Mentre i giornalisti finiscono a consegnare pacchi per Amazon, prosegue l’utopia del road warrior e del telelavoro.
Money quote: “When you’re feeling down or stuck in a rut, it can be tempting to think about quitting your job, packing your bags, and going to someplace to snorkel with sea turtles on a journey of self-discovery. But not all of us have the financial means—or the desire—to blow up our lives full-stop. (Plus, even if you reach turtle nirvana, chances are you will eventually have to head home to replenish your funds.) Thankfully, in the age of wifi and international data plans, there’s a middle path: Taking your work on the road with you.“
https://qz.com/work/1494641/the-complete-guide-to-traveling-the-world-without-quitting-your-job/
Money quote: “When you’re feeling down or stuck in a rut, it can be tempting to think about quitting your job, packing your bags, and going to someplace to snorkel with sea turtles on a journey of self-discovery. But not all of us have the financial means—or the desire—to blow up our lives full-stop. (Plus, even if you reach turtle nirvana, chances are you will eventually have to head home to replenish your funds.) Thankfully, in the age of wifi and international data plans, there’s a middle path: Taking your work on the road with you.“
https://qz.com/work/1494641/the-complete-guide-to-traveling-the-world-without-quitting-your-job/
Quartz at Work
The complete guide to traveling the world without quitting your job
In the age of wifi and international data plans, it's never been easier to take work with you.
Addio 3G: Taiwan spegne la rete UTMS - Il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/2018/12/27/tecnologia/addio-g-taiwan-spegne-la-rete-utms-omJminSw8HEvnMoTAtRVJK/premium.html
https://www.lastampa.it/2018/12/27/tecnologia/addio-g-taiwan-spegne-la-rete-utms-omJminSw8HEvnMoTAtRVJK/premium.html
LaStampa.it
Addio 3G: Taiwan spegne la rete UTMS
Taiwan dal 2019 sfrutterà solo il 4G, mentre la Cina lavora per arrivare prima sul mercato del 5G e Giappone e Corea del Sud spingono sulle reti a larghissima banda. Così l’Oriente diventa davvero hi-tech
Aerei e aeroporti, il piano della Cina per surclassare gli Stati Uniti - Il mio articolo per Wired
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2018/12/26/cina-aerei-aeroporti/
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2018/12/26/cina-aerei-aeroporti/
Wired
Aerei e aeroporti, il piano della Cina per surclassare gli Stati Uniti
Entro il 2035 la Cina vuole costruire 216 scali per aumentare il traffico aereo. E anche le compagnie stanno incrementando modelli e rotte
GitHub supera i 100 milioni di repository - Il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/github-supera-i-100-milioni-di-repository/
https://www.macitynet.it/github-supera-i-100-milioni-di-repository/
Macitynet.it
GitHub supera i 100 milioni di repository - Macitynet.it
Il sito di gestione del codice sorgente, recentemente acquistato da Microsoft, viene usato da 31 milioni di sviluppatori
Abbiamo un problema. Anzi, abbiamo creato un problema.
Money quote: “Years of metrics-driven growth, lucrative manipulative systems, and unregulated platform marketplaces, have created an environment where it makes more sense to be fake online — to be disingenuous and cynical, to lie and cheat, to misrepresent and distort”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html
Money quote: “Years of metrics-driven growth, lucrative manipulative systems, and unregulated platform marketplaces, have created an environment where it makes more sense to be fake online — to be disingenuous and cynical, to lie and cheat, to misrepresent and distort”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html
New York
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.
Turns out, a lot of it, actually.
Voci dalla rete
Money quote: “son: mommy what’s a podcast?
me: well, dear, when a group of men love their opinions very much...”
Money quote: “son: mommy what’s a podcast?
me: well, dear, when a group of men love their opinions very much...”
È Natale, giusto un paio di giorni fa. Tempo di cosine luminose e sbriluccicanti. Ma cosa sono? Cos’è che luccica in realtà? Se lo chiede il NYTimes
Money quote: “What is glitter? The simplest answer is one that will leave you slightly unsatisfied, but at least with your confidence in comprehending basic physical properties intact. Glitter is made from glitter. Big glitter begets smaller glitter; smaller glitter gets everywhere, all glitter is impossible to remove; now never ask this question again.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.html
Money quote: “What is glitter? The simplest answer is one that will leave you slightly unsatisfied, but at least with your confidence in comprehending basic physical properties intact. Glitter is made from glitter. Big glitter begets smaller glitter; smaller glitter gets everywhere, all glitter is impossible to remove; now never ask this question again.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.html
NY Times
What Is Glitter? (Published 2018)
A strange journey to the glitter factory.
