Il futuro dei documenti secondo Microsoft è "fluid". E, pur di riuscire ad imporre il nuovo formato cloud, lo ha reso open source. L'azienda lo scriveva un paio di anni fa, ma ormai è una costante della sua strategia.
Money quote: "Microsoft’s Fluid Framework sounds a lot like Google Docs, but it’s actually Google Docs on steroids. Microsoft is so confident it has built the future of productivity, it’s now open-sourcing its Fluid Framework so the rest of the world can help shape what it has created. Some Office.com users will even be able to start getting an early look at this Fluid future in the coming months."
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21260005/microsoft-office-fluid-web-document-features-build
Money quote: "Microsoft’s Fluid Framework sounds a lot like Google Docs, but it’s actually Google Docs on steroids. Microsoft is so confident it has built the future of productivity, it’s now open-sourcing its Fluid Framework so the rest of the world can help shape what it has created. Some Office.com users will even be able to start getting an early look at this Fluid future in the coming months."
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21260005/microsoft-office-fluid-web-document-features-build
The Verge
Microsoft’s new Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids
Fluid is Microsoft’s big push for entirely new documents on the web.
Sul perché ‘Burn After Reading’ sia una delle migliori interpretazioni di Brad Pitt (un attore notevole)
Money quote: "How much Pitt is able to do with just mannerisms and looks alone is incredible. From his rehearsed squinting eyes and his line “looks can be deceptive” that he falls back on as a crutch as the situation gets away from him will cause deep belly laughs. Pitt’s quality is always consistent, but this is a role we should remember when looking back at his filmography."
https://medium.com/@cameroncraig88/remembering-burn-after-reading-and-one-of-brad-pitt-s-best-performances-c20d828a10ff
Money quote: "How much Pitt is able to do with just mannerisms and looks alone is incredible. From his rehearsed squinting eyes and his line “looks can be deceptive” that he falls back on as a crutch as the situation gets away from him will cause deep belly laughs. Pitt’s quality is always consistent, but this is a role we should remember when looking back at his filmography."
https://medium.com/@cameroncraig88/remembering-burn-after-reading-and-one-of-brad-pitt-s-best-performances-c20d828a10ff
Medium
Remembering ‘Burn After Reading,’ and One of Brad Pitt’s Best Performances
Brad Pitt shines in this atypical role in this hilarious Coen Brothers movie.
Un racconto surreale su Occupy Wall Street, attivismo, processi, persecuzioni, vendette, difese, visioni politiche. C'è un mondo (e anche un certo disagio in chi lo legge) dentro questo articolo.
Money quote: "Objectively speaking, you should not troll prosecutors. Objectively speaking, I should not have tweeted that Langston and the editor of a prominent feminist blog were dating. But why shouldn’t the messy public-private divide cut both ways? I knew Langston was reading my tweets, and his whole “trying to put me in jail” thing felt very personal. What’s off-limits when someone wants to lock you in a cage? What could be a greater privacy violation than jail? It’s not like I tried to cavity search him. Besides, I was scared. Humanizing the state in the person of this prosecutor made me feel safer, even though it may have just put me at greater risk."
https://reallifemag.com/the-right-to-have-remained-silent/
Money quote: "Objectively speaking, you should not troll prosecutors. Objectively speaking, I should not have tweeted that Langston and the editor of a prominent feminist blog were dating. But why shouldn’t the messy public-private divide cut both ways? I knew Langston was reading my tweets, and his whole “trying to put me in jail” thing felt very personal. What’s off-limits when someone wants to lock you in a cage? What could be a greater privacy violation than jail? It’s not like I tried to cavity search him. Besides, I was scared. Humanizing the state in the person of this prosecutor made me feel safer, even though it may have just put me at greater risk."
https://reallifemag.com/the-right-to-have-remained-silent/
Real Life
The Right to Have Remained Silent — Real Life
Journalists serve the public by telling the truth, but not the whole story
È un bell'articolo di GQ americano: circolava un po' di tempo fa per raccontare la storia incredibile di Steve Buscemi. Forse l'avete letto o sentito. Casomai ve lo foste persi, eccolo qui
Money quote: "Buscemi has a whole three-story brownstone to himself in Brooklyn's idyllic Park Slope neighborhood, which is basically Sesame Street if the Muppets were gluten-intolerant and wore fashion clogs. He moved here back in the early '90s, long before it became a punch line about yuppies. I live here too and can confirm he is a neighborhood institution: There's our famous park, there's our famous food co-op, there's Steve Buscemi."
