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Desagua douro de pensa mentos.
Misty Eyed Adventures · Máire Brennan (in memoriam)
Gently reach the blossom Part the leaves and journey on Don't be afraid, seas are deep Stay close to me Picture ships full of treasures Stormy weather, warning clouds Don't be afraid, oceans are wide Feel our time is precious
+ That Demosthenes of the MAGA movement, Steve Bannon, has reversed
himself on the Iran war and is now, as Gen. David Petraeus said to his
lover/biographer, “all in:” “President Trump’s in. We’re in, too. We’re
gonna go back and re-do what Alexander the Great did 2,300 years ago.”
The image of Trump as Alexander is worthy of a cartoon by Gary Larson or
R. Crumb. Imagine the size of the crane necessary to hoist Trump’s
gargantuan girth onto the back of poor Bucephalus, the world’s most
famous war horse.
After Alexander’s army subdued Persepolis, the spiritual capital of
the Achaemenid Persian Empire for more than two centuries, he ordered
the ancient city annihilated, in a reenactment of the genocidal
destruction of Melos during the Peloponnesian War–a shocking act of
depravity that many of Alexander’s admirers in the manosophere of the
classical age, desperate to portray him as an enlightened despot, a
philosopher king, blamed on a woman, a courtesan named Thaīs. Thaîs, a
hetaira from Athens, was, along with Alexander’s childhood friend and
lover Hesphastion, the Macedonian warlord’s most intimate companion
during his rampages across Asia Minor and the Subcontinent. According
to the Greek historian Cleitarchus, a near contemporary of Alexander,
Thaīs instigated the destruction of Persepolis, claiming that she used
her erotic charms to seduce the young tyrant into burning the capital in
revenge for Xerxes’s destruction of Athens in 480 BCE, one hundred and
fifty years before Alexander’s army routed Darius and ended the
Achaemenid dynasty.
The historian Diodorus Siculus reprised Cleitarchus’ misogynistic
account in 80 BCE, at a time when Julius Caesar was beginning to view
himself as Alexander reincarnate: “It was most remarkable that the
impious act of Xerxes, king of the Persians, against the acropolis at
Athens should have been repaid in kind after many years by one woman, a
citizen of the land which had suffered it, and in sport.”
The truth is that Alexander almost certainly burned the city himself “in sport” and probably drunk, as was his violent custom.The
burning of Persepolis was less about revenge for past wrongs than a
brutal warning to other cities and empires that might resist against
Macedonian hegemony. Alexander and his father, Philip II, had burned
plenty of Greek cities in their conquest of Greece. Philip razed
Aristotle’s hometown of Stagira and Alexander demolished Thebes. Later,
the boy tyrant would burn and loot his way across the Levant, Palestine,
Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan and India. It’s what being a “world conqueror”
is all about, as the Romans showed when they destroyed Carthage in 146
BCE and, according to legend if not fact,sowed the ground with salt so that the Punic capital could never again rise to threaten the Empire.
I’ve always been drawn to the theory that Aristotle, one of the first
mycologists, arranged the assassination of Alexander of Macedon by
shipping poisonous mushrooms, with detailed instructions on how to
prepare them, to Babylon, after the great ethicist witnessed in horror
what a genocidal psychopath his former student had become, after the
burning of Persepolis and the murder in a drunken rage of his friend
Cleitus the Black, who had saved his life at the crucial Battle of
Granicus.
After Alexander’s death, Aristotle was chased out of the Lyceum by
Athenians, who were now free to vent their anger against anyone
associated with the heavy-handed hegemon from Pella. Apparently, the
Athenians were unimpressed by the claims that AlexanderThaīs incinerated
Persepolis on their behalf. and with good reason because the
Macedonians had, in fact, allied themselves with Xerxes during the
second Persian invasion and the sacking of Athens.(As
for Thais, she didn’t return to Athens, but instead married Alexander’s
leading general, Ptolemy, moved to Alexandria and gave birth to the
dynasty that would rule Egypt until Octavian and Marius defeated
Cleopatra and Marc Antony at Actium in 30 BCE.)
Saying he fled Athens to prevent Athenians from “sinning twice
against philosophy” (ie, killing him after having executed Socrates),
Aristotle spent the last year of his life on his mother’s old estate in
Chalcis, where he died at 67 of a mysterious stomach ailment in 322 BCE.
(Was he poisoned in retaliation for poisoning Alexander?)
