Poliamore, sesso libero, coppie aperte: chiamatele come volete. Esistono da sempre, ma adesso sono state più chiaramente individuate. E questo è un male, se vogliamo, ma anche un bene, perché se ne può finalmente parlare. E imparare.
Money quote: "I found myself in my relationships trying to manipulate situations so that I got what I really wanted without having to ask for it because asking directly for something you need and being told by someone you care for greatly that they refuse to do it is absolutely gut-wrenchingly horrifying. And the greater my need for any one thing, the less likely I was to ask directly for it."
https://medium.com/@thelolaphoenix/thirteen-things-i-wish-id-learned-before-choosing-non-monogamy-ce3533cbd525
Money quote: "I found myself in my relationships trying to manipulate situations so that I got what I really wanted without having to ask for it because asking directly for something you need and being told by someone you care for greatly that they refuse to do it is absolutely gut-wrenchingly horrifying. And the greater my need for any one thing, the less likely I was to ask directly for it."
https://medium.com/@thelolaphoenix/thirteen-things-i-wish-id-learned-before-choosing-non-monogamy-ce3533cbd525
Medium
Thirteen things I wish I’d learned before choosing non-monogamy
This article has been moved to the Non-Monogamy Help website.
E in tutto questo, noi ovviamente non solo non prestiamo attenzione, ma neanche partecipiamo alla creazione delle cose importanti. Il Regolamento europeo della ePrivacy attende di entrare in vigore e fa sembrare la GDPR una barzelletta. Nessuno da noi ne parla, soprattutto nessuno dei nostri eurodeputati che io sappia è stato determinante nella sua scrittura e nel suo processo di formazione. Eppure, è forse la cosa più importante che stia succedendo in questo settore, ancora più della GDPR, anche perché qui si decide veramente il modo con il quale le persone possono essere toccate dalle aziende che raccolgono, tracciano e monetizzano le loro auree digitali.
Money quote: "Industry and consumer advocates are essentially fighting over a contentious issue central to the post-Cambridge Analytica online economy: whether data-driven digital services represent more of a boon to consumers or the kind of surveillance that can threaten democracy.
“With one click you can manipulate hundreds of thousands or millions of people, whether you know their names or not,” said Birgit Sippel, a European Parliament member from Germany who drafted the ePrivacy legislation. “That is why protecting privacy is becoming more important, especially in the digital environment.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/27/technology/europe-eprivacy-regulation-battle.html
Money quote: "Industry and consumer advocates are essentially fighting over a contentious issue central to the post-Cambridge Analytica online economy: whether data-driven digital services represent more of a boon to consumers or the kind of surveillance that can threaten democracy.
“With one click you can manipulate hundreds of thousands or millions of people, whether you know their names or not,” said Birgit Sippel, a European Parliament member from Germany who drafted the ePrivacy legislation. “That is why protecting privacy is becoming more important, especially in the digital environment.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/27/technology/europe-eprivacy-regulation-battle.html
NY Times
The Next Privacy Battle in Europe Is Over This New Law (Published 2018)
The tech industry is fighting a pending measure that’s even stricter than the recently enacted G.D.P.R. It’s called the ePrivacy Regulation.
Finalmente un discorso sensato, strutturato, sistemico sulle piattaforme. Visto che viviamo nell'epoca delle piattaforme (che spesso confondiamo con dei mercati, ma non lo sono), era l'ora!
Money quote: "In their book Platform Revolution (2016), Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne and Sangeet Paul Choudary argue that businesses used to be ‘pipes’ (linear models) and are becoming ‘platforms’ (networked models). Before the digital revolution, firms created goods and services, which they pushed out and sold to customers. The flow was from point A to point B – like pipes connecting deep-sea oil wells to the person who fills up the tank of their car with refined petrol.
