Pensavate che la depressione fosse il male del nostro tempo, soprattutto se siete persone ragionevoli che votano a sinistra e rispettano l’ambiente. E invece c’è di peggio: ecco a voi l’accidia: demone medievale (i monaci che vivevano sulle colonne nel deserto ben la conoscevano) che si aggira ancora tra di noi.
Money quote: ““The demon of acedia — also called the noonday demon — is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all…He makes it seem that the sun barely moves, if at all, and…he instills in the heart of the monk a hatred for the place, a hatred for his very life itself.”
Many of the desert monks found themselves in the same place as my friend. Work in the morning, but by noon, they despised the repetitive nature of chores or work. After some time in this condition, they felt little zeal for life. Prayer stopped, sleeping increased, and they felt numb. Eventually, they despised life itself as they spiraled into a dark hole.”
https://blog.heartsupport.com/you-might-not-actually-be-struggling-with-depression-8ce57ab41f66
Money quote: ““The demon of acedia — also called the noonday demon — is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all…He makes it seem that the sun barely moves, if at all, and…he instills in the heart of the monk a hatred for the place, a hatred for his very life itself.”
Many of the desert monks found themselves in the same place as my friend. Work in the morning, but by noon, they despised the repetitive nature of chores or work. After some time in this condition, they felt little zeal for life. Prayer stopped, sleeping increased, and they felt numb. Eventually, they despised life itself as they spiraled into a dark hole.”
https://blog.heartsupport.com/you-might-not-actually-be-struggling-with-depression-8ce57ab41f66
Medium
You Might Not Actually Be Struggling With Depression
But you may be dealing with depression’s lesser known evil twin
Fenomenologia della vita e metafisica di Hemingway. Non necessariamente in quest’ordine.
Money quote: “My point in showing this part of Hemingway’s process isn’t just to definitively disprove the myth — partly of Hemingway’s own making — that great writing is something that flows intuitively from the brain of a genius (no, great writing is a slow, painstaking process, even for geniuses). My point is to give some perspective on one of Hemingway’s most profound insights, one that he, considering his tragic suicide some 32 years later, struggled to fully integrate into his life.
The world is a cruel and harsh place”
https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-recover-when-the-world-breaks-you-94a423b7586d
Money quote: “My point in showing this part of Hemingway’s process isn’t just to definitively disprove the myth — partly of Hemingway’s own making — that great writing is something that flows intuitively from the brain of a genius (no, great writing is a slow, painstaking process, even for geniuses). My point is to give some perspective on one of Hemingway’s most profound insights, one that he, considering his tragic suicide some 32 years later, struggled to fully integrate into his life.
The world is a cruel and harsh place”
https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-recover-when-the-world-breaks-you-94a423b7586d
Medium
How To Recover When The World Breaks You
We all break. The key is to become strong in the broken places.
Storytelling come se non ci fosse un domani
Money quote: “Essentially, when you start telling a story, your reader’s brain snaps to attention and becomes re-engaged in your writing. The more detailed and denoscriptive the language you use, the better.”
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-strengthen-your-writing-with-one-simple-technique-37ab13eaf83c
Money quote: “Essentially, when you start telling a story, your reader’s brain snaps to attention and becomes re-engaged in your writing. The more detailed and denoscriptive the language you use, the better.”
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-strengthen-your-writing-with-one-simple-technique-37ab13eaf83c
Medium
How to Strengthen Your Writing with One Simple Technique
Use these two magic words
Abbiamo un problema anche con le banane: rischio estinzione. Mai un gioia, eh.
Money quote: “However, the banana that people ate in the early 20th century was not the one we know today. There are hundreds of edible banana varieties, but to standardise production, banana companies selected a single type to grow: the Gros Michel, a large, flavourful banana. Gros Michel did well up until the 1950s. But then a fungus known as Fusarium wilt, or Panama disease, rapidly infected entire plantations, and caused a global collapse in the banana trade. The industry quickly found a replacement, a banana resistant to Panama disease, called the Cavendish. But while these new bananas were filling a growing Western appetite, Cavendish suffered from the same flaw that brought down Gros Michel: monoculture”
https://aeon.co/ideas/bananas-nearly-went-extinct-before-dont-let-it-happen-again
Money quote: “However, the banana that people ate in the early 20th century was not the one we know today. There are hundreds of edible banana varieties, but to standardise production, banana companies selected a single type to grow: the Gros Michel, a large, flavourful banana. Gros Michel did well up until the 1950s. But then a fungus known as Fusarium wilt, or Panama disease, rapidly infected entire plantations, and caused a global collapse in the banana trade. The industry quickly found a replacement, a banana resistant to Panama disease, called the Cavendish. But while these new bananas were filling a growing Western appetite, Cavendish suffered from the same flaw that brought down Gros Michel: monoculture”
https://aeon.co/ideas/bananas-nearly-went-extinct-before-dont-let-it-happen-again
Aeon
Bananas have died out once before – don’t let it happen again
Most bananas are genetic clones and vulnerable to extinction. They nearly died out before: can we stop it happening again?
