È arrivato il momento che giochiamo tutti a Dwarf Fortress
Money quote: "Dwarf Fortress, the famously complex and often inscrutable colony simulation, is coming to Steam and itch.io. The new version will be published by Kitfox Games, a Montreal-based independent studio, and will include graphics, music, sounds, and Steam Workshop integration. An ASCII-based mode will still be available in this new version, and development of the original game will continue unabated."
https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/13/18263905/dwarf-fortress-steam-graphics-workshop
E poi: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
Money quote: "Dwarf Fortress, the famously complex and often inscrutable colony simulation, is coming to Steam and itch.io. The new version will be published by Kitfox Games, a Montreal-based independent studio, and will include graphics, music, sounds, and Steam Workshop integration. An ASCII-based mode will still be available in this new version, and development of the original game will continue unabated."
https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/13/18263905/dwarf-fortress-steam-graphics-workshop
E poi: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
Polygon
Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam ... with graphics
Developers will upgrade its ASCII aesthetic and offer Steam Workshop support
Lo Slack per gli influencer? Si chiama Discord
Money quote: "Sara Dietschy, a YouTuber with nearly half a million subscribers, set up a Discord server for her fans six months ago after she noticed other YouTube stars offering them. “It’s basically a free and easy way to have a Slack with your community,” she said. But, she said, “Slack is for you to be productive at work. Discord is pretty much the opposite,” she said."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/how-discord-went-mainstream-influencers/584671/
Money quote: "Sara Dietschy, a YouTuber with nearly half a million subscribers, set up a Discord server for her fans six months ago after she noticed other YouTube stars offering them. “It’s basically a free and easy way to have a Slack with your community,” she said. But, she said, “Slack is for you to be productive at work. Discord is pretty much the opposite,” she said."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/how-discord-went-mainstream-influencers/584671/
The Atlantic
How an App for Gamers Went Mainstream
Discord has become an indispensable tool for internet creators to connect with their fans.
Rovinarsi il piacere dei videogiochi e di procrastinare tutto in un colpo solo: un videogioco con cui si fanno liste TO-DO
Money quote: "Loresome is a productivity and self-improvement app that combines the fun of playing games with the motivation of using a TODO list."
https://loresome.com
Money quote: "Loresome is a productivity and self-improvement app that combines the fun of playing games with the motivation of using a TODO list."
https://loresome.com
Far fuori la plastica dalla nostra vita. Si può
Money quote: "Let’s tackle the hardest part first: your kitchen. If you look around, you’ll see that most food comes in plastic. It’s the cheapest material on the market, so brands use it to package food and families often use Ziploc bags, Saran wrap, and Tupperware to store it. But there are ways around it."
https://www.fastcompany.com/90312169/a-totally-achievable-relatively-painless-guide-to-cutting-plastic-out-of-your-life
Money quote: "Let’s tackle the hardest part first: your kitchen. If you look around, you’ll see that most food comes in plastic. It’s the cheapest material on the market, so brands use it to package food and families often use Ziploc bags, Saran wrap, and Tupperware to store it. But there are ways around it."
https://www.fastcompany.com/90312169/a-totally-achievable-relatively-painless-guide-to-cutting-plastic-out-of-your-life
Fast Company
A relatively painless guide to cutting plastic out of your life
You already carry a reusable grocery bag, straw, and water bottle. Are you ready to take your fight against plastic to the next level?
Tsunami. Anzi, dopo lo tsunami.
Money quote: "Here is a list of Japanese words. Tsunami. Pronounced “tsoo-nah-mee.” Translation: “harbor wave.” E. Pronounced “a-ay.” Interrogative. Translation: “What?” Hayaku. Pronounced “hi-yah-koo.” Translation: “hurry.” Hashitte. Pronounced “hah-shht-ay.” Imperative. Translated to English: “Run.”"
https://longreads.com/2019/03/11/after-the-tsunami/
Money quote: "Here is a list of Japanese words. Tsunami. Pronounced “tsoo-nah-mee.” Translation: “harbor wave.” E. Pronounced “a-ay.” Interrogative. Translation: “What?” Hayaku. Pronounced “hi-yah-koo.” Translation: “hurry.” Hashitte. Pronounced “hah-shht-ay.” Imperative. Translated to English: “Run.”"
https://longreads.com/2019/03/11/after-the-tsunami/
Longreads
After the Tsunami
After the 2011 disaster, which killed his grandmother and laid waste to his ancestral home, an American journeys to Japan to search for what the tsunami left in its wake.
