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Why Medellín’s International Poetry Festival Moves the World?

As the 35th anniversary of the International Poetry Festival of Medellín unfolded, its founder, Colombian poet Fernando Rendón, posed a question that echoes far beyond Colombia: What makes this poetry festival captivate so many poets and thousands of attendees each year? The answers—flowing from poets, scholars, and

Meta to invest hundreds of billions in superintelligence efforts

Meta Platforms plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in computing infrastructure to advance its superintelligence ambitions in artificial intelligence (AI), Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday. Writing on social media platform Threads, Zuckerberg said Meta would build one of the most "elite and talent-dense teams

Emerging Poets Face Off in Showdown

Bots Challenge Young Poets: A Literary Showdown By Alexander Voronin Member of the Union of Russian Writers As tradition holds, the literary season closed on a high note with the Derzhavin Poetry Festival on Monday. Let us reflect on the journey. Since last autumn, ahead of and following the BRICS summit in Kazan, we at Kazan

Bots Challenge Young Poets: A Literary Showdown

As tradition holds, the literary season closed on a high note with the Derzhavin Poetry Festival on Monday. Let us reflect on the journey. Since last autumn, ahead of and following the BRICS summit in Kazan, we at Kazan Vedomosti hosted five online sessions with poets from China, India, Egypt, Iran, and Indonesia. From November to April,

Observations of an Expat: Scary Thoughts

“Democracy is inherently corrupt, inefficient and prone to decay. Public opinion is shaped by the media and academia which creates an illusion of consent” “Countries should not be governed as states responsible to their citizens but as a private company headed by an all-powerful CEO” – Yarvin By Tom