#02 Martie 2024

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62 I 2024. IMOBILIZAT SAU MI-A FRÂNT PUTEREA ÎN DRUM [Psalmul 102.23 I Geneza 32.24-25 I Numeri 22.21–22]

62 I 2024. IMOBILIZAT SAU MI-A FRÂNT PUTEREA ÎN DRUM I Podcast I Pasaj Biblic : Psalmul 102 : 23 I Geneza 32 : 24 – 25 I Numeri 22 : 21 – 22 I Meditaţii din Cuvânt I Cezareea I Reşiţa I 02 Martie 2024 I Imobilizat sau Mi-a frânt puterea în drum. Imobilizat este un cuvânt care se referă la cel : „Care nu se poate mișca”. (DEX, 2009) În Psalmul 102 : 23, scrie despre Dumnezeu că : „El mi-a frânt…

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TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET on the set of "Marty Supreme" in Midtown Manhattan in New York City (October 02, 2024)

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Timothée Chalamet is seen on the set of "Marty Supreme" in Midtown Manhattan on November 02, 2024 in New York City. 

via 花糕心有甜派 on weibo

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Come see me on tour!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

My next novel is The Bezzle, a high-tech ice-cold revenge thriller starring Marty Hench, a two-fisted forensic accountant, as he takes on the sleaziest scams of the first two decades of the 2000s, from hamburger-themed Ponzis to the unbelievably sleazy and evil prison-tech industry:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

I'm taking Marty on the road! I'll be visiting eighteen cities between now and June, and I hope you'll come out and say hello, visit a beloved local bookseller, and maybe get a book (or two)!

21 Feb: Weller Bookworks, Salt Lake City, 1830h: https://www.wellerbookworks.com/event/store-cory-doctorow-feb-21-630-pm

22 Feb: Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego, 19h: https://www.mystgalaxy.com/22224Doctorow

24 Feb: Vroman's, Pasadena, 17h, with Adam Conover (!!) https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Cory-Doctorow-discusses-The-Bezzle

26 Feb: Third Place Books, Seattle, 19h, with Neal Stephenson (!!!) https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/cory-doctorow

27 Feb: Powell's, Portland, 19h: https://www.powells.com/book/the-bezzle-martin-hench-2-9781250865878/1-2

29 Feb: Changing Hands, Phoenix, 1830h: https://www.changinghands.com/event/february2024/cory-doctorow

9-10 Mar: Tucson Festival of the Book: https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?action=display_author&id=15669

13 Mar: San Francisco Public Library: https://sfpl.org/events/2024/03/13/author-cory-doctrow-bezzle

22 Mar: Toronto: Wendy Michener Memorial Lecture: https://events.yorku.ca/events/wendy-michener-memorial-lecture2024/

24 Mar: NYC: Word Books (with Laura Poitras): https://shop.wordbookstores.com/event/word-presents-cory-doctorow

29-31 Mar: Wondercon Anaheim: https://www.comic-con.org/wc/

11 Apr: Harvard Berkman-Klein Center (with Randall Munroe) https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/enshittification

12 Apr: RISD Debates in AI, Providence, details coming soon!

17 Apr: Anderson's Books, Chicago, 19h: https://www.andersonsbookshop.com/event/cory-doctorow-1

19-21 Apr: Torino Biennale Tecnologia https://www.turismotorino.org/en/experiences/events/biennale-tecnologia

2 May, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Winnipeg https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-tickets-798820071337

5-11 May: Tartu Prima Vista Literary Festival https://tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfestival/

6-9 Jun: Media Ecology Association keynote, Amherst, NY https://media-ecology.org/convention

Calgary and Vancouver – details coming soon!

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Marti and Roxy - it isn't too difficult to guess who's who, now is it? (02/2024, T cup)

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mcflyjuly 2024//🌲🌲//day 15: "i think about it all the time."

02/08/85

How on EARTH is Doc so damn misunderstood? I went to visit his laboratory today, and he instantly greeted me with a mug of hot chocolate and told me to warm up due to the rater icy weather outside. We have talked about how we're always there for each other before, but it always baffles me how loyal he is to those words (considering how peopler like my parents have probably given up on me by now).

Our friendship continues to amaze me each time. What are the odds that ahigh school student gets along with an older scientist, let alone develops a lasting friendship?