Gli Electric Scooter dell’articolo sono i monopattini elettrici. Avevo già condiviso una storia qualche settimana fa sul servizio di sharing Birdie o come si chiama. Attenzione, secondo me questa diventa una cosa seria (da noi, norme sull’utilizzo nel codice della strada permettendo).
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/561440/
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/561440/
Internet è un posto strano. Anche il mondo analogico lo è, solo che l’accesso e lo storytelling nella realtà degli atomi hanno una frizione maggiore di quella dei bit. Il combinato disposto del digitale è veramente singolare, almeno rispetto all’esperienza di un maschio bianco nato in Italia quando i bit erano pochi e grossi come mosconi che li potevi quasi vedere a occhio nudo. (In questo frangente, è proprio il caso di dirlo)
Money quote: “This isn’t your garden-variety revenge porn story. I wish a disgruntled ex had posted a video of me masturbating on the internet. That would be easier to explain. But this is more deviant. More shameful.”
https://medium.com/s/darkish-web/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-make-peace-with-my-revenge-porn-b47a164eee59
Money quote: “This isn’t your garden-variety revenge porn story. I wish a disgruntled ex had posted a video of me masturbating on the internet. That would be easier to explain. But this is more deviant. More shameful.”
https://medium.com/s/darkish-web/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-make-peace-with-my-revenge-porn-b47a164eee59
Medium
Response to
In loving memory of 30 horrible minutes on ChatRoulette
Questa persona è semplicemente folle. Ma lucida, eh.
Money quote: “This practice became my new UI. As soon as I started using it, everything changed: this system prompts me to set goals and track my progress, and broadens my perspective of the overall process. At the same time, it turns my emotions into fuel, giving me motivation, aesthetic pleasure and fun”
https://betterhumans.coach.me/draft-how-to-hack-your-brain-to-achieve-consistency-that-lasts-7f5fdc520d28
Money quote: “This practice became my new UI. As soon as I started using it, everything changed: this system prompts me to set goals and track my progress, and broadens my perspective of the overall process. At the same time, it turns my emotions into fuel, giving me motivation, aesthetic pleasure and fun”
https://betterhumans.coach.me/draft-how-to-hack-your-brain-to-achieve-consistency-that-lasts-7f5fdc520d28
Medium
Minimalist Journaling: A Fun and Effective Tool for Tremendous Habit Change
How to create your own habit dashboard that motivates you to stick to any habit
Compare il porno in Super Mario Odyssey, lo racconta Polygon
Money quote: “DevMenu appears to have been leaked to the public after a member of the Switch hacking community purchased a developer kit on eBay. A poster on the Switch Haxing subreddit and GBAtemp forums said they bought a “defective” Switch from a seller, which turned out to be an EDEV unit — a console intended for software developers. The buyer has since deleted their original Reddit post in which they asked what they should do with it; multiple posters suggested sending it or dumping its software data so homebrew developers and hackers could study it. It appears that shortly afterward, a torrent containing the EDEV unit’s data was uploaded to an anonymous storage service”
https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2018/6/22/17494552/nintendo-switch-hack-super-mario-odyssey-luigis-balloon-world
Money quote: “DevMenu appears to have been leaked to the public after a member of the Switch hacking community purchased a developer kit on eBay. A poster on the Switch Haxing subreddit and GBAtemp forums said they bought a “defective” Switch from a seller, which turned out to be an EDEV unit — a console intended for software developers. The buyer has since deleted their original Reddit post in which they asked what they should do with it; multiple posters suggested sending it or dumping its software data so homebrew developers and hackers could study it. It appears that shortly afterward, a torrent containing the EDEV unit’s data was uploaded to an anonymous storage service”
https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2018/6/22/17494552/nintendo-switch-hack-super-mario-odyssey-luigis-balloon-world
Polygon
Why porn is showing up in Super Mario Odyssey
Hackers have found a way to upload custom profile pictures
Lui era orrendo prima ed è orrendo adesso. Però adesso ha una nuova consapevolezza: così, in questo modo, potrebbe fondare il “culto degli orrendi” senza problema. Secondo me c’è gente che lo seguirebbe.
