Lettura per la domenica. La storia di una persona autistica e il modo con il quale chi ha delle disabilità mentali ma è comunque in parte funzionale può farcela: è compito della società creare i presupposti e l'accompagnamento. Perché si tratta di una cosa complessa.
Money quote: "A lot of disabled or mentally ill people are able to work a job, pay rent, and get by through an elaborate system of compromise and sacrifice. We may have abandoned career paths that were too demanding of our mental energy, or lost relationships that were too socially or emotionally taxing. We may neglect exercise or beloved hobbies in order to find the time to get work done and make the money we need to survive. We may devote ourselves to rigid schedules that allow us to be professionally productive, but make other life tasks impossible. Or we may be forced to isolate more often than we’d truly like, in order to recharge from the daily efforts of getting by."
https://medium.com/@dr_eprice/im-a-highly-functional-autistic-it-takes-a-lot-of-work-3b9a67ff36a5
Money quote: "A lot of disabled or mentally ill people are able to work a job, pay rent, and get by through an elaborate system of compromise and sacrifice. We may have abandoned career paths that were too demanding of our mental energy, or lost relationships that were too socially or emotionally taxing. We may neglect exercise or beloved hobbies in order to find the time to get work done and make the money we need to survive. We may devote ourselves to rigid schedules that allow us to be professionally productive, but make other life tasks impossible. Or we may be forced to isolate more often than we’d truly like, in order to recharge from the daily efforts of getting by."
https://medium.com/@dr_eprice/im-a-highly-functional-autistic-it-takes-a-lot-of-work-3b9a67ff36a5
Medium
I’m a “highly functional” Autistic. It takes a lot of work.
On engineering a life that suits my neurotype.
Due fake celebrities, in realtà due Bot, litigano di brutto perché uno ha hackerato l'altro, e si minacciano a vicenda. Il mondo sta diventando interessante ma anche molto, molto strano.
Money quote: "On Tuesday, the Instagram account of Miquela Sousa — also known as @LilMiquela, a 19-year-old Brazilian-American model, singer, and Instagram personality with almost a million followers — appeared to have been hacked by a blonde, pro-Trump troll named Bermuda, or @BermudaIsBae. Over the course of about eight hours, Bermuda wiped Lil Miquela’s account clean, posting photos of herself instead with threatening captions like: “You can’t have your account back until you promise to tell people the truth.”
But wait, it gets wilder: Neither Lil Miquela nor Bermuda are real people. They’re computer-generated avatars with anonymous creators."
Money quote: "On Tuesday, the Instagram account of Miquela Sousa — also known as @LilMiquela, a 19-year-old Brazilian-American model, singer, and Instagram personality with almost a million followers — appeared to have been hacked by a blonde, pro-Trump troll named Bermuda, or @BermudaIsBae. Over the course of about eight hours, Bermuda wiped Lil Miquela’s account clean, posting photos of herself instead with threatening captions like: “You can’t have your account back until you promise to tell people the truth.”
But wait, it gets wilder: Neither Lil Miquela nor Bermuda are real people. They’re computer-generated avatars with anonymous creators."
Anche quelli "veri" non è che sono messi molto meglio.
C'è chi usa Anobii, chi usa GoodReaders, chi mette su un blog di recensioni e chi spara giudizi su Amazon o su Twitter. Questo tizio ha fatto un sito che... beh, se non altro è scenico. Ma quanto starà male, però?
Money quote: "Hi there! My name is Latish Sehgal, and I am a programmer living in Dallas, Texas. This site contains notes from some of the books that I have read over the last few years.
The book notes and ratings are rather subjective, based on where I was in my life when I read that book. These are not meant as a replacement for reading but perhaps they can help in giving you a few recommendations to add to your reading list."
https://www.readmybooknotes.com
C'è chi usa Anobii, chi usa GoodReaders, chi mette su un blog di recensioni e chi spara giudizi su Amazon o su Twitter. Questo tizio ha fatto un sito che... beh, se non altro è scenico. Ma quanto starà male, però?
