DNS0.EU private DNS service shuts down over sustainability issues
The DNS0.EU non-profit public DNS service focused on European users announced its immediate shut down due to time and resource constraints.
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Capitalism And Colonialism: How Modern Canada Was Made
An interview with historian Bryan Palmer about his trilogy of books on the continuing legacy of colonialism in Canada.
[Announcement] Keepers of the Flame Livestream Twitch Drops
Jeepers Keepers! A creepy crawly Twitch drop will be available during the Keepers of the Flame content reveal. Get the Hiveborn Crawler Pet for free by tuning into GGG Live at 12pm on October 23rd (PDT).
How to Participate
Simply link your Path of Exile account to Twitch (see below) and tune into GGG Live at www.twitch.tv/pathofexile, or any channel in the Path of Exile Directory for 45 minutes. Drops will be enabled from 12PM PDT until 10PM PDT.
You will get the Hiveborn Crawler Pet after 45 minutes of accumulated watch time on any channel with drops enabled streaming Path of Exile during the event. This means that the drop is guaranteed for everyone who has watched any Path of Exile stream for this amount of time. This promotion is available for all accounts.
If you're planning to stream Path of Exile during our livestream and want to enable Twitch Drops for your viewers, you can do it via your Twitch Creator Dashboard here.
Linking your Path of Exile Account to Twitch
Visit your Twitch Settings page while logged in. If your account isn't connected, click the "Connect" button for Twitch under "Other Connections". Complete the process on Twitch and you will be redirected back to your Twitch Settings page. If your account is already connected, this page should say "Your Path of Exile account is currently linked to your Twitch account."
After you've accumulated enough watch time to earn your Hiveborn Crawler Pet, you must redeem it from your Twitch Inventory before the promotional period ends. Then it will be immediately available in your microtransactions list in both Path of Exile and Path of Exile 2. The Hiveborn Crawler Pet will be available for purchase from the store at a later date.
We can't wait to share the details of Keepers of the Flame with you! To stay up to date in the lead up to the livestream be sure to check out our Twitter, Facebook and Forums. We'll see you at GGG Live at www.twitch.tv/pathofexile!
Announcements - Keepers of the Flame Livestream Twitch Drops - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
[Announcement] Path of Exile 2 Fan Art Competition is Closing Soon
Our Path of Exile 2 Fan Art Competition is closing soon, so those who are still working on their submission will only have one day left to submit. In this news post, we are showcasing more submissions made by our players so far.
Submission by Dilisity#8031
Submission by ares1986#1209
Submission by UrMammy#3308
Witchhunter by ƙloƙɱacɧine#1234
The Great White One by Doncak#3104
We will announce the winners in the coming weeks so stay tuned for announcements. Thanks to everyone who submitted the fan art!
Early Access Announcements - Path of Exile 2 Fan Art Competition is Closing Soon - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender, but no action
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/20524903
Cyberpunk stories are often action filled and you as player are directly in the middle, deciding the fate of mega corporations and technological progress of humanity. But in this game? Here you prepare drinks and hear stories about the world outside the bar doors. What crazy stuff goes on, what happened to some celebrity and when the next riot is supposedly happening. It is a Deus Ex story, but you don't play JC Denton, you play a barkeeper and try to make ends meet, so you don't get evicted from your apartment at months end.And it is glorious. I really started to like games, or stories in general, that don't put you in the shoes of the 1 in a million special protagonist, but in the shoes of one of the other 999.999 randoms, who have to live in that world and can't just change the world by fighting the bad guy.
