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01feb2025

Le Meraviglie (The Wonders), not as strong as the others, in the loose triology by Alice Rohrwacher. 3.5/5

Stay strange, stay weird, stay dark, be happy, and above all, stay safe. We parents - we adults - love and need you and value you above all else, even though this love may sometimes feel imperfect. You are the best of us. You keep the sky from falling.
Nick cave

Recent interesting reads on DeepSeek - DeepSeek FAQ from Stratechery and The Short Case for Nvidia Stock by Jeffrey Emanuel.

Neil deGrasse Tyson in discussion with Laurence Fishburne on “The Science of the Matrix” and Richard Dawkins on “Science, Religion & Evolution”.

It’s so freeing and beautiful in a way, to have a great failure. There’s nowhere to go but up.
David Lynch

19jan2025

La Chimera and Happy as Lazzaro - wonderful enigmatics movies directed by Alice Rohrwacher, forming part of a loose triology. Looking forward to watching Le Meraviglie (The Wonders) to complete it. 4/5.

Mirko Canevaro & Greg Yudin discussing the notion of democracy in the west based on David Graeber’s essay There Never Was A West. A bit dry (for me as a novice) but still fascinating.

27dec2024

Turin Horse (2011), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) - classic movies worth your time. 4/5

A poem works for me not when it says what I want it to say and not when it evokes what I want it to. It works when the subject I started out with metamorphoses alchemically into a different one, one that has been discovered, or uncovered, by the poem. It works when it surprises me, when it says something 1 have repressed or pretended not to know.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa.

01dec2024

May the angels
Bow down for you
And lay their feathers
Beneath your feet

May the angels
Fill your emptiness
Guide and lighten
Up your path

But I can’t
And I won’t

(…)
May the Angels, Alev Lenz

Hunger, Drops of God, Toscana: nice movies / limited series on the theme of food, wine.

19nov2024

I made a graph to review all of my past relationships…
It has an ex axis and a why axis.
Natasha Jay

03nov2024

For if God exists, then He exists in the sewers as in the stars, and in the end, in our own hellish ways, we are each at His service, engaged in the grim business of preventing the world from drowning in its own excreta.
Nick Cave

19oct2024

A person, simply trying to get from one place to another, is transformed into a reluctant star of a movie she didn’t know she was in. The dynamics are simple, and stark. The people on our screens look like characters, so we begin to treat them like characters. And characters are, ultimately, expendable; their purpose is to serve the story. When their service is no longer required, they can be written off the show.
Megan Garber - We’ve Lost the Plot

05oct2024

Hi Ren by Ren and its origin story.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s “Chain of Light” - a new album from Real World Records, released 27 years after his death at the age of 48 in 1997. How it all came about.

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Walt Whitman

22sep2024

As a leader of humans, I’ve watched sadly as valued co-workers have resigned. Each time I work to understand two things:

Why are they leaving?
When did their shields go down?

(..)
The real question, the real insight, comes from the answer to Question #2: When did their shields go down?

Their shields drop when, in the moment they are presented with the offer of potential future opportunity, they quickly evaluate their rubric and make an instant call: Is this job meeting my bar?
Michael Lopp

Stop with the fucking history lessons about what the Israelites did, or what the Ottomans did, or what the British did, or whatever. IT IS FUCKING IMMATERIAL. There is a pile of dog shit in the living room. Instead of arguing about whose dog took the bigger shit in the living room, maybe focus on how we clean up the dog shit, and maybe we keep the dogs outside.
mo husseini, 50 Completely True Things

08sep2024

Dystopian fiction is when you take things that happen in real life to marginalized populations and apply them to people with privilege.
Hugo Book Club

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