Bailey Alexander: Dreams from Northern Italy
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Meanwhile on Lake Garda
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Love him or hate him Berlusconi knew what the average Joe was thinking on the street (or Giuseppa)
Larger than life character outside of politics; immense success in media and sport. Think he was the longest running politician in Italy, could work a coalition. Could make a deal like no other and Laura Bush loved him – said he was the only leader who came to the White House and never asked for…
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Joan Didion and her wisdom
“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who…
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Gigi is in a constant state of mediation.
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AI offers the benefits of meditation
It’s my favorite time of day, actually, especially when I leave myself, when I let go – completely. When I then open my eyes and feel renewed, creative and ready to write. As we’re living in between stories, or perhaps some kind of simulation; I think I’ll ask chatgpt. What does AI have to say…
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Water levels back to normal
I took this video last June when the water levels were normal. Northern Italy then experienced our worst drought in 70 years last summer and it was brutally hot. This spring it continues to rain, if only for 5 minutes a day, but there was terrible flooding in the Emilia-Romagna region. That region gets my…
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Living in the middle of stories
Some say we’re living in the middle of stories, hence all the chaos. Everything feels upside down. Including this: Glenn Greenwald tweet: It’s not just that they’ve re-purposed the rainbow flag into the symbol for the US war machine: they’ve also managed to make the Ukraine Flag the central symbol of the Western liberal-left, so…
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Warnings against being a generalist have existed, but if Elon can; can’t be all bad.
If being a generalist was the path to mediocrity, why did the most comprehensive study of the most significant scientists in all of history uncover that 15 of the 20 were polymaths? Newton. Galileo. Aristotle. Kepler. Descartes. Huygens. Laplace. Faraday. Pasteur. Ptolemy. Hooke. Leibniz. Euler. Darwin. Maxwell — all polymaths. If being a generalist was so ineffective,…
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In June ’23 Apple started something big with this spatial computer.
It may look like a set of magic ski goggle, but it’s an ambitious project. The techies around me say it’s like the day Apple announced the iPhone. “At WWDC 2023, when Tim Cook announced that the Vision Pro was an AR headset rather than the expected VR headset, the live audience of developers and…
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Riva del Garda’s my Goldilocks home
Ciao tutti, weather’s nice and mild, just cycled over to my guy’s office to say hello, have a panini together – afterwards he took a photo. soft breeze through the trees, said ciao to Mariano, Claudio and Lorella, they said ciaociao, salve and buondi back…Renato is sad, he told me he lost his companion the…
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