A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state.
[strong]Huawei[/strong] è una importante azienda cinese che opera anche sul mercato del fotovoltaico controllando la produzione di gran parte degli inverter che vengono installati negli impianti fotovoltaici, rendendo quindi la produzione di energia solar
Huawei è una importante azienda cinese che opera anche sul mercato del fotovoltaico controllando la produzione di gran parte degli inverter che vengono installati negli impianti fotovoltaici, rendendo quindi la produzione di energia solare dipendente dai prodotti di questa azienda. Pare sia stata coinvolta in una inchiesta per corruzione nei confronti di alcuni deputati del parlamento europeo.
In questo articolo del 11 ottobre 2025 di Giulio Cavalli, dal titolo: "Il caso Huawei e la contraddizione dell’Ue sull’indipendenza energetica" su Lettera43 se ne parla, mettendo in evidenza la dipendenza industriale dell'Europa, soprattutto dai produttori cinesi.
When Abby Fagerlin tried logging into Canvas, a popular educational technology platform, to check on her assignments Monday morning, she couldn’t get in.
That meant the 19-year-old college sophomore, who is studying physics at Pasadena City College, was unable to access materials she needed for her three classes, which were hosted on or linked through the learning management system. After searching online, she realized the Amazon Web Services outage that crippled much of the internet Monday had also temporarily taken down Canvas.
Fagerlin also couldn’t be sure if she’d missed a message from her professors—some of whom she said communicated exclusively with their students through a messaging system hosted on Canvas. Going to talk to one of her professors to ask for physical materials from his class, meanwhile, posed a separate challenge.
“His office hours are [posted] on Canvas,” she said.
It wasn’t just Fagerlin having problems. More than a dozen students at colleges and universities across the country told WIRED the Canvas outage threw off their schedules, preventing them from not just submitting and viewing assignments but also from participating in-class activities, contacting professors, and accessing the textbooks and other materials they need to study.
[...]the disruptions to students are a testament to just how popular Canvas is on college campuses—and how much of modern educational life is increasingly centered on a handful of educational technology platforms.
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If Bernie genuinely created a working class party like PSL, and adopted genuinely leftist politics as the base platform, then liberals would of course contest that but leftists would likely around it. If it was just a socdem party like the greens, though, then they'd likely see the same reaction they do.
If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we’d all have a merry Christmas. We can only work in the reality we have, not the one we want. As long as voters are married to the idea that the only meaningful opposition to Republicans is the Democratic Party, then that’s what we’re stuck with.
I think it’s far more viable to introduce ranked choice voting (which would allow for electing a third party while ensuring voters aren’t ’throwing away their vote’ if the third party doesn’t win) than it would be to convince the vast majority of Democratic voters to abandon the party and vote for a party that has won no elections. Maybe that would have worked a century ago when there were more parties and people were more used to the idea of living outside a two party system.
You correctly state that we have to work with the reality we have, but then spend the rest of your comment talking about something that is both highly unlikely and insufficient for change. History has proven the necessity of the working class organizing outside the electoralist boundary in order to achieve meaningful change.
I wish we were when halfway smart enough for ranked choice voting. Unfortunately, not only are most voters too dumb to get it, but many jurisdictions are actually banning in right now.
the reality is that another effectively 2 party system at the united state's southern border went third party in almost 10 years ago and things got better.
it's odd that dismiss a political voting system change that literally happened in the real world within our lifetimes; but advocate for another shift that has never been permitted by a political duopoly.
There is no such thing as a viable third party in a two party system. Until our elections require 50 percent to win or have ranked-choice there will only ever be two parties. At best you could hope to replace one of the top two, but you would have to see a complete collapse in their support first. After seeing a significant portion still supporting the current admin, I don't think complete collapse for either party will ever happen.
You are just wrong, and it's not even worth the effort it takes to dismiss the fact that your assumptions are all baseless.
The third party lane has been viable since Obama failed as a progressive populist.
If Bernie would have run as independent in 2016 alone, he would have won. And this would have held for 2020 or 2024. But that's not who Bernie is. But his personality aside, the lane is and has been open.
The fact is that most voters aren't loyal to a party but actually despise both major parties. 2024 not Biden and Trump were polling at historic lows for any race in the past 80 years. People are looking for a person to vote for, not a party.
This naive response is actually the biggest barrier, and I'm not saying it wouldn't have been a multi year project. But if it had started in earnest in 2016; if Bernie would have run as independent. The lane was absolutely open.
That all being said, the US is entering into a period of one party rule due to its persistent unwillingness to have entertained third parties.
I made no assumptions. If Bernie ran as an independent in 2016 he would have had a split vote with Hillary allowing Trump to win still. Most voters might not be loyal to a party, but enough of them are. Any third party will have to split their vote with one of the other two which will give the win to the party that doesn't split. Its not naive, its how things work. I wish we could have a third party, which is why I support ranked-choice. We currently don't have ranked-choice, so any third party will just hand the win to the worst party. I'm all for potential third parties to run in the primaries, but then they can't be independents. Definitely no third parties in the general though.
The entertainment industry's leading sustainability group says privately it will dump its top sponsor, after Toyota is accused of funding climate denial.
Sure, blame Hollywood for US consumer preferences. Toyota hybrids are outselling everything, because people are buying them. Other manufacturers are losing money on EVs in the US, and unlike Tesla, Toyota has to actually make money.
Pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1936 – mentre Pavese si trova al confino a Brancaleone Calabro – la raccolta poetica “Lavorare stanca” racchiude i temi che resteranno centrali in tutta la sua opera. Con i versi lunghi, di tredici o sedici sillabe, e uno stile semplice e diretto in contrasto con quello dell’epoca, Pavese apre la strada a un nuovo mondo narrativo, in cui le poesie hanno l’aria di racconti, microstorie. Nonostante i riferimenti a luoghi a lui conosciuti, l’autore dona a ogni elemento – le stelle, l’alba, le colline, ma anche la città, gli uomini e le donne – una dimensione mitica, universale, e fa emergere tra le pagine fitte, distinta, la presenza di un «Io» ingombrante, pur se mimetizzato negli altri. Un viaggio che evoca con nostalgia non solo il passato, ma anche un futuro su cui egli già proietta tutto il senso di inadeguatezza e l’irrimediabilità della propria solitudine. Prefazione di Simona Mingardi.