I am terribly sorry about looking through this, Marty, but I wanted to say that I, too, get confused every day as to why and how you but up with me, and yet I am incredibly grateful that you do. You truly mean a lot to me and I hope our friendship will last for many more years. You are a very remarkable boy. Hope this message puts a smile on your face (and that you forgive me for snooping!) - Doc

Doc. Doc please. You're literally the best. Of course I forgive you

I have nothing rational to add to this. Now excuse me while I go hug Doc to make him stop working and play music with me.

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Eddie Redmayne Says 'Willkommen' to Broadway in First Production Photos from Cabaret Revival (Exclusive)

'The Good Nurse' actor is starring as the Emcee alongside Gayle Rankin as the musical's leading lady Sally Bowles

By Sabienna Bowman Published on April 15, 2024 02:30PM EDT

Eddie Redmayne is ready to put on a show in the first photos from Broadway's Cabaret revival!

In PEOPLE's exclusive first look at the famed John Kander and Fred Ebb musical's return to the Great White Way,The Good Nurse actor, 42, suits up at as Kit Kat Klub's mercurial Emcee. With his jaunty green party hat, oversized brown cravat and black gloves, Redmayne is both intriguing and imposing as the fascinating character.

In another snap of the Emcee in action, Redmayne leaps into the air as several members of the cast dance around him during the show's iconic opening number, "Willkommen."

See Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin in First Rehearsal Photos for Broadway's Cabaret Revival (Exclusive)

Additional photos from the show shine the spotlight on House of the Dragon actress Gayle Rankin in the role of the vivacious nightclub singer Sally Bowles. In one compelling photo, she seems poised to take the stage with a microphone in hand as she's surrounded by ensemble members during the song, "Mein Herr."

Another picture finds Rankin in a ruffly white dress while holding a prop cigarette as she performs the song "Don’t Tell Mama."

The Cabaret revival is being directed by Rebecca Frecknall, who helmed the West End version, which also starred Redmayne. Previews began April 1 at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City, with the show set to officially open on April 21.

Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

Cabaret has long been a success both on the stage and screen. Based on John Van Druten’s 1951 play I Am a Camera, which in turn was adapted from the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood, Cabaret first hit Broadway in 1966. It was later turned into the 1972 film of the same name starring Oscar-winner Liza Minnelli.

The musical tells the story of Sally, an ambitious English singer who starts up a relationship with American writer Clifford Bradshaw as he observes the eccentric characters who populate the Kit Kat Klub in Berlin. Set between World War I and World War II, the growing unrest beyond the club's doors is ever-present as the artists within express themselves through song.

It features a score by Kander & Ebb made up of a string of songs that have become musical theatre mainstays, like “Willkommen,” “Don't Tell Mamma,” “Mein Herr,” “Two Ladies,” “Tomorrow Belongs to Me,” “Money,” “Maybe This Time” and, of course, “Cabaret.”

Jennifer Lopez Visits the Kit Kat Club for Broadway Revival of Cabaret (Exclusive)

Redmayne, who also produces the Broadway revival, has long said that Cabaret “properly ignited” his love for theater, while playing the Emcee in a student production of the musical over 25 years ago.

In an October 2023 statement, he shared, "It now feels completely thrilling and a little surreal to be a part of Rebecca's truly unique vision of Masteroff, Kander, and Ebb's brilliance as it arrives on Broadway, where the piece has such a history."

In addition to Redmayne and Rankin, the rest of the principle cast is rounded out by Ato Blankson-Wood (Clifford), Steven Skybell (Herr) and Tony winner Bebe Neuwirth (Fräulein), as well as Natascia Diaz (Fraulein Kost and Fritzie); and Henry Gottfried (Ernst Ludwig).

The cast also includes, Gabi Campo (Frenchie), Ayla Ciccone-Burton (Helga), Colin Cunliffe (Hans), Loren Lester (Herman/Max), David Merino (Lulu), Julian Ramos (Bobby), MiMi Scardulla (Texas), Paige Smallwood as Rosie, and Marty Lauter (Victor) — also known as Marcia Marcia Marcia of RuPaul's Drag Race fame.

