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☆ Opinion: Why Britain is so weirded out by pledging allegiance to Charles
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Opinion Laura Beers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

In a break with tradition, the public will be invited to pledge allegiance to King Charles III during the coronation ceremony on Saturday May 6. While many Brits I’ve spoken to are simply indifferent to the proposed pledge, there has also been an unprecedent degree of public vitriol over the scheme. Yet, objections to the proposed pledge are as much about its content as its form. The proposed coronation pledge, in contrast, invites Britons to pledge their loyalty to the King, and to his “heirs and successors” – a positively undemocratic pronouncement. That complexity cannot simply be smoothed away by inviting people to pledge allegiance to the crown.

Disney sued DeSantis on Wednesday to block a state law that created an oversight board that Disney said will interfere with billions of dollars of planned development. Disney alleges a law that imposed an oversight board was punishment for voicing opposition to DeSantis' classroom instruction law known as the Parental Rights in Education Act. The gender-education statute, derided by critics as the "Don't Say Gay" law, survived challenges in federal court before a different judge. Free speech has been central to several rulings by Walker against DeSantis, although the judge has also at times sided with the governor. Walker said Florida had become a place where the First Amendment allowed, rather than prevented, the state to limit speech.

☆ Opinion | Hong Kong’s Memory Is Being Erased
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Louisa Lim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In Hong Kong the silence has set in much more quickly. I worked in Hong Kong’s once-cacophonous newsrooms and covered its boisterous protest rallies. Now most Hong Kong journalists I know have fallen silent. After a draconian national security law was imposed on Hong Kong in 2020, at least 12 news outlets closed down, including the popular, pro-democracy Apple Daily. History is identity, and to challenge this foundational tenet of Hong Kongers’ experience is to assault their identity.

☆ I watched Ben Affleck's new 'Air' movie with 72 Nike veterans. Here's what they said the movie got right and what it got wrong about the race to sign Michael Jordan.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The movie also shows how early Nike employees didn't hesitate to break rules. The scene sums up what's right, and what's wrong, with the movie, according to former and current Nike employees. It shows early Nike employees didn't hesitate to take risks. Nike veterans said the movie captures the company's willingness to take risks, especially early executives like Phil Knight, played by director Ben Affleck. Affleck, who also played Knight in the movie, nailed the story's arc, by all accounts.

☆ I went to see Ben Affleck's new "Air" movie with some Nike veterans. Here's what they said the movie got right and what it got wrong about the race to sign Michael Jordan.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

☆ Ron DeSantis just notched a win in court. But the judge says he still violated a prosecutor’s free speech rights.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Marc Caputo | Marc Caputo Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +15 min

In a statement posted on Twitter, DeSantis' office lauded the ruling without addressing those nuances. By suspending Warren, DeSantis also elevated the Democrat’s political profile in his own party. And no one in Hillsborough County was charged with violating that state law when Warren was the county prosecutor. Court testimony from DeSantis administration officials showed that the abortion letter was the major cause of Warren's suspension. Abortion was the only issue mentioned in the first draft of DeSantis' suspension order.

☆ Fact Check-Altered Fox News post attributes quote from the novel Animal Farm to Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A Fox News social media post has been digitally altered to falsely attribute a quote from the George Orwell’s Animal Farm to billionaire and Twitter CEO Elon Musk. While the Orwell quote appears superimposed on other text, some appeared to believe it was attributed to Musk, with one user commenting, “So he’s resorted to plagiarizing George Orwell now? !”The quote on Fox News’s original, unaltered Facebook post contains an authentic tweet by Elon Musk that instead reads, “Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not” (here), (here). A Fox News spokesperson told Reuters via email that the image is fake with an altered quote. An Elon Musk quote on a Fox News social media post was changed to include an inauthentic quote.

