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Millennials, who grew up during the financial crisis and were seen as a lost generation, have turned their situation around and are now enjoying higher incomes, increasing home ownership, and a cultural revival, demonstrating that even lost generations can find their way. #generaties #millennials #cultuur (translated)

Oxitan asked where Kylian Mbappé, Cotillard, Omar Sy, Wembanyama, and Adèle Exarchopoulos were. He accused them, in his opinion, of having stoked tensions and then remaining silent when the situation escalated, before giving voting instructions. #TBT9 #Hdpros2 https://t.co/vahvruG664 #France #Culture #Célébrités (translated)

Micromania expressed its support for employees facing incidents that occurred this weekend in several of its stores and condemned the intimidation and aggression targeting individuals in the course of their work. The company stated that the safety and well-being of its teams were a priority and that it was providing them with the necessary support. To ensure continuity of service, pre-orders recorded in the affected stores would be transferred to nearby Micromania stores. The affected customers would be informed of the new collection arrangements, the company specified, which also praised the composure and solidarity of its employees. #SoutienCollab #SécuritéAuTravail #Solidarité (translated)

The author congratulated Senegal, which he indicated has been chosen to host the Francophonie Games in 2031. He emphasized that these meetings highlight sports, culture, and young talents from the five continents, and also extended his congratulations to Guinea. https://t.co/fcaKILjrNs #Sénégal #JeuxDeLaFrancophonie #Culture #SN #GN (translated)

Actu Foot reported that Kylian Mbappé said he was capable of adapting anywhere he went, while refusing to consider himself a chameleon. He described himself as a child of the world, explaining that he had discovered different cultures from a young age. He also mentioned having a joyful and dreamy personality, focused on the future rather than the past. Actu Foot attributed these comments to Onze Mondial. #KylianMbappé #Culture #Personnalité (translated)

Joan Laporta stated that a team could not rely on several players dominating the locker room and that collective cohesion was essential for the success of a project. He presented the chemistry between the talents of FC Barcelona, the players from La Masia, and those from other football cultures as a strength of the club, which he attributed to the work of the coach and the sporting director. Laporta contrasted this approach with that of Real Madrid, which he accused of favoring individual stars and big transfers. He claimed that the Madrid club had lost its credibility and was spreading lies about the Negreira case in an attempt to defend it. He also stated that Real Madrid had not won anything in two years, while Barcelona was winning and could contend for all titles. #FCBarcelona #Équipe #Football (translated)

Mounir Laggoune wrote that he spent a month in the United States working on Finary's artificial intelligence. He believed that, despite its flaws, the country was driven by a strong energy of construction, whereas in France, in his view, the cities were ravaged. He attributed this situation to fifty years of disastrous political decisions, made by both the left and the right, and deemed it unlikely that officials who had been in power for years could change everything. He identified as a fundamental cause a state that, in his opinion, taxed and managed everything, while living on credit since 1974. He argued that the French debt reached 3.6 trillion euros, or 119% of GDP and a record. He also compared the 21 million private sector employees to the 6 million public agents, 3.3 million unemployed, and 17 million retirees. Without change, he warned, dark days awaited the country. However, Laggoune said he remained hopeful, mentioning the know-how, culture, and history of France as well as the interest the world would have in it. He called on the silent majority that works quietly and finances what he referred to as a "circus" to make their voices heard. He announced that the Finary channel would analyze the economic programs of the parties, backed by figures, and said he wanted to give a major oral exam in economics to each candidate. He added that he doubted they would accept. #France #Économie #Politique (translated)

Florence Bergeaud-Blackler expressed her disagreement with a thesis by Jérôme Fourquet, which she said was echoed by almost all the media, presenting the riots as festive and playful events. She believed that this approach avoided naming a segment of the population descended from African immigration, to which, in her view, the punishment of infidels and colonizers was permitted. She added that the lack of designation, in her opinion, prevented understanding the cultural and religious motives of these individuals as well as their way of conducting political actions. #Émeutes #Immigration #Culture (translated)

