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Qualche giorno fa la città di Sesto Fiorentino è finita sulle pagine di The Guardian come buon esempio di accoglienza. Nell’articolo “How migrants won the friendship of wary Florentines” si racconta, infatti, come a Sesto Fiorentino, grazie all’impegno del Comune e di una cooperativa sociale, i cittadini abbiano superato la diffidenza nei confronti dei rifugiati ospiti in città e inaugurato un nuovo modello di integrazione. Un bell’articolo di “giornalismo costruttivo” che affronta un tema quanto mai attuale non limitandosi alla solita denuncia di ciò che non va ma mostrando in che modo costruire soluzioni e cambiamenti positivi. Del resto The Guardian da tempo dedica molta attenzione al giornalismo costruttivo e recentemente ha inaugurato la sezione di positive news “Half Full” (Mezzo Pieno). Dateci un’occhiata e la vostra giornata sarà migliore!
Qualche giorno fa la città di Sesto Fiorentino è finita sulle pagine di The Guardian come buon esempio di accoglienza. Nell’articolo “How migrants won the friendship of wary Florentines” si racconta, infatti, come a Sesto Fiorentino, grazie all’impegno del Comune e di una cooperativa sociale, i cittadini abbiano superato la diffidenza nei confronti dei rifugiati ospiti in città e inaugurato un nuovo modello di integrazione. Un bell’articolo di “giornalismo costruttivo” che affronta un tema quanto mai attuale non limitandosi alla solita denuncia di ciò che non va ma mostrando in che modo costruire soluzioni e cambiamenti positivi. Del resto The Guardian da tempo dedica molta attenzione al giornalismo costruttivo e recentemente ha inaugurato la sezione di positive news “Half Full” (Mezzo Pieno). Dateci un’occhiata e la vostra giornata sarà migliore!
the Guardian
How migrants won the friendship of wary Florentines
After protests against asylum seekers, a mayor has successfully led a campaign to treat arrivals with respect
Adoro Malta e ci vado ogni volta che posso. La storia dell'arcipelago mi piace, la bellezza, le persone. Anni fa ho letto un libro delizioso ambientato nella Malta medioevale. Ma in rete si trovano anche degli articoli piacevoli e interessanti come questo, che forniscono una prospettiva non banale della vita e delle persone di Malta.
Money quote: "For the locals who left the Maltese countryside and headed to Strait Street, they could go from making a few shillings a day to hundreds of shillings a day as a barmaid. Naturally, Strait Street also became a hive for romance between Maltese women and foreign men, who fathered an unrecorded number of children.
“I just loved the Americans,” one barmaid, Nina, told Cini. “I went mad over them. They bought me clothes. I wore dresses each costing £70 and £80.” Barmaids like Nina would earn money either through a regular wage or commission per drink, then spend lavish amounts of money on anything from gold jewelry to betting games. “There were times we promised sailors a good time, and then gave them a false address,” Nina recounted.
Not everyone stayed on Strait Street as long as Nina did, however. Young village women who were very poor wanted to get a dowry, so they worked as a bar girl for a couple years, made some money, then went home and got married."
https://www.fodors.com/news/uncategorized/sex-lies-and-cobblestones-the-debaucherous-story-behind-maltas-most-notorious-street
Money quote: "For the locals who left the Maltese countryside and headed to Strait Street, they could go from making a few shillings a day to hundreds of shillings a day as a barmaid. Naturally, Strait Street also became a hive for romance between Maltese women and foreign men, who fathered an unrecorded number of children.
“I just loved the Americans,” one barmaid, Nina, told Cini. “I went mad over them. They bought me clothes. I wore dresses each costing £70 and £80.” Barmaids like Nina would earn money either through a regular wage or commission per drink, then spend lavish amounts of money on anything from gold jewelry to betting games. “There were times we promised sailors a good time, and then gave them a false address,” Nina recounted.
