Il logo di Jeanne Lanvin, madre e figlia vestite uguali: una storia affascinante

Money quote: "A cette époque, Jeanne Lanvin est une chapelière installée au 22 de la rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, son atelier-boutique dans lequel sa fille joue les mannequins sous l’œil réjoui des clientes. C’est pour les beaux yeux de sa gamine que Jeanne commence à vêtir des poupées, avant de se tourner, rapidement, vers des modèles pour Marguerite. “Par tradition, les petites filles étaient habillées comme leurs mères, et Jeanne a su inverser la tendance, affirme Laure Harivel, en charge du patrimoine chez Lanvin."

http://www.polkamagazine.com/laiguille-et-la-marguerite/

Un fumetto online per raccontare la storia di cosa succede quando si vivono momenti epici e devastanti, ricordando chi non c'è più.

Money quote: "“The greatest generation” was defined by their suffering. Will we be?"

https://medium.com/the-nib/life-during-interesting-times-fd776c82e7ba

Export di armi. Chissà come sta messa l’Italia

Perfetta spiegazione di cosa sta succedendo nelle nostre città e nelle nostre vite attorno allo sharing transport, o meglio "floating transport". E lo spiega Citymapper una app che offre un servizio globale per gestire tutti gli altri (vivamente consigliata).

Money quote: "Change in relationship between user, operator, and regulator
With fixed transport, the regulation has often driven the operator, with the operator then guiding the users. Now the relationship gets flipped. The users will drive the operators, i.e. the new brands will respond rapidly to demand in order to survive. The regulators will accelerate to cope with all the new operators and services."

https://medium.com/citymapper/the-age-of-floating-transport-a87e2476f961

I nuovi MacBook Pro di Apple hanno un hard disk velocissimo - il mio articolo per La Stampa

http://www.lastampa.it/2018/07/18/tecnologia/i-nuovi-macbook-pro-di-apple-hanno-un-hard-disk-velocissimo-ZZnbNVr2yjRYZuPmZS3UDP/pagina.html

Goat è una delle startup più promettenti dell'ultima mania per la sharing economy in mobilità: i monopattini elettrici (che da noi peraltro sono vietati). Ma la concorrenza è dura e quasi mai onesta.

Money quote: "GOAT has permission to launch up to 500 scooters as part of the pilot program, but is currently incrementally deploying scooters 20 at a time. The company tells TechCrunch it’s also working with other cities in pursuing permits in multiple areas.

“In April we watched two California-based companies enter our market, ignore the balance, and exploit the policies and patience of our local city government but today we’re thankful for the due diligence the City of Austin put into place to ensure dockless mobility is a viable option to support their long-term objectives that we’ve worked to support,” GOAT CEO Michael Schramm said in a statement. “Since the City of Austin’s rules were established our team has worked tirelessly to prepare for a launch in our city that meets all of the criteria set forth by the ordinance for dockless mobility.”"

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/24/goat-launches-electric-scooters-in-austin/

Una riflessione per niente banale sul passato, di cui ci sentiamo proprietari. In questo caso, il discorso è declinato attorno ai troll, cosa che lo rende ancora più spettacolare a mio avviso. Bella lettura

Money quote: "Recently, I tweeted about the pervasive nature of trolling and how people have always excused online behavior that is largely inexcusable. Almost immediately, a professor in London chastised that idea. He insisted that there was indeed a golden age for trolling, especially “for those of us who can actually remember the “eternal September,” the month in 1993 when a huge influx of America Online users began to overwhelm the online culture and norms of Usenet.

Reader, I laughed. It is unsurprising for a distinguished professor to engage in this kind of “gatekeeper” behavior. After all, his esteem rests on the fact that he knows certain things that others do not. Like all gatekeeper behavior, it was ostensibly a check on the credibility of the target. Also like all gatekeeper behavior, it wasn’t really about whether or not someone passes the test, but rather the gatekeeper feeling like they can control what is true and not true about the subject. Alas for him, I was there in 1993, too, equal parts young, naïve, and shy, but so damn excited about the idea of suddenly communicating with people around the world. This was a new thing, after all. And I will never, ever forget my first reaction to dealing with strangers on the internet: “Why is everyone so mean?”"

