I governatori non se li ricorda nessuno (forse). Eppure cambiano la realtà delle cose. In questo caso, l'attuale governatore della California Jerry Brown è veramente mitico (e questo articolo spettacolare).
Money quote: "Brown turns 80 in April. First elected in 1974 at the age of 36, he was one of the youngest governors in California’s history; today, he holds the distinction of being its oldest. What’s left of his hair he wears buzzed close to the scalp, his thick eyebrows gone to white. He cultivates the look of a professor emeritus — striped Oxford shirts and crew-neck sweaters, dark boxy suits and black slip-on loafers. A Fitbit adorns his left wrist. His face, thicker now, has lost its boyishness, and there is a scar on his nose from a procedure he had to remove a cancerous growth. His gaze, though, remains unchanged, by turns puckish and withering."
https://story.californiasunday.com/jerry-brown-last-days
Money quote: "Brown turns 80 in April. First elected in 1974 at the age of 36, he was one of the youngest governors in California’s history; today, he holds the distinction of being its oldest. What’s left of his hair he wears buzzed close to the scalp, his thick eyebrows gone to white. He cultivates the look of a professor emeritus — striped Oxford shirts and crew-neck sweaters, dark boxy suits and black slip-on loafers. A Fitbit adorns his left wrist. His face, thicker now, has lost its boyishness, and there is a scar on his nose from a procedure he had to remove a cancerous growth. His gaze, though, remains unchanged, by turns puckish and withering."
https://story.californiasunday.com/jerry-brown-last-days
The California Sunday Magazine
The Last Days of Jerry Brown
After more than 40 years in public life, 15 as governor of California, he is as combative and contradictory as ever — and still trying to save the world from itself.
Ecco qua il vostro giornalista d'inchiesta digitale, che si intrufola nei meandri dei bytes per scovare il marcio e spiattellarlo ai lettori del grande quotidiano finanziario...
Auto quote: "Scaricare i propri dati è semplice, lo stesso Facebook fornisce le indicazioni.
Dopo aver seguito la procedura ho avviato il download di un documento zip da circa 250 Megabyte. La connessione di casa in fibra lo ha fatto scaricare in cinque minuti. Le dimensioni come detto sono relativamente contenute. Sono pur sempre l’equivalente di 300mila documenti Word.
Dentro ho trovato una serie di cartelle e di pagine Html, cioè pagine web locali. La prima, Index.html, contiene il registro generale delle mie attività. Si parte da qui"
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-03-28/dentro-mio-profilo-facebook-tutto-quel-che-zuckerberg-conosce-me--170457.shtml
Auto quote: "Scaricare i propri dati è semplice, lo stesso Facebook fornisce le indicazioni.
Dopo aver seguito la procedura ho avviato il download di un documento zip da circa 250 Megabyte. La connessione di casa in fibra lo ha fatto scaricare in cinque minuti. Le dimensioni come detto sono relativamente contenute. Sono pur sempre l’equivalente di 300mila documenti Word.
Dentro ho trovato una serie di cartelle e di pagine Html, cioè pagine web locali. La prima, Index.html, contiene il registro generale delle mie attività. Si parte da qui"
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-03-28/dentro-mio-profilo-facebook-tutto-quel-che-zuckerberg-conosce-me--170457.shtml
Il Sole 24 ORE
Ho chiuso Facebook: ecco cosa Zuckerberg continua a sapere di me
A dieci anni da quando mi sono registrato sul social network per eccellenza, ho deciso di mettere in sonno il mio profilo. Ma prima di sospenderlo a tempo indeterminato, ho scaricato tutti i dati di cui la piattaforma è in possesso. È stato come aprire il…
Mito e verità di quello che le donne realmente vogliono. Per me, un grande articolo.