Money quote: "Hi there! My name is Latish Sehgal, and I am a programmer living in Dallas, Texas. This site contains notes from some of the books that I have read over the last few years.
The book notes and ratings are rather subjective, based on where I was in my life when I read that book. These are not meant as a replacement for reading but perhaps they can help in giving you a few recommendations to add to your reading list."
https://www.readmybooknotes.com
Readmybooknotes
Read My Book Notes
Books Recommendations and Summaries
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C’è ancora speranza per i libri di carta?
Money quote: “According to the Library Map of the World, there are over two million public and school libraries on planet Earth. Of these, 103,325 are in the U.S. and 12,570 in my native Australia. Globally, the number of private libraries is much larger still—because who’s to say that even a humble shelf of Penguin or Pocket paperbacks doesn’t qualify as a private library?”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/09/the-strange-magic-of-libraries/
Money quote: “According to the Library Map of the World, there are over two million public and school libraries on planet Earth. Of these, 103,325 are in the U.S. and 12,570 in my native Australia. Globally, the number of private libraries is much larger still—because who’s to say that even a humble shelf of Penguin or Pocket paperbacks doesn’t qualify as a private library?”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/09/the-strange-magic-of-libraries/
The Paris Review
The Strange Magic of Libraries
For National Library Week, Stuart Kells basks in the magic, the strangeness, and the musty glory of libraries.
La lezione di Nintendo: le buone idee si cercano, non arrivano da sole - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/04/23/tecnologia/la-lezione-di-nintendo-le-buone-idee-si-cercano-non-arrivano-da-sole-WpJgyuwuwgKwLWgdNk0m0I/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/04/23/tecnologia/la-lezione-di-nintendo-le-buone-idee-si-cercano-non-arrivano-da-sole-WpJgyuwuwgKwLWgdNk0m0I/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
La lezione di Nintendo: le buone idee si cercano, non arrivano da sole
Per innovare i giochi della sua console Switch, la casa di Kyoto si allea con il fondo di venture capital Scrum Ventures
La Voce offre una spiegazione semplice e lineare al collasso praticamente definitivo di Alitalia, che sta per passare di mano (Lufthansa, a quanto pare). Il punto è semplice: nel 2016-2017 l'azienda romana ha tagliato sui costi del lavoro ma è rimasta vincolata da contratti sfavorevoli (negligentemente?) sulle forniture. Ha però dovuto abbassare i prezzi dei biglietti per via della concorrenza. Risultato? Il disavanzo è esploso. Fine di Alitalia, anche se la cosa si cerca di non dirla, dato che il bilancio non è stato pubblicato.
Money quote: "Nel 2016 il gruppo Lufthansa ha ridotto i costi industriali per passeggero km del 5,4 per cento, principalmente grazie al calo del carburante, e del 5,2 per cento i proventi unitari. In sostanza, ha trasferito ai suoi clienti, attraverso minori prezzi, i risparmi di costo conseguiti e altrettanto han fatto gli altri vettori, low cost e tradizionali. Alitalia non è invece riuscita a ridurre i costi, ingessati da contratti sfavorevoli, ma ha dovuto egualmente ridurre i prezzi a causa della concorrenza sul mercato, peggiorando di conseguenza il suo disavanzo. Questa è la semplice, ma sinora sconosciuta, ragione del dissesto."
http://www.lavoce.info/archives/50463/alitalia-la-crisi-scritta-nei-conti/
Money quote: "Nel 2016 il gruppo Lufthansa ha ridotto i costi industriali per passeggero km del 5,4 per cento, principalmente grazie al calo del carburante, e del 5,2 per cento i proventi unitari. In sostanza, ha trasferito ai suoi clienti, attraverso minori prezzi, i risparmi di costo conseguiti e altrettanto han fatto gli altri vettori, low cost e tradizionali. Alitalia non è invece riuscita a ridurre i costi, ingessati da contratti sfavorevoli, ma ha dovuto egualmente ridurre i prezzi a causa della concorrenza sul mercato, peggiorando di conseguenza il suo disavanzo. Questa è la semplice, ma sinora sconosciuta, ragione del dissesto."
