still waiting my exhibit on jan 11 2021

 

I am Free... (libberamente)

is trying to be a DIY - 

she takes old objects and she 

transforms them in brand new, 

with an artistic pretense

her exhibition, 

“Tasting SL”,

will be in:

 Kii'Wik Sanctuary - Ufeus 

 for a month starting on the

january 11

http://maps.secondlife.com/

secondlife/Ufeus/40/41/33

graphics preferences suggested:

sunset – advanced lighting model 

- shadows: sun/moon project

if you want to see more from her 

you'll find all her works in her blog:

https://free-libbberamente.blogspot.com

/p/my-best.html

and lots of her photos in the main menu

all this was possible because of:

Rob Fossett - Trifolii

Morix Bulloch - milan 

Meg madrigal and Sam (Sunrisesam) - kii'wik santuary art house

VROUM SHORT - new vegetal planet

Dj Denard Henry - SWU Bunker

and lots of other wonderful people, sharing their freebies, encouraging newbies and making them feel that everything is possible 

***right now I am in Slea as an official photographer***  👀😊

SLEA Second Life Endowment for The Arts

opening in january

secondlife:///app/group/91b7ba50-5441-3717-865c-d06958339c9f/about  

https://secondlife.com/destination/slea

What will we say - Luca Sofri - Wittgenstein - Ilpost.it

 Luca Sofri 

Wittgenstein 

Ilpost.it

What will we say

9 December 2020

In her passionate and admirable discourse today on the commitment to protect oneself from contagion, Angela Merkel used at some point an ancient rhetorical formulation to which we are no longer accustomed. It is interesting, because the problem with solemn rhetorical formulas is that over time they lose meaning and become empty, even not tolerable. Instead, this is so out of our way of thinking, that it now sounds with an extraordinary and very concrete meaning, as if it had resurfaced from a distant memory.

What will we say when we look back?

It’s a wonderful, moving question. It sounds familiar, a rhetorical expression often heard, and yet we realize that we no longer hear it: we have often heard it in certain documentaries, perhaps, or in certain biographical films. In some history books, who knows. But no political leader or speaker says it anymore.

Because no one thinks about looking forward anymore, when you look back.

No one judges any more the nonsense, the volatility, the laziness, the whims, the sterility of each of our days, with the ability to detach and look at them from a distance. As we said yesterday, imagine judging the energies and the commitment and the stress spent this year, last year, in the last five years, six years ago, in the things we spent them on. Imagine someone coming from that time and asking us "was it worth it? was it really important? what did we get, then?". And who remembers, with all the Facebook posts we have to be indignant about every day.

Of course, good things happen and each of us has his own, private or public: and some may even be proud of it. But how are the days going by - the weeks, the months, the years - our politics, our public debate, our commitment, the history of this country that we have been accustomed to think of as progress so far? What are we building, what have we built? How long will it remain, what will it have grown? Does it concern us?

What will we say when we look back?

Nice sentence. Mark it, speechwriters.

https://www.wittgenstein.it/2020/12/09/cosa-diremo/

Scientists have found a potentially super cool replacement to lighting

 

Scientists have found a potentially super cool replacement to lighting pic.twitter.com/zJoj9qNOEc

— Mashable (@mashable) November 11, 2020

 

Ecco le probabilità di infezione in questi tre scenari quotidiani, a seconda della ventilazione, delle mascherine e della durata dell’incontro https://t.co/S3wKAoSaF5 via @repubblica

— cinzia opezzi (@giuggiolalibera) November 2, 2020

99 Complex Things Explained as Briefly as Possible

99 Complex Things Explained as Briefly as Possible https://t.co/9heddyrECH pic.twitter.com/qTY5Amj1VB

— Interesting Engineering (@IntEngineering) June 26, 2020

Journalists know news and opinion are separate, but readers often can’t tell the difference https://t.co/1dLTDq234x via @NiemanLab

— Luca Sofri (@lucasofri) June 22, 2020

LIVE IN A SHORT TIME - The Second Life Book Club with Draxtor

https://secondlife.com/destination/second-life-book-club

or live on you tube at

- h 9 pm italian time

- 12 am Second Life time

 ( that I believe is the 

pacific coast USA time) 

Join on Wednesday, June 17th at 12pm PT/SLT 

with author LL McKinney.

https://www.draxtor.com/sl-book-club-coming-up/2020/4/15/ll

or on you tube in Second Life  (LOL)

Free the oppressed - Luca Sofri

WITTGENSTEIN

Luca Sofri

7 June 2020

People of good will, occasionally raise their heads to see where the overall result is of the work of improving cohabitation, of the effectiveness of the functioning of communities, of the quality of relationships and of the civil lives in which they feel they are committed, in one way or another; but those people are immediately tempted to go back to keeping it low on their space, their head, these days. I happen to speak with some who sincerely have at heart larger common goods, and even those who are not scorned and lazy have however almost always convinced that these are times, precisely, to build small good things, giving up on the greater ambitions that models can extend and prevail: it throws up a completely different, bad air, if you raise your head and look a little further, they say. And to do so is likely to suggest an impression of sterility of the things you do, for the disproportion of results.


