Perché adesso Jeff Bezos praticamente è sempre a Washington, intesa come capitale, oltre che a Seattle, che è nello stato di Washington, cioè tutta da un'altra parte.
Money quote: "Soon we’ll all know him. You may even bump into the man. Just as Bezos has busied himself pushing his Seattle company to new feats, the inventor of the “everything store” has been quietly moonlighting in a town that, friends say, he views as an everything city—a delta of diplomats and techies, military engineers and journalists, powerbrokers and problem solvers, a mélange perfectly suited to the tinkerer’s heterodox taste. Confidants report that Bezos spends more time in Washington than in any other city outside of Seattle—ten trips a year, give or take—and for good reason. Not content merely to own the local newspaper, the retail guru has become the owner of the largest home in DC."
https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/04/22/inside-jeff-bezos-dc-life/
Money quote: "Soon we’ll all know him. You may even bump into the man. Just as Bezos has busied himself pushing his Seattle company to new feats, the inventor of the “everything store” has been quietly moonlighting in a town that, friends say, he views as an everything city—a delta of diplomats and techies, military engineers and journalists, powerbrokers and problem solvers, a mélange perfectly suited to the tinkerer’s heterodox taste. Confidants report that Bezos spends more time in Washington than in any other city outside of Seattle—ten trips a year, give or take—and for good reason. Not content merely to own the local newspaper, the retail guru has become the owner of the largest home in DC."
https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/04/22/inside-jeff-bezos-dc-life/
Washingtonian
Inside Jeff Bezos's DC Life
The story of how the world's richest man is becoming a Washingtonian.
Fra i tanti matti da legare che portano avanti progetti per i quali dovrebbero essere effettivamente legati e classificati come matti, questo riesce a distinguersi. E non di poco.
Money quote: "Can your Honda Accord go from 0 to 60 mph in 2.7 seconds? Jim Belosic’s can. Belosic turned a car that he bought as a replica of his high school ride into a rear-wheel-drive Gasser-style electric car using drivetrain bits from a Tesla Model S P85. He calls this roughly 536-horsepower frankencar the Teslonda, and believe it or not, he plans to turn it into a daily driveable car."
https://jalopnik.com/this-glorious-madman-stuffed-a-p85-tesla-drivetrain-int-1823461909
Money quote: "Can your Honda Accord go from 0 to 60 mph in 2.7 seconds? Jim Belosic’s can. Belosic turned a car that he bought as a replica of his high school ride into a rear-wheel-drive Gasser-style electric car using drivetrain bits from a Tesla Model S P85. He calls this roughly 536-horsepower frankencar the Teslonda, and believe it or not, he plans to turn it into a daily driveable car."
https://jalopnik.com/this-glorious-madman-stuffed-a-p85-tesla-drivetrain-int-1823461909
Jalopnik
This Glorious Madman Stuffed A Tesla Drivetrain Into A 1981 Honda Accord
Can your Honda Accord go from 0 to 60 mph in 2.7 seconds? Jim Belosic’s can. Belosic turned a car that he bought as a replica of his high school ride into a rear-wheel-drive Gasser-style electric car using drivetrain bits from a Tesla Model S P85. He calls…
Facebook in crisi? Ma quando mai...
Money quote: “Goldman Sachs said Facebook's US unique users on mobile rose 7% year-on-year to 188.6 million in April, when the scandal was biting hard. Time spent on Facebook also went up. The graph below says it all.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/people-increased-facebook-usage-after-cambridge-analytica-scandal-2018-5?IR=T
Money quote: “Goldman Sachs said Facebook's US unique users on mobile rose 7% year-on-year to 188.6 million in April, when the scandal was biting hard. Time spent on Facebook also went up. The graph below says it all.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/people-increased-facebook-usage-after-cambridge-analytica-scandal-2018-5?IR=T
Business Insider
The backlash that never happened: New data shows people actually increased their Facebook usage after the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Goldman Sachs said Facebook's US unique users on mobile rose 7% year-on-year to 188.6 million in April, when the scandal was biting hard. Time spent on Facebook also went up. The data will give CEO Mark Zuckerberg confidence as he prepares for a crunch week.
Aneddoto molto apocrifo su come Steve Jobs arrivasse ad avere un feedback utile per andare avanti.