Money quote: “We might wish for more Tiresiases — men who are punished for their sexual improprieties, but, even more importantly, given the ability to hear, to feel, to experience another side of things. To know in their viscera what women have been saying all along — that sometimes sex hurts, that often we do not come, and that always it is about power.”
https://eidolon.pub/what-women-dont-want-eb24e6a457de
Money quote: “We might wish for more Tiresiases — men who are punished for their sexual improprieties, but, even more importantly, given the ability to hear, to feel, to experience another side of things. To know in their viscera what women have been saying all along — that sometimes sex hurts, that often we do not come, and that always it is about power.”
https://eidolon.pub/what-women-dont-want-eb24e6a457de
Medium
What Women (Don’t) Want
Tiresias on Female Pleasure
Il Sole 24 Ore Mobile - il mio video: Addio Zuckerberg, volevi sapere troppe cose di me e io ti lascio
http://mobile.ilsole24ore.com/solemobile/main/video/tecnologie/addio-zuckerberg-volevi-sapere-troppe-cose-me-e-io-ti-lascio/AEtvkzPE
http://mobile.ilsole24ore.com/solemobile/main/video/tecnologie/addio-zuckerberg-volevi-sapere-troppe-cose-me-e-io-ti-lascio/AEtvkzPE
Facebook e Google
Senza parole
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy
Senza parole
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy
the Guardian
Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you | Dylan Curran
The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look
El Pais, il Guardian, i giornali tedeschi, francesi, belgi: in ogni nazione un giornalista racconta cosa c’è nel suo Facebook. In Italia sono stato io
https://twitter.com/elpady/status/977990750423175168?s=12
https://twitter.com/elpady/status/977990750423175168?s=12
Twitter
Javi Padilla
Facebook tiene datos tuyos que incluyen muchas cosas que no sabías. Para probarlo, he descargado mi archivo y voy a diseccionarlo a través de una serie de tuits... [Abro HILO]
Un racconto lungo di Miras Genais, semplicemente delizioso. Per compensare la mancanza di gioie del Venerdì Santo.
Money quote: “ donde vivo, aquí en el morro, hay unos agujeros, especie de fosos, que cuando llueve mucho uno o dos sapos se quedan encerrados y si no los sacas se mueren, esos fosos se llenan de porquerías y los sapos acaban muriéndose. Los supersticiosos dicen que los sapos son venenosos, deben ser venenosos para quien los maltrata”
https://www.eternacadencia.com.ar/blog/ficcion/item/caras-vemos-corazones-no-sabemos.html
Money quote: “ donde vivo, aquí en el morro, hay unos agujeros, especie de fosos, que cuando llueve mucho uno o dos sapos se quedan encerrados y si no los sacas se mueren, esos fosos se llenan de porquerías y los sapos acaban muriéndose. Los supersticiosos dicen que los sapos son venenosos, deben ser venenosos para quien los maltrata”
https://www.eternacadencia.com.ar/blog/ficcion/item/caras-vemos-corazones-no-sabemos.html
Eterna Cadencia
Caras vemos, corazones no sabemos
Tomado de Historias cortas, publicado por Tusquets, uno de los relatos de este escritor brasilero nacido en Minas Gerais en 1925, premio Camoes, Iberoamerica...
Bisognerebbe sistemare Facebook. In senso buono, eh! Cosa avete capito?
Money quote: "When citizens of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in June 2016, most observers were stunned. The polls had predicted a victory for the “Remain” campaign. And common sense made it hard to believe that Britons would do something so obviously contrary to their self-interest. But neither common sense nor the polling data fully accounted for a crucial factor: the new power of social platforms to amplify negative messages."
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january-february-march-2018/how-to-fix-facebook-before-it-fixes-us/
Money quote: "When citizens of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in June 2016, most observers were stunned. The polls had predicted a victory for the “Remain” campaign. And common sense made it hard to believe that Britons would do something so obviously contrary to their self-interest. But neither common sense nor the polling data fully accounted for a crucial factor: the new power of social platforms to amplify negative messages."
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january-february-march-2018/how-to-fix-facebook-before-it-fixes-us/
Washington Monthly
How to Fix Facebook—Before It Fixes Us
An early investor explains why the social media platform’s business model is such a threat—and what to do about it.