Professioni singolari: calligrafo
Money quote: "Most of the actual text of Mira calligraphae monumenta is taken from the Bible—the “lorem ipsum” graphic filler used in those times. The dizzying circular text on a page featuring a pair of pears and a seashell is actually the Lord’s Prayer squeezed into an area the size of a quarter, dexterously rendered with a bird-quill pen and runny ink. Bocskay used the same tools as other scribes of his day, but he had the advantage of experience. Having been born into a noble family in Croatia, he learned to read and write at an early age. This allowed him to develop his calligraphic skill so much that he could support himself and his family on it. Even as handwritten books were going out of fashion, elites such as emperors still had the appetite—and budget—for them."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/illluminated-manunoscript-calligraphy-guide
Money quote: "Most of the actual text of Mira calligraphae monumenta is taken from the Bible—the “lorem ipsum” graphic filler used in those times. The dizzying circular text on a page featuring a pair of pears and a seashell is actually the Lord’s Prayer squeezed into an area the size of a quarter, dexterously rendered with a bird-quill pen and runny ink. Bocskay used the same tools as other scribes of his day, but he had the advantage of experience. Having been born into a noble family in Croatia, he learned to read and write at an early age. This allowed him to develop his calligraphic skill so much that he could support himself and his family on it. Even as handwritten books were going out of fashion, elites such as emperors still had the appetite—and budget—for them."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/illluminated-manunoscript-calligraphy-guide
Atlas Obscura
See a Dazzling, Exuberant Renaissance Calligraphy Guide
A masterclass in noscript, illuminated with an array of curiosities.
Illustratori per la Nasa immaginano la vita in ambienti orbitali completi
Money quote: "In the 1970s the Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill, with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University, held a series of space colony summer studies which explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed and a number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made."
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s/
Money quote: "In the 1970s the Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill, with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University, held a series of space colony summer studies which explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed and a number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made."
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s/
The Public Domain Review
Space Colony Art from the 1970s
Marci fin dalle fondamenta, e anche nei dettagli più secondari
Money quote: "A few days ago, Microsoft made the source code of their Windows Calculator publicly available. Calculator is an application that has traditionally shipped with every Windows version. A number of Microsoft projects went open-source over the recent years, but this time the news was covered even by non-IT media on the very first day. Well, it's a popular yet tiny program in C++. Despite its size, we still managed to find a number of suspicious fragments in its code using the PVS-Studio static analyzer."
https://habr.com/en/company/pvs-studio/blog/443400/
Money quote: "A few days ago, Microsoft made the source code of their Windows Calculator publicly available. Calculator is an application that has traditionally shipped with every Windows version. A number of Microsoft projects went open-source over the recent years, but this time the news was covered even by non-IT media on the very first day. Well, it's a popular yet tiny program in C++. Despite its size, we still managed to find a number of suspicious fragments in its code using the PVS-Studio static analyzer."
https://habr.com/en/company/pvs-studio/blog/443400/
Habr
Counting Bugs in Windows Calculator
A few days ago, Microsoft made the source code of their Windows Calculator publicly available. Calculator is an application that has traditionally shipped with...
