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🐎 Per trovare la strada ti serve un mappa https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/10249-7-reasons-why-you-need-a-written-personal-vision-statement
L’etica non si può basare sulla natura umana perché... la natura umana non esiste, come spiega la biologia dell’evoluzione. E allora? Questo articolo è una mazzata per i più filosoficamente inclinati tra di voi.
Money quote: “One time-honoured approach appeals to the idea that our desires are worthy, providing that they stem from our authentic human nature. Daoists, Epicureans and Aristotelians, among other purveyors of ancient wisdom, have all urged us to follow nature. But what could that mean? “
https://aeon.co/essays/how-evolutionary-biology-makes-everyone-an-existentialist
Money quote: “One time-honoured approach appeals to the idea that our desires are worthy, providing that they stem from our authentic human nature. Daoists, Epicureans and Aristotelians, among other purveyors of ancient wisdom, have all urged us to follow nature. But what could that mean? “
https://aeon.co/essays/how-evolutionary-biology-makes-everyone-an-existentialist
Aeon
Natural-born existentialists
Ethics cannot be based on human nature because, as evolutionary biology tells us, there is no such thing
Qualche giorno fa si ragionava di questo: ipotetici effetti di tagli dei cavi sottomarini di Internet causati da sommergibili russi
Money quote: "You don’t notice when a cable faults, especially if you live somewhere like the United States, because your Instagram message or Google Voice call is instantly re-routed. If you’re Skyping with a friend in Romania for instance, and a fishing boat or anchor ruptures a cable—as causes two-thirds of faults—your conversation simply goes over another line. Many regions, like Europe, the United States, and East Asia have numerous cables running over the same path."
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-undersea-internet-cables/
Money quote: "You don’t notice when a cable faults, especially if you live somewhere like the United States, because your Instagram message or Google Voice call is instantly re-routed. If you’re Skyping with a friend in Romania for instance, and a fishing boat or anchor ruptures a cable—as causes two-thirds of faults—your conversation simply goes over another line. Many regions, like Europe, the United States, and East Asia have numerous cables running over the same path."
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-undersea-internet-cables/
WIRED
What Would Really Happen If Russia Attacked Undersea Internet Cables
The world’s internet infrastructure is vulnerable, but snipping a couple of lines is the least of your concerns.
Polaroid di gente ubriaca ad Amsterdam. Un vecchio progetto non banale.
Money quote: “Turns out, taking drunk snapshots of your friends at the bar can actually count as art.”
https://timeline.com/polaroids-of-amsterdam-nightlife-in-the-1970s-follow-a-long-tradition-of-picturing-drunks-475408c10cbb
Money quote: “Turns out, taking drunk snapshots of your friends at the bar can actually count as art.”
https://timeline.com/polaroids-of-amsterdam-nightlife-in-the-1970s-follow-a-long-tradition-of-picturing-drunks-475408c10cbb
Medium
Polaroids of Amsterdam nightlife in the 1970s follow a long tradition of picturing drunks
Tronies over here, tronies over there
Il marchio-feticcio per l'abbigliamento della generazione hipster potrebbe essere questo: Outlier, da San Francisco. Costa caro come il fuoco, ma viene prodotto da due invasati con una passione impossibile da frenare anche dopo anni e anni di magliette e giacchette...
Money quote: "First, they attached a white cotton facing to the merino, marrying aesthetics to function: the merino against your skin, naturally wicking away sweat; the cocaine-white cotton gleaming unto the world. “But then what we realized is, you can't bleach merino,” Burmeister says, visibly aggrieved. “So we were selling this white cotton tee that's great until it gets dirty, and then you're like, Uh-oh.” Recently they asked the fabric mill to apply a stain-resistant treatment to the cotton, obviating the need for bleach. The mill is having a difficult time with the request. It’s probably wondering the same thing as you: Does the world need a better white T-shirt? Or an equally good white T-shirt that is simply more white? But these questions are irrelevant to Clemens and Burmeister. “The compromise part of the market is very well serviced,” Burmeister says. “So we go for the uncompromised.”"