☆ Orwell's novel of repression '1984' tops Russian bestseller lists
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Kevin Liffey | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

LONDON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984", set in an imagined future where totalitarian rulers deprive their citizens of all agency in order to maintain support for senseless wars, has topped electronic bestseller lists in Russia. The novel is the most popular fiction download of 2022 on the platform of the Russian online bookseller LitRes, and the second most popular download in any category, the state news agency Tass reported on Tuesday. And last month the Kremlin's spokesman said there had been no attacks on civilian targets, despite wave after wave of bombardment of Ukrainian power facilities that have left millions without heat or light in the depths of winter. However, the Russian translator of a brand new edition of "1984" sees the parallels to Orwell's novel elsewhere. Reporting by Kevin Liffey; editing by Pritha SarkarOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ China's 'social credit' system ranks citizens and punishes them with throttled internet speeds and flight bans if the Communist Party deems them untrustworthy
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Katie Canales | Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Since China doesn't have a central social credit system, many local government agencies have been experimenting with what the system could look like. But the plan is for the social credit system to eventually be mandatory and unified across the nation, with each person given their own unique code used to measure their social credit score in real-time, per Wired. In fact, a national social credit system is currently being proposed. Companies will also be at risk if China passes on its Establishment of the Social Credit System law. Citizens with good social credit can also get discounts on energy bills, rent things without deposits, and get better interest rates at banks.

☆ Joan Didion’s Life in Objects
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Anna Kodé | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

(Ms. Didion’s death was the result of complications from Parkinson’s disease.) Ms. Didion’s stylish Corvette Stingray isn’t in the sale, but the photos that made it famous are. Quintana eventually pulled through, but died in 2005 at 39, a few months before Ms. Didion’s 2005 book, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” was published. In the book, Ms. Didion wrote about the heartbreak and challenges of that era of her life: “I learned to find equal meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Following Ms. Didion’s passing, Ms. Smith, an artist and singer known as the “godmother of punk,” posted a tribute on Instagram, articulating what many felt.

☆ Cine sunt cei care ne ASCULTĂ discuţiile prin smartphone-uri. Sunt plătiţi cu 12 dolari pe oră şi notează fiecare cuvânt
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-12 | by ( ) www.ziarulnational.md time to read: +12 min

Amazon ar spune că munca a fost esenţială pentru un produs top secret de recunoaştere a vorbirii. Primii pionieri au cumpărat sau au construit biblioteci masive de înregistrări – oameni care citesc ziare sau alte materiale pre-scrise la microfon. Echipa de la Apple a cedat o mare parte a acestei munci firmelor de outsourcing din Europa, inclusiv GlobeTech, din Irlanda. (Această cotă a fost redusă de la 2.500 de înregistrări, spun alţii, pentru a îmbunătăţi ratele de acurateţe.) „M-am simţit jenat ascultând alţi oameni”, spune unul dintre foştii colaboratori, mai ales având în vedere cât de dese erau înregistrările copiilor.

Persons: Ruthy Hope Slatis, Alexa, Slatis, îşi, Joaquin Phoenix, Alexei, Alexa ., Florian Schaub, Ma, George Orwell, Tim Cook, Justin Bieber, Tom Gruber Organizations: ., Amazon, Google, Apple HomePod, Facebook, Apple, Cortana, Microsoft, Universitatea din, Bloomberg, McDonald's Locations: Alexa, Siri, Silicon, Bostonului, Universitatea din Michigan, Silicon Valley, Pentagon, Europa, Irlanda, Cork, Fifty, Grey

☆ Marius Stan, 30 octombrie 2020
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-30 | by ( ) moldova.europalibera.org time to read: +5 min

Anticomunismul a rămas un domeniu surprinzător de puțin studiat în istoria modernă a Statelor Unite, mai ales dacă ne uităm la cât de puternică a fost influența lui. Brigada (sau batalionul, stricto sensu) a fost prima oară recrutată în iarna lui 1936/1937. Au fost, într-adevăr, numeroase victimele din rândurile Brigăzii Abraham Lincoln și o treime nu s-au mai întors în America. Tot astfel au ajuns să aleagă o tabără și Lincolnii și să-i privească pe anarhiști ca pe inamici ai Republicii. Probabil că a fost tocmai inabilitatea acestor anticomuniști (de tipul Joseph McCarthy) de a face distincții între diferitele forme de comunism cea care a dus la așa-zisul anticomunism de tip „gaură neagră”.

