Il vero, grande problema con la tecnologia digitale di rete non è L privacy. È che siamo diventati dipendenti, nel senso di tossici
Money quote: “And that brings us to what we really talk about when we talk about tech.
We talk about the fact that we can’t get off this fucking machine.”
https://medium.com/@davepell/the-real-technology-problem-bc6aa27e526b
Money quote: “And that brings us to what we really talk about when we talk about tech.
We talk about the fact that we can’t get off this fucking machine.”
https://medium.com/@davepell/the-real-technology-problem-bc6aa27e526b
Medium
The Real Technology Problem
We know Congress and Mark Zuckerberg won’t discuss the real technology problem. Neither will we. Ironically, it’s private.
Se lo ritwittate, lui (forse) vi fa il mini-ritratto come omino stilizzato. È diventato un virale enorme.
Money quote: “As I write this, now deep into Day 4, the retweets have finally began trickling down to a manageable flow. The total number of retweets is currently at 5411, which means that with the likenesses of 315 people now down on paper, that just leaves another 5096 to go, which begs the question…
Right, who’s next?”
https://medium.com/@chazhutton/i-offered-to-draw-people-then-5000-people-said-yes-83cd7cecfdd7
Money quote: “As I write this, now deep into Day 4, the retweets have finally began trickling down to a manageable flow. The total number of retweets is currently at 5411, which means that with the likenesses of 315 people now down on paper, that just leaves another 5096 to go, which begs the question…
Right, who’s next?”
https://medium.com/@chazhutton/i-offered-to-draw-people-then-5000-people-said-yes-83cd7cecfdd7
Medium
I offered to draw people. Then 5000 people said yes.
“Right, Who’s next.”
Apple rispetta davvero la privacy? Dal cloud alle foto, che cosa succede ai nostri dati - la mia inchiesta per Il Sole 24 Ore
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-04-18/apple-rispetta-davvero-privacy-cloud-foto-che-cosa-succede-nostri-dati-182119.shtml
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-04-18/apple-rispetta-davvero-privacy-cloud-foto-che-cosa-succede-nostri-dati-182119.shtml
Il Sole 24 ORE
Apple rispetta davvero la privacy? Dal cloud alle foto, che cosa succede ai nostri dati
Apple sostiene da tempo di avere a cuore la privacy dei suoi utenti. In parte questo accade per il modello di business (che prevede la vendita di
È il creatore del gioco per Commodore 64 con i cammelli che camminano. Vive da eremita nel Galles, ha un socio italiano e continua ad andare alla grande, anche se nessuno lo sa (e a lui decisamente non importa). Una bella intervista di Jaime D'Alessandro su Repubblica
Money quote:
D) Dieci anni dopo è arrivata la prima PlayStation con i suoi giochi cinematografici e sono nati fenomeni come Lara Croft. Eppure lei ha deciso di continuare nel solco della “psychedelia”, dell'astrazione. Ha deciso di starne fuori, proprio mentre sul settore iniziavano a piovere investimenti milionari . Oggettivamente: non le sembra una scelta discutibile?
R) Lo sa? In Galles allevo alcune pecore, un asino e un lama (la sua software house si chiama Llamasoft, ndr). E quando è una bella giornata smetto di lavorare e vado al mare o a farmi una passeggiata. No, non sono mai stato interessato alla carriera in una grande multinazionale. Scrivere codice, sviluppare un software, è una cosa molto personale. In due ci mettiamo a volte un anno a fare un gioco, altre volte due o tre mesi. Ma siamo sempre noi a scegliere."
http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2018/04/30/news/jeff_minter_l_uomo_del_futuro_che_ha_scelto_di_vivere_nel_passato-195204956/
Money quote:
D) Dieci anni dopo è arrivata la prima PlayStation con i suoi giochi cinematografici e sono nati fenomeni come Lara Croft. Eppure lei ha deciso di continuare nel solco della “psychedelia”, dell'astrazione. Ha deciso di starne fuori, proprio mentre sul settore iniziavano a piovere investimenti milionari . Oggettivamente: non le sembra una scelta discutibile?
