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piero scaruffi

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What we understand is not enough to understand why we understand it

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@pscaruffi
piero scaruffi
3 years
The fact that so many people dislike my opinions on music only tells you how far these people are from having listened to as much music as i have
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2 years
Elon Musk sucks.
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@pscaruffi
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4 years
I WON THIS ELECTION. The election was rigged. #Scaruffi2020
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4 years
The fact that so many Facebook users think that their comments are funny and smart tells you how far Facebook users still are from becoming funny and smart.
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@pscaruffi
piero scaruffi
6 years
Mozart vs Beethoven
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@pscaruffi
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3 years
Birds are real, people are not real.
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3 years
We are in this world for only a brief moment and we take ourselves way too seriously.
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4 years
We have never been modern: we are still stuck in the medieval world of plagues, wars, famine and riots
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5 years
The greatest invention of all times: the question mark
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5 years
The purpose of sleeping is to wake up. (The purpose of waking up is unknown)
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1 year
I have never checked Elon Musk's tweets. I've zero interest in what he thinks. Why every time i log into Twitter i am offered Musk as a suggested contact? It reminds me that in Cuba people were "encouraged" to attend Castro's speeches. Musk does have much in common with Castro.
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@pscaruffi
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3 years
The ones who do not wander are the ones who are truly lost
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3 years
The role of a great artist is not to depict beauty but to invent a whole new concept of beauty
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27 days
Shame on US Congress for hosting genocidal liar Netanyahu
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3 years
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” (Blaise Pascal)
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2 years
We mourn Klaus Schulze
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piero scaruffi
3 years
Life is an eclipse,that briefly obscures eternity.
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@pscaruffi
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If you store it on your phone, you don’t "know" it
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We don't build buildings, we build ruins
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@pscaruffi
piero scaruffi
5 years
Are we the toilet or the plunger?
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2 years
To say that something is new, you first have to learn all the things that are old
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ChatGPT on my style of music writing
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It's not you who read the poem, it's the poem that reads you
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We are too busy dying to understand what living means.
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Life is a catalog of monsters, inner monsters
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piero scaruffi
10 years
i am the sea, not the swimmer
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@pscaruffi
piero scaruffi
2 years
This NY Times article consistently wrote "white" lowercase and "Black" uppercase. I wonder what would happen if someone chose to write "black" consistently lowercase and "White" consistently upper case. (Personally, i write both lowercase).
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5 years
Some problems have no solution, should have no solution, and are not problems
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This Cretin Carlson has never traveled around the world and doesn't even know that most of the world's countries are way cheaper than Western countries (because they are poorer and their currencies are weaker). Try China next. #Carlson
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4 years
Let’s try and think like a virus: what does the world look like from the viewpoint of a virus? What does a pandemic look like to a virus? What one species views as a pandemic another might view as a time of plenty, a time of boom.
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@pscaruffi
piero scaruffi
4 years
Truth is in everything, even in lies.
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1 year
Best Films of all time organized by country:
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@pscaruffi
piero scaruffi
5 years
No matter how long you walk, you are always in the same place, but you are never the one who started walking.
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piero scaruffi
4 years
Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal,a gateway between one world and the next. (Arundhati Roy, Financial Times, April 3, 2020)
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"The World is a lot Poorer without You": a tribute to the great minds we lost in 2023
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Donald Trump is poisoning the blood of our country
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5 years
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito" (Dalai Lama)
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A history of Russian cinema:
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piero scaruffi
8 months
Recommended films of 2023: Jude: Do Not Expect Too Much... Lanthimos: Poor Things Payne: The Holdovers Campillo: Red Island Hamaguchi: Evil Does Not Exist Holland: The Green Border Stolevski: Housekeeping For Beginner Lim: Joy Ride Niasari: Shayda etc
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4 years
Presidents of the last 60 years #foxnews #Trump2020
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4 years
There is always something to learn from history if you are not afraid of what it teaches you.
