C'è un pezzetto di Francia che è stato talmente tanto devastato durante la Prima guerra mondiale da essere tuttora non abitabile. Benvenuti nella Zone Rouge. Questo anche, visto che sono passati settant’anni, per rendersi conto di cosa sta succedendo in Ucraina.
Money quote: "In an attempt to salvage this land, a special munitions-clearing agency was created. Called the Department du Deminage, it has, over the decades, helped to reduce the extent of the Zone Rouge, destroying hundreds of thousands of munitions and chemical shells, and returning some land to civilian and agricultural use. Their overwhelming task is aided by French farmers, who each year collect a huge amount of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, shrapnel, and bullets during the annual “Iron Harvest.”
Despite these efforts, the Zone Rouge is unlikely to be restored completely any time soon."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/zone-rouge
Money quote: "In an attempt to salvage this land, a special munitions-clearing agency was created. Called the Department du Deminage, it has, over the decades, helped to reduce the extent of the Zone Rouge, destroying hundreds of thousands of munitions and chemical shells, and returning some land to civilian and agricultural use. Their overwhelming task is aided by French farmers, who each year collect a huge amount of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, shrapnel, and bullets during the annual “Iron Harvest.”
Despite these efforts, the Zone Rouge is unlikely to be restored completely any time soon."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/zone-rouge
Atlas Obscura
France's Forbidden 'Red Zone'
A swath of the country so devastated by war it is still too dangerous to go there.
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Missioni impossibili: insegnare ai giornalisti a usare Excel (e poi Big Data e Data Visualization, why not?). Da noi è praticamente impossibile.
Money quote: "Even with some of the best data and graphics journalists in the business, we identified a challenge: data knowledge wasn’t spread widely among desks in our newsroom and wasn’t filtering into news desks’ daily reporting.
Yet fluency with numbers and data has become more important than ever. While journalists once were fond of joking that they got into the field because of an aversion to math, numbers now comprise the foundation for beats as wide ranging as education, the stock market, the Census and criminal justice. More data is released than ever before — there are nearly 250,000 datasets on data.gov alone — and increasingly, government, politicians and companies try to twist those numbers to back their own agendas."
https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-helped-our-reporters-learn-to-love-spreadsheets-adc43a93b919
Money quote: "Even with some of the best data and graphics journalists in the business, we identified a challenge: data knowledge wasn’t spread widely among desks in our newsroom and wasn’t filtering into news desks’ daily reporting.
Yet fluency with numbers and data has become more important than ever. While journalists once were fond of joking that they got into the field because of an aversion to math, numbers now comprise the foundation for beats as wide ranging as education, the stock market, the Census and criminal justice. More data is released than ever before — there are nearly 250,000 datasets on data.gov alone — and increasingly, government, politicians and companies try to twist those numbers to back their own agendas."
https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-helped-our-reporters-learn-to-love-spreadsheets-adc43a93b919
NY Times
How We Helped Our Reporters Learn to Love Spreadsheets
And how your reporters can learn to love spreadsheets, too
Una lista interessante per gli appassionati di intelligenze artificiali facili da usare
Forwarded from JuliusDesign
I migliori AI TOOLS da provare nel 2023! Altri da segnalare?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/giulianoambrosio_innovation-ai-magictools-activity-7015962983721807872-0RWL
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/giulianoambrosio_innovation-ai-magictools-activity-7015962983721807872-0RWL
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Alla fine è così: Slack ha costruito una quotazione miliardaria e tutta la sua fama, adesso lentamente tramontata, sull'idea di poter rimpiazzare la mail. Poi è stato acquisito da Salesforce e ha perso il suo potenziale rivoluzionario. Ma anche ai tempi c'era chi non è d'accordo. Una lettera aperta piuttosto rissosa.
