PhD. Associate professor. University of Porto. Interested in Media Studies, journalism & politics. #travels #nature #culture. Always baffled by what life gives

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“Ainda bem que sempre existe outro dia. E outros sonhos. E outros risos. E outras pessoas. E outras coisas.” Clarice Lispector
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Sa mère est morte en lui donnant la vie. Elle a fui les nazis sans rien. En 1948, une valise oubliée est arrivée de Suisse. À l'intérieur se trouvait une lettre qu'elle avait écrite à un empereur romain vingt ans plus tôt. Cette lettre est devenue l'un des plus grands chefs-d'œuvre de la littérature. 8 juin 1903. Bruxelles. Ferdinande de Crayencour mourut dix jours après avoir donné naissance à son unique enfant, Marguerite. Des complications liées à l'accouchement – chose courante à l'époque, même pour les femmes aristocratiques. Marguerite grandit sans jamais connaître la voix de sa mère, son rire, son toucher. Rien que des photographies, des histoires racontées par des proches, et une absence qui façonna toute sa vie. Son père, Michel, l'éleva avec l'aide de sa propre mère. Ils vécurent dans des villas élégantes du nord de la France, entourés de livres, d'art et de conversations intellectuelles. Marguerite fut extraordinaire dès le début. À huit ans, elle lisait Racine. À dix ans, elle traduisait du latin. À douze ans, elle lisait le grec ancien aussi couramment que le français. En 1924, à 21 ans, Marguerite visita la villa d'Hadrien à Tivoli, en Italie. Debout parmi les ruines, elle ressentit quelque chose bouger en elle. Elle commença à imaginer la vie intérieure d'Hadrien – ses pensées sur le pouvoir, l'amour, la mortalité, l'empire. Elle se mit à écrire une lettre. Pas d'elle-même, mais de la voix d'Hadrien. Adressée à Marc Aurèle, le futur empereur. "Cher Marc, je suis allé voir mon médecin ce matin…" Elle travailla sur ce projet par intermittence pendant sa vingtaine. Mais il ne prit jamais vraiment forme. Finalement, elle l'abandonna, laissant des brouillons et des notes dans une valise. Puis les nazis envahirent la France. Marguerite, vivant en Europe comme écrivaine, se retrouva soudain face à un danger mortel. En 1939, elle s'enfuit aux États-Unis avec sa compagne, Grace Frick. Elle arriva avec presque rien. Sa vie en France – sa maison, ses affaires, ses manuscrits – tout fut laissé derrière elle. Pour survivre, Marguerite enseigna la littérature et l'histoire de l'art dans des collèges américains. Elle était brillante, cultivée, parlait plusieurs langues. Mais elle était aussi une réfugiée qui recommençait tout. La guerre détruisit le monde qu'elle avait connu. Des amis disparurent. L'Europe brûlait. Son passé semblait perdu à jamais. Puis, en décembre 1948, quelque chose d'impossible se produisit. Une valise arriva de Suisse. Des amis qui l'avaient stockée avant la guerre avaient enfin réussi à l'envoyer. Marguerite l'ouvrit, s'attendant à trouver peut-être de vieux vêtements, quelques livres. Au lieu de cela, elle trouva des papiers, des photographies et des manuscrits qu'elle avait complètement oubliés. Parmi eux : une lettre. Écrite à la main. En français. "Cher Marc, je suis allé voir mon médecin ce matin…" Elle la regarda, perplexe. Elle ne se souvenait pas l'avoir écrite. Qui était Marc ? Puis elle se souvint. Marc Aurèle. La lettre était écrite de la voix de l'empereur Hadrien. Elle l'avait écrite plus de vingt ans plus tôt. Après avoir visité la villa d'Hadrien. Dans le cadre d'un roman qu'elle n'avait jamais terminé. Ses yeux parcoururent les mots. Elle entendit la voix. Non pas la sienne – celle d'Hadrien. Vieillissant. Fatigué. Se rapprochant de la mort. "Cher Marc, je suis allé voir mon médecin ce matin…" Elle relit la phrase. Encore. Et encore. En la relisant après deux décennies – après la guerre, l'exil, la perte, le recommencement – quelque chose s'éclaira. À vingt et un ans, elle avait voulu écrire un roman sur Hadrien. Mais elle n'avait pas réussi. Le projet était resté inachevé. Abandonné. Oublié. Maintenant, elle comprenait pourquoi. Elle n'était pas prête, à vingt et un ans. Elle n'avait pas encore vécu. Pas encore perdu. Pas encore compris ce qu'Hadrien comprenait : que la vie est belle et tragique, que le pouvoir est creux, que l'amour est tout ce que nous avons contre la mort. À vingt et un ans, elle ne pouvait pas écrire ce livre. À quarante-cinq ans – ayant perdu sa mère à la naissance, sa patrie dans la guerre, sa jeunesse dans l'exil – elle le pouvait. La lettre avait attendu vingt ans dans cette valise. À travers la guerre. À travers l'océan. À travers l'exil. Elle avait attendu que Marguerite devienne la personne capable de l'écrire. Marguerite s'assit. Elle prit une feuille blanche. Elle trempa sa plume dans l'encre. Elle ne commença pas un nouveau roman. Elle reprit la lettre. La même voix. Le même Hadrien. Mais différent, maintenant. Plus profond. Plus vrai. "Cher Marc, je suis allé voir mon médecin ce matin…" Elle écrivit cette première phrase. Puis la suivante. Elle écrivit pendant trois ans. Marguerite Yourcenar, pseudonyme de Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour, née le 8 juin 1903 à Bruxelles (Belgique) et morte le 17 décembre 1987
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What an amazing way to visualize early human migration. Lovely map by @HarvardCGA. A great colour scheme and an appropriate map projection! Source: buff.ly/3lbxonJ
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So true.