Questo è molto interessante, non solo per le grandi imprese
Money quote: "Here is an interesting twist: GitLab, which in many ways competes with GitHub as a shared code repository service for teams, is bringing its continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) features to GitHub."
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/22/gitlab-adds-support-for-github/
Money quote: "Here is an interesting twist: GitLab, which in many ways competes with GitHub as a shared code repository service for teams, is bringing its continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) features to GitHub."
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/22/gitlab-adds-support-for-github/
TechCrunch
GitLab adds support for GitHub
Here is an interesting twist: GitLab, which in many ways competes with GitHub as a shared code repository service for teams, is bringing its continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) features to GitHub. The new service is launching today as part of GitLab’s…
La tesi di questo articolo non è rivoluzionaria né inedita ma sempre godibile. La magia dei libri, la capacità di generare un mondo, sta sospesa nello spazio tra chi scrive e chi legge.
Peccato che come al solito il repertorio di citazioni sia pressoché tutto centrato su autori di lingua inglese. Che provincialismo!
Money quote: “According to Gavron: ‘Omission is a form of creation. Limit, constraint and the compulsions of the unknown – the excluded – are the true foundation of narrative art. A place for the reader to enter more fully into the book.’”
https://aeon.co/ideas/in-the-gap-between-writer-and-reader-the-novel-comes-to-life
Peccato che come al solito il repertorio di citazioni sia pressoché tutto centrato su autori di lingua inglese. Che provincialismo!
Money quote: “According to Gavron: ‘Omission is a form of creation. Limit, constraint and the compulsions of the unknown – the excluded – are the true foundation of narrative art. A place for the reader to enter more fully into the book.’”
https://aeon.co/ideas/in-the-gap-between-writer-and-reader-the-novel-comes-to-life
Aeon
In the gap between writer and reader the novel comes to life
Novels that leave loose ends dangling make space for readers to create their own meanings: what could be more satisfying?
Lo so che rischia di diventare un argomento noioso, che è quasi Pasqua, che farsi gli auguri su Facebook è bello e tutto il resto. Però però però
Il punto centrale è cosa vogliamo e cosa siamo disposti a dare in cambio. Secondo me, abbiamo completamente perso la misura
Money quote: "We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response."
https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads
Il punto centrale è cosa vogliamo e cosa siamo disposti a dare in cambio. Secondo me, abbiamo completamente perso la misura
Money quote: "We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response."
https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads
Ted
We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads…
Self storage, la Passione di alcuni. Gli Stati Uniti sono vivono sommersi dai beni che accumulano, schiacciati da una obesità culturale che li sovrasta. E ovviamente hanno trovato il modo di costruirci sopra un business. Anzi, più di uno. Ma questo in particolare è il più singolare: gli alberghi delle cose.
Money quote: "One in 11 Americans pays an average of $91.14 per month to use self-storage, finding a place for the material overflow of the American dream. According to SpareFoot, a company that tracks the self-storage industry, the United States boasts more than 50,000 facilities and roughly 2.311 billion square feet of rentable space. In other words, the volume of self-storage units in the country could fill the Hoover Dam with old clothing, skis, and keepsakes more than 26 times."
Money quote2: "Though the adage “sex sells” is hard to dispute, the decidedly unsexy self-storage industry made $32.7 billion in 2016, according to Bloomberg, nearly three times Hollywood’s box office gross."
https://www.curbed.com/2018/3/27/17168088/cheap-storage-warehouse-self-storage-real-estate
Ma non è finita. Perché nonostante si provi a fare de-clutter, in realtà le cose ingombranti e disordinate stanno vincendo.
Money quote: "Clutter, like Satan, can assume many forms. It can present as a once-used bread machine or Lego hair that’s come unsnapped from its person. It can look like Tupperware without its assigned top, garden tools when there’s no garden, expired coupons, a bottle of hardened glue, a mushy basketball that will never again bounce."
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/03/27/years-into-war-clutter-and-still-overwhelmed-stuff-what-going/R9jktrIH2ySut5cMCHOSoM/story.html
Come Satana.