Tickets for Cabaret are on sale now.

https://people.com/see-eddie-redmayne-in-first-production-photos-from-cabaret-revival-exclusive-8633414

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Fandom: Back to the Future || Rating: T || Genre: Whump, Angst, Some Humor || Summary: In which Marty finds himself living an outlaw’s life alongside Buford Tannen in the Old West, where danger, death, and disease abound.

whumpril 2024 || day 02 - sweat

The smells Marty suffered as a ��desperado” were horrid. Despite Buford’s ridicule, Marty tried maintaining twentieth-century hygiene standards. But you didn’t always get to bathe after a long day in the hot desert sun, and there wasn’t room for more than a clean shirt in your saddlebag unless you wanted to starve. But he did what could. For himself and his immediate company. Buford rolled his eyes at the unfamiliar shirt in his pack. “Quit buyin’ me clothes!” “The others reek!” “When the fuck have you ever seen me wear plaid?” “Just don’t throw this one into the fire. Please.”

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These country music stars are coming together for a Tom Petty tribute album

The album, called “Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty” is set to drop May 31, according to All Country News. The 20-track album will feature modern covers of Petty’s signature songs from some of the biggest names in the genre, the news outlet said.

The full track list, according to All Country News, is as follows:

“I Should Have Known It” by Chris Stapleton

“Wildflowers” by Thomas Rhett

“Runnin’ Down A Dream” by Luke Combs

“Southern Accents” by Dolly Parton

“Here Comes My Girl” by Justin Moore

“American Girl” by Dierks Bentley

“Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” by Lady A

“I Forgive It All” -byJamey Johnson

“I Won’t Back Down” by Brothers Osborne

“Refugee” by Wynonna Judd and Lainey Wilson

“Angel Dream #2″ by Willie Nelson and Lukas Nelson

“Learning to Fly” by Eli Young Band

“Breakdown” by Ryan Hurd featuring Carly Pearce

“Yer So Bad” by Steve Earle

“Ways to Be Wicked” by Margo Price and Mike Campbell

“Mary Jane’s Last Dance” by Midland

“Free Fallin’” by The Cadillac Three featuring Breland

“I Need to Know” by Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives

“Don’t Come Around Here No More” by Rhiannon Giddens featuring Benmont Tench

“You Wreck Me” (Live) by George Strait

READ MORE https://www.masslive.com/entertainment/2024/02/these-country-music-stars-are-coming-together-for-a-tom-petty-tribute-album.html

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Marty sits down with Pascal Hügli to discuss the multivariate implications of Donald Trump's White House victory for bitcoin.

Pascal on Twitter: https://x.com/pahueg

0:00 - Intro

1:23 - The European mind can't comprehend Trump victory

10:09 - Prediction markets

25:08 - Unchained & Coinkite

27:02 - Trump's approach to bitcoin

37:08 - SOTE

38:40 - America leading the charge on bitcoin

47:03 - Has hyperbitcoinization been pulled forward?

51:36 - Bitcoin credit products

59:05 - Supercycle?

1:11:53 - Price targets

1:14:51 - Interesting times

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What songs from modern times would you guys consider as compositional genius?

What songs from modern times would you guys consider as compositional genius? so basically the title,by the ambiguous term modern times, I refer to maybe 1920s+ or somethingCompositionally genius again is a very subjective term, but in my mind it generally refers to a really unique chord progression, arrangement or musical ideas.Here are some from top of my mind,Strawberry Fields Forever- The BeatlesA day in the life- The BeatlesEleanor Rigby - The BeatlesTomorrow never knows- The BeatlesI want you- she is so heavy-The BeatlesGood vibrations - Beach boysGod only knows- Beach boysThe Rain song- Led zeppelinAchilles last stand - Led zeppelinTen years gone- Led zeppelin Layla- Derek and the DominosEchoes- Pink floydDogs- Pink floydPigs (three different ones)- Pink floydComfortably numb-Pink floydus and them-Pink floydtime - pink floydWhiter shade of pale- Procol harem Starman- David BowieHot for teacher- Van halenTornado of souls- Megadethgood mouring (black friday)- MegadethHanger 18 - Megadeth valley of eternity - Marty FriedmanDragon's kiss- Marty Friedmanperpetual burn - Jason beckeraltitudes- Jason beckerFor the love of god- Steve vai (basically the whole passion warfare album) octavarium- Dream theaterand the whole allan holdsworth discographyi know I have missed a million, but i'd like to know what u guys think they are, hopefully i havent heard many and get expand my horizons Submitted October 10, 2024 at 02:11PM by sSlowhandd https://ift.tt/ufBx9AU via /r/Music

