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2025, the number

The number 25, as I brought up forn, has a magical appearance.

2025 is the first perfect square number year since 1936, and thus also the first year to be a product of two squares since then. 2025 = 45² = 9² × 5².

Coming back to 45², Donald Trump, the 45th president of the USA, will start his 2nd term in 2025 as the 47th president. 45 + 2 = 47.

2 + 0 + 2 + 5 = 9, which is the number of completion, the hightide of the material experience and a bridge to the spiritual. 9 holds the wisdom of 1 thru 8.

Likewise, 2025 is the sum of all cubes: 1³ + 2³ + ‹...› + 9³ = 2025.

Looking special!

GPT

Glitch-Producing Transformer.

Based logo

Based, full name Base Democratica, is an Italian movement for direct democracy. Its founder asked me to give it a logo.

I made it based:

No extant political parties in Italy use the color orange.

God and war

There is no god of war and no war of god.

God is oneness, not division.

Paper straws

Paper straws suck... NOT!

In the worst way mightly.

Naples

On October 26, 2024, I was in Naples to speak at Linux Day 2024. I also had a few hours to see the city.

It is a place unlike any other in Italy; it’s a semi-anarchic country of its own. “Math diplomas in 3 minutes, only in Naples” is an advert I saw there. Free entrepreneurship runs wild.

Folks don’t follow the rules of the road at all. Everyone must pay attention to not be hit by a car or motorbike.

Yet, thank god Italian legislation isn’t fully enforced there; Naples’ ways are the cultural heritage that gives the place its special vibes.

I visited a (legit) clothing store, which however didn’t have any price tags. I negotiated a discount on an “already discounted price” (yeah, right), only to have the clerk ask me to pay the original price at the checkout. I reminded him about the negotiated discount, to have him reply “just kidding”. I would have stormed out of the store if this was not Naples.

Neapolitans also really care about their soccer team. One could even say they are religiously devoted to it.

Oh, and they speak in their own tongue; not in Italian.

Naples is Italy’s meme city.


I love the country more than ever after having been to Naples.

Italy is so beautifully diverse: Genoa, Venice, Florence, and Naples are four key cities to see here.

Pareidolia

Pareidolia is the tendency to see faces (and meaning overall) where there’s none.

A surprised Minion:

Michael Jackson:

A Roman slave:

A frog:

A monster:

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