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17561768/dont-feed-the-trolls-online-harassment-abuse

Rivoluzione comunista in Unione Sovietica e sessualità femminile: uno spaccato interessante

Money quote: "For Kollontai, the sexual revolution was mainly about mentally liberating women from the expectations of monogamy and servitude to the family. Being able to decide when to have children, she argued, and secure in the knowledge that the state would provide for them, would allow women to study, work and involve themselves in public affairs. She hoped that these transformations would create ‘a new way of being/everyday life novy byt’ and a ‘Woman Human Being’."

https://aeon.co/essays/the-shining-moment-when-russian-revolutionary-women-reinvented-sex

Esercizi per aspiranti scrittori. Una serie di frasi vere o quasi vere, anarcoidi e caotiche, come si conviene a una vera lista non strutturata. Ma dopo scriverete, e anche meglio.

Money quote: "One common thing I learned at three in the morning: everyone lied to survive. Truth is a luxury we day-people take for granted."

https://medium.com/the-mission/the-ultimate-cheat-sheet-to-writing-your-first-book-4dbae9b28ace

Non parliamo molto di security qui su Mostly, nonostante sia uno dei temi dei quali scrivo abbastanza regolarmente. Beh, ecco qui un bell’attacco...

Money quote: “A few months ago, I began to follow a winding path of research into a 10 year-old network attack called DNS rebinding. Put simply, DNS rebinding allows a remote attacker to bypass a victim’s network firewall and use their web browser as a proxy to communicate directly with devices on their private home network. By following the wrong link, or being served a malicious banner advertisement, you could inadvertently provide an attacker with access to the thermostat that controls the temperature in your home”

https://medium.com/@brannondorsey/attacking-private-networks-from-the-internet-with-dns-rebinding-ea7098a2d325

La Lombardia ha corso verso il voto elettronico (fra parecchie polemiche) e vuole guidare il resto del Paese, ma non è la sola a scegliere il digitale. Gli Usa galoppano in quella direzione da tempo.

Tuttavia, l’effetto è aumentare i rischi di manipolazione, oltre a ridurre i costi e i tempi di voto. Non è una buona cosa.

Money quote: “Remote-access software and modems on election equipment 'is the worst decision for security short of leaving ballot boxes on a Moscow street corner.'“

https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states

Bello il vinile, eh, ma adesso è arrivato il momento di ricordare quando una volta qui erano tutti CD...

Money quote: “If you visited Austin’s Waterloo Records recently, you might have noticed a construction project that was unthinkable not so long ago: The 36-year-old Austin music staple was replacing 24 feet of CD racks with space for more vinyl. “After 30 years of CDs, a lot of people are moving on from that format,” says Waterloo owner John Kunz. “Whether they’re going back to vinyl, or streaming, people are selling off those CDs.””

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/owning-music-buying-vinyl-cds-downloads-streaming-w521504

È Aristotle quello che aveva capito tutto. Meno male che ho fatto il classico! Però mi sento sempre di non sapere... troppo socratico?

Money quote: “so what can a guy who lived 23 centuries ago tell you about the pursuit of happiness today? “Aristotle did it first and better. So why not go to the source, the original brain that figured all of this out?” says Professor Edith Hall. “I think there is a comfort in ideas that people have held for thousands of years.””

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/17/how-aristotle-is-the-perfect-happiness-guru

Il rovescio della medaglia. I social media come strumenti di propaganda, disinformazione ed oppressione delle persone al servizio degli Stati.

Notevolissima inchiesta di Bloomberg con una grafica come al solito epica.

Money quote: “Only a few years after Twitter and Facebook were celebrated as the spark for democratic movements worldwide, states and their proxies are hatching new forms of digitally enabled suppression that were unthinkable before the age of the social media giants, according to evidence collected from computer sleuths, researchers and documents across more than a dozen countries.

Combining virtual hate mobs, surveillance, misinformation, anonymous threats, and the invasion of victims’ privacy, states and political parties around the globe have created an increasingly aggressive online playbook that is difficult for the platforms to detect or counter”

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-government-sponsored-cyber-militia-cookbook/

Nomadi digitali. Gente senza casa, dice il Guardian

Money quote: “As the working day winds on and such distractions – along with the necessity of meeting other footloose hotshots, and comparing “projects” – take up more of your time, a couple of questions might spring to mind: what is work, and what is leisure? And does the distinction even count for much any more?”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/18/digital-nomad-homeless-tech-work

Ricordi di una stagione spero lontana

Perché in estate, almeno io, leggo tanto 🦀 https://orizzontiblog.it/2018/07/19/libri-di-viaggio-per-lestate-2018/