The author reported that, on France Info, the lawyer of individuals accused of looting who were taken into police custody stated that his clients regretted nothing and believed their anger was justified in response to the government's neoliberal policies. He criticized what he termed a culture of excuse, which he associated with tragic consequences. #justice #politique #société #FR (translated)

Impact reported that students from art and cultural schools had demonstrated in front of the Louvre pyramid in Paris and blocked the entrance to the museum. According to the report, they had chanted "ACAB." The publication was credited to J.B. Semerdjian and Le Figaro. https://t.co/zpH7KcHPX4 #Paris #Manifestation #Culture (translated)

RADIO ARC 101:“NEWSSTANDS, ‘ENDANGERED SPECIES’ LIKE CAFÉS: MONEY LOST AND HOPES FROM STANFORD” by NANDO SILVESTRI SOURCE: https://radioarc.it/edicole-razze-in-estinzione-come-i-bar-soldi-persi-e-speranze-da-stanford/ Newsstands are another repository of humanity and knowledge, in many respects similar to cafés, at least as far as the unfortunate fate that has befallen many of them is concerned. The smell of printed paper, coloured card, variegated covers, surprise packets and cellophane was an olfactory molasses that once intoxicated young and old alike and represented, at the same time, a sought-after destination for daily walks and pauses. Stopping by the newsstand meant drawing upon knowledge, entertainment, culture, imagination and creativity. All prerogatives lost on account of the shapeless and amorphous surrogates disseminated by the web. This is the principal reason for the cumulative and recurring closure of a great many Italian newsstands: in economics, one speaks of a sector in demand collapse. But it is not merely a newsstand that closes; a piece of the local and national economy closes with it. From 35,000 newsstands in 2005 to about 20,000 in 2024: -43%. With them goes direct turnover of over €400 million per year, but the real hole is the indirect economy that is never calculated. Each average newsstand in a small town generated distribution worth €15,000 per year in margins for local distributors, couriers, and printers. Moreover, the customer who bought the newspaper would have a coffee, buy a bus ticket, place a bet. Download the Medium App One must consider that without a newsstand, the village cinema loses its only physical promotional outlet, not to mention the losses in terms of advertising. When it closes, it is not only the newsagent who loses. The café loses, the driver loses, the printer loses. In Irpinia, over the last five years, Avellino has lost six newsstands, Ariano Irpino three, Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi two. The total loss in Irpinia amounts to about 22% of outlets. All this means that many of the closures mentioned above have deprived Irpinian cafés of several dozen customers, harming workers, distributors and suppliers. These are jobs that do not make the news, but they exist. Another hard blow inflicted upon the local and national economy in the name of a false progress that almost always favours the business of fixers and the usual suspects. However, what is happening in Puglia, a few kilometres from Irpinia, opens up scenarios of renewal based precisely upon the reconversion of disused newsstands. These are prospects so unique and innovative as to have aroused interest worldwide, especially at Stanford University. This is news of enormous significance that few news programmes have disseminated, in the name of a perennial pre-emption by technologies contemptuous of common sense, tradition and art. In San Severo, 40 km from Upper Irpinia, a newsstand abandoned for six years in Via Matteo Tondi became, on 27 March 2026, the Teatro-Edicola Foyer’97: six chairs, four square metres, an idea by Francesco Gavino. The well-received 10- to 15-minute shows have piqued the curiosity of Stanford University. Its academic journal, the Stanford Social Innovation Review [SSIR], has chosen the Teatro Edicola in San Severo as an international case study with the reportage “The Six-Seat Revolution”. Why is Stanford watching us? Because it has realised that those four square metres can once again generate indirect economic activity. Indeed, 60 spectators in an afternoon can become 60 coffees at the neighbouring café. With a symbolic ticket price of €5, we are talking about a cultural micro-economy. Not to mention the indirect income from tourists and journalists who arrive and frequent B&Bs and restaurants. It is the model Irpinia needs: not to leave the void, but to reconvert it virtuously. Every closed newsstand can become an information point, a micro-cinema, a service hub. Otherwise we shall continue to count only the lowered shutters, without counting the money that no longer circulates.