Persons: Anticomunismul, McCarthy, Brigada Abraham Lincoln, Francisco Franco, Abraham Lincoln, Putem, George Orwell, Truman, FBI, Joseph McCarthy Organizations: Brigada, batalionul, Partidului Comunist, Civil Spaniol, Brigada Lincoln, Internaționale, Lincoln, veterani Locations: Statelor Unite, Spania, New York, Barcelonei, America, Madrid, Teruel, spaniolă, Catalonia, Republicii, Statele Unite, Golf

☆ (foto) De Ziua Internațională a Elefantului, vă propunem o listă cu titluri de cărți în care apare simbolul mamiferului
▼ + stars: | 2020-08-12 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +5 min

Elefantul este animalul care a devenit simbol reprezentativ în numeroase legende și element cognitiv al budismului. În arta feng-shui-ului însă, aduce noroc, iar în mitologie și religie este un simbol al onoarei. #3 „Povestea cu elefantul vizirului” de Ivo AndricLa Travnik se instalează noul vizir, un tiran anonim însetat de sânge. Povestea cu elefantul vizirului, care dă și titlul volumului, nu este doar o parabolă despre rădăcina răutății omenești, ci o întreagă istorie a suferinței popoarelor iugoslave aflate sub stăpânire otomană. #5 „Cum am împușcat un elefant” de George Orwell„Cum am împușcat un elefant” reunește o sumă de eseuri literare ce oferă cititorilor o perspectivă cuprinzătoare asupra vieții și operei lui George Orwell.

Persons: elefantului, Sara Gruen, Diamond, Jacob Jankowski, Jacob, Jose Saramago, Solomon, João al III - lea, Maximilian, Ivo Andric, Curând, Murakami, George Orwell, Orwell, Diana Adamek, Yoko Ogawa Organizations: Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Poliției Imperiale Indiene Locations: Statele Unite, New York Times, Los Angeles, Austriei, Travnik, Birmania, Transilvania

☆ EDITORIAL // Cazul de la Beirut – mană cerească pentru Sandu
▼ + stars: | 2020-08-08 | by ( ) abcnews.md time to read: +4 min

Nu cred că cineva ar putea să-și amintească măcar un gând articulat de Maia Sandu în domeniul pe care și-l atribuie prin caracterul ocupațiilor anterioare, transmite Politics.md. Prin urmare, cazuri pecum cel întâmplat la Beirut este mană cerească pentru Maia Sandu și nu este doar un gest penibil faptul că ea și-a dat cu părerea legat de acest subiect. Această postare-declarație pe Facebook constituie cel mai reprezentativ exemplu referitor la esența, feleșagul și năravul Maiei Sandu. Pe de altă parte, Maia Sandu aruncă păreri și declarații în toate părțile pentru că nu o costă nimic, n-are nici o responsabilitate. Două săptămâni Maia Sandu nu a scos un cuvânt, în timp ce oamenii rămași pe drumuri așteptau un gest de susținere din partea guvernului.

Persons: Maia Sandu, Sandu, Lucinschi, ., Vlad Filat, Altceva, George Orwell, Filat Locations: Republicii Moldova, Beirut, America, Filat, Otaci

Câte cărți din această listă de 130 din literatura română și universală ai citit? Mircea Eliade – Maitreyi#5. Liviu Rebreanu – Ciuleandra#21. Liviu Rebreanu – Adam și Eva#22. JRR Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings#102.