https://www.gq.com/story/outlier-pants-for-the-end-of-the-world
Wired ne parla ancora più diffusamente
Money quote: "Pragmatic, textile-driven design, social media acumen, and supply-chain savvy made Outlier a darling of nerdy, direct-to-consumer technical menswear and an I-see-you signifier among Silicon Valley types. Today Outlier has 22 employees—Burmeister and Clemens are still the sole owners. Fashion business publications have reported its revenue as between $5 million and $15 million, “and we didn’t dispute that,” Burmeister says. Now, 10 years on, Outlier's increasingly experimental experiments are evidence that Burmeister and Clemens aren’t even close to running out of ideas."
https://www.wired.com/story/outlier-tech-clothes/
Money quote: "First, they attached a white cotton facing to the merino, marrying aesthetics to function: the merino against your skin, naturally wicking away sweat; the cocaine-white cotton gleaming unto the world. “But then what we realized is, you can't bleach merino,” Burmeister says, visibly aggrieved. “So we were selling this white cotton tee that's great until it gets dirty, and then you're like, Uh-oh.” Recently they asked the fabric mill to apply a stain-resistant treatment to the cotton, obviating the need for bleach. The mill is having a difficult time with the request. It’s probably wondering the same thing as you: Does the world need a better white T-shirt? Or an equally good white T-shirt that is simply more white? But these questions are irrelevant to Clemens and Burmeister. “The compromise part of the market is very well serviced,” Burmeister says. “So we go for the uncompromised.”"
https://www.gq.com/story/outlier-pants-for-the-end-of-the-world
Wired ne parla ancora più diffusamente
Money quote: "Pragmatic, textile-driven design, social media acumen, and supply-chain savvy made Outlier a darling of nerdy, direct-to-consumer technical menswear and an I-see-you signifier among Silicon Valley types. Today Outlier has 22 employees—Burmeister and Clemens are still the sole owners. Fashion business publications have reported its revenue as between $5 million and $15 million, “and we didn’t dispute that,” Burmeister says. Now, 10 years on, Outlier's increasingly experimental experiments are evidence that Burmeister and Clemens aren’t even close to running out of ideas."
https://www.wired.com/story/outlier-tech-clothes/
GQ
The Radical Vision Behind One Company's Unstoppable Pants
Outlier makes clothes for the future—whatever that future looks like.
La parte più divertente? Il lancio di un modellino di razzo attorno alla mezzanotte. Yuhu! L'articolo pieno di fiele e rivelazioni sconvolgenti relative ai party "sex, drugs and technomusik" pubblicato da Vanity Fair (lo avevo condiviso qualche giorno fa) sembrerebbe essere molto poco accurato. Anzi, inventato si potrebbe dire. Ci sono varie voci che lo sostengono ma quella di Elon Musk è la più forte (anche se c'è un conflitto di interessi, all'apparenza). Da notare che la storia di Wired fa vero e proprio fact checking su quella pubblicata da Vanity, ma entrambe sono testate dello stesso editore Condé Nast.
Money quote: "Elon Musk, whose companies Jurvetson has invested in, confirmed to WIRED that he attended the party but disputed the Vanity Fair article’s “sex party” characterization. He wrote, “Emily Chang’s article was salacious nonsense. She conflated what happens in SF sex clubs in the Tenderloin, which have been around long before Silicon Valley was anything, with boring VC parties on the Peninsula. That is misleading to the public and she should be ashamed. If there are ‘sex parties’ in Silicon Valley, I haven’t seen or heard of one. If you want wild parties, you’re in the wrong place. Obviously. That DFJ party was boring and corporate, with zero sex or nudity anywhere. Nerds on a couch are not a ‘cuddle puddle.’ I was hounded all night by DFJ-funded entrepreneurs, so went to sleep around 1am. Nothing remotely worth writing about happened. The most fun thing was Steve lighting a model rocket around midnight.”"
https://www.wired.com/story/sex-party-or-nerds-on-a-couch-a-night-in-silicon-valley/
Money quote: "Elon Musk, whose companies Jurvetson has invested in, confirmed to WIRED that he attended the party but disputed the Vanity Fair article’s “sex party” characterization. He wrote, “Emily Chang’s article was salacious nonsense. She conflated what happens in SF sex clubs in the Tenderloin, which have been around long before Silicon Valley was anything, with boring VC parties on the Peninsula. That is misleading to the public and she should be ashamed. If there are ‘sex parties’ in Silicon Valley, I haven’t seen or heard of one. If you want wild parties, you’re in the wrong place. Obviously. That DFJ party was boring and corporate, with zero sex or nudity anywhere. Nerds on a couch are not a ‘cuddle puddle.’ I was hounded all night by DFJ-funded entrepreneurs, so went to sleep around 1am. Nothing remotely worth writing about happened. The most fun thing was Steve lighting a model rocket around midnight.”"
