Turns out hope might be good for the soul.
Emily Brown in Relevant Magazine:
Gen Z has been fairly vocal about their struggles with mental health, but according to the American Bible Society’s recent report, “The State of the Bible 2024,” young adults who read their Bible regularly report being much happier than their peers.
A transport nerd's Italian journies
I’m a transport nerd, so here’s my transport journey to and across Italy over the last few weeks.
Missing in my photos is my phat electric bike from Procida.
We scooted in Rome
Moped in Amalfi
Avis gave me what was pretty much a sports car in Sicily
Then a baby little Fiat 500X in Tuscany
I flew my airline crush in Ryanair
Qatar A380s from Australia and through Doha to Rome
And the best €60 I spent was on a business class seat on the high speed rail from Naples
The criminalisation of journalism
Julian Assange and the criminalisation of journalism: A story of moral injury and moral courage in New Matilda today:
12th July 2007: Two US Apache helicopters unleash 30mm cannon fire on a group of Iraqi civilians. Two of them are Reuters journalists – Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh.
Twelve are killed, including both journalists and a passing van driver who stops to help the wounded. The van driver’s two young children, passengers at the time, are severely wounded.
The journalists’ cameras were later retrieved from the soldiers who had seized them. They indicated no evidence of the firefight the US military claimed had prompted the strike.
5th April 2010: WikiLeaks releases a video titled Collateral Murder, confirmed as authentic by the US military. The grainy footage taken from one of the Apaches documents the casual slaughter of noncombatants. You can hear the crew laughing at some of the casualties.
That face when you're “worried” about Spotify and podcasting
In an interview about broadcasting the Olympics on AM radio network in Australia (a sentence that could have been typed in 1970 and still make perfect sense), the Head of Content for the network, Greg Byrnes, talks Sarah Patterson about how, in the year 2024, he is “worried” about Spotify and podcasting, however:
You can’t get that on Spotify. You can’t get that on TikTok … if the school is closed because a local road is flooded, if planes aren’t flying because of fog at the airport, traffic gridlock … that content is really important to us and it’s important that we let the audience know that it is always available. “I think that strategy sets us up well for success.”
Imagine running the audio content for a $2B AUD media company and thinking that post-traditional-broadcast-technologists haven’t solved for
- school closures
- road flooding
- airport updates
- traffic gridlock.
School closures: surely schools in 2024 aren’t relying on 2GB to tell all the parents about an issue at school? Do local governments have interopt with Google and Apple Maps yet? If not, that should be a priority. Airlines also have pretty much got the technology thing downpat.
I have the deepest love for the audio medium, I miss working in it and creating for it, but I’m not romantic enough to think that the AM and FM talkback radio and music radio stations I’ve loved and have created for, but very few people in that space are aware that the world is changing rapidly and I don't understand how you could be so ignorant of the fact that the stations may well have a future, but it will be very different to their past.
Why are the Vatican guards dressed like clowns?
Orrrr why are clowns dressed like Vatican guards?
iPhone hack: when your iPhone 14 overheats in Rome, get a drink from McDonalds and melt the ice on the phone until it cools down.
L'angolo tra Via dei Gracchi e Via Fabio Massimo
I spent the last two hours in this seat, capturing as many interesting photos as possible from this single location in Rome, Italy, on the early evening of Monday, July 8, 2024.
Welcome to a little Roman photo essay I created, if only to entertain myself: L'angolo tra Via dei Gracchi e Via Fabio Massimo.
These two sparked the thought. We don't see many fully frocked nuns from the Vatican in Ranelagh, where I live in Tasmania.
Food and drinks from an ice creamery, a café bar and ristorante, and a few other spots at the corner of Via dei Gracchi and Via Fabio Massimo show how many food options are around here.
Since these are streets, you might have expected some vehicles. I extended my stay to two hours because I missed a classic Italian road rage incident: one man screaming at another, making a pointed gesture, exasperatedly sighing, and then driving off, completely forgetting about the incident.
I met quite a few local dogs and birds. There was also a rat, but I was too slow to catch it.
And of course, some locals.
Photos composed and created by me with my Canon EOS R5, the Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 lens, edited in Lightroom CC, with Carssun’s Amalfi Coast presets.
Professor Giuseppe’s Grand Hotel Tritone and its 1000-odd steps to the beach.
Some frames I have a captured on the Amalfi coast this week
When you’re hot-headed and your Ray-Bans stage an intervention
Why did they call it the Amalfi Coast when they could of called it the Stairs Coast and it would’ve been far more accurate
My favourite thing to do whilst in Italy is to pretend to not be in Australian then surprise traveling Aussies with a big “G’Day, mate!”
Apple Health: You’ve been on tour through Asia and Europe for four weeks.
Flighty: Your journey home begins in nine days.
Me: This is going to ruin the tour.
I was trying to to get to the Metro Linea 2 in Napoli, I saw this series of lines, and let’s just say that things escalated quickly
Pictures of steak I ate in Florence
Some things I looked at in Roma, Italy
You don’t like to see that other person neglecting their homework when it comes to growth through intimacy so you take on the curriculum yourself.
Some frames from Tuscany this last week
Do you ever see someone else’s project and realise that everything you’ve ever done in your life is meaningless? That’s for me dropofahat.zone