Trying to improve the world can be a means or an end, and it’s actually both. There are those who do good things in their own small way, hoping that they will be a precious piece of common work that improves the world, and that is their ambition: a better world to look at and be happy and satisfied with. There are those who do good things that try to improve the world hoping that these have repercussions on the lives of many (and therefore of all), on the pieces, on their own child. The biggest disincentive of these times is the feeling that participation in this commitment is not extended enough, and that it is diminished and discouraged by those - leaders, representatives of relevant and authoritative institutions, Ruling classes - who should instead be inspirers and multipliers. They try to empty a lake with a bucket, and meanwhile the pumps remain stationary along the shore.


The absence from the Italian progressive political offer of any promising alternative proposal to the current swamp - I speak of support for a government led by opponents, and the absolute design silence - is an example of this, spectacular, but I will not reduce this reflection of Sunday to these little things. We should look beyond that.


Little can be seen beyond. We have all been absorbed by the spirit of the millennium, the limited horizons. We spend our days writing controversial handfuls of words about this or that social network, signing online petitions to watch the numbers grow, to claim declarations of belonging with what we read or watch, to exhibit "resistances" that sound failures, to please us with volatile stage victories, and so go the days. Of course, many do precious and useful things, but as I said at the beginning their result seems to apply to limited areas: Indian reserves of different scales of common good and awareness of the common good. The dominant thought is another, the cultural hegemony today is of a selfish, resentful and warlike culture.


Shall I give another example of local smallness? Among the twenty best-selling Italian newspapers only two are left-wing, and are respectively of Fiat and the bishops. Or take a look at the properties and proposals of television, then. Mass media.


Progressive thinking is minority and defeated, and in order to understand whether it will recover one would have to understand what progressive thinking is in 2020. I think it’s a bit the things I had written at a certain point here, but today above all it’s any search for a way to defeat - defeat, not "resist" - the dominant thought retrograde and divisive "populism", sovereignisms and various companies. Which is a thought essentially fueled by one thing: ignorance.


The winning "populism" is the thing that has eradicated the idea of "good of the people" of the leftists and has done another thing, easier and more fraudulent. The way in which the progressives have always thought about the good of the people is to give people kept away from education, culture, awareness, the same opportunities and opportunities to possess them that the privileged elites have. I will not be the thousandth who will say to go and reread Don Milani, although it is true that then no one ever goes there: The poverty of the poor is not measured on bread, at home, in heat. It measures the degree of culture and social function».
Or, in a summary by Michele Serra:

"Knowing is a privilege and the deepest discrimination is cultural. As Don Milani said, the master is master because he knows a thousand words, while the worker a hundred. Ignorance is subalternity, although unfortunately today the subalternity is almost claimed."

This idea is very up-to-date today, even if it must be adapted to a society in which the great part of ignorance is no longer produced by a lack of access to education, information, culture, but by a usurpation of their space by an informative and cultural offer of poor quality and inadequate education and with little means and ideas. Goffredo Fofi had said this well, instead, a few years ago, in a book that - this yes - I dare to tell anyone to read:

"But I believe - and I want to insist - that in Italy we must also think of other types of «poor», the oppressed of conscience, all people who live in a condition of moral anomy or material servitude […] It can be used as meat for slaughter not only for the conquest of a territory or the defense of a hypothetical frontier: it is treated as meat for slaughter, whether you like it or not, even in front of a trivial election booth."

Those who are today called "populists" and who seem to me only exploiters and cultivators of ignorance for their own interests of self-promotion and power, have cancelled the progressive ambitions to give everyone the opportunity to know and understand things, and thus to become part of the "power", with a preaching that told and tells those people a deceptive and bankrupt shortcut: you do not need tools nor opportunities, you go well so. You are right, as a people, as yourselves. And if you fail, it is someone else’s fault, and you must be angry: do not understand. Populism cultivates the ignorance of people and uses them just as the aristocracy of the past did. And the oppressed of today - the "oppressed of conscience" - are the victims of lying information and mediocre cultural models, promoted by newspapers, books, television programs, music, influencers, or so on.
Again Fofi, in an article on the Unity of 2010, criticizing the indolence of progressive intellectuals.