https://www.wired.com/story/sex-party-or-nerds-on-a-couch-a-night-in-silicon-valley/
WIRED
'Sex Party' or 'Nerds on a Couch?' A Night in Silicon Valley
Party described in Vanity Fair article and forthcoming book was at a home of Steve Jurvetson, a founding partner of venture-capital firm DFJ who left the firm in November.
Teorie e storie sul perché il pane in centro-Italia (Firenze, Perugia) sia sciapo. È colpa dei pisani, del Papa, o del prosciutto salato? Fa impressione rileggere la propria storia sociale sotto la lente e con lo sguardo di uno straniero, e lo dico da fiorentino, quindi direttamente coinvolto in questa particolare vicenda.
Money quote: "My 90-year-old grandmother, who spent much of her childhood in Poppi, a small town 20 miles from Arezzo in eastern Tuscany, had a much more practical take on the tradition: “Tuscans make saltless bread as everything else is very salty. Cured ham is so salty that we usually eat it with saltless bread and figs that counterbalance the taste. Plus, saltless bread lasts longer.”"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mystery-italy-saltless-bread-trade-wars-salty-hams
Money quote: "My 90-year-old grandmother, who spent much of her childhood in Poppi, a small town 20 miles from Arezzo in eastern Tuscany, had a much more practical take on the tradition: “Tuscans make saltless bread as everything else is very salty. Cured ham is so salty that we usually eat it with saltless bread and figs that counterbalance the taste. Plus, saltless bread lasts longer.”"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mystery-italy-saltless-bread-trade-wars-salty-hams
Atlas Obscura
The Mystery of Italy’s Saltless Bread
Trade wars, papal rebellion, or salty hams. Why does central Italian bread have no salt?
Donald Trump ha fatto il suo nuovo numero da razzista bigotto e uno dei problemi è
Come tradurre correttamente "shithole countries" in altre lingue. Ad esempio “il posto dove gli uccelli fanno le uova”.
Money quote: “Donald Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” during a meeting on immigration Thursday (Jan. 11) with Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the Oval Office. According to several people at the briefing, Trump said, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Instead, he suggested, the US should welcome more people from nations like Norway instead.
Media around the world soon picked up on the remark, but not always in English. In Asia, outlets struggled to translate “shithole countries.” Here are some of their attempts“
https://qz.com/1178232/where-birds-dont-lay-eggs-how-media-in-asia-translated-shithole-countries/
Come tradurre correttamente "shithole countries" in altre lingue. Ad esempio “il posto dove gli uccelli fanno le uova”.
Money quote: “Donald Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” during a meeting on immigration Thursday (Jan. 11) with Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the Oval Office. According to several people at the briefing, Trump said, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Instead, he suggested, the US should welcome more people from nations like Norway instead.
Media around the world soon picked up on the remark, but not always in English. In Asia, outlets struggled to translate “shithole countries.” Here are some of their attempts“
https://qz.com/1178232/where-birds-dont-lay-eggs-how-media-in-asia-translated-shithole-countries/
Quartz
“Where birds don’t lay eggs”: How “shithole countries” was translated
During a meeting, Donald Trump referred to Haiti and African nations in a way that made headlines around the world. Here's how media in Asia conveyed the remark.
In America sono rimaste pochissime grandi fabbriche di matite. Le fotografie che documentano l’attività della più grande sono ipnotiche.
