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
Google insiste con i suoi telefoni: sulla carta belli, ma totalmente privi di infrastruttura di produzione, distribuzione, marketing, vendita, postvendita. Praticamente, gli costa meno farli che gestire una campagna di comunicazione globale. E magari ci guadagnano anche qualcosa
Money quote: "In the 16 months since its initial release in October 2016, Google’s Pixel family of phones has earned plenty of acclaim and scrutiny, but not very many sales. The latest update on Pixel sales comes from IDC’s Francisco Jeronimo, who notes that Google shipped 3.9 million Pixel and Pixel 2 devices in 2017. That’s no more than a rounding error when set against the global smartphone market that numbers 1.5 billion units, and it’s also less than a typical week’s worth of iPhone sales for Apple."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/13/17007104/google-pixel-total-sales-idc-statistics
Money quote: "In the 16 months since its initial release in October 2016, Google’s Pixel family of phones has earned plenty of acclaim and scrutiny, but not very many sales. The latest update on Pixel sales comes from IDC’s Francisco Jeronimo, who notes that Google shipped 3.9 million Pixel and Pixel 2 devices in 2017. That’s no more than a rounding error when set against the global smartphone market that numbers 1.5 billion units, and it’s also less than a typical week’s worth of iPhone sales for Apple."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/13/17007104/google-pixel-total-sales-idc-statistics
The Verge
Google sold 3.9 million Pixel phones in 2017
Less than a week’s worth of iPhone sales
Letture domenicali. Un condominio pazzesco, l'Hotel house, a Porto Recanati: getto verticale, case di lusso abbandonate e abitate da migranti con la compiacenza di agenzie immobiliari e proprietari di casa italiani. Un laboratorio a cielo aperto nel quale si trova ancora qualche italiano, ma che è anche una grande possibilità sprecata di imparare a sperimentare sul serio con la multietnicità.
Money quote: "Nonostante tutto, La Rosa non ha mai pensato di vendere il suo appartamento di sessanta metri quadri perché apprezza la dimensione umana del condominio. Ma è uno dei pochi italiani rimasti nel palazzo. Molti hanno venduto, ma la maggior parte ha affittato gli appartamenti agli immigrati senegalesi, bangladesi, pachistani, tunisini. “Oggi il 40 per cento degli appartamenti è di proprietà delle banche, mentre gli italiani che hanno ancora degli appartamenti li danno in affitto. Ma poi spesso non pagano le spese condominiali”. A La Rosa piace il fatto che tra gli abitanti si sia creata una difficile, ma imprescindibile convivenza. Da quando è in pensione si è fatto promotore di corsi d’italiano per le donne straniere del palazzo e ogni tanto dà ripetizioni ai figli dei vicini.
“Sono figlio di un carabiniere. Sono nato a Sirte, in Libia, e poi con la famiglia abbiamo vissuto un po’ in tutta Italia, in base alle necessità del lavoro di mio padre, per questo ho imparato ad adattarmi in tutte le situazioni e ritrovo una parte di questa capacità di adattamento negli abitanti dell’Hotel house”, racconta. Il condominio multietnico gli ricorda la dimensione popolare di un palazzo in cui ha vissuto per qualche tempo da bambino, a Bari. “Nei caseggiati popolari tutto si svolgeva per le scale, tutti erano coinvolti nella vita degli altri. Questo aspetto mi piaceva molto, mi faceva sentire a casa. E provo la stessa cosa qui all’Hotel house”"
https://www.internazionale.it/reportage/annalisa-camilli/2018/05/03/hotel-house-porto-recanati-immigrazione
Money quote: "Nonostante tutto, La Rosa non ha mai pensato di vendere il suo appartamento di sessanta metri quadri perché apprezza la dimensione umana del condominio. Ma è uno dei pochi italiani rimasti nel palazzo. Molti hanno venduto, ma la maggior parte ha affittato gli appartamenti agli immigrati senegalesi, bangladesi, pachistani, tunisini. “Oggi il 40 per cento degli appartamenti è di proprietà delle banche, mentre gli italiani che hanno ancora degli appartamenti li danno in affitto. Ma poi spesso non pagano le spese condominiali”. A La Rosa piace il fatto che tra gli abitanti si sia creata una difficile, ma imprescindibile convivenza. Da quando è in pensione si è fatto promotore di corsi d’italiano per le donne straniere del palazzo e ogni tanto dà ripetizioni ai figli dei vicini.
“Sono figlio di un carabiniere. Sono nato a Sirte, in Libia, e poi con la famiglia abbiamo vissuto un po’ in tutta Italia, in base alle necessità del lavoro di mio padre, per questo ho imparato ad adattarmi in tutte le situazioni e ritrovo una parte di questa capacità di adattamento negli abitanti dell’Hotel house”, racconta. Il condominio multietnico gli ricorda la dimensione popolare di un palazzo in cui ha vissuto per qualche tempo da bambino, a Bari. “Nei caseggiati popolari tutto si svolgeva per le scale, tutti erano coinvolti nella vita degli altri. Questo aspetto mi piaceva molto, mi faceva sentire a casa. E provo la stessa cosa qui all’Hotel house”"
https://www.internazionale.it/reportage/annalisa-camilli/2018/05/03/hotel-house-porto-recanati-immigrazione
Internazionale
Dentro l’Hotel house, il ghetto verticale di Porto Recanati - Annalisa Camilli
Da decenni stimola il sensazionalismo della stampa, ma il grattacielo in cui vivono duemila persone nelle Marche rappresenta bene tutte le contraddizioni delle politiche italiane dell’immigrazione. Leggi
Questa recensione che appartiene al filone sempre più robusto di #iPadPrimarily parte con una premessa interessante: la maggior parte delle recensioni di iPad come unico computer hanno il problema di essere scritte da giornalisti che di lavoro scrivono e fanno un certo tipo di cose. Invece, la gente vera fa altre cose.