The text of Aristotle’s remarkable will, which is clearer than any
written by an estate lawyer these days, was preserved by two Muslim
scholars (Al Garib and Ishaq bin Hunayn), who chose to record and
translate the last testament of the conqueror’s teacher. It’s highly
unlikely the Christians would have done the same. In fact, in 392,
Theophilius of Alexandria, a Bishop of the Christian Church, destroyed
the Serapeum and urged Christian mobs to ransack the last Neo-Platonist
school in the city and murder its leader, Hypatia, one of the first
(that we know of) female philosophers and mathematicians.
"Não é só, nem principalmente, o resultado da pesquisa. A gente vê que esse governo não empolga. Tem pouco que possa apresentar diante do eleitorado para pedir um novo mandato. Podemos atribuir a muitas circunstâncias externas, da situação mundial à herança do governo Bolsonaro e à correlação de forças interna. Mas seria preciso um eleitorado muito politizado para colocar tudo isso devidamente na equação. E esse eleitorado politizado pensaria também se não faltou vontade política para o enfrentamento de muitas destas questões – se, paralisado por sua política de frente desmesuradamente ampla, o governo não se acomodou ao quase nada que lhe era permitido fazer."
Art and culture have long enabled us to confront dispossession,
assert identity, and resist erasure by colonization and now genocide.
Cultural resistance emerged amidst pervasive repression, becoming
essential to our attempts to preserve and assert our narrative.
Comportamento errático de Trump reacende debate sobre sua saúde mental
"Em seu segundo mandato, Trump parece ainda menos contido e mais
incoerente às vezes. Ele usa mais palavrões, fala por mais tempo e
regularmente faz comentários com base em fantasia em vez de fatos. Ele
continua dizendo que seu pai nasceu na Alemanha quando, na verdade,
nasceu no Bronx, em Nova York. Ele repete uma história inventada sobre
seu tio, professor do Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts,
contando-lhe sobre ter ensinado o terrorista conhecido como Unabomber.
Ele divaga em tangentes estranhas —uma divagação de 8 minutos em uma
recepção de Natal sobre cobras venenosas no Peru, uma longa digressão
durante uma reunião de gabinete sobre canetas Sharpie, uma interrupção
de uma atualização sobre a guerra com o Irã para elogiar as cortinas da
Casa Branca.
Ele confundiu a Groenlândia com
a Islândia e mais de uma vez se gabou de ter encerrado uma guerra
fictícia entre Camboja e Armênia, dois países separados por quase 6.500
quilômetros.
Mesmo antes de atacar o papa Leão 14
no domingo à noite, e depois postar uma imagem de si mesmo como uma
figura semelhante a Jesus antes de deletá-la, Trump havia chocado muitos
com suas explosões contra críticos."
: Melania's "I Barely Knew Epstein" Presser Just Blew Up In Her Face
"Why the hell is she doing this right now? Nobody asked her. Nobody forced the issue. The Epstein noise had actually been dying down. Trump launched a war with Iran — critics allege partly to drown out the DOJ’s catastrophically inept release of the Epstein files — and the MAGA machine had, for a hot second, moved on. So why is the First Lady suddenly at the podium with the energy of someone who just checked their phone and did not like what they saw?
The answer, if you follow the thread, is a 41-year-old Brazilian woman currently sitting in Brazil — furious, freshly deported, with 23 years of receipts — who, the day before Melania’s presser, posted on social media that she was about to blow the entire thing up.
Her name is Amanda Ungaro. And before we get to her, we need to talk about the man who connects every single dot in this story. "
"Because he doesn’t have to sell it. Because he knows the cult will believe whatever the fuck he says. He knows it doesn’t matter that it’s ridiculous on its face. It doesn’t matter that no one on the planet is dumb enough to believe he thought that was a doctor. Nobody actually believes he looked at that image and thought “doctor.” No one. Not one person with a pulse and a partially functioning cerebrum. It doesn’t matter that a plastic houseplant wouldn’t buy it, that RFK Jr.’s dead brain worm would perform immediate seppuku rather than co-sign that level of stupidity."
Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force - Looking for the Perfect Beat (in memoriam)
Universal people, looking for the perfect beat
Mortal motivations, looking for the perfect beat
Mighty Zulu Nation, they have found the perfect beat
Afrika Bambaataa, I possess the perfect beat, beat, beat, beat
Time Zone (J. Lydon, Afrika Bambaataa & B. Laswell) - World Destruction (1984)
This is a world destruction, your life ain't nothing. The human race is becoming a disgrace. Countries are fighting with chemical warfare. Not giving a damn about the people who live.
"As animações com o uso de Lego viralizaram, especialmente no Tik Tok e no X.
Elas são atribuídas ao cartunista Mahdi Hemmat, que é de origem iraniana e vive nos Estados Unidos.
