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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Buon Ferragosto!
Queste storie dei test del dna che fanno scoprire cose inimmaginabili in un altro tempo, mi affascinano. Dal mio punto di vista sono un esempio di cosa voglia dire vivere un cambio di paradigma. Chissà quando cominceranno a venire fuori anche da noi articoli come questo. Se mai accadrà. (Ma accadrà accadrà)

Money quote: “But not all biological parents want to be found. In conversations and correspondence with more than two dozen people for this story, I heard of DNA tests that unearthed affairs, secret pregnancies, quietly buried incidents of rape and incest, and fertility doctors using their own sperm to inseminate patients. These secrets otherwise would have—or even did—go the grave. “It’s getting harder and harder to keep secrets in our society,” says CeCe Moore, a prominent genetic genealogist who consults for the television show Finding Your Roots. “If people haven’t come to that realization, they probably should.””


The Secret Facebook Groups for Shocking DNA Tests - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/dna-test-misattributed-paternity/562928/
Trovo LinkedIn odioso. È vero che non produce quell’odio tipico dei social convenzionali, ma è comunque particolarmente urticante per me. Questa spiegazione mi pare una delle più interessanti.

Money quote: ““Everyone at work has two jobs, and the other is the job of looking good,” she said. “These rules are largely oriented toward the second job.”

Scaling job two — looking good at work — up to a social network creates a new sort of venue: a non-office office, with thousands of bosses, none of them yours, all of them potentially watching.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/style/linkedin-social-media.html
Storia e retroscena dei 100 milioni di dollari che Netflix ha pagato per ‘Friends’

Money quote: “But Netflix wasn’t the only streamer interested in “Friends.” Other bidders for the show included Hulu, the streaming service currently owned by Disney, Fox, NBCU and … WarnerMedia, as well as Apple, which doesn’t have a streaming service yet, but also plans on launching one next year.”

https://www.recode.net/2018/12/4/18126596/friends-netflix-warnermedia-att-hulu-apple-deal
Cerchiobottismo in salsa americana

Money quote: “So to get the most out of innovations and avoid betting on the also-rans, my inaugural advice to readers was to follow these steps: Buy hardware from Apple. Use online services made by Google. And get digital media from Amazon”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/technology/how-to-survive-the-next-era-of-tech-slow-down-and-be-mindful.html
Se non puoi evitarli, unisciti a loro e diventa il migliore. La strategia di Apple per la GDPR

Money quote: “Apple is a prime example of a major tech giant taking steps to improve data transparency for its users. It recently launched a portal where customers can sift through all the data the company has on them, and CEO Tim Cook has been very vocal about data protection. He recently called it a "fundamental human right" and commended the implementation of GDPR, calling on tech companies to not only embrace the spirit of the EU laws, but to support the introduction of similar legislation across the US.”

https://www.itpro.co.uk/general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/32509/apples-transparent-data-policy-is-a-lesson-in-how-to
Sexy and sensible. Cosa volete di più da un gestore della scrivania e delle finestre? Ecco qui un altro articolo pieno di iperboli e con poca sostanza (anche se poi in realtà Deepin è un ottimo ambiente grafico per Linux.

Money quote: “Like many other Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu and elementary OS, Deepin is based on Debian. But Deepin is also a standalone desktop environment, meaning it's possible to install it as your default "look and feel" on a wide range of distributions (an alternative word for desktop operating system in the Linux world).

Deepin does something unique that I haven't seen in any other Linux distribution I've tried. Or for that matter, in any version of macOS or Windows. This compels me to describe it as simultaneously sexy and sensible. I know, it's an unusual combination!”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/12/10/meet-the-linux-desktop-that-blows-away-windows-10-and-macos/#1d89b3595000
Fatevi una nuotata nella megafoto da 195 Gigapixel di Shanghai: si vede anche la gente che si mette le dita nel naso all’ultimo piano del grattacielo...

http://sh-meet.bigpixel.cn/
Considero articoli e riflessioni come questa, sul rapporto tra cinema e baseball, una cosa completamente aliena. Sono stato a vedere partite di baseball negli Stati Uniti, in bar dove si guardavano partite di baseball in televisione, in cene dove si parlava di baseball. E mi sembrava di essere la moglie dell'antropologo andato in micronesia. O su Marte, se è per questo.

Comunque, se siete infoiati di baseball oppure se volete vedere lo schema senza capire i movimenti, questo è il (cervellotico) articolo che fa per voi.

Money quote: "There have been so many new baseball movies in the past couple of years that it has seemed at times that filmmakers were taking on the form as a kind of penance. Some of the results have been pretty good, or partly good, and some god-awful; one of the movies is just about perfect, to my way of thinking. (It’s Bull Durham, which offers almost the first evidence that the phrase “baseball movie” is not an oxymoron.) "