https://www.gq.com/story/the-remaking-of-steve-buscemi-profile
Money quote: "Buscemi has a whole three-story brownstone to himself in Brooklyn's idyllic Park Slope neighborhood, which is basically Sesame Street if the Muppets were gluten-intolerant and wore fashion clogs. He moved here back in the early '90s, long before it became a punch line about yuppies. I live here too and can confirm he is a neighborhood institution: There's our famous park, there's our famous food co-op, there's Steve Buscemi."
https://www.gq.com/story/the-remaking-of-steve-buscemi-profile
GQ
The Remaking of Steve Buscemi
In a rare interview, Hollywood's most beloved misfit opens up about anxiety, loss, and the hard work of getting through it all.
Voleva essere seppellita con la sua Ferrari preferita. Anzi, dentro. E così è stato.
Money quote: "The crane operators were careful not to mow over the existing graves as they maneuvered the 17-foot long, gray wooden box toward the 19-foot hole in the middle of the Alamo Masonic Cemetery. Inside the box lay the perfectly manicured corpse of the 38-year-old socialite and heiress, Sandra West. Mrs. West was positioned as if reclining in the driver’s seat of her beloved 1964 powder-blue Ferrari 300 America. In accordance with her will, she was dressed in her favorite white lace Italian nightgown with “the seat slanted comfortably.” The radio was tuned to her favorite station.
The box was then filled with concrete to deter opportunistic graverobbers."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-of-sandra-west-and-her-ferrari
Money quote: "The crane operators were careful not to mow over the existing graves as they maneuvered the 17-foot long, gray wooden box toward the 19-foot hole in the middle of the Alamo Masonic Cemetery. Inside the box lay the perfectly manicured corpse of the 38-year-old socialite and heiress, Sandra West. Mrs. West was positioned as if reclining in the driver’s seat of her beloved 1964 powder-blue Ferrari 300 America. In accordance with her will, she was dressed in her favorite white lace Italian nightgown with “the seat slanted comfortably.” The radio was tuned to her favorite station.
The box was then filled with concrete to deter opportunistic graverobbers."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-of-sandra-west-and-her-ferrari
Atlas Obscura
The Grave of Sandra West (and her Ferrari)
In 1977, wealthy socialite Sandra West was buried wearing an elegant white nightdress while reclining comfortably in her powder-blue 1964 Ferrari.
Il nuovo e giovane presidente del Cile, l'uomo del cambiamento, è andato a vivere in un'area depressa della capitale e lancia un segnale forte. Molto interessante.
Money quote: "Unlike the White House in the U.S., 10 Downing in the U.K. or Argentina’s Quinta Presidencial de Olivos, Chile doesn’t have a presidential residence. Each leader has chosen where to live. Billionaire former president Sebastian Pinera was allowed to stay at his mansion in a swanky part of Santiago called San Damian, but Michelle Bachelet and Ricardo Lagos had to move to homes that met security requirements. All of them were in the more expensive eastern parts of Santiago."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-11/why-chile-s-president-bought-a-home-in-a-dangerous-area
Money quote: "Unlike the White House in the U.S., 10 Downing in the U.K. or Argentina’s Quinta Presidencial de Olivos, Chile doesn’t have a presidential residence. Each leader has chosen where to live. Billionaire former president Sebastian Pinera was allowed to stay at his mansion in a swanky part of Santiago called San Damian, but Michelle Bachelet and Ricardo Lagos had to move to homes that met security requirements. All of them were in the more expensive eastern parts of Santiago."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-11/why-chile-s-president-bought-a-home-in-a-dangerous-area
Bloomberg.com
Why Chile’s President Moved Into a High-Crime Santiago Neighborhood
The newly elected Gabriel Boric wants to send a message about reviving areas that have fallen prey to crime and poverty. So far, residents are seeing improvements.
Un bel ritratto di MacKenzie Scott, che è una donna con una identità forte e definita ma che è tuttavia segnata dal mondo nel quale è nata. Alla fine, tutto quel che ha fatto ricade sulle fortune (e sfortune) del padre e poi del marito Jeff Bezos. Questo ritratto cerca di spiegare chi è Scott, perché fa beneficienza e cosa succede quando una donna diventa estremamente ricca ma non è più "protetta" dal marito estremamente potente oltre che ricco.