Not everyone stayed on Strait Street as long as Nina did, however. Young village women who were very poor wanted to get a dowry, so they worked as a bar girl for a couple years, made some money, then went home and got married."
https://www.fodors.com/news/uncategorized/sex-lies-and-cobblestones-the-debaucherous-story-behind-maltas-most-notorious-street
Fodors Travel Guide
Sex, Lies, and Cobblestones: The Debaucherous Story Behind Malta’s Most Notorious Street
While the revelry may have quieted down, its reputation lives on. Valletta, the capital of Malta, has plenty to offer visitors in art, history, and high-brow entertainment.
Lo sto provando: rischia di essere il miglior calendario-organizer che abbia mai usato
Money quote: “calcurse is a calendar and scheduling application for the command line. It helps keep track of events, appointments and everyday tasks. A configurable notification system reminds user of upcoming deadlines, the curses based interface can be customized to suit user needs and a very powerful set of command line options can be used to filter and format appointments, making it suitable for use in noscripts.”
http://calcurse.org
Money quote: “calcurse is a calendar and scheduling application for the command line. It helps keep track of events, appointments and everyday tasks. A configurable notification system reminds user of upcoming deadlines, the curses based interface can be customized to suit user needs and a very powerful set of command line options can be used to filter and format appointments, making it suitable for use in noscripts.”
http://calcurse.org
Una scrittrice racconta storie esplicite sul tradimento (e altro) di una donna che potrebbe somigliarle. Perché le domande che fanno a lei sono diverse da quelle che si fanno invece a un autore uomo? Un altro modo di guardare il rapporto tra l’autore e l’opera, ma anche alle differenze di genere.
Money quote: “Let’s be clear: “What does your husband think about your work” is a ruse. Beneath that query is the real question: Did you, the author, do the things the female character does in your narrative? If so, how’d you get away with writing about it? Isn’t your husband hurt? And aren’t you ashamed?”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/16/husband-think-novel/
Money quote: “Let’s be clear: “What does your husband think about your work” is a ruse. Beneath that query is the real question: Did you, the author, do the things the female character does in your narrative? If so, how’d you get away with writing about it? Isn’t your husband hurt? And aren’t you ashamed?”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/16/husband-think-novel/
The Paris Review
"What Does Your Husband Think of Your Novel?"
Jamie Quatro asks: “If I were a male fiction writer, writing about illicit sex, would you ask what my wife thought about my work?”
Nintendo Labo, la carta speciale di Nintendo per la Switch è un cartoncino - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/nintendo-gioca-carta-speciale-la-switch/
https://www.macitynet.it/nintendo-gioca-carta-speciale-la-switch/
Macitynet.it
Nintendo Labo, la carta speciale di Nintendo per la Switch è un cartoncino - Macitynet.it
Ad aprile arriva Labo, esperimenti di cartone per far giocare grandi e soprattutto piccini. Ma l’ingegnosa soluzione di Nintendo per Switch sarà anche funzionale?
Geniali e diabolici. Sono gli editori e gli autori di libri di auto aiuto per l’infanzia.