Money quote: “My appearance no longer controls me because I’m in control of my life. I’ve changed the way I think not the way I appear. This has led to happiness rather than the appearance game that can never be won.”
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-not-let-your-appearance-control-your-life-1d8ddad85bf9
Una nota a margine: ma sono io che sto andando in burnout di letture su Medium oppure questi scrivono tutti uguali? Frasi corte e sincopate, argomentazioni meccaniche da terza media, ripetizione di concetti a blocchi per rafforzare i blocchi precedenti. Boh.
Money quote: “My appearance no longer controls me because I’m in control of my life. I’ve changed the way I think not the way I appear. This has led to happiness rather than the appearance game that can never be won.”
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-not-let-your-appearance-control-your-life-1d8ddad85bf9
Una nota a margine: ma sono io che sto andando in burnout di letture su Medium oppure questi scrivono tutti uguali? Frasi corte e sincopate, argomentazioni meccaniche da terza media, ripetizione di concetti a blocchi per rafforzare i blocchi precedenti. Boh.
Medium
How To Not Let Your Appearance Control Your Life.
Growing up I had many appearance issues. My teeth were crooked, I had bad acne all over my body and I was underweight.
Storia di un pallone da calcio che è l’unico sopravvissuto all’esplosione dello shuttle Challenger e poi è tornato nello spazio, della sua famiglia di origine e di un tremendo e drammatico incidente che è rimasto come una luce troppo brillante guardata troppo a lungo inciso per sempre nella retina di una generazione.
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/23902766/nasa-astronaut-ellison-onizuka-soccer-ball-survived-challenger-explosion
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/23902766/nasa-astronaut-ellison-onizuka-soccer-ball-survived-challenger-explosion
ESPN.com
The inside story of the soccer ball that survived the Challenger explosion
On Jan. 28,1986, the space shuttle Challenger stunned the nation when it broke apart 73 seconds into flight. This is the story of the soccer ball that survived -- and the family that sent it into space, twice.
Forwarded from Mobilize!
👣 Da militanti ad attivisti: come cambia il volontariato
Scrive Stefano Laffi su Che Fare: “C’è una dimensione politica intatta, ovvero l’urgenza di cambiare in meglio qualcosa nel mondo, e di attivisti continuano ad essercene. Buon segno, vuol dire che non si è persa la speranza, che le persone continuano a sognare”.
Ma "Se il volontariato diventa l’occasione per fare esperienza, cambia tutto: saltano le appartenenze, le adesioni morali e ideali, perché a quel punto vale la pena provare un po’ tutto; saltano le fedeltà pluriennali, i tempi lunghi, a favore delle stagioni, del mordi e fuggi, cioè di una strategie di sperimentazioni di sé per il tempo necessario a capire."
Lo scriveva anche Beth Kanter nel suo The Networked Non Profit, nel 2010: “Millennials are passionate about causes, but non passionate about non profit organizations”.
Per approfondire: https://www.che-fare.com/volontariato-militanza-attivismo/
Scrive Stefano Laffi su Che Fare: “C’è una dimensione politica intatta, ovvero l’urgenza di cambiare in meglio qualcosa nel mondo, e di attivisti continuano ad essercene. Buon segno, vuol dire che non si è persa la speranza, che le persone continuano a sognare”.
Ma "Se il volontariato diventa l’occasione per fare esperienza, cambia tutto: saltano le appartenenze, le adesioni morali e ideali, perché a quel punto vale la pena provare un po’ tutto; saltano le fedeltà pluriennali, i tempi lunghi, a favore delle stagioni, del mordi e fuggi, cioè di una strategie di sperimentazioni di sé per il tempo necessario a capire."
Lo scriveva anche Beth Kanter nel suo The Networked Non Profit, nel 2010: “Millennials are passionate about causes, but non passionate about non profit organizations”.
Per approfondire: https://www.che-fare.com/volontariato-militanza-attivismo/
cheFare
Il volontariato che cambia: addio militanza, benvenuto attivismo
Il volontariato cambia faccia, la gratificazione ora sta nel partecipare, non nell’appartenere, e questo cambia il gioco di potere.
Forwarded from Fumettologica
Sorpresa: abbiamo aggiornato la nostra piattaforma e il nostro aspetto. Per offrirvi un sito più vivace, più veloce e visivamente ancora più pimpante. Buona nuova Fumettologica:
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/08/fumettologica-sito-grafica/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/08/fumettologica-sito-grafica/
Fumettologica
Fumettologica: nuovo sito, nuova grafica - Fumettologica
È arrivato il momento di aggiornare la nostra piattaforma e il nostro aspetto. Per offrirvi un sito più veloce e visivamente ancora più pimpante.