R) Lo sa? In Galles allevo alcune pecore, un asino e un lama (la sua software house si chiama Llamasoft, ndr). E quando è una bella giornata smetto di lavorare e vado al mare o a farmi una passeggiata. No, non sono mai stato interessato alla carriera in una grande multinazionale. Scrivere codice, sviluppare un software, è una cosa molto personale. In due ci mettiamo a volte un anno a fare un gioco, altre volte due o tre mesi. Ma siamo sempre noi a scegliere."
http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2018/04/30/news/jeff_minter_l_uomo_del_futuro_che_ha_scelto_di_vivere_nel_passato-195204956/
la Repubblica
Jeff Minter, l’uomo del futuro che ha scelto di vivere nel passato
E’ uno dei grandi creatori di videogame degli anni Ottanta. Nato in Inghilterra, oggi ha 56 anni e vive isolato nella campagna del Galles dove cont…
Un film-documentario del 1978 per raccontare la storia dell'ultimo giorno di composizione a caldo del New York Times. Un'epoca che ho sfiorato a Firenze, e che ha per tutti ricordi commoventi. La mezz'ora del documentario è una sorta di storia orale, raccolta e narrata da due tipografi del Times.
https://vimeo.com/127605643
https://vimeo.com/127605643
Vimeo
Farewell - ETAOIN SHRDLU - 1978
A film created by Carl Schlesinger and David Loeb Weiss documenting the last day of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times. This film shows the entire newspaper…
Un viaggio spettacolare e un libro-fotografico-sito-web altrettato bello. Da gustare con calma, su uno schermo all'altezza (almeno Retina)
Money quote: "Koya-san — home to esoteric Buddhism — is the name of a sacred basin eight hundred meters high and surrounded by eight mountains. It is roughly one hundred kilometers of trails north from the Kumano Hongu Taisha shrine in Wakayama, Japan. Though the name of the basin is often incorrectly translated as Mt. Koya in English, Mt. Koya is only one of the eight peaks, and is remote from the central cluster of temples.
We walked towards Koya-san, but we did not touch Mt. Koya."
https://walkkumano.com
Money quote: "Koya-san — home to esoteric Buddhism — is the name of a sacred basin eight hundred meters high and surrounded by eight mountains. It is roughly one hundred kilometers of trails north from the Kumano Hongu Taisha shrine in Wakayama, Japan. Though the name of the basin is often incorrectly translated as Mt. Koya in English, Mt. Koya is only one of the eight peaks, and is remote from the central cluster of temples.
We walked towards Koya-san, but we did not touch Mt. Koya."
https://walkkumano.com
Craig Mod
Walk Kumano Kodo
Notes and tips on walking the Nakahechi, Kohechi, and Iseji, Kumano Kodo UNESCO World Heritage pilgrimage routes
La salute economica di un giornale è un buon indicatore per giudicarne lo stato reale? Perché negli Usa Digital First Media possiede The Mercury News, The Denver Post, St. Paul Pioneer Press, 11 quotidiani della Southern California e altri 49 tra California, Michigan e New Jersey, ha visto nell'ultimo periodo esplodere le proteste delle redazioni per i tagli indiscriminati, i licenziamenti di massa, l'abbattimento della qualità del lavoro, e adesso fa utili in quantità. Viene da pensare che la strategia sia mungere la vacca finché non muore...
Money quote: "Today we can reveal some key financial numbers from the very private company that shows just how successful Alden and DFM have been at milking profit out of the newspapers it is slashing to the bone. DFM reported a 17 percent operating margin — well above those of its peers — in its 2017 fiscal year, along with profits of almost $160 million. That’s the fruit of the repeated cutbacks that have left its own shrinking newsrooms in a state of rebellion.