Persons: Facebook, Mihail Bulgakov, Maestrul, Margareta, 2, George Orwell, Nicolae Dabija, Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marin Preda, Feodor Dostoievski, Liviu Rebreanu, Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Antoine, Saint, Margaret Mitchell, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Ernest Hemingway, Ion Druță, Jane Austen, Adam, Eva, Frédéric, Hector, Lev Tolstoi, Anna Karenina, Victor Hugo, Emily Bronte, J.K . Rowling, Harry Potter, Ion, Mihail, Dan Brown, Erich Maria, Irvin D ., Nietzsche, Anne Rice, Alexandre Dumas, Monte, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Bram Stoker, F . Scott Fitzgerald, Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra, George Călinescu, Haruki, Henri Charriere, Mario Vargas Llosa, Milan Kundera, Stendhal, Roșu, Sisif, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chuck Palahniuk, Elisabeth Gilbert, Harper Lee, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo, Herman Hesse, E.B . White, J.D . Salinger, Jose Saramago, Marcel Proust, Stieg Larsson, Patrick, Paulo Coelho, William Shakespeare – Romeo, Adolf Hitler, Mein, Aldous Huxley, Aureliu Busuioc, Boris Pasternak, Camil Petrescu, Procust, Cela, Charles Dickens, Dante, George R.R, Martin, Guy de Maupassant, Haruki Murakami, Kafka, Siddhartha, Ioan Slavici, Johann Goethe, Jules Verne, Kurt Vonnegut, Mircea Cărtărescu, Napoleon Hill, Octavian Paler, Ray Bradbury, Simone de Beauvoir, Somerset, Sun, Umberto Eco, JRR Tolkien, Douglas Adams, Suzanne Collins, Audrey Niffenegger, C.S . Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, Stephen King, Amin, Madeleine L’Engle, Margaret Atwood, Khaled, Orson Scott Card, Markus Zusak, William Shakespeare, Anne Frank, Frank Herbert, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tatiata, Milan, Joseph Heller, Stephen Chbosky, Arthur Golden Locations: Pădurea spânzuraților, Eat, Notre Dame, Paris

☆ Obiceiuri ciudate ale unor scriitori faimoși: 50 de cești de cafea pe zi sau scrisul cu capul în jos
▼ + stars: | 2016-01-23 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | Angelina Aduce Cititorilor | Diez Informații Utile Din Sfera Educației Și Doza De Relaxare Din Lifestyle. Îi Place Jurnalismul | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Obiceiuri ciudate ale unor scriitori faimoși: 50 de cești de cafea pe zi sau scrisul cu capul în josCreativitatea şi inspiraţia se pot lăsa de multe ori aşteptate, marii scriitori nefiind nici ei scutiţi de blocaje, pe care le depăşeau în diferite moduri. Unii scriau doar întinşi în pat, în timp ce alţii aveau nevoie de băutură pentru a aşterne cuvintele pe foaia de hârtie. Vă prezentăm în continuare unele obiceiuri ciudate ale unor scriitori faimoși, precum Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac sau Virginia Woolf. La cealaltă extremă, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Roth, Lewis Carroll sau Virginia Woolf alegeau să scrie doar stând în picioare. Şi Virginia Woolf folosea cerneală diferită, optând pentru nuanţe precum verde, violet sau albastru.

Persons: Victor Hugo, Honore, Balzac, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Marcel Proust, George Orwell, Edith Wharton, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Roth, Lewis Carroll, Alexandre Dumas, Lui William Faulkner, Jack Daniels, Dan Brown, Vinci, El Locations: Virginia

☆ Cele mai enigmatice întrebări, dintr-un local nou, ale sezonului XIV de IQuiz[RO]
▼ + stars: | 2015-12-05 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Cele mai enigmatice întrebări, dintr-un local nou, ale sezonului XIV de IQuiz[RO]Sezonul al 14-lea de trivia quiz în limba română – IQuiz[RO] – a celor de la City Quest este în plină desfășurare. Ca de obicei, #diez te pune la încercare cu niște întrebări captivante. Am selectat câteva dintre cele mai captivante întrebări de la IQuiz[RO]-156 și 157. Pentru a le vedea, este necesar să selectezi textul de lângă cuvântul Răspuns. Pierre de Coubertin#diez și echipa City Quest te așteaptă și marțea viitoare la o seară intelectuală de quiz.