Unlike pipes, however, platforms disrupt the clear-cut demarcation between producer and consumer, because they enable users to create as well as to consume value. Platforms need a different, non-pipe-like infrastructure. The major business challenge is to attract creators and consumers in the right proportions for transactions to occur. Platforms are in fact very similar to marketplaces: both create economic value by fostering exchanges between two (or more) groups. Now, though, this value can be generated within a company, not just outside it."
https://aeon.co/essays/workers-of-the-world-unite-on-distributed-digital-platforms
Money quote: "In their book Platform Revolution (2016), Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne and Sangeet Paul Choudary argue that businesses used to be ‘pipes’ (linear models) and are becoming ‘platforms’ (networked models). Before the digital revolution, firms created goods and services, which they pushed out and sold to customers. The flow was from point A to point B – like pipes connecting deep-sea oil wells to the person who fills up the tank of their car with refined petrol.
Unlike pipes, however, platforms disrupt the clear-cut demarcation between producer and consumer, because they enable users to create as well as to consume value. Platforms need a different, non-pipe-like infrastructure. The major business challenge is to attract creators and consumers in the right proportions for transactions to occur. Platforms are in fact very similar to marketplaces: both create economic value by fostering exchanges between two (or more) groups. Now, though, this value can be generated within a company, not just outside it."
https://aeon.co/essays/workers-of-the-world-unite-on-distributed-digital-platforms
Aeon
Do platforms work?
The distributed network has gobbled the hierarchical firm. Only by seizing the platform can workers avoid digital serfdom
Tutto su Mojave, il nuovo sistema operativo del Mac - la mia gallery per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/06/06/tecnologia/tutto-su-mojave-il-nuovo-sistema-operativo-del-mac-Z63tAwC9PKo1Tjz1B3aPOK/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/06/06/tecnologia/tutto-su-mojave-il-nuovo-sistema-operativo-del-mac-Z63tAwC9PKo1Tjz1B3aPOK/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Tutto su Mojave, il nuovo sistema operativo del Mac
Sto rientrando in Italia da Taiwan via Hong Kong (dove sono per una giornata). All'andata ho visto un bel film in aereo, che è su Netflix: Kodachrome. La storia è stata ispirata da un articolo del New York Times del 2010 sulla chiusura dell'ultimo posto dove venisse sviluppata la pellicola di Kodak.
Money quote: "Demanding both to shoot and process, Kodachrome rewarded generations of skilled users with a richness of color and a unique treatment of light that many photographers described as incomparable even as they shifted to digital cameras. “Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day,” Paul Simon sang in his 1973 hit “Kodachrome,” which carried the plea “Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.html
Money quote: "Demanding both to shoot and process, Kodachrome rewarded generations of skilled users with a richness of color and a unique treatment of light that many photographers described as incomparable even as they shifted to digital cameras. “Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day,” Paul Simon sang in his 1973 hit “Kodachrome,” which carried the plea “Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.html
NY Times
For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas (Published 2010)
On Thursday, at a photo studio in Parsons, Kan., the last Kodachrome processing machine in the world will be shut down to be sold for scrap.
Windows 95: l’ultimo sistema operativo onesto sulla Terra
Money quote: “All good things come to an end and Windows 95 was shut down for good in 2001. While, obviously, it’s not a viable operating system nowadays, the first real attempt of Microsoft to build a computer system available to everyone left a valuable legacy.
What really stands out are the main qualities that Windows 95, as a product, had and that are not common nowadays. It had a memorable launch, it was honest regarding its objectives, focused on the user, objective and transparent.“
https://medium.com/@Imaginary_Cloud/why-we-should-all-be-using-windows-95-5b63ad50e9e8
Money quote: “All good things come to an end and Windows 95 was shut down for good in 2001. While, obviously, it’s not a viable operating system nowadays, the first real attempt of Microsoft to build a computer system available to everyone left a valuable legacy.
What really stands out are the main qualities that Windows 95, as a product, had and that are not common nowadays. It had a memorable launch, it was honest regarding its objectives, focused on the user, objective and transparent.“
https://medium.com/@Imaginary_Cloud/why-we-should-all-be-using-windows-95-5b63ad50e9e8
Medium
Why we should all be using Windows 95
Oh, what a wonder the launching of Microsoft Windows 95 was.
L’adesivo che tutti vorreste sul coperchio del vostro Mac, no?