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⚽ 'Instead of building the stadium, they could have built a hospital.' Why World Cups and Olympics rarely pay off for host cities. Listen to this week's Reuters Econ World podcast reut.rs/441mlUd
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Before ChatGPT, more than 98 per cent of all English-language articles published on the internet were written by humans. By the fall of 2024, machines were writing around half. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.” Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.
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The same Trump billionaire buddy behind the CBS MAGA makeover is now coming for CNN. But presidents don't get to shape the news business. That’s why journalists are now standing up for editorial independence and objecting to the merger. @TrevorTimm explains:
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Annoyed at being left out of the manuscript’s many beautifully painted and gilded miniatures, Brother Alwyn decided to stage an angry protest in the margins - 13th century, British Library, Sloane MS 2435, f. 28v
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Alex Kershaw’s D-Day coverage has begun. Every year it is utterly exceptional. Do ‘Follow’ him and keep up-to-date with his posts:
Goodbye to England. Many of the 73,000 US troops who will see action on D-Day, just 48 hours away, are now being ferried to troopships. Photo by the great Robert Capa. @WWIIMemorial
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RT @Acosta: Breaking: Kennedy Center staff is now being ordered to remove Trump’s name from the building. The removal of his name could hap…
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60 Minutes Link in comments... #scottpelley #bariweiss
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Breaking News: The House voted to end the war in Iran, as four Republicans sided with Democrats in a striking rebuke to President Trump. nyti.ms/4elu85c
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The end of a journalism reference worldwide. Sad and dark times.
New statement from Scott Pelley:   There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.   The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.   “60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.   The waste is heartbreaking.   Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.   For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.   At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.   I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.   Scott Pelley
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Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
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🚨 BREAKING: A Russian drone reportedly flew 13 km into Romanian territory and struck an apartment building in the city of Galați in eastern Romania overnight on Friday, May 29. Local media report that several civilians were injured, some seriously. Debris recovered at the scene appears consistent with a Russian Geran-2/Shahed-136 attack drone. Romania’s Ministry of National Defense has confirmed that the drone was Russian. Authorities are continuing to investigate the incident. Romania is a member of both NATO and the European Union. Russian drones have crossed into NATO territory on multiple occasions since the start of Russia’s big-scale invasion of Ukraine, including several instances of border violations along the Danube River in Romania. But this appears to be the first known case in which a Russian drone strike inside a NATO member state directly hit a civilian residential building and caused civilian casualties. VIDEO: @sentdefender
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NATO has reacted to a Russian drone striking a residential building in Romania. "Early this morning, an apartment building in Romania was struck by a drone as Russia attacked Ukrainian infrastructure near the border. NATO Secretary General is in contact with the Romanian authorities. We condemn Russia’s recklessness, and NATO will continue to strengthen our defences against all threats, including drones," NATO Spokesperson Allison Hart said. Meanwhile, Romania's Ministry of National Defence stated that it had identified the drone as a Russian Geran-2. "The Ministry of National Defence strongly condemns the irresponsible actions of the Russian Federation and emphasizes that they represent yet another challenge to regional security and stability in the Black Sea region. Such incidents demonstrate Russia’s disregard for the norms of international law and endanger not only the security of Romanian citizens, but also NATO’s collective security."
A Russian drone hit a residential building in Galati, Romania. It caused a fire and injured two people. Rescuers evacuated about 70 people from the site. The drone crashed as Russia attacked Ukraine near the border with Romania. This is the first time citizens were hurt as a Russian drone entered a NATO member country.
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Romania said that a drone injured two people in the southeastern city of Galati during an overnight Russian attack on Ukraine, the ‌first time in the war that a drone had hit a densely populated area in Romania and caused injuries reut.rs/4dQhtWK
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Russia’s war of aggression has crossed yet another line. A Russian drone incursion struck a densely populated area in Romania, injuring civilians. On EU territory. We stand in full solidarity with Romania and its people. As we continue strengthening our security and deterrence, especially on our Eastern border, we will keep increasing the pressure on Russia. We are preparing a 21st package of sanctions.
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Kaja Kallas on diplomatic personnel leaving Kyiv amid Russian threats: "What we heard from Ukraine yesterday was that all the embassies stayed except one. So that also takes courage from those embassies, but yes, all the Europeans stayed, America left."
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The EU has corrected Kallas' claim the US embassy left. newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/eu-correc… The United States and Ukraine also denied the claim. kyivpost.com/post/77018 yahoo.com/news/politics/…
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Me trying to work in this heat.
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