Rileggere Pavese come se fossimo noi a tornare a casa la sera.
Non ci può essere migliore recensione, per un libro di poesie, se non quella che lo stesso autore scrive. Probabilmente questo lo sapeva anche Pavese che nei due testi in appendice alla sua opera spiega perfettamente le percezioni che la lettura mi aveva dato. In particolare a pag. 120 leggiamo:
Definito “Lavorare stanca” come l’avventura dell’adolescente che, orgoglioso della sua campagna, immagina consimile la città, ma vi trova la solitudine e vi rimedia col sesso e la passione che sevono solo a gettarlo lontano da campagna e città, in una più tragica solitudine che è la fine dell’adolescenza […]
C’è una stanchezza che non passa. Non quella delle braccia, ma quella che scava dentro e non trova nome. Quella di chi lasciava le Langhe per la scintillante città e le sue promesse. Quella di chi si sottrae alla carezza della brezza marina e allo sguardo delle esperidi per un nebbioso posto fisso (non parlo di Pavese). Ma anche di chi è strappato alle proprie radici dall’istinto di sopravvivenza. Pavese siamo noi nel tempo e nello spazio alla ricerca spesso di un orizzonte che si sottrae ad ogni passo. E che per ogni passo in avanti che ci sembrerà di fare non sarà mai più vicino rispetto al punto dal quale eravamo partiti. È come se il percorso obbligato di crescità che la modernità ci ha imposto non facesse altro che allontanarci dall’essere umani mentre ci affanniamo a diventare persone.
La città mi ha insegnato infinite paure
Poesie e poetica
La sua lingua è nuda, prosastica, quasi sgraziata. È il contrario della poesia come la immaginavano gli altri: Pavese non vuole consolare, vuole far vedere.
C’è il lavoro, sì, ma dietro il lavoro c’è l’assenza. L’impossibilità di stare davvero con gli altri, la solitudine come condizione naturale. In questa raccolta, l’uomo è un animale separato: guarda, ricorda, desidera, ma non si muove più. Il mito — quello che Pavese inseguirà sempre — qui è solo un’eco lontana, un sogno che non sa ancora di esserlo.
Cosa rimane
Eppure qualcosa resta. Nella polvere delle Langhe, nei paesi immobili, nei versi che sembrano camminare e non arrivare mai, c’è una specie di pietà. Pavese non giudica ma osserva. La sua poesia è stanca ma lucida, come chi ha smesso di cercare risposte e continua comunque a fare domande.
La vite, la vite e la donna
Come già egregiamente espresso nella recensione de “La Luna e i falò”, scritta da Cristina Desideri per il nostro blog, l’uva e il lavoro che la circonda è un tema centrale anche in Lavorare stanca. Una vite che è la vita stessa che assorbe e rimanda le personalità di chi gli vive intorno, come fa con i profumi e gli aromi delle erbe che crescono nelle sue vicinanze. Una vite che si confonde poeticamente con il desiderio e quindi, per Pavese, con la donna. Un appagamento fugace di felicità terrena e di senso di libertà che si può raggiungere talvolta in un orgasmo etilico o erotico.
Questa raccolta, infine, è un bazar di profumi e sensazioni. Talvolta disturbanti. C’è quasi bisogno, tra una poesia e l’altra di annusare dei chicchi di caffè, come facevano alcuni profumieri del passato, per resettare il naso e predisporlo a una nuova esperienza sinestetica.
La casa editrice
Una menzione di merito va certamente alla casa editrice “4 Punte Edizioni” che ha scelto di ripubblicare questa raccolta. I chiodi a “4 Punte” erano uno strumento di sabotaggio e resistenza usato dai partigiani. I libri “resistenti” che fanno parte della collana #ilTrenoVersoSud ci rinnovano la necessità di sabotare con ogni mezzo controculturale l’egemonia indifferente e repressiva che troppo spesso si respira in questo paese.
L’eccellente prefazione di Simona Mingardi riesce a spaziare in poche righe tra i sentimenti e le opere di Pavese, aiutandoci a comprendere la raccolta.
Un piccolo aneddoto
Cesare Pavese fu vittima della repressione fascista che lo costrinse al confino, presso Brancaleone (RC) tra il 1935 – 36′.
Lo scorso agosto, durante un evento di presentazione di una mia raccolta di poesie svoltasi a Bova Marina (RC), ho avuto modo di conoscere il fratello di un altro confinato politico antifascista. Anch’egli confinato sempre a Brancaleone, nello stesso periodo di Pavese. Il fratello mi ha raccontato che Pavese, essendo un ospite di “spicco”, riceveva talvolta delle sigarette o altre piccole gentilezze dai carcerieri ma non era solito condividere tali “gioie” con gli altri reclusi che certamente non apprezzavano questa caratteristica. Una piccola storia nella storia che certamente nulla toglie al grande poeta ma ci dona una punta di colore nell’affresco del poeta.
Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) è stato un importante scrittore, poeta e traduttore italiano, considerato uno dei maggiori esponenti della letteratura del Novecento. Nato a Santo Stefano Belbo, in Piemonte, Pavese si laureò in lettere e iniziò la sua carriera come traduttore di opere americane. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da una profonda introspezione e una riflessione sulla solitudine e l’esistenza umana. Tra le sue opere più celebri ci sono “La luna e i falò”, “Il mestiere di vivere” e “Tra donne sole”. Pavese affrontò temi come l’amore, la morte e il legame con la propria terra. Oltre alla narrativa, Pavese scrisse anche poesie e saggi. La sua opera fu influenzata dalle esperienze personali, tra cui la sua lotta contro la depressione. Morì nel 1950 a Torino, in circostanze tragiche, ma il suo lascito letterario continua a essere studiato e apprezzato.
Trama
La luna e i falò, pubblicato nel 1949 da Cesare Pavese, è un romanzo intenso che racconta il ritorno di Anguilla nel suo paese natale, dopo aver vissuto molti anni in California. Il romanzo intreccia memoria, territorio, storia e riflessioni sociali, descrivendo un Piemonte rurale nel dopoguerra e nel periodo successivo alla liberazione del 25 aprile. La vicenda tocca la Resistenza, il periodo difficile della guerra e della ricostruzione, mostrando come i contadini abbiano vissuto la libertà conquistata con fatica e senso di responsabilità. Pavese descrive la povertà diffusa e le differenze tra contadini e signori: i primi lavorano duramente la terra, mentre i secondi godono di privilegi, controllano le proprietà e le gerarchie sociali.
