33 years ago tonight, 14 women went to bed thinking about their finals, future in STEM and the upcoming holiday season. They didn’t know that these dreams threatened a man’s sense of self worth and that they wouldn’t survive to see their goals and aspirations become a reality.

This meal cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.

Vendredi relecture de cette étrange merveille

Worth a read. “by the end of the 2040s, it will be possible to talk to the people about the losses that Russian society suffered from the current war. In the meantime, the people are experiencing perhaps the best period in their lives.“ HT Lars Bangert Struwe. russiapost.info/regions/majori…

"On Monday I go to work. How are your family, a colleague asks. When I answer, she squirms. Can’t they just leave, my colleague says. No, they can’t actually." This is an extraordinary piece from a Jewish employee at The Guardian jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-the-gu…

This is what "globalise the intifada" means. Sources: nbcnews.com/news/world/syn… montrealgazette.com/news/local-new… x.com/ysabellahazan/… x.com/AntisemitismCA… montreal.ctvnews.ca/2-jewish-schoo…

«Un lettore di professione è in primo luogo chi sa quali libri non leggere; è colui che sa dire come scrisse una volta mirabilmente Scheiwiller, "non l'ho letto e non mi piace"». Nasceva oggi, centouno anni fa, fa Giorgio Manganelli.

'I'm out here banging on doors because I know Labour is the only chance the children I teach have got.' Caller Sarah has invigorated James O'Brien’s political juices, recounting how one of her students asked to eat leftover potato scrapings from an art project due to hunger.

Nuclear’s lunch being eaten by renewables worldenergy.org.tr/wec-mondays-dr…

Sizewell C “poor value for money” says UK’s largest independent advisor theguardian.com/business/2024/… Letter from citizensadvice.org.uk: assets.ctfassets.net/mfz4nbgura3g/V…

Hinkley C 2016 price tag $22 billion; now estimated at $60 billion for project likely “doomed” nytimes.com/2024/02/22/bus…

This is how people ignored each other before smartphones.

"The birds don't sing, they screech in Pain." --- Werner Herzog

The first of these Loeb giveaways, then: the nine-volume set of Early Greek Philosophy. A bedtime book if ever there were one. Or nine! To enter the draw, just share this tweet and cross your fingers for Monday 10 May!

"I strongly feel that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an insult to life itself." --- Hayao Miyazaki

Annie Le Brun n'est plus La grande dame a rejoint son âme soeur, le poète croate Radovan Ivsic, dont elle portait la montre à son poignet minuscule depuis 2010 Pour que vive sa pensée, revoir "L'ART ET LE CAPITALISME", notre entretien de 2018 youtube.com/live/XGkBiEn-t…

How he's answered every pertinent question over the last 8 years.

Bertolt Brecht

French senator perfectly describes the Trump situation.