Money quote: “Payne conveys the incidental beauty of functional machines: strange architectures of chains, conveyor belts, glue pots, metal discs and gears thick with generations of grease. He captures the strangeness of seeing a tool as simple as a pencil disassembled into its even simpler component parts. He shows us the aesthetic magic of scale. Heaps of pencil cores wait piled against a concrete wall, like an arsenal of gray spaghetti. Hundreds of pencils sit stacked in honeycomb towers. Wood shavings fly as fresh pencils are dragged across the sharpening machine, a wheel of fast-spinning sandpaper.”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html
Money quote: “Payne conveys the incidental beauty of functional machines: strange architectures of chains, conveyor belts, glue pots, metal discs and gears thick with generations of grease. He captures the strangeness of seeing a tool as simple as a pencil disassembled into its even simpler component parts. He shows us the aesthetic magic of scale. Heaps of pencil cores wait piled against a concrete wall, like an arsenal of gray spaghetti. Hundreds of pencils sit stacked in honeycomb towers. Wood shavings fly as fresh pencils are dragged across the sharpening machine, a wheel of fast-spinning sandpaper.”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html
Nytimes
Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories
A photographer captures a colorful world of craft and complexity.
Il CES non ama più Apple - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/il-ces-non-ama-piu-apple/
https://www.macitynet.it/il-ces-non-ama-piu-apple/
Macitynet.it
Il CES non ama più Apple
Mentre è in corso a Las Vegas la kermesse della tecnologia la presenza indiretta di Apple quest’anno è più debole che mai. Vinceva senza partecipare, adesso non più
Alle Hawaii tornano le sirene degli attacchi atomici, rimasuglio della guerra fredda. Siamo finiti in un fumetto di serie B.
Proprio per questo secondo me non è il momento di giocare al panico scandalistico. Se si fa informazione, anche per gioco con un canale Telegram, serve un’etica della responsabilità.
Money quote: “In the event of an actual nuclear missile launch at Hawaii from North Korea, the attack sirens would give island residents and tourists just 12 or 13 minutes of warning before impact, according to the state’s fact sheet.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-hawaii/hawaii-to-resume-cold-war-era-nuclear-siren-tests-amid-north-korea-threat-idUSKBN1DS099
Proprio per questo secondo me non è il momento di giocare al panico scandalistico. Se si fa informazione, anche per gioco con un canale Telegram, serve un’etica della responsabilità.
Money quote: “In the event of an actual nuclear missile launch at Hawaii from North Korea, the attack sirens would give island residents and tourists just 12 or 13 minutes of warning before impact, according to the state’s fact sheet.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-hawaii/hawaii-to-resume-cold-war-era-nuclear-siren-tests-amid-north-korea-threat-idUSKBN1DS099
Ebbene sì: siamo schiavi delle nostre abitudini. Il trucco è scegliere quelle buone ed evitare quelle cattive. Lo diceva mia nonna con italica sintesi. Ci vuole mezza internet per articolare lo stesso ragionamento.
Money quote: “A few months ago, I started to track my food to know how much calories I was consuming. Not too long later, I started exercising. I then started to reduce my intake of carbohydrates. That meant that I ordered takeout less and had to prepare my own meals.
Looking back, it seems a little absurd how the small act of keying my food into the MyFitnessPal app could start off such a reaction. But the thought process was simple.”
https://medium.com/personal-growth/keystone-habits-how-one-small-change-can-improve-your-entire-life-a32375763da2
Money quote: “A few months ago, I started to track my food to know how much calories I was consuming. Not too long later, I started exercising. I then started to reduce my intake of carbohydrates. That meant that I ordered takeout less and had to prepare my own meals.
Looking back, it seems a little absurd how the small act of keying my food into the MyFitnessPal app could start off such a reaction. But the thought process was simple.”
https://medium.com/personal-growth/keystone-habits-how-one-small-change-can-improve-your-entire-life-a32375763da2
Medium
Keystone Habits: How One Small Change Can Improve Your Entire Life
Not all habits are created equal. There are some habits — keystone habits — which create positive effects that spill over into other areas.
Sono orologi meccanici abbastanza particolari: sono immersi dentro una bolla di liquido (olio? benzina? alcool?). Non hanno lancette ma cerchi che ruotano, cosa che più o meno in modo elegante rivoluziona il quadrante in continuazione. Adesso ce la novità del modello che si connette al telefono per avere l’ora esatta e sincronizzarli perfettamente, anche se è stato a lungo fermo. Ci ha lavorato il papà dell’iPod, Tony Fadell, che è ache un discreto Watch nerd.