La vendemmia
Un elemento centrale del romanzo è la vendemmia, raccontata come un vero rito collettivo: la raccolta dell’uva unisce i contadini in lavoro e socialità, ma è anche un momento di fatica e riflessione. La festa dopo la vendemmia celebra il raccolto, rafforzando i legami comunitari e offrendo un’occasione di gioia e condivisione. La luna illumina le notti di lavoro e le veglie dei falò, simboli della ciclicità della vita e della memoria della comunità. I falò rappresentano la comunione, la fatica collettiva e la continuità della tradizione contadina.
Significato del Falò
Ritualità e Tradizione: I falò rappresentano rituali legati alla tradizione contadina. Essi evocano una connessione con la terra e le origini, richiamando il calore e la comunità. Illuminazione e Riflessione: Il falò simboleggia anche la luce in mezzo all’oscurità, una fonte di calore e conforto, ma al contempo può rappresentare la fragilità e l’effimero di certe esperienze di vita Memoria e Nostalgia: Attraverso il falò, Pavese esprime nostalgia per un passato idealeizzato, un momento di riunione e di condivisione che contrasta con l’alienazione della vita moderna. Trasformazione e Rinnovamento: Il falò può essere visto come un simbolo di trasformazione, dove il fuoco purifica e crea spazio per nuove esperienze, riflettendo il percorso di crescita personale del protagonista.
Significato della Luna
Simbolo di Nostalgia: La luna rappresenta il legame con il passato e i ricordi. Il protagonista, attraverso la sua visione della luna, riflette sulla sua infanzia e sulle esperienze vissute. La luna diventa quindi un simbolo di nostalgia e di una ricerca di un tempo perduto.
Contrasto tra Luce e Ombra: La luna illumina la notte, ma al contempo evidenzia le ombre e le parti oscure della vita. Questa dualità riflette le esperienze del protagonista, che si trova a confrontarsi con le bellezze e le difficoltà della vita.
Riflessione sull’Identità: La luna, nel suo ciclo di fasi, può simboleggiare anche i cambiamenti dell’individuo. Il protagonista cerca di comprendere la propria identità e il proprio posto nel mondo, e la luna diventa un elemento che accompagna questa ricerca interiore.
Collegamento con la Natura: La luna è anche un simbolo della connessione con la natura e il paesaggio piemontese, che fa da sfondo alla narrazione. Questa connessione rappresenta un ritorno alle origini e alle radici, temi molto cari a Pavese.
La luna non è solo un elemento descrittivo, ma un simbolo ricco di significati che accompagna il protagonista nella sua introspezione e nel suo viaggio esistenziale. La sua presenza sottolinea la bellezza e la complessità della vita, con tutte le sue luci e ombre.
La chiesa
Pavese inserisce anche aspetti legati alla Chiesa, alla politica e alla stampa, che influenzano l’opinione pubblica e i discorsi della comunità, sottolineando come i valori, le gerarchie e le credenze modellino la vita rurale nel dopoguerra. Il ritorno di Anguilla dalle terre lontane della California è uno strumento per confrontare esperienze diverse e per misurare il cambiamento nel tempo e nello spazio. La frase che riassume perfettamente uno dei temi principali del romanzo è: “L’ignorante non si conosce mica dal lavoro che fa, ma da come lo fa”, enfatizzando l’onestà e la dignità del lavoro al di là della posizione sociale.
Personaggi principali
Anguilla Anguilla è il protagonista del romanzo, un giovane che dopo anni vissuti in California ritorna nel suo paese natale in Piemonte. Rappresenta il ritorno alle radici, la ricerca di un senso di appartenenza e l’elaborazione del passato. Attraverso i suoi occhi, Pavese mostra il contrasto tra il mondo rurale della povertà contadina e le esperienze all’estero. Anguilla incarna il viaggio interiore e fisico, la nostalgia, la riflessione sulla propria identità e la tensione tra il desiderio di progresso e la fedeltà alle tradizioni.
Nuto Nuto è un personaggio emblematico del mondo contadino e delle gerarchie sociali locali. È il figlio di un piccolo proprietario terriero, benestante rispetto agli altri contadini. Nuto rappresenta il legame con il passato e con la comunità, ma anche le contraddizioni sociali: da una parte amico e confidente, dall’altra simbolo delle differenze di classe tra chi possiede la terra e chi la lavora.
Il legame tra Anguilla e Nuto
Il rapporto tra i due è complesso e ambivalente: Amicizia e complicità: Nuto conosce Anguilla sin dall’infanzia e rappresenta un ponte tra il passato e il presente. I loro dialoghi e momenti condivisi mostrano una profonda intesa, basata sulla conoscenza reciproca e sull’esperienza comune della vita contadina. Contrasto sociale e morale: Nuto incarna anche il mondo dei signori e dei privilegi, pur non essendo completamente distante dalle difficoltà del lavoro contadino. Questo crea tensioni interiori in Anguilla, che riflette sulla giustizia sociale e sulle differenze tra persone.
Specchio dell’identità: Anguilla vede in Nuto un riflesso del paese che ha lasciato, un punto di riferimento per confrontare cambiamento e continuità. Nuto, a sua volta, rappresenta per Anguilla il legame con la comunità e la memoria delle tradizioni, senza le quali il ritorno perderebbe senso. Simbolo della nostalgia e della memoria: Entrambi, nel loro legame, incarnano la tensione tra passato e presente, tra il desiderio di progresso e la forza delle radici. Nuto permette ad Anguilla di misurare quanto il paese sia cambiato e quanto lui stesso sia cambiato durante gli anni in California.
In sintesi, Anguilla e Nuto sono specchi l’uno dell’altro: Anguilla porta lo sguardo esterno e il viaggio interiore, Nuto rappresenta continuità, appartenenza e confronto con le strutture sociali locali. La loro amicizia è fondamentale per comprendere i temi del romanzo: memoria, radici, differenze sociali, povertà e il senso di identità nel dopoguerra.