Forwarded from Fumettologica
In un'intervista a il Venerdì di Repubblica Tiziano Sclavi ha espresso giudizi piuttosto duri su Bonelli Editore e sul suo attuale rapporto con essa.
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/12/tiziano-sclavi-bonelli-intervista/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/12/tiziano-sclavi-bonelli-intervista/
Fumettologica
Tiziano Sclavi: «Tra me e la Bonelli le cose non vanno affatto bene» - Fumettologica
In un'intervista a il Venerdì di Repubblica Tiziano Sclavi ha espresso giudizi piuttosto duri su Bonelli Editore e sul suo attuale rapporto con essa.
La scuola di New York è il punto di partenza per la fotografia in bianco e nero. Che deve essere pensata e ripensata, certamente. Ma nasce in bianco e nero già come intenzione.
Money quote: “These “influences, aesthetic assumptions, subjects and stylistic earmarks” spread out far beyond New York, but they are an understood set of qualities that have become the pinnacle of black and white photography. Because they had no choice, they mastered and defined the process of thinking and shooting for black and white. For anyone looking to do effective black and white, the answers are all in the photographs of those who reached the height of photojournalism in the era where black and white was how it was done”
https://medium.com/s/the-photographers-almanac/mastering-black-and-white-photography-2b723f794b59
Money quote: “These “influences, aesthetic assumptions, subjects and stylistic earmarks” spread out far beyond New York, but they are an understood set of qualities that have become the pinnacle of black and white photography. Because they had no choice, they mastered and defined the process of thinking and shooting for black and white. For anyone looking to do effective black and white, the answers are all in the photographs of those who reached the height of photojournalism in the era where black and white was how it was done”
https://medium.com/s/the-photographers-almanac/mastering-black-and-white-photography-2b723f794b59
Medium
Mastering Black and White Photography
Approaching the monochrome mindset
Il 2018 di Apple, l'anno che ha cambiato tutto - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/il-2018-di-apple-un-anno-particolare/
https://www.macitynet.it/il-2018-di-apple-un-anno-particolare/
Macitynet.it
Il 2018 di Apple, l'anno che ha cambiato tutto - Macitynet.it
Cos’è successo nell’anno della “S” a Cupertino: dai nuovi iPad, Mac mini e MacBook Air ai prodotti che ancora non ci sono (Mac Pro, stiamo parlando di te)
L’intervista - molto bella - fatta dalla Paris Review ad Amos Oz un bel po’ di tempo fa, da rileggere per ricordare l’autore scomparso pochi giorni fa.
Money quote: “The novelist has no political aim but is concerned with truth, not facts. As I say in one of my essays, sometimes the worst enemy of truth is fact.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1366/amos-oz-the-art-of-fiction-no-148-amos-oz
Money quote: “The novelist has no political aim but is concerned with truth, not facts. As I say in one of my essays, sometimes the worst enemy of truth is fact.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1366/amos-oz-the-art-of-fiction-no-148-amos-oz
The Paris Review
Amos Oz, The Art of Fiction No. 148
Amos Oz lives in Arad, a small new town of twenty-two thousand inhabitants, built in 1961 in the Negev Desert. To reach him, I took the bus from Jerusalem to Beersheba, then another to Arad. At the bus station everyone knew his house, and a man directed…
In un sito fatto molto bene che finalmente chiarisce in modo semplice parecchi punti riguardo le vicende e i capisaldi europei, la manovra di bilancio e le responsabilità di Bruxelles e dei singoli stati.
http://www.europeainfo.eu/le-manovre-economiche-degli-stati-membri-sono-responsabilita-di-bruxelles/
http://www.europeainfo.eu/le-manovre-economiche-degli-stati-membri-sono-responsabilita-di-bruxelles/
Europea
Le manovre economiche degli Stati membri sono responsabilità di Bruxelles?
