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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Cos'è la globalizzazione? Un fatto reale e analogico che cerchiamo di definire in maniera digitale, on-off, bianco-nero. Però un segnale di discontinuità esiste: è la "nave cinese". L'infografica del South China Morning Post è quasi un romanzo interattivo. Bastava poco più e ci facevi un'app a pagamento...

Money quote: "Globalisation is thought to have its beginnings in the 16th century when the Spanish silver dollar went transcontinental. Its acceptance as common currency arose when Spanish navigators in the Philippines established a circular shipping route, known as the tornaviaje, between Asia and the Americas. More than 250 years of uninterrupted trade ensued between Asia and the rest of the world. And the ships playing this route were known as China Ships"

https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/spanish-galleon/chapter_01.html

Ps: per gli appassionati, c'è anche questo sul clima di Hong Kong che si sta devastando...

https://multimedia.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/extreme-weather/index.html
Chissò quanto ci vorrà prima che anche l'Italia si aggiunga alla lista...

Money quote: "China blocked Wikipedia in April, using DNS injections to prevent its citizens from accessing the encyclopedia. There has been no official statement as to why the website was blocked. In May 2017, China put forth plans for making its own encyclopedia with over 300,000 articles from 20,000 scholars. Other countries such as Turkey, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela have also blocked access to Wikipedia in the past."

https://www.cnet.com/news/the-great-firewall-of-china-blocks-off-wikipedia/
La cosa più gustosa di articoli come questo - l'equivalente di chi ti vuol fare dimagrire - è che li scrivono con il computer e li pubblicano su internet su Medium. Praticamente le istruzioni per dimagrire scritte con la glassa sulla torta...

Money quote: "Here’s how to achieve digital minimalism on the internet:
- Know Your Time Wasters: use Time Tracker to figure where you spend most of your web browsing. Knowing the time-wasters is the first step
- Unfollow & Unfriend: if it doesn’t interest, entertain, or inform you anymore it’s time to go. Our feeds are full of distracting posts from people we’re not particularly close to. Unfriend anyone that doesn’t add value to your life
- Delete Social Media: no sense using all the platforms available. Keep only the ones that you love. If you want to go hardcore, delete your profiles (here’s how to remove Facebook). To be less extreme simply de-activate your account
- No Bookmark Bar: next time you want to browse Reddit you’ll have to manually type it
- Review Your Reading: stop browsing websites that do not contribute to your life. Removing an option by default is the quickest way to change behavior
- Block Websites: blacklist websites that aren’t essential for work. In Mac use
- SelfControl; in Windows Cold Turkey; in Chrome StayFocusd; in Firefox use LeechBlock"

https://medium.com/swlh/digital-minimalism-how-to-simplify-your-online-life-76b54838a877
È un bell'editoriale sulla tecnologia, certo, ma soprattutto è scritto da uno a cui William Gibson gli ha proprio cambiato la vita

Money quote: "Billions of transistors, attached to green plastic, soldered by robots into a microscopic Kowloon Walled City of absolute technology that we call a phone, even though it is to the rotary phone as humans are to amoebas­. It falls out of my hand at night as I drift to sleep, and when I wake up it is nestled into my back, alarm vibrating, small and warm like a twitching baby possum."

https://www.wired.com/story/why-we-love-tech-defense-difficult-industry/
Quando i test del dna a scopo “esplorativo” (da dove viene la nostra famiglia) diventeranno una cosa praticata anche da noi - e lo diventeranno - ricordate che questo articolo ve l’ho fatto leggere per primo io...

Money quote: “The evolutionary geneticist Mark Thomas at University College London has dismissed ancestry testing as ‘genetic astrology’, but it could be as useful to think of it as genetic gossip: a rumoured past that, like most rumours, is at least partly true. It begins with a test-tube of spit and ends with fractional estimates: a story, whispered by an algorithm, in the language of information.”

https://aeon.co/ideas/like-the-emperors-new-clothes-dna-kits-are-tailored-for-the-vain
Non so perché, forse sono diventato troppo nerd, ma questa mi mette sempre di ottimo umore. "Little Bobby tables" mi fa morire...

https://xkcd.com/327/
Snapchat sta risorgendo dalle ceneri dopo che Instagram le ha copiato tutte le caratteristiche che l’avevano resa famosa, e lo sta facendo grazie a una serie di filtri per i video veramente azzeccati. Uno di questi, però, - quello che rende donne gli uomini e gli uomini donne - essendo utilizzato tra amici come uno “scherzo”, sta facendo arrabbiare la comunità LGBTQ.

Link: https://mashable.com/article/snapchat-gender-swap-filter/


NON SO PERCHÉ ma Telegram no ha preso la citazione originale di questo messaggio,che ho inoltrato da Macchiagram, il canale di Macchianera . Mi scuso con gli interessati (leggi: Gianluca - ehi ciao!)
https://news.1rj.ru/str/macchiagram/568
Ehi, sta finendo Big Bang Theory, il Friends dei Millennials e del coming out dell’orgoglio nerd. E non era affatto male!

Money quote: “How many people watched the show’s most recent episode? 12.6 million live viewers.

How many people watched the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones the same week? 12.5 million.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90351087/big-bang-theory-by-the-numbers-18-facts-for-the-cbs-finale
E parlando di Game of Thrones, non so a che punto siete, ma il modello in Lego dell'Approdo dei re è da urlo!
National Geographic pubblica foto di albero più vecchio del mondo con sfondo della Via Lattea, ma è un falso manipolato: la rete se ne accorge e un altro fotografo di alto livello sbatte contro il muro

Money quote: "This picture (which was at the center of the controversy) can only be a panorama and not a single exposure. To be able to capture the whole span of the southern hemisphere Milky Way setting, you would need a fisheye lens that would distort the foreground. In this image, a specific warping mode was used during the stitching process, creating a bent Milky Way instead. However, what is most noticeable about the picture is the Milky Way itself. While its position and curvature are definitely possible at the location it was taken (Botswana), its overall shape and look is irrefutably unnatural. Some parts of the Milky Way were quite obviously cloned several times, perhaps to make it look more impressive."

https://petapixel.com/2019/05/10/scientific-errors-in-those-nat-geo-milky-way-photos/
Come osservatore direi che è la scoperta dell'acqua calda, ma come padre capisco benissimo perché l'idea sia controintuitiva: come mai fare parchi giochi più pericolosi diminuisce il rischio di farsi male negli anni successivi

Money quote: "“I came to the counterintuitive conclusion that engaging in risk is actually very important in preventing injuries,” a researcher says."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/well/family/adventure-playgrounds-junk-playgrounds.html
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