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    An outrageous claim and the rabbit hole that followedAfter the trip to Genoa, I went to Rimini, on the other side of Italy, and visited the Italia in Miniatura theme park because it has a monorail. A simple loop around the park, with one station about as far from the entrance as it’s possible to get, it was a fun way to view the detailed scale models of famous Italian buildings below. But one thing caught my attention: a claim that this was Italy’s first electric monorail. Now, while the park was opened in 1970, the monorail wasn’t added until 2001 or so. This claim is somewhat dubious, when you consider that, not too far away, the Mirabilandia theme park had an electric monorail that operated between 1992 and 2019. Another theme park, Gardaland, has had an electric monorail since 1990.So, what was the first electric monorail in Italy?Well, Expo ’61 had an ALWEG monorail that was essentially the same as the one in Seattle. The Turin monorail. Jean-Henri Manara, Wikimedia Commons, License CC BY-SA 2.0One of the stations still exists, but my trip to Genoa reminded me that this isn’t the first electric monorail in Italy by a long way.The “Italian Colonial International Exhibition of Marine and Marine Hygiene” in 1914 had a quite impressive monorail, known as the “Telfer”, running along the seafront. A poster from the time describes it as a “Ferrovia Elletrica”, so definitely electric! After the exhibition closed, the monorail remained in use for a few years moving coal and goods around.During my visit, a friend and I tried to trace the route, and see if anything remained. Unfortunately, the way was blocked by a small military base, but we did find the spot where a large arch had been smashed into a building to allow the monorail to go through the Stella Battery.Roger Farnworth has written an excellent, copiously illustrated, article about the Telfer, so I will simply refer you there: Genoa – a TelferAnd that is, probably, the first electric monorail in Italy. The only earlier monorail I know about is a steam-powered, cable-hauled one that went up Mount Vesuvius.#1910s #1960s #2000s #genoa #italy #monorail #rimini #steampunk #Turin
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    I'm proud that my country is hitting the headlines for the moral courage of the dock workers of #CALP and #UBSSindacato #Genoa who refuse being complicit in Israel's #genocide against #Gaza. History will NOT be kind to the #Meloni government and the Italian arms industry

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    Alüra. Maledetto sia il giorno in cui sono venuto a conoscenza di Gancio.
    Mi piacerebbe vedere un’istanza per Varese ma ho dei forti dubbi su:
    A) Chi la gestirebbe. Io personalmente non vorrei. Già gestire un’istanza é un’impresa.
    B) E se la creo e poi nessuno la usa?
    C) E se non viene utilizzata per scopi di attivismo ma solo per eventi culturali? (mostre, spettacoli etc). Allora perde di significato?

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  • "It’s been another terrible week for the Washington Post. The newsroom is bracing for a devastating round of layoffs, with rumors flying that some desks may be shuttered entirely.

    Sportswriters were stunned to learn they would no longer be attending the Winter Olympics in Italy (management later reversed course, saying a small contingent would cover the event), while the Post’s foreign correspondents have been pleading with owner Jeff Bezos to spare their department in desperate posts on X, noting the groundbreaking work they’ve done in Ukraine, the Middle East, Venezuela, and elsewhere at a time when Donald Trump’s foreign policy activity has been frenetic. For the time being, no one knows how deep the cuts will actually be, but staffers are anticipating around 100 job losses in the roughly 800-person newsroom alone. One staffer told me that “every desk is allegedly losing jobs.” The expectation is they’ll hit next week.

    The ostensible reason for the layoffs is that the Post, like many other newspapers, is losing money. But unlike other newspapers, the Post is also in the midst of a demoralizing destruction of its brand that has alienated hundreds of thousands of subscribers and left even its staff unsure what the paper is trying to do, both journalistically and business-wise. “I’m increasingly finding it hard to justify the cuts from a journalistic perspective,” said one staffer. “Of course, financially, the Post is in a deep hole and I understand that. But some of that hole, if not a lot of it, is because of Jeff Bezos.”"

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  • @max @fediverso @_elena Sempre su serverplan... Dagli pure il mio talk del WordCamp Pisa sul fediverso e digli che è un talk di una loro cliente quella di plusbrothers.net ... Così almeno si accorgono che i loro clienti ne sanno più di loro, LOL!
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  • @max @fediverso @_elena Serverplan! Li conosco benissimo, sono loro cliente col sito plusbrothers.net (il sito in produzione, il cantiere sta su hostinger). E confermo che il supporto tecnico, quando li ho contattati perché activitypub non pubblicava e rallentava WordPress, non sapevano cosa dirmi. Senonché gli ho chiesto: mettete le mani sui log, controllate se c'è qualcosa di bloccato... Bloccavano il dns o come si chiama, di poliverso. Una roba chiamata ermes.poliverso.org o affini, da cui non partiva niente. Adesso me l'hanno risolto e... Mi dispiace anche, l'idea di andarmene. Per un altro anno infatti credo che tengo il servizio, fin che non passo tutto di qua. Ma mi piacerebbe lasciargli anche qualcosa di scritto, sul fediverso!

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    , the quality is IN the picture.

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    Idea pazzerella: Gancio Varese?Alüra. Maledetto sia il giorno in cui sono venuto a conoscenza di Gancio.Mi piacerebbe vedere un’istanza per Varese ma ho dei forti dubbi su:A) Chi la gestirebbe. Io personalmente non vorrei. Già gestire un’istanza é un’impresa.B) E se la creo e poi nessuno la usa?C) E se non viene utilizzata per scopi di attivismo ma solo per eventi culturali? (mostre, spettacoli etc). Allora perde di significato?@fediverso #dubbi #fediverso #ganciovarese
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    "It’s been another terrible week for the Washington Post. The newsroom is bracing for a devastating round of layoffs, with rumors flying that some desks may be shuttered entirely. Sportswriters were stunned to learn they would no longer be attending the Winter Olympics in Italy (management later reversed course, saying a small contingent would cover the event), while the Post’s foreign correspondents have been pleading with owner Jeff Bezos to spare their department in desperate posts on X, noting the groundbreaking work they’ve done in Ukraine, the Middle East, Venezuela, and elsewhere at a time when Donald Trump’s foreign policy activity has been frenetic. For the time being, no one knows how deep the cuts will actually be, but staffers are anticipating around 100 job losses in the roughly 800-person newsroom alone. One staffer told me that “every desk is allegedly losing jobs.” The expectation is they’ll hit next week.The ostensible reason for the layoffs is that the Post, like many other newspapers, is losing money. But unlike other newspapers, the Post is also in the midst of a demoralizing destruction of its brand that has alienated hundreds of thousands of subscribers and left even its staff unsure what the paper is trying to do, both journalistically and business-wise. “I’m increasingly finding it hard to justify the cuts from a journalistic perspective,” said one staffer. “Of course, financially, the Post is in a deep hole and I understand that. But some of that hole, if not a lot of it, is because of Jeff Bezos.”"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/inside-the-washington-posts-existential-meltdown.html#USA #Journalism #News #Media #Newspapers #Amazon #Bezos #Layoffs
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    @max @fediverso @_elena Sempre su serverplan... Dagli pure il mio talk del WordCamp Pisa sul fediverso e digli che è un talk di una loro cliente quella di plusbrothers.net ... Così almeno si accorgono che i loro clienti ne sanno più di loro, LOL! Il talk sta su WordPress.tv
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