There's a quote I recently read in a couple of articles in various newspapers. It was written by a fairly well-known television personality, in response to a dig he received from a colleague. The quote goes something like this: "I've never feared anything or anyone. I'll carry on with my ideas, whether they're right or wrong, and I'll never give up…"
When Luca, the mastermind behind The Ancient Mariners, suggested that everyone choose an Iron Maiden song to start building their repertoire, I automatically started humming it: 'From the coast of gold, across the seven seas…' Wasted Years, my favorite Iron Maiden song, my anthem…
Last Monday, thanks to a car service and a day off work that almost by chance fell into place, I found myself in Mirano for the weekly market—a leap into the past that took me straight back to the Wednesdays in Abano, when as a child I accompanied my mother or grandmother in that pagan rite that was much more than just…
Nguyet records a violin riff at 3 AM in Hanoi. He sends it via chat. Michal opens it at 10 PM in Rotterdam and throws on a synth that sounds like something out of Blade Runner. Michiko listens to it the next morning in Tokyo and thinks, "This needs some killer drums." In Italy, I get...
You don't have to be what you want, you have to become what you are.
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My blondie, my white MacBook from 2006, is dying. But for its 20th anniversary, I'm restoring it. A love affair with the technology that made us free.
While we celebrate life with primroses, 473 million children live under bombs. Today, we don't need rhetoric; we need open eyes. An analysis of the real data for 2026, between the economic hypocrisy of GDP that discards the "little ones" and the necessary resistance of tenderness.
We feel like giants, then the universe reminds us we're microbes. An ironic and melancholic reflection on the delusions of human omnipotence and the beauty of feeling small.
The parallel between the Nazi SA and the ICE of 2026 lies in the transformation of a security force into a political instrument of purge. Upon closer inspection, both organizations share the "bureaucratization of violence": the use of special laws to normalize acts that, in peacetime, would be considered crimes against humanity.
My progressive digital detox experiment lasted 153 days, during which I confirmed one thing: social networks are no longer public squares. They are algorithmic slaughterhouses where we are bred to be commodities (or monsters).
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