Money quote: "I love what Slack has accomplished and think its success revealed a true need in the world — better work communication. However, I must say:
Your goal of replacing email with Slack is in complete conflict with the efficient flow of communication that gets real work done."
https://medium.com/swlh/why-slack-will-never-replace-email-873a20856716
Money quote: "I love what Slack has accomplished and think its success revealed a true need in the world — better work communication. However, I must say:
Your goal of replacing email with Slack is in complete conflict with the efficient flow of communication that gets real work done."
https://medium.com/swlh/why-slack-will-never-replace-email-873a20856716
Medium
An open letter to Stewart Butterfield: Why Slack will never replace email.
Hello Mr Butterfield,
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Forwarded from 📢 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 - 𝘣𝘺 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙤 𝙍𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙞
Personalmente, questo articolo di The Vision ha fatto risuonare molto il mood che percepisco negli utlimi tempi, e non credo di essere l'unico.
“Negli anni recenti per proteggerci dai numerosi rivolgimenti epocali che si sono presentati in serie, impattando per forza di cose sulla nostra emotività, ci siamo trovati a dover sfruttare proprio l’aspetto più rischioso di questa nostra capacità adattiva, alzando la soglia della sopportazione fino a sviluppare una sorta di assuefazione alla catastrofe che ci consente – o meglio, ci illude – di attenuare almeno in parte gli effetti deleteri che avvenimenti come lo scoppio della pandemia, la guerra in Ucraina e il progressivo aggravarsi della crisi climatica hanno sulla nostra psiche. ”
https://thevision.com/attualita/assuefazione-dolore/
“Negli anni recenti per proteggerci dai numerosi rivolgimenti epocali che si sono presentati in serie, impattando per forza di cose sulla nostra emotività, ci siamo trovati a dover sfruttare proprio l’aspetto più rischioso di questa nostra capacità adattiva, alzando la soglia della sopportazione fino a sviluppare una sorta di assuefazione alla catastrofe che ci consente – o meglio, ci illude – di attenuare almeno in parte gli effetti deleteri che avvenimenti come lo scoppio della pandemia, la guerra in Ucraina e il progressivo aggravarsi della crisi climatica hanno sulla nostra psiche. ”
https://thevision.com/attualita/assuefazione-dolore/
THE VISION
A forza di imparare a sopportare il dolore del mondo, per difenderci, ci stiamo spegnendo
A forza di imparare a tollerare il dolore dei traumi sociali sembra che stiamo progressivamente spegnendo anche tutti gli altri nostri impulsi.
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L'idea da aperitivo del giorno: il sito frizzante fatto direttamente dal telefonino. Oh yeah. Gattini inclusi.
Money quote: "Fun, easy, beautiful, instant
Make and update your Insta website anytime. No desktops, design or web skills needed!"
https://milkshake.app
Money quote: "Fun, easy, beautiful, instant
Make and update your Insta website anytime. No desktops, design or web skills needed!"
https://milkshake.app
Milkshake
Milkshake App | Free Website Builder
Make a free website on your phone in minutes. Turn your 'link in bio' into a Milkshake website to say more, sell more and share more. You only link once!
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Strategie per fare meglio, consigliate da un musicista professionista
Money quote: "“I, and the other strong students in my department, did practice less than the weaker students,” he said.
He then went on to explain exactly what he and the other strong students did differently as compared to their less accomplished peers.
I reproduced his explanation below (I added the headings and edited the text slightly), as I think it offers profound insight into the difference between the type of work most of us do and what it actually takes to become so good they can’t ignore you."
http://www.calnewport.com/blog/2011/12/23/flow-is-the-opiate-of-the-medicore-advice-on-getting-better-from-an-accomplished-piano-player/
Money quote: "“I, and the other strong students in my department, did practice less than the weaker students,” he said.
He then went on to explain exactly what he and the other strong students did differently as compared to their less accomplished peers.