Money quote: "But as Ms. Scott’s fame for giving away money has grown, so, too, has the deluge of appeals for gifts from strangers and old friends alike. That clamor may have driven Ms. Scott’s already discreet operation further underground, with recent philanthropic announcements akin to sudden lightning bolts for unsuspecting recipients."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/business/mackenzie-scott-charity.html
Money quote: "But as Ms. Scott’s fame for giving away money has grown, so, too, has the deluge of appeals for gifts from strangers and old friends alike. That clamor may have driven Ms. Scott’s already discreet operation further underground, with recent philanthropic announcements akin to sudden lightning bolts for unsuspecting recipients."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/business/mackenzie-scott-charity.html
NY Times
The Fortunes of MacKenzie Scott
Three decades after worrying about making rent, she is now giving away billions — all while trying to keep herself out of the spotlight.
Ritorna lo scontro di civiltà. O piuttosto ritorna l'orso russo, spietato e famelico come tutti gli orsi? L'abisso dell'anima russa in questo articolo del 2014, anno dell' inglobamenti della Crimea.
Money quote: "Non c’è da stupirsi che questi ultimi abbiano finito per percepire la Russia come una forza distruttrice. Joseph Conrad, che nella sua nativa Polonia sperimentò in prima persona l’insaziabile fame di territorio dell’impero russo, lo definì un impero del nulla. In “Autocrazia e guerra” (1905), per esempio, scrisse che fin dalla sua nascita in Russia “la brutale distruzione della dignità, della verità, della rettitudine, di tutto ciò che è buono nella natura umana è stata la condizione della sua esistenza”. Sotto l’ombra opprimente dell’autocrazia russa “nulla poteva crescere”. Circa otto decenni dopo, in “La tragedia dell’Europa centrale” (1984), Milan Kundera avrebbe fatto un’osservazione simile: quando i russi portarono il totalitarismo nel suo paese “fecero tutto il possibile per distruggere la cultura ceca”. Infatti, per lui, la “civiltà russa totalitaria è la negazione radicale dell’Occidente moderno”. “"
https://www.indiscreto.org/i-due-abissi-dellanima-russa/
Money quote: "Non c’è da stupirsi che questi ultimi abbiano finito per percepire la Russia come una forza distruttrice. Joseph Conrad, che nella sua nativa Polonia sperimentò in prima persona l’insaziabile fame di territorio dell’impero russo, lo definì un impero del nulla. In “Autocrazia e guerra” (1905), per esempio, scrisse che fin dalla sua nascita in Russia “la brutale distruzione della dignità, della verità, della rettitudine, di tutto ciò che è buono nella natura umana è stata la condizione della sua esistenza”. Sotto l’ombra opprimente dell’autocrazia russa “nulla poteva crescere”. Circa otto decenni dopo, in “La tragedia dell’Europa centrale” (1984), Milan Kundera avrebbe fatto un’osservazione simile: quando i russi portarono il totalitarismo nel suo paese “fecero tutto il possibile per distruggere la cultura ceca”. Infatti, per lui, la “civiltà russa totalitaria è la negazione radicale dell’Occidente moderno”. “"
https://www.indiscreto.org/i-due-abissi-dellanima-russa/
L'INDISCRETO
I due abissi dell’anima russa
L'occupazione russa della Crimea - la cui importanza è sfuggita a noi europei dell'ovest - è il momento in cui, invece, in Europa dell'est la paura dell'espansionismo russo è tornata. Un fantasma della storia che oggi si è ripresentato. Per questo oggi è…
Forwarded from Scrivere zen
Il corsivo collega la mano al cervello, incoraggia l’originalità, migliora la capacità di leggere, di prestare attenzione, di concentrarsi, di imparare e di farsi venire le idee, 🛝 https://thevision.com/cultura/utilita-corsivo-scrittura/
THE VISION
Sappiamo parlare corsivo ma non sappiamo più scriverlo, eppure è più utile di quanto pensiamo - THE VISION
Imparare a scrivere il corsivo manuale non è solo una questione formale, ma un allenamento per le proprie capacità di pensiero e una tecnica fondamentale.
Essere genitori di figli piccoli nel fine settimana (il momento peggiore, ve lo dico io)
Money quote: "You’re a parent now. And without the structure of school, your offspring look to you to be their playmate, encyclopedia, snack bitch, and cruise director. And parents, wanting a break themselves, can’t seem to catch one. But there are ways to make those work-free days a little less chaotic and hopefully, more enjoyable."
