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Quaint nuclearists of Italy, kudos FT with article on Energy straight from Real Estate section, country properties in Italy hills
Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13
I recently wrote a profile of a West African kid who tried to storm Cueta, right before the last big massacre of migrants there. As I observed, much of this could be prevented (and has been before) with a return to pre-2000s visa policies www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Along the trans-Saharan path, African migrants weigh the risks and rewards of heading to Europe
The Globe joins West Africans along the desert route that carries hundreds of thousands through deadly perils and ignites political crises in Europe
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Antarctica’s Strange Underwater World | NOVA | PBS youtu.be/Z92txcRjCEI?...
Antarctica’s Strange Underwater World | NOVA | PBS
YouTube video by NOVA PBS Official
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Mer de Glace 1992 | 2026 Largest French glacier, 32 years ago and today! 😭 Glacier retreat 100% due to anthropogenic activity over this period! 📷 via @MiguelMorenatti
This happened just a couple of miles along the coast from Salvo Montalbano's house, so I am sure he will be on the case.
This morning at Marina di Ragusa in Sicily a motor boat ran out of fuel just offshore and, when they realised the Coast Guard was arriving, those on board threw sealed packages containing thousands of banknotes overboard. These washed up on the beach, were collected by bathers & seized by police.
Well this is true I suppose. trump can’t be bought; he is subscription based. You have to keep bribing him forever www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
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John Q. su Crooked Timber, post di riepilogo su questioni di classe e politica e difficoltà delle definizioni crookedtimber.org/2026/07/25/n...
Nate Silver discovers the educated poor — Crooked Timber
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it reminds me when, against all odds, the superyacht Bayesian sunk off the coast of Sicily during a freak storm 2 years ago.
24-year-old ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $20B AI hedge fund called Situational Awareness. He bet heavily on AI related stocks until this week’s selloff led to a margin call and he had to liquidate his public portfolio. Actually sounds like a lack of situational awareness.
siamo tutti all'inferno e la condanna dei soldati dell'IDF è comportarsi come cattivi da film di serie B compresa la proverbiale violenza all'invalido in carrozzella. West Bank, spero sia fake x.com/CensoredHuma...
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Pirocumuli, facciamo chiarezza. Come spesso accade, quando un fenomeno scientifico diventa virale rischia di essere semplificato e mal descritto. Parlo dei “pirocomuli”, sistemi nuvolosi a sviluppo verticale che talvolta si generano dai grandi incendi. 1/8
we are in an age where metaphors collapse to their literal meaning to awful effects
"Anthropic used a hydraulic powered cutting machine to neatly remove the pages from the books it procured from book resellers and then scanned them using industrial-grade imaging equipment. In other words, it was literally ripping off authors’ books to train its AI." the "ethical AI" company
LOL italian newspaper titles "No one really knows how China has kept oil prices down" and I am sure @isabellamweber.bsky.social would reply in 4 simple words strategic reserves + price controls www.ilpost.it/2026/07/29/c...
Nessuno sa bene come la Cina abbia tenuto giù il prezzo del petrolio
C'è stato un grande e brusco taglio delle importazioni, ma come ci sia riuscita e quanto durerà è «la domanda da un milione di dollari»
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"La cifra iniziale doveva essere di 2,2 miliardi. Ma a causa delle poche richieste pervenute inizialmente il ministero aveva deciso di ridurla a 795,5 milioni. Una rimodulazione «necessaria in una certa fase per evitare di perdere i finanziamenti» aveva spiegato il ministro Gilberto Pichetto Fratin"
Comunità energetiche: una domanda su tre resta senza fondi Pnrr
15.000 richieste di fondi del Piano nazionale di ripresa e resilienza per le Comunità energetiche rinnovabili rimangono nel limbo dopo il taglio dei fondi deciso dal ministero. Che assicura però di av...
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In 2026 so far, the Trump admin has bombed: —Iran—14,000+ strikes; 1 JSOC mission —Somalia—strikes on 66 days —Caribbean/E. Pacific—31 strikes —Iraq—strikes on 26+ days —Syria—strikes on 18 days —Arabian Sea—9 strikes —Nigeria—strikes on 3 days; 1 JSOC raid —Venezuela—strikes on 2 days; 1 JSOC raid
Year-end tally of Trump admin combat actions in 2025: —Yemen—1,000+ strikes* —Somalia—140+ strikes, 1 ground raid** —Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids*** —Iran—3 B-2 strikes —Iraq—1 strike —Nigeria—1 set of TLAM strikes —Caribbean—11 strikes —Eastern Pacific—20 strikes —Venezuela—1 known CIA strike
www.bbc.com/news/videos/... video Anthony Fauci si appella al quinto emendamento e non risponde, e per quanto i Trumpiani facciano per far sembrare gli USA un orrido show di purghe staliniane, c'è ancora la costituzione ed è un piacere vedere Fauci non piegato da anni di persecuzione
Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in showdown with Republican lawmakers
Fauci invoked his right not to respond to questions in his opening statement, citing Senator Rand Paul's "unhinged obsession" with trying to put him "behind bars".
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mi sono sempre chiesto (perchè non l'ho letto) come Balaji Srinivasan affronta le geopolitica del Network State, come sopravvive uno stato liberatario che si arricchisce su poche leggi e no stato se ha un vicino che ha stato e esercito. Non sopravvive e banche centrali e guerre vanno mano nella mano
2/ "To paraphrase Charles Tilly: war made the central bank, & the central bank made war." "Capitalism” was coined in France in 19thC. Began as a fusion of distinct sets of ideas. 1st involved thinking about public debt & war finance Great note from @jesusFerna70726 x.com/JesusFerna70...
C'è solo un posto, in Italia, dove può succedere questo. 😂 catania.gds.it/articoli/cro...
Il ladro di pistacchi arrestato dai carabinieri
L'uomo è stato sorpreso in un fondo agricolo di Bronte e dopo una lite col proprietario è stato fermato dai militari
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Section 230 e grandi piattaforme, bookmark di un passaggio significativo da un articolo di @masnick.com www.techdirt.com/2026/02/12/j...
In the 1600s, some 21,000 runaway slaves in Brazil founded an independent kingdom in the interior that lasted nearly a century (1612-1694) It had a capital of 5,000, its own king, provincial chiefs, judges, priests, and an army that raided Dutch and Portuguese plantations
Matt Kaminsky channels the collective fantasy in his photo.
There is something so compelling and beautiful about robot fail videos
The Iranian regime today hanged Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani, 23, and Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi, 29 at dawn in Isfahan's Alikhani Square for taking part in protests earlier this year.
Also today: happy 62nd birthday bubble wrap (or at least 62nd anniversary of one of the main patents)
The Accidental Invention of Bubble Wrap
Two inventors turned a failed experiment into an irresistibly poppable product that revolutionized the shipping industry
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I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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