Money quote: ““In the early 2000s,” Famous CEO said, “Jobs was splitting his time between Apple and Pixar. He would spend most days at Apple, but then he would parachute into Pixar. He would have to figure out where his attention was needed really fast, so he would arrange sessions with all the different teams—the Cars team, the technology team, whatever—so there were a dozen or so people in each one. Then he would point to one person in each session and say:
Tell me what’s not working at Pixar”
https://medium.com/the-mission/steve-jobs-secret-for-eliciting-questions-overheard-at-a-san-francisco-cafe-80b1af67433
Money quote: ““In the early 2000s,” Famous CEO said, “Jobs was splitting his time between Apple and Pixar. He would spend most days at Apple, but then he would parachute into Pixar. He would have to figure out where his attention was needed really fast, so he would arrange sessions with all the different teams—the Cars team, the technology team, whatever—so there were a dozen or so people in each one. Then he would point to one person in each session and say:
Tell me what’s not working at Pixar”
https://medium.com/the-mission/steve-jobs-secret-for-eliciting-questions-overheard-at-a-san-francisco-cafe-80b1af67433
Medium
Steve Jobs’ Secret for Eliciting Questions, Overheard at a San Francisco Cafe
Don’t just ask, “Any questions?”
La pubblicità online è diventata un grande problema, sia che vada a finire sulle pagine di siti di informazione sia che si tratti di letture più leggere, fino all’intrattenimento puro. C’è chi ha pensato delle soluzioni, ma pare si tratti dei soliti furbetti del quartierino digitale, che hanno messo assieme modi furbi di monetizzare gli utenti ancora più degli altri.
Money quote: “Who decides what ads are acceptable anyways?”
https://medium.com/@trybravery/please-stop-using-adblock-but-not-why-you-think-13280e76c8e7
Money quote: “Who decides what ads are acceptable anyways?”
https://medium.com/@trybravery/please-stop-using-adblock-but-not-why-you-think-13280e76c8e7
Genitori che parlano ai figli di informatica
Money quote: “My six-year-old son walked up to me yesterday. “What are you reading?”
At the time, I was reading part of Janis Voigtländer’s habilitation thesis. Unsure where to even start, I decided to just answer straightforwardly: “I’m reading a very long story about free theorems.”
He persisted. “What are free theorems?””
https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2018/05/06/conversations-with-a-six-year-old-on-functional-programming/
Money quote: “My six-year-old son walked up to me yesterday. “What are you reading?”
At the time, I was reading part of Janis Voigtländer’s habilitation thesis. Unsure where to even start, I decided to just answer straightforwardly: “I’m reading a very long story about free theorems.”
He persisted. “What are free theorems?””
https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2018/05/06/conversations-with-a-six-year-old-on-functional-programming/
blog :: Brent -> [String]
Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming
My six-year-old son walked up to me yesterday. “What are you reading?” At the time, I was reading part of Janis Voigtländer’s habilitation thesis. Unsure where to even start, I decided to just ans…
Contrordine: le smart city non vanno più di moda
Money quote: "Rome and London are two huge, sluggish beasts of cities that have outlived millennia of eager reformers. They share a world where half the people already live in cities and another couple billion are on their way into town. The population is aging quickly, the current infrastructure must crumble and be replaced by its very nature, and climate disaster is taking the place of the past’s great urban fires, wars, and epidemics. Those are the truly important, dull but worthy urban issues.
The digital techniques that smart-city fans adore are flimsy and flashy—and some are even actively pernicious—but they absolutely will be used in cities. They already have an urban heritage. When you bury fiber-optic under the curbs around the town, then you get internet. When you have towers and smartphones, then you get portable ubiquity. When you break up a smartphone into its separate sensors, switches, and little radios, then you get the internet of things."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/stupid-cities/553052/
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Money quote: "Rome and London are two huge, sluggish beasts of cities that have outlived millennia of eager reformers. They share a world where half the people already live in cities and another couple billion are on their way into town. The population is aging quickly, the current infrastructure must crumble and be replaced by its very nature, and climate disaster is taking the place of the past’s great urban fires, wars, and epidemics. Those are the truly important, dull but worthy urban issues.
