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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Riflettiamo sul senso dei campi estivi. Degli scout, delle giovani marmotte. Negli Stati Uniti i campi estivi per ragazzini sono molto diffusi da più di un secolo. E hanno un'agenda. Quella di base è ricreare il contatto con la natura che manca in città e porta a nevrosi e peggio. Ma ce ne sono anche altre (ad esempio, i mormoni). Per esempio, i campi estivi degli ebrei volevano preparare già dall'inizio del secolo scorso al ritorno ad Israele.

Money quote: "Jews attend summer camp at a higher rate than Americans as a whole, though not nearly as high a rate as Mormons, but the particulars of the Jewish camping experience—begun due to exclusion, changing rapidly due to politics and social movements and the Holocaust—put it in a unique place.

Summer camping in the United States began as a movement in the late 19th century, a sort of rebellion against increasing urbanization and industrialization. By the late 1920s, Jewish summer camps had gotten explicitly ideological: socialist, communist, anarchist, Zionist, Yiddish. Despite this, they were, and remained until after World War II, almost entirely secular. The Yiddish camps focused on Yiddish language and culture, and the Zionist camps on building, farming, and a connection to Israel; neither put much of an emphasis on religion.

A socialist summer camp would have no individual money, and any packages a camper received from home would be divided equally to the rest of the camp. Labor was highly valued; a punishment for bad behavior would never be, say, cleaning the bathrooms, because bathroom duty was a noble and important role in the camp society.

Zionist summer camps prepared kids to move to Palestine (which they sometimes called EY, which stands for Eretz Yisrael, or “the land of Israel”)."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/jewish-summer-camps
È uscito il numero 5 di Mostly, I Write, la mia newsletter (ci si abbona qui: tinyletter.com/MostlyIWrite ) Se correte ad abbonarvi, ve lo rimando... :-)
Forwarded from Scrivere zen
“Il diario, da dies (giorno), si nutre d’una materia molto ordinaria. «Nulla dies sine linea», diceva Plinio del pittore Apelle: non lasciava passar giorno senza tracciare almeno qualche linea, e noi potremmo dire almeno qualche riga, perché senza la scrittura, esercizio costante che unifica spirito e corpo, mente e mano, l’uomo tende a «smembrarsi», mentre quando scrive «rimembra», ritrova, giocando con la parola, la sua unità” 📃https://www.corriere.it/digital-edition/CORRIEREFC_NAZIONALE_WEB/2019/04/08/1/ple-parole-prime-p_U3110991488601LKB.shtml
In America sta creandosi una frattura inedita per quel paese tra destra e sinistra. Non finirà presto.

Money quote: “The movie Mudbound helped me train for a half marathon last year. I watched it on a treadmill and it made me so angry that I didn’t even think about the tightness in my shins and hamstrings; it distracted me from the grueling workout”

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/577543/
L’annus horribilis del Giappone. È stato un disastro.

Money quote: “The tradition, known as picking out the “kanji of the year” (今年の漢字), started in 1995 as part of the Kyoto-based Foundation’s efforts to promote the continued use of kanji, or Chinese characters, in the country. For 2018, Japan chose the character for disaster (災), not because of the exponential growth of fascist movements around the world, but because the country has suffered devastating natural disasters this year, including an unprecedented heatwave, flash floods and torrential rains in western Japan, and a magnitude 6.7 earthquake in Hokkaido.”

https://theoutline.com/post/6784/kanji-of-the-year-japan-disaster-tradition-reflection-history
Togliersi dalla rete. E soprattutto dalla memoria della rete.

Money quote: “There's an idea that once something is online, it is immortal, immutable, and almost impossible to contain. Another way of saying this is that you should not put anything online you wouldn't want your grandmother to see, in case the consequences damage you or your prospects down the line.

However, keeping your digital information in check is not just about information that you put online. Monitoring the passive data collection conducted by companies from you is important, too.”

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-erase-your-digital-footprint-and-make-google-forget-you/
C'è una intera generazione di cinesi che non ha idea di cosa siano Facebook, Google e Youtube. Perché il governo di Pechino - anzi il Partito comunista cinese - sta giocando la carta dell'autarchia culturale e non solo. A mio avviso è stata e sarà la mossa vincente: l'America verrà sconfitta sul piano culturale prima che militare, economico o demografico.

Money quote: "For American and other Western internet giants, the hope of getting a piece of the huge China market is increasingly a pipe dream. China’s Communist Party has demonstrated clearly that it will walk down a path of tighter ideological control under President Xi Jinping. In the first half of this year, the internet regulator Cyber Administration of China said it had shut down or revoked the licenses of more than 3,000 websites."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/technology/china-generation-blocked-internet.html
Devo dire la verità: sono d'accordo con questo giornalista. Ho fatto fatica ad abituarmi (la prima generazione era terribile) ma non penso che la "nuova" tastiera ultrapiatta di Apple sia terribile. E il "bad sentiment" che ha in rete secondo me è eccessivo.

Money quote: "For what it's worth, here's my story.

I've personally used (and often reviewed) at least eight different MacBooks with butterfly keyboards over the past four years. There's at least one in almost constant rotation in my laptop lineup at any given time. I've used this style of keyboard almost daily for the past four years.

After all that time, and all that typing, my experience can be summed up as: "Not great, but not as bad as people say.""

https://www.cnet.com/news/in-defense-of-the-apple-macbook-keyboard/