"The gray area should be awakened and recovered to a left culture. But if this culture is dead and buried? All that remains is to wait for her to wake up alone, or for there to be small minorities who know how to turn to the less addicted and anesthetized within her. For example, to the youngest, and the «pedagogical project» of these few refractory and non-acceptant should be to snatch from the majority sleepwalking at least a part of their children and grandchildren. Obviously, thinking and studying, to propose an adequate idea of the world and the future, which means reconstructing a body of ideas of the left, which will happen only if you give up to please the mass and you will even agree to displease it for a long time. Indicating the true and the right, especially in Italy after thirty years of yields and corruptions of all kinds, will not be easy, and will not bring much «consent» for a long time."

This, even today, is a progressive thought and project: to work on the long to create informed, curious, aware people, who improve the world and the world improves them. And to create a society where individual ignorance is not rewarded to the detriment of communities. Thank goodness there are many who work there, without representation. To love them, to people, and to want their good. And to thin the basin of ignorance and lies instrumentally nourished by the worst winning of these years. It will take some time.

https://www.wittgenstein.it/2020/06/07/liberare-gli-oppressi/

What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/what-its-like-to-get-doxed-for-taking-a-bike-ride.html

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By the standards of the pandemic, Thursday had been a normal day for Peter Weinberg. A 49-year-old finance marketing executive, he worked from his home in Bethesda, Maryland, right outside of the District of Columbia, staying busy with Zoom meetings and the new rituals of our socially isolated world.

Then, around 10 p.m., he received an irate message on LinkedIn from someone he didn’t know. He brushed it off, thinking it was probably just spam. Then he got another. And another. The third message was particular strange, as it mentioned something about the cops coming to find him. Perplexed, he watched as the messages continued to pile up. They were all so similar: angry, threatening, accusatory. His profile views suddenly soared into the thousands.

He began to panic. He decided to check Twitter. Although...

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PLEASE NOTE THE SHARES

...The tweet accusing him was retweeted and liked more than half a million times.
... “If anyone can identify this man, please let me know,” he said, and nearly 50,000 people retweeted him
... 228 retweets.
... Her correction was shared by fewer than a dozen people.

video: Down from the Mont Blanc in ski along the serac of the Poire, the enterprise of Edmond Joyeusaz

La Repubblica

An extraordinary feat on the Brenva side of Mont Blanc. Completed a few weeks after the end of the lockdown. The mountain guide of Courmayeur Edmond Joyeusaz, born in 1958, extreme skier, made the ski descent of the serac of Poire. Last May 25 on the top of the White the temperature was around -15 i. The wind snow. La Poire is a rocky spur that is located just below the top of Mont Blanc and has the unmistakable shape of a pear. On the side of the Brenva are challenging the strongest mountaineers. Edmond decided to ski the seracco of Poire retracing the route opened in 1979 by the Piedmontese Gianni Comino and Giancarlo Grassi. Its route from the top of Mont Blanc descending to Mont Blanc de Courmayeur then evolves almost vertically between the Poire and the steep cliffs of the nearby Aiguille Blanche up to the glacier of Brenva for 1500 meters of altitude with gradients between 55 and 60 degrees. " Something exceptional, due to technical difficulties, exposure to dangers and overall height difference", said the historic mountain guide Renzino Cosson. In a video, also made with the help of drones, you can now admire the most exciting steps of this enterprise to the extent of possible

The INTERVIEW/ Edmond, on skis down the ice wall of White: "The hardest descent of my career" (in italian)

by Guido Andruetto


Video Grivel

La Repubblica

remarkable people: Fighting for the American Dream - Guy Kawasaki

https://guykawasaki.com/martha-nino/

There’s nothing to do with social networks - Luca Sofri - wittgenstein - ilpost.it

wittgenstein

Luca Sofri

ilpost.it

As several people have noted, the discussion as to whether Facebook and Twitter and Google should be considered ¿editori ¿. doesn’t make sense for a long time. The temptation of our heads to convert what is new to known models is normal and understandable, but it generates failures and contradictions: probably someone, when it came to regulating the traffic of the first cars, It was questioned whether they should be considered carriages or ships, before it was finally understood that they were neither carriages nor ships, and that they were also both.

