Vivian Maier Centro Culturale Altinate #Padova

"That's a problem for me. You see, I wanna make my software freely available to everyone in the world except those guys specifically. That very particular bunch of autocratic corpo-states are actively destroying the world I'm trying to pro-socially enrich as a commoner."

"Directly or indirectly, sex and money are always linked in women’s lives, a remnant of our long history of oppression" lithub.com/so-do-women-...

“Ognuno rispetta la morte a suo modo. Per me si tratta di ridare una seconda vita; così, è come onorare la bellezza della Natura” www.iltascabile.com/scienze/fine...

"Tutto il mondo è in un metro quadrato, basta saperlo godere" www.ilpost.it/2025/11/12/b...

I serendipitously stumble upon a new article on Carolingian border controls, by Marco Franzoni. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

"Se l’Europa è ormai diventata una terra di consumo e compiacenza in cui il capitalismo verde ha sostituito la lotta per la coscienza, le società rurali prendono in mano il timone della narrazione del proprio passato e possono ridefinirne il significato" www.iconografie.it/tempolinea/l...

Paul Thomas Anderson (2025), One Battle After Another www.youtube.com/watch?v=feOQ...

My review of Chris Wickham's ‘The Donkey and the Boat’ has been published in the Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken scientific journal @dhiroma.bsky.social You can read it in #openaccess here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

An ongoing series collecting all known appearances of “narrative string theory” (string walls, walls and floors littered with paperwork by obsessives, etc.): www.vaultofculture.com/nst

Anna Negri (2025), Toni, mio padre youtu.be/TOjbzTAapSM?...

👉 The fourth volume of PRIN2017, ‘Ruling in Hard Times’, has been published by Firenze University Press! This means that you can read my essay on the Lombard aristocracy of Benevento and many more free and #openaccess 🌶️ books.fupress.com/catalogue/ar... #medievalsky

“He’d been round the system so many times. Any support he got was never strong enough to spark a change” www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Remains. Sheikh Radwan Neighborhood, North of Gaza City, 6 Nov 2025. Shots by Suhail Nassar.

Tomorrow I will be at the #Pisa for the conference "Writing the Structures of Landholding in a Changing Italy (5th–8th century)" to present a paper on the transmission of household objects by women in medieval southern Italy. Check the Lexiconomy project here: tinyurl.com/4cws95ch #medievalsky

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Just went over to X bc someone sent a link…why are people still posting over there?? It looks horrible. Like a basement full of teenage boys

the opening of #radicchio season: #Veneto #Padova

Tomorrow I will be at the #Pisa for the conference "Writing the Structures of Landholding in a Changing Italy (5th–8th century)" to present a paper on the transmission of household objects by women in medieval southern Italy. Check the Lexiconomy project here: tinyurl.com/4cws95ch #medievalsky

"These days, we’re surrounded by men who hijack first and think later; who want to “move fast and break things”; who feel entitled to take what they want, when they want it, and expect to get away with it; who think they’re much, much smarter than they are" lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...

a dose of my mother’s gnocchi al ragù.

Interested in pursuing a #PhD in #History in a uniquely multicultural environment? 📣 Applications for our fully-funded PhD programme are now open 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc ⏰ Apply by 15 January 2026 Want to know more? Meet us on our: 🌐Virtual Open Day - 2 December 2025 👉 loom.ly/sp5lOKM 🎓 #academicsky

In passport line in Prague remembering my best experience in US: Agent: why are you here? I’m a Professor, giving a talk. What’s you subject? Political Philosophy. My favourite!! Really?? No. I say that to all the Professors.

siccome ho finito #Cerno, ho iniziato questo podcast intitolato #Poveraccia e parla comunque di cazzo di privilegiati che vengono a spiegarti i soldi. podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/p...

Robert Eggers (2024), Nosferatu www.youtube.com/watch?v=nulv...

If you see this, post an album cover with a vehicle on it.

"After just eight issues Piedra Rodante, the Mexican version of America’s Rolling Stone magazine, was spiked by government decree" flashbak.com/piedra-rodan...

one of the copies of the letter of sanctification of Saint Anthony of Padua (or was it #Lisbon?) (1232) #medievalsky Archivio di Stato di Padova / #Arqus / University of #Padova - University of #Wrocław

As we remember the discover of the double helix, it is worthwhile to read nature‘s article on Rosalind Franklin www.nature.com/articles/d41...

the appointment of a palatine count by Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg (1502) Archivio di Stato di Padova / #Arqus / University of #Padova - University of #Wrocław

🚣‍♂️ My episode of #Fluere #podcast is finally out! "Traditional boats have shaped the lives of coastal and lagoon communities for centuries, defining cultures and identities. What is their role today, in a rapidly changing world?" 👉 Listen to it here:: vivaidissgea.unipd.it/podcast/ep-0...

one of the very few Jacopo da Carrara’s grants that survived the 15th-century fire of the Signoria archives in the Palazzo della Ragione #Padova #medievalsky Archivio di Stato di Padova / #Arqus / University of #Padova - University of #Wrocław

"Until a year ago, only 2–3% of submissions were ultimately rejected by moderators, says Steinn Sigurðsson, an astrophysicist at Penn State University in University Park who is arXiv’s scientific director. But in the last year, that number has gone up to 10%."

Nicolaus Copernicus at Padova #sciencehistory Archivio di Stato di Padova / #Arqus / University of #Padova - University of #Wrocław

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🚣‍♂️ My episode of #Fluere #podcast is finally out! "Traditional boats have shaped the lives of coastal and lagoon communities for centuries, defining cultures and identities. What is their role today, in a rapidly changing world?" 👉 Listen to it here:: vivaidissgea.unipd.it/podcast/ep-0...

Quelli che per Giorgetti sono il “ceto medio” che il governo vuol favorire, per la Banca d’Italia (numeri alla mano) sono il 20% più ricco del paese.

this is me looking at a register from the Padova city Commune serie as if it were a lasagne dish in the archive restoration laboratory. Archivio di Stato di Padova / #Arqus / University of #Padova - University of #Wrocław

Traces of Polish students at the University of Padua Archivio di Stato di Padova / #Arqus / University of #Padova - University of #Wrocław

“Withdrawal, by contrast, is survivalism—an ethic that, in the name of not repeating mistakes, declines to attempt anything ambitious at all” mikhailminakov.substack.com/p/beyond-sur...

Vivian Maier Centro Culturale Altinate #Padova

“This New Right is a sustained intellectual project designed to harvest the ideological resources of dissident strands of fascism with the goal of building a new fascist-adjacent politics suitable to achieving electoral success in democratic settings” www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ge...

Vivian Maier Centro Culturale Altinate #Padova

“In his victory speech, he signalled moderation, appealing to non-Peronist third parties and insisting that “a great Argentina is for everyone.” Soon, he will have to prove it” unherd.com/newsroom/sur...

"Quello che il pubblico di Aldini scambiava per rianimazione era una sinfonia di impulsi senza orchestra, un corpo che si muove come una marionetta tirata dai fili elettrici di uno scienziato showman" appuntamentoconlamorte.substack.com/p/56-folgora...

Vivian Maier Centro Culturale Altinate #Padova

There’s a severe misunderstanding around “agents” today. First, by those who see the garbage technology as having a future. Second, by those failing to apprehend that the completely-fabricated push for “agents” is the last roll of the dice of an AI cycle that’s produced zero tractable products.