Money quote: “I knew all these things – but what I didn’t yet understand was the diabolical genius of the baby-advice industry, which targets people at their most sleep-deprived, at the beginning of what will surely be the weightiest responsibility of their lives, and suggests that maybe, just maybe, between the covers of this book, lies the morsel of information that will make the difference between their baby’s flourishing or floundering. The brilliance of this system is that it works on the most sceptical readers, too, because you don’t need to believe it’s likely such a morsel actually exists. You need only think it likely enough to justify spending another £10.99 on, oh, you know, the entire future happiness of your child, just in case. Assuming you’ve got £10.99 to spare, what kind of monster would refuse?”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/16/baby-advice-books-industry-attachment-parenting
Money quote: “I knew all these things – but what I didn’t yet understand was the diabolical genius of the baby-advice industry, which targets people at their most sleep-deprived, at the beginning of what will surely be the weightiest responsibility of their lives, and suggests that maybe, just maybe, between the covers of this book, lies the morsel of information that will make the difference between their baby’s flourishing or floundering. The brilliance of this system is that it works on the most sceptical readers, too, because you don’t need to believe it’s likely such a morsel actually exists. You need only think it likely enough to justify spending another £10.99 on, oh, you know, the entire future happiness of your child, just in case. Assuming you’ve got £10.99 to spare, what kind of monster would refuse?”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/16/baby-advice-books-industry-attachment-parenting
the Guardian
The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry
The long read: Every baffled new parent goes searching for answers in baby manuals. But what they really offer is the reassuring fantasy that life’s most difficult questions have one right answer
Alcuni piccoli o meno piccoli errori nel libro anti-Trump di Michael Wolff ne incrinano la credibilità. Oppure no.
Money quote: “Amid such an uproar, the matter of Mark Berman’s nonexistent breakfast at the Four Seasons hardly ranks. Still, even among the many errors in the book, some big and many small, this one stood out. It was the kind of mistake that only someone who doesn’t know Washington could have made—the kind of mistake that matters to a small handful of D.C. players. And it prompts readers to ask, If Wolff got the small things wrong, did he get the big things wrong as well? The Trump White House has seized on such mistakes to call into question the book’s damning, and mostly accurate, larger portrayal of this Presidency”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/michael-wolff-says-that-washington-will-bury-trump
Money quote: “Amid such an uproar, the matter of Mark Berman’s nonexistent breakfast at the Four Seasons hardly ranks. Still, even among the many errors in the book, some big and many small, this one stood out. It was the kind of mistake that only someone who doesn’t know Washington could have made—the kind of mistake that matters to a small handful of D.C. players. And it prompts readers to ask, If Wolff got the small things wrong, did he get the big things wrong as well? The Trump White House has seized on such mistakes to call into question the book’s damning, and mostly accurate, larger portrayal of this Presidency”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/michael-wolff-says-that-washington-will-bury-trump
The New Yorker
Michael Wolff Says That Washington Will Bury Trump
The author shaking up D.C. says that he flouted the city’s “permanent establishment” to write his Trump White House tell-all. But does he really understand the place?
Viviamo in un mondo estremamente complesso. E la su complessità ci sfugge completamente perché è al di sopra delle nostre capacità cognitive. Merito mostro, ovviamente, perché l’abbiamo creato noi.
Money quote: “But ever since the Enlightenment, we have moved steadily toward the ‘Entanglement’, a term coined by the American computer scientist Danny Hillis. The Entanglement is the trend towards more interconnected and less comprehensible technological surroundings. Hillis argues that our machines, while subject to rational rules, are now too complicated to understand. Whether it’s the entirety of the internet or other large pieces of our infrastructure, understanding the whole — keeping it in your head — is no longer even close to possible”
https://aeon.co/essays/is-technology-making-the-world-indecipherable
Money quote: “But ever since the Enlightenment, we have moved steadily toward the ‘Entanglement’, a term coined by the American computer scientist Danny Hillis. The Entanglement is the trend towards more interconnected and less comprehensible technological surroundings. Hillis argues that our machines, while subject to rational rules, are now too complicated to understand. Whether it’s the entirety of the internet or other large pieces of our infrastructure, understanding the whole — keeping it in your head — is no longer even close to possible”
https://aeon.co/essays/is-technology-making-the-world-indecipherable
Aeon
It’s complicated
Human ingenuity has created a world that the mind cannot master. Have we finally reached our limits?
Un’analisi della radicalizzazione dell’ultimo pensiero di Martin Luther King, che ha trasportato - poco prima del suo omicidio - la lotta contro la segregazione su un nuovo livello e contro il capitalismo statunitense.