Your bar has some random people coming, but also regulars you will talk to more often and build a connection with. And each one will have a story to tell you. Now the game play is not exactly breath taking, either you do the drink right or not. Mess up too often and you don't have enough money for the rent. Sometimes you can influence the customer a bit by deciding how much alcohol you put in their drink, but that's it. So mostly you can consider it as a Visual Novel (if you want a cyberpunk bartender story driven game with a bit more gameplay focus, yes there is another one with that description, check out Red Strings Club). But the stories are just so interesting and fun. And following the circumstances of certain regulars was captivating for me. \
Especially as you have a lot of variety in your customers: poor people down on their luck, a private law enforcement officer that didn't just join because they wanted to stomp on citizens. Or a cybernetically enhanced dog with a Hawaii shirt. Yeah it's not taking itself always seriously =)
And it's mostly about human stories, how they get affected by their society etc. Not about saving the world, but about how they can find a good food store now that the old one was busted for illegally selling cyberware below the counter. So a lot of world building is done through your customers stories.Biggest drawback of this game? If you enjoy it, you also have to wait for it's sequel N1RV Ann-A like the rest of us. Which still doesn't have any release date. But as Silksong proved: good games take time!
Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in new Epstein files
The partial records are from the third batch of documents produced by Epstein's estate. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee say they include phone message logs, copies of flight logs and manifests for aircraft, copies of financial ledgers and Epstein's daily schedule.
In addition to Musk and Prince Andrew, the files released publicly also contain the names of other prominent figures including internet entrepreneur Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon, a former adviser to US President Donald Trump.
The files turned over to the House Oversight Committee by the Jeffrey Epstein Estate appear to show that Musk had been invited to the financier's island in December 2014.
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Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in new Epstein files
The documents by the estate of convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein were released by Congressional Democrats.Jaroslav Lukiv (BBC News)
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Data Centers Turn to Aviation Engines for Power Solutions
Satellite operators will soon join airlines in using Starlink in-flight Wi-Fi
Satellite operators will soon join airlines in using Starlink in-flight Wi-Fi
“This starts to enable a whole new category of capabilities.”…Stephen Clark (Ars Technica)
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From Industry to E.P.A.: Lobbyist Now Oversees Pesticide Rules
Kyle Kunkler fought for a restricted weed killer that can harm plants and wildlife when it drifts to nearby land. He’s now at the E.P.A., which wants to allow its use.
Stealth, incognito reddit browsing
An awesome app I just discovered for browsing reddit links. Like the rest of you I've abandoned reddit but a lot of research on the web takes you to reddit. It's unsafe to browse the main site. This app is fully incognito and doesn't require an account. It's also gorgeous. It could potentially go inactive soon due to an API change. Last update was also in June but they fixed a crash this morning so someone's still working on it.
Download this and set it to handle reddit links by default. Stay safe, stay ready Comrades!
Stealth | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Stealth is an account-free, privacy-oriented, and feature-rich Reddit client.f-droid.org
Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?
Zohran Mamdani’s 5 Lessons for the Democrats
Zohran Mamdani’s 5 Lessons for the Democrats
Zohran Mamdani does not operate by the same logic as the Democratic Party establishment. Waleed Shahid explains five key aspects of how Mamdani has broken through.jacobin.com
Hind Rajab Foundation files ICC complaint against 24 'Israeli' soldiers over Rajab family murder
One day after the broadcast of the Al Jazeera documentary, which revealed the identities of 'Israeli' commanders and soldiers responsible for the killing of six-year-old Hind Rajab, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) submitted a 120-page Article 15 communication to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
The filing names 24 'Israeli' soldiers and commanders allegedly responsible for the deaths of Hind Rajab, six members of her family, and two Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics, Yusuf al-Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun, who were deliberately targeted while attempting to rescue the girl on 29 January 2024 in Gaza City.
Why is it that my sister and I have different latest kernel versions, even though we both have Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon?
My kernel version is ‘6.8.0-87-generic’ and hers is ‘6.14.00-33-generic’. My brother, who uses CachyOS, has kernel version '6.17.1-2-cachyos'. So it makes a little sense that the kernel is different. Even though I always thought that there was just one kernel that all Linux versions use.