Torniamo sull’argomento legge di bilancio. In questi giorni abbiamo pubblicato la procedura relativa al cosiddetto semestre europeo. Le manovre economiche degli Stati membri sono responsabilità di Bruxelles?Per rispondere a questa domanda pensiamo all’immagine…
Dai tempi del liceo adoro Yukio Mishima e quel che ho letto di suo. Ma è oggi, con internet, che si potrebbe accedere a così tanto così facilmente. Peccato la mia età non sia più così fertile e ricettiva.
Money quote: “Mishima was a literary prodigy. With haiku, it also helped that his Japanese-language teacher in the Middle Division of the Peers School was Kurō Iwata. Iwata didn’t just encourage his students to write. After the war, he established his reputation as an authority on Edo haikai. He published, among other things, a large compilation of commentaries on all of Bashō’s hokku.
One of Mishima’s earliest haiku dates from when he was seven years old, and it reads:
おとうとがお手手ひろげてもみじかな
Otōto ga o-tete hirogete momiji kana
My younger brother spreads his palms, maple leaves
The “younger brother” here is Chiyuki, two years old at the time. He went on to become a diplomat, serving as ambassador to Morocco and Portugal”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/26/my-younger-brother-spreads-his-palms-maple-leaves-yukio-mishimas-haiku/
Money quote: “Mishima was a literary prodigy. With haiku, it also helped that his Japanese-language teacher in the Middle Division of the Peers School was Kurō Iwata. Iwata didn’t just encourage his students to write. After the war, he established his reputation as an authority on Edo haikai. He published, among other things, a large compilation of commentaries on all of Bashō’s hokku.
One of Mishima’s earliest haiku dates from when he was seven years old, and it reads:
おとうとがお手手ひろげてもみじかな
Otōto ga o-tete hirogete momiji kana
My younger brother spreads his palms, maple leaves
The “younger brother” here is Chiyuki, two years old at the time. He went on to become a diplomat, serving as ambassador to Morocco and Portugal”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/26/my-younger-brother-spreads-his-palms-maple-leaves-yukio-mishimas-haiku/
The Paris Review
My Younger Brother Spreads His Palms, Maple Leaves: Yukio Mishima’s Haiku - The Paris Review
Many are likely to be surprised to learn that Mishima—yes, the writer who chose to die by dazzlingly public disembowelment and decapitation in 1970—wrote haiku.
Se il giorno del proprio compleanno è il giorno ideale per esplorare i propri sogni e le proprie fantasie, allora lo vorrei investire leggendo questo resconto della mente affascinante delle persone poliglotte, nel senso che parlano molte, molte lingue. Tipo una dozzina (11, al minimo) o più. Gente “linguisticamente molto funzionale”, insomma. Magari la mia è una neanche troppo nascosta (ma mai molto praticata) aspirazione.
Money quote: “Last May, Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, a doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, flew to Malta for a week to learn Maltese. He had a hefty grammar book in his backpack, but he didn’t plan to open it unless he had to. “We’ll do this as I would in the Amazon,” he told me, referring to his fieldwork as a linguist. Our plan was for me to observe how he went about learning a new language, starting with “hello” and “thank you.””
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/the-mystery-of-people-who-speak-dozens-of-languages
Money quote: “Last May, Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, a doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, flew to Malta for a week to learn Maltese. He had a hefty grammar book in his backpack, but he didn’t plan to open it unless he had to. “We’ll do this as I would in the Amazon,” he told me, referring to his fieldwork as a linguist. Our plan was for me to observe how he went about learning a new language, starting with “hello” and “thank you.””
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/the-mystery-of-people-who-speak-dozens-of-languages
The New Yorker
The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages
What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?
Lavorare sui big data con il terminale e la riga di comando - il mio articolo per Macity.
https://www.macitynet.it/lavorare-sui-big-data-con-il-terminale-e-la-riga-di-comando/
https://www.macitynet.it/lavorare-sui-big-data-con-il-terminale-e-la-riga-di-comando/
Macitynet.it
Lavorare sui big data con il terminale e la riga di comando - Macitynet.it
Un libro di O’Reilly, l’editore americano di tecnologia, riporta in auge un tema chiave per la data science: usare la potenza di Unix e dei moderni computer anziché sistemi esoterici. Tutto a portata di mano con macOS
Un esempio di storiografia visiva filologicamente corretta è stato creata dal regista Peter Jackson. Migliaia di metri di pellicola in bianco e nero sulla Prima guerra mondiale, accelerata e pesantemente danneggiata, è stata recuperata, restaurata e colorata. Niente speaker o altri metodi “moderni”, solo la voce dei veterani. Funziona, oh se funziona.