Persons: Joseph Rudyard Kipling, George Orwell, Socrate Aristotel Onassis, Jaqueline Kennedy, Onassis, Pierre de Coubertin Organizations: Quest, Coca, Sarajevo, City Quest

(doc) Top 100 cărți recomandate de către cititorii din Moldova în cadrul Book ChallengeVineri, 29 august, pe Facebook-ul din Moldova, prin intermediul lui Alexandru Vakulovski, a apărut o nouă provocare: utilizatorii de Facebook trebuie să numească Top 10 cărți care i-au marcat sau Top 10 cărți preferate. Echipa #diez, a încercat să colecteze cât mai multe liste ale utilizatorilor și să facă un Top 100 a cărților care i-au marcat pe cititorii din Moldova. Din aceste liste, iată care este Top 100 cărți care ne-au marcat:Top 100 cărți care au marcat cititorii din Moldova#1. Mircea Eliade – Maitreyi#5. Victor Hugo – Notre Dame de ParisÎntreaga listă cu peste 600 de cărți o puteți vedea aici: Lista cu Top 10 cărție care au marcat cititorii din Moldova.

Persons: Alexandru Vakulovski, Mihail Bulgakov, Maestrul, Margareta, 2, George Orwell, Nicolae Dabija, Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marin Preda, Feodor Dostoievski, Liviu Rebreanu, Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Antoine, Saint, Margaret Mitchell, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Ernest Hemingway, Ion Druță, Jane Austen, Adam, Eva, Frédéric, Hector, Lev Tolstoi, Anna Karenina, Victor Hugo, Emily Bronte, J.K . Rowling, Harry Potter, Ion, Mihail, Dan Brown, Erich Maria, Irvin D ., Nietzsche, Robert, Alexandre Dumas, Monte, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Bram Stoker, F . Scott Fitzgerald, Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra, George Călinescu, Haruki, Henri Charriere, Mario Vargas Llosa, Milan Kundera, Stendhal, Roșu, Sisif, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chuck Palahniuk, Elisabeth Gilbert, Harper Lee, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo, Herman Hesse, Irina Binder, J.D . Salinger, Jose Saramago, Marcel Proust, Mihaela Rădulescu, Patrick, Paulo Coelho, William Shakespeare – Romeo, Adolf Hitler, Mein, Aldous Huxley, Aureliu Busuioc, Boris Pasternak, Camil Petrescu, Procust, Cela, Charles Dickens, Dante, George R.R, Martin, Guy de Maupassant, Haruki Murakami, Kafka, Siddhartha, Ioan Slavici, Johann Goethe, Jules Verne, Kurt Vonnegut, Mircea Cărtărescu, Napoleon Hill, Octavian Paler, Ray Bradbury, Simone de Beauvoir, Somerset, Sun, Umberto Eco Organizations: Challenge Vineri, Facebook Locations: Moldova, Pădurea spânzuraților, Eat, Notre Dame, Paris

☆ The Tucker Carlson origin story
▼ + stars: | 1998-01-28 | by ( Aaron Short | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +57 min

Tucker Carlson is remembered as a provocateur and gleeful contrarian by those who knew him in his early days. It was Tucker Carlson. (Note on style: Tucker Carlson and the members of his family are referred to here by their first names to avoid confusion.) In 1979, Richard Carlson married Patricia Swanson, heiress to the Swanson frozen foods empire that perfected the frozen Salisbury steak for hassle-free dinners. Tucker Carlson attended St. George’s School, a boarding school starting at age 14.

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