Era ovvio che dovesse succedere. Manovalanza al posto di algoritmi, perché non sempre il computer funziona e comunque alcune cose si fa prima (e costa meno) farle a mano. La domanda però è un’altra: in questi casi c’è davvero valore? Perché le startup si giudicano da quello...
Money quote: “It’s hard to build a service powered by artificial intelligence. So hard, in fact, that some startups have worked out it’s cheaper and easier to get humans to behave like robots than it is to get machines to behave like humans”
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/06/artificial-intelligence-ai-humans-bots-tech-companies
Money quote: “It’s hard to build a service powered by artificial intelligence. So hard, in fact, that some startups have worked out it’s cheaper and easier to get humans to behave like robots than it is to get machines to behave like humans”
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/06/artificial-intelligence-ai-humans-bots-tech-companies
the Guardian
The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work
Using what one expert calls a ‘Wizard of Oz technique’, some companies keep their reliance on humans a secret from investors
A me non piace il calcio né la cultura che ha costruito attorno a sé. Ma una storia come questa non è legata tanto al tipo di ascensore sociale da prendere: la chiave ovviamente non è quella. Il calcio era il frutto maturo che pendeva più in basso tra le fronte dell’albero della vita. Per altri magari è un altro frutto velenoso, illegale. Per altri chissà, un altro sogno, un altro frutto. Ma è esemplare il gesto della mano, la sua fermezza, la volontà che c’è dietro, la motivazione e l’azione: quello conta.
Money quote: “I was six years old, and I came home for lunch during our break at school. My mum had the same thing on the menu every single day: Bread and milk. When you’re a kid, you don’t even think about it. But I guess that’s what we could afford.
Then this one day I came home, and I walked into the kitchen, and I saw my mum at the refrigerator with the box of milk, like normal. But this time she was mixing something in with it. She was shaking it all up, you know? I didn’t understand what was going on. Then she brought my lunch over to me, and she was smiling like everything was cool. But I realized right away what was going on.”
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/romelu-lukaku-ive-got-some-things-to-say
Money quote: “I was six years old, and I came home for lunch during our break at school. My mum had the same thing on the menu every single day: Bread and milk. When you’re a kid, you don’t even think about it. But I guess that’s what we could afford.
Then this one day I came home, and I walked into the kitchen, and I saw my mum at the refrigerator with the box of milk, like normal. But this time she was mixing something in with it. She was shaking it all up, you know? I didn’t understand what was going on. Then she brought my lunch over to me, and she was smiling like everything was cool. But I realized right away what was going on.”
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/romelu-lukaku-ive-got-some-things-to-say
The Players' Tribune
I've Got Some Things to Say
People in football love to talk about mental strength. Well, I’m the strongest dude you’re ever going to meet.
Il 2018 è l’anno degli smart speaker - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/08/04/tecnologia/il-lanno-degli-smart-speaker-4WMtA4DV1ie88rovH5wSkJ/premium.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/08/04/tecnologia/il-lanno-degli-smart-speaker-4WMtA4DV1ie88rovH5wSkJ/premium.html
LaStampa.it
Il 2018 è l’anno degli smart speaker
Raddoppiano le vendite degli altoparlanti intelligenti che ci ascoltano e ci fanno fare acquisti online. Guidano la tendenza Amazon e Google, mentre Apple è ferma al 4% del mercato con il suo HomePod
Storia di Snoo, la mascotte aliena di Reddit. A me fa pensare a quelle cose strane ma istantaneamente simpatiche che sembrano facili ma sono in realtà molto complesse e fenomenali.
Money quote: “This creative canvas was, in some ways, illustrative of the early web, where nobody knew you were a dog. The closest thing to verification on Reddit, even now, is a confirmation that the email attached to your account is real. Anonymity is accepted, even encouraged. You can have multiple accounts, fake accounts, throwaways for posting the kinds of deep, dark musings that absolutely must not, under any circumstances, get traced back to the real you. (I have three usernames: one for lurking, one for reportage, and one for purposes I would never share in print.) Identities are fragmented; each version of you, a new Snoo.”
https://www.wired.com/story/the-transformative-power-of-reddits-alien-mascot/
Money quote: “This creative canvas was, in some ways, illustrative of the early web, where nobody knew you were a dog. The closest thing to verification on Reddit, even now, is a confirmation that the email attached to your account is real. Anonymity is accepted, even encouraged. You can have multiple accounts, fake accounts, throwaways for posting the kinds of deep, dark musings that absolutely must not, under any circumstances, get traced back to the real you. (I have three usernames: one for lurking, one for reportage, and one for purposes I would never share in print.) Identities are fragmented; each version of you, a new Snoo.”
https://www.wired.com/story/the-transformative-power-of-reddits-alien-mascot/
Wired
The Transformative Power of Reddit's Alien Mascot
It’s a happy accident that the cofounder's hurried sketch left Snoo colorless and genderless, a form onto which everyone could map themselves.
