Miss Otter

What I already knew about social media

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:14:04 +0100

In 2014, Nate Silver had one million followers on Twitter and every link he published drove real traffic to his site. In 2025, he has three million, but the traffic social media brings to his Substack has become irrelevant. Those two numbers alone tell the story of a decade.

The title of his piece is “Social media has become a freak show” — which is more or less what we all think. Except Silver backs it up with data, and from the very particular vantage point of someone who used social media as an editorial channel for fifteen years, with millions of readers on the other end.

Island hopping with ashes, bones, and words

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:42:04 +0100

Malta is located at about 90 kilometres from Sicily. You can’t see it from the horizon unless you reach higher ground. Getting there by canoe takes over twenty-four hours, which means navigating through the night, steering by the stars.

An article by Michael Marshall published this week in Internazionale, an Italian weekly review, reports what happened when archaeologist Eleanor Scerri excavated Latnija cave in northern Malta: she found hearth ash, stone tools, deer bones bearing butchery marks. Radiocarbon dating places these traces at 8,500 years ago, a full millennium earlier than previously thought. But the real shift is something else: these were hunter-gatherers, the people the scientific community had long assumed incapable of crossing open sea. The study, published in Nature in 2025, forced a rewrite not just of Malta’s prehistory but of the entire chronology of Mediterranean seafaring.

Is this war a pretext?

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:06:39 +0100

“One of the pleasures of talking with a colleague is that we can indulge ourselves a little bit by talking about the past. There’s a long history of this kind of alchemical transfiguration of democracy by way of war.”

Timothy Snyder says this to Ruth Ben-Ghiat in a conversation, and that sentence stopped me: two American historians allowing themselves the luxury of talking about the past precisely while the present is taking a turn that the past can help us recognise. Worth following.

Questo breadcrumb è finto!

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Ci sono pochissime informazioni su quello che sta succedendo. Non c’è conferma ufficiale di trattative in corso con gli Stati Uniti, e se ci sono, nessuno quali condizioni stanno negoziando o come metteranno fine all’assedio energetico. I cubani non sanno, nel caso in cui il petrolio non arrivi, se dovranno affrontare una crisi umanitaria, un cambio di regime, una transizione graduale o un intervento straniero.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_brlZdk5dk

Prova import sito

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:21:13 +0100

Eccoci qua, proviamo a scrivere qualcosa per vedere come reagisce il sito nuovo all’importazione di questi contenuti e soprattutto all’inserimento di immagini.

L’avevo un po’ snobbata ma in effetti quest’immagine è proprio bellina. Poi a me piace l’acquerello.

Prova layout pagina breadcrumbs

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Faccio un post per vedere se il layout di breadcrumbs funziona e i post finiscono nella sidebar. SPeriamo!!!

Test configurazione sito

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:29:51 +0100

Titolo: Test configurazione sito

Questo è un post di prova per testare l’importazione automatica da Substack.

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SATOR, AREPO, TENET, OPERA, ROTAS.

Fine test.

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