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-actually-enjoy-a-weekend-with-your-kids-1848703212
Money quote: "You’re a parent now. And without the structure of school, your offspring look to you to be their playmate, encyclopedia, snack bitch, and cruise director. And parents, wanting a break themselves, can’t seem to catch one. But there are ways to make those work-free days a little less chaotic and hopefully, more enjoyable."
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-actually-enjoy-a-weekend-with-your-kids-1848703212
Lifehacker
How to Actually Enjoy a Weekend With Your Kids
Because kids are a joy and a blessing and can truly mess up a weekend.
Tanto bella Barbie, ma sarà anche buona? Preparare degli Hot Dog un po' speciali come forma d'arte. Fico.
Money quote: "the creative handiwork of Anna Hezel and Gabriella Paiella, the resident dynamic “Deranged Crafts” duo from Lucky Peach. When they recently put their heads together and thought about what kinds of Disney princesses would inspire them most, they thought of hot dogs… “Obviously.”"
https://womenyoushouldknow.net/grossly-appealing-disney-princesses-reimagined-as-hot-dogs/
Money quote: "the creative handiwork of Anna Hezel and Gabriella Paiella, the resident dynamic “Deranged Crafts” duo from Lucky Peach. When they recently put their heads together and thought about what kinds of Disney princesses would inspire them most, they thought of hot dogs… “Obviously.”"
https://womenyoushouldknow.net/grossly-appealing-disney-princesses-reimagined-as-hot-dogs/
Women You Should Know®
Grossly Appealing: Disney Princesses Reimagined As Hot Dogs
When "deranged crafters" Anna Hezel and Gabriella Paiella thought about what kinds of Disney Princesses would inspire them most, they thought of... hot dogs
Non dimentichiamoci. Il metaverso di Meta/Facebook/Oculus/Quest è partito subito con il piede sbagliato.
Money quote: "Some apps in the virtual-reality metaverse are "dangerous by design", the NSPCC has warned in response to a BBC News investigation.
A researcher posing as a 13-year-old girl witnessed grooming, sexual material, racist insults and a rape threat in the virtual-reality world.
The children's charity said it was "shocked and angry" at the findings."
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60415317
Money quote: "Some apps in the virtual-reality metaverse are "dangerous by design", the NSPCC has warned in response to a BBC News investigation.
A researcher posing as a 13-year-old girl witnessed grooming, sexual material, racist insults and a rape threat in the virtual-reality world.
The children's charity said it was "shocked and angry" at the findings."
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60415317
Bbc
Metaverse app allows kids into virtual strip clubs
A BBC investigation witnesses grooming, sexual material and a rape threat in a virtual reality world.
Lo Straniero di Albert Camus e la difficoltà di tradurlo in inglese.
Money quote: "First impressions matter, and, for forty-two years, the way that American readers were introduced to Meursault was through the detached formality of his statement: “Mother died today.” There is little warmth, little bond or closeness or love in “Mother,” which is a static, archetypal term, not the sort of thing we use for a living, breathing being with whom we have close relations. To do so would be like calling the family dog “Dog” or a husband “Husband.” The word forces us to see Meursault as distant from the woman who bore him."
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lost-in-translation-what-the-first-line-of-the-stranger-should-be
Money quote: "First impressions matter, and, for forty-two years, the way that American readers were introduced to Meursault was through the detached formality of his statement: “Mother died today.” There is little warmth, little bond or closeness or love in “Mother,” which is a static, archetypal term, not the sort of thing we use for a living, breathing being with whom we have close relations. To do so would be like calling the family dog “Dog” or a husband “Husband.” The word forces us to see Meursault as distant from the woman who bore him."
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lost-in-translation-what-the-first-line-of-the-stranger-should-be
The New Yorker
Lost in Translation: What the First Line of “The Stranger” Should Be
For the modern American reader, few lines in French literature are as famous as the opening of Albert Camus’s “L’Étranger”: “Aujourd’hui, …
Slower News aggiorna raramente (una volta al mese, forse) però centra il bersaglio e quello che sceglie di aggregare di solito vale la pena di leggerlo.
https://www.slowernews.com
https://www.slowernews.com
Slowernews
Slower News
Keep up with relevant trends, micro-trends and edge cases without spending a shit-ton of time distilling trivia.
Non so come finirà in San Salvador, ma sono contento di non essere nato là: le fotografie sono impressionanti
Money quote: "It was only the latest display of power by the young president, in office less than a year whose take-total-charge style has earned him an enormous following at home and much concern there and elsewhere.