I reproduced his explanation below (I added the headings and edited the text slightly), as I think it offers profound insight into the difference between the type of work most of us do and what it actually takes to become so good they can’t ignore you."
http://www.calnewport.com/blog/2011/12/23/flow-is-the-opiate-of-the-medicore-advice-on-getting-better-from-an-accomplished-piano-player/
Cal Newport
Flow is the Opiate of the Mediocre: Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player
The Piano Player Confessions
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La serie di maggior successo in Giappone? In passato (pre-pandemia) era quella in cui si cerca di capire se i lavoratori riusciranno a tornare a casa per cena in orario, o resteranno imbottigliati dagli straordinari al lavoro.
Money quote: "Last month, as Americans tuned in to the final episode of “Game of Thrones,” Japan was indulging in its own television fantasy world."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/business/japan-work-overtime-tv-show.html
Money quote: "Last month, as Americans tuned in to the final episode of “Game of Thrones,” Japan was indulging in its own television fantasy world."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/business/japan-work-overtime-tv-show.html
NY Times
In Japan, It’s a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home on Time? (Published 2019)
On this show, a 30-something project manager in the famously overworked nation wants nothing more than to get out of the office and into her favorite bar for happy hour.
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Quando è uscito, nel 2019, era il libro definitivo sulla storia di Tesla e quindi di Elon Musk (ma non solo). Non l'ho letto e quindi non posso giudicare. Le attese erano alte, però. Adesso è diventato una specie di testimonianza storica, una nota bibliografica per cultori della materia "Elon Musk"
Money quote: "In Ludicrous, Niedermeyer chronicles the story of Tesla, looking at what the company has accomplished and where it has gone wrong. There’s nothing inherently wrong with reaching for the stars when developing new technology of products. That’s how great products are created. But if your goal is to transform the auto industry and the way people get around, the business itself should probably be as sustainable as the powertrain."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2019/08/18/tesla-fans-will-probably-hate-ludicrous-but-they-should-read-it-along-with-the-critics/
Money quote: "In Ludicrous, Niedermeyer chronicles the story of Tesla, looking at what the company has accomplished and where it has gone wrong. There’s nothing inherently wrong with reaching for the stars when developing new technology of products. That’s how great products are created. But if your goal is to transform the auto industry and the way people get around, the business itself should probably be as sustainable as the powertrain."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2019/08/18/tesla-fans-will-probably-hate-ludicrous-but-they-should-read-it-along-with-the-critics/
Forbes
Tesla Fans May Hate The Book 'Ludicrous' But Both They And Critics Should Read It
Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story Of Tesla Motors is a fascinating chronicle of the upstart electric vehicle manufacturer. Even those that have followed the company for more than a decade will likely learn something and those with only a superficial view of…
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Tesla va avanti per la sua strada senza spendere un penny di pubblicità. A quella ci pensano i suoi fan
Money quote: "Tesla fans don’t just post personal accounts - more than a few have created their own advertisements, both videos and static graphics. And of course, press coverage is arguably even more effective than advertising, and Tesla gets more of that than any other carmaker, thanks both to the revolutionary nature of its products and to Elon Musk’s fondness for making headline-grabbing statements. Even in the rare cases when other automakers try to generate publicity for their own electric vehicles, Tesla often steals the show."
https://insideevs.com/news/365726/tesla-no-advertising-social-media-wins/
Money quote: "Tesla fans don’t just post personal accounts - more than a few have created their own advertisements, both videos and static graphics. And of course, press coverage is arguably even more effective than advertising, and Tesla gets more of that than any other carmaker, thanks both to the revolutionary nature of its products and to Elon Musk’s fondness for making headline-grabbing statements. Even in the rare cases when other automakers try to generate publicity for their own electric vehicles, Tesla often steals the show."
https://insideevs.com/news/365726/tesla-no-advertising-social-media-wins/
InsideEVs
Tesla Is The King Of Social Media, No Need For An Advertising Budget
Pretty epic when customers, fans, and the media act as free advertisers.
La poligamia nell'America nera: famigliole con figli e un paio di mogli, o di mariti. Insomma, allegri e scoppiettanti, ma poligami.
