C’è troppa Gaza su TikTok: per questo lo oscurano

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Gli studenti di centinaia di università nel mondo occidentale chiedono una sola cosa: la fine dello sterminio a Gaza. Le immagini che arrivano dalla Palestina passano con difficoltà nei media tradizionali, ma straripano nei social media ormai accessibili in tutto il mondo in tempo reale. Il vettore di questa diffusione è lo smartphone. Come spiega Juan Carlos De Martin nel suo bel libro Contro lo smartphone – Per una tecnologia più democratica (ADD editore), mai prima d’ora un’innovazione tecnologica aveva raggiunto una portata così vasta così velocemente, diventando indispensabile per le attività quotidiane.

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There is too much Gaza on TikTok: that’s why they shut it down

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Students from hundreds of universities in the Western world are demanding one thing: an end to the massacre in Gaza. The images coming from Palestine face difficulties in traditional media but overflow on social media platforms accessible worldwide in real-time. The vector of this dissemination is the smartphone. As Juan Carlos De Martin explains in his insightful book “Against the Smartphone – Towards a more democratic technology” (ADD Publisher), never before has a technological innovation reached such a vast scale so rapidly, becoming indispensable for daily activities.

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The Economy is Real: This is How China Wins

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THE DOUBLE MISTAKE OF EUROPE – Relying on the neoliberal creed, believing it would guarantee supremacy and lasting prosperity, and giving up the role of being a bridge between the United States and the emerging world.

In their recent trip to Beijing, both German Chancellor Scholz and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reproached Xi Jinping for China’s alleged overinvestment in sectors such as electric vehicles, solar panels, and batteries, well beyond the capacity of its domestic market, in order to flood global markets with more competitive goods. They both stated that they will not accept their industries being cornered simply because Chinese products enjoy lower production costs.

According to the Chinese, these claims are unfounded. They argue that China’s rise in these sectors has been driven, among other factors, by innovation and supply chains that have made the Chinese production system more competitive. The trade war between Western countries and China seems to be escalating every day, laying the groundwork for a military confrontation in line with the well-known saying by Von Clausewitz that war is the continuation of politics by other means.

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Rotation curves of the Milky Way and of external galaxies and a new mass model

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Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics
of the Academy of Athens 
Webinar: TUESDAY 9 April 2024, 12:00 local time (UTC+3)
Rotation curves of the Milky Way and of external galaxies and a new mass model
Francesco Sylos Labini
Enrico Fermi Research Center, Rome, Italy
Abstract:
  
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If you want peace, you don’t prepare for war, but for negotiations.

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According to an ancient aphorism attributed to Aeschylus, “in war, truth is the first casualty”: nothing could be truer as we have experienced in the last two years, during which the falsehoods propagated by politicians and mainstream media are countless. If reality can be distorted to convince the public of the righteousness of certain political choices—a phenomenon to which we have become accustomed—the problem becomes dramatic and dangerous when the ruling class loses all connection with the facts and becomes a victim of its own self-delusion.

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Vuoi la pace? Non prepari la guerra, ma i negoziati

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Secondo un antico aforisma attribuito a Eschilo, “in guerra, la verità è la prima vittima”: niente di più vero come abbiamo sperimentato negli ultimi due anni in cui le frottole all’unisono di politici e media mainstream non si contano. Se la realtà può essere distorta per convincere l’opinione pubblica della bontà di certe scelte politiche – un fenomeno a cui ormai siamo assuefatti – il problema diventa drammatico e pericoloso quando la classe dirigente perde ogni collegamento con i fatti e rimane vittima del proprio autoconvincimento.

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