É uma produção sofisticada, que vem
acompanhada de versos em rap que descrevem Donald Trump como um mitômano
de dedos pequenos e gordurosos, a serviço de Benjamin Netanyahu."
History’s cattiest warmonger, Donald Trump, continues to
publicly dangle a US invasion of Cuba, the island nation that his
administration has been strangling to death with a brutal, months-long energy blockade.
“We may stop by Cuba after we’re finished with this,” Trump said Monday – meaning once his disastrous war in Iran actually ends.
It was an insane moment, as Trump stood next to a woman wearing a “DoorDash grandma” shirt for a corporate White House photo-op. (At the same event, Trump claimed he had only mistakenly committed blasphemy when he posted an image depicting himself as Jesus, because he thought it was “me as a doctor.”)
This isn’t the first time the president has threatened to invade Cuba. It’s not even the first time he’s made this threat during the US-Israeli war in Iran, which is throttling the global economy. “Cuba is going to be next,” Trump said two weeks ago.
It would be one thing if President Trump were only mouthing off for the cameras. He’s not.
In
recent days, according to two sources familiar with the situation and
another person briefed on it, officials at the Pentagon and elsewhere in
the US government were quietly given a new directive that came straight
from the Trump White House. The message: ramp up your preparations for
possible military operations against Cuba.
Over the course of two years, Israeli forces systematically destroyed
the Gaza Strip’s health system. Their attacks in Iran and Lebanon follow
a disturbingly similar pattern.
"Since the start of Operations Roaring Lion and Epic Fury, critics have charged that Israel is expanding its Gaza doctrine—a
combination of mass displacement, mass killing, and mass destruction of
civilian infrastructure—to other parts of the Middle East. (In some
sense this is a return of “the Dahiyeh doctrine,” named after the
neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs that the Israeli military
ruthlessly pummelled during the 2006 Lebanon War—only in Gaza the
destruction was not confined to a specific area and the people living
within it but became the military’s modus operandi throughout the
territory.) Israel, surprisingly or not, has embraced the accusation,
dropping leaflets on Beirut reminding the city’s residents of the
Israeli military’s “great success in Gaza.” One of the more pronounced
features of the Gaza doctrine—and of contemporary warfare more
generally—is turning life-saving medical sites like hospitals, health
clinics, and ambulances into targets: it was the “deliberate and
systematic dismantling of Gaza’s health and life-sustaining systems”
that Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) cited to argue that the
Israeli military’s conduct in the Strip met the legal definition of
genocide. The reports emerging out of Iran and Lebanon raise the deeply
troubling prospect that Israel hopes to replicate that “success” abroad."
Quem é Amanda Ungaro, a ex-modelo brasileira que acusa Trump e Melania no escândalo do caso Epstein?
O nome da ex-modelo brasileira Amanda Ungaro, de 41 anos, voltou a
movimentar as redes sociais neste sábado, quando foi ao X para fazeruma série de desabafos (e ameaças). Em resposta a um vídeo de Melania Trump em que ela negava ter relação com o criminoso sexualJeffrey Epstein,
Amanda afirma que esteve “ao redor” do casal Trump por 20 anos e que
vai tomar medidas legais contra Melania e “seu marido pedófilo”, o
presidente dos Estados UnidosDonald Trump.Mas quem é Amanda Ungaro ?
"Shakespeare
knew that rats instinctively leave a sinking ship. Yesterday, Melania
Trump made her move to quit the rotten carcass of her husband’s
presidency."
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock (in memoriam)
Everybody just rock it, don't stop it
You gotta rock it, don't stop
Keep tickin' and tockin', work it all around the clock
Everybody keep rockin' and clockin' and shockin' and rockin', go house
Everybody say, "Rock it, don't stop it!"
"Pra ninguém (por enquanto)" - Nila Branco (Alvin L) in memoriam
Ninguém pra ligar e dizer onde estou Ninguém pra ir comigo onde eu vou Por outro lado Ninguém pra abaixar o volume Ninguém pra reclamar dos pratos sujos Ninguém pra fingir que eu não amo
‘Her head was broken’: parents at Iranian school bombed by US describe their worst day
"Nothing prepared him for what he saw when he entered the gates. “Arya’s classroom had been completely destroyed – there was absolutely nothing left,” he says. “It was flattened to the ground.” This moment – the sight through the gate, the thick cloud of dust obscuring the blue sky – was the worst he endured. Then, Bahadori stepped to the ruins to look for his boy. Over and over, he and the men would grip a piece of rubble, heave it upwards together, look for a child underneath."