But why is there a different kernel for the same distro?
i think there was also a note in the 22.2 release notes about compatability with nvidia cards too
Linux Mint 22.2 Release Notes - Linux Mint
Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable desktop operating system.www.linuxmint.com
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Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps Workers With AI Days Before Crash
Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps Workers With AI Days Before Crash
Should we not rely on one service to support everything?80 Level Editorial Team (80lv)
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Kristi Noem's DHS caught in 'brazen lie' as old photo used to promote strikes
'Shocking': Kristi Noem's DHS caught in 'brazen lie' as old photo used to promote strikes
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security are accused of lying with an old boat photo that has "zero ties to the current situation" and using the image to promote attacks on alleged drug boats after Colombia's pr…Nicole Charky-Chami (Raw Story)
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KDE Plasma 6.5 Rilasciato
KDE Plasma 6.5 Rilasciato
KDE Plasma 6.5 porta angoli arrotondati, cambio automatico tema chiaro/scuro, ricerca fuzzy e clipboard migliorata. Scopri tutte le novità del desktop Linux più versatile.Ferramosca Roberto (Linux Easy)
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Spotify to Continue Running ICE Recruitment Ads as Boycotts Grow
Spotify to Continue Running ICE Recruitment Ads as Boycotts Grow
Spotify has no plans to pull the DHS's ICE recruitment ads from their platform, even as some on social media call for boycotts.wrengraves (Consequence)
'Trump demanded screaming and swearing that Zelensky give up territory'
After a period when President Trump seemed to be more inclined to the Ukrainian side, he now seems to be taking the side of Russia again. On board his plane the Air Force One he told reporters that Ukraine and Russia should stop fighting and that he wants to leave the situation in the largely Russia-occupied Donbas as he is.
And the British newspaper the Financial Times (FT) writes that the meeting between Trump and Zelensky at the White House went dramatically Friday. Trump is said to have urged Zelensky to accept the Russian conditions for ending the war and to give up the Donbas to Russia.
Based on sources, the newspaper reports that Trump warned that Russian President Putin will "destroy" Ukraine if the country does not cooperate.
Turn of Trump
A little over a month ago, Trump said Ukraine could win the war with the support of the European Union. Then he was remarkably positive about that. In a post on Truth Social, he stated that the country, with the help of the EU and NATO, can take back all territories occupied by Russia.
It seems that last Thursday's phone conversation with Putin has changed his mind.
According to the FT and The Washington Post, the Russian president has made a new proposal whereby Ukraine will give up the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in exchange for small parts of Cherson and Zaporizha. Exactly that exchange would have been introduced to Zelensky on Friday.
Two sources told Reuters that they had the impression that Trump was influenced by Putin. Trump and Putin have agreed to meet in Budapest in a few weeks.
Screaming
Zelensky came to Washington on Friday in the hope of getting more weapons from the U.S., but according to insiders, the meeting degenerated into a screaming party, with Trump constantly cursing.
That this was not an incident turned out last night on board the Air Force One. Trump said the Donbas region - in southeastern Ukraine - should be divided "in the way that it is now." "Negotiation is possible later," he said. "Go home, stop fighting and stop killing people."
The Donbas consists of the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk. Luhansk is almost entirely occupied by Russia, Donetsk about three quarters.
What Trump is asking of Ukraine:
Pete Hegseth's tie during this meeting:
'Trump eiste schreeuwend en vloekend dat Zelensky gebied opgeeft'
De Britse krant Financial Times meldt op basis van bronnen dat Trump vrijdag Zelensky vloekend heeft aangespoord om akkoord te gaan met de Russische voorwaarden.NOS Nieuws
ZorinOS 18 has had 300K downloads in just one week!
Biden’s ex-press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘Why are Democrats not fighting back?’
While this is nominally an account of past events, I can't in good conscience place a book-tour piece in U.S. News.
