Razzismo, supremazia dell’uomo bianco, classicità e la scoperta che le statue erano dipinte. E che le società classiche erano multietniche o quantomeno non bianche. Lo stupore dell’ignoranza.
Money quote: “Last year, a University of Iowa classics professor, Sarah Bond, published two essays, one in the online arts journal Hyperallergic and one in Forbes, arguing that it was time we all accepted that ancient sculpture was not pure white—and neither were the people of the ancient world. One false notion, she said, had reinforced the other. For classical scholars, it is a given that the Roman Empire—which, at its height, stretched from North Africa to Scotland—was ethnically diverse. In the Forbes essay, Bond notes, “Although Romans generally differentiated people on their cultural and ethnic background rather than the color of their skin, ancient sources do occasionally mention skin tone and artists tried to convey the color of their flesh.””
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture/
Money quote: “Last year, a University of Iowa classics professor, Sarah Bond, published two essays, one in the online arts journal Hyperallergic and one in Forbes, arguing that it was time we all accepted that ancient sculpture was not pure white—and neither were the people of the ancient world. One false notion, she said, had reinforced the other. For classical scholars, it is a given that the Roman Empire—which, at its height, stretched from North Africa to Scotland—was ethnically diverse. In the Forbes essay, Bond notes, “Although Romans generally differentiated people on their cultural and ethnic background rather than the color of their skin, ancient sources do occasionally mention skin tone and artists tried to convey the color of their flesh.””
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture/
The New Yorker
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture
Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth. Now scholars are making a color correction.
La grande tristezza (grazie Ikea)
Money quote: “Two years ago, the company asked thousands of people about where they felt “most at home.” At the time, 20% of subjects said it wasn’t the space in which they lived. Two years later, they asked again, and found the number has risen by 15% among people who live in cities. In other words, 35% of people who live in cities don’t feel at home in their house or apartment.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/90250152/a-new-ikea-report-is-an-unsettling-look-at-life-in-the-21st-century
Money quote: “Two years ago, the company asked thousands of people about where they felt “most at home.” At the time, 20% of subjects said it wasn’t the space in which they lived. Two years later, they asked again, and found the number has risen by 15% among people who live in cities. In other words, 35% of people who live in cities don’t feel at home in their house or apartment.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/90250152/a-new-ikea-report-is-an-unsettling-look-at-life-in-the-21st-century
Fast Company
A new Ikea report is an unsettling look at life in the 21st century
“Almost half of Americans (45%) go to their car to have a private moment to themselves,” the company reports in a new survey of 22,000 people in 22 countries.
Ci sono anche io tra gli esperti della Stampa per top e i flop della tecnologia nel 2018
https://www.lastampa.it/2018/12/31/tecnologia/gadget-eventi-personaggi-i-top-e-i-flop-della-tecnologia-nel-4AqaAyDngZR33euwXUkFsK/pagina.html
https://www.lastampa.it/2018/12/31/tecnologia/gadget-eventi-personaggi-i-top-e-i-flop-della-tecnologia-nel-4AqaAyDngZR33euwXUkFsK/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Gadget, eventi, personaggi: i top e i flop della tecnologia nel 2018
Cosa vale la pena di ricordare e cosa invece preferiamo lasciarci alle spalle in quest’anno che sta per finire? Ecco le risposte degli esperti
Una donna si scusa con l’ex moglie di suo marito per il tradimento che ha distrutto la precedente famiglia e creato quella nuova. Ma potrebbe essere tranquillamente un romanzo o un film, in sintesi. O un monologo a teatro. Anzi, per un monologo sarebbe perfetto. Qualcuno si fa avanti? Lo faccio io?
Money quote: “He told me recently that you have found someone new, that you are getting married. He scoffed at this, of course, muttered something about “the poor guy.” I turned away from him before I smiled, for you. Ironically, it’s now you — the one over whom I’ve felt guilt-ridden and regretful and maybe even pitied— it’s you who’s become my hero and my hope.”
https://medium.com/s/human-parts/story-told-in-apologies-to-my-ex-husbands-ex-wife-a-cautionary-tale-for-cheaters-85491d944de3
Money quote: “He told me recently that you have found someone new, that you are getting married. He scoffed at this, of course, muttered something about “the poor guy.” I turned away from him before I smiled, for you. Ironically, it’s now you — the one over whom I’ve felt guilt-ridden and regretful and maybe even pitied— it’s you who’s become my hero and my hope.”
https://medium.com/s/human-parts/story-told-in-apologies-to-my-ex-husbands-ex-wife-a-cautionary-tale-for-cheaters-85491d944de3
Medium
An Apology to My Husband’s Ex-Wife, in 13 Parts
A cautionary tale for cheaters. “An Apology to My Husband’s Ex-Wife, in 13 Parts” is published by Maggie Haukka
Recensione Canopy Studio Neat, la cover Magic Keyboard Apple che supporta iPad e iPhone - la mia prova per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-canopy-studio-neat-la-cover-magic-keyboard-apple-che-supporta-ipad-e-iphone/
https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-canopy-studio-neat-la-cover-magic-keyboard-apple-che-supporta-ipad-e-iphone/
Macitynet.it
Recensione Canopy Studio Neat, la cover Magic Keyboard Apple che supporta iPad e iPhone - Macitynet.it
Se avete la Magic Keyboard di Apple e un iPad, perché non usarli assieme? Abbiamo messo alla prova la custodia per il trasporto che fa anche di Studio Neat. Utile ma con alcune avvertenze
Sapere la posizione esatta di un consumatore vale 21 miliardi - il mio articolo per Wired.it
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2019/01/03/pubblicita-mirata-posizione-cliente/
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2019/01/03/pubblicita-mirata-posizione-cliente/
Wired
Sapere la posizione esatta di un consumatore vale 21 miliardi
Il mercato della pubblicità basata sulla posizione degli utenti è in crescita. Alimenta non solo il marketing. Ma ci sono dei rischi
Abbandonare Facebook? Gli utenti vogliono almeno mille dollari all’anno - Il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/2019/01/03/tecnologia/abbandonare-facebook-gli-utenti-vogliono-almeno-mille-dollari-allanno-tjsvowSsDdTAXhjXCtvbAP/pagina.html
https://www.lastampa.it/2019/01/03/tecnologia/abbandonare-facebook-gli-utenti-vogliono-almeno-mille-dollari-allanno-tjsvowSsDdTAXhjXCtvbAP/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Abbandonare Facebook? Gli utenti vogliono almeno mille dollari all’anno
Nonostante gli scandali e le preoccupazioni per la privacy, uno studio condotto da un pool di ricercatori americani ha scoperto che chi usa il social di Mark Zuckerberg non lo lascerebbe se non per un bel po’ di soldi, in contanti
Apple non vende il previsto? La colpa è delle cavallette, baby! - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-ha-perso-la-via-forse/
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-ha-perso-la-via-forse/
Macitynet.it
Apple non vende il previsto? La colpa è delle cavallette, baby! - Macitynet.it
La gestione Tim Cook ha trasformato Apple rilanciata da Steve Jobs nella società con la più grande capitalizzazione di mercato al mondo. Ma ora Cupertino perde velocità. Colpa di tutto e tutti tranne che di se stessa. Ma dare la colpa agli altri è ancora…
L'incubo prossimo venturo? La realtà aumentata.
Money quote: "“You are always worried about bad actors with technology and your data,” says Paula Goldman, a vice president at Omidyar Network, which works with technology companies on designing more ethical products. “With AR, it is incredibly scary: the kind of data that can be collected, how you react to what you’re seeing, deep psychological data.”"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/augmented-reality-will-put-the-internet-everywhere-1540216800
Money quote: "“You are always worried about bad actors with technology and your data,” says Paula Goldman, a vice president at Omidyar Network, which works with technology companies on designing more ethical products. “With AR, it is incredibly scary: the kind of data that can be collected, how you react to what you’re seeing, deep psychological data.”"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/augmented-reality-will-put-the-internet-everywhere-1540216800
WSJ
Augmented Reality Will Put the Internet Everywhere
If screen time is a problem for you, columnist Joanna Stern has bad news: streaming images and personalized information will soon appear everywhere you look.
Recensione OnePlus Explorer, lo zainetto con carattere minimal - la mia prova per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-oneplus-explorer-lo-zainetto-con-carattere-minimal/
https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-oneplus-explorer-lo-zainetto-con-carattere-minimal/
Macitynet.it
Recensione OnePlus Explorer, lo zainetto con carattere minimal - Macitynet.it
Macity ha messo alla prova l’ultimo arrivato dell’azienda cinese di smartphone Android. Uno zainetto per tutti gli usi adatto alla via di tutti i giorni ma anche per un fine settimana fuori porta, che sta diventando una specie di fenomeno social
La beata ignoranza: rende tutti più felici.
Money quote: “Over at the Institute for Family Studies, Nicholas Wolfinger, a sociologist at the University of Utah, has found that Americans who have only ever slept with their spouses are most likely to report being in a “very happy” marriage.“
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/573493/
Money quote: “Over at the Institute for Family Studies, Nicholas Wolfinger, a sociologist at the University of Utah, has found that Americans who have only ever slept with their spouses are most likely to report being in a “very happy” marriage.“
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/573493/
The Atlantic
Fewer Sex Partners Means a Happier Marriage
People who have had sex with fewer people seem to be more satisfied after they tie the knot. Is there hope for promiscuous romantics?
Ricordando Karen Sparck Jones: “L’informatica è una cosa troppo importante per lasciarla agli uomini” - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/ricordando-karen-sparck-jones/
https://www.macitynet.it/ricordando-karen-sparck-jones/
Macitynet.it
Ricordando Karen Sparck Jones: “L’informatica è una cosa troppo importante per lasciarla agli uomini” - Macitynet.it
La storia di Karen Sparck Jones, ricercatrice britannica che ha inventato il funzionamento di tutti i motori di ricerca, scomparsa dieci anni fa, e che sosteneva in anticipo sui tempi l’idea che i programmatori non possano non applicare una etica al codice…
Al di là della storia di "cat", il programma Unix, è l'inquadramento di fondo di questo articolo ad essere molto interessante. E poi la storia di "cat", ovviamente.
Money quote: "My aunt and cousin thought of computer technology as a series of increasingly elaborate sand castles supplanting one another after each high tide clears the beach. The reality, at least in many areas, is that we steadily accumulate programs that have solved problems. We might have to occasionally modify these programs to avoid software rot, but otherwise they can be left alone. grep is a simple program that solves a still-relevant problem, so it survives. Most application programming is done at a very high level, atop a pyramid of much older code solving much older problems. The ideas and concepts of 30 or 40 years ago, far from being obsolete today, have in many cases been embodied in software that you can still find installed on your laptop."
https://twobithistory.org/2018/11/12/cat.html
Money quote: "My aunt and cousin thought of computer technology as a series of increasingly elaborate sand castles supplanting one another after each high tide clears the beach. The reality, at least in many areas, is that we steadily accumulate programs that have solved problems. We might have to occasionally modify these programs to avoid software rot, but otherwise they can be left alone. grep is a simple program that solves a still-relevant problem, so it survives. Most application programming is done at a very high level, atop a pyramid of much older code solving much older problems. The ideas and concepts of 30 or 40 years ago, far from being obsolete today, have in many cases been embodied in software that you can still find installed on your laptop."
https://twobithistory.org/2018/11/12/cat.html
twobithistory.org
The Source History of Cat
A tour of the many historical implementations of the Unix cat utility.
Più veloci della luce: prova di due adattatori Usb - Gigabit Ethernet anche su USB-C - Il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/piu-veloci-della-luce-prova-di-due-adattatori-usb-gigabit-ethernet-anche-su-usb-c/
https://www.macitynet.it/piu-veloci-della-luce-prova-di-due-adattatori-usb-gigabit-ethernet-anche-su-usb-c/
Macitynet.it
Più veloci della luce: prova di due adattatori Usb - Gigabit Ethernet anche su USB-C - Macitynet.it
Comparata fra il vecchio classico, l’adattatore Usb-A ad Ethernet di Apple e il nuovo adattatore di Roline Usb-C a Gigabit Ethernet, che può essere usato anche su MacBook 12 e su iPad 11 e 12,9 di terza generazione
Anno nuovo, sfide nuove. Serve imparare cose e competenze nuove. Consiglio di applicarsi per questo corso gratuito che insegna come scrivere la vostra piccola ma completa macchina virtuale. È una esperienza che cambia la vita (io piuttosto imparo a suonare la chitarra elettrica)
Money quote: “In this tutorial, I will teach you how to write your own virtual machine (VM) that can run assembly language programs, such as my friend's 2048 or my Roguelike. If you know how to program, but would like to gain a deeper understanding of what is going on inside a computer and better understand how programming languages work, then this project is for you. Writing your own VM may sound a little scary, but I promise that you will find it to be surprisingly simple and enlightening.
The final code is about 250 lines of C. All you need to know is how to read basic C or C++ and how to do binary arithmetic. To build and run the code, you will need to be on a Unix system (including macOS).”
https://justinmeiners.github.io/lc3-vm/
Money quote: “In this tutorial, I will teach you how to write your own virtual machine (VM) that can run assembly language programs, such as my friend's 2048 or my Roguelike. If you know how to program, but would like to gain a deeper understanding of what is going on inside a computer and better understand how programming languages work, then this project is for you. Writing your own VM may sound a little scary, but I promise that you will find it to be surprisingly simple and enlightening.
The final code is about 250 lines of C. All you need to know is how to read basic C or C++ and how to do binary arithmetic. To build and run the code, you will need to be on a Unix system (including macOS).”
https://justinmeiners.github.io/lc3-vm/
Stiamo in parte tornando verso il mondo delle home page e del web statico "che ci appartiene", anziché di quello che appartiene al social di turno. All'interno di questo microscopico movimento, c'è chi lavora a nuovi framework e tecnologie. Come i blog minimalisti e federati, che possono diventare vere e proprie comunità.
Money quote: "Create a minimalist blog
WriteFreely is built around writing. There's no news feed, notifications, or unnecessary likes or claps to take you away from your train of thought. You get a distraction-free writing environment, and readers can enjoy a clean reading experience."
https://writefreely.org/
Money quote: "Create a minimalist blog
WriteFreely is built around writing. There's no news feed, notifications, or unnecessary likes or claps to take you away from your train of thought. You get a distraction-free writing environment, and readers can enjoy a clean reading experience."
https://writefreely.org/
𝕭𝖊𝖆𝖚𝖙𝖎𝖋𝖚𝖑 𝕯𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖇𝖆𝖙𝖘
È il sito che vi permette di scrivere delle cose con stili estrosi, copiarle e poi incollarle nel vostro social o app di chat preferita. Stilosa
https://beautifuldingbats.com/hey-howd-you-do-that
È il sito che vi permette di scrivere delle cose con stili estrosi, copiarle e poi incollarle nel vostro social o app di chat preferita. Stilosa
https://beautifuldingbats.com/hey-howd-you-do-that
Google Maps, quando l’intelligenza artificiale bara - il mio articolo per Wired.it
https://www.wired.it/attualita/tech/2019/01/07/intelligenza-artificiale-bara/
https://www.wired.it/attualita/tech/2019/01/07/intelligenza-artificiale-bara/
Wired
Google Maps, quando l’intelligenza artificiale bara
Scoperta un'intelligena artificiale che trucca la sua attività per non farsi scoprire dagli osservatori umani. Il computer sta diventando consapevole?