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NYC backs to the 1950's while filming 'Marty Supreme' with Timothée Chalamet

NYC backs to the 1950's while filming 'Marty Supreme' with Timothée Chalamet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tojWsoeHQys Timothée Chalamet was spotted eating a hot dog while filming a scene for his upcoming movie 'Marty Supreme' in NYC. The movie is inspired by the legendary table tennis player Marty Reisman, who was a well-known figure in the 1950s. Chalamet, who is playing Reisman, was rocking a classic 1950s hairstyle with slicked-back hair and a cheeky little mustache, staying true to the time period. 📷: SPARTANO / @backgrid_usa For licensing inquiries, please email us at usasales@backgrid.com #backgrid #TimotheeChalamet #martysupreme #onset CONNECT WITH US! =============================== Instagram: https://ift.tt/e42Lx3I TikTok: https://ift.tt/aNQviYP Twitter: https://twitter.com/BackgridUS About Backgrid: Backgrid is the ultimate go-to source for all things celebrity news. Committed to authenticity and transparency, we pride ourselves on bringing you the latest stories. We're not just reporting the news, we're capturing it - bringing you exclusive and candid shots of your favorite stars as they go about their daily lives. From the red carpet to the streets, we're always on the scene, ready to deliver the latest scoop. © Backgrid BGUS 3049236 via backgrid https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYwFyFjFUSRcwYCIxHmRBMQ October 02, 2024 at 11:12PM

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ofmoss__ - Marty Supreme movie set 🎬

( Oct 02, 2024 )

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The Bezzle excerpt (Part III)

I'm on tour with my new novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW in SALT LAKE CITY (Feb 21, Weller Book Works) and then SAN DIEGO (Feb 22, Mysterious Galaxy). After that, it's LA, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix and more!

This week, I'm serializing part of chapter 14 from my new novel The Bezzle, which is out in stores TODAY (!!!):

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

The Bezzle is a Martin Hench novel, the followup to last year's Red Team Blues – though each book in the series is designed to be read in any order, and to stand alone (RTB just came out in paperback):

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865854/redteamblues

Hench is a two-fisted, high-tech forensic accountant whose career spans 40 years of busting high-tech scams, from the earliest days of the PC to the white-hot center of the cryptocurrency bubble. Each book revolves around a single, central scam (in The Bezzle, it's the unbelievably slimy prison-tech industry):

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/14/minnesota-nice/#shitty-technology-adoption-curve

But each book also features lots of subplots that unpick different kinds of fraud. In this serialized excerpt, we get to watch Marty unwind a music royalty theft scheme, the kind of thing that Rebecca Giblin and I pulled apart in our 2022 book, Chokepoint Capitalism (also now in paperback!):

https://chokepointcapitalism.com/

Today's installment gets into one of the major tactics of any semi-respectable scam – simply ignoring the victim in the hope that they'll get tired and go away. Any of us who've been ripped off by a big company can surely relate.

I'm leaving on my tour for this one tomorrow, starting with a gig in Salt Lake City at Weller Bookworks (Feb 21) at 630PM:

https://www.wellerbookworks.com/event/store-cory-doctorow-feb-21-630-pm

From there, it's on to LA (with Adam Conover), Seattle (with Neal Stephenson) and many, many more cities – maybe one near you!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

Here's part one of the serial:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/17/the-steve-soul-caper/#lead-singer-disease

And part two:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/19/crad-kilodney-was-an-outlier/#copyright-termination

And now, onto part three!

Stefon cooked Jamal another dinner and Jamal wrote another letter, this one more forceful, and addressed to Gounder by name. Two weeks later, Jamal wrote another letter without needing dinner because “that motherfucker went to Harvard fucking law”—­Jamal had looked him up in the ALA directory—­“and he knows you can’t make legal problems go away just by ignoring them. Time for that piece of shit to put on his big-­boy pants and be a goddamned lawyer.”

The one thing Jamal wouldn’t do was file a lawsuit. “You need a lawyer for that,” he said. “I mean, I can help you with the paperwork, but a paralegal can’t file the suit. And you shouldn’t file your own suit, either. Those guys’ll just hire some blow-dried asshole from a big law firm and they’ll crush you like a cockroach.”

“Well, shit,” Stefon said. But it all made sense. Anyone doing business with Chuy Flores would do business like Chuy Flores—­that is, crooked as hell.

“What you need is a contingency lawyer,” Jamal said. “Someone who’ll take the job for a piece of the action.” Which is how Stefon ended up being represented by Benny Caetani II, son of Benedetto Caetani, who graduated at the top of his Yale class, won a string of spectacular class-­action suits, then got disbarred after someone leaked calls where he admitted moving money from one client trust account into another to cover a shortfall. No one seriously thought that Benedetto was stealing anyone’s money—­he’d had receivables due within a week that let him make the trust account whole—­but he was also clearly guilty.

Equally, no one seriously believed that the high-­powered surveillance that led to Benedetto’s downfall was random. Benedetto had transferred more than a hundred million dollars from the balance sheets of America’s largest, dirtiest corporations—­ poison-­peddling pharma giants, toxic-­waste-­dumping chemical companies, a global chain of botox parlors with some very loose syringes indeed—­and they were gunning for him.

Officially, Benedetto was out of the lawyer game. Unofficially, he was the brains behind Benny, and the two of them ran a squeaky-­clean shop, making sure that everything that an actual lawyer had to do, Benny did—­while Benedetto did ­everything else. Father and son got along well and they were a hell of a team. When Benedetto called me in to audit Inglewood Jams’ books, I jumped at the opportunity. They were a delight to work for.

“They played tough,” Benedetto said, as his minions arranged the bankers’ boxes on the steel kitchen shelves he’d had installed on the long walls of the storefront he’d rented for me to work out of for the month. “At first. Told me they didn’t owe Stefon a dime, and that they’d rather bankrupt themselves in court than pay some broken-­down, washed-­up disco king anything. Told me his problem was with Chuy, not Inglewood Jams.”

“Well, to be fair, that Chuy guy sounds like a class-­A piece of shit.”

“A broke piece of shit. Guy’s got a million-­dollar nose and an empty bank account.”

“So you had to go after Inglewood Jams.”

Benedetto twirled around in his Aeron chair. He’d sent over a pair of them, asking if I needed more, because he had a storage locker full of them that he’d gotten as part of a settlement with a broke Santa Monica crowdsourcing company that stiffed its workers when it folded.

“I did. I went after them. That Gounder lawyer tried to bluff, then when that didn’t work, he tried to dodge service. Which was such a kindergarten move. Plus he was no good at it. Caught him outside the rub-­and-­tug parlor he went to every Friday after work. Handed him the papers. Wore a bodycam. Didn’t mention his wife. Didn’t have to.”

“You think he settled because he didn’t want his wife to find out he was getting hand jobs at a massage parlor?”

“No, he held out awhile after that. But I could see it preying on him, every time I was face-­to-­face with him. Eventually, he musta told his bosses that they were gonna lose, and so they offered a settlement. It was trash. I laughed in his face. He tossed out some better offers, but none of them even in the ballpark of what we would get in court. Finally, I told him to get serious or send his court suit out to the dry cleaner’s. That’s when he offered to make Stefon whole and pay me a little for my trouble on top of things.”

I suppressed a snort. I was sure that a little on top amounted to some real folding money.

“Even then he tried to pull a fast one, told me he’d calculate Stefon’s royalties and send a check the next week. I was like, ‘Hold up, there is no way you’re going to be able to make an honest accounting for Stefon’s royalties in a week. The dude’s samples are in hundreds of songs. The mere fact that you claimed that you could come up with a fair amount in a week tells me you were planning to pull a lowball number out of your ass and pass it off as the audited total, so tell you what, I’m gonna get the best forensic accountant in the state of California to come down here to LA and crawl all over your papers, and you are going to send him everything he needs to do it, or we’re going to court, motherfucker.”

“And he agreed?”

“Hell no. He refused. We went to a preliminary hearing. Judge turned out to be a classic soul fan. It didn’t go well for Gounder or Inglewood. The next day, he was back in my office, and now, well, here we are.”

ETA: Here's part four!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/20/fore/#lawyer-up

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Marty Friedman Shares New Single & Video “Dead Of Winter”

https://music.mxdwn.com/2024/05/02/news/marty-friedman-shares-new-single-video-dead-of-winter/