Money quote: “It was this foray into the tough political environment of residential segregation and political machines that provided the momentum for King’s radicalization. His political maturation prompted him to connect the U.S. war in Vietnam to the deteriorating conditions in U.S. cities, and of even more consequence, it prompted him to search for more effective tactics in confronting the legal menace of segregation in the North and the attendant crises: slum conditions, unemployment, and police brutality”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/15/remembering-martin-luther-kings-radical-class-politics/
Money quote: “It was this foray into the tough political environment of residential segregation and political machines that provided the momentum for King’s radicalization. His political maturation prompted him to connect the U.S. war in Vietnam to the deteriorating conditions in U.S. cities, and of even more consequence, it prompted him to search for more effective tactics in confronting the legal menace of segregation in the North and the attendant crises: slum conditions, unemployment, and police brutality”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/15/remembering-martin-luther-kings-radical-class-politics/
The Paris Review
Martin Luther King’s Radical Anticapitalism
King’s vision for civil disobedience cannot be separated from his anticapitalism and his concern with the “evil” of poverty.
Se vi capita di andare a Hong Kong fate un salto a Quarry Bay con la metro e andatevi a vedere il 'Monster Building', un bestione (anzi un insieme di bestioni) indimenticabile.
Money quote: “The Monster Building, as it’s been nicknamed by locals, isn’t actually a single building, but a complex composed of five connecting structures: Oceanic Mansion, Fook Cheong Building, Montane Mansion, Yick Cheong Building, and Yick Fat Building. They were built during a population boom in the 1960s to offer government-subsidized housing for low-income residents.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/quarry-bay-monster-building
Money quote: “The Monster Building, as it’s been nicknamed by locals, isn’t actually a single building, but a complex composed of five connecting structures: Oceanic Mansion, Fook Cheong Building, Montane Mansion, Yick Cheong Building, and Yick Fat Building. They were built during a population boom in the 1960s to offer government-subsidized housing for low-income residents.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/quarry-bay-monster-building
Atlas Obscura
The Monster Building
This hulking behemoth in Hong Kong is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.
Un padre con i reni che stanno per crollare e la posizione nella lista dei trapianti troppo bassa, va per l’ultima volta al parco Disney di Orlando con una maglietta che dice “ho bisogno di un rene”. Lo fotografano, le immagini diventano virali sui social e salta fuori un donatore.
Money quote: “So, with the help of his daughter, Liebowitz designed a simple, white T-shirt with black lettering that read: “In Need of Kidney. O positive.” He added his phone number and turned himself into a walking billboard at the theme park, the Orlando Sentinel reported.“
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article196730204.html
Money quote: “So, with the help of his daughter, Liebowitz designed a simple, white T-shirt with black lettering that read: “In Need of Kidney. O positive.” He added his phone number and turned himself into a walking billboard at the theme park, the Orlando Sentinel reported.“
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article196730204.html
miamiherald
A dying dad wore a ‘Need kidney’ T-shirt at Disney. A viral photo saved his life.
Robert Liebowitz, a father of five, wore a T-shirt to Walt Disney World saying he needed a kidney. A stranger, Richie Sully, saw a photo posted on Facebook by an Orlando couple. He took action.
Uber vale un sacco di soldi e viene considerato il campione della nuova economia della condivisione. Ma a quanto pare somiglia sempre più a una associazione a delinquere, un soggetto veramente brutto (comunque i taxisti non li sopporto lo stesso). Come il codice segreto da spedire al quartier generale quando entra la polizia negli uffici di una filiale, che consente di bloccare da remoto istantaneamente tutti i computer e telefoni, bloccando l'accesso alle autorità anche se in possess di un mandato. Una pratica consolidata di questo tipo vi sembra una cosa normale, per una azienda?
