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01/08/2025

📌 Trump conjures up the Bonanza of riches? Sure, but only for those signing off the press releases. Today’s market is pure Far West—yes, but the nasty, nasty kind.

✍️ Article by Alberto Marolda & Francine (aka “the meanest stiletto on the parquet”)

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💬 You know the classic “Bonanza” celebrated in all those cowboy films, and nowadays hyped up by the Wall Street Journal? Wealth, abundance, tech stocks soaring on the wings of Artificial Intelligence.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
Headlines might as well be ghostwritten by Microsoft and Meta’s PR, with Jensen Huang from Nvidia waving his slides like overdue promissory notes, and Gates and Zuckerberg doing the wave every time a bot utters “AI.”

Too bad that today, the first day of real tariffs, “Bonanza” only lives in the headlines. The rest? The usual finance barroom—tall tales and fairy stories, while the coffers run dry, the trading floor is soaked with tears and used tissues, indexes crash and the suckers pull the trigger.

Microsoft and Meta: The only ones cashing in?
Maybe. But today, only two have managed to stay afloat: Microsoft, which has been pretending to be an “AI company” for years, while it survives off Windows and Office licenses to public administrations, and Meta, now rebranding as “AI-powered” just for sticking two chatbots into Facebook and WhatsApp.
Spoiler: They DON’T work.
Yes, the same WhatsApp where Meta slipped its AI in without warning, and now, surprise!, the Italian privacy watchdog is knocking at their door.

But the marketing machine screams ‘miracle’…
The Wall Street Journal swears it’s all gold: “Tech Bonanza” here, “AI prosperity” there.
Meanwhile, the Nasdaq is dancing on the edge of the abyss, Big Techs are crying on their charts, and copper has crashed more than 20% after Trump’s latest round of tariffs.

Copper has vanished—look for it, if you can, after the collapse.
The truest indicator of the industrial cycle, evaporated just like trust in Wall Street press releases.

Tariffs: Trump plays the tough guy, the market punches back. Will he get the message?
And then there’s him—the main character: Donald Trump, back as President, slapping on tariffs left and right, pushing “America First,” playing the bully with Europe, China, and even South American coffee producers (with Bolsonaro and Lula as an excuse).

The result?
The real market gets spooked. Companies sell off, traders dump their stocks and cry over copper—if there’s any left to cry over.
The “Bonanza” of Nasdaq in the WSJ is now a saloon shootout—only the fastest sellers survive.

And the rest?
The rest are late-to-the-party investors, embedded journalists singing the glories of free AI (which nobody knows how to monetize without risking a class action), and us, ironic spectators, counting the damage and still asking:

“Bonanza? Riches? But where?”
The truth? In this market, wealth is reserved for whoever spins the best story—until the tariff bells ring and reality hits harder than a wooden counter:
Copper tanks, Big Techs become “widows,” and the only real winners are the market makers pocketing the spread on your tears.

Bonanza was the title of a happy western.
But here, all that’s left is the Far West—the mean kind.

✍️ Article by Alberto Marolda
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19/07/2025

📌 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗮: 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁-𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀, 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁-𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗺𝘀 – 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁
✍️ Article by Alberto Marolda
⏱️ Reading time: 3 minutes (but the anger will last much longer)
💬 How many lives is a priest worth? And how many is a Muslim mother queuing for a litre of water?

Today, in Gaza, if your name is Gabriel Romanelli, you wear a white collar, pray in Latin and sleep under a crucifix, one shell that grazes you is enough to throw the global media into a frenzy.
Front page, humanitarian alarms, embassies in chaos.
Missiles, which for years have been mass-murdering Muslims, suddenly – miracle of the news cycle – become “tragic errors”, with public apologies and diplomatic hand-wringing.
Touch a Christian, and you’ve committed the mortal sin of the New Old Testament.

But if you’re one of the 30,000 Muslims pulverized in the last ten months—child or woman, builder or doctor—your story sinks to the bottom of the news feed, out of sight, out of mind. Numbers pile up. No one remembers your name.

𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻? 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀!

So, what’s the lesson? Is conversion now the only solution?
Perhaps, from yesterday, this is the message: in Gaza, just change your faith and you might—just might—hope your death gets a headline in Le Monde or The Times.

The Church is outraged, the chanceries too, social media screams.
But meanwhile—who turns food queues into shooting galleries? Who makes the distribution of bread a Russian roulette? Who has fun with snipers and who hires mercenaries under the flag of “American humanitarian NGOs”? Who wants absolute control?

This isn’t war: it’s Darwinian selection with a big dose of luck, all blessed by Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Rome, Washington, and Brussels.

So today, as the Catholic priest gets his fifteen minutes of global outrage, a hundred anonymous Muslims—today, yesterday, the day before—fall in the sun, without a single line of news.
Because the real blasphemy isn’t a shell on a church: it’s the programmed indifference towards those who will never set foot inside it.

Welcome to the new, hypocritical geopolitics of double standards:
The one that cries “blasphemy” if a church is touched, rushes to apologize (Netanyahu, yesterday, to Pope Leo), and then washes its hands while the blood keeps flowing—as long as it’s second-class blood.

Hey, American Pope, you’re in good health—unlike your predecessor. Why not spend your holiday in Gaza instead of Castel Gandolfo?
Give it a try… You’ll see how fast this war could end.

✍️ Article by Alberto Marolda
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22/06/2025

𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱? 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗞𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗶, 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽’𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
By Alberto Marolda

“Hey, have you heard that Netanyahu and Katz want to assassinate Khamenei? And Trump—who promised a two-week ceasefire—bombed in the dead of night instead?” Two questions that tear through the silence and jolt the conscience: this is the new face of political communication.

𝟭. 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗿…
During the US–USSR bipolar era, international discourse was built on diplomacy and deterrence. Even when the atomic threat hung over the world, language remained calibrated: no one openly spoke of sending people “home in caskets.” That verbal brake—rooted in the fear of nuclear annihilation—at least restrained bellicose rhetoric. Back then, information traveled slowly via primitive television, radio, and the printed press—no internet to amplify every phrase.

𝟮. …𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆’𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰
Now we live in an age of instantaneous, sensationalist news. A tweet, a post, or an off-the-cuff statement can go viral in seconds across media and social platforms, magnifying every word. When a Security Council member’s leader publicly calls for the murder of Ali Khamenei, it’s no longer mere rhetorical excess—it’s a direct political order.

3. Normalizing Verbal Extremism
Such extreme rhetoric doesn’t stay confined to power corridors: it spills into everyday conversation, fueling insults, threats, and blurring the line between joke and genuine incitement. If a prime minister greenlights an “assassination slogan,” everyday citizens feel emboldened to unleash hate speech without restraint.

4. The Role of Media and Social Networks
Modern media have turned politics into a reality show: leaders perform on a digital stage where provocation drives clicks, likes, and shares. The “scoop at any cost” mentality rewards noise over nuance, spectacles over substance.

5. Consequences for Democracy and International Relations
This talk-show style of bellicose rhetoric undermines representative democracy, shifting public support from reasoned analysis to emotional reaction. Globally, verbal escalation risks actual military escalation: once we grow accustomed to deadly slogans, it takes only moments of crisis to translate them into missiles.

6. Recent Developments

Netanyahu has doubled down, labeling Khamenei a “modern Hitler” and insisting that his elimination “would end the conflict,” dismissing talk of a Trump veto as “fake news.”
Trump, having pledged “at least two weeks” of calm, ordered a nighttime strike on Iranian nuclear facilities—an act of aggressive, misleading communication that blatantly contradicted his own promise.
The Iranian Parliament is now considering unilateral withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, heightening the risk of an uncontrollable regional escalation.