Now, as the company decides if and how to move against its publicly protesting top editors, Alden would seem to be at a crossroads. But as we explore below, it shows no particular sign of selling its embattled properties. Is continuing to milk its newspapers until they run dry still Alden’s likeliest course?"
http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/05/newsonomics-alden-global-capital-is-making-so-much-money-wrecking-local-journalism-it-might-not-want-to-stop-anytime-soon/
Money quote: "Today we can reveal some key financial numbers from the very private company that shows just how successful Alden and DFM have been at milking profit out of the newspapers it is slashing to the bone. DFM reported a 17 percent operating margin — well above those of its peers — in its 2017 fiscal year, along with profits of almost $160 million. That’s the fruit of the repeated cutbacks that have left its own shrinking newsrooms in a state of rebellion.
Now, as the company decides if and how to move against its publicly protesting top editors, Alden would seem to be at a crossroads. But as we explore below, it shows no particular sign of selling its embattled properties. Is continuing to milk its newspapers until they run dry still Alden’s likeliest course?"
http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/05/newsonomics-alden-global-capital-is-making-so-much-money-wrecking-local-journalism-it-might-not-want-to-stop-anytime-soon/
Nieman Lab
Newsonomics: Alden Global Capital is making so much money wrecking local journalism it might not want to stop anytime soon
Digital First Media's financials — revealed here — show how the company has ridden its deep cuts to nearly $160 million in profits and the highest margins in the business.
Crescere i figli adolescenti vuol dire un sacco di cose. Ci sono lunghi discorsi da fare. Se però siete la madre di una figlia nera, c’è un discorso in più da fare. Un discorso che vi toglie la voglia di vivere in America, casomai uno l’avesse mai avuta.
Money quote: “I told her that there were rules for dealing with the police. That she was to say yes, sir and no, sir instead of arguing, even if she was in the right. She was to give over her ID even if it wasn’t warranted. She was to stay in her car during a traffic stop, with her hands on the steering wheel. I warned her not to go digging around in her pockets, her purse, the rest of the car. She was to tell the officer what she was planning to do before she did it — I’m reaching for my license; I’m going to lean over for my registration”
https://medium.com/@tessintrovert/the-talk-is-different-for-parents-of-black-kids-77d5e8238c64
Money quote: “I told her that there were rules for dealing with the police. That she was to say yes, sir and no, sir instead of arguing, even if she was in the right. She was to give over her ID even if it wasn’t warranted. She was to stay in her car during a traffic stop, with her hands on the steering wheel. I warned her not to go digging around in her pockets, her purse, the rest of the car. She was to tell the officer what she was planning to do before she did it — I’m reaching for my license; I’m going to lean over for my registration”
https://medium.com/@tessintrovert/the-talk-is-different-for-parents-of-black-kids-77d5e8238c64
Medium
‘The Talk’ is Different for Parents of Black Kids
Everyone has the talk with their children. No parent looks forward to sitting their kids down for a conversation about sex, but it’s a…
Nostalgia anni novanta: la prossima retro-console sarà il NeoGeo - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/05/03/tecnologia/nostalgia-anni-novanta-la-prossima-retroconsole-sar-il-neogeo-Fb03lvIpXko5lIafDR3wqO/amphtml/pagina.amp.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/05/03/tecnologia/nostalgia-anni-novanta-la-prossima-retroconsole-sar-il-neogeo-Fb03lvIpXko5lIafDR3wqO/amphtml/pagina.amp.html
LaStampa.it
Nostalgia anni novanta: la prossima retro-console sarà il NeoGeo
La giapponese SNK celebra i suoi 40 anni e prepara la Classic Edition della sua console con titoli come King of Fighters e Metal Slug preinstallati
Forwarded from Social&Positive News - L'informazione che fa bene
⚖️ 📣 #Diritti #Informazione
Senza di loro, li scandali di Cambridge Analytica, Panama Papers o Dieselgate non sarebbero mai venuti alla luce. Sono i whistleblower: i dipendenti di aziende o enti pubblici che ne denunciano irregolarità, comportamenti illegali o potenzialmente dannosi che, ancora oggi, non sono abbastanza tutelati dalle normative dei vari Paesi del Vecchio continente. Ebbene, lo scorso 23 aprile la Commissione europea ha presentato una proposta per una direttiva che prevede l’applicazione di uno standard europeo per la protezione dei whistleblower. La nuova normativa creerà canali di comunicazione sicuri che permetteranno ai dipendenti di effettuare segnalazioni sia all’interno di un’organizzazione sia all’esterno, rivolgendosi in tal caso ad un’autorità pubblica. Gli informatori, inoltre, saranno tutelati dal rischio di licenziamento o demansionamento. Transparency International ha definito il provvedimento «un passo coraggioso». Il testo dovrà ora essere approvato dal Parlamento europeo e dal Consiglio dell’Unione prima di essere definitivamente adottato.