Money quote: "The Uber HQ team overseeing Ripley could remotely change passwords and otherwise lock up data on company-owned smartphones, laptops, and desktops as well as shut down the devices. This routine was initially called the unexpected visitor protocol. Employees aware of its existence eventually took to calling it Ripley, after Sigourney Weaver’s flamethrower-wielding hero in the Alien movies. The nickname was inspired by a Ripley line in Aliens, after the acid-blooded extraterrestrials easily best a squad of ground troops. “Nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/uber-s-secret-tool-for-keeping-the-cops-in-the-dark
Money quote: "The Uber HQ team overseeing Ripley could remotely change passwords and otherwise lock up data on company-owned smartphones, laptops, and desktops as well as shut down the devices. This routine was initially called the unexpected visitor protocol. Employees aware of its existence eventually took to calling it Ripley, after Sigourney Weaver’s flamethrower-wielding hero in the Alien movies. The nickname was inspired by a Ripley line in Aliens, after the acid-blooded extraterrestrials easily best a squad of ground troops. “Nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/uber-s-secret-tool-for-keeping-the-cops-in-the-dark
Bloomberg.com
Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark
At least two dozen times, the San Francisco headquarters locked down equipment in foreign offices to shield files from police raids.
Il misterioso Scripto, software per la tv inventato da Stephen Colbert - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/misterioso-noscripto-software-la-tv-inventato-stephen-colbert/
https://www.macitynet.it/misterioso-noscripto-software-la-tv-inventato-stephen-colbert/
Macitynet.it
Il misterioso Scripto, software per la tv inventato da Stephen Colbert - Macitynet.it
L’app per la collaborazione cloud permette agli autori di trasmissioni televisive di lavorare tutti assieme sulla stessa sceneggiatura. Negli Usa è già un caso
Se non avete letto “Considera l’aragosta” di David Foster Wallace, gli svizzeri potrebbero stupirvi. Altrimenti, già lo sapevate.
Money quote: “As part of a wider overhaul of Swiss animal protection laws, Bern said that as of 1 March, “the practice of plunging live lobsters into boiling water, which is common in restaurants, is no longer permitted”.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/11/switzerland-rules-lobsters-must-be-stunned-before-boiling
Money quote: “As part of a wider overhaul of Swiss animal protection laws, Bern said that as of 1 March, “the practice of plunging live lobsters into boiling water, which is common in restaurants, is no longer permitted”.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/11/switzerland-rules-lobsters-must-be-stunned-before-boiling
the Guardian
Switzerland rules lobsters must be stunned before boiling
Government bans the practice of plunging live lobsters into boiling water amid fears the animals can feel pain
Apple assume gente per lavorare da casa, per adesso negli Usa.
Money quote: “"If you love exploring the ways technology helps you do all your favorite things, you'll probably be great at sharing your knowledge with others," the job listing reads. "That's what you'll do every day as an Apple At Home Advisor. And with each customer conversation you have, it becomes clear: You're not just supporting technology. You're supporting people."”
http://www.wbaltv.com/article/apple-is-hiring-dozens-of-work-from-home-positions-right-now/15160203
Money quote: “"If you love exploring the ways technology helps you do all your favorite things, you'll probably be great at sharing your knowledge with others," the job listing reads. "That's what you'll do every day as an Apple At Home Advisor. And with each customer conversation you have, it becomes clear: You're not just supporting technology. You're supporting people."”
http://www.wbaltv.com/article/apple-is-hiring-dozens-of-work-from-home-positions-right-now/15160203
WBAL
Apple is hiring dozens of work-from-home positions right now
The tech company says that it is looking for full-time employees to work as AppleCare at-home advisers and manager.
Una opinione del sempre vispo Evgeni Morozov (un tempo di moda e adesso proscritto dalle liste dei buoni, almeno secondo la vulgata hi-tech italiana) che in sostanza dice: il web gratuito di oggi è a tempo limitato. Serve per estrarre dati e addestrare le AI; tuttavia quando avranno finito, i soldi si faranno con i modelli di intelligenza artificiale ovviamente a pagamento.