http://www.lavoce.info/archives/50463/alitalia-la-crisi-scritta-nei-conti/
Lavoce.info
Alitalia: la crisi scritta nei conti | U. Arrigo
Non c’è alcun mistero nella nuova crisi di Alitalia. L’azienda, che già perdeva in passato, ha avuto un disavanzo molto più alto nel 2016 perché ha dovuto abbassare i prezzi, ma senza poter ridurre i costi, come invece hanno fatto i vettori concorrenti.
Google alla riscossa nella messaggistica: prepara il lancio di Chat - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/04/22/tecnologia/google-alla-riscossa-nella-messaggistica-prepara-il-lancio-di-chat-UYDfFKGau5ZYD6NaPJJ3EK/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/04/22/tecnologia/google-alla-riscossa-nella-messaggistica-prepara-il-lancio-di-chat-UYDfFKGau5ZYD6NaPJJ3EK/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Google alla riscossa nella messaggistica: prepara il lancio di Chat
Il servizio si basa sullo standard RCS e funzionerà per tutti gli operatori telefonici e le piattaforme software
La piccola SmugMug compra Flickr, gigante delle fotografie, in nome della privacy - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/04/23/tecnologia/la-piccola-smugmug-compra-flickr-gigante-delle-fotografie-in-nome-della-privacy-p3PMyJ3B6g5rcwRyYfSPKJ/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/04/23/tecnologia/la-piccola-smugmug-compra-flickr-gigante-delle-fotografie-in-nome-della-privacy-p3PMyJ3B6g5rcwRyYfSPKJ/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
La piccola SmugMug compra Flickr, gigante delle fotografie, in nome della privacy
Il pionieristico social network per fotografi, già di proprietà di Yahoo, è stato venduto da Verizon. Ospita decine di miliardi di foto di 75 milioni di fotografi
La bellezza dei giardini ingegnerizzati come si faceva una volta, con sapienza secolare e low-tech, a Pantelleria
Money quote: "Giardini Panteschi have been described as self-sufficient agronomic systems, because they create a nano-climate that simultaneously waters the tree, protects it from relentless wind, retains any rainwater channeled into the garden under the access door during rare rainstorms, allows in sunlight, and radiates stored solar warmth on cold nights. Once built, it “operates” without any need for further human intervention."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pantelleria-gardens-giardino-pantesco
Money quote: "Giardini Panteschi have been described as self-sufficient agronomic systems, because they create a nano-climate that simultaneously waters the tree, protects it from relentless wind, retains any rainwater channeled into the garden under the access door during rare rainstorms, allows in sunlight, and radiates stored solar warmth on cold nights. Once built, it “operates” without any need for further human intervention."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pantelleria-gardens-giardino-pantesco
Atlas Obscura
The Ancient Walled Gardens Designed to Nurture a Single Citrus Tree
Giardini Panteschi are found only on the windswept island of Pantelleria.
Forwarded from MacchiaChannel
Il sogno di ogni singolo titolista inglese è diventato realtà, quando è uscito uno studio della rivista Nature in cui venivano enumerate le nuove scoperte riguardanti il pianeta Urano, rese possibile da un nuovo tipo di telescopio. Una di queste è che il pianeta puzza di zolfo, il che, tradotto in titolo da giornale, diventa: “Uranus smells bad” o, per i più creativi, “smell like farts”.
Tradotto: “Il tuo ano puzza” o “sa di scorregge”.
Perché anche gli scienziati sono stati dei bambini con dei sogni. Fuori uno.