Money quote: "Sound strange? To most people, it probably does. But for the thousands of families in the United States who practice polygamy and other poly lifestyles, it’s not only considered normal, but many of them believe it’s the best way to go. They are willing to risk societal stigma, heartache, and even being arrested to live the way they feel they should."
https://medium.com/s/story/dating-while-married-an-inside-look-at-poly-gamy-in-black-america-16049c79a96b
Money quote: "Sound strange? To most people, it probably does. But for the thousands of families in the United States who practice polygamy and other poly lifestyles, it’s not only considered normal, but many of them believe it’s the best way to go. They are willing to risk societal stigma, heartache, and even being arrested to live the way they feel they should."
https://medium.com/s/story/dating-while-married-an-inside-look-at-poly-gamy-in-black-america-16049c79a96b
Medium
A Look at Polygamy in Black America
The stars of ‘Seeking Sister Wife’ and other black polygamists on the realities of dating while married
In alcune delle biblioteche pubbliche di New York ci sono degli appartamenti segreti. Cioè, gli appartamenti di servizio per i tempi in cui c'era una persona che rimaneva a controllare tutto. Sono mezzi devastati, ma Atlas Obscura ci fa fare un bel giro.
Money quote: "Some have spent decades empty and neglected. “The managers would sort of meekly say to me—do you want to see the apartment?” says Iris Weinshall, the library’s chief operating officer, who at the beginning of her tenure toured all the system’s branches. The first time it happened, she had the same reaction any library lover would: There’s an apartment here? Maybe I could live in the apartment."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-new-york-public-librarys-last-secret-apartments
Money quote: "Some have spent decades empty and neglected. “The managers would sort of meekly say to me—do you want to see the apartment?” says Iris Weinshall, the library’s chief operating officer, who at the beginning of her tenure toured all the system’s branches. The first time it happened, she had the same reaction any library lover would: There’s an apartment here? Maybe I could live in the apartment."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-new-york-public-librarys-last-secret-apartments
Atlas Obscura
Inside the New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments
There are just 13 left.
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"The Witcher: Blood Origin" ha un grosso problema - la mia recensione per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2023/01/the-witcher-blood-origin-serie-tv-problema/
https://fumettologica.it/2023/01/the-witcher-blood-origin-serie-tv-problema/
Fumettologica
"The Witcher: Blood Origin" ha un grosso problema
Ambientato 1.200 anni prima della saga principale, The Witcher: Blood Origin ha un problema enorme, gigantesco, pazzesco.
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Passando da Ibm (che aveva una strategia Linux piuttosto articolata) alla cinese Lenovo, si era persa l'anima open source dei sistemi operativi per i computer della leggendaria serie ThinkPad. Adesso, dopo una decina di anni, a quanto pare Lenovo sta riconsiderando la vicenda. E sta preparando varie sorprese. Ma era già tutto previsto in questo vecchio articolo.
Money quote: "Lenovo's newly-announced 2019 ThinkPad P-series mobile workstations can be purchased with Ubuntu, according to the ordering page on Lenovo's website. ThinkPads have often been the laptop of choice for Linux users, as Lenovo historically does certify ThinkPad models for Linux use, though prior to this change, buyers were stuck paying the Windows tax for the unwanted bundled license of Windows."
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/lenovo-shipping-ubuntu-linux-on-2019-thinkpad-p-series-models/
Money quote: "Lenovo's newly-announced 2019 ThinkPad P-series mobile workstations can be purchased with Ubuntu, according to the ordering page on Lenovo's website. ThinkPads have often been the laptop of choice for Linux users, as Lenovo historically does certify ThinkPad models for Linux use, though prior to this change, buyers were stuck paying the Windows tax for the unwanted bundled license of Windows."