Le letture che Nuto consiglia al protagonista
Nuto invita il narratore (Anguilla) a leggere libri che non siano “favole” ingenue, ma testi capaci di farlo riflettere sulla realtà sociale, sulla storia e sulle ingiustizie. Mentre il protagonista da bambino si nutriva di racconti semplici, intrisi di immaginazione e stereotipi (come le favole del principe che salva la principessa), Nuto lo spinge verso una lettura adulta, concreta e critica, che serve a comprendere il mondo e non a illudersi.
Significato
Nuto rappresenta la voce della coscienza, della Resistenza e dell’impegno politico e sociale. Le letture che propone diventano un contrappeso alle illusioni infantili: servono a “smascherare” lo stereotipo delle favole e a capire che la vera vita non ha un lieto fine scontato, ma va affrontata con consapevolezza e responsabilità. Attraverso i libri, Nuto vuole formare l’amico a un pensiero più maturo, dove la libertà e la dignità non si aspettano da un salvatore esterno (un “principe”), ma si costruiscono con la propria lotta. In pratica, le letture consigliate da Nuto sono lo strumento con cui Pavese mostra il passaggio dal mondo ingenuo delle favole alla realtà adulta della storia e della società.
Cinto
Cinto è un ragazzino poverissimo e storpio, che vive nella cascina della Mora insieme al padrone Valino, uomo duro e violento. Il protagonista Anguilla lo incontra al suo ritorno dall’America e lo guarda quasi come un riflesso del sé bambino: anche lui è cresciuto in miseria, in una campagna piena di fatiche e ingiustizie.
Ruolo simbolico
Specchio del protagonista: Cinto rappresenta ciò che Anguilla era da piccolo: un orfano povero, senza protezione, costretto a subire la durezza della vita. Il futuro negato: la sua deformità fisica e la condizione di sfruttamento mostrano come nei contadini non ci sia spazio per favole di riscatto o “principi salvatori”. L’innocenza ferita: Pavese mette in lui la speranza di un riscatto (Anguilla vorrebbe portarlo via con sé), ma il destino lo colpisce tragicamente: Valino, in un gesto di disperazione, dà fuoco alla cascina e muore con la famiglia, mentre Cinto si salva per miracolo.
Stereotipi e rovesciamento
Nei racconti fiabeschi, il bambino povero o menomato viene spesso “salvato” e trova il lieto fine. Pavese rovescia questo schema: Cinto non è salvato da un eroe, né diventa principe. Sopravvive, ma resta solo, ferito e senza garanzie per il futuro.
Significato nel romanzo
Cinto è la prova che la vita contadina non è una favola: non offre riscatto facile, ma solo fatica e dolore. Attraverso di lui, Pavese sottolinea la continuità della miseria: ciò che Anguilla ha sofferto da bambino si ripete identico nelle nuove generazioni. È il personaggio che più mette in luce la disillusione del protagonista e la morale del romanzo: non ci sono principi né magie, ma solo memoria, radici e la consapevolezza della durezza del vivere.
Santina, un personaggi dalle molte sfaccettature
Santina è un personaggio chiave con molte sfaccettature, che rappresenta un legame profondo con il passato e con le radici del protagonista, Anguilla. Santina è descritta come una figura simbolica e carismatica, incarnando l’ideale di una bellezza e di una vita semplice, legata alla terra e alla tradizione. Il suo personaggio evoca sentimenti di nostalgia e un forte desiderio di connessione con le origini. La sua presenza nel romanzo riflette i temi del ritorno, della ricerca di identità e della lotta tra il mondo moderno e quello tradizionale. Santina è quindi non solo una persona, ma un simbolo delle esperienze e delle emozioni che il protagonista vive durante il suo viaggio alla ricerca di sé stesso e del significato della sua esistenza. Pavese utilizza Santina per esplorare la complessità dei legami umani e il modo in cui il passato influisce sul presente.
Santina e il fascismo
Santina incarna in un frammento del testo, il lato oscuro della femminilità: non più musa o sogno adolescenziale, ma figura corrotta e corruttrice, che usa il suo fascino per sopravvivere e dominare. Rappresenta anche la disillusione politica e morale: la guerra ha distrutto ogni illusione di purezza, mostrando come la realtà sia complessa, fatta di compromessi e tradimenti.
Pavese mostra Santina come un personaggio ambiguo e contraddittorio
Santina e il passaggio ai partigiani
Dopo essere stata amante dei fascisti e delle brigate nere, Santina cerca di salvarsi a guerra quasi finita, passando dalla parte dei partigiani. Non lo fa per convinzione politica, ma per opportunismo e paura: capisce che i fascisti stanno perdendo e tenta di cambiare bandiera per sopravvivere. I partigiani però non si fidano: la considerano una traditrice e la condannano a morte. Viene giustiziata come collaborazionista, esempio della durezza della giustizia sommaria della Resistenza.
Significato simbolico
Santina rappresenta la corruzione morale e l’egoismo di chi, invece di scegliere con coscienza, cambia campo solo per convenienza. In lei Pavese denuncia la guerra civile come terreno di ambiguità e brutalità, dove non c’è spazio per le favole né per i lieti fini.
Analisi psicologica dei personaggi
Dal punto di vista psicologico, il romanzo può essere interpretato attraverso diverse teorie: -Erik Erikson – sviluppo dell’identità: Anguilla attraversa una fase di crisi d’identità, cercando di conciliare il sé lontano (California) con le radici nel paese natale. Il ritorno alle origini rappresenta una ricerca di integrazione tra passato e presente. -John Bowlby – teoria dell’attaccamento: Il legame con la terra, le persone e la comunità rappresenta una “base sicura”, mentre la lontananza genera ansia e senso di perdita. -Sigmund e Anna Freud – psicologia del trauma: Gli eventi della Resistenza e il dopoguerra lasciano tracce nei personaggi, con memorie traumatiche che si manifestano in riflessioni e simboli (luna, falò, terre). -Kurt Lewin – psicologia sociale: La differenza tra contadini e signori e i riti collettivi come la vendemmia evidenziano come norme sociali e dinamiche di gruppo, influenzino comportamento e decisioni individuali. -Abraham Maslow – piramide dei bisogni: Anguilla e gli altri personaggi cercano di soddisfare bisogni primari di sopravvivenza, appartenenza e realizzazione personale, attraverso lavoro, comunità e riflessione sulla propria identità. In questo modo, Pavese non descrive solo paesaggi e società, ma approfondisce la psicologia dei personaggi, i loro conflitti interiori e la tensione tra radici, memoria e aspirazioni personali.
