practical privacy tips for your business.
Il futuro dei documenti secondo Microsoft è "fluid". E, pur di riuscire ad imporre il nuovo formato cloud, lo ha reso open source. L'azienda lo scriveva un paio di anni fa, ma ormai è una costante della sua strategia.
Money quote: "Microsoft’s Fluid Framework sounds a lot like Google Docs, but it’s actually Google Docs on steroids. Microsoft is so confident it has built the future of productivity, it’s now open-sourcing its Fluid Framework so the rest of the world can help shape what it has created. Some Office.com users will even be able to start getting an early look at this Fluid future in the coming months."
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21260005/microsoft-office-fluid-web-document-features-build
Money quote: "Microsoft’s Fluid Framework sounds a lot like Google Docs, but it’s actually Google Docs on steroids. Microsoft is so confident it has built the future of productivity, it’s now open-sourcing its Fluid Framework so the rest of the world can help shape what it has created. Some Office.com users will even be able to start getting an early look at this Fluid future in the coming months."
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21260005/microsoft-office-fluid-web-document-features-build
The Verge
Microsoft’s new Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids
Fluid is Microsoft’s big push for entirely new documents on the web.
Sul perché ‘Burn After Reading’ sia una delle migliori interpretazioni di Brad Pitt (un attore notevole)
Money quote: "How much Pitt is able to do with just mannerisms and looks alone is incredible. From his rehearsed squinting eyes and his line “looks can be deceptive” that he falls back on as a crutch as the situation gets away from him will cause deep belly laughs. Pitt’s quality is always consistent, but this is a role we should remember when looking back at his filmography."
https://medium.com/@cameroncraig88/remembering-burn-after-reading-and-one-of-brad-pitt-s-best-performances-c20d828a10ff
Money quote: "How much Pitt is able to do with just mannerisms and looks alone is incredible. From his rehearsed squinting eyes and his line “looks can be deceptive” that he falls back on as a crutch as the situation gets away from him will cause deep belly laughs. Pitt’s quality is always consistent, but this is a role we should remember when looking back at his filmography."
https://medium.com/@cameroncraig88/remembering-burn-after-reading-and-one-of-brad-pitt-s-best-performances-c20d828a10ff
Medium
Remembering ‘Burn After Reading,’ and One of Brad Pitt’s Best Performances
Brad Pitt shines in this atypical role in this hilarious Coen Brothers movie.
Un racconto surreale su Occupy Wall Street, attivismo, processi, persecuzioni, vendette, difese, visioni politiche. C'è un mondo (e anche un certo disagio in chi lo legge) dentro questo articolo.
Money quote: "Objectively speaking, you should not troll prosecutors. Objectively speaking, I should not have tweeted that Langston and the editor of a prominent feminist blog were dating. But why shouldn’t the messy public-private divide cut both ways? I knew Langston was reading my tweets, and his whole “trying to put me in jail” thing felt very personal. What’s off-limits when someone wants to lock you in a cage? What could be a greater privacy violation than jail? It’s not like I tried to cavity search him. Besides, I was scared. Humanizing the state in the person of this prosecutor made me feel safer, even though it may have just put me at greater risk."
https://reallifemag.com/the-right-to-have-remained-silent/
Money quote: "Objectively speaking, you should not troll prosecutors. Objectively speaking, I should not have tweeted that Langston and the editor of a prominent feminist blog were dating. But why shouldn’t the messy public-private divide cut both ways? I knew Langston was reading my tweets, and his whole “trying to put me in jail” thing felt very personal. What’s off-limits when someone wants to lock you in a cage? What could be a greater privacy violation than jail? It’s not like I tried to cavity search him. Besides, I was scared. Humanizing the state in the person of this prosecutor made me feel safer, even though it may have just put me at greater risk."