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/lenovo-shipping-ubuntu-linux-on-2019-thinkpad-p-series-models/
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Divertirsi un po' con la matematica
Money quote: "Do adventure games have dead ends? The author of The Teeny Tiny Mansion proves the absence of dead ends in that game via formal verification (in particular, with the help of the cbmc model-checking program). Here I’ll demonstrate how to prove the same thing via Markov theory. The Markov approach requires more mathematics, but less computer code, and lets us quantify the risk of encountering a dead end via matrix manipulation."
http://www.evanmiller.org/adventure-games-and-eigenvalues.html
Money quote: "Do adventure games have dead ends? The author of The Teeny Tiny Mansion proves the absence of dead ends in that game via formal verification (in particular, with the help of the cbmc model-checking program). Here I’ll demonstrate how to prove the same thing via Markov theory. The Markov approach requires more mathematics, but less computer code, and lets us quantify the risk of encountering a dead end via matrix manipulation."
http://www.evanmiller.org/adventure-games-and-eigenvalues.html
www.evanmiller.org
Adventure Games and Eigenvalues – Evan Miller
Un viaggio nella capacità di creare mondi e nella mente di Philip K. Dick
Money quote: "In Plato’s Timaeus, God does not create the universe, as does the Christian God; He simply finds it one day. It is in a state of total chaos. God sets to work to transform the chaos into order. That idea appeals to me, and I have adapted it to fit my own intellectual needs: What if our universe started out as not quite real, a sort of illusion, as the Hindu religion teaches, and God, out of love and kindness for us, is slowly transmuting it, slowly and secretly, into something real?"
https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html
Money quote: "In Plato’s Timaeus, God does not create the universe, as does the Christian God; He simply finds it one day. It is in a state of total chaos. God sets to work to transform the chaos into order. That idea appeals to me, and I have adapted it to fit my own intellectual needs: What if our universe started out as not quite real, a sort of illusion, as the Hindu religion teaches, and God, out of love and kindness for us, is slowly transmuting it, slowly and secretly, into something real?"
https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html
urbigenous.net
Philip K. Dick: How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
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È giunto il momento di farsi un giro dentro il fantastico mondo dei GAN, i Generative Adversarial Network.
Money quote: "In case you don’t see where I’m going here, the images you just saw were utterly, undeniably, 100% … fake."
https://blog.floydhub.com/gans-story-so-far/
Money quote: "In case you don’t see where I’m going here, the images you just saw were utterly, undeniably, 100% … fake."
https://blog.floydhub.com/gans-story-so-far/
Divertente: una AI simpatica
Money quote: "Your new best friend built with an artificial neural network"
https://github.com/olivia-ai/olivia
Money quote: "Your new best friend built with an artificial neural network"
https://github.com/olivia-ai/olivia
GitHub
GitHub - olivia-ai/olivia: 💁♀️Your new best friend powered by an artificial neural network
💁♀️Your new best friend powered by an artificial neural network - olivia-ai/olivia
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Il ministro della cultura attuale dice che Dante è il fondatore del pensiero di destra in Italia. Però Dante di destra proprio non va. Casomai, europeista, comunque imperialista. Ma di destra, no. Non è lui, non è quello.
Ci sono critiche interessanti all'intervista del ministro, come quella messa in calce. Interessante anche l'altro link all'articolo sulle celebrazioni del 2021, che sono state così indigeste e pervasive che sembrava non dovessero finire mai.
Ma Dante di destra, non ci sta. A mio avviso, tralasciando il valore enorme “tecnico” della poesia, Dante è “semplicemente” un imperialista, ostile alle altre religioni (come tutto il suo tempo e non solo: quando si abbraccia una religione e prima ancora l'idea stessa di religione si diventa per forza “pastorali”). Le tirate sul veltro e la serva Italia lo prestano a qualunque tipo di propaganda nazionalista. Paradossalmente, propugnando la venuta di un imperatore non patrio, è più europeista che nazionalista!
Vaglielo a spiegare…
Per il resto, e per recuperare i tratti caratteriali di un uomo altezzoso ma povero e dunque anche servile quando occorre, ramingo, sfigato nel modo in cui muore, per malaria dopo aver accettato una missione, stilnovista ma magari preso a ceffoni dalla moglie quando andava a cena, beh per tutto questo ci sono le biografie.