The digital techniques that smart-city fans adore are flimsy and flashy—and some are even actively pernicious—but they absolutely will be used in cities. They already have an urban heritage. When you bury fiber-optic under the curbs around the town, then you get internet. When you have towers and smartphones, then you get portable ubiquity. When you break up a smartphone into its separate sensors, switches, and little radios, then you get the internet of things."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/stupid-cities/553052/
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The Atlantic
Stop Saying 'Smart Cities'
Digital stardust won’t magically make future cities more affordable or resilient.
Il prezzo degli affitti di Tokyo è costante, mentre la città si ingrandisce sempre di più ed è sempre più centrale. San Francisco (ma anche alcune città italiane come Roma e Milano) guardano alla ricetta della capitale giapponese. La risposta è: pianificare in anticipo e costruire di più per avere prezzi abbordabili.
Money quote: "Three decades ago, at the height of Japan’s land price bubble, “affordable housing” would not have been words commonly associated with the country’s capital city. But 30 years can make quite a difference! As of 2015, the average residential rent in Tokyo was about $2.53 a square foot at current exchange rates. That’s about half the level for San Francisco. And Tokyo’s rents have held roughly constant for two decades."
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-14/california-affordable-housing-is-no-mystery-just-build-more
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Money quote: "Three decades ago, at the height of Japan’s land price bubble, “affordable housing” would not have been words commonly associated with the country’s capital city. But 30 years can make quite a difference! As of 2015, the average residential rent in Tokyo was about $2.53 a square foot at current exchange rates. That’s about half the level for San Francisco. And Tokyo’s rents have held roughly constant for two decades."
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-14/california-affordable-housing-is-no-mystery-just-build-more
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Bloomberg
Want Affordable Housing? Just Build More of It
Urban California should emulate Tokyo, which ensured the supply of dwellings stayed ahead of population growth.
Addio al salotto. Parola di giovane Millennial per i quali il salotto non appartiene più né allo spirito né allea disponibiltà eonomica di una generazione rassegnata a dire addio a questo spazio condiviso nelle case. Ciao salotto.
Money quote: "Negli Anni '70 era luogo di dibattito. Negli Anni '80 ci si ballava schiacciando la moquette multicolor. Negli Anni '90 tutti lo volevano come quello di Friends. O di Un medico in famiglia, a seconda dei gusti. Oggi non esiste più, preferito a mini-appartamenti con tavoli cucina reclinabili (oltre all’archistar, l’aveva perfettamente previsto Pozzetto ne Il ragazzo di campagna)."
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/04/27/cultura/quel-che-manca-nelle-case-dei-millennial-JrnXIKCtSoAOeGrhzT4RIM/pagina.html
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Money quote: "Negli Anni '70 era luogo di dibattito. Negli Anni '80 ci si ballava schiacciando la moquette multicolor. Negli Anni '90 tutti lo volevano come quello di Friends. O di Un medico in famiglia, a seconda dei gusti. Oggi non esiste più, preferito a mini-appartamenti con tavoli cucina reclinabili (oltre all’archistar, l’aveva perfettamente previsto Pozzetto ne Il ragazzo di campagna)."
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/04/27/cultura/quel-che-manca-nelle-case-dei-millennial-JrnXIKCtSoAOeGrhzT4RIM/pagina.html
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LaStampa.it
Quel che manca nelle case dei Millennial
AAA cercasi casa senza salotto. Perché i giovani non ne hanno più bisogno. O almeno così sostiene l’archistar inglese Patrik Schumacher. Le nuove generazioni cercano spazi abitativi più piccoli. «Tant
Gli ultimi arrivati nel mondo dell'hi-tech si beccano le cose migliori, o meglio le più nuove. In questo caso, la prima elezione al mondo in cui i voti non solo erano elettronici ma per di più registrati con una blockchain è il Sierra Leone (anche se pare che sia stata tutta una finta, successivamente smentita)
Money quote: "The citizens of Sierra Leone went to the polls on March 7 but this time something was different: the country recorded votes at 70% of the polling to the blockchain using a technology that is the first of its kind in actual practice.
The tech, created by Leonardo Gammar of Agora, anonymously stored votes in an immutable ledger, thereby offering instant access to the election results."
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-first-blockchain-based-election/
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Money quote: "The citizens of Sierra Leone went to the polls on March 7 but this time something was different: the country recorded votes at 70% of the polling to the blockchain using a technology that is the first of its kind in actual practice.