Uno spazietto che va in vendita: se cercate un piccolo ambiente dove lavorare in maniera creativa, potrebbe essere quello che fa per voi
Money quote: "Rudolph designed 23 Beekman place as a spatially rich and very personal vision of the possibilities of architecture. It was both intimate and Piranesi-like, soaring and layered: an orchestration of interlocking spaces. It was Rudolph’s design laboratory, where he would constantly change, try out, and experiment with new variations - a composition of rich textures and reflective materials that caught the light in magical ways. No less than 17 levels could be counted which, pinwheel-like, floated harmoniously and lead from one luminous experience to the next."
https://www.paulrudolphheritagefoundation.org/news-of-the-prhf/2019/2/9/rudolphs-personal-laboratory-at-23-beekman-place-on-the-market
Money quote: "Rudolph designed 23 Beekman place as a spatially rich and very personal vision of the possibilities of architecture. It was both intimate and Piranesi-like, soaring and layered: an orchestration of interlocking spaces. It was Rudolph’s design laboratory, where he would constantly change, try out, and experiment with new variations - a composition of rich textures and reflective materials that caught the light in magical ways. No less than 17 levels could be counted which, pinwheel-like, floated harmoniously and lead from one luminous experience to the next."
https://www.paulrudolphheritagefoundation.org/news-of-the-prhf/2019/2/9/rudolphs-personal-laboratory-at-23-beekman-place-on-the-market
Finalmente è arrivato "Top Gun: Maverick" - La mia stratopica recensione Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2022/05/top-gun-maverick-recensione-film/
https://fumettologica.it/2022/05/top-gun-maverick-recensione-film/
Fumettologica
Finalmente è arrivato “Top Gun: Maverick”
Recensione di Top Gun: Maverick, il sequel dell'epico film del 1986 diretto da Tony Scott, con protagonista Tom Cruise.
L'invenzione dell'interruttore della luce
Money quote: "Castiglioni’s switches, which almost became a European standard for table lamps, possessed a discreetly humble subservience, always present but not listening—and so quite unlike the potentially prying eyes and ears of the various Nests and Homes, which are no longer the equivalent of domestic staff that could keep ‘little secrets’. Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day plays on this question of how subservient characters in the background of domestic life interact with the foreground, and the notion of the unreliable narrator, and interpreting a story from a limited ‘dataset’. Given the butler motif is frequently reached for by designers of the smart home—including by me, in my weaker moments—we might do well to re-read Ishiguro’s novel."
https://www.readingdesign.org/let-there-be-light-switches/
Money quote: "Castiglioni’s switches, which almost became a European standard for table lamps, possessed a discreetly humble subservience, always present but not listening—and so quite unlike the potentially prying eyes and ears of the various Nests and Homes, which are no longer the equivalent of domestic staff that could keep ‘little secrets’. Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day plays on this question of how subservient characters in the background of domestic life interact with the foreground, and the notion of the unreliable narrator, and interpreting a story from a limited ‘dataset’. Given the butler motif is frequently reached for by designers of the smart home—including by me, in my weaker moments—we might do well to re-read Ishiguro’s novel."
https://www.readingdesign.org/let-there-be-light-switches/
Forwarded from Fumettologica
Il nuovo film Disney di Cip e Ciop è inaspettato e strano, ma per molti versi sorprendente, anche se non così tanto come si dice in giro. Parliamone con l'articolo di Andrea Fiamma:
«chi lo definisce un Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit per i tempi moderni è evidentemente capace di mantenere un contegno critico tanto quanto la neve è capace di mantenere la forma solida sopra i 5 gradi centigradi.»
👉 https://bit.ly/3sZRipL
«chi lo definisce un Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit per i tempi moderni è evidentemente capace di mantenere un contegno critico tanto quanto la neve è capace di mantenere la forma solida sopra i 5 gradi centigradi.»
👉 https://bit.ly/3sZRipL
Perché tenere un diario. Di qualsiasi genere. Beh, ci sono una decina di libri almeno che lo spiegano ottimamente
Money quote: "“If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.”"
https://medium.com/the-1000-day-mfa/10-books-that-will-make-you-want-to-keep-a-notebook-759219773677
Money quote: "“If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.”"
https://medium.com/the-1000-day-mfa/10-books-that-will-make-you-want-to-keep-a-notebook-759219773677
Medium
10 Books That Will Make You Want to Keep a Notebook
(And some other resources, too)
Il ritorno di Mefisto su "Tex" fa paura - il mio lungo articolo per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2022/05/tex-738-ritorno-mefisto-1-bonelli/
https://fumettologica.it/2022/05/tex-738-ritorno-mefisto-1-bonelli/
Fumettologica
Il ritorno di Mefisto su "Tex" fa paura
Su Tex 738 ritorna Mefisto, lo storico nemico del ranger creato da Gianluigi Bonelli, per una storia lunga sette capitoli. Parliamone.