Riflessioni personali
Leggere La luna e i falò significa immergersi in una dimensione di ritorno, memoria e perdita. Il narratore, Anguilla, torna nel suo paese d’infanzia sperando di ritrovare radici e senso dopo anni di lontananza, ma scopre che nulla è più come prima: i luoghi sono cambiati, le persone sono morte o trasformate, la guerra ha lasciato ferite insanabili. La luna e i falò, due immagini forti che danno il titolo al romanzo, rappresentano poli opposti: la luna come desiderio di permanenza, ciclicità, sogno di un ordine universale; i falò come distruzione, violenza, roghi che cancellano corpi e storie. In mezzo a questo contrasto si muove l’uomo, che cerca un senso e un’appartenenza ma deve fare i conti con l’inevitabile disgregazione del tempo e della storia. Ciò che colpisce è la tensione tra il bisogno umano di “ritornare a casa” e l’impossibilità reale di farlo. Non esiste un ritorno puro, perché il passato non torna: resta solo la memoria, spesso ingannevole, e l’impronta di ciò che si è vissuto. In questo senso, il romanzo parla non solo della Resistenza e di un’Italia spaccata, ma di una condizione umana universale: tutti noi cerchiamo un “nido”, un’origine, e tutti ci scontriamo con la consapevolezza che quel nido non può più accoglierci. La teoria di Bowlby, in psicologia, spiega scientificamente come la presenza di una base sicura sia fondamentale per lo sviluppo di una persona, il romanzo di Pavese ne offre una dolorosa e poetica rappresentazione attraverso la figura di Anguilla. Anguilla, il “senza nome”, è la prova che senza un luogo (fisico o affettivo) a cui poter tornare, l’esplorazione del mondo si trasforma in un vagabondare senza meta, e la ricerca di sé si conclude con l’amara consapevolezza di non appartenere a nessun luogo.
Forse la verità sta nell’accettare il movimento: come la luna che ritorna e come i falò che bruciano, anche l’esistenza alterna luce e perdita. Pavese ci ricorda che il senso non è nel recuperare il passato, ma nel saperlo guardare e trasformare in coscienza.
In early 1995 I was 23 and living in a terraced house in Bristol with four friends, about 18 months after leaving university. I’d given up on trying to be an illustrator, had a bit of freelance work making models for Aardman Animations, and would soon be the only one of my friends not to have permanent work. I was increasingly interested in technology and this brand new thing: Internet.
because about 15% of your output is thought provoking and worthwhile, and because we would become insufferably braindead only absorbing only liberal content.
Eh, I've not seen enough to get a statistically significant sample of .ml posts, but naturally you (commie) are going to find more of your own propaganda virtuous. As to instance hopping, I don't use lemmy enough to make it worth researching basically, nor is my goal to get opposing views necessarily, some opposing views are so dogshit they aren't worth the observation (i.e. anything J.D.Vance or Liz Truss has ever said). Tradmarxists have a consistent lense with which to view the world which leads to coherrent, if not always good, takes.
You're missing out on most of us commies, though, who are on Grad and Hexbear. Plus, "virtue" has nothing to do with it, as a Marxist-Leninist I find Marxism-Leninism is by far the most consistent and coherent frame of analysis.
really funny watching a reddit liberal cast shade on literally anything when they're on what seems to be YET ANOTHER completely identical generic liberal shithole instance like piefed.social or feddit.uk or whatever, when they themselves are functionally fucking identical to Reddit
I'm almost sure I won't get a serious answer but how is a joke about a specific person racist? It's not about stereotypes, just similarity to a cartoon figure. I live in Europe and my head of state looks like Mr Burns (he really does). Is that racism against white people? What is the difference?
The difference is the long racist history of refering to Asian people as yellow skinned, phrases like "yellow peril" describing fears of Asian immigrants, so it's not a stretch to see how depicting a Chinese man with cartoonishly yellow skin is racist as fuck.
It would be like depicting a black politician as a monkey, it's difficult to defend something like that as just a joke against a specific person when there's such a racist connotation/history there.
The difference is calling an Asian person yellow has a long and very racist precedent. It would be akin to saying Obama looks like Curious George because A) he fucking doesn’t and neither does Xi look like Winnie and B) there are similarly obvious racial connotations between saying a black man looks like a monkey and that an Asian man looks like a literally yellow character.
“The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change advised that a 90%–95% net domestic reduction of greenhouse gases (GHG) until 2040 (compared to the 1990 baseline) is necessary in order to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The political discussion is moving further away from the scientific evidence, especially in the revision of the EU climate law (2040 climate target). Ahead of the summit of Heads of state and Heads of government on 23/10/2025, we urge policymakers to stick to science and stick to Paris. The EU should have submitted its target to the United Nations already in September – in time for the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference in November. A further delay or softening should not happen.“
The benefits of such a target are enormous. If done correctly, it could, among others,\ ● save over €850 billion in fossil fuel imports between 2025 and 2040,\ ● increase competitiveness and create more than 2 million new jobs in clean industries,\ ● cut household energy bills by up to two-thirds, and\ ● reduce Europe’s dependency on autocratic countries, strengthening independence and resilience.
This does unfortunately happen multiple times per day. Sometimes it’s smaller incidents where the tram driver can get out and collapse the car’s mirror. Other times the owner of the car comes out of a nearby house after the tram used its bell extensively (like today) and moves the car. And then there are times when police needs to get involved to tow the car which often takes upwards of 1 hour.
The truly infuriating part is that if the tram damages a poorly parked car, the transportation company will have to pay the damages. Poorly parked vehicles never get fined and the owners will only need to pay if the car ends up getting towed.
Why do we accept that drivers sabotage a city’s public transport infrastructure like this?
As a car guy (yes I know where I am - I don't live in a city though), idiots like this make no sense to me.