"Platforms" are not publishers but they are not non-publishers either: they are very different from publishers as we are used to imagining them, but they are not neutral and intervene on the contents they host and their diffusion in many ways, just as publishers do . Censoring content for different reasons, encouraging others, and promoting with the notorious algorithms this compared to that, that is establishing in fact what we read and what we don't. The neutrality of social networks is a fake and Zuckerberg's phrase about "not being able to be arbiters of the truth" is a hypocrisy contradicted by the thousand Facebook announcements of recent years on this or that social network intervention against fake news (including enlist third-party “arbiters of truth”, chosen by Facebook, arbiter of truth arbiters).

Recognizing this power to Facebook or Twitter and its exercise in fact naturally generates a mountain of problems: of responsibility first of all, but above all of inconsistency, and weights and measures. The case of Twitter and Trump is interesting: the intervention on Trump wants to limit the spread of false information that generates a great danger for society in the course of its democratic mechanism. If we decide that Twitter doesn’t have to because it doesn’t decide what Twitter is fake, then why didn’t we protest when Twitter announced that it would report false news about the coronavirus? And if we decide that Twitter doesn’t have to because it doesn’t decide what’s dangerous on Twitter, then why don’t we protest when Twitter blocks or censors persecution and personal harassment?

I’m saying what’s right and what’s wrong in all this? Or is Twitter or Trump right? No, for one simple reason: that it is impossible to say. It has become impossible. The criteria of right and wrong, compared to the rules we were used to, have skipped, as far as the big online platforms are concerned. The simplest answer, for example, would be that Twitter and Facebook and Google are private enterprises and completely in their right ( except violations of the law, of course ( in making editorial or commercial choices: they are not a public service, we citizens do not pay taxes for a service of which we are defrauded, the choice whether to use or not to use them is free, the contractual conditions are known.

And yet.

And yet they have become an unavoidable service in fact, because they act in a monopoly regime, legal but blackmail. You can’t help it, in fact, because there are no alternatives. And, to make matters worse, they are monopolies that owe their success to their own monopoly condition. Many say that the problem would not exist if there were a hundred social networks to choose from: but there may not be a hundred social networks to choose from because the quality and effectiveness of a social network (or search engine) It is precisely because of its ability to be used by everyone and to collect the information of all: it is the nature of the social network, unlike an electricity supplier or I know that it can be competitive even only with the convenience and quality of supply. Even if I only use it.

The further nuances, the examples, the contradictions, the comparisons, can still be many, in a debate that is also compelling for the scenarios and questions that it poses, for a couple of decades. But the synthesis is only one: everything has been skipped, and these contradictions are no longer resolved with a thought and criteria of the twentieth century, and probably they are not resolved in any way, least of all with the ingenuous. No rule, precedent or comparison fits any more and they will always be all wrong and all right: and we hope that this does not extend to everything else.

https://www.wittgenstein.it/2020/05/30/non-ce-niente-da-fare-coi-social-network/

hypergrid

Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life (Kawasaki)

"Cover your ass when you're bending the rules."
Find out which rules I bent in #wiseguy!
https://t.co/sDYXrrgVPn pic.twitter.com/xDGtpaE3br

— Guy Kawasaki (@GuyKawasaki) March 30, 2019

https://www.amazon.com/Wise-Guy-Lessons-Life-Kawasaki/dp/0525538615/

Sabelli Fioretti's blog: Church and covid

Sabelli Fioretti's blog

6) from SALINA (as in 41bis) - 8 May 2020

As a child I attended Catholic Action (Azione Cattolica), I went to Mass every Sunday, I confessed and I took communion. Then, electrocuted on the road to Damascus, but in the opposite sense, I forgot everything, Church, religion, faith, priests, sacraments. Everything.

And I did well. I never regretted that choice. And even if I were to repent, the Church would promptly take the field to remind me not to make the mistake. Eight per thousand, tax evasion, ostentatious wealth, pedophilia, IOR, interference in politics. There has always been a great deal of reason to stay on this side of the Tiber. Every now and then there is a good pope, sometimes you meet healthy and just priests (I call them the pretacci). But in principle the Church remains an institution from which it is better to stay away.


It never disappoints us. Would you have imagined that the Church would oppose the rules of engagement with the coronavirus? Is it really so indispensable to go to mass endangering people’s health? Go! Everyone inside the churches to breathe poisonous bacilli. He says: all right but the host we take it with gloves! He says: but we will no longer exchange the sign of peace! He says: but we will respect the distances! And we will leave out those for whom there will be no room. I don’t believe in God. But if it does exist at this moment he is shaking his head murmuring to himself: But why did I create them so stupid?

https://www.sabellifioretti.it/?p=44219

That "distorted image" that Germany has of Italy

That "distorted image" that Germany has of Italy

According to Spiegel, it is wrong to think of the Belpaese spendthrift and indebted. Thomas Fricke, author of a long editorial, does not hesitate to speak of ¿all this German arrogance that - not only now, but especially now  is particularly tragic.


by Roberto Brunelli

AGI




Germany has a distorted and fatal image of Italy, an image that will eventually tear the European Union apart. Spiegel writes it today in a long editorial, which publishes it even at the opening of its site. A very harsh article towards the German political class: Thomas Fricke, who signs the piece, does not hesitate to talk about ¿all this German arrogance that - not only now, but especially now ¿¿s particularly tragic. It is.