When CJ Cregg exits the White House for the last time, a passing tourist asks her if she works there. “No,” she replies in the final episode of The West Wing, “No, I’m sorry I don’t.” The former press secretary casts a wistful glance back at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, knowing life will never be the same.The evanescence of power is now familiar to Karine Jean-Pierre, who in real life served as White House press secretary for two and a half years under the presidency of Joe Biden. She was the first Black person, first openly gay person and – born in the Caribbean to Haitian parents – first immigrant to hold the title.
But the old saying that all political lives end in failure applies to their spokespeople too. Jean-Pierre spent her final months in the West Wing parrying questions about Biden’s mental acuity, an exercise that increasingly came to be seen as defending the indefensible. She watched as her boss’s legacy was undone, his numerous accomplishments eclipsed by his failure to prevent the return of Donald Trump.
That the whole experience ended on a sour note is made clear by the publication of Jean-Pierre’s memoir Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines. Its front cover offers an image of the White House, seen not through Cregg’s rose-tinted gaze but rather a cracked lens.
Biden’s ex-press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘Why are Democrats not fighting back?’
Jean-Pierre explains in her new memoir Independent why she decided to leave the Democratic party after two decadesDavid Smith (The Guardian)
OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser: ChatGPT Atlas
"OpenAI’s Product Lead Adam Fry said during the livestream that ChatGPT Atlas will have the sidecar feature, too. Further, ChatGPT Atlas has “browser history,” meaning that ChatGPT can now log the websites you visit and what you do on them, and use that information to make its answers more personalized."
Oh, great! /s
OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser: ChatGPT Atlas | TechCrunch
OpenAI is launching an AI-powered browser, its latest challenge to Google as the main way people find information online.Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)
US and Belize sign ‘safe third country’ agreement for asylum seekers
US and Belize sign ‘safe third country’ agreement for asylum seekers
The agreement is the latest deal the Trump administration has struck to deport migrants to third-party countries.Abby Rogers (Al Jazeera)
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Small businesses and states ask court to uphold orders striking down Trump’s tariffs
Lawyers for small businesses and states challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs on almost all goods imported into the United States urged the Supreme Court on Monday to leave in place rulings by lower courts that struck down most of the tariffs. One group of small businesses told the justices that the tariffs “have equated to the largest peacetime tax increase in American history,” while another contends that the tariffs “upend[] a century of trade law.”
Trump’s executive orders relied on a federal law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, that gives the president the power to take action to “deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States” if he declares a national emergency “with respect to such threat.” When there is a national emergency, the president under IEEPA can “regulate . . . importation” of “property in which any foreign country or national thereof has any interest.”
In Washington, D.C., a pair of small businesses that make educational toys and products went to federal court to challenge the tariffs. The companies, Learning Resources and hand2mind, contend that the tariffs will cost them $100 million this year – nearly 45 times as much as they paid during 2024
Small businesses and states ask court to uphold orders striking down Trump’s tariffs
Lawyers for small businesses and states challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs on almost all goods imported into the United States urged the Supreme Court on Monday […]Amy Howe (SCOTUSblog)
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Trump-GOP Giveaway to Big Pharma Will Hit Taxpayers With $9 Billion in Higher Drug Costs
The CBO initially projected that the provision, known as the ORPHAN Cures Act, would cost around $5 billion over the next decade. But the office said Monday that its earlier assessment did not take into account several major, high-priced drugs that will be exempted from Medicare price negotiations as a result of the Trump-GOP law.
Among the drugs included in the new CBO analysis is Keytruda, a cancer medication sold by Merck that carries a list price of $24,062 every six weeks. The Trump GOP-budget law delays Keytruda’s eligibility for Medicare price negotiations by at least a year, postponing significant potential savings for taxpayers and patients.
Merith Basey, executive director of Patients for Affordable Drugs Now, said in response to the updated CBO analysis that “the ORPHAN Cures Act is a wildly expensive handout to Big Pharma that will harm patients, drain taxpayer dollars, and weaken the government’s ability to rein in high drug prices.”
