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Imagine if Elon's $500 million had been spent on education or healthcare. Or the arts. Anything.
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In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump and his family have lost surprise elections, thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.
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Anne Carson was denied tenure at Princeton when she was 36 years old. Today, 40 years later, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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Há 31 anos, Alcindo Monteiro, um jovem com ascendência cabo-verdiana saiu de casa para ir dançar no Bairro Alto e acabou espancado até à morte na Rua Garrett, na noite de 10 de Junho de 1995, Dia de Portugal, por nacionalistas de extrema-direita. O jovem não foi o único agredido nessa noite, mas foi a única vítima mortal deste crime de ódio racial.
Recorde a história e as manifestações pela memória de Alcindo Monteiro numa reportagem do PÚBLICO de 2023: publico.pt/2052903
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Fitzcarraldo – inside the chicest publisher on earth ft.trib.al/u4wRbwN
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Ten minutes before the World Trade Center’s south tower fell, a colleague saw Rick Rescorla running back into the building’s stairwell. The colleague told Rescorla to flee. “I will as soon as I make sure everyone else is out,” he said. Not long before, he had placed a call to his wife. “Stop crying,” Rescorla said. “I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I’ve never been happier. You made my life.” Tap the link in our bio to read about the Vietnam veteran who saved hundreds of lives on September 11th, and died trying to save more. “For Rick Rescorla, this was a natural death,” his best friend said—a hero’s end.
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This is one of the most wonderful and sad things I've ever read. I remember absolutely sobbing on the bus the first time I finished it. Rick Rescorla was an amazing man. newyorker.com/magazine/2002/…
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'The big companies are racing to make it more and more intelligent and that makes agents more and more powerful with no idea of how they can control these agents.' Nobel Prize-Winning Computer Scientist Geoffrey Hinton talks with @jaketapper about the new dire warning from a top AI researcher that the technology could 'kill us all' by the end of the decade.
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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, famous for covering her colorful installation designs with polka dots, has died at 97. cnn.it/4gtNtBe
wow, what an ending
This is going to be a tough one for me. I have been dreading this day for the last decade.
As some of you know, I have been a fan of Dolly from way back, and not the type to say “Jolene” is my favorite song (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
Her entire song catalogue has comforted me, brought me joy, and guided me throughout my life. In the coming days, I will share some of my favorites.
But first, one of Dolly’s best is embedded in a video in this post: “The Bridge.”
It was released when Dolly was 22, but she wrote it when she was a teenager.
One of the things I always loved about Dolly was that she had this incredibly bubbly personality, but she contained an extraordinary amount of depth, heartache, and heartbreak.
“The Bridge” is one of the greatest examples of that. It is beautiful and devastating, and the way she ends it is remarkable.
On the surface, it starts out as an old-fashioned country love song, then shifts into an old-fashioned country tragedy.
That is the Dolly I hope people who didn’t know much about her music spend some time discovering now.
Not just the icon and the glamour, but one of the greatest American songwriters to ever live.
A woman whose catalogue contains some of the most heartbreaking, compassionate, and beautifully written songs you will ever hear.
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Dolly Parton: My daddy told me that the Imagination Library probably was the most important thing I'd ever done. Inspiring kids to love to read became my mission. In the beginning my hope was simply to inspire the children in my home county, but here we are today with a worldwide program that gives a book a month to over a million children.