Ottimo. Poi però la recensione finisce come il 99% delle recensioni professionali. Mmmh.
Money quote: “This still is a device for people willing to make sacrifices and live with its limitations. For some, iPad might be perfect as a form of a self-imposed limitation: without the full power of desktop multitasking it’s harder to get distracted. Smaller screen almost forces you to work with one app at a time and makes you focus. ADD people rejoice (remember to keep your iPad in do-not-disturb mode at all times, though!)
What’s more, limitations spark creativity. When I encounter any obstacles, I find it fun to look for workarounds and test them. But I know that’s a niche kind of enjoyment.”
https://medium.com/@chrissobolewski/ipadprimarily-6eacadcc723c
Ottimo. Poi però la recensione finisce come il 99% delle recensioni professionali. Mmmh.
Money quote: “This still is a device for people willing to make sacrifices and live with its limitations. For some, iPad might be perfect as a form of a self-imposed limitation: without the full power of desktop multitasking it’s harder to get distracted. Smaller screen almost forces you to work with one app at a time and makes you focus. ADD people rejoice (remember to keep your iPad in do-not-disturb mode at all times, though!)
What’s more, limitations spark creativity. When I encounter any obstacles, I find it fun to look for workarounds and test them. But I know that’s a niche kind of enjoyment.”
https://medium.com/@chrissobolewski/ipadprimarily-6eacadcc723c
Medium
#iPadPrimarily
The problem with iPad reviews is that they’re written by professional reviewers: tech journalists and bloggers. Those people usually have a very specific workflow — centered around doing research…
Pare che dentro la sua testa con pochi capelli Jeff Bezos abbia idee interessanti, non solo di business.
Money quote: “"This work-life harmony thing is what I try to teach young employees and actually senior executives at Amazon too. But especially the people coming in," he said. "I get asked about work-life balance all the time. And my view is, that's a debilitating phrase because it implies there's a strict trade-off."
Instead of viewing work and life as a balancing act, Bezos said that it's more productive to view them as two integrated parts.
"It actually is a circle. It's not a balance," Bezos said.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezo-advice-to-amazon-employees-dont-aim-for-work-life-balance-its-a-circle-2018-4?IR=T
Money quote: “"This work-life harmony thing is what I try to teach young employees and actually senior executives at Amazon too. But especially the people coming in," he said. "I get asked about work-life balance all the time. And my view is, that's a debilitating phrase because it implies there's a strict trade-off."
Instead of viewing work and life as a balancing act, Bezos said that it's more productive to view them as two integrated parts.
"It actually is a circle. It's not a balance," Bezos said.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezo-advice-to-amazon-employees-dont-aim-for-work-life-balance-its-a-circle-2018-4?IR=T
Business Insider
Jeff Bezos' advice to Amazon employees is to stop aiming for work-life 'balance' — here's what you should strive for instead
"I get asked about work-life balance all the time. That's a debilitating phrase because it implies there's a strict trade-off," says Jeff Bezos.
Oggi sono perfettamente d’accordo con lui!
Money quote: “The most impressive people I know have strong beliefs about the world, which is rare in the general population. If you find yourself always agreeing with whomever you last spoke with, that’s bad. You will of course be wrong sometimes, but develop the confidence to stick with your convictions. It will let you be courageous when you’re right about something important that most people don’t see”
http://blog.samaltman.com/productivity
Money quote: “The most impressive people I know have strong beliefs about the world, which is rare in the general population. If you find yourself always agreeing with whomever you last spoke with, that’s bad. You will of course be wrong sometimes, but develop the confidence to stick with your convictions. It will let you be courageous when you’re right about something important that most people don’t see”
http://blog.samaltman.com/productivity
Sam Altman
Productivity
I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips. So I decided to just write them all down in one place.
Compound growth gets...
Compound growth gets...
La fine del mondo come lo si intendeva una volta, almeno fino a quando useremo i social media, cioè le macchine costruite per controllare i gruppi di persone: strumenti non nuovi su una scala e con una penetrazione prima impossibile.
Da questa prospettiva, capire il meccanismo messo assieme da Cambridge Analytica è quasi un viaggio nel nostro inconscio. Lettura vivamente consigliata.
Money quote: "The actual issues, for Wylie, are simply the “plain white toast” of politics, waiting for the actual flavour to be loaded on. “No one wants plain white toast.” The job of the data, he says, is to “learn the particular flavour or spice” that will make that toast appealing."
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/06/cambridge-analytica-how-turn-clicks-into-votes-christopher-wylie
Da questa prospettiva, capire il meccanismo messo assieme da Cambridge Analytica è quasi un viaggio nel nostro inconscio. Lettura vivamente consigliata.
Money quote: "The actual issues, for Wylie, are simply the “plain white toast” of politics, waiting for the actual flavour to be loaded on. “No one wants plain white toast.” The job of the data, he says, is to “learn the particular flavour or spice” that will make that toast appealing."
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/06/cambridge-analytica-how-turn-clicks-into-votes-christopher-wylie
the Guardian
Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes?
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie explains the science behind Cambridge Analytica’s mission to transform surveys and Facebook data into a political messaging weapon
Forwarded from MacchiaChannel
Il sequestro Moro dal punto di vista della Renaul 4 amaranto, raccontato (magistralmente) da Pietro Trellini sul Post in un pezzo long-read da-non-perdere.
Link: http://bit.ly/2wv5r3J
Link: http://bit.ly/2wv5r3J