Trump-GOP Giveaway to Big Pharma Will Hit Taxpayers With $9 Billion in Higher Drug Costs
"Donald Trump and Republicans are selling out America's seniors," said one advocate.jake-johnson (Common Dreams)
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Who is paying for Donald Trump's new White House ballroom? "I view this enormous ballroom as an ethics nightmare," says former chief ethics lawyer
The US president has said that he personally will pay for significant portions of its construction, and suggested that some still anonymous donors would be willing to spend more than $20m to complete the project.
The funding model has sparked concern among some legal experts, who say it may amount to paying for access to the administration.
"I view this enormous ballroom as an ethics nightmare," Richard Painter, a former chief ethics lawyer in the Bush White House between 2005 and 2007, told the BBC.
"It's using access to the White House to raise money. I don't like it," he added. "These corporations all want something from the government."
A dinner for potential donors held at the White House on 15 October included senior executives from prominent American companies including Blackstone, OpenAI, Microsoft, Coinbase, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Amazon and Google.
Who is paying for Donald Trump's new White House ballroom?
A former White House chief ethics lawyer described the ballroom donations as an ethical 'nightmare'.Bernd Debusmann Jr (BBC News)
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
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.
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Huawei e l'indipendenza energetica europea
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.
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Il caso Huawei e la contraddizione dell'Ue sull'indipendenza energetica - Lettera43
Dopo l'inchiesta per corruzione, il parlamento europeo aveva tagliato i rapporti con Huawei. Che però è rientrato dalla finestra...Giulio Cavalli (Lettera43)
The AWS Outage Was a Nightmare for College Students
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.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-aws-outage-was-a-nightmare-for-college-students/
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Stories of children killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank this year
Stories of children killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank this year
More than 40 children have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank this year.Al Jazeera
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Hollywood pumps the brakes on Toyota: The entertainment industry's leading sustainability group says privately it will cut ties with its top sponsor; critics accuse Toyota of funding climate denial
Hollywood pumps the brakes on Toyota
The entertainment industry's leading sustainability group says privately it will dump its top sponsor, after Toyota is accused of funding climate denial.Sammy Roth (Climate-Colored Goggles)
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.
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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.
#antifascismo #ilTrenoVersoSud #lavoro #Pavese #poesia #terraEVendemmia #uva #vino
Brancaleone; la grande storia. - Pro Loco di Brancaleone APS
Fu la costruzione della ferrovia che cominciò ad attirare molte famiglie, provenienti dall'entroterra e da alcune zone del Meridione d'Italia.admin (Pro Loco Brancaleone)
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My first months in cyberspace
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.
My first months in cyberspace
Recalling the difficulties and wonder of getting online for the first time in 1995, including diary extracts from the time.Phil Gyford’s website
Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout
column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS worksCorey Quinn (The Register)
Open letter by more than 2000 Scientists: Climate Neutrality is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity
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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.
Her Name Was Hind, Her Foundation Takes her Killers to Court | THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
Her Name Was Hind, Her Foundation Takes her Killers to Court | THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
HRF files ICC complaint naming 24 Israeli soldiers and commanders for the killing of Hind Rajab, her family, and two rescuers in Gaza.THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
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Ending Financing for Oil in Amazonia - Banks vs. the Amazon
Ending Financing for Oil in Amazonia - Banks vs. the Amazon
Ranking major banks' Amazon oil and gas financingStand.earth
Pretty much every day someone parks their car on the tram tracks and blocks our city's tram network from operating
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.
Welcome to the war on cars, car guy.
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.
Japanese man jailed after rare public accusation of rape
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.
Japanese man jailed after rare public accusation of rape
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.RFI
He admitted to the act but maintained his innocence, arguing that "my daughter was in a state where she could have resisted".
Child rapist mentality.
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