Link: https://on.mash.to/2Hsu95O
Tradotto: “Il tuo ano puzza” o “sa di scorregge”.
Perché anche gli scienziati sono stati dei bambini con dei sogni. Fuori uno.
Link: https://on.mash.to/2Hsu95O
Mashable
Scientists confirm Uranus smells like farts
The scientist leading the study called it 'unpleasant and odiferous.'
Amp, la tecnologia di Google per la indicizzazione e renderizzazione rapida delle pagine dei siti, è una cosa non buona per svariati motivi. (È anche tra le cose dove Google fa la maggior parte dei suoi soldi)
Money quote: "So it's not really about speed. As with anything that eschews standards for its own modified version thereof, it's about lock-in. Tons of pages in Google AMP markup mean tons of pages that are optimized specifically for Google and indexed primarily by Google and shown primarily to Google users. It's Google's attempt to match Facebook's platform. And yes, Facebook is far worse than AMP, but that doesn't make Google AMP a good idea. At least Facebook doesn't try to pretend like it's open.
The second thing you need to do is get rid of all your analytics data. Instead, you can peek at a small subset of the data Google gathers. That's the AMP analytics deal in a nutshell."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/
Money quote: "So it's not really about speed. As with anything that eschews standards for its own modified version thereof, it's about lock-in. Tons of pages in Google AMP markup mean tons of pages that are optimized specifically for Google and indexed primarily by Google and shown primarily to Google users. It's Google's attempt to match Facebook's platform. And yes, Facebook is far worse than AMP, but that doesn't make Google AMP a good idea. At least Facebook doesn't try to pretend like it's open.
The second thing you need to do is get rid of all your analytics data. Instead, you can peek at a small subset of the data Google gathers. That's the AMP analytics deal in a nutshell."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/
www.theregister.co.uk
Kill Google AMP before it kills the web
Trust, independence, credibility – we've heard of those
Bisogna mangiare più fibra. Pensavo fosse un arguto gioco di parole per un titolo sulla banda larga, e invece si parla di intestino e alimentazione sana. Una volta ripresomi dallo shock, l'ho trovato in verità più interessante della connessione con fibra ottica.
Money quote: "There are so many reasons why, from fast-food marketing to agriculture subsidies, but one contributing factor is the slow death of cooking, and the rise of the restaurant meal. Americans now spend more on food at restaurants than they do at grocery stores, but restaurant food tends to have even less fiber than the food we would otherwise eat at home.
One problem seems to be that restaurant meals aren't typically loaded with two of the best sources of fiber, unprocessed fruits and vegetables. A revealing study from 2007, in which researchers interviewed 41 restaurant executives, showed that restaurants think fruits and vegetables are too expensive to feature prominently on the menu, and “61 percent said profits drive menu selections.” They also opposed labeling certain menu items as healthier choices, saying that would be “the kiss of death.”
So people like to eat out, and when they do, they prefer mushy, fiber-free comfort foods. But that’s a pretty dangerous road to go down."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/01/just-eat-more-fiber/550082/
Money quote: "There are so many reasons why, from fast-food marketing to agriculture subsidies, but one contributing factor is the slow death of cooking, and the rise of the restaurant meal. Americans now spend more on food at restaurants than they do at grocery stores, but restaurant food tends to have even less fiber than the food we would otherwise eat at home.
One problem seems to be that restaurant meals aren't typically loaded with two of the best sources of fiber, unprocessed fruits and vegetables. A revealing study from 2007, in which researchers interviewed 41 restaurant executives, showed that restaurants think fruits and vegetables are too expensive to feature prominently on the menu, and “61 percent said profits drive menu selections.” They also opposed labeling certain menu items as healthier choices, saying that would be “the kiss of death.”
So people like to eat out, and when they do, they prefer mushy, fiber-free comfort foods. But that’s a pretty dangerous road to go down."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/01/just-eat-more-fiber/550082/
The Atlantic
The Surprising Weight-Loss Benefits of Fiber
Diets can be overwhelming, but one small change can do a lot.