Senza di loro, li scandali di Cambridge Analytica, Panama Papers o Dieselgate non sarebbero mai venuti alla luce. Sono i whistleblower: i dipendenti di aziende o enti pubblici che ne denunciano irregolarità, comportamenti illegali o potenzialmente dannosi che, ancora oggi, non sono abbastanza tutelati dalle normative dei vari Paesi del Vecchio continente. Ebbene, lo scorso 23 aprile la Commissione europea ha presentato una proposta per una direttiva che prevede l’applicazione di uno standard europeo per la protezione dei whistleblower. La nuova normativa creerà canali di comunicazione sicuri che permetteranno ai dipendenti di effettuare segnalazioni sia all’interno di un’organizzazione sia all’esterno, rivolgendosi in tal caso ad un’autorità pubblica. Gli informatori, inoltre, saranno tutelati dal rischio di licenziamento o demansionamento. Transparency International ha definito il provvedimento «un passo coraggioso». Il testo dovrà ora essere approvato dal Parlamento europeo e dal Consiglio dell’Unione prima di essere definitivamente adottato.
Il Sole 24 ORE
Whistleblowers, proposta di legge Ue per proteggere i cittadini «informatori»
BRUXELLES – La Commissione europea ha presentato oggi qui a Bruxelles una proposta legislativa che dovrebbe rafforzare la protezione di tutti coloro
Gli alberi sono piante. Ma quando una pianta è un albero e quando non lo è? La distinzione è meno banale (e meno scientifica) di quel che sembra
Money quote: "Some 400 miles to the east, a spindly wisp of a tree has both the bristlecones and the sequoias beat when it comes to lifespan — through another strategy altogether. The quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) — a tree you can wrap your arms around that rarely grows taller than 50 feet — excels at sending up new shoots from its base. This results in giant stands of “trees” that are, in fact, one genetic individual connected beneath the ground. A Utah colony of quaking aspen is estimated to be 80,000 years old. Neanderthals were around back then."
https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2018/what-makes-tree-tree
Money quote: "Some 400 miles to the east, a spindly wisp of a tree has both the bristlecones and the sequoias beat when it comes to lifespan — through another strategy altogether. The quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) — a tree you can wrap your arms around that rarely grows taller than 50 feet — excels at sending up new shoots from its base. This results in giant stands of “trees” that are, in fact, one genetic individual connected beneath the ground. A Utah colony of quaking aspen is estimated to be 80,000 years old. Neanderthals were around back then."
https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2018/what-makes-tree-tree
Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews
What makes a tree a tree?
Despite numerous studies and 30-plus genomes under their belts, scientists are still struggling to nail down the defining traits of these tall, long-lived, woody plants
Attenzione, innocenti domande potrebbero avere drammatiche conseguenze
Money quote: "Social media sites are littered with seemingly innocuous little quizzes, games and surveys urging people to reminisce about specific topics, such as “What was your first job,” or “What was your first car?” The problem with participating in these informal surveys is that in doing so you may be inadvertently giving away the answers to “secret questions” that can be used to unlock access to a host of your online identities and accounts."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/dont-give-away-historic-details-about-yourself/
Money quote: "Social media sites are littered with seemingly innocuous little quizzes, games and surveys urging people to reminisce about specific topics, such as “What was your first job,” or “What was your first car?” The problem with participating in these informal surveys is that in doing so you may be inadvertently giving away the answers to “secret questions” that can be used to unlock access to a host of your online identities and accounts."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/dont-give-away-historic-details-about-yourself/
All fine, è solo un problema di punto di vista: bisogna pensare fuori dallo schema, in una box diversa.
