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Elena IRL. Residente a Berlino. Nata nel '79. Non mi piacciono i fasci in tutte le iterazioni. Mi piacciono le persone che si fanno domande, rimangono curiose e hanno rispetto per il prossimo, senza eccezioni.
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Che nottataccia.
Ero stanca ieri sera e mi aspettavo una notte di buon sonno. Invece alle 22 mi arriva un'email dal tennis club che informa noi membri della morte (improvvisa, inattesa, troppo, troppo prematura) di quello che è stato il mio casual trainer negli ultimi due anni.
Dico casual trainer perché quello non era il suo mestiere, ma investiva tanto tempo nel club a giocare con altri membri, conoscere i nuovi e dare una mano come poteva.
La notizia mi ha parecchio disturbata e mi disturberà ancora per diverso tempo. Pensavo di scrivergli in questi giorni in vista dell'inizio della stagione open air per ritrovarci sul campo, invece mi trovo a leggere il suo in memoriam. 😭
Da un lato, la domanda ricorrente, inevitable: cos'è successo? Devo fare i conti col fatto che è ben possibile che non lo saprò mai. Posso solo sperare non abbia sofferto.
Dall'altro, il senso di ingiustizia: aveva solo 50 anni, compiuti a gennaio. Ha avuto una vita difficile e solitaria: non aveva più una famiglia, a parte una zia in Turchia. Non si è mai sposato, mai avuto figli. Oltre al tennis club e alla sua cerchia ristretta di amici non aveva nessuno.
A causa di un diabete diagnosticato troppo tardi, costatogli buona parte della vista, non lavorava ed era costretto a dipendere dall'assegno d'invalidità e dall'assistenza sociale. L'anno scorso aveva tribulato per mesi con l'orrenda burocrazia tedesca per vedere ripristinato ciò che gli spettava. Quanta rabbia mi ha fatto. 😮💨
Eppure, chissà, anche se il suo futuro lo preoccupava, la sua vita avrebbe ancora potuto svoltare, se solo ne avesse avuto il tempo. Che tristezza.
I suoi amici hanno avuto cura che le sue ceneri non venissero inumate dal comune di Berlino chissà dove, in assenza di parenti, ma che possa riposare insieme ai suoi genitori. Contribuirò alla spesa col cuore pesante.
Ho già incontrato la morte tante volte in vita mia, ma non diventa mai più facile farci i conti.
Come sarebbe che io e Ati non calcheremo mai più la terra rossa insieme? Che la nostra chat di WA rimarrà silente per sempre? Che non ci incroceremo mai più per caso al club?
WTF. Il vuoto si può quasi toccare, protende fuori dal petto.
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RIP Ati. Ja, ich versuche es weiter, locker zu bleiben, keine Sorge. 😉
Astronauts crying, me crying, you're crying too. 🤧
#artemis2 #nasa #LunarFlyby
Con un volontario porta a porta che saddio come je viene in mente di venire a citofonare in questa casa borghesissima scopro che c'è vita comunista a Novara (e, mi dicono, forse anche una sede a Berlino).
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Sharing this powerful, historical speech from former President of the German Federation Richard von Weizsäcker commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of WWII.
https://youtu.be/13pxvDk4PE8?si=e91rXJGAUZespFsy
Vielen lieben dank an @AwetTesfaiesus@mastodon.social fürs Teilen.
I could not find an Italian translation, so for now English will have to do.
My favorite excerpts:
Nobody will, because of that liberation, forget the grave suffering that only started for many people on 8 May. But we must not regard the end of the war as the cause of flight, expulsion and deprivation of freedom. The cause goes back to the start of the tyranny that brought about war. We must not separate 8 May 1945 from 30 January 1933.
Oh, does it sound prophetic today?
Perhaps the greatest burden was borne by the women of all nations. Their suffering, renunciation and silent strength are all too easily forgotten by history. Filled with fear, they worked, bore human
life and protected it. They mourned their fallen fathers and sons, husbands, brothers and friends. In the years of darkness, they ensured that the light of humanity was not extinguished. After the war, with no prospect of a secure future, women everywhere were the first to set about building homes again, the "rubble women" in Berlin and
elsewhere. When the men who had survived returned, women often had to take a back seat again. Because of the war, many women were left alone and spent their lives in solitude. Yet it is first and foremost thanks to the women that nations did not disintegrate spiritually on
account of the destruction, devastation, atrocities and inhumanity and that they gradually regained their foothold after the war.
Fuckin' PREACH! Why do I have to hear more progressive and acknowledging words from an old, white, German man in the 80ies than I hear today, even from way too many so-called progressives?! MORE OF THIS!