Money quote: “:wq”
https://squaredesign.com/builds/wq/
Money quote: “:wq”
https://squaredesign.com/builds/wq/
Squaredesign
squaredesign | wq
squaredesign is the business website and blog of mike susz.
Ok, questa è una cosa un po’ da programmatori hardcore, lo ammetto (e ammetto di non esserlo, sia chiaro). Però la Shell Style Guide di Google è molto interessante perché apre un buon numero di punti che vale la pena sapere sugli obiettivi e sullo stile (il termine in inglese acquista comunque una connotazione che non è come da noi meramente estetica) con il quale gestire le cose che fogliamo fare nella shell. E già che c’è, si toglie anche un paio di sassolini dalla scarpa...
Money quote: “Formatting
While you should follow the style that's already there for files that you're modifying, the following are required for any new code.
Indentation
▶ Indent 2 spaces. No tabs.”
https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml
Money quote: “Formatting
While you should follow the style that's already there for files that you're modifying, the following are required for any new code.
Indentation
▶ Indent 2 spaces. No tabs.”
https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml
L’uomo di Tsushima è senza dubbio il capolavoro di Bonvi ed è anche uno dei fumetti che amo di più, probabilmente per l’età nella quale l’ho letto e per la già forte passione per il Giappone e la sua storia (anche se qui l’accento è sulla Russia zarista e la nascente rivoluzione). La battaglia di Tsushima è uno snodo fondamentale del ‘900 e Bonvi lo rese in maniera magistrale, pur modificandolo e forzandone alcuni passaggi. Sarebbe bello ce ne fosse una edizione più recente. In compenso, potete rallegrarvi con questo alato e ficcante saggio del buon Alberto Brambilla su Fumettologica, che offre testo e contesto al capolavoro di Bonvi.
Money quote: “La collana Un uomo un’avventura è stata, dopo l’ideazione della rivista Linus, la singola iniziativa editoriale che più ha ridefinito, mettendola in crisi, la tradizionale distinzione tra fumetto popolare e fumetto d’autore in Italia. Sergio Bonelli la aveva fortemente voluta ed aveva chiamato a parteciparvi le maggiori firme del fumetto nazionale, per creare dei veri e propri romanzi a fumetti di argomento e ambientazione liberi. L’unico vincolo era dato dal filo rosso reso esplicito sin dal titolo: dovevano essere storie d’avventura.
In una collana ricca di storie drammatiche, perlopiù di ambientazione bellica, realizzate da maestri del fumetto realistico/naturalistico quali Pratt, Toppi, Battaglia o Berardi&Milazzo, il vertice venne però da un’opera scritta e disegnata da un outsider, l’unico autore umoristico di tutta la collana: L’uomo di Tsushima di Bonvi, appunto.”
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/05/uomo-di-tsushima-bonvi-fumetto/
Money quote: “La collana Un uomo un’avventura è stata, dopo l’ideazione della rivista Linus, la singola iniziativa editoriale che più ha ridefinito, mettendola in crisi, la tradizionale distinzione tra fumetto popolare e fumetto d’autore in Italia. Sergio Bonelli la aveva fortemente voluta ed aveva chiamato a parteciparvi le maggiori firme del fumetto nazionale, per creare dei veri e propri romanzi a fumetti di argomento e ambientazione liberi. L’unico vincolo era dato dal filo rosso reso esplicito sin dal titolo: dovevano essere storie d’avventura.
In una collana ricca di storie drammatiche, perlopiù di ambientazione bellica, realizzate da maestri del fumetto realistico/naturalistico quali Pratt, Toppi, Battaglia o Berardi&Milazzo, il vertice venne però da un’opera scritta e disegnata da un outsider, l’unico autore umoristico di tutta la collana: L’uomo di Tsushima di Bonvi, appunto.”
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/05/uomo-di-tsushima-bonvi-fumetto/
Fumettologica
L’uomo di Tsushima, il capolavoro di Bonvi
Quaranta anni fa uscì un fumetto italiano importante: "L'uomo di Tsushima", l'opera più matura di Bonvi, che si sarebbe affermato tra i maestri dell'epoca.
