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 .
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
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
Atlas Obscura
The Mona Lisa’s Eyes Are Not Following You Around the Room
New research shows the famous painting's eyes are not actually following you.
Apple ogni giorno acquista 50 posti per i voli per Shanghai - il mio articolo (a pagamento) per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/2019/01/15/tecnologia/apple-ogni-giorno-acquista-posti-per-i-voli-per-shanghai-gSr8uNqBGuER1CakvEwhJK/pagina.html
https://www.lastampa.it/2019/01/15/tecnologia/apple-ogni-giorno-acquista-posti-per-i-voli-per-shanghai-gSr8uNqBGuER1CakvEwhJK/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Apple ogni giorno acquista 50 posti per i voli per Shanghai
La casa di Cupertino è il più grande acquirente di biglietti aerei della United Airlines. Un budget da 150 milioni di dollari all’anno (solo per Shanghai Apple spende 35 milioni) per far viaggiare gli uomini e le donne di Apple in tutto il mondo
Apple verso l’addio allo spinotto “proprietario”, in arrivo l’Usb-C per iPhone - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/apple-verso-laddio-allo-spinotto-proprietario-in-arrivo-lusb-c-per-iphone/?sfdcid=0030O00002LXcuNQAT
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/apple-verso-laddio-allo-spinotto-proprietario-in-arrivo-lusb-c-per-iphone/?sfdcid=0030O00002LXcuNQAT
CorCom
Apple verso l'addio allo spinotto "proprietario", in arrivo l'Usb-C per iPhone - CorCom
Pronta ad abbandonare il cavo Lightning, la Mela sta lavorando a un passaggio tecnologico che avrebbe un impatto significativo su tutto l'ecosistema legato agli accessori che si connettono ai device. Ecco le novità
Biometria nelle indagini di Polizia, la giustizia Usa mette i paletti - Il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/biometria-nelle-indagini-di-polizia-la-giustizia-usa-mette-i-paletti/?sfdcid=0030O00002LXcuNQAT
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/biometria-nelle-indagini-di-polizia-la-giustizia-usa-mette-i-paletti/?sfdcid=0030O00002LXcuNQAT
CorCom
Biometria nelle indagini di Polizia, la giustizia Usa mette i paletti - CorCom
Il volto e l'impronta digitale non possono essere usati dalle forze dell'ordine senza il consenso del proprietario per sbloccare il suo telefono. Lo ha deciso un giudice della California
È uscito il nuovo rapporto del Reuters Institute sul giornalismo etc per il 2019.
Money quote: "Our 2019 Trends and Predictions report surveys 200 digital leaders from across the world on what they believe will be the challenges and opportunities facing journalism, media and technology this year. This will be the year when the regulation of platform companies starts to bite following growing concern about misinformation, privacy, and market power. Something once considered unthinkable has become ‘inevitable’, in the words of Apple boss Tim Cook – though the details will be messy, hard-fought, and take time to play out.
Meanwhile the spread of false, misleading and extreme content will continue to undermine democracies around the world with polarising elections in India, Indonesia and Europe likely flashpoints. Journalism will continue to be hollowed out by structural shifts that have already led to significant falls in advertising revenue. Publishers are looking to subnoscriptions to make up the difference but the limits of this are likely to become apparent in 2019. Taken together these trends are likely to lead to the biggest wave of journalistic lay-offs in years – weakening further the ability of publishers to hold populist politicians and powerful business leaders to account."
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research/journalism-media-and-technology-trends-and-predictions-2019
Money quote: "Our 2019 Trends and Predictions report surveys 200 digital leaders from across the world on what they believe will be the challenges and opportunities facing journalism, media and technology this year. This will be the year when the regulation of platform companies starts to bite following growing concern about misinformation, privacy, and market power. Something once considered unthinkable has become ‘inevitable’, in the words of Apple boss Tim Cook – though the details will be messy, hard-fought, and take time to play out.
Meanwhile the spread of false, misleading and extreme content will continue to undermine democracies around the world with polarising elections in India, Indonesia and Europe likely flashpoints. Journalism will continue to be hollowed out by structural shifts that have already led to significant falls in advertising revenue. Publishers are looking to subnoscriptions to make up the difference but the limits of this are likely to become apparent in 2019. Taken together these trends are likely to lead to the biggest wave of journalistic lay-offs in years – weakening further the ability of publishers to hold populist politicians and powerful business leaders to account."
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research/journalism-media-and-technology-trends-and-predictions-2019