If you enjoy driving, you should in fact be in favor of public transit. It means less traffic, makes driving nicer. Even if you're 100% self-absorbed, you should still be supportive of public transit.
But legit this take makes so much sense. The whole point of the war on cars is that we all have options that meet our needs. People who need to take cars, due to distance or disability can, because the roads are clearer with others taking transit, walking or biking. Multi-modal transit benefits car people as much as it does everyone else.
Toyama (Japan) (AFP) – A Japanese court handed down an eight-year jail sentence Tuesday to the father of a woman who publicly accused him of rape, a rare case in the country where many victims stay anonymous.
Koji Daimon was convicted of raping his daughter Riho Fukuyama in 2016, when she was in high school.
He admitted to the act but maintained his innocence, arguing that "my daughter was in a state where she could have resisted".
In the ruling, judge Toshiaki Umezawa said that "given that the victim continues to suffer physical and mental distress to this day... the consequences must be deemed grave."
Fukuyama says the rapes began when she was in junior high school when her mother was not at home.
Fukuyama went public in March last year following the arrest of her father.
Just a handful of other victims of similar crimes have revealed their identities in Japan.
"I was relieved" after hearing the ruling, Fukuyama told reporters gathered outside the court in Toyama, a coastal city in central Japan.
"I want to tell the world sexual violence within families does exist. Please don't look away from victims."
Fukuyama said at a press conference earlier this year that she had worried that people wouldn't believe her claims of sexual abuse.
"I want a society where, even when you tell others you've been victimised, the immediate response is 'It's not your fault'," she said at the time.
Among victims who have chosen to go public with their accusations are journalist Shiori Ito, who won a landmark civil case against a prominent TV reporter who raped her.
And in 2021, Rina Gonoi accused fellow soldiers of sexual assault and three of them were later given suspended sentences. She left the military after the assault.
Both women were praised for their bravery in coming forward but also received a barrage of online hate, which forced Ito to move to London.
In a recent high-profile case, an Osaka prosecutor accused her former boss of raping her, but she remains anonymous as she hopes to return to work.
Even though there has been no major #MeToo movement like those elsewhere around the world, modest-sized rallies against sexual violence sprang up across Japan after several alleged rapists were acquitted in 2019.
Law changes have also helped. The definition of rape was broadened in 2017, while the need for victims to prove violence or intimidation was removed in 2023.
As Fukuyama's assaults predated the law changes, the local prosecutors office indicted her father under the then-applicable offence, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun daily.
A Japanese court handed down an eight-year jail sentence on Tuesday to the father of a woman who publicly accused him of rape, a rare case in the country where many victims stay anonymous.
For sure. That’s why we need to densify our cities to stop them from expanding. But that’s a separate question from whether it’s worth it to have mosquitoes in existing cities. I don’t think it is but if you have an argument for it go ahead.
But the vast majority of urban mosquitoes are introduced species anyway.
Improved human health and well-being in cities certainly couldn’t hurt. But it’s not really meant to be part of that strategy. It’s more to prevent human suffering and death from disease.
Right, so we should also eradicate all human predators to prevent human suffering at all, yeah?
death from disease
Malaria (and other diseases) can be eliminated. If you're in a western country, when is the last time you heard of someone (in your country) having it? Did they travel recently before* the infection?
We have West Nile that can kill people, and many other dangerous mosquito borne illnesses are expanding.
Predators have other effective methods to prevent them from killing people.
But I mean I don’t really think it would be appropriate to have lions in major cities either, so you? Unless measures could be developed to coexist and keep people safe.
If you’re really passionate about mosquitoes existing in cities for some reason and can develop alternatives that keep people safe then go for it. But despite decades of work on this topic, we’re not there yet and killing mosquitoes remains an important part of disease control in most parts of the world. The way Malaria was eliminated from large regions in the first place was through widespread poisoning of mosquitoes, so that example really doesn’t help your case.
killing mosquitoes remains an important part of disease control in most parts of the world.
Which was done without fully studying the ecological impacts. There are studies coming out now showing there are many impacts from doing this.
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can develop alternatives that keep people safe then go for it.
Permethrin, diethyltoluamide, citronella, bug zappers and mosquito nets already exist and can help you control their presence both on your person and in a localised area.
Most mosquito-borne illnesses are caused by a small subset of specific species of mosquito. There are only a few that cause malaria, for example. Past eradication methods, such as blanketing areas in insecticides, killed mosquitos indiscriminately, even the ones that don't carry diseases (as well as other insects). This had consequences on the rest of the food chain. Humans have tried to eradicate many species to the detriment of ecosystems. Whether that's wolves causing deer populations to explode, dingoes causing the same for kangaroos, or cane toads being brought in to control cane beetles. We just do not have a good track record of trying to eradicate species for our own benefit, because ecosystems are far more complex than we actually understand. For example, did you know that mosquitoes are pollinators?
A far better method for controlling mosquitos in cities would be to aid in the reintroduction, protection and support of their natural predators. Those would include bats, birds and spiders, as well as lizards and amphibians in some regions. Part of that would also include the eradication of invasive species that outcompete local species, but have differing diets.
you cculd goto a zoo and jump in a lions den, sacrifice yourself to the food chain? or just keep pretending to be superior to other fellow human, thats your pawblem too buddy
It's not completely possible but if you could create a situation where mortality is so high or reproduction is impossible for them, you could keep populations very low even if some wander in.
They have genetically modified mosquitoes that cause sterility in the ones they mate with, which have been used successfully to greatly reduce the population of the species in question. So this is the best existing technology IMO but it probably will require a confluence of techniques.
But care should be taken that it doesn't harm non-target organisms and doesn't spread out of control.
I think that would wipe out the target species if it were effective. I know they have GMO mosquitoes whose bodies will kill particular pathogens rather than spread them, and I feel like that's a safer idea. But maybe the species which target humans aren't ecologically important; I don't really know.
It only wipes them out in the area of release. Because they’re sterile, they can’t spread to other regions.
From what I’ve seen they’ve only been used on introduced mosquito species which are less likely to have much impact on native ecosystems anyway. Most of the mosquitoes that live in cities are introduced cosmopolitan species.
Tbf, we dont have to get rid of them all... most dont interact with humans at all. Also, we could just GMO them to find as not tasty and continue to exist without being harmful.