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piero scaruffi
6 years
In the middle of writing a sentence that I thought was important, a sentence that begins with the words “In the middle of writing a sentence that I thought was important…”, I started wondering whether it’s worth writing it, and I didn’t finish it.
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@pscaruffi
piero scaruffi
1 year
Stop the tipping pandemic in the USA. Why tip a barber but not a supermarket cashier? Why tip a taxi driver but not a bus driver? Why tip a food delivery person but not a mailman? Why tip a waiter but not a teacher? Why tip a tourguide but not a neighbor? Instead, give to charity
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6 years
“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.” ― William Blake
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"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide". Albert Camus
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3 years
Life is a stories-generating machine
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Is Consciousness Conserved and Is there Life After Death?
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10 years
It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy
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3 years
Biggest sore losers and whiners in US history: 1. Donald Trump 2. Tonya Harding 3. Elizabeth Holmes 4. Aaron Burr 5. Kanye West 6. Al Capone 7. Selina Waterman-Smith 8. Adam Neumann #MAGA #foxnews
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piero scaruffi
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What prompts us to eternally wander inside this body already pregnant, and perhaps already dead?
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piero scaruffi
10 years
We are swimming in the lake in which future generations will drown
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2 years
Best films, best books, best art, best jazz, etc:
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@pscaruffi
piero scaruffi
4 years
We frequently think of technology as dehumanizing us. Does technology instead humanizes us?
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@pscaruffi
piero scaruffi
10 years
people’s attention span is becoming so short that it will soon be impossible to explain the consequences of a short attention span
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piero scaruffi
4 years
Basically, we've had four years of Trump whining and whining and whining and whining and whining and whining. And still whining. His main accomplishment: whining. His second best accomplishment: whining. #FoxNews #BreitbartNews #Trump2020
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You should contradict yourself at least once a day.
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9 years
Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences
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piero scaruffi
4 years
The greatest Fox News hoaxes 2003 Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction 2007 The Bush economy is booming 2012 Obama is a Muslim 2020 The covid19 is less dangerous than the flu and (drum roll!) there was no collusion between Trump and Russia. #FoxNews
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I try to forget the faded crowd of crucifixes planted in memory like tenacious roots.
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piero scaruffi
3 years
We mourn Jim Steinman, one of the great composers of rock music
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If only we knew where this route leads, and why. If only we didn't know where we come from, and why...
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piero scaruffi
6 years
Truth, not ignorance, is bliss.
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@pscaruffi
piero scaruffi
4 years
Finally, the world had an auspicious sign: the first change of chord in seven years of the 639-year-long version of John Cage's ASLSP Change is coming.
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piero scaruffi
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"If it can be done, why do it?" (Gertrude Stein)
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"The frantic abolition of all distances brings no nearness" (Heidegger)
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We mourn Chick Corea
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piero scaruffi
3 years
The Soviet Union had only one newspaper and one TV station, both called PRAVDA, which means THE TRUTH. And what name does Trump choose for his own social media...? This man's passion for Russia is just incredible. #trump2024 #maga #FoxNews
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piero scaruffi
9 years
We can only fail, so let's just try to fail better.
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The place in which we live is a perpetual falling through the looking glass into the life of someone else.
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"Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened" (TS Eliot)
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piero scaruffi
3 years
‘Poem No. 4’ by Yi Sang; from ‘Crow’s Eye View,’ 1934
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@pscaruffi
piero scaruffi
1 year
Playlists for 2018-22 (thanks Nick!) (2018) (2019) (2020) (2021) (2022)
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@pscaruffi
piero scaruffi
4 years
Wikipedia just celebrated its 20th birthday. Its role in spreading disinformation ("fake news") is wildly underestimated. 20 years of cultural sabotage.
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2 years
Republican Party's strongest support comes from: white non-college males aged between 45-64. Democratic Party supporters: their children...
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Chronicle of a Panopticon Foretold
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