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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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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/
Alla fine, se siamo tristi e ci deprimiamo, è una buona cosa. Anche se, fermo restanto l'esistenza dei sentimenti e delle emozioni, il modo con cui li viviamo e gli amplifichiamo dipende molto dalla nostra cultura. Almeno, così pare seguendo il filo logico di questo articolo che però è debole - come quasi tutta la letteratura di questo genere - dal punto di vista delle definizioni: cos'è una emozione? Quali sono le manifestazioni positive e negative delle emozioni? E via contando...

Money quote: "According to Brock Bastian, author of The Other Side of Happiness: Embracing a More Fearless Approach to Living (2018) and a psychologist at the University of Melbourne in Australia, the problem is partly cultural: a person living in a Western country is four to 10 times more likely to experience clinical depression or anxiety in a lifetime than an individual living in an Eastern culture. In China and Japan, both negative and positive emotions are considered an essential part of life. Sadness is not a hindrance to experiencing positive emotions and – unlike in Western society – there isn’t a constant pressure to be joyful."

https://aeon.co/ideas/dont-worry-about-feeling-sad-on-the-benefits-of-a-blue-period
Uno dei principali terrori di chi scrive è lavorare male e non fare una buona ricerca per le ambientazioni...

Money quote: “I had a whole gaggle of 100-point bucks in my sights, sleeping peacefully on their feet, like cows. The way they were lined up, I could take down the whole clan in a single shot of gun, clean through their magnificent oversized brains. That’d be enough (deer) meat to last Nora and the baby through the harsh Amarillo winter. I shifted my weight in my hidey spot, snapping a twig and pouring more pepper on the fire by muttering, “God dammit all to hell.” But like any hunting man worth his salt, I was wearing camouflage — that swirly brown-and-green stuff you sometimes see on bandanas. The deers, famously self-assured creatures, didn’t budge. They were awake now, munching happily on some squirrels they’d killed for food, the carnivores.”

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/poorly-researched-mens-fiction
A dicembre 2020 potreste avere tra le mani un gioco dell’orrore tutto italiano, con la supervisione di Dario Argento e realizzato nientepopodimenoché un team di talentuosi programmatori e artisti digitali che leggono Mostly (onorato!) e mi/lo ritengono abbastanza interessante da chiedermi se posso dargli un po’ di visibilità. Molto volentieri!

Money quote: “Dario Argento’s Dreadful Bond, the first game created under the creative direction of famed Italian horror director Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red, Phenomena/Creepers, Opera, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) today premiered “For Bridget” – a six-minute short film based on the game that sheds light (and shadow) on the gruesome past of Wharton Manor.”

Tra l’altro, sono su kickstarter e servono persone desiderose di comprarlo. Quindi, se vi piace l’horror e volete fare un regalo al voi stesso del futuro, fear no more: ecco la vostra occasione!

https://mailchi.mp/novypr.com/dreadful-bond-short-film

E qui c'è invece il link per kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dreadfulbond/dario-argentos-dreadful-bond