The tech, created by Leonardo Gammar of Agora, anonymously stored votes in an immutable ledger, thereby offering instant access to the election results."
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-first-blockchain-based-election/
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TechCrunch
Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election | TechCrunch
The citizens of Sierra Leone went to the polls on March 7 but this time something was different: the country recorded votes at 70% of the polling to the
Tutto quello di cui avete bisogno è una pagina, una pagina sola
Money quote: "Quickly whip up a neat web page for any occasion. You don't need to write a single line of code - all the heavy lifting is taken care of behind the scenes"
http://www.lonelypage.io
Money quote: "Quickly whip up a neat web page for any occasion. You don't need to write a single line of code - all the heavy lifting is taken care of behind the scenes"
http://www.lonelypage.io
www.lonelypage.io
Lonely Page – One page is all you need
Create and design your landing, event, business or profile page with the simplest, most flexible one-page builder you've ever used.
Amazon si prepara allo scontro frontale con Google per quanto riguarda le forme di tracking ai fini pubblicitari? A quanto pare, sì.
Money quote: "The tool lets merchants selling on Amazon’s online marketplace purchase spots that will follow shoppers around the web to lure the consumers back to Amazon to buy. The company is inviting select merchants to test the new ads later this month, according to people with knowledge of the plans."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/amazon-is-said-to-test-new-ad-that-competes-with-google-criteo
Money quote: "The tool lets merchants selling on Amazon’s online marketplace purchase spots that will follow shoppers around the web to lure the consumers back to Amazon to buy. The company is inviting select merchants to test the new ads later this month, according to people with knowledge of the plans."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/amazon-is-said-to-test-new-ad-that-competes-with-google-criteo
Microsoft e Github, come cambia il mondo dell'open source - il mio articolo per Wired
https://www.wired.it/amp/213135/gadget/computer/2018/06/25/microsoft-github-open-source/
https://www.wired.it/amp/213135/gadget/computer/2018/06/25/microsoft-github-open-source/
Wired
Microsoft e Github, come cambia il mondo dell’open source
Quando Microsoft ha comprato Github, la loro principale piattaforma, il mondo degli sviluppatori open si è arrabbiato. Inutilmente...
Una stupenda intervista del 1947 al fotografo Robert Capa, cioè subito dopo la guerra. La personalità e lo spirito di Capa, di John Steinbeck, dei suoi intervistatori (Tex McCrary, Jinx Falkenburg) e degli altri che vengono citati vale più di un ponderoso tomo sul profilo sociologico della "Greatest generation", cioè quella cresciuta durante la Depressione e che poi avrebbe combattuto la Seconda guerra mondiale perché "era la cosa giusta da fare", che. è stata poi emulata in parte dalla Silen Generation (della quale invece ci stiamo liberando sostanzialmente ora).
Money quote: "Ciao Bob, sei in onda, ma purtroppo non puoi parlare con la sigaretta in bocca, mi spiace."
http://tysm.org/intervista-a-robert-capa/
Money quote: "Ciao Bob, sei in onda, ma purtroppo non puoi parlare con la sigaretta in bocca, mi spiace."
http://tysm.org/intervista-a-robert-capa/
A New York hanno ritrovato per caso due scatoloni pieni di diapositive scattate dai fotografi del giornale nel 1978 che si credevano perdute. E oggi, oltre alla mostra in galleria, è stata montata anche questa pagina fantastica. Un viaggio nel tempo.
Money quote "These images were the work of eight staff photographers whose pictures normally ran in The New York Times, but who were idled for nearly three months in 1978 by a strike at the city’s newspapers."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/27/nyregion/newyork-parks-photos.html
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Money quote "These images were the work of eight staff photographers whose pictures normally ran in The New York Times, but who were idled for nearly three months in 1978 by a strike at the city’s newspapers."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/27/nyregion/newyork-parks-photos.html
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NY Times
Scenes Unseen: The Summer of ’78 (Published 2019)
Long-forgotten pictures capture escape and discovery in the city’s parks.
Tempo d'estate, tempo di mare. Avete idea di come affogano le persone? Beh, no, non ce l'avete. Questo articolo, straordinario anche per la sua storia editoriale (è stato rifiutato da tutte le testate tradizionali e poi pubblivato nel 2010 su un blog ha fatto il botto ed è stato riacquistato decine di volte) è la cosa da leggere se andate al mare o anche in piscina.