Money quote: “Its latest concept watch, the Type 2 e-Crown, was in part designed by ex-Apply designer Tony Fadell and connects wirelessly to a phone. This means it can be set to two different time-zones and be set to the correct time instantly after it has stopped.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/tony-fadell-has-designed-a-new-kind-of-mechanical-watch-2018-1
Money quote: “Its latest concept watch, the Type 2 e-Crown, was in part designed by ex-Apply designer Tony Fadell and connects wirelessly to a phone. This means it can be set to two different time-zones and be set to the correct time instantly after it has stopped.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/tony-fadell-has-designed-a-new-kind-of-mechanical-watch-2018-1
Business Insider
The 'father of the iPod' has designed a new kind of mechanical watch
It will set itself even if it hasn't been worn in months, just by tapping the glass.
È domenica. Tempo di relax. Un racconto pubblicato da Vice Italia (Motherboard) di Giuseppe Lippi, curatore di Urania, con illustrazione di Franco Brambilla
Money quote: "Felip si godeva la pioggia acida e camminava tra le file ordinate di passanti su Madison Avenue, poco più a nord dell’Abisso di New York. Il cratere lo affascinava ma, al confronto, i pedoni e gli autisti delle disciplinate autoguida erano uno spettacolo molto più vario e interessante. Il cervello positronico è meraviglioso, pensò. Può fare di tutto e di più perché le Tre Leggi lo rendono eccezionalmente adatto alla N.C. (Nuova Convivenza). "
https://motherboard.vice.com/it/article/paqbng/altra-faccia-della-spirale-giuseppe-lippi-racconto-terraform-audi-innovative
Money quote: "Felip si godeva la pioggia acida e camminava tra le file ordinate di passanti su Madison Avenue, poco più a nord dell’Abisso di New York. Il cratere lo affascinava ma, al confronto, i pedoni e gli autisti delle disciplinate autoguida erano uno spettacolo molto più vario e interessante. Il cervello positronico è meraviglioso, pensò. Può fare di tutto e di più perché le Tre Leggi lo rendono eccezionalmente adatto alla N.C. (Nuova Convivenza). "
https://motherboard.vice.com/it/article/paqbng/altra-faccia-della-spirale-giuseppe-lippi-racconto-terraform-audi-innovative
Motherboard
L'altra faccia della spirale
Giuseppe Lippi, il curatore di Urania, ha scritto un racconto per la nostra rubrica di racconti di fantascienza in cui immagina delle nuove leggi per la robotica.
Certo, quelli che mettono lo sportellino per coprire la webcam del portatile sono un po' esagerati. Però, è possibile utilizzare il feed video anche da un sito web, come dimostra questa divertente applicazione html5: un contatore di flessioni. Cioè, lo accendi, lo fai partire e lui "vede" i tuoi movimenti e li conta: se non fai tutte le flessioni che hai dichiarato, suona l'allarme e non si ferma più... Inquietante, anzi doppiamente inquietante, direi.
Money quote: "This is an alarm which you can only close by doing a preset number of pushups. This is not based on your honesty, the app will intelligently count your pushups through your webcam. I recommend you try it out a few times to find the positioning which gives you the most accurate results. After, you can use it to interrupt hours of sitting with a set of pushups; or, use it to wake up in the morning."
https://pushupalarm.com/
Money quote: "This is an alarm which you can only close by doing a preset number of pushups. This is not based on your honesty, the app will intelligently count your pushups through your webcam. I recommend you try it out a few times to find the positioning which gives you the most accurate results. After, you can use it to interrupt hours of sitting with a set of pushups; or, use it to wake up in the morning."
https://pushupalarm.com/
Un articolo-fumetto che spiega come l'America, a partire dagli anni Novanta, abbia cambiato passo e si sia innamorata per calcolo e interesse della guerra. "The Good War" è bello da leggere e fa pensare. Perfetto per telefoni e tablet la domenica sera a letto
Money quote: "How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience"
https://thenib.com/the-good-war
L'articolo da cui è tratto il fumetto è questo:
https://chrishayes.org/articles/the-good-war-on-terror/
Money quote: "How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience"
https://thenib.com/the-good-war
L'articolo da cui è tratto il fumetto è questo:
https://chrishayes.org/articles/the-good-war-on-terror/
The Nib
The Good War
How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience.
