Dove va il mondo

“Once, we all respectfully listened to what epidemiologists said. We queued up for vaccines, observed distancing lines and confidently asked unmasked passengers on public transport to cover their faces. A tyrannical virus ruled over us, and we did everything in our power to limit its ravages”. Fonte: The Guardian Autore: Laura Spinney Link: Five years […]

“Alaska Airlines flight 1805, Los Angeles to Washington DC, March 5 2020. So spookily empty is the cabin, the nice stewardess keeps offering me the surplus sandwiches, somehow not realising that the physical splendour mesmerising you from the byline photo above isn’t compatible with white carbs. Not until I land in a deserted capital a […]

“DEI is dying. MEI is the new corporate rage. Standing for “merit, excellence, and intelligence”—in contrast to “diversity, equity, and inclusion”—MEI involves hiring solely on merit, without consideration of demographic factors. Labor economists have preached the gospel of meritocracy for decades. It’s refreshing to see it become fashionable”. Fonte: The Wall Street Journal Autore: Roland […]

“In that rare thing, an Angela Merkel statement that aged well, the long-serving German chancellor worried that Europe accounted for 7 per cent of the world’s population, a quarter of its economic output and half of its social spending. Those numbers have modulated somewhat in the subsequent 13 years, but the gist of her point […]

“For a still nascent technology, generative artificial intelligence already has an impressive resume. It can compose music, summarise wads of legal documents in seconds and generate television adverts based on minimal descriptive input”. Fonte: Financial Times Autore: The editorial board Link: AI copyright wars need a market solution

“The origin of Europe’s recent hard-right surge is difficult to pin down. Some theorise that, beginning with the financial crash in 2008-09, voters were driven away from the mainstream and towards the extremes by economic anxiety. But the evidence for this is mixed”. Fonte: The Economist Link: Hard-right parties are now Europe’s most popular

“In 1791, the nation’s founders ratified the First Amendment to the Constitution. It would come to offer protections in the new nation essentially never seen before: the right to ask things of and to criticize the government; to express opinions, popular or not; to assemble peacefully; to practice diverse religious beliefs; and to have a […]

“A meeting that was supposed to bolster the flimsy trust between Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump descended instead into an extraordinary slanging match in the Oval Office in front of the world’s media”. Fonte: Financial Times Autore: The editorial board Link: Zelenskyy’s humiliation in the White House

“These columns don’t usually comment on the business decisions of competitors, but Wednesday’s news from the Washington Post cuts close to home. To wit, Post owner Jeff Bezos announced that the paper’s opinion section is making a turn to stand for, well, what we do”. Fonte: The Wall Street Journal Autore: The Editorial Board Link: […]

Michael Protzman, a former Seattle demolition contractor, attracted a following of QAnon conspiracy believers so devoted to his prophecies that hundreds of them traveled to Dallas on Nov. 1, 2021, to witness John F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. appear on a grassy knoll adjacent to the assassination site of JFK and ordain Donald […]