“I call it punitive populism,” said Salvadoran security specialist Jeannette Aguilar. “These measures come in the context of Bukele’s style of publicity and media use that seek to ingratiate him with public opinion.”"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-29/stripped-prisoners-on-floor-latest-tool-of-salvadoran-president
Money quote: "It was only the latest display of power by the young president, in office less than a year whose take-total-charge style has earned him an enormous following at home and much concern there and elsewhere.
“I call it punitive populism,” said Salvadoran security specialist Jeannette Aguilar. “These measures come in the context of Bukele’s style of publicity and media use that seek to ingratiate him with public opinion.”"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-29/stripped-prisoners-on-floor-latest-tool-of-salvadoran-president
Bloomberg.com
Stripped Prisoners on Floor Latest Tool of Salvadoran President
The photographs bounced around the world -- hundreds of tattooed Salvadoran prisoners stripped to their underwear, crowded onto the cement floor in a forced embrace of one another. With the threat of viral infection palpable, not to mention human rights concerns…
Questo secondo me ridefinisce l'espressione "a fin di bene". Chapeau. Da oggi Patagonia è un'azienda che reputo in buona fede.
Money quote: "A half century after founding the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, the eccentric rock climber who became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given the company away.
Rather than selling the company or taking it public, Mr. Chouinard, his wife and two adult children have transferred their ownership of Patagonia, valued at about $3 billion, to a specially designed trust and a nonprofit organization. They were created to preserve the company’s independence and ensure that all of its profits — some $100 million a year — are used to combat climate change and protect undeveloped land around the globe."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/climate/patagonia-climate-philanthropy-chouinard.html
Money quote: "A half century after founding the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, the eccentric rock climber who became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given the company away.
Rather than selling the company or taking it public, Mr. Chouinard, his wife and two adult children have transferred their ownership of Patagonia, valued at about $3 billion, to a specially designed trust and a nonprofit organization. They were created to preserve the company’s independence and ensure that all of its profits — some $100 million a year — are used to combat climate change and protect undeveloped land around the globe."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/climate/patagonia-climate-philanthropy-chouinard.html
Nytimes
Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company (Published 2022)
Yvon Chouinard has forfeited ownership of the company he founded 49 years ago. The profits will now be used to fight climate change.
Il grande problema dell'estrazione delle informazioni dai Pdf. Perché una volta che ce le hai messe dentro poi non si riescono più a togliere. Il mistero orrendo di uno standard che è stato semplicemente frainteso.
Money quote: "The main problem is that PDF was never really designed as a data input format, but rather, it was designed as an output format giving fine grained control over the resulting document."
https://www.filingdb.com/pdf-text-extraction
Money quote: "The main problem is that PDF was never really designed as a data input format, but rather, it was designed as an output format giving fine grained control over the resulting document."
https://www.filingdb.com/pdf-text-extraction
Se sentite il bisogno di monitorare una serie di servizi, mi stanno parlando bene di questo che costa molto poco ed è pure semplice da usare
Money quote: "Light, ergonomic and reliable monitoring for anything, because you deserve dependable and clean wallboard."
https://monitoror.com
Money quote: "Light, ergonomic and reliable monitoring for anything, because you deserve dependable and clean wallboard."
https://monitoror.com
Monitoror
Monitoror — Unified monitoring wallboard
Monitoror is a wallboard monitoring app to monitor server status; monitor CI builds progress or even display critical values
Farsi pubblicità, spiegato ai nerd.
Money quote: "I've dealt with any number of technically brilliant people who produce outstanding work. The majority of them never bothered to write down their work and communicate it to others - report writing is too boring, uninteresting, and hard. And irrelevant. Or so they thought.
But if you've done great work, if you've produced superb software or fixed a fault with an aeroplane or investigated a problem, without telling anyone you may as well not have bothered. You have to write, you have to tell people, and you have to do so in a way that they will take notice."
https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SellYourselfSellYourWork.html
Money quote: "I've dealt with any number of technically brilliant people who produce outstanding work. The majority of them never bothered to write down their work and communicate it to others - report writing is too boring, uninteresting, and hard. And irrelevant. Or so they thought.
But if you've done great work, if you've produced superb software or fixed a fault with an aeroplane or investigated a problem, without telling anyone you may as well not have bothered. You have to write, you have to tell people, and you have to do so in a way that they will take notice."
https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SellYourselfSellYourWork.html