Cosa vuol dire essere una coppia in senso romantico e qual è la prospettiva del buddismo al riguardo da un punto di vista scientifico, cioè neuro-biologico.
Money quote: “Let’s begin with some basics about biology. In a healthy relationship, you feel good when your partner is around. No surprise there. But you might not know that the good feeling happens because you and your partner regulate each other’s nervous systems”
https://aeon.co/essays/does-buddhist-detachment-allow-for-a-healthier-togetherness
Money quote: “Let’s begin with some basics about biology. In a healthy relationship, you feel good when your partner is around. No surprise there. But you might not know that the good feeling happens because you and your partner regulate each other’s nervous systems”
https://aeon.co/essays/does-buddhist-detachment-allow-for-a-healthier-togetherness
Aeon
Buddhists in love
Lovers crave intensity, Buddhists say craving causes suffering. Is it possible to be deeply in love yet truly detached?
Facebook pubblica i post privati di 14 milioni di utenti - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/06/08/tecnologia/un-bug-di-facebook-rende-pubblici-i-post-privati-di-milioni-di-utenti-xKpBIPT6FAukDtQlfzNyzJ/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/06/08/tecnologia/un-bug-di-facebook-rende-pubblici-i-post-privati-di-milioni-di-utenti-xKpBIPT6FAukDtQlfzNyzJ/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Facebook pubblica i post privati di 14 milioni di utenti
Bug nel social network che per tre giorni a fine maggio ha reso pubbliche immagini e post privati. Scuse e l’appello agli utenti per verificare che tutto sia tornato a posto
La storia dell’avvocato che estorce soldi ai big della comunicazione perché non pagano le foto che utilizzano nei loro prodotti editoriali.
Money quote: “Liebowitz works on contingency and does a volume business, both of which are unusual approaches for a copyright attorney. His escalation tactics have unnerved his media-industry targets, who have grown accustomed to amicably resolving minor infringement cases long before a lawsuit is filed. “His whole scheme seems to be: He throws out a demand of something between $25,000 or $30,000 to start, and basically is negotiating down from there,” said one attorney who has faced Liebowitz. My sources for this story were reluctant to cite specific settlement amounts, which makes it impossible to say exactly how much money Liebowitz has won for his clients—and for himself”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/richard-liebowitz-why-media-companies-fear-and-photographers-love-this-guy.html
Money quote: “Liebowitz works on contingency and does a volume business, both of which are unusual approaches for a copyright attorney. His escalation tactics have unnerved his media-industry targets, who have grown accustomed to amicably resolving minor infringement cases long before a lawsuit is filed. “His whole scheme seems to be: He throws out a demand of something between $25,000 or $30,000 to start, and basically is negotiating down from there,” said one attorney who has faced Liebowitz. My sources for this story were reluctant to cite specific settlement amounts, which makes it impossible to say exactly how much money Liebowitz has won for his clients—and for himself”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/richard-liebowitz-why-media-companies-fear-and-photographers-love-this-guy.html
Slate Magazine
Why Every Media Company Fears This Guy
(And photographers love him.)
Forwarded from Scrivere zen
🏄🏻♀️ Non lasciare che gli altri ti risucchino le energie https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/30646-10-ways-you-might-be-giving-other-people-too-much-power-over-your-life-without-even-realizing-it
Thriveglobal
10 Ways You Might Be Giving Other People Too Much Power Over Your Life (Without Even Realizing It)
You only have so much time and energy. Don't let people take it from you.
