Luigi Benetton
@lpaolob.bsky.social
Technical writer and translator
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December 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
60 Minutes | S58 E13 The Sherpas of Everest; Presenting the Kanneh-Masons | Watch on Global TV App watch.globaltv.com/series/2893d...
60 Minutes | S58 E13 The Sherpas of Everest; Presenting the Kanneh-Masons | Watch on Global TV App watch.globaltv.com/series/2893d...
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December 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Recently listened to “Poverty, by America” www.goodreads.com/book/show/61... (Many people say the same things. They’re no less valid in this book, where they are supported by stats, but the message has yet to get through to enough political decision makers in the US and elsewhere)
Poverty, by America
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bra…
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December 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Recently listened to “Poverty, by America” www.goodreads.com/book/show/61... (Many people say the same things. They’re no less valid in this book, where they are supported by stats, but the message has yet to get through to enough political decision makers in the US and elsewhere)
Recently enjoyed “Enshittification” www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... (Doctorow explains how we got to this point, including the lobbying that furthers disaster capitalism, and offers a realistic path forward. Maybe Australia’s social media ban for youth will send a message.)
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and…
Explaining the process of the “enshittification” of dig…
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December 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Recently enjoyed “Enshittification” www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... (Doctorow explains how we got to this point, including the lobbying that furthers disaster capitalism, and offers a realistic path forward. Maybe Australia’s social media ban for youth will send a message.)
Recently enjoyed “Final Orbit (Apollo Murders, #3)” www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... (Alternates between action & explanations of cool tech with plenty of skulduggery woven throughout. A fun read, the best one of the three books (so far?))
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December 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Recently enjoyed “Final Orbit (Apollo Murders, #3)” www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... (Alternates between action & explanations of cool tech with plenty of skulduggery woven throughout. A fun read, the best one of the three books (so far?))
Recently enjoyed “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman” www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... (The story of a colourful character who shows that business (and life) can be done differently.)
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant …
Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environm…
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December 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Recently enjoyed “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman” www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... (The story of a colourful character who shows that business (and life) can be done differently.)
Recently enjoyed “Twice” www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... (Philosophical musings wrapped up in an engaging story)
Twice
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • AN INSTANT NEW …
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December 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Recently enjoyed “Twice” www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... (Philosophical musings wrapped up in an engaging story)
Recently enjoyed “Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning” www.goodreads.com/book/show/51... (The notion of NOT grading seems like a good one in many circumstances. It would be interesting to learn how students who are “ungraded” actually perform)
Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and…
The moment is right for critical reflection on what has…
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December 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Recently enjoyed “Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning” www.goodreads.com/book/show/51... (The notion of NOT grading seems like a good one in many circumstances. It would be interesting to learn how students who are “ungraded” actually perform)
Recently enjoyed “107 Days” www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... (Inside story from the candidate whose memoir provides the most unique perspective available on the 2024 U.S. presidential election)
107 Days
For the first time, and with surprising and revealing i…
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November 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Recently enjoyed “107 Days” www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... (Inside story from the candidate whose memoir provides the most unique perspective available on the 2024 U.S. presidential election)
Recently enjoyed “Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volumes 2 and 3” www.goodreads.com/book/show/61... (Good dystopian science fiction collection, mostly good short stories)
Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volumes 2…
The seventeen stories that make up Volumes Two and Thre…
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November 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Recently enjoyed “Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volumes 2 and 3” www.goodreads.com/book/show/61... (Good dystopian science fiction collection, mostly good short stories)
Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume 1 www.goodreads.com/book/show/57... (Collection of (mostly) phenomenal short science fiction and dystopian stories. Makes me want to watch the Netflix series)
Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume …
The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Vo…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume 1 www.goodreads.com/book/show/57... (Collection of (mostly) phenomenal short science fiction and dystopian stories. Makes me want to watch the Netflix series)
Recently enjoyed “Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum”https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219743625 (Cool behind-the-scenes insights into the making of a funny movie)
Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through t…
In early 1985, Michael J. Fox was one of the biggest st…
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October 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Recently enjoyed “Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum”https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219743625 (Cool behind-the-scenes insights into the making of a funny movie)
(People) are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit and seldom draw to their full extent. -Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (24 Sep 1717-1797)
October 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
(People) are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit and seldom draw to their full extent. -Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (24 Sep 1717-1797)
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. -Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (22 Sep 1694-1773)
October 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. -Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (22 Sep 1694-1773)
Recently enjoyed “Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World” www.goodreads.com/book/show/40... (We need more book that challenge status quo thinking on big issues, as this one does.)