Money quote: "One in 11 Americans pays an average of $91.14 per month to use self-storage, finding a place for the material overflow of the American dream. According to SpareFoot, a company that tracks the self-storage industry, the United States boasts more than 50,000 facilities and roughly 2.311 billion square feet of rentable space. In other words, the volume of self-storage units in the country could fill the Hoover Dam with old clothing, skis, and keepsakes more than 26 times."
Money quote2: "Though the adage “sex sells” is hard to dispute, the decidedly unsexy self-storage industry made $32.7 billion in 2016, according to Bloomberg, nearly three times Hollywood’s box office gross."
https://www.curbed.com/2018/3/27/17168088/cheap-storage-warehouse-self-storage-real-estate
Ma non è finita. Perché nonostante si provi a fare de-clutter, in realtà le cose ingombranti e disordinate stanno vincendo.
Money quote: "Clutter, like Satan, can assume many forms. It can present as a once-used bread machine or Lego hair that’s come unsnapped from its person. It can look like Tupperware without its assigned top, garden tools when there’s no garden, expired coupons, a bottle of hardened glue, a mushy basketball that will never again bounce."
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/03/27/years-into-war-clutter-and-still-overwhelmed-stuff-what-going/R9jktrIH2ySut5cMCHOSoM/story.html
Come Satana.
Curbed
How warehouses for personal junk became a $38 billion industry
One in 11 Americans pays for space to store the material overflow of the American dream
Forwarded from Digital Common Sense
il caso Facebook-Cambridge Analytica non ci dice che “il Re è nudo” ma ha piuttosto scoperchiato un vaso di Pandora da cui stanno uscendo i mostri che l’accelerazione della vita connessa associata a un’economia neo-liberale ha generato.
Un insieme di problemi reali che abbiamo cominciato da poco a trattare come ossessioni collettive di cui parliamo molto ma che non si traducono in comportamenti comuni o in regolamentazioni applicabili.
Parlare di privacy violata, denunciare gli algoritmi, accusare “la Rete” di manipolazione costituisce per ora una strategia discorsiva che non ha avuto la forza di tradursi in una preoccupazione culturale diffusa
http://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/facebook-il-re-era-gia-nudo
Un insieme di problemi reali che abbiamo cominciato da poco a trattare come ossessioni collettive di cui parliamo molto ma che non si traducono in comportamenti comuni o in regolamentazioni applicabili.
Parlare di privacy violata, denunciare gli algoritmi, accusare “la Rete” di manipolazione costituisce per ora una strategia discorsiva che non ha avuto la forza di tradursi in una preoccupazione culturale diffusa
http://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/facebook-il-re-era-gia-nudo
Doppiozero
Facebook: il Re (era già) nudo
Sono molte ormai le cose che pensiamo di sapere rispetto all’affaire Facebook-Cambridge Analytica.
Uno dei fondatori di Docker se ne va, semplicemente perché è arrivato il momento di farlo, niente scandali o scontri sotterranei.
Money quote: "It’s never easy for a founder to part ways with their life’s work. But I realize how incredibly lucky I am to have this problem. Most ideas never materialize. Most software goes unused. Most businesses fail in their first year. Yet here we are, one of the largest open-source communities ever assembled, collectively building software that will run on millions of computers around the world. To know that your work was meaningful, and that a vibrant community of people will continue building upon it…. can any founder ask for anything more?"
https://blog.docker.com/2018/03/au-revoir/
Money quote: "It’s never easy for a founder to part ways with their life’s work. But I realize how incredibly lucky I am to have this problem. Most ideas never materialize. Most software goes unused. Most businesses fail in their first year. Yet here we are, one of the largest open-source communities ever assembled, collectively building software that will run on millions of computers around the world. To know that your work was meaningful, and that a vibrant community of people will continue building upon it…. can any founder ask for anything more?"
https://blog.docker.com/2018/03/au-revoir/
Docker
Docker Blog
Read our blog to find the latest Docker updates, news, technical breakdowns, and lifestyle content.
