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Luca Albani
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At some point, the idea seems to have spread that social media is required to expose you to everyone and the whole spectrum of humanity, including people who hate you.

But I've been working on this new concept. It's this: what if social media is for socializing?
“But you just want to hang out with your friends and people you like!”

yes, exactly, just like every other normal person in the history of our species
“Just block literally anybody until it’s only the gang left” is in fact exactly what I’m trying to accomplish on this website
February 11, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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Putin ha detto che Hitler fu costretto ad invadere la Polonia, che era “poco collaborativa”.
La guerra scoppiò perché la Germania nazista si accordò con l’Urss e insieme si spartirono la Polonia. Stalin disse che la invadeva per “proteggere” le minoranze russe dai nazisti. Come Putin.
February 11, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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I know we all have eyes on the Suez Canal but let's take a little trip down to Panama...
Saving the Panama Canal Will Take Years and Cost Billions, If It’s Even Possible
A combination of climate change and infrastructure is to blame for critical shipping delays at the canal.
www.bloomberg.com
January 8, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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they call us "content creators" because that is all we are to them. not artists, writers, cartoonists, painters, filmmakers-- "content". content is nebulous, corporate, unthreatening, apolitical, a flattening. so they call it content, because they don't respect us, & now they're throwing tantrums
January 8, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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I could spend days on this website and barely scratch the surface. Drawing after beautiful drawing (these are of Knossos) from the Ashmolean collection, digitised and made available by the Bodleian library: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/30f4...
January 2, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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As you say, it's Dickens' text. He decided what went and what stayed...
December 21, 2023 at 3:58 AM
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It wrecks me that we're on the brink of abandoning Ukraine and seemingly no one's got the bandwidth to care much anymore.
December 7, 2023 at 5:21 AM
“Abbiamo bisogno di un nuovo social network? Forse è questo l'anno giusto per capirlo, vedendo che cosa succederà a Bluesky, un'app di social media che ha superato da poco la soglia dei 2 milioni di utenti” via Wired Italia www.wired.it/article/blue...
Bluesky può finalmente diventare un competitor credibile per X
La piattaforma per chi si è stancato di Elon Musk è cresciuta di un milione di utenti in tre mesi
www.wired.it
December 8, 2023 at 6:27 PM
Wessie du Toit: “Celebrity relics show, moreover, that even something as modern as celebrity culture exists partly as an outlet for ancient tendencies, apparently innate to the human psyche” via newsletter The Pathos of Things open.substack.com/pub/thepatho...
The Meaning of Lady Gaga's Fingernail
Our enduring belief that people can be present in objects
open.substack.com
November 25, 2023 at 8:13 AM
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I'm late to post this but I'm THRILLED that this paper is finally out in the world. The project has been a labor of love, building a dataset that using machine learning to map civic infrastructure in the U.S. at scale.

Finally it's out there!! And hopefully this paper is just the beginning....
The unequal landscape of civic opportunity in America - Nature Human Behaviour
de Vries et al. map civic opportunity across America, demonstrating that it is highly correlated with pro-social community behaviours, but is unequally distributed, and underrepresented in public dial...
www.nature.com
November 15, 2023 at 1:33 PM
This evening in Rovereto (Italy) listening Laura Imai Messina’s words about her latest book “Il Giappone a colori” Einaudi editore
November 16, 2023 at 8:38 PM
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Vendredi lecture
"Ce que nous confions au vent" de Laura Imai Messina
C'est un livre que j'ai trouvé très doux sur un sujet difficile, le deuil.
Il n'y a pas d'esbroufe, pas de scène choquante.
C'est à pas feutrés.
J'ai beaucoup aimé
September 15, 2023 at 6:08 AM
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Oh, thank you so much for this recommendation!

THE PHONE BOOTH AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: A NOVEL by Laura Imai Messina
November 5, 2023 at 9:04 PM
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“to assume women don’t have a capacity for violence or a thirst for power and status is just another narrow gender stereotype”

apple.news/A0t7KiqLmQKi...
In some Latin American drug cartels, women are the violent new overlords
In this excerpt from her book 'Narcas,' veteran journalist Deborah Bonello uncovers some of the powerful women inside the macho world of Latin America's brutal drug gangs.
apple.news
November 14, 2023 at 9:29 PM
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Ethan Hawke Was Here: On Hotel Chelsea & Romance in the ’90s
--Michael A. Gonzales reminisces about creativity, charm and a cinema star in 1990s Chelsea. opensecretsmag.substack.com/p/ethan-hawk...
November 13, 2023 at 5:35 PM
Come sta il fumetto in Italia? Finalmente torniamo a imitare i francesi nelle buone pratiche, verrebbe da dire. “Una montagna di soldi” di La Revue Dessinée Italia e Slow News e l’extra di “Sotto il Vulcano” di Feltrinelli sono due indicatori di un ottimo stato di salute (e varietà) del comparto
November 14, 2023 at 6:02 AM
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Shades are down, so it's hard to be sure, but I think there's a tree out there.
November 13, 2023 at 6:03 PM
E la Via del Fiume porta la vittoria ai blu con la mossa del drago, il dojo avversario viene conquistato dal Maestro (se vi piacciono i giochi da tavolo quelli di Supernova Studio hanno appena tradotto Onitama per l’Italia)
November 13, 2023 at 7:43 PM
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Stare su un nuovo social è un po’ come una colonia su un nuovo pianeta. Poca gente, poche comodità, ma questa bella sensazione di stare creando un mondo nuovo.
November 10, 2023 at 9:34 PM
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Sto riempiendo Blu Sky di bravi scrittori di fantascienza!
Dopo @byfranci.bsky.social alias Franci Conforti ora è con noi anche @ninomartino.bsky.social alias Nino Martino vincitore del Premio Odissea e autore di splendidi romanzi che trattano di esplorazione spaziele, vita aliena, IA. Welcome!
November 12, 2023 at 4:19 PM
Vincenzo Marino: “Qual è il costo del successo per la sola voglia di raggiungerlo velocemente? E cos’è, poi, il successo nel 2023? Diventare qualcuno, o diventare meme?” (via newsletter Zio) open.substack.com/pub/zio/p/stev…
zio | Vincenzo Marino | Substack
La newsletter che cerca di capire cosa fanno i teenager di oggi quando fissano i loro telefoni. Click to read zio, by Vincenzo Marino, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
https://open.substack.com/pub/zio/p/stev…
November 13, 2023 at 9:27 AM
Era da fare e si è fatta. Il bello della mezza del Garda (oltre, come si suol dire, alla splendida cornice delle Alpi e del lago) è l’alta partecipazione straniera, in particolare dall’Europa centrale e orientale 😊🇪🇺
November 13, 2023 at 9:04 AM