È tutta colpa di Amazon, diciamo sempre. È colpa del colosso di Seattle se chiudono i negozietti di quartiere. Ma non è necessariamente detto che sia così, anche perché la realtà è una cosa complessa e le spiegazioni troppo semplici suonano sempre un po' troppo facili. Ad esempio, a New York, sostiene il Guardian con una sua inchiesta, a fare piazza pulita dei negozietti di quartiere non è stata Amazon. Tutt'altro.
Money quote: "Part of the problem is the changing make-up of New York landlords. Many are no longer mom-and-pop operations, but institutional investors and hedge funds that are unwilling to drop rents to match retail conditions. “They are running small businesses out of the city and replacing them with chain stores and temporary luxury businesses,” says Moss.
In addition, he says, banks will devalue a property if it’s occupied by a small business, and increase it for a chain store. “There’s benefit to waiting for chain stores. If you are a hedge fund manager running a portfolio you leave it empty and take a write-off.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/24/new-york-retail-shops-amazon-rent
Money quote: "Part of the problem is the changing make-up of New York landlords. Many are no longer mom-and-pop operations, but institutional investors and hedge funds that are unwilling to drop rents to match retail conditions. “They are running small businesses out of the city and replacing them with chain stores and temporary luxury businesses,” says Moss.
In addition, he says, banks will devalue a property if it’s occupied by a small business, and increase it for a chain store. “There’s benefit to waiting for chain stores. If you are a hedge fund manager running a portfolio you leave it empty and take a write-off.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/24/new-york-retail-shops-amazon-rent
the Guardian
New York's vanishing shops and storefronts: 'It's not Amazon, it's rent'
Vacant storefronts are becoming more noticeable in the capital of consumption, as small retailers are being pushed out by wealthy investors
Anche WebKit, il motore open source dei browser Apple e altri (Safari e tutto quel che gira su iOS per far vedere pagine web) viene colpito dal pasticcio di Intel che apre la strada a Spectre and Meltdown. In questa spiegazione offerta dalla associazione omonima, non solo viene indicato come funzionano gli effetti delle vulnerabilità e come mitigarli, ma viene indicato molto bene anche il funzionamento e le ragioni delle scelte dei progettisti di CPU.
Money quote: “This document explains how Spectre and Meltdown affect existing WebKit security mechanisms and what short-term and long-term fixes WebKit is deploying to provide protection against this new class of attacks. The first of these mitigations shipped on Jan 8, 2018”
https://webkit.org/blog/8048/what-spectre-and-meltdown-mean-for-webkit/
Money quote: “This document explains how Spectre and Meltdown affect existing WebKit security mechanisms and what short-term and long-term fixes WebKit is deploying to provide protection against this new class of attacks. The first of these mitigations shipped on Jan 8, 2018”
https://webkit.org/blog/8048/what-spectre-and-meltdown-mean-for-webkit/
WebKit
What Spectre and Meltdown Mean For WebKit
Security researchers have recently uncovered security issues known as Meltdown and Spectre.
La mia recensione del Capitolo VIII di Star Wars, "Gli ultimi Jedi", (come moltissime altre) è stata criticata da alcuni e amata da altri. Non perché io scriva in modo bipolare, cioè non più della media. Invece, è successo perché secondo me è Star Wars ad essere un argomento sempre più divisivo.
Il mito del primo film del 1977 non lo discute nessuno, però. Invece, tornare indietro nel tempo e ritrovare l'equilibrio perfetto, dettato tanto da cause interne quando da quelle esterne al film, più la nostra soggettiva ingenuità del tempo che fu, oggi a molti pare proprio impossibile. E sono arrabbiati per questo.