Perché la tacca dell’iPhone non è come tutte le altre tacche (mal copiate)
Money quote: “Interestingly, not all notch designs are created equal and some of the Android copycats we’ve seen thus far have sported horrible looking implementations. As it turns out, there’s more to the iPhone X notch design than meets the eye. “
http://bgr.com/2018/05/27/iphone-x-vs-android-notch-design-looks-better-explanation/
Money quote: “Interestingly, not all notch designs are created equal and some of the Android copycats we’ve seen thus far have sported horrible looking implementations. As it turns out, there’s more to the iPhone X notch design than meets the eye. “
http://bgr.com/2018/05/27/iphone-x-vs-android-notch-design-looks-better-explanation/
BGR
Why the iPhone X notch design looks better than Android copycats
When Apple first introduced the iPhone X, the design was met with its fair share of controversy. Though everyone appreciated the device’s edgeless display, it was hard for many people to wrap…
Arrabbiato. Riconoscente? A proposito di Anthony Bourdain
Money quote: “Uneasily settled back into my hometown, I fought to push the dogs of my recent past down into the cellar of my soul where their bark did not seem so loud”
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/08/i-owe-anthony-bourdain-so-much.html
Money quote: “Uneasily settled back into my hometown, I fought to push the dogs of my recent past down into the cellar of my soul where their bark did not seem so loud”
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/08/i-owe-anthony-bourdain-so-much.html
Boing Boing
I owe Anthony Bourdain so much
I owe Anthony Bourdain so much
WWDC 2018, non s'interrompe così un'emozione - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/wwdc-2018-non-sinterrompe-cosi-unemozione/
https://www.macitynet.it/wwdc-2018-non-sinterrompe-cosi-unemozione/
Macitynet.it
WWDC 2018, non s'interrompe così un'emozione - Macitynet.it
Troppo frammentato, troppo analitico, senza storytelling: quel che è mancato sul palco di San Josè non è stato l'hardware, ma la passione e l'emozione
Dos è megl che quater - il mio post per Il Post che racconta un po’ di cose sulle grandi opportunità degli aerei di linea a due motori
https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2018/06/09/dos-e-megl-che-quater/
https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2018/06/09/dos-e-megl-che-quater/
Il Post
Dos è megl che quater - Antonio Dini
La fine di un'epoca: i colossi a quattro (e tre) motori non vanno più. Anche per il lungo raggio meglio gli snelli bimotori, che stanno cambiando la geopolitica del trasporto aereo civile
Una riflessione apparentemente “leggera” nella pagina delle opinioni del New York Times su cosa significhi e quale impatto abbia sulle nostre vite avere quarant’anni. (Hint: per una donna molto più che non per un uomo)
Money quote: “Forty isn’t even technically middle age anymore. Someone who’s now 40 has a 50 percent chance of living to 95, says the economist Andrew Scott, a co-author of “The 100-Year Life.”
But the number 40 still has symbolic resonance. Jesus fasted for 40 days. Muhammad was 40 when the archangel Gabriel appeared to him. The Israelites wandered the desert for 40 years. Mr. Brandes writes that in some languages, 40 means “a lot.”
And age 40 still feels pivotal. “The 40s are when you become who you are,” a British author in his 70s tells me, adding ominously, “And if you don’t know by your 40s, you never will.””
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-survive-your-40s.html
Money quote: “Forty isn’t even technically middle age anymore. Someone who’s now 40 has a 50 percent chance of living to 95, says the economist Andrew Scott, a co-author of “The 100-Year Life.”
But the number 40 still has symbolic resonance. Jesus fasted for 40 days. Muhammad was 40 when the archangel Gabriel appeared to him. The Israelites wandered the desert for 40 years. Mr. Brandes writes that in some languages, 40 means “a lot.”
And age 40 still feels pivotal. “The 40s are when you become who you are,” a British author in his 70s tells me, adding ominously, “And if you don’t know by your 40s, you never will.””
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-survive-your-40s.html
NY Times
Opinion | How to Survive Your 40s (Published 2018)
You know you’re in your 40s when you’ve spent 48 hours trying to think of a word, and that word was “hemorrhoids.”
Uno Yurt è la tenda dei nomadi della Mongolia. Oggi sta diventando uno strumento per un nuovo genere di campeggiatori
Money quote: “The Mongols are said to have built their yurts from saplings laced together with leather thongs. The rafters might have been either painted or plain. Felt was used for the walls and roof. It is not clear to me how they transported the yurt; the folded walls would be quite a burden for a horse.”
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/yurt/
Money quote: “The Mongols are said to have built their yurts from saplings laced together with leather thongs. The rafters might have been either painted or plain. Felt was used for the walls and roof. It is not clear to me how they transported the yurt; the folded walls would be quite a burden for a horse.”
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/yurt/