Tesi semplice ma intrigante.
Money quote: “Today’s digital economy is not what it seems – and tech giants know this. As Andrew Ng, the founder of Google Brain project and then the head of AI at Baidu, the Chinese search giant, said in a January 2017 talk at Stanford, “at large [tech] companies, we often launch products not for the revenue but for the data … and we monetise the data through a different product.””
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/28/morozov-artificial-intelligence-data-technology-online
Tesi semplice ma intrigante.
Money quote: “Today’s digital economy is not what it seems – and tech giants know this. As Andrew Ng, the founder of Google Brain project and then the head of AI at Baidu, the Chinese search giant, said in a January 2017 talk at Stanford, “at large [tech] companies, we often launch products not for the revenue but for the data … and we monetise the data through a different product.””
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/28/morozov-artificial-intelligence-data-technology-online
the Guardian
Will tech giants move on from the internet, now we’ve all been harvested?
Internet users have fed firms their personal data – which in turn is feeding the rapid growth of AI. Has the industry consumed all it needs from the web?
Un amico mi chiede un consiglio su un fumetto da regalare al figlio decenne e a me viene subito in mente (a parte i paperi di Don Rosa, che Panini sta ristampando in questo periodo) un capolavoro assoluto dei comics mondiali: Bone di Jeff Smith. Se non lo conoscete, conoscetelo.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_(fumetto)
Qui sotto un estratto dal blog che Bao Publishing mise su per raccontare l'arrivo di Bone in edizione integrale e completa in Italia (stiamo parlando di un epico volume di oltre milletrecento pagine).
Money quote: "La prima volta che ho letto Moby Dick, all'età di dieci anni, l'ho fatto per le parti emozionanti (e l'ho finito con l'assoluta certezza che sarebbe stato un fumetto fantastico; tuttavia ricordo che nello stesso periodo lessi Le miniere di Re Salomone e pensai che sarebbe stato un formidabile musical. Dovevo essere un bambino davvero particolare.) Più di recente, alla veneranda età di trentatré anni, riportato a Moby Dick dall'insistenza di Jeff Smith e dall'occasione di un paio di lunghi viaggi in aereo, mi sono accorto di amarlo tutto, compresi gli innesti spezzati delle precedenti stesure che protrudono dal fianco dell'opera.
Sono parole di Neil Gaiman, che incapsulano tutta l'urgenza di prendere in considerazione due ingombranti aspetti del capolavoro di Jeff Smith, BONE: il fatto che Fone Bone adora e cita spesso Moby Dick, il capolavoro di Herman Melville, e la coesistenza impeccabile in BONE di due aspetti diametralmente opposti: l'umorismo dell'interazione tra i cugini Bone e la drammaticità della trama generale."
http://bonestaarrivando.blogspot.it
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_(fumetto)
Qui sotto un estratto dal blog che Bao Publishing mise su per raccontare l'arrivo di Bone in edizione integrale e completa in Italia (stiamo parlando di un epico volume di oltre milletrecento pagine).
Money quote: "La prima volta che ho letto Moby Dick, all'età di dieci anni, l'ho fatto per le parti emozionanti (e l'ho finito con l'assoluta certezza che sarebbe stato un fumetto fantastico; tuttavia ricordo che nello stesso periodo lessi Le miniere di Re Salomone e pensai che sarebbe stato un formidabile musical. Dovevo essere un bambino davvero particolare.) Più di recente, alla veneranda età di trentatré anni, riportato a Moby Dick dall'insistenza di Jeff Smith e dall'occasione di un paio di lunghi viaggi in aereo, mi sono accorto di amarlo tutto, compresi gli innesti spezzati delle precedenti stesure che protrudono dal fianco dell'opera.