Un bel ritratto di Marissa Mayer, che a quanto pare non ci sta proprio a mollare il colpo, nonostante con Yahoo non abbia decisamente brillato
Money quote: "Why did you leave Google?
I was 37, and I had been working at Google for 13 years. I had been on search for 10 of those years and just had very recently made the change over to focus on Maps as a search technology. And I was like, “You know, I’m just not sure that I want to be like the 50-year-old search girl.”
I’d always had huge respect for Yahoo as a company. When we were here in this office, we dreamed of maybe getting the Yahoo contract, maybe one day powering Yahoo search. In 1999, Yahoo was the internet. And I knew that while there were a lot of things going wrong for the board and leadership at Yahoo, there were a lot of really good people there working on the products."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/business/marissa-mayer-corner-office.html
Money quote: "Why did you leave Google?
I was 37, and I had been working at Google for 13 years. I had been on search for 10 of those years and just had very recently made the change over to focus on Maps as a search technology. And I was like, “You know, I’m just not sure that I want to be like the 50-year-old search girl.”
I’d always had huge respect for Yahoo as a company. When we were here in this office, we dreamed of maybe getting the Yahoo contract, maybe one day powering Yahoo search. In 1999, Yahoo was the internet. And I knew that while there were a lot of things going wrong for the board and leadership at Yahoo, there were a lot of really good people there working on the products."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/business/marissa-mayer-corner-office.html
NY Times
Marissa Mayer Is Still Here (Published 2018)
The former Yahoo chief is renting Google’s original office, where “there’s a lot of good juju,” and planning her next act. She just won’t say what it is.
Insomma, con OLPC è andata proprio male. Ci sarebbe da imparare. Repetita iuvant, articolo da leggere
Money quote: "If you remember the OLPC at all, you probably remember the hand crank. It was OLPC’s most striking technological innovation — and it was pure vaporware. Designers dropped the feature almost immediately after Negroponte’s announcement, because the winding process put stress on the laptop’s body and demanded energy that kids in very poor areas couldn’t spare. Every OLPC computer shipped with a standard power adapter.
By the time OLPC officially launched in 2007, the “green machine” — once a breakout star of the 21st-century educational technology scene — was a symbol of tech industry hubris, a one-size-fits-all American solution to complex global problems. But more than a decade later, the project’s legacy is more complicated than a simple cautionary tale. Its laptops are still rolling off production lines, and a new model is expected later this year.
And people are still talking about the crank."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now
Money quote: "If you remember the OLPC at all, you probably remember the hand crank. It was OLPC’s most striking technological innovation — and it was pure vaporware. Designers dropped the feature almost immediately after Negroponte’s announcement, because the winding process put stress on the laptop’s body and demanded energy that kids in very poor areas couldn’t spare. Every OLPC computer shipped with a standard power adapter.
By the time OLPC officially launched in 2007, the “green machine” — once a breakout star of the 21st-century educational technology scene — was a symbol of tech industry hubris, a one-size-fits-all American solution to complex global problems. But more than a decade later, the project’s legacy is more complicated than a simple cautionary tale. Its laptops are still rolling off production lines, and a new model is expected later this year.
And people are still talking about the crank."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now
The Verge
OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong
The $100 OLPC laptop was supposed to revolutionize education.