Una delle più affascinanti cantanti/poetesse del nostro tempo: Joni Mitchell. Un genio che abbiamo cercato di vestire con mille altri vestiti. Ma rimane semplicemente questo: un genio.
Money quote: “Mitchell writes about emotional information: who controls it, and how it is squandered or hoarded, withheld or weaponized. This requires some reconnaissance, which for Mitchell involves falling in and out of love, over and over—not so much a research method as a form of self-surgery. Her songs report on those lessons, which are, in an instant, in performance, happily forgotten. She is always thinking about the ways in which calculation fails, as guile yields again and again to innocence. As she put it in “Song for Sharon”: “I can keep my cool at poker / But I’m a fool when love’s at stake.””
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/joni-mitchells-openhearted-heroism/
Money quote: “Mitchell writes about emotional information: who controls it, and how it is squandered or hoarded, withheld or weaponized. This requires some reconnaissance, which for Mitchell involves falling in and out of love, over and over—not so much a research method as a form of self-surgery. Her songs report on those lessons, which are, in an instant, in performance, happily forgotten. She is always thinking about the ways in which calculation fails, as guile yields again and again to innocence. As she put it in “Song for Sharon”: “I can keep my cool at poker / But I’m a fool when love’s at stake.””
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/joni-mitchells-openhearted-heroism/
The New Yorker
Joni Mitchell’s Openhearted Heroism
She made the best music of her generation by falling in love, over and over, while defending her sense of self.
Deepfakes, quando non possiamo più credere neanche ai nostri occhi - il mio articolo per La Stampa (a pagamento)
https://www.lastampa.it/2019/01/08/tecnologia/deepfakes-quando-non-possiamo-pi-credere-neanche-ai-nostri-occhi-wSkhJ6kbjKzsGhcZt07k6I/premium.html
https://www.lastampa.it/2019/01/08/tecnologia/deepfakes-quando-non-possiamo-pi-credere-neanche-ai-nostri-occhi-wSkhJ6kbjKzsGhcZt07k6I/premium.html
LaStampa.it
Deepfakes, quando non possiamo più credere neanche ai nostri occhi
La manipolazione digitale del video consente di stravolgere la realtà e dare vita a cose mai successe. E dagli scandali montati ad arte alla disinformazione politica, arriva una nuova stagione pilotata con le intelligenze artificiali
Il copyright e la fotografia. Sta diventando tutto molto molto complicato. Prima o poi si rompe.
Money quote: “Back before geolocation, machine learning, and smartphones it was possible to take a photo of a building on a city street where no human-identifiable signs or markings were visible and ultimately use that photo for something useful without fear that some online service was going to flag the photo as containing copyrighted elements. In fact, it was not uncommon for photographers to create abstract works from all kinds of photos where the source could not be visually identified in the photo itself. Only the photographer knew where the photo was taken.”
https://medium.com/@robert.rittmuller/copyright-is-killing-photography-825365130dfc
Money quote: “Back before geolocation, machine learning, and smartphones it was possible to take a photo of a building on a city street where no human-identifiable signs or markings were visible and ultimately use that photo for something useful without fear that some online service was going to flag the photo as containing copyrighted elements. In fact, it was not uncommon for photographers to create abstract works from all kinds of photos where the source could not be visually identified in the photo itself. Only the photographer knew where the photo was taken.”
https://medium.com/@robert.rittmuller/copyright-is-killing-photography-825365130dfc
Medium
Copyright is Killing Photography
Everywhere you go, every shot you take, is likely copyrighted and I bet you never even realized it.