MultivRSS Digest: August 10, 2026

Translated from the original Italian with the help of AI. If a sentence sounds a bit off, that's probably why.

Today I'm launching this rubric, hopefully a recurring one, where I want to point out the most compelling content I came across during the week.

I recently started rewatching (for the third time? Fourth?) Community, one of the funniest TV shows in recent television history. One of the show's quirks was trying to relaunch the career of Chevy Chase, the legendary comic actor who came out of the Saturday Night Live school, hugely popular in the 1980s and then forgotten in the decades that followed.

I came across this long 2018 Washington Post article that profiles the life, personality and career of a difficult, controversial, brilliant and often detestable figure, surfacing some details of his life and childhood that help put his character in context.

Switching topics entirely: I've been working with archives for more than ten years, so I couldn't resist digging into this article from Long Bets, a site dedicated to promoting long-term thinking through bets built on predictions with a fairly long time horizon.

In 2011 two people bet $1,000 on how long a URL would survive. Click the link to find out how it turned out.

And to close, a great piece of investigative journalism from the BBC. The Syrian civil war was one of the events that marked the course of our century, and sadly many perpetrators and war criminals remain unpunished to this day. Here you can read how, starting from a list of phone numbers, a journalist tried to follow the trail leading to one of the most ruthless figures in Bashar al-Assad's regime.