Se leggete le biografie riuscite a umanizzare Dante, Pascoli (un alcolista depresso), Puccini (un ansioso affamato d’amore). Siamo tutti nella commedia umana.
Più difficile sottrarsi all’uso improprio. Abbiamo assistito alla canonizzazione post mortem di poeti dichiaratamente agnostici, e Atreyu parlava di portare Gramsci a destra se ricordate: alla fine ognuno è utilizzabile a fini politici, utriusque partis.
Un esempio? Pasolini è di destra per il suo famoso articolo sui poliziotti. Ciascuno può essere di destra o sinistra. Ma sono sparate che, rispetto alle biografie, se le porta via il vento.
E comunque Dante no, non era di destra. Sarebbe da rimandare il ministro al posto con un voto gravemente insufficiente.
Il ministro:
https://www.corriere.it/politica/23_gennaio_14/sangiuliano-dante-fu-fondatore-pensiero-destra-italia-4c62f63e-9425-11ed-86e1-e1e0fbfb2935.shtml
Il dibattito:
https://jacobinitalia.it/defascistizzare-dante/
Che fa rima con:
https://www.lastampa.it/opinioni/editoriali/2008/06/12/news/gramsci-rispunta-da-destra-1.37106195/
Ci sono critiche interessanti all'intervista del ministro, come quella messa in calce. Interessante anche l'altro link all'articolo sulle celebrazioni del 2021, che sono state così indigeste e pervasive che sembrava non dovessero finire mai.
Ma Dante di destra, non ci sta. A mio avviso, tralasciando il valore enorme “tecnico” della poesia, Dante è “semplicemente” un imperialista, ostile alle altre religioni (come tutto il suo tempo e non solo: quando si abbraccia una religione e prima ancora l'idea stessa di religione si diventa per forza “pastorali”). Le tirate sul veltro e la serva Italia lo prestano a qualunque tipo di propaganda nazionalista. Paradossalmente, propugnando la venuta di un imperatore non patrio, è più europeista che nazionalista!
Vaglielo a spiegare…
Per il resto, e per recuperare i tratti caratteriali di un uomo altezzoso ma povero e dunque anche servile quando occorre, ramingo, sfigato nel modo in cui muore, per malaria dopo aver accettato una missione, stilnovista ma magari preso a ceffoni dalla moglie quando andava a cena, beh per tutto questo ci sono le biografie.
Se leggete le biografie riuscite a umanizzare Dante, Pascoli (un alcolista depresso), Puccini (un ansioso affamato d’amore). Siamo tutti nella commedia umana.
Più difficile sottrarsi all’uso improprio. Abbiamo assistito alla canonizzazione post mortem di poeti dichiaratamente agnostici, e Atreyu parlava di portare Gramsci a destra se ricordate: alla fine ognuno è utilizzabile a fini politici, utriusque partis.
Un esempio? Pasolini è di destra per il suo famoso articolo sui poliziotti. Ciascuno può essere di destra o sinistra. Ma sono sparate che, rispetto alle biografie, se le porta via il vento.
E comunque Dante no, non era di destra. Sarebbe da rimandare il ministro al posto con un voto gravemente insufficiente.
Il ministro:
https://www.corriere.it/politica/23_gennaio_14/sangiuliano-dante-fu-fondatore-pensiero-destra-italia-4c62f63e-9425-11ed-86e1-e1e0fbfb2935.shtml
Il dibattito:
https://jacobinitalia.it/defascistizzare-dante/
Che fa rima con:
https://www.lastampa.it/opinioni/editoriali/2008/06/12/news/gramsci-rispunta-da-destra-1.37106195/
Corriere della Sera
Sangiuliano: «Dante? Fondatore del pensiero di destra in Italia». Le critiche dalle opposizioni
Il ministro della Cultura: «La costruzione politica dell’Alighieri? Profondamente di destra». E poi: «Ma non dobbiamo sostituire l’egemonia culturale gramsciana con una di destra»
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