Se questo fine settimana siete a Mountain View, andare al Computer History Museum perché succedono cose alquanto interessanti. Sennò, immaginatevele a distanza...
Money quote: “The exhibits include everything from floptical disks, a fully restored and operation PDP-11/45, home computers from the UK and Japan, typewriters converted into teletypes, a disintegrated CPU, and LISP machines. The talks are equally spectacular, with a keynote from Tim Paterson, the creator of 86-DOS, the basis of MS-DOS. You’ll also hear about PLATO, the Internet before the Internet, PDP-1 demonstrations, and if we’re lucky they’re going to fire up the ancient IBM 1401”
https://hackaday.com/2018/08/01/this-weekend-the-vintage-computer-festival-west/
Money quote: “The exhibits include everything from floptical disks, a fully restored and operation PDP-11/45, home computers from the UK and Japan, typewriters converted into teletypes, a disintegrated CPU, and LISP machines. The talks are equally spectacular, with a keynote from Tim Paterson, the creator of 86-DOS, the basis of MS-DOS. You’ll also hear about PLATO, the Internet before the Internet, PDP-1 demonstrations, and if we’re lucky they’re going to fire up the ancient IBM 1401”
https://hackaday.com/2018/08/01/this-weekend-the-vintage-computer-festival-west/
Hackaday
This Weekend: The Vintage Computer Festival West
This weekend it’s all going down at the Vintage Computer Museum in Mountain View, California. The Vintage Computer Festival West is happening this weekend What’s going on this year at V…
Sapete che sono fissato con homebrew. Ma lui è più fissato di me...
Money quote: “I’m using OSX most of the time (you know, developer AND sales, plus being CEO) and this is the noscript I use to update it all the time, can be useful for some…”
https://medium.com/@waxzce/keeping-macos-clean-this-is-my-osx-brew-update-cli-command-6c8f12dc1731
Money quote: “I’m using OSX most of the time (you know, developer AND sales, plus being CEO) and this is the noscript I use to update it all the time, can be useful for some…”
https://medium.com/@waxzce/keeping-macos-clean-this-is-my-osx-brew-update-cli-command-6c8f12dc1731
Medium
Keeping macOS clean: this is my osx/brew/[…] update CLI command
I’m using OSX most of the time (you know, developer AND sales, plus being CEO) and this is the noscript I use to update it all the time, can…
Altri convertiti sulla via dell’iPad. Arrivano dopo ma arrivano bene, direi
Money quote: “I recently traded in my trusty iPad 2 against a new 12.9-inch iPad Pro. Not only has it become my primary work device, on many days I don’t turn on my laptop at all”
https://medium.com/@mrstevegold/the-year-was-2011-a708b7c76a17
Money quote: “I recently traded in my trusty iPad 2 against a new 12.9-inch iPad Pro. Not only has it become my primary work device, on many days I don’t turn on my laptop at all”
https://medium.com/@mrstevegold/the-year-was-2011-a708b7c76a17
Medium
It’s 2018 and yes, you can do “real work” on an iPad
The year was 2011. It was a simpler time: the earth was slightly cooler, the geopolitical landscape was more easily grasped, and I had…
Cosa c’è di peggio rispetto a una separazione? Ricominciare a vedere altre persone. Troppo presto. Perché non si è pronti: si è soli.
Money quote: “Everyone goes back to dating too soon. Everyone. Because it’s lonely being alone. But the weird thing is that it’s not for me. I like it. But 30 years of consistent relationships and sex is a powerful force feeding my brain misinformation on when the time is right.”
Resisting the Urge to Date Again – P.S. I Love You
https://psiloveyou.xyz/resisting-the-urge-to-date-again-690c747fedbd
Money quote: “Everyone goes back to dating too soon. Everyone. Because it’s lonely being alone. But the weird thing is that it’s not for me. I like it. But 30 years of consistent relationships and sex is a powerful force feeding my brain misinformation on when the time is right.”
Resisting the Urge to Date Again – P.S. I Love You
https://psiloveyou.xyz/resisting-the-urge-to-date-again-690c747fedbd
P.S. I Love You
Resisting the Urge to Date Again
When You Know You Are Not Ready, But…