Money quote: ““Hunger is not a scarcity issue. There’s more than enough food. It’s actually a logistics issue,” she says. After all, many restaurants, catering, and event companies often end up with plenty of leftovers, but don’t want to cost or liability of figuring out how to donate and deliver them to those in need. At the same time, those in need–not just the homeless, but also low-income families and the elderly–may not have the time or transportation to plug into existing free-meal services or food banks in their area.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/40562448/this-app-delivers-leftover-food-to-the-hungry-instead-of-the-trash
Money quote: ““Hunger is not a scarcity issue. There’s more than enough food. It’s actually a logistics issue,” she says. After all, many restaurants, catering, and event companies often end up with plenty of leftovers, but don’t want to cost or liability of figuring out how to donate and deliver them to those in need. At the same time, those in need–not just the homeless, but also low-income families and the elderly–may not have the time or transportation to plug into existing free-meal services or food banks in their area.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/40562448/this-app-delivers-leftover-food-to-the-hungry-instead-of-the-trash
Fast Company
This App Delivers Leftover Food To The Hungry, Instead Of To The Trash
Goodr has created a system that has diverted nearly a million pounds of food in Atlanta from landfills–and into kitchens.
In questo momento Ivanka Trump, figlia di Donald, consigliere della Casa Bianca e testimone (o forse anche agente) in alcuni passaggi importanti della storia del presidente più complicato nella storia recente degli Usa, rischia di essere convocata dalla commissione speciale che indaga su Trump.
Ma non succede.
Per vari motivi, tra i quali una sorta di partita a scacchi che lo "special counsel" Robert Mueller sta giocando con Trump e i suoi. Ivanka insomma per adesso è rimasta in secondo piano. Nella calma dell'occhio del ciclone...
Money quote: "“Mueller would know that trying to interview Ivanka Trump would be like lighting a match to the highly combustible Donald Trump,” said Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor who reported directly to Mueller when he served in the U.S. attorney’s office in the Northern District of California. “The team would want to wait to the last possible moment, if at all, before taking that step.”"
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/01/ivanka-trump-mueller-russia-probe-563169
Ma non succede.
Per vari motivi, tra i quali una sorta di partita a scacchi che lo "special counsel" Robert Mueller sta giocando con Trump e i suoi. Ivanka insomma per adesso è rimasta in secondo piano. Nella calma dell'occhio del ciclone...
Money quote: "“Mueller would know that trying to interview Ivanka Trump would be like lighting a match to the highly combustible Donald Trump,” said Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor who reported directly to Mueller when he served in the U.S. attorney’s office in the Northern District of California. “The team would want to wait to the last possible moment, if at all, before taking that step.”"
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/01/ivanka-trump-mueller-russia-probe-563169
POLITICO
The real reason Mueller hasn’t called Ivanka Trump
The special counsel seems to be leaving the president's children for last.
La strana storia dei due artisti gemelli che lavorano sulla percezione della profondità e sul ruolo che il naso ha nella nostra capacità di vedere.
Money quote: "Around the same time, Oliver Sacks, apprised of this effect, noted that there was a considerable literature to the effect that lepers who have lost their noses have heightened depth perception, and that furthermore that may explain why one sees so many flat-nosed boxers—not because their noses have gotten bashed in across their careers but rather because in the same way that abnormal height privileges basketball players, flat noses, and hence wider fields of depth perception, probably privilege people who make their living at fist-to-fist combat."