Money quote: "The Instinctive Drowning Response, so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like most people expect it to. When someone is drowning there is very little splashing, and no waving or yelling or calling for help of any kind. To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic drowning can be, consider this: It is the number two cause of accidental death in children age 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents). Of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. In 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch them do it, having no idea it is happening."
https://www.soundingsonline.com/voices/drowning-doesnt-look-like-drowning
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Money quote: "The Instinctive Drowning Response, so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like most people expect it to. When someone is drowning there is very little splashing, and no waving or yelling or calling for help of any kind. To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic drowning can be, consider this: It is the number two cause of accidental death in children age 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents). Of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. In 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch them do it, having no idea it is happening."
https://www.soundingsonline.com/voices/drowning-doesnt-look-like-drowning
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Soundings Online
Can You Tell When a Person is Drowning?
Mention drowning and we all tend to envision a person in the water waving his hands, splashing and screaming for help. That’s not even remotely close to what a drowning person looks like, writes Mario Vittone in this week’s Lifelines: Safety And Rescue At…
Ecco “Grow”, la non-rivista di Facebook: tutta pubblicità e niente contenuti (ma solo per pochi ricchi) - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/06/26/tecnologia/ecco-grow-la-nonrivista-di-facebook-tutta-pubblicit-e-niente-contenuti-ma-solo-per-pochi-ricchi-4coy0z2LejPyT0sGwlypdI/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/06/26/tecnologia/ecco-grow-la-nonrivista-di-facebook-tutta-pubblicit-e-niente-contenuti-ma-solo-per-pochi-ricchi-4coy0z2LejPyT0sGwlypdI/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Ecco “Grow”, la non-rivista di Facebook: tutta pubblicità e niente contenuti (ma solo per pochi ricchi)
Il social network di Mark Zuckerberg diventa cartaceo, ma non vuole trasformarsi in editore. Anche se all’orizzonte c’è un’alleanza con Vanity Fair
Effettivamente Donald Trump è un pazzo e/o un idiota. Almeno, leggendo questo articolo (peraltro fenomenale), così pare.
Money quote: "More than most politicians, Trump abides by the Groucho Marx law of fraternization. He inherently distrusts anyone who chooses to work for him, seeking outside affirmation as often as possible from as vast and varied a group as he can muster"
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/sean-hannity-donald-trump-late-night-calls.html
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Money quote: "More than most politicians, Trump abides by the Groucho Marx law of fraternization. He inherently distrusts anyone who chooses to work for him, seeking outside affirmation as often as possible from as vast and varied a group as he can muster"
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/sean-hannity-donald-trump-late-night-calls.html
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L'affascinante storia culturale dei Tarocchi: dall'Antico Egitto ai giorni nostri. E il ruolo dell'Italia è ovviamente notevole. Ma si tratta di un esercizio di psicanalisi antelitteram, non vi sbagliate
Money quote: "Tarot historians – few of them orthodox scholars – have long sought to reduce the symbolism of the triumphs, or ‘trumps’, to a single system. In 1966, the librarian Gertrude Moakley pinned them to Petrarch’s much-depicted poem sequence I Trionfi, which charted the procession of the allegorical figures Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time and Eternity. In 1972, the writer on the occult Paul Huson linked them to the late-medieval artistic tradition of the Danse Macabre, in which a host of tarot-like characters – the Pope, Emperor, Death – processed to the grave. Most recently, in A Cultural History of Tarot (2009), the Australian scholar Helen Farley detailed close allegorical correspondences between the trumps and the values asserted by Filippo Maria Visconti, the early 15th-century Duke of Milan whose court produced the most influential painted deck"
https://aeon.co/essays/tarot-cards-a-tool-of-cold-tricksters-or-wise-therapists
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Money quote: "Tarot historians – few of them orthodox scholars – have long sought to reduce the symbolism of the triumphs, or ‘trumps’, to a single system. In 1966, the librarian Gertrude Moakley pinned them to Petrarch’s much-depicted poem sequence I Trionfi, which charted the procession of the allegorical figures Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time and Eternity. In 1972, the writer on the occult Paul Huson linked them to the late-medieval artistic tradition of the Danse Macabre, in which a host of tarot-like characters – the Pope, Emperor, Death – processed to the grave. Most recently, in A Cultural History of Tarot (2009), the Australian scholar Helen Farley detailed close allegorical correspondences between the trumps and the values asserted by Filippo Maria Visconti, the early 15th-century Duke of Milan whose court produced the most influential painted deck"
https://aeon.co/essays/tarot-cards-a-tool-of-cold-tricksters-or-wise-therapists
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Aeon
The truth about tarot
Whether divining ancient wisdoms or elevating the art of cold reading, tarot is a form of therapy, much like psychoanalysis
Lo compro da anni, mi piace molto, ma finora lo consideravo alla pari con The Paris Review oppure con il fratellastro The Believer. Invece, da oggi, McSweeney's, il trimestrale fondato da Dave Eggers e alcuni amici suoi, è ufficialmente geniale e stop. Non c'è più partita: hanno vinto!