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open border…
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October 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Recently enjoyed “Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World” www.goodreads.com/book/show/40... (We need more book that challenge status quo thinking on big issues, as this one does.)
Recently enjoyed “The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)” www.goodreads.com/book/show/85... (This is an exciting read. Hadfield spins a good yarn, though he does leave the end a little loose. Still looking forward to the next book in this series.)
The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)
From New York Times bestselling author, astronaut, and …
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October 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Recently enjoyed “The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)” www.goodreads.com/book/show/85... (This is an exciting read. Hadfield spins a good yarn, though he does leave the end a little loose. Still looking forward to the next book in this series.)
Recently enjoyed “Smartphone Nation: Why We're All Addicted to Our Screens…” www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... (I most enjoyed the ideas in this book of ways to change our behaviour, to “hack the algorithms”)
Smartphone Nation: Why We're All Addicted to Our Screen…
A refreshingly candid guide to gaining agency with your…
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October 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Recently enjoyed “Smartphone Nation: Why We're All Addicted to Our Screens…” www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... (I most enjoyed the ideas in this book of ways to change our behaviour, to “hack the algorithms”)
Recently enjoyed “Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service” www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... (Untold stories of dedicated bureaucrats who make life better for other citizens. Good reminder of what the civil service often looks like. )
Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Who works for the government and what do they do? A tim…
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October 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Recently enjoyed “Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service” www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... (Untold stories of dedicated bureaucrats who make life better for other citizens. Good reminder of what the civil service often looks like. )
Quick review of “The Family Lawyer” www.goodreads.com/book/show/34... (First two stories were decent. I put the book down partway through the third.)
The Family Lawyer
From the world's #1 bestselling writer--3 pulse-poundin…
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October 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Quick review of “The Family Lawyer” www.goodreads.com/book/show/34... (First two stories were decent. I put the book down partway through the third.)
Recently enjoyed “Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter” www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... (Tons of detail about the clusterf&ck that Twitter has become, owing to an odd mixture of extreme wealth and insanity.)
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
Rising star New York Times technology reporters Kate Co…
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October 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Recently enjoyed “Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter” www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... (Tons of detail about the clusterf&ck that Twitter has become, owing to an odd mixture of extreme wealth and insanity.)
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -John Cage, composer (5 Sep 1912-1992)
October 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -John Cage, composer (5 Sep 1912-1992)
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💻 Mac Tip: Missing the Home, End, Page Up, Page Down and Forward Delete buttons on your Mac keyboard? ⁉️🤨
You can do all of those by holding down the FN (globe 🌐) key.
FN+Left=Home
FN+Right=End
FN+Up=Page Up
FN+Down=Page Down
FN+Delete=Forward Delete.
You can do all of those by holding down the FN (globe 🌐) key.
FN+Left=Home
FN+Right=End
FN+Up=Page Up
FN+Down=Page Down
FN+Delete=Forward Delete.
September 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
💻 Mac Tip: Missing the Home, End, Page Up, Page Down and Forward Delete buttons on your Mac keyboard? ⁉️🤨
You can do all of those by holding down the FN (globe 🌐) key.
FN+Left=Home
FN+Right=End
FN+Up=Page Up
FN+Down=Page Down
FN+Delete=Forward Delete.
You can do all of those by holding down the FN (globe 🌐) key.
FN+Left=Home
FN+Right=End
FN+Up=Page Up
FN+Down=Page Down
FN+Delete=Forward Delete.
There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. -Paul Bourget, novelist (2 Sep 1852-1935)
September 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. -Paul Bourget, novelist (2 Sep 1852-1935)
Recently enjoyed “The Remains of the Day” www.goodreads.com/book/show/28... (A beautifully written book about hiding behind tradition as an excuse for not daring to follow a riskier, more worthwhile path. What’s not written may contribute more to the story than what’s on the page.)
The Remains of the Day
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August 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Recently enjoyed “The Remains of the Day” www.goodreads.com/book/show/28... (A beautifully written book about hiding behind tradition as an excuse for not daring to follow a riskier, more worthwhile path. What’s not written may contribute more to the story than what’s on the page.)
Recently enjoyed “Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust” www.goodreads.com/book/show/53... (Comey seems to have been caught between a rock and a hard place. There doesn’t seem to be a playbook for much of his former job, something other people learn when dealing with Republicans.)
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust
James Comey, former FBI Director and bestselling author…
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August 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Recently enjoyed “Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust” www.goodreads.com/book/show/53... (Comey seems to have been caught between a rock and a hard place. There doesn’t seem to be a playbook for much of his former job, something other people learn when dealing with Republicans.)