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O Conto do Pintor - Macalé (Moreira da Silva)

Pintei um quadro só por fora das molduras
Eu joguei tinta nas paredes, todo mundo achou legal
Dei cambalhotas e as madames exclamaram
Esse Macau é um artista genial!

E eu que não pintava nem nos muros da Central!

Ontem | Yesterday

 

At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

 

 

 

 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts.

By Michael Crowley and Hamed Aleaziz

 Secretary of State Marco Rubio waded into the surprisingly fraught politics of typefaces on Tuesday with an order halting the State Department’s official use of Calibri, reversing a 2023 Biden-era directive that Mr. Rubio called a “wasteful” sop to diversity.

While mostly framed as a matter of clarity and formality in presentation, Mr. Rubio’s directive to all diplomatic posts around the world blamed “radical” diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility programs for what he said was a misguided and ineffective switch from the serif typeface Times New Roman to sans serif Calibri in official department paperwork.

In an “Action Request” memo obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Rubio said that switching back to the use of Times New Roman would “restore decorum and professionalism to the department’s written work.” Calibri is “informal” when compared to serif typefaces like Times New Roman, the order said, and “clashes” with the department’s official letterhead.

A State Department official confirmed the document’s authenticity.

Mr. Rubio’s directive, under the subject line “Return to Tradition: Times New Roman 14-Point Font Required for All Department Paper,” served as the latest attempt by the Trump administration to stamp out remnants of diversity initiatives across the federal government.

Then-Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken ordered the 2023 typeface shift on the recommendation of the State Department’s office of diversity and inclusion, which Mr. Rubio has since abolished. The change was meant to improve accessibility for readers with disabilities, such as low vision and dyslexia, and people who use assistive technologies, such as screen readers.

Calibri, sometimes described as soft and modern, is typically considered more accessible for people with reading challenges thanks to its simpler shapes and wider spacing, which make its letters easier to distinguish. Mr. Blinken’s move was applauded by accessibility advocates.

But Mr. Rubio’s order rejected the grounds for the switch. The change, he allowed, “was not among the department’s most illegal, immoral, radical or wasteful instances of D.E.I.A.,” the acronym for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. But Mr. Rubio called it a failure by its own standards, saying that “accessibility-based document remediation cases” at the department had not declined.

“Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence,” Mr. Rubio said. He noted that Times New Roman had been the department’s official typeface for nearly 20 years until the 2023 change. (Before 2004, the State Department used Courier New.)

Echoing President Trump’s call for classical style in federal architecture, Mr. Rubio’s order cited the origins of serif typefaces in Roman antiquity. Those typefaces, which are used by The New York Times, include small strokes at the edges of many characters.

Admirers say those flourishes make letters look more elegant and make them easier to distinguish from one another, even though they can also create a sense of clutter.

Serif typefaces are “generally perceived to connote tradition, formality and ceremony,” Mr. Rubio’s order said, adding that they were used by the White House, Supreme Court and other state and federal government entities, as well as in the script on the side of Air Force One.

Many diplomats are unhappy with changes Mr. Rubio has made to the department’s structure and leadership, and have reported badly damaged morale within their ranks. But the Biden administration’s move to Calibri prompted some grumbling from some traditionalists who preferred Times New Roman. Mr. Blinken also changed the standard font size, from 14-point to 15-point, requiring extra keystrokes that some diplomats found annoying.

THE NEW YORK TIMES 

 

 

 

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Quentin Tarantino needs to stop criticising films and start making them again

Trolling wokesters, disparaging Paul Thomas Anderson, insulting Paul Dano … the controversial director plays to type with his list of the top 20 best films of the 21st century

by PETER BRADSHAW

Quentin Tarantino needs to stop criticising films and start making them again | Quentin Tarantino | The Guardian

Miriam Makeba - For What It's Worth (Stephen Stills)

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Are getting so much resistance from behind

impasse

 

Wilson Pickett - In The Midnight Hour (1965)

IN MEMORIAM STEVE CROPPER

I'm gonna wait 'til the midnight hour
That's when my love comes tumbling down
I'm gonna wait 'til the midnight hour
When there's no one else around

(Pickett-Cropper)

 

Meu Amor Me Agarra & Geme & Treme & Chora & Mata = Macalé (in memoriam)

Meu amor é um tigre de papel
Range, ruge, morde, mas não passa
De um tigre de papel

A árvore de natal comunitária de Paquetá

 

Lembra quando o Rio de Janeiro só tinha coisas boas?

MIGUEL PAIVA 

 

 

Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever

 

 

 "So New York was filled with misfits, people who weren’t accepted — including myself and Robert Mapplethorpe and Jackie Curtis. There are so many, many of them dead — so many gifted people, so many tragic people, at the same time.

In terms of what brought us together, I think it started with music. We were all listening to the same music — whether it was “Sgt. Pepper” or Bob Dylan or Neil Young or Janis Joplin, whatever. We were all — or most of us were — against the Vietnam War. All, of course, for civil rights, human rights, gay rights, women’s rights. We were young and conscious that these were rights that we all believed in. There was a kinship. So it was a very unique period.

But I don’t like painting things like it was the best era ever, so that young people in future generations feel like they missed out. Because that’s not fair. Being alive in present tense is the greatest thing you have."

read conversation with PATTI SMITH - conducted by EZRA KLEIN  

Augusto Malta & Alice Cooper

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Trump L’œil: The White House Ballroom, MAGA Aesthetics, and the Meanings of Trump’s Newest Building Project

 

 "The ballroom is, among other things, another insight into Trump’s wretched, spray-tanned psyche. If Louis XIV built a literal Hall of Mirrors, Trump is erecting a Freudian version.

Donald Trump has never been all that adept at masking his insecurities. His bravado, narcissism, and cruelty have always told the story of a grasping, needy outsider who remains far more famous for playing a successful businessman on tv than for any real executive prowess.

Donald Trump’s entire career has been one of trying to project the man he wants us all to think he is while never being able to conceal the weak, uncultured bully he’s always been. "

read analysis by ALAN ELROD  

Trump L’œil: The White House Ballroom, MAGA Aesthetics, and the Meanings of Trump’s Newest Building Project

Wilson das Neves | Brasão de Orfeu | Resto de Dor

A o amor ficou tão triste quando se acabou
E no meu peito existe um resto dessa dor
Que insiste em residir dentro do meu olhar
Tem um rastro de um desgosto que a saudade traz
Na lágrima do rosto que não se desfaz
Num gosto mais amargo que o sal do mar

Questões jornalisticas: Os vivos e os mortos

 

 

 

Uma leitura das escolhas da grande imprensa na cobertura do massacre no Complexo do Alemão

 "A adesão popular à violência praticada pelos agentes do Estado não é uma novidade, pelo contrário. Pesquisas feitas na época do massacre do Carandiru também registravam apoio significativo à truculência policial. A novidade, ao que parece, está no uso que se faz das pesquisas. Elas hoje servem não apenas para medir os humores do cidadão, mas para legitimar a barbárie e desresponsabilizar o jornalismo de suas omissões. Na segunda-feira, 3 de novembro, a manchete do jornal O Globo foi: “72% apoiam medida que enquadra facções como terroristas.”

LEIA ANALISE DE FERNANDO BARROS E SILVA  

Matamos muito !

NANDO MOTTA

 

 

 

 

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Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood (Floyd-Cropper)

It's like thunder, lightning
The way you love me is frightening
I'd better knock on wood, baby

IN MEMORIAM STEVE CROPPER