Hitler had never concealed this hatred
from the public, but made the entire nation a tool of it
Sounds true today again? Because it is, goddammit.
There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.
Yet here we are today, debating over the definition of genocide (or of child!), while looking away is literally impossible. Some of us will always be disgusting, some of us will always stick our heads in the sand in order to keep our lives undisturbed.
However, anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present. Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.
And here we are, running a high fever. We've denied the validity of the vaccine called "studying history and learning from it".
On 23 August 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact. The secret supplementary protocol made provision for the impending partition of Poland. That pact was made to give Hitler an opportunity to invade Poland. The Soviet leaders at the time were fully aware of this. And all who understood politics realized that the implications of the German-Soviet pact were Hitler's invasion of Poland and hence the Second World War.
Or: when madmen plainly tell you what shit they're going to do, fucking believe them and don't be an accomplice.
Time and again Hitler had declared that if the German nation was not capable of winning the war it should be left to perish.
Aspiring fascists todays don't give a fuck about anything by power, getting it, and keeping it. They don't give a fuck about the people they manipulate in order to grow consensus and grab that power. When (not if) shit hits the fan, the people are going to be sacrificed too.
Our aim is to seize the opportunity to draw a line under a long period of European history in which to every country peace seemed conceivable and safe only as a result of its own supremacy, and in which peace meant a
period of preparation for the next war.
And then the EU was born. It's not perfect, it's still but an infant, but can you even start to imagine what our collective European lives would be without it? We would likely still be bickering with each other and entangle in conflicts of all kinds. I want the EU to never forget its roots, dammit.
Transcending party differences, the democrats on the Council gave their answer to war and tyranny in Article 1 of our Constitution: “The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of any community, of peace and of justice in the world.” This further significance of 8 May should also be remembered today.
The Constitution is being shat upon by the current Government. Shame on it.
If we remember how people persecuted on grounds of race, religion and politics and threatened with certain death often stood before the closed borders with other countries, we shall not close the
door today on those who are genuinely persecuted and seek protection with us.
Like her or not, Angela Merkel was the last German leader to open the borders in the face of Syrian refugee crisis. I'll always respect her for that. Because of course "Wir schaffen das", Europe is RICH and has the means to help! Our citizens and refugees alike. Merz is pushing repatriations as a means to win the favour of AfD voters, go figure.
We seek friendship with the peoples of the Soviet Union.
Ah, that sweet, sweet perfume of warming relations towards the end of the Cold War. I literally cannot wait to smell this perfume again, once we are done with the current wave of fascist idiocracy.
We are confident that the 8th of May is not the last date in the common history of all Germans.
In just 4 years time, a new, significant common date would emerge: the 3rd of October, Tag der Wiedervereinigung, day of reunification of the two German states. Good things can come, and they do, with communal will and a widespread desire for peace! Hang in there, everyone! Don't shut up, ever!
Yet elsewhere (in the Book of Judges) it is described how often the memory of experienced assistance and rescue lasted only for 40 years. When that memory faded, tranquility was at an end. Forty years thus invariably constitute a significant time-span. Man perceives them as the end of a dark age bringing hope for a new and prosperous future, or as the onset of danger that the past might be forgotten and as a warning of the consequences. It is worth reflecting on both of these perceptions
We are now 81 years away from the end of WWII and 41 years apart from this speech. Two generations past the horror, one generation past the optimism spreading in the 80ies, and the cycle is trying to repeat itself. But we have broken it once, in choosing to merge in the EU instead of remaining completely separated and isolated countries, and this has given us security and prosperity. We can fucking do it again! Send the nazis worldwide back to their corner! Make it shameful to be one again! FUCK 'EM AWAY FROM THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE EVERYWHERE!
From our own history we learn what man is capable of. For that reason we
must not imagine that we are now quite different and have become better. There is no ultimately achievable moral perfection – for no individual and for no nation. We have learned as human beings, and as human beings we remain in danger. But we have the strength to overcome such danger again and again.
HELL YES we can!
Hitler's constant approach was to stir up prejudices, enmity and hatred. What is asked of young people today is this: do not let yourselves be forced into enmity and hatred of other people. (...) Learn to live together, not in opposition to each
other.
I feel we have stopped teaching this, at some point, if we ever even properly started. This is both an individual responsibility of parents, and a collective responsibility of nations through their educational systems. Children are a blank page to fill up with color, not with gothic black letters.
On this 8th of May, let us face up as well as we can to the truth
In a world swamped in lies and fabrications, truth still matters and ultimately prevails.