Dieci anni fa di questi tempi Nicholas Negroponte andava a Firenze per portare il suo OLPC nelle scuole fiorentine. Il vostro cronista era là, e prendeva nota. Visto che si parla ancora di questo apparecchio e del metodo educativo che avrebbe dovuto fare la differenza (ma sembra un secolo fa, ora sono tutti impazziti per Code .org e dintorni) vale la pena ripercorrere quella strada
Money quote: "La scena è la sala colazioni dell’hotel Savoy in piazza San Firenze, subito dietro Palazzo Vecchio, la sede del Comune fiorentino. Sarà una mattinata lunga: Negroponte è arrivato la sera prima da Boston apposta per andare in comune e firmare a fine mattinata l’accordo con l’amministrazione, e nel primo pomeriggio ripartirà per New York. Prima, ci saranno la conferenza stampa, l’incontro con i giornalisti e gli esponenti dell’intellighenzia digitale fiorentina, l’evento pubblico nel Salone de’ Dugento, sede del consiglio comunale fiorentino. La cornice storica di Firenze imbarazzerebbe moltissimi americani per il peso della storia che abita le sue scale monumentali e i suoi saloni affrescati, ma non Negroponte che è laureato in architettura e che a metà degli anni Sessanta proprio a Firenze veniva con la scusa di studiare arte ed architettura per frequentare la fidanzata dell’epoca."
https://www.macitynet.it/firenze_una_mattina_con_nicholas_negroponte_e_lolpc/
https://www.macitynet.it/il_futuro_dellinformatica-_siamo_nelle_mani_del_low_cost_1/
Money quote: "La scena è la sala colazioni dell’hotel Savoy in piazza San Firenze, subito dietro Palazzo Vecchio, la sede del Comune fiorentino. Sarà una mattinata lunga: Negroponte è arrivato la sera prima da Boston apposta per andare in comune e firmare a fine mattinata l’accordo con l’amministrazione, e nel primo pomeriggio ripartirà per New York. Prima, ci saranno la conferenza stampa, l’incontro con i giornalisti e gli esponenti dell’intellighenzia digitale fiorentina, l’evento pubblico nel Salone de’ Dugento, sede del consiglio comunale fiorentino. La cornice storica di Firenze imbarazzerebbe moltissimi americani per il peso della storia che abita le sue scale monumentali e i suoi saloni affrescati, ma non Negroponte che è laureato in architettura e che a metà degli anni Sessanta proprio a Firenze veniva con la scusa di studiare arte ed architettura per frequentare la fidanzata dell’epoca."
https://www.macitynet.it/firenze_una_mattina_con_nicholas_negroponte_e_lolpc/
https://www.macitynet.it/il_futuro_dellinformatica-_siamo_nelle_mani_del_low_cost_1/
Macitynet.it
Firenze, una mattina con Nicholas Negroponte e l'Olpc - Macitynet.it
Firenze firma il primo accordo mondiale per portare OLPC, il laptop per bambini che costa poco più di 100 dollari, a casa. L'obiettivo è il gemellaggio con numerose città africane per dare l'opportunità anche ai giovanissimi dei paesi in via di sviluppo di…
“Avengers: Infinity War”, la recensione (no spoiler) - un film ATOMICO, la mia recensione per Fumettologica
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/04/avengers-infinity-war-recensione-marvel/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/04/avengers-infinity-war-recensione-marvel/
Fumettologica
"Avengers: Infinity War", la recensione (no spoiler) - Fumettologica
Se Avengers: Infinity War è l'inizio della fine dell'universo cinematografico Marvel, vuol dire che la fine inizia veramente con il botto.
Negli Usa la polizia interrompe una veglia funebre per sbloccare il telefono del morto - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/04/24/tecnologia/negli-usa-la-polizia-interrompe-una-veglia-funebre-per-sbloccare-il-telefono-del-morto-N1XPlYqyMay8TX1tpmnXuL/amphtml/pagina.amp.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/04/24/tecnologia/negli-usa-la-polizia-interrompe-una-veglia-funebre-per-sbloccare-il-telefono-del-morto-N1XPlYqyMay8TX1tpmnXuL/amphtml/pagina.amp.html
LaStampa.it
Negli Usa la polizia interrompe una veglia funebre per sbloccare il telefono del morto
Usare l’impronta digitale di un defunto è legale ma solleva problemi di rispetto per i parenti del defunto