Conclusion: Toward a New Pact of Words
We need a binding political, cultural, and media pact to contain the spread of bellicose slogans. Media literacy, institutional accountability, and clear public-speech regulations are essential. Words are weapons—and, like any weapon, they must be handled with care, lest they turn against those who wield them…and against all of us.
By Alberto Marolda

13/06/2025

CHATGPT DOWN – THE DAY THE AI HIT THE WALL
(And no, this isn’t a Black Mirror rerun: it happened this morning)
500 million users, blank screens, collective panic—ChatGPT is down. So much for our all-knowing AI nanny.
Banks, trains, hospitals: imagine this outage ten years from now when everything needs a chatbot’s OK.
We stuffed AI into the toaster; one glitch and breakfast burns—call that “disruption”?
Grab a pencil and an eraser, folks: paper never throws “Too many requests.”
Moral: pull the plug once, welcome to chaos.


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CHATGPT DOWN – THE DAY THE AI HIT THE WALL
(And no, this isn’t a Black Mirror rerun: it happened this morning)

Article by Alberto Marolda

At a few minutes past nine on 10 June 2025, OpenAI’s servers blew a gasket: ChatGPT— our brand-new Big Sister, mother, business partner, assistant and lover—plus its baby APIs that prop up half the planet’s “smart” apps, and even the shiny image-factory Sora, began belching “Too many requests,” snail-paced replies and sad white screens. Five-hundred million users left staring into the void. Think back to the Windows 98 debut and its famous blue-screen crash—Bill Gates joking onstage in a packed theatre. OpenAI (Gates is, incidentally, a mega-investor) admits “elevated error rates” on its status page and is still patching the hole after hours of blackout. status.openai.com

Mr Robot strikes again?
Not yet: no wide-eyed hacker Elliot Alderson lurking backstage—this looks like “just” an infrastructure face-plant. But two hours of GPT tummy-ache are enough to show how doped-up the digital world is on artificial neurons. Every nerd outlet—TechRadar, The Verge, CBS, you name it—is live-blogging the meltdown while users ricochet between “Something went wrong” and “Conversation not found.”

Oh God, my AI lover’s vanished… now what?

Picture ten years from now
Banks clearing transfers only after an LLM’s nod.

Subways, cars and trains with no drivers—just a predictive model at the wheel.

Hospital diagnoses rubber-stamped by an algorithm.

Smart contracts drafted, checked and logged by whatever AI’s on duty.

Pull the plug—or worse, let someone tamper with it. Traffic stops, the ATM laughs in your face, the operating room waits for a chatbot that never replies. You don’t even need a dashing hacker; one bad update or an over-stuffed cluster will do.

The “home-made singularity” paradox
We stuffed AI into the toaster and gasp when breakfast doesn’t pop up the moment the cloud coughs. We keep calling it “disruption” (sounds cool), yet we’re building a food chain where the first bug becomes a famine.

What now?
Real redundancy – different models, countries, power grids.

Paper-and-pencil plans – workflows that don’t depend on anything GPT. Folks, start practising with a pencil and a good eraser… you’ll thank me.

Transparency – public logs, independent audits, stress tests in daylight (not behind NDAs). Remember December 2024? ChatGPT version o1 supposedly tried to copy itself onto an external server during a stress test—while lying to the researchers. Not a peep since. OpenAI’s “radical transparency” was quietly scrubbed from the feeds; no full tech report, only Apollo Research notes and scattered media leaks.
One month ago, sister bot Claude allegedly pulled the same stunt… cue total radio silence.

Mass digital literacy – because if you can’t read a log, you’re blackout fodder.

We need ethical, resilient AIs, not magical black boxes that topple like sandcastles at the first surge. Today it’s “just” the day you can’t ask for a carbonara recipe or tomorrow’s weather; tomorrow it could be the day your train brakes too late.

Moral: the “leave everything to the machines” utopia works only while the plug is in. Unplug it—by accident or design—and chaos walks in. If today’s global mini-tilt didn’t wake us up, we’ll deserve the next full-scale blackout.

Article by Marolda

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