At last, David has landed a double punch on the tech Goliaths. Now to hit them even harder
"She describes how the company, able to track users’ activity on and off the platform, could see when, for example, girls aged between 13 and 17 deleted a selfie. Realising that signalled the girls’ dissatisfaction with their appearance, the company saw a way to monetise that unhappiness. For a fee, a cosmetics company could serve a beauty ad to those children at that very moment.
Facebook did not hide this behaviour; they boasted of it. Wynn-Williams reveals how Facebook made a presentation for an Australian client, bragging that its ability to monitor users’ online lives – their posts, their photos, their conversations with friends – enabled them to know exactly when teenage girls were feeling “worthless”, “insecure”, “stressed”, “defeated”, “anxious”, “stupid”, “useless” and “like a failure”. Those were optimal moments for selling."
"Creso, que entrou para a história como anedota, enviou um emissário para consultar o Oráculo de Delphos. O emissário perguntou se o rei deveria atravessar o rio e lançar-se à guerra contra os persas. A resposta do oráculo foi uma dessas obras-primas da ambiguidade: se Creso atravessasse o rio, destruiria um grande império. Satisfeito, o rei ouviu apenas a parte que agradava ao seu desejo, entendeu que destruiria a Pérsia. Atravessou o rio, iniciou a guerra e destruiu, de fato, um grande império: o seu."
A ascensão da extrema direita no mundo é filha das redes sociais —eis uma verdade que, se ainda não foi provada cientificamente, acredito que logo será.
Quando explodiu de vez, perto da virada do século, a internet vinha embalada em fumos humanistas de biblioteca universal e plataforma democrática de informação e voz para todos. Quem se lembra?
Era um progressismo vago que não negava a origem pós-hippie do Vale do Silício. Seu teor de ingenuidade era elevado. A internet permitia fazer coisas antes impensáveis, mas aquele otimismo inicial padecia de um grave viés do bem.
Cena do filme 'Hair' (1979), de Milos Forman, que aborda o movimento hippie e a Guerra do Vietnã - Reprodução
O sonho era que, tendo subitamente acesso imediato a toda a informação disponível na Terra, cada pessoa teria a chance de desenvolver ao máximo seu potencial humano e comunitário.
Os seres humanos se tornariam mais sábios e, devido ao debate permanente de suas sabedorias na ágora imaterial —sempre com a vitória do melhor argumento—, infinitamente ponderados na média.
Corta para o presidente dos EUA anunciando em rede social: "Uma civilização inteira morrerá esta noite". Opa, parece que alguma coisa deu errado, não? Convém voltar algumas casas.
Sim, é óbvio que a internet nunca foi um empreendimento humanitário —aquela era só uma das histórias que ela contava sobre si mesma. Nova fronteira de negócios basicamente privados, logo começava a bombar.
Ao lado da biblioteca e da sala de aula que os idealistas trataram de transferir para o mundo digital, transferiram-se também partes menos nobres e mais rentáveis do empreendimento humano.
Casal em frente à Biblioteca Central da Universidade Nacional Autônoma do México (Unam), uma das mais importantes do mundo - Francisco Cañedo - 27.fev.26/Xinhua
O submundo do crime e os exércitos de golpistas, as coberturas duplex do crime e os salões da jogatina, além de um tipo de lixo populista audiovisual que era uma mutação maligna da TV —tudo migrou junto.
Como o mundo propriamente dito —que agora era necessário qualificar de analógico—, o mundo que cada um de nós passou a habitar via tela sempre foi movido pela busca do lucro, que seria redundante qualificar de inescrupulosa.
A diferença é que, no digital, havia ainda mais recursos para explorar as fraquezas humanas que o crime sempre explorou —como o vício. Nossa própria existência online virou então uma sucessão de armadilhas para capturar atenção. Os produtos éramos nós.
As redes sociais redesenharam por completo o ambiente da informação, realizando a promessa de dar "voz" a todos, e adivinha —em vez de debates democráticos e médias ponderadas, vimos um pega pra capar.
Dedo no olho do inimigo, campanhas de ódio, cinismo rampante, terraplanismo, uma usina de desinformação política que nunca dorme. Sitiadas atrás de suas telas, deprimidas e absolutamente sós em sua interconexão digital plena, as pessoas estão vulneráveis.
Metade da humanidade parece ter hoje um fraco pelo caminho apontado pela extrema direita, essa mistura de "salve-se quem puder" com "farinha pouca, meu pirão primeiro" e "morte ao diferente" que de resto surpreende pouco em tempos tingidos de apocalipse.
Eu me pergunto se ainda vai dar para salvar alguma coisa daquele sonho de 2000, que afinal era bem bonito.
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