Land on a luggage bag, bag goes on plane, chill in cargo hold until landing, fly out. Exist in puddles on cargo ships until arriving at port. Lots of ways.
The "Hidden Is More Immense" investigative journalism program on the Qatari Al Jazeera network published a supposedly "leaked document" on Monday that includes a list of approximately 30 thousand Israeli Air Force pilots and service members who participated in the war in Gaza.
The list also includes photos and the service members' personal information. The episode, which discusses the legal persecution of IDF soldiers abroad by the Brazil-based Hind Rajib Foundation, shows pictures and information taken from social media about IDF soldiers during their time in Gaza.
CEO Sam Altman says OpenAI had made ChatGPT "pretty restrictive" to make sure it was being careful with mental health issues, though that made the chatbot "less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems."
Hi everyone, I am planning to install linux on my friends laptop and I am not sure which distro to install for them.
The options I am considering:
Fedora: I have it on my PC and since I will be the first person to be asked, I thought it would be best if I know the distro well
Mint: is a default suggestion, but I am not sure if it is different enough from the Windows look that one does not expect it to behave the same as Windows
Ubuntu: most widely available in forums, etc. And a good starting point in my opinion What do you guys think?
EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions, I think I'll stick with Fedora and let them try Gnome, KDE and Cinnamon 😀
My very first Linux was Ubuntu, which was a great experience. But now I use Zorin OS. Check it out, It's a very stable and customizable operating system..
In April 2024 we announced the (renewed) collaboration between Gigafact and Skeptical Science to create fact briefs, short but credibly sourced summaries that offer “yes/no” answers in response to claims found online. Initially, we published new fact briefs on Saturdays, but switched to Tuesdays earlier this year and while we try to have a new fact brief out each week, we sometimes miss a week due to time constraints and vacations.
I guess, and from the other comment, this might be a design decision. For some reason some people seem to respond better to sites looking like that rather than something more resonable. Nice psyop they got there.
Sorry, I don't understand why you say this. Can you explain?
Edit: Maybe it's the "skeptical" thing. Well this site is about the following
Explaining climate change science & rebutting global warming misinformation Global warming is real and human-caused. It is leading to large-scale climate change. Under the guise of climate "skepticism", the public is bombarded with misinformation that casts doubt on the reality of human-caused global warming. This website gets skeptical about global warming "skepticism".
Our mission is simple: debunk climate misinformation by presenting peer-reviewed science and explaining the techniques of science denial, discourses of climate delay, and climate solutions denial.
The web we know is efficient—but fragile. Power and innovation have drifted away from users and into platforms. A new generation of open architectures—ActivityPub, Solid, and beyond—offers a way to take control back.
The web we know is efficient—but fragile. Power and innovation have drifted away from users and into platforms. A new generation of open architectures…
Interesting, this is the part of the social tech path we need. At the #OMN we work on the more grassroots and activist path of this native #openweb push.
Por kio utilas Esperanto? Juna esperantisto en Kabulo, respondas: ”Mi esperas, ke Esperanto helpos al mi lerni pri aliaj kulturoj kaj komuniki kun homoj ekster mia lando. Ĝi donas al mi senton, ke mi ne estas tute izolita.” Sed dum li mesaĝadis kun Libera Folio, la retligo kun la ekstera mondo estis interrompita de la talibanoj.
The current US administration wants to protect fossil fuel profits, slow the clean energy transition and curb China’s influence — whatever the cost to allies or the climate.
Coal plants produce more radiation than nuclear plants, even if you take all the accidents into account.
In a way yes, but only in the sense that nuclear waste is supposed to be well contained and stored for disposal. Still, the accidents are not taken into account, at least in the studies I took a look at. If you have any that says otherwise, please share.
The waste part, for some reason, I thought it was kinda implied. Thanks, anyways.
The part that you say more or less that coal plants produce more radioactive waste than nuclear plants even if we take into account nuclear accidents, is the one that made me wonder tbh.
Btw, perhaps, one of the most famous papers about this topic was written in 1978 [abstract, full pdf ], but it doesn't mention accidents. Actually, in the abstract they say that the study does not even assess, the total radiological impacts of a coal versus a nuclear economy. This one, from 2021, doesn't talk about accidents, either.
I thought you might have a relevant article or something to share about the accident part you mentionned?
An early estimate for total nuclear fuel material released to the environment was 3±1.5%; this was later revised to 3.5±0.5%. This corresponds to the atmospheric emission of 6 tonnes (5.9 long tons; 6.6 short tons) of fragmented fuel.
The 770 PBq figure is about 15% of the Chernobyl release of 5200 PBq iodine-131 equivalent.
While there remains uncertainty about the amount of radioactive material released from Fukushima, it's certainly below half of what Chernobyl produced.
From the earlier posted link about coal power plants:
[E]very [coal power] station creates fly ash containing around 5-10 tonnes of uranium and thorium each year.
Now, I totally get that the kind of radioactive materials released by a nuclear accident are different from what comes out of coal plants, and that a concetrated release is more dire than a diluted one - but given that there are ~2500 coal-fired power plants in the world, that means that coal plants produce about 12,500 to 25,000 tons of radiactive material every year.
If what is certainly the worst nuclear disaster produced just 6 tons, I believe that "including accidents" is not inaccurate.
That’s a really good read! Very positive despite certain groups trying to keep fossils relevant to milk profits a while longer, fuck em, hope this really is the turning point that clean energy takes the lead…
I think this might be an unpopular take, but I think we -- and I'm talking about activists and ecosocialists here -- should be advocating for a just transition away from fossil fuels in places like Russia.
Reading the article, my first thought was gleeful schadenfreude. The people responsible for Russia's coal industry are frankly monsters. They have so much blood on their hands for the human toll they have imposed on the climate, but also because they're authoritarian war-mongers. And seeing them hoisted by their own petard is a wonderful thing to see.
But then my second thought was this: the workers in this industry are suffering badly, and will suffer worse. They are in an economic crisis that is getting worse, and ruled over by oligarchs who amplify all their suffering.