Pranzare da soli sta tornando di moda (mio nonno l'ha fatto per decenni, leggendosi tutto il Corriere della Sera dalla prima all'ultima pagina: va detto che all'epoca i giornali erano più brevi)
Money quote: "E ricordatevi una cosa: essere soli non significa essere solitari. Esattamente come in inglese “alone” non significa “lonely”.
Abbiate il coraggio di pranzare con voi stessi e di farlo bene. Inoltre chi può dirlo chi vi siederà accanto al bancone?"
http://www.robbiedoesblogging.net/2019/02/table-for-one-le-gioie-di-pranzare-in-solitaria/
Money quote: "E ricordatevi una cosa: essere soli non significa essere solitari. Esattamente come in inglese “alone” non significa “lonely”.
Abbiate il coraggio di pranzare con voi stessi e di farlo bene. Inoltre chi può dirlo chi vi siederà accanto al bancone?"
http://www.robbiedoesblogging.net/2019/02/table-for-one-le-gioie-di-pranzare-in-solitaria/
Fallifelici
TABLE FOR ONE: LE GIOIE DI PRANZARE IN SOLITARIA - Fallifelici
La nuova tendenza anche per le donne è pranzare e cenare in solitaria. Un momento prezioso e gustoso da assaporare fino all'ultimo boccone. Mmm .. che appetito! E voi cenereste sole?
Tressie McMillian Cottom vale sempre la pena. Questa volta, intervistata da Roxane Gay, ancora di più. (E Guernica continua ad essere una delle pubblicazioni più interessanti in rete).
Money quote: "One of the most remarkable things about McMillan Cottom’s work is the way she blends the theoretical and the practical: how she prioritizes the intellectual work done in secular spaces as much as, if not more than, such work done in the Ivory Tower. She knows who she is and where she comes from; she knows the people who made her and the woman she has made herself into. She is provocative, yes, but always with purpose—with an eye toward challenging and changing the status quo. She is a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, a cultural critic, and a popular figure on the lecture circuit. Dr. McMillan Cottom has a singular voice on social media, where, all too often, people willfully misinterpret the things she says, then lose all sense when she remains unbothered in the face of their futile blathering."
https://www.guernicamag.com/dr-tressie-mcmillan-cottom-raising-really-good-hell-for-people-who-cannot/
Money quote: "One of the most remarkable things about McMillan Cottom’s work is the way she blends the theoretical and the practical: how she prioritizes the intellectual work done in secular spaces as much as, if not more than, such work done in the Ivory Tower. She knows who she is and where she comes from; she knows the people who made her and the woman she has made herself into. She is provocative, yes, but always with purpose—with an eye toward challenging and changing the status quo. She is a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, a cultural critic, and a popular figure on the lecture circuit. Dr. McMillan Cottom has a singular voice on social media, where, all too often, people willfully misinterpret the things she says, then lose all sense when she remains unbothered in the face of their futile blathering."
https://www.guernicamag.com/dr-tressie-mcmillan-cottom-raising-really-good-hell-for-people-who-cannot/
Guernica
Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom: Raising Really Good Hell for People Who Cannot
The sociologist speaks on owning her authority, taking black women seriously, and how she shaped her trenchant new essay collection, <em>Thick</em>
Puntini su una mappa che rappresenta molto più del suo territorio. Stiamo demandando settori cruciali della nostra cultura sociale e individuale a società private hi-tech che, oltretutto, sugli aspetti "soft" più delicati lavorano con i piedi.