Sono parole di Neil Gaiman, che incapsulano tutta l'urgenza di prendere in considerazione due ingombranti aspetti del capolavoro di Jeff Smith, BONE: il fatto che Fone Bone adora e cita spesso Moby Dick, il capolavoro di Herman Melville, e la coesistenza impeccabile in BONE di due aspetti diametralmente opposti: l'umorismo dell'interazione tra i cugini Bone e la drammaticità della trama generale."
http://bonestaarrivando.blogspot.it
Wikipedia
Bone (fumetto)
fumetto
Uno sguardo particolarmente critico su Instagram. Fin troppo, secondo me
Money quote: "The Instagrammability of a destination is apparently now the number one motivation for booking a holiday for millennials. The eternal quest for social approval, which the platform was accused of taking advantage of this week by “withholding” likes from certain users to encourage them to log in more frequently – a charge Instagram denies – continues apace. I joined Instagram relatively recently, mainly to look at travel photos of places and people around the world, a cheering endeavour in these cold, dark Brexity times, but was disappointed how many of the photos seemed to follow a particular format. A thin, blonde, white girl stands in a floaty dress, her back to the viewer, in a seemingly preordained beautiful location. Off camera a queue of other “influencers” wait patiently to get the perfect shot."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/17/instagrammers-travel-sri-lanka-tourists-peachy-backsides-social-media-obsessed
Money quote: "The Instagrammability of a destination is apparently now the number one motivation for booking a holiday for millennials. The eternal quest for social approval, which the platform was accused of taking advantage of this week by “withholding” likes from certain users to encourage them to log in more frequently – a charge Instagram denies – continues apace. I joined Instagram relatively recently, mainly to look at travel photos of places and people around the world, a cheering endeavour in these cold, dark Brexity times, but was disappointed how many of the photos seemed to follow a particular format. A thin, blonde, white girl stands in a floaty dress, her back to the viewer, in a seemingly preordained beautiful location. Off camera a queue of other “influencers” wait patiently to get the perfect shot."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/17/instagrammers-travel-sri-lanka-tourists-peachy-backsides-social-media-obsessed
the Guardian
Instagrammers are sucking the life and soul out of travel
My view of Sri Lanka was spoiled by the peachy backsides of tourists obsessed with their social media feeds, writes Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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È morto, all’età di 94 anni, il fumettista statunitense Mort Walker, noto soprattutto per la striscia Beetle Bailey.
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/01/mort-walker-morto-bettle-bailey/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/01/mort-walker-morto-bettle-bailey/
Fumettologica
È morto Mort Walker, creatore della striscia "Beetle Bailey" - Fumettologica
Il 27 gennaio scorso, è morto, all’età di 94 anni, il fumettista statunitense Mort Walker, noto soprattutto per la striscia Beetle Bailey.
La storia di Paul Manafort, spiegata bene. Perché questo sembra un personaggio di Doonesbury, davvero.
Money quote: “Over the decades, Manafort had cut a trail of foreign money and influence into Washington, then built that trail into a superhighway. When it comes to serving the interests of the world’s autocrats, he’s been a great innovator. His indictment in October after investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller alleges money laundering, false statements, and other acts of personal corruption. (He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.) But Manafort’s role in Mueller’s broader narrative remains carefully guarded, and unknown to the public. And his personal corruption is less significant, ultimately, than his lifetime role as a corrupter of the American system. That he would be accused of helping a foreign power subvert American democracy is a fitting coda to his life’s story”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/550925/
Money quote: “Over the decades, Manafort had cut a trail of foreign money and influence into Washington, then built that trail into a superhighway. When it comes to serving the interests of the world’s autocrats, he’s been a great innovator. His indictment in October after investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller alleges money laundering, false statements, and other acts of personal corruption. (He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.) But Manafort’s role in Mueller’s broader narrative remains carefully guarded, and unknown to the public. And his personal corruption is less significant, ultimately, than his lifetime role as a corrupter of the American system. That he would be accused of helping a foreign power subvert American democracy is a fitting coda to his life’s story”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/550925/
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