Money quote: “The documentary, which will screen nationwide Dec. 17 and Dec. 27, concentrates on the experiences of British soldiers as revealed in footage from the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Jackson and his team have digitally restored the footage, adjusted its frame rate, colorized it and converted it to 3-D. They chose not to add a host or noscript cards. Instead, veterans of the war “narrate” — that is, the filmmakers culled their commentary from hundreds of hours of BBC interviews recorded in the 1960s and ’70s.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/movies/peter-jackson-war-movie.html
Money quote: “The documentary, which will screen nationwide Dec. 17 and Dec. 27, concentrates on the experiences of British soldiers as revealed in footage from the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Jackson and his team have digitally restored the footage, adjusted its frame rate, colorized it and converted it to 3-D. They chose not to add a host or noscript cards. Instead, veterans of the war “narrate” — that is, the filmmakers culled their commentary from hundreds of hours of BBC interviews recorded in the 1960s and ’70s.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/movies/peter-jackson-war-movie.html
NY Times
How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New With ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ (Published 2018)
The director restored archival combat film to pristine clarity for his latest project.
Le scuole di scrittura creativa? Secondo Linkiesta sono un imbroglio. Perché non c'è passione, autenticità, verità. Invece, avidità e speculazione, alle spalle di un mondo di persone che vorrebbero trovare il modo per esprimersi. Nella poesia, poi, non ne parliamo.
Anzi, parliamone, anche se non è il tema dell'articolo linkato: questa volta prendo -in modo del tutto dissonante- uno scambio inedito con il poeta residente di Mostly, I Write, cioè Roberto R. Corsi, come money quote: "«Il poeta dovrebbe essere un “uomo integrale” (espressione non di un romantico ma del massmediologo McLuhan alle prese con la frammentazione delle esperienze) in cui l’umanità si chiarisce nella sua sostanziale ambiguità ed ambivalenza e si afferma nella sua trasparenza, pur restando indecifrabile, al di là dell’ombra.
Senza questo nella poesia restano formalismo, manierismo, decorazione vacua, atletismo versale» (Biagio Cepollaro, un mio amico poeta e critico).
Glosso che il poeta è destinato a fallire perché, non essendo autosufficiente, non può essere integrale e deframmentato."
https://www.linkiesta.it/it/article/2017/10/27/vuoi-fare-lo-scrittore-le-scuole-di-scrittura-creativa-sono-un-imbrogl/35963/
Anzi, parliamone, anche se non è il tema dell'articolo linkato: questa volta prendo -in modo del tutto dissonante- uno scambio inedito con il poeta residente di Mostly, I Write, cioè Roberto R. Corsi, come money quote: "«Il poeta dovrebbe essere un “uomo integrale” (espressione non di un romantico ma del massmediologo McLuhan alle prese con la frammentazione delle esperienze) in cui l’umanità si chiarisce nella sua sostanziale ambiguità ed ambivalenza e si afferma nella sua trasparenza, pur restando indecifrabile, al di là dell’ombra.
Senza questo nella poesia restano formalismo, manierismo, decorazione vacua, atletismo versale» (Biagio Cepollaro, un mio amico poeta e critico).
Glosso che il poeta è destinato a fallire perché, non essendo autosufficiente, non può essere integrale e deframmentato."
https://www.linkiesta.it/it/article/2017/10/27/vuoi-fare-lo-scrittore-le-scuole-di-scrittura-creativa-sono-un-imbrogl/35963/
Linkiesta
Vuoi fare lo scrittore? Le scuole di scrittura creativa sono un imbroglio (ed è meglio che tu lo sappia)
Non solo Holden. Le scuole di scrittura sbucano ovunque, come le slot machine nella sala oscura di un bar di periferia, reclutano frustrati. E gli scrittori – notoriamente poveri in canna – fanno l...