https://reallifemag.com/the-right-to-have-remained-silent/
Real Life
The Right to Have Remained Silent — Real Life
Journalists serve the public by telling the truth, but not the whole story
È un bell'articolo di GQ americano: circolava un po' di tempo fa per raccontare la storia incredibile di Steve Buscemi. Forse l'avete letto o sentito. Casomai ve lo foste persi, eccolo qui
Money quote: "Buscemi has a whole three-story brownstone to himself in Brooklyn's idyllic Park Slope neighborhood, which is basically Sesame Street if the Muppets were gluten-intolerant and wore fashion clogs. He moved here back in the early '90s, long before it became a punch line about yuppies. I live here too and can confirm he is a neighborhood institution: There's our famous park, there's our famous food co-op, there's Steve Buscemi."
https://www.gq.com/story/the-remaking-of-steve-buscemi-profile
Money quote: "Buscemi has a whole three-story brownstone to himself in Brooklyn's idyllic Park Slope neighborhood, which is basically Sesame Street if the Muppets were gluten-intolerant and wore fashion clogs. He moved here back in the early '90s, long before it became a punch line about yuppies. I live here too and can confirm he is a neighborhood institution: There's our famous park, there's our famous food co-op, there's Steve Buscemi."
https://www.gq.com/story/the-remaking-of-steve-buscemi-profile
GQ
The Remaking of Steve Buscemi
In a rare interview, Hollywood's most beloved misfit opens up about anxiety, loss, and the hard work of getting through it all.
Voleva essere seppellita con la sua Ferrari preferita. Anzi, dentro. E così è stato.
Money quote: "The crane operators were careful not to mow over the existing graves as they maneuvered the 17-foot long, gray wooden box toward the 19-foot hole in the middle of the Alamo Masonic Cemetery. Inside the box lay the perfectly manicured corpse of the 38-year-old socialite and heiress, Sandra West. Mrs. West was positioned as if reclining in the driver’s seat of her beloved 1964 powder-blue Ferrari 300 America. In accordance with her will, she was dressed in her favorite white lace Italian nightgown with “the seat slanted comfortably.” The radio was tuned to her favorite station.
The box was then filled with concrete to deter opportunistic graverobbers."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-of-sandra-west-and-her-ferrari
Money quote: "The crane operators were careful not to mow over the existing graves as they maneuvered the 17-foot long, gray wooden box toward the 19-foot hole in the middle of the Alamo Masonic Cemetery. Inside the box lay the perfectly manicured corpse of the 38-year-old socialite and heiress, Sandra West. Mrs. West was positioned as if reclining in the driver’s seat of her beloved 1964 powder-blue Ferrari 300 America. In accordance with her will, she was dressed in her favorite white lace Italian nightgown with “the seat slanted comfortably.” The radio was tuned to her favorite station.
The box was then filled with concrete to deter opportunistic graverobbers."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-of-sandra-west-and-her-ferrari
Atlas Obscura
The Grave of Sandra West (and her Ferrari)
In 1977, wealthy socialite Sandra West was buried wearing an elegant white nightdress while reclining comfortably in her powder-blue 1964 Ferrari.
Il nuovo e giovane presidente del Cile, l'uomo del cambiamento, è andato a vivere in un'area depressa della capitale e lancia un segnale forte. Molto interessante.
Money quote: "Unlike the White House in the U.S., 10 Downing in the U.K. or Argentina’s Quinta Presidencial de Olivos, Chile doesn’t have a presidential residence. Each leader has chosen where to live. Billionaire former president Sebastian Pinera was allowed to stay at his mansion in a swanky part of Santiago called San Damian, but Michelle Bachelet and Ricardo Lagos had to move to homes that met security requirements. All of them were in the more expensive eastern parts of Santiago."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-11/why-chile-s-president-bought-a-home-in-a-dangerous-area
Money quote: "Unlike the White House in the U.S., 10 Downing in the U.K. or Argentina’s Quinta Presidencial de Olivos, Chile doesn’t have a presidential residence. Each leader has chosen where to live. Billionaire former president Sebastian Pinera was allowed to stay at his mansion in a swanky part of Santiago called San Damian, but Michelle Bachelet and Ricardo Lagos had to move to homes that met security requirements. All of them were in the more expensive eastern parts of Santiago."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-11/why-chile-s-president-bought-a-home-in-a-dangerous-area
Bloomberg.com
Why Chile’s President Moved Into a High-Crime Santiago Neighborhood
The newly elected Gabriel Boric wants to send a message about reviving areas that have fallen prey to crime and poverty. So far, residents are seeing improvements.