Money quote: "The directors of the new wave of “Star Wars” films have coped with the prison of fandom in different ways. In 2015’s “The Force Awakens,” the director J. J. Abrams told a completely derivative “Star Wars” story, placating fans who were desperate for the “magic” of the originals, while boring everyone else. Last year, Gareth Edwards went out on a limb with “Rogue One”—an atmospheric, sombre, and tragic film in which (spoiler alert) all the heroes die. With this year’s “The Last Jedi,” Rian Johnson has split the difference: he’s made a familiar-feeling “Star Wars” film in which many of the franchise’s tropes are serially subverted. For once—read no further if you haven’t seen the film!—the crazy long-shot plan turns out to be a bad idea and a waste of time; the rebellious charm of the hotshot who comes up with it is revealed as narcissistic immaturity. In a new twist, the dark side of the Force—previously associated exclusively with scaly old men—is shown to be sexy: in one of the film’s best moments, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) busts in on Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) while they’re flirting by means of a telepathic link. The movie contemplates the possibility that the Jedi religion isn’t all it’s cracked up to be; there are even hints that the aristocratic family saga at the heart of the “Star Wars” story is a red herring, and that ordinary people can become Jedis. All of these departures from the norm don’t necessarily add up to riveting drama—they’re inside baseball rather than truly new developments in the plot—but they do buy the film (and perhaps its sequels) some tonal breathing room."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/why-are-all-star-wars-movies-the-same
Money quote 2: "Author Rajan Khanna feels that some amount of disorientation and alienation is inevitable, as we start to lose some of the most familiar Star Wars actors and characters. “They’re setting up a world more removed from the touchstones that we know from Star Wars,” he says, “which I think is why it’s starting to feel a little bit weird to some people.”"
https://www.wired.com/2017/12/geeks-guide-last-jedi/
Il mito del primo film del 1977 non lo discute nessuno, però. Invece, tornare indietro nel tempo e ritrovare l'equilibrio perfetto, dettato tanto da cause interne quando da quelle esterne al film, più la nostra soggettiva ingenuità del tempo che fu, oggi a molti pare proprio impossibile. E sono arrabbiati per questo.
Money quote: "The directors of the new wave of “Star Wars” films have coped with the prison of fandom in different ways. In 2015’s “The Force Awakens,” the director J. J. Abrams told a completely derivative “Star Wars” story, placating fans who were desperate for the “magic” of the originals, while boring everyone else. Last year, Gareth Edwards went out on a limb with “Rogue One”—an atmospheric, sombre, and tragic film in which (spoiler alert) all the heroes die. With this year’s “The Last Jedi,” Rian Johnson has split the difference: he’s made a familiar-feeling “Star Wars” film in which many of the franchise’s tropes are serially subverted. For once—read no further if you haven’t seen the film!—the crazy long-shot plan turns out to be a bad idea and a waste of time; the rebellious charm of the hotshot who comes up with it is revealed as narcissistic immaturity. In a new twist, the dark side of the Force—previously associated exclusively with scaly old men—is shown to be sexy: in one of the film’s best moments, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) busts in on Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) while they’re flirting by means of a telepathic link. The movie contemplates the possibility that the Jedi religion isn’t all it’s cracked up to be; there are even hints that the aristocratic family saga at the heart of the “Star Wars” story is a red herring, and that ordinary people can become Jedis. All of these departures from the norm don’t necessarily add up to riveting drama—they’re inside baseball rather than truly new developments in the plot—but they do buy the film (and perhaps its sequels) some tonal breathing room."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/why-are-all-star-wars-movies-the-same
Money quote 2: "Author Rajan Khanna feels that some amount of disorientation and alienation is inevitable, as we start to lose some of the most familiar Star Wars actors and characters. “They’re setting up a world more removed from the touchstones that we know from Star Wars,” he says, “which I think is why it’s starting to feel a little bit weird to some people.”"
https://www.wired.com/2017/12/geeks-guide-last-jedi/
The New Yorker
Why Are All “Star Wars” Movies the Same?
The directors of the new wave of “Star Wars” films have coped with the prison of fandom in different, unsatisfying ways.
Oggi il MacBook Air compie dieci anni. Era la prima generazione, una cosa molto diversa da quella rilanciata nel 2010 e che è ancora nei listini di Apple. Però, insomma, l'esordio è stato oggi, dieci anni fa. In questo video un'ottima ricapitolazione della sua storia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyr-tngrmNI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyr-tngrmNI
YouTube
The Original MacBook Air
Introduced in 2008, the MacBook Air defined the modern-day notebook. To learn more, check out my column at MacStories: https://www.macstories.net/mac/the-mac...
Dieci anni di MacBook Air, la rivoluzione silenziosa - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/dieci-anni-arrivava-macbook-air/
https://www.macitynet.it/dieci-anni-arrivava-macbook-air/
Macitynet.it
Dieci anni di MacBook Air, la rivoluzione silenziosa - Macitynet.it
Niente lettore Cd-Dvd, niente porte e connessioni tranne una Usb e una micro-Dvi, tutto il resto era wireless. Ed è stata subito leggenda