And then my third thought was of revolution. As much as we hate to admit it, revolution in the real world is a value-neutral proposition. In the face of awful circumstances, it's hard to imagine the outcome of a revolution not being better. But that's just a failure of imagination. This kind of event fuels revolution, but there's no guarantee that such a revolution won't simply move to another form of exploitation and barbarism. If we want the workers of Russia to be able to live lives of dignity and comfort, and we want the whole world to decarbonize as fast as possible, then I think that Russia needs access to the technologies and ideas that provide that. My point is that we should begin advocating for tech transfer.
Tech transfer to a regime like Putin's? I don't love it. But I think it needs considered.
it actually make sense, and has been known for a while, why they are invading ukraine, less reliance on russian oils and minerals have gotten vlad very concerned and flailing about his hold on the world. thats why he invaded ukraine he needs thier resources and upped his propaganda machine, and pressured his russian agents in the west. better of gettin it from places like china instead of volatile russia.
One day it struck me that the world would be a very different place if environmental crimes were treated in the same way as murders. So, why aren’t they? And should they be?
At the moment such crimes can, mistakenly, feel distant and abstract. If someone came into your flat and set fire to your furniture, stole your valuables, killed your pet, added poison to your water … what would you do? You’d be terrified. You’d go to the police. You might want revenge. You’d certainly want justice. It would be entirely obvious to you that a crime had been committed.
You should read The Ministry for the Future to see how they handle climate criminals (CEOs of fossil fuel industry associations, far right lobbyists, etc.)
This assumes it is a top down decision in the first place. Often it is not such a decision. To assume an intellectual hierarchy is a fallacy. You will face an extremely grey area of prosecuting tens or hundreds of people with no clear person to blame. In other words, dichotomous logic is always wrong and reflective of a lack of fundamental logic skills and life experience. The solution is real capitalism where every infraction is cause for failure., and no favoritism exists. Size should be an insurmountable burden in real capitalism. Then a well informed citizen, like a real democracy, is the regulating factor instead of an untenable and inept authoritarian bureaucracy.
you have to criminalize the ones who did the deciding, the ones who signed-off on the destruction: the executives. Nothing else will ever produce the required deterrent/effect.
Yes please! Jail them, and let them pay! Why should we as ordinary people pay if the big polluters like the oil and gas industry lied for decades and made their ceo's rich? Use the money for measures against climate change and to help the poor. The poor people are hit the hardest by climate change and will have to pay in blood and misery...
Do I think we need more capital punishment? Absolutely not. We should never kill person that's already restrained from doing harm, even if their intent is clear.
Do I think there could be more meaningful liability? Yes. I think restorative justice means not just MUCH heavier fines (large percent of gross income for the entire period they are in violation) that are earmarked for environment restoration / pollution control efforts, but also time spent doing the work, on-site to restore / clean / contain for everyone in the decision/authority chain, across organizations.
I also think anyone that has been convicted/punished from wrong environment decision/action more than once could be subject to monitoring, publication, and shaming. Whatever education is part of the restorative justice is not enough, and society has to engage in prevention as a defense.
They should be treated more as "crimes against persons" than "property crimes": probably.
A new analysis by Clean Cities examines the initial impact of the introduction of zero-emission zones for freight transport (ZEZ-F) in Dutch cities. One finding: registrations of electric vans and trucks are skyrocketing in the country.
There’s a comforting story that oil bulls like to tell themselves to stave off worries about the future: While the privileged few in Europe and California might have lost their minds over electric vehicles, billions of drivers in the Global South are readying themselves to provide the next wave of petroleum demand.
Those who believe this might want to have a look at the cars and two-wheelers that people are actually buying right now. Far from trailing the rich world in their enthusiasm for battery cars, developing nations are surging ahead.
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Things are moving even faster in nations wholly dependent on imports. More than three-quarters of the value of vehicles brought into Nepal, Sri Lanka and Djibouti last year was purely electric. Import shares in Ethiopia and Laos were 40 per cent and 30 per cent respectively. Plug-in sales increased by 60 per cent in developing countries as a whole in 2024, according to the International Energy Agency.
Could the boreal forest be less fragile than we think? Contrary to the predictions of models that forecast its rapid decline in favour of temperate maple forests, the ecological history of the boreal forest is showing surprising resilience.
Peatlands are among the world’s most important yet underappreciated ecosystems. They are a type of wetland that covers a small fraction of the Earth’s land, while containing the most carbon-rich soils in the world.
Healthy peatlands shape water cycles, support unique biodiversity and sustain communities. Yet for all their importance, we still lack a clear picture of how peatlands are changing through time.
When peatlands are drained, degraded or burned, the carbon they hold is released into the atmosphere. More than three million square kilometres of wetlands have been drained by humans since 1700, meaning we have lost a huge amount of carbon sequestration potential globally. This makes it all the more important for us to understand and conserve remaining peatlands.
Our study, called The PeatPic Project, used smartphone photography to collect data. We connected with peatland researchers around the world via social media and word of mouth and asked them to collect photographs of their peatlands during 2021 and 2022. We gathered more than 3,700 photographs from 27 peatlands in 10 countries.
We analyzed these photographs to look at the plant colour, telling us how green leaves are across the year, and providing rich information on the vegetation growing there. Changes in green leaf colour indicate when plants start their growing season.
They also indicate how green or healthy plants are, how much nutrient plants take up and when they turn brown in the autumn. Colour shifts can also signal changes in moisture or nutrient conditions, temperature stress or disturbance.
The PeatPic Project used over 3,700 smartphone photographs from 27 peatlands in 10 countries to gather data about how climate change is impacting them.
I hope people here are realizing that our current strategies are not working. They are mostly just "feel-good" solutions like paper straws, and will not eliminate the need for fossil fuels. Which is why I keep pushing for green hydrogen, because I already knew this and want real solutions to be pursued.
Orsted, which helped create and dominated the offshore wind industry, has felt a huge impact from these setbacks. The company said last week that it would lay off 2,000 people, or 25 percent of its staff, over the next two years.
Instead of lining up new, multibillion-dollar wind farms to build in shallow waters around the globe, Orsted will mainly focus on finishing those it has under construction and managing them or selling them off.
Orsted said 235 of the 500 layoffs planned for this quarter would be in Denmark
Wood Mackenzie, an energy consulting firm, forecast that less than 50 percent of the cumulative targets set by national governments, excluding China, for offshore wind for the end of the decade will be achieved.
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