Money quote: "Packed in Issue 53’s purpose-built ziplock bag are seven stories printed on eight party balloons, which one must blow up to read. Gracing these particolored balloons are arresting new stories from Carmen Maria Machado, Percival Everett, Lauren Groff, Kima Jones, Amelia Gray, Rebecca Makkai, and Sarah Wisby. You’ll also find, alongside these inflatable stories, a vinyl-bound hardcover containing electrostatically charged new work from Lesley Nneka Arimah, Jamie Figueroa, Namwali Serpell, C Pam Zhang, and many more besides.
Perfect for decorating a birthday party, reading and then popping as a zen meditation, or repeatedly blowing up and releasing in order to observe their whimsical flight around the room, these balloons will provide endless enrichment or a momentary distraction as they burst—reader’s choice!
Inside Issue 53 you’ll uncover a medically inexplicable hunger for forks, a world of unclothed single women, a bevy of dead dads infesting a city, a mystical power within the dismembered torso of a mummified bishop, and oh so much more."
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Money quote: "Packed in Issue 53’s purpose-built ziplock bag are seven stories printed on eight party balloons, which one must blow up to read. Gracing these particolored balloons are arresting new stories from Carmen Maria Machado, Percival Everett, Lauren Groff, Kima Jones, Amelia Gray, Rebecca Makkai, and Sarah Wisby. You’ll also find, alongside these inflatable stories, a vinyl-bound hardcover containing electrostatically charged new work from Lesley Nneka Arimah, Jamie Figueroa, Namwali Serpell, C Pam Zhang, and many more besides.
Perfect for decorating a birthday party, reading and then popping as a zen meditation, or repeatedly blowing up and releasing in order to observe their whimsical flight around the room, these balloons will provide endless enrichment or a momentary distraction as they burst—reader’s choice!
Inside Issue 53 you’ll uncover a medically inexplicable hunger for forks, a world of unclothed single women, a bevy of dead dads infesting a city, a mystical power within the dismembered torso of a mummified bishop, and oh so much more."
https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/mcsweeney-s-issue-53
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“A fantastic selection of darkly magical short stories.”
—Ron Charles, the Washington Post
Packed in Issue 53's purpose-built ziplock bag are seven stories printed…
“A fantastic selection of darkly magical short stories.”
—Ron Charles, the Washington Post
Packed in Issue 53's purpose-built ziplock bag are seven stories printed…
L’affare del secolo di Facebook si chiama Instagram: è costata un miliardo di dollari e oggi ne vale cento - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/06/27/tecnologia/laffare-del-secolo-di-facebook-si-chiama-instagram-costata-un-miliardo-di-dollari-e-oggi-ne-vale-cento-UOGuNM4LlrlOwAQJax4StM/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/06/27/tecnologia/laffare-del-secolo-di-facebook-si-chiama-instagram-costata-un-miliardo-di-dollari-e-oggi-ne-vale-cento-UOGuNM4LlrlOwAQJax4StM/pagina.html
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L’affare del secolo di Facebook si chiama Instagram: è costata un miliardo di dollari e oggi ne vale cento
L’acquisto, voluto da Zuckerberg, è strategico perché il social delle foto piace ai giovani e cresce più velocemente della casa madre: in cinque anni raggiungerà i due miliardi di utenti, poco meno di quelli oggi attivi su Facebook