Il gran finale dello scontro tra Tex e Mefisto - il capitolo finale delle mie recensioni sulla serie epica scritta da Mauro Boselli su Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2022/10/tex-744-il-trionfo-di-mefisto/
https://fumettologica.it/2022/10/tex-744-il-trionfo-di-mefisto/
Fumettologica
Il gran finale dello scontro tra Tex e Mefisto
Tex 744, intitolato Il trionfo di Mefisto, segna l'ultimo capitolo di questa saga che ha visto il ritorno di Mefisto.
Cosa vuol dire non provare dolore? Cosa succede se una persona è diversa dalle altre? Come diventa la sua vita? Altro che supereroi mutanti della Marvel che vivono in mezzo a noi, la storia è ben diversa.
Money quote: "“I know the word ‘pain,’ and I know people are in pain, because you can see it,” Joanne Cameron, a seventy-two-year-old retired teacher, told me, in the cluttered kitchen of her century-old stone cottage in the Scottish Highlands. Cameron has never experienced the extremes of rage, dread, grief, anxiety, or fear. She handed a cup of tea to Jim, her husband of twenty-five years, with whom she’s never had a fight. “I see stress,” she continued, “and I’ve seen pain, what it does, but I’m talking about an abstract thing.”"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/13/a-world-without-pain
Money quote: "“I know the word ‘pain,’ and I know people are in pain, because you can see it,” Joanne Cameron, a seventy-two-year-old retired teacher, told me, in the cluttered kitchen of her century-old stone cottage in the Scottish Highlands. Cameron has never experienced the extremes of rage, dread, grief, anxiety, or fear. She handed a cup of tea to Jim, her husband of twenty-five years, with whom she’s never had a fight. “I see stress,” she continued, “and I’ve seen pain, what it does, but I’m talking about an abstract thing.”"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/13/a-world-without-pain
The New Yorker
A World Without Pain
Does hurting make us human?
"Inverso - The Peripheral": viviamo in uno stub - la mia recensione della serie tv su Prime basata sui romanzi di William Gibson per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2022/10/inverso-the-peripheral-serie-tv-amazon-prime-video/
https://fumettologica.it/2022/10/inverso-the-peripheral-serie-tv-amazon-prime-video/
Fumettologica
“Inverso – The Peripheral”: viviamo in uno stub
Recensione della serie tv di fantascienza Inverso - The Peripheral di Amazon Prime Video, ispirata ai libri di William Gibson.
Un tizio un po' di tempo fa ha rifatto la mappa della metropolitana di New York, ispirandosi largamente alla versione di Vignelli. E non è una cosa che va bene alla MTA, che lo sta portando in tribunale.
Money quote: "Berman created this particular version of the subway map after—what else?—a frustrating experience with the subway. He had just moved to New York and was waiting on the platform on a weekend for the B train for half an hour. This was how Berman learned the B only runs on weekdays. So he decided to make a subway map of his own, one that, among other things, clearly marked which trains do not run on late nights or weekends."
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjd8j3/the-mta-is-going-after-an-etsy-artist-over-a-new-york-subway-map-it-didnt-make
Money quote: "Berman created this particular version of the subway map after—what else?—a frustrating experience with the subway. He had just moved to New York and was waiting on the platform on a weekend for the B train for half an hour. This was how Berman learned the B only runs on weekdays. So he decided to make a subway map of his own, one that, among other things, clearly marked which trains do not run on late nights or weekends."
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjd8j3/the-mta-is-going-after-an-etsy-artist-over-a-new-york-subway-map-it-didnt-make
Vice
The MTA Is Going After an Etsy Artist Over a New York Subway Map It Didn’t Make
Jake Berman spent more than 300 hours making his own subway map because he didn't like the MTA's. Now the MTA says he can't sell it.
"Dampyr" ci prova ma non ce la fa - la mia recensione per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2022/10/dampyr-film-recensione/
https://fumettologica.it/2022/10/dampyr-film-recensione/
Fumettologica
“Dampyr” ci prova ma non ce la fa
"Dampyr", la prima produzione di Bonelli Entertainment, è un film decisamente poco riuscito e pieno di problemi.
The Far Side è la serie di comics da quotidiano più bella e intrigante degli anni Ottanta. È ancora viva, anche se solo come repliche.
Money quote: "“The Far Side” became a cultural phenomenon after it appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle on Jan. 1, 1980. The single-panel comic, which ran until Larson, now 69, retired in 1995, featured men, women, children, animals and insects in often offbeat and sometimes inscrutable situations. One installment, “Cow Tools,” featured a bovine in front of a worktable with an odd assortment of implements. The image was described on Reddit as the comic’s most “notoriously confusing cartoon.” There were also occasional controversies: A chimp once described Jane Goodall as a tramp, though she later wrote the foreword for a collected edition of the series. One scientist even named an insect after Larson."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/arts/far-side-gary-larson.html
Money quote: "“The Far Side” became a cultural phenomenon after it appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle on Jan. