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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/

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/

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

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

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/

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/

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

📱💻 #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.

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

Sulla via di casa: rientro da San Franciaxo

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/

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

"Glass" è il film di supereroi più lento della storia - la mia recensione per Fumettologica

http://www.fumettologica.it/2019/01/glass-recensione-film/

Certezze che tramontano. Qualcosa di nuovo sulla Monna Lisa: essa non ti guarda. Dopotutto, è solo un dipinto, no?

Money quote: "The Mona Lisa effect is a centuries-old optical illusion that relies on tricky interplay of light and shadow, which shifts our perspective of the subject’s stare. Since canvases are flat, the depth of a painting cannot change, but it can look like it does. This is why some people insist that Mona Lisa’s gaze can look like a skeptical side-eye from one side and a thoughtful glance straight-on. But, according to the new research, the painting that lends the phenomenon its name doesn’t actually display it. “The effect itself is undeniable and demonstrable,” Loth said. “But with the Mona Lisa, of all paintings, we didn’t get this impression.”"

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/is-the-mona-lisa-looking-at-me