Un bel ritratto di MacKenzie Scott, che è una donna con una identità forte e definita ma che è tuttavia segnata dal mondo nel quale è nata. Alla fine, tutto quel che ha fatto ricade sulle fortune (e sfortune) del padre e poi del marito Jeff Bezos. Questo ritratto cerca di spiegare chi è Scott, perché fa beneficienza e cosa succede quando una donna diventa estremamente ricca ma non è più "protetta" dal marito estremamente potente oltre che ricco.
Money quote: "But as Ms. Scott’s fame for giving away money has grown, so, too, has the deluge of appeals for gifts from strangers and old friends alike. That clamor may have driven Ms. Scott’s already discreet operation further underground, with recent philanthropic announcements akin to sudden lightning bolts for unsuspecting recipients."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/business/mackenzie-scott-charity.html
Money quote: "But as Ms. Scott’s fame for giving away money has grown, so, too, has the deluge of appeals for gifts from strangers and old friends alike. That clamor may have driven Ms. Scott’s already discreet operation further underground, with recent philanthropic announcements akin to sudden lightning bolts for unsuspecting recipients."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/business/mackenzie-scott-charity.html
NY Times
The Fortunes of MacKenzie Scott
Three decades after worrying about making rent, she is now giving away billions — all while trying to keep herself out of the spotlight.
Ritorna lo scontro di civiltà. O piuttosto ritorna l'orso russo, spietato e famelico come tutti gli orsi? L'abisso dell'anima russa in questo articolo del 2014, anno dell' inglobamenti della Crimea.
Money quote: "Non c’è da stupirsi che questi ultimi abbiano finito per percepire la Russia come una forza distruttrice. Joseph Conrad, che nella sua nativa Polonia sperimentò in prima persona l’insaziabile fame di territorio dell’impero russo, lo definì un impero del nulla. In “Autocrazia e guerra” (1905), per esempio, scrisse che fin dalla sua nascita in Russia “la brutale distruzione della dignità, della verità, della rettitudine, di tutto ciò che è buono nella natura umana è stata la condizione della sua esistenza”. Sotto l’ombra opprimente dell’autocrazia russa “nulla poteva crescere”. Circa otto decenni dopo, in “La tragedia dell’Europa centrale” (1984), Milan Kundera avrebbe fatto un’osservazione simile: quando i russi portarono il totalitarismo nel suo paese “fecero tutto il possibile per distruggere la cultura ceca”. Infatti, per lui, la “civiltà russa totalitaria è la negazione radicale dell’Occidente moderno”. “"
https://www.indiscreto.org/i-due-abissi-dellanima-russa/
Money quote: "Non c’è da stupirsi che questi ultimi abbiano finito per percepire la Russia come una forza distruttrice. Joseph Conrad, che nella sua nativa Polonia sperimentò in prima persona l’insaziabile fame di territorio dell’impero russo, lo definì un impero del nulla. In “Autocrazia e guerra” (1905), per esempio, scrisse che fin dalla sua nascita in Russia “la brutale distruzione della dignità, della verità, della rettitudine, di tutto ciò che è buono nella natura umana è stata la condizione della sua esistenza”. Sotto l’ombra opprimente dell’autocrazia russa “nulla poteva crescere”. Circa otto decenni dopo, in “La tragedia dell’Europa centrale” (1984), Milan Kundera avrebbe fatto un’osservazione simile: quando i russi portarono il totalitarismo nel suo paese “fecero tutto il possibile per distruggere la cultura ceca”. Infatti, per lui, la “civiltà russa totalitaria è la negazione radicale dell’Occidente moderno”. “"
https://www.indiscreto.org/i-due-abissi-dellanima-russa/
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I due abissi dell’anima russa
L'occupazione russa della Crimea - la cui importanza è sfuggita a noi europei dell'ovest - è il momento in cui, invece, in Europa dell'est la paura dell'espansionismo russo è tornata. Un fantasma della storia che oggi si è ripresentato. Per questo oggi è…