And not only because the usual German whining has to do with the reality of Italian life as much as the sauerkraut has to do with German eating habits. According to Spiegel, the quarrel about the possible participation of Germans in Eurobonds is embarrassing It is preferable to fantasize about the fact that Italians should have saved before This explains the lack of zeal on the part of Germany in starting this week’s EU summit a historic rescue action.




And here is the sinking: Europe is in danger of sinking into the drama, not because the Italians are off track, but because of a predominant part of the German perception. And again: Perhaps it’s because of the many films on mafia" writes the German weekly ironically on the respective stereotypes between the two countries, maybe it’s just envy for the fact that Italy has the best climate, the best food, more sun and the sea .




According to Fricke, if the Italian State in a crisis like this ends up under pressure from the financial point of view, it depends ¿ whether it must depend on the Italians ¿ on the fact that the country has a share of old public debts, ie from the past times. Only that this has little to do with the reality of life today, but with a phase of derailment of the 80s, which in turn has to do with the interests suddenly splattered high.




The Spiegel also makes a historical comparison that is always very hot for Germany: If we Germans had not had so dear friends abroad that in 1953 we cleared a part of our debts, we would still be with a heavy burden in hand. And as it turns out when people have to continue to pay debts born historically, Germany proved it at the end of the First World War, when in the end the system was overthrown, as has been the case for years in Italy.




Moreover, the editorial of the weekly magazine recalls that for 30 years the Italian State has spent less for its citizens than it takes them, with the sole exception of the year of the world financial crisis 2009. That means record savings, not squandering. The newspaper also cites public investment cut by a third from 2010 to 2015" as well as reduced expenditure on education and public administration.




In short: "Dolce vita? Nonsense. Public investment since 2010 in Italy has fallen by 40%. A real collapse. This is the case in Germany, where public spending has grown by almost 20%, i.e., the State spends a quarter more per person than it spends in Italy. That in these weeks is painfully perceived.




A situation that with the current crisis of the coronavirus pandemic turns into an unbelievable drama, ""In Italy there were no beds and so many people died that today may still be alive. It’s not directly the fault of German politicians, of course. But it would be a good time to stop with crazy lessons, and to help clean up the causes of the disaster, dear Mr Schaeuble (former Minister of Finance in the hottest years of the Eurocrisis, ed.). Or to say



And instead, with absolute seriousness,

according to Spiegel, "the Italians' credit dependency is quite high. But here again, a small factual suggestion: private debts, commensurate with GDP, in almost no EU country are as low as in Italy.




Finally: It’s finally time to put an end to this drama, and maybe even with Eurobonds, as a symbol of the community of destiny that we are part of since we have a common currency, Fricke concludes. Again the Germans have time to straighten the curve after the past twisting weeks: otherwise the European Union in a few years will no longer be a union.




In Italy as in France, people will come to power who, as Donald Trump or Boris Johnson do now, have no desire to play the game: that game on which Germany has been building its well-being for decades.

https://www.agi.it/estero/news/2020-04-25/germania-giudizio-italia-spiegel-8430924/

https://t.co/XIT1a9bTCf

— Giovanni Fasanella (@GioFasanella) April 25, 2020

Grow Ginger

the shop ginger may have a substance to avoid sprouts to come out so it  might be better to get one from a seeds shop



https://www.epicgardening.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSbyncU597LMwb3HhnAI_4w

Now we need a sim with mask 😷

Now we need a sim with mask 😷 https://t.co/rckC5XcKNH

— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) March 31, 2020

MW20, the 24th annual MuseWeb conference

The @Museweb conference focuses on innovation in the cultural sector & will take place entirely online this year, with social sessions held in #SecondLife from March 31st to April 4th. For full details about the conference, visit https://t.co/yuZUiCH7bKhttps://t.co/j9nqPhQIOl pic.twitter.com/nOhcZqxniJ

— SecondLife (@SecondLife) March 31, 2020

https://mw20.museweb.net/

if you never saw it

a child asked me: 
"why parents envy singles, sometimes?"