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/04/seeing-beyond-the-tip-of-your-nose/
Money quote: "Around the same time, Oliver Sacks, apprised of this effect, noted that there was a considerable literature to the effect that lepers who have lost their noses have heightened depth perception, and that furthermore that may explain why one sees so many flat-nosed boxers—not because their noses have gotten bashed in across their careers but rather because in the same way that abnormal height privileges basketball players, flat noses, and hence wider fields of depth perception, probably privilege people who make their living at fist-to-fist combat."
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/04/seeing-beyond-the-tip-of-your-nose/
The Paris Review
Seeing Beyond the Tip of Your Nose
Unlike the sorts of identical twins who develop secret languages, Trevor and Ryan Oakes have, virtually since toddlerhood, been carrying on a conversation on the nature of bifocal vision: what it is like, that is, to see with two eyes.
La storia di Casablanca, il film
Money quote: "It’s customary to regard the release of the film on 26 November 1942, less than three weeks after General Patton’s forces landed in French North Africa, prompting Churchill, Roosevelt, and de Gaulle to issue the Casablanca Declaration, as the one of the greatest publicity coups ever to befall a film – “General Eisenhower has merely served them well as an advance agent” remarked the New Yorker. The original play on which it was based, Everybody Comes to Rick’s, by the Jewish teacher and playwright Murray Burnett, was a piece of opportune reportage. In 1938, Burnett and his wife took a tour of Europe as it geared up for war. They found Vienna rife with anti-Semitism and, on the road to Monte Carlo, a smoky nightclub with a black pianist working old standards to an audience of refugees and military officials of every nationality – “a great contrast to the tragedy and tears”, wrote Burnett."
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/04/playing-it-over-and-over-again-how-casablanca-was-made
Money quote: "It’s customary to regard the release of the film on 26 November 1942, less than three weeks after General Patton’s forces landed in French North Africa, prompting Churchill, Roosevelt, and de Gaulle to issue the Casablanca Declaration, as the one of the greatest publicity coups ever to befall a film – “General Eisenhower has merely served them well as an advance agent” remarked the New Yorker. The original play on which it was based, Everybody Comes to Rick’s, by the Jewish teacher and playwright Murray Burnett, was a piece of opportune reportage. In 1938, Burnett and his wife took a tour of Europe as it geared up for war. They found Vienna rife with anti-Semitism and, on the road to Monte Carlo, a smoky nightclub with a black pianist working old standards to an audience of refugees and military officials of every nationality – “a great contrast to the tragedy and tears”, wrote Burnett."
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/04/playing-it-over-and-over-again-how-casablanca-was-made
New Statesman
Playing it over and over again: how Casablanca was made
The story behind the movie that defines the movies is one of immigrants, timing and a “son of a bitch” director.
La misoginia non è l'odio delle donne, ma delle mogli. Ed ha una storia molto più antica e complessa di quel che si pensi, ovviamente innervata nel modello di società patriarcale che per millenni ha accompagnato la cultura occidentale
Money quote: "The hallmark of a “bad wife” is to shirk the distinctly feminine task allotted to her: the skillful management of the household. In the Theogony, the gods manufacture Pandora for the specific purpose of degrading what her husband has accrued — she is retaliation for mankind’s acquisition of fire, a “lovely evil to pay for the good.” She spends her days consuming and wasting her husband’s goods, an economic burden that feeds her belly with his toil."
https://eidolon.pub/the-bad-wives-fa0fb8a69aba
Money quote: "The hallmark of a “bad wife” is to shirk the distinctly feminine task allotted to her: the skillful management of the household. In the Theogony, the gods manufacture Pandora for the specific purpose of degrading what her husband has accrued — she is retaliation for mankind’s acquisition of fire, a “lovely evil to pay for the good.” She spends her days consuming and wasting her husband’s goods, an economic burden that feeds her belly with his toil."
https://eidolon.pub/the-bad-wives-fa0fb8a69aba
Medium
The Bad Wives
Misogyny’s Age-Old Roots in the Home