Full English text here: https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Reden/2015/02/150202-RvW-Rede-8-Mai-1985-englisch.pdf
#8mai #8mai1945 #TagDerBefreiung #8maggio #8maggio1945 #8may #8may1945 #history #storia #Liberazione
Del cliente soddisfatto non frega niente a nessuno da tempo. L'unico cliente buono è il cliente intrappolato.
Oooh, is this making the rounds?
This is where my tech comes from:
OS PC/Laptop: 🇮🇪
OS Smartphone: 🇺🇸
Browser: 🇺🇸 🇳🇴
Messaging: 🇺🇸
Microblogging: 🇩🇪
Office Software: 🇩🇪
Cloud: 🇩🇪
Payment Service: 🇺🇸 🇪🇺
Percentage of 🇺🇸: 40%
Created @ fingolas.eu/MyTech
Always aiming at lowering that US percentage. Can't wait for Wero to be broadly adopted, so I can ditch PayPal, for example.
RE: @Curia@curia.social-network.europa.eu
Buone notizie per il personale ATA! 🥳
#scuola
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Un errore scemo e un bronzo mancato. 🙈
Ogni tanto vado sulla copertura live della missione Artemis e origlio.
Gli astronauti sono appena andati a dormire, ma c'è un nuovo problema col WC di bordo: non possono scaricare il serbatoio dell'urina. Cesso d'emergenza fino a nuovo ordine.
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RE: @ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org
Generative LLMs deserve to be un-adopted en masse. Fucking hazard.
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Almeno il decennio l'ho beccato subito, dai.
#pastpuzzle ME/CFS Awareness
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Ne so più di musica che del resto?
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Sad trombone. 🎺
Senza un briciolo di vergogna proprio.
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Solo la decade, grrrr. 😮💨
Replying to
@AzureKingfisher @fesshole
Hah! Serves me well for not having watched it yet. Should be on YouTube now, though.
An easily impressionable Fesser still.
Replying to
@andersgeek
Other commenters have pointed out it being related to Garibaldi being a main character, which I didn't know. 😉
Replying to
@fesshole
You're going hungry because she's too enthralled with the show to cook?
Time to grow up, big boy!
Risolvetemi questo mistero!
Un colombaccio ha nidificato nell'albero di fronte al mio balcone. Ha covato per una settimana buona, forse anche 10 giorni. Era sempre lì, al massimo l'ho visto cambiare posizione nel nido.
Stamattina ha tubato un po', ha lasciato il nido e non è più tornato. Il nido è vuoto: niente uova, niente colombini. Anche sul marciapiede sottostante nessuna traccia di uova o uccellini caduti.
Come si spiega? Covava per finta? Gli hanno fottuto le uova?
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Già tanto arrivare in zona.
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Lo facevo più giovane.
Ma fallo un sogno flirt-erotico ogni tanto in cui ti trastulli un po' Daniel Craig (Bond era) e un po' Simon Baker (Mentalist era). 😂
Spassionato consiglio di visione: Paradise (2025).
Disponibile in streaming su Disney+ o ovunque altro ve la procuriate. 😉
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Si torna sul podio...
Replying to
@downey
I was asking myself this question exactly. Has any so-called AI been used at any point in any part of the whole mission?
If yes, where and how?
If not, has this been officially stated?
Replying to
@crouton @unlofl @pluralistic
The entire first season of Discovery resolves in the crew having to disable a branch of Starfleet's artificial intelligence having gone rogue and attemtping to destroy everything. The candor of imagining an actually intelligent AI!
RE: @gpspmagazin@mastodon.social
Gut so!
Replying to
@Knitronomicon
Looks like the perfect stash buster for a lot of my inherited sock yarn! Thank you for sharing. 😉
Replying to
@paneerakbari @crouton @unlofl @pluralistic
Shit, I had completely forgot about the mirror universe mess! Ok, then yes, S2.
(Still haven't watched 4 and 5)
Chuck Norris is dead, but you should see Death!
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@paneerakbari@mas.to
Lol, thanks. I have plenty beef with the writing in Disco already, watching those two seasons doesn't sit high on my to do list. 😆
If you have been tuning in to the Artemis II live coverage: is the lady giving out explainers there an AI voice? 🤔
No matter when I tune in, it's always the same voice. She can't possibly be there 24/7, especially 'cuz I'm in the EU, our timezones are not synched.
Her tone is always the same. Always.
BUT
She makes mistakes from time to time, and she breathes.
Is she AI or a real person?
NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)
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@paneerakbari @crouton @unlofl @pluralistic
I looked it up before posting, it was apparently S1, where the rogue AI was the menace the Red Angel was trying to warn about. S2 was the one with The Burn, right? Or was it 3? 🤔