Per la scuola è meglio l'iPad di Chromebook: ecco perché - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/per-la-scuola-e-meglio-lipad-di-chromebook-ecco-perche/
https://www.macitynet.it/per-la-scuola-e-meglio-lipad-di-chromebook-ecco-perche/
Macitynet.it
Per la scuola è meglio l’iPad di Chromebook: ecco perché
I tablet di Google sfidano Apple e vogliono fortificare la spinta nel settore educativo, ma hanno fatto i conti senza un particolare: la privacy
Buona Pasqua. E buon primo di aprile. Qui una lista, costantemente aggiornata, dei pesci d'aprile che le compagnie hi-tech stanno facendo. Nelle prossime ore si andranno a intensificare
Money quote: "It can be tough finding precisely the right hummus for your tastes. There's a whole world of garlicy, red-peppery, artichokey goodness to be explored together with it, but it can be daunting, and that's why Google is rolling out a new machine learning-based Google Cloud Hummus API based on a simple "quick lick test.""
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/31/continuously-updated-2018-april-fools-roundup-jokes-around-web/
Money quote: "It can be tough finding precisely the right hummus for your tastes. There's a whole world of garlicy, red-peppery, artichokey goodness to be explored together with it, but it can be daunting, and that's why Google is rolling out a new machine learning-based Google Cloud Hummus API based on a simple "quick lick test.""
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/31/continuously-updated-2018-april-fools-roundup-jokes-around-web/
Android Police - Android news, reviews, apps, games, phones, tablets
[Continuously Updated] 2018 April Fools' Roundup: All the jokes from around the web
April Fools' day is almost upon us, but each year at least a few companies are unable to restrain themselves, pushing out their pranks early. Google's vari... by Ryne Hager in Google, News, OnePlus, Razer, T-Mobile, Videos
Siccome è domenica, è festa, si sta con la famiglia e non si pensa al lavoro, vi saluto con questa e la prossima segnalazione, Un reportage affasciante: visioni in bianco e nero della Corporate America negli anni Settanta. Vivere negli uffici.
Money quote: "While attending graduate school at the University of New Mexico in 1977, Ms. Ressler started going into banks and offices and asking to have a look around. The project led her to Los Angeles, which proved to be the perfect setting to capture corporate America in the cool, cookie-cutter office settings that were prevalent at the time."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/lens/capturing-photos-of-corporate-office-life-in-1970s-america.html
Money quote: "While attending graduate school at the University of New Mexico in 1977, Ms. Ressler started going into banks and offices and asking to have a look around. The project led her to Los Angeles, which proved to be the perfect setting to capture corporate America in the cool, cookie-cutter office settings that were prevalent at the time."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/lens/capturing-photos-of-corporate-office-life-in-1970s-america.html
Nytimes
Capturing Photos of Corporate Office Life in 1970s America
A photographer set out to portray the cookie-cutter culture of corporate America's bygone days.
La proposta di matrimonio. Rimettiamo in discussione l’istituto, sono d’accordo.
Ma mi aspettavo qualcosa di più da The Atlantic
Money quote: “But for a lot of heterosexual couples, the proposal—as movies portray it, as many millennial women have internalized it—doesn’t reflect the kind of modern, egalitarian relationships many women want today. Whom to marry is among the most important decisions most people will ever make in their lives, and yet it’s not a choice made in the course of a conversation—the normal way two grown humans make big life decisions. Instead, it has to be a show, with a prefixed grand finale: “yes.””
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/556403/
Ma mi aspettavo qualcosa di più da The Atlantic
Money quote: “But for a lot of heterosexual couples, the proposal—as movies portray it, as many millennial women have internalized it—doesn’t reflect the kind of modern, egalitarian relationships many women want today. Whom to marry is among the most important decisions most people will ever make in their lives, and yet it’s not a choice made in the course of a conversation—the normal way two grown humans make big life decisions. Instead, it has to be a show, with a prefixed grand finale: “yes.””
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/556403/