Money quote: "The renaming of Buffalo, New York’s Fruit Belt neighborhood reveals as much about gentrification as it does the flawed ways tech companies add locations to their maps."
https://onezero.medium.com/how-googles-bad-data-wiped-a-neighborhood-off-the-map-80c4c13f1c2b
Money quote: "The renaming of Buffalo, New York’s Fruit Belt neighborhood reveals as much about gentrification as it does the flawed ways tech companies add locations to their maps."
https://onezero.medium.com/how-googles-bad-data-wiped-a-neighborhood-off-the-map-80c4c13f1c2b
Medium
How Google’s Bad Data Wiped a Neighborhood off the Map
Inside the big, twisted industry of neighborhood data collection
Google ha iniziato da tempo ad attivare una modalità "confidential" per la sua posta elettronica nella versione a pagamento per le aziende (la G-Suite). Questo è il percorso storico della funzione, un relitto del passato. Utile testimonianza quando bisognerà rispondere al quesito: avvicina il momento del salto dello squalo, quando Gmail si exchangerizzerà completamente?
Money quote: "We’re opening a beta program for Gmail confidential mode. With confidential mode, it’s easier to protect sensitive content in your emails by creating expiration dates or revoking previously sent messages, and removing options for recipients to forward, copy, print, and download."
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/03/keep-data-secure-with-gmail-confidential-mode-beta.html
Money quote: "We’re opening a beta program for Gmail confidential mode. With confidential mode, it’s easier to protect sensitive content in your emails by creating expiration dates or revoking previously sent messages, and removing options for recipients to forward, copy, print, and download."
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/03/keep-data-secure-with-gmail-confidential-mode-beta.html
Google Workspace Updates
Keep data secure with Gmail confidential mode (beta)
What's changing We’re opening a beta program for Gmail confidential mode. With confidential mode, it’s easier to protect sensitive content i...
Una cosina semplice semplice, carina carina...
Money quote: "strans (string transform) is an intuitive string manipulation utility for the shell (primarily Unix, but should work™ cross-platform). Users do not need to know anything about programming. All they need to do is provide strans with a set of examples. strans will automagically learn transformation rules from these examples and apply them to the input given on STDIN."
https://github.com/Inventitech/strans
Money quote: "strans (string transform) is an intuitive string manipulation utility for the shell (primarily Unix, but should work™ cross-platform). Users do not need to know anything about programming. All they need to do is provide strans with a set of examples. strans will automagically learn transformation rules from these examples and apply them to the input given on STDIN."
https://github.com/Inventitech/strans
GitHub
GitHub - Inventitech/strans: Performs string manipulation tasks by learning from the provided example(s), instead of having to…
Performs string manipulation tasks by learning from the provided example(s), instead of having to program them out explicitly. - GitHub - Inventitech/strans: Performs string manipulation tasks by l...
C'è un problema con la statistica che manda in palla la maggior parte degli scienziati che fanno ricerca
Money quote: "How do statistics so often lead scientists to deny differences that those not educated in statistics can plainly see? For several generations, researchers have been warned that a statistically non-significant result does not ‘prove’ the null hypothesis (the hypothesis that there is no difference between groups or no effect of a treatment on some measured outcome)1. Nor do statistically significant results ‘prove’ some other hypothesis. Such misconceptions have famously warped the literature with overstated claims and, less famously, led to claims of conflicts between studies where none exists."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9
Money quote: "How do statistics so often lead scientists to deny differences that those not educated in statistics can plainly see? For several generations, researchers have been warned that a statistically non-significant result does not ‘prove’ the null hypothesis (the hypothesis that there is no difference between groups or no effect of a treatment on some measured outcome)1. Nor do statistically significant results ‘prove’ some other hypothesis. Such misconceptions have famously warped the literature with overstated claims and, less famously, led to claims of conflicts between studies where none exists."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9
Nature
Scientists rise up against statistical significance
Nature - Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects.
Forwarded from Fumettologica
È quel giorno della settimana, quello della vostra rubrica preferita: https://bit.ly/3zg6Dqn