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.
Il punto di vista del dominatore. Cosa lo preoccupa? È interessante guardare l'infografica perché è anche un bell'esempio di data journalism. Il mondo visto dall'America attraverso la lente delle prime pagine dei suoi giornali a partire dal 1900...
Money quote: "This is a chart about the world through the eyes of the US. There is always that one country on our collective conscious, and I wanted to know how that has changed over time. So I turned to the newspaper, since headlines have long been the catalyst for daily conversations about what is going on in the world. Most of that content is still preserved thanks to the New York Times archive. After looking at 741,681 section front headlines, I found out which countries around the world have preoccupied Americans the most each month since 1900."
https://pudding.cool/2018/12/countries/
Money quote: "This is a chart about the world through the eyes of the US. There is always that one country on our collective conscious, and I wanted to know how that has changed over time. So I turned to the newspaper, since headlines have long been the catalyst for daily conversations about what is going on in the world. Most of that content is still preserved thanks to the New York Times archive. After looking at 741,681 section front headlines, I found out which countries around the world have preoccupied Americans the most each month since 1900."
https://pudding.cool/2018/12/countries/
The Pudding
The World through the Eyes of the US
The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900.
Calo per Apple e Samsung, ci siamo stufati di comprare di continuo nuovi smartphone? - il mio articolo per Wired
https://www.wired.it/attualita/2019/01/09/apple-samsung-calo-vendite/
https://www.wired.it/attualita/2019/01/09/apple-samsung-calo-vendite/
Wired
Calo per Apple e Samsung, ci siamo stufati di comprare di continuo nuovi smartphone?
Ci basta lo smartphone che abbiamo già. I due colossi lanciano nuovi modelli a un ritmo così frenetico che non percepiamo più l'esigenza di comprarne
Il matrimonio, inteso come istituto giuridico regolato e gestito dallo Stato, non è una bela cosa, se ci pensate un attimo. (Sopratutto se siete una donna, da un punto di vista storico).
Money quote: “The third aspect of state-recognised marriage is regulation: the state provides a married couple with legal rights and duties. Unmarried people have legal rights and duties too. But state-recognised marriage involves giving married people a bundle of rights and duties concerning many areas of life. These may include financial support, parental responsibility, inheritance, taxation, migration and next-of-kinship: crucial areas of life that affect everyone, married or not.
Many of the most important rights and duties given to married people pertain to separation”
https://aeon.co/essays/why-marriage-is-both-anachronistic-and-discriminatory
Money quote: “The third aspect of state-recognised marriage is regulation: the state provides a married couple with legal rights and duties. Unmarried people have legal rights and duties too. But state-recognised marriage involves giving married people a bundle of rights and duties concerning many areas of life. These may include financial support, parental responsibility, inheritance, taxation, migration and next-of-kinship: crucial areas of life that affect everyone, married or not.
Many of the most important rights and duties given to married people pertain to separation”
https://aeon.co/essays/why-marriage-is-both-anachronistic-and-discriminatory
Aeon
Against marriage
Marriage is what happens when the state gets involved in endorsing and regulating personal relationships. It’s a bad idea
Forwarded from Social&Positive News - L'informazione che fa bene (Channel Help)
📱💻 #Consumi #Sostenibilità #Riuso
Corre di ora in ora il contatore della petizione online lanciata dalle associazioni Giacimenti Urbani e Restarters Milano che chiede al governo italiano di sostenere l'approvazione del pacchetto europeo sull’economia circolare. Nel pacchetto è contenuta una importante misura contro l’obsolescenza programmata e a favore del “diritto alla riparabilità” di oggetti elettronici ed elettrodomestici. Il pacchetto obbliga, infatti, i produttori a vendere oggetti più longevi e riparabili, rendendo reperibili più a lungo i pezzi di ricambio e progettandoli in modo che si possano più facilmente aprire e aggiustare. Misure che, ad esempio, la Francia ha già deciso di adottare ma che invece altri paesi, tra cui l’Italia, osteggiano. Dopo l’approvazione del parlamento europeo, oggi ci sarà il voto decisivo del Consiglio dell’Unione Europea e oltre 95mila cittadini, firmatari della petizione, chiedono a gran voce che il governo italiano sostenga quelle misure. Come si legge nella petizione, “l’Italia deve sostenere il diritto alla riparazione che allo stesso tempo aiuterà i nostri portafogli e salverà il pianeta. Chiediamo che questi oggetti si possano aprire, quindi riparare, che i libretti di istruzioni siano più leggibili”. Una battaglia che è importante vincere, con l’impegno di tutti. Qui per firmare la petizione.
Corre di ora in ora il contatore della petizione online lanciata dalle associazioni Giacimenti Urbani e Restarters Milano che chiede al governo italiano di sostenere l'approvazione del pacchetto europeo sull’economia circolare. Nel pacchetto è contenuta una importante misura contro l’obsolescenza programmata e a favore del “diritto alla riparabilità” di oggetti elettronici ed elettrodomestici. Il pacchetto obbliga, infatti, i produttori a vendere oggetti più longevi e riparabili, rendendo reperibili più a lungo i pezzi di ricambio e progettandoli in modo che si possano più facilmente aprire e aggiustare. Misure che, ad esempio, la Francia ha già deciso di adottare ma che invece altri paesi, tra cui l’Italia, osteggiano. Dopo l’approvazione del parlamento europeo, oggi ci sarà il voto decisivo del Consiglio dell’Unione Europea e oltre 95mila cittadini, firmatari della petizione, chiedono a gran voce che il governo italiano sostenga quelle misure. Come si legge nella petizione, “l’Italia deve sostenere il diritto alla riparazione che allo stesso tempo aiuterà i nostri portafogli e salverà il pianeta. Chiediamo che questi oggetti si possano aprire, quindi riparare, che i libretti di istruzioni siano più leggibili”. Una battaglia che è importante vincere, con l’impegno di tutti. Qui per firmare la petizione.
RedattoreSociale.it
Diritto alla riparabilità: una petizione per contrastare l'economia usa e getta
La Paris Review ragiona sul capolavoro di Hayao Miyazaki “Principessa Mononoke”. Quanto è passato dai tempi di Nausicaa! Come siamo cambiati, come è cambiato tutto.
Money quote: “Princess Mononoke inaugurated a new chapter in Miyazakiworld. Ambitious and angry, it expressed the director’s increasingly complex worldview, putting on film the tight intermixture of frustration, brutality, animistic spirituality, and cautious hope that he had honed in his manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. The film offers a mythic scope, unprecedented depictions of violence and environmental collapse, and a powerful vision of the sublime, all within the director’s first-ever attempt at a jidaigeki, or historical film. It also moves further away from the family fare that had made him a treasured household name in Japan”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/22/hayao-miyazakis-cursed-worlds/
Money quote: “Princess Mononoke inaugurated a new chapter in Miyazakiworld. Ambitious and angry, it expressed the director’s increasingly complex worldview, putting on film the tight intermixture of frustration, brutality, animistic spirituality, and cautious hope that he had honed in his manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. The film offers a mythic scope, unprecedented depictions of violence and environmental collapse, and a powerful vision of the sublime, all within the director’s first-ever attempt at a jidaigeki, or historical film. It also moves further away from the family fare that had made him a treasured household name in Japan”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/22/hayao-miyazakis-cursed-worlds/
The Paris Review
Hayao Miyazaki’s Cursed Worlds
‘Princess Mononoke’ inaugurated a new chapter in Miyazakiworld. Ambitious and angry, it expressed the director’s increasingly complex worldview.
Bloomberg, Apstra firma la rete hi-tech dei nuovi headquarter londinesi - il mio articolo su CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tech-zone/bloomberg-apstra-firma-la-rete-it-hi-tech-dei-nuovi-headquarter-londinesi/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tech-zone/bloomberg-apstra-firma-la-rete-it-hi-tech-dei-nuovi-headquarter-londinesi/
CorCom
Bloomberg, Apstra firma la rete IT hi-tech dei nuovi headquarter londinesi - CorCom
L'infrastruttura consente di gestire in modo più efficace l’infrastruttura a supporto dei sistemi di produzione multimediali. Tony Lott: "Ora abbiamo l'efficienza operativa necessaria per gestire e sostenere la nostra struttura di produzione". Mansour Karam:…
Delizioso piccolo saggio che descrive il garage delle villette monofamiliari americane. Un tumore attaccato al resto del nostro esoscheletro esistenziale. Fantastico.
Money quote: “Unadorned and unheated, a garage might seem like a utilitarian place. But in the analysis of Erlanger, an artist, and Ortega, an architect, the garage is a central space of 20th-century America, where modernism and suburban values collide with unexpected power. “We think about it as this weird tumor that was attached to the house,” says Ortega. “It’s the first time the machine is given a room to sleep in.””
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-architecture-of-garages
Money quote: “Unadorned and unheated, a garage might seem like a utilitarian place. But in the analysis of Erlanger, an artist, and Ortega, an architect, the garage is a central space of 20th-century America, where modernism and suburban values collide with unexpected power. “We think about it as this weird tumor that was attached to the house,” says Ortega. “It’s the first time the machine is given a room to sleep in.””
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-architecture-of-garages
Atlas Obscura
Why There’s No Place Quite Like the American Garage
The garage is a symbol of suburbia, a site of rebellion, and a very strange room.
Bisognerebbe fermarci un attimo e pensare meglio a cosa stiamo complessivamente facendo. Si, sarebbe meglio...
Money quote: “For a time after their VR experience, people found themselves eating less meat. In his subsequent book Experience on Demand (2018), Bailenson quotes one subject who said: ‘I truly felt like I was going to the slaughterhouse … and felt sad that as a cow I was going to die.’”
https://aeon.co/ideas/its-dangerous-to-think-virtual-reality-is-an-empathy-machine
Money quote: “For a time after their VR experience, people found themselves eating less meat. In his subsequent book Experience on Demand (2018), Bailenson quotes one subject who said: ‘I truly felt like I was going to the slaughterhouse … and felt sad that as a cow I was going to die.’”
https://aeon.co/ideas/its-dangerous-to-think-virtual-reality-is-an-empathy-machine
Aeon
It’s dangerous to think virtual reality is an empathy machine
Virtual reality is not a modern-day empathy machine – and this is why it’s dangerous to think otherwise
Tutto sul wasabi. Fenomenale.
Money quote: "The Japanese have grown wasabi for about a thousand years. Retiring shoguns even received plots of the prized crop as a gift, which their kin protected for centuries. Farmers continue to raise wasabi in tiered beds along Nagano’s streams, diverting water to create a continual, gentle wash over the rhizomes. Without this constant water stream, plants end up tasting muddy and bitter. Only after several years is the rhizome large enough to harvest. Wasabi won’t even germinate unless conditions are perfect. Outside the aromatic herb’s native, gravelly banks, farmers have found it exceedingly difficult to cultivate at all."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/real-wasabi
Money quote: "The Japanese have grown wasabi for about a thousand years. Retiring shoguns even received plots of the prized crop as a gift, which their kin protected for centuries. Farmers continue to raise wasabi in tiered beds along Nagano’s streams, diverting water to create a continual, gentle wash over the rhizomes. Without this constant water stream, plants end up tasting muddy and bitter. Only after several years is the rhizome large enough to harvest. Wasabi won’t even germinate unless conditions are perfect. Outside the aromatic herb’s native, gravelly banks, farmers have found it exceedingly difficult to cultivate at all."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/real-wasabi
Atlas Obscura
'Wasabi' Rarely Contains Actual Wasabi
It's usually a mix of ground horseradish, Chinese mustard, and green food coloring.
Piano piano, zitta, zitta, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez va avanti. E sta cominciando a fare paura a molti perché giovane, donna e con una traiettoria sociale troppo anomala per poter essere normalizzata e non aprire le porte a molti altri. Esattamente il motivo per cui supportarla. In passato ne abbiamo già parlato.
Money quote: "The Republican, mostly male obsession with the 29-year-old Bronx native is more than run-of-the-mill misogyny; it’s existential panic. Because in addition to the young Democratic Socialist standing for (reasonable) policies that conservatives find terrifying, Ocasio-Cortez represents a vision of the future of the United States — a future that’s no longer centered around old white men."
https://medium.com/s/jessica-valenti/whos-afraid-of-aoc-ba3ac04d28b3
Money quote: "The Republican, mostly male obsession with the 29-year-old Bronx native is more than run-of-the-mill misogyny; it’s existential panic. Because in addition to the young Democratic Socialist standing for (reasonable) policies that conservatives find terrifying, Ocasio-Cortez represents a vision of the future of the United States — a future that’s no longer centered around old white men."
https://medium.com/s/jessica-valenti/whos-afraid-of-aoc-ba3ac04d28b3
Medium
Who’s Afraid of AOC?
Conservatives sure are afraid of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They don’t like that she danced in college, they’re in an uproar over an old high school nickname — some are even spreading a…
80 anni di Hewlett-Packard, l’ex startup “fatta per durare” - il mio articolo per Wired
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2019/01/12/hewlett-packard-80-anni/
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2019/01/12/hewlett-packard-80-anni/
WIRED.IT
80 anni di Hewlett-Packard, l'ex startup "fatta per durare"
Fondata nel 1939, ha scritto pagine della storia informatica degli Stati Uniti. Con alti e bassi, partendo da un garage. E senza fiutare l'affare di acquisire la neonata Apple
Un ossessionato dagli aerei e soprattutto da Pan Am niente male. Esserlo a questi livelli mi fa quasi invidia.
Money quote: "“I’VE NEVER MET ANYONE WHO collects to the degree I do… or who’s gone to the lengths that I have,” says Anthony Toth, a self-proclaimed aviation geek.
But it’s that level of obsession that ultimately led him to become the creator, chief curator, and “captain” of the Pan Am Experience, a one-of-a-kind immersive dinner party based on the former Pan American Airlines, which shuttered in 1991."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/who-created-the-pan-am-experience
Money quote: "“I’VE NEVER MET ANYONE WHO collects to the degree I do… or who’s gone to the lengths that I have,” says Anthony Toth, a self-proclaimed aviation geek.
But it’s that level of obsession that ultimately led him to become the creator, chief curator, and “captain” of the Pan Am Experience, a one-of-a-kind immersive dinner party based on the former Pan American Airlines, which shuttered in 1991."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/who-created-the-pan-am-experience
Atlas Obscura
How One Pan Am Fan Recreated the Golden Age of Air Travel
It took years of dedication and a few visits to the airplane graveyard.
"Glass" è il film di supereroi più lento della storia - la mia recensione per Fumettologica
http://www.fumettologica.it/2019/01/glass-recensione-film/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2019/01/glass-recensione-film/
Fumettologica
"Glass" è il film di supereroi più lento della storia - Fumettologica
Una recensione di Glass, il nuovo film di M. Night Shyamalan che conclude la trilogia iniziata con Unbreakable - Il predestinato e proseguita con Split .