Monday, January 23, 2023

Imposters back at work: Nicola Gratteri


Perhaps because medicine is a bit more life and death than middle managers (though I could name a few managers that made death seem an inviting prospect), we hear less often of the imposter managers. However, I bet dear reader, that you could name a few screaming fraudsters who have held the clipboard around your parts.

The imposters in our midst: How to spot an office fraudster Some manager are psychopaths


World’s oldest person passes away at 118 DW

Sgt. Pepper’s Tribute to Celebs Who Died in 2022

At the end of each year, art director Chris Barker collects celebrities who have died in the past 12 months into a Sgt. Pepper’s album cover collage — here’s 2022’s edition.


Nicola Gratteri: The man on the kill list of Italy’s most powerful mafia BBC

 

TikTok slapped with a €5 million fine by French regulators over its handling of users’ cookiesEuroNews



  1. “There is a limit to the happiness we can find in maintaining what is generally accepted as a healthy or beautiful body: If you are fortunate enough to live a long life, your body will break down” — Nick Riggle (San Diego) on “radical aesthetic openness to our bodies… as time and chance inevitably transform us”


Women beekeepers ‘astonished’ by global response to world record attempt ABC Australia


Scientists Gave Penguins a Mirror, And We Have Lots of Questions Science Alert


The Who-Ate-Whom of Terms in Biology: VirovorySmall Things Considered. Fascinating. Keep reading



Appeal of encyclopedia


Disingenuous or idiotic?


Russell Banks, R.I.P.


Our tote bags, ourselves


Year of anti-nihilism


War over semicolons


Let Twitter die


Benefits of wandering


Drinking songs


In praise of shortness


Booze and comic books


What is a dog?


What are historians for?


Meteorites as art


Matisse's body


AI "art"


Chocolate, gin, and cats


Barenboim's early life


On the end of Bookforum


2022's medieval erotics


American hubris


Why Messi matters


Josephine Baker, the spy


Bookforum, R.I.P.


Becoming a best-seller


Misunderstood mark


Artful orbituaries


Swear sounds


Literary rejections


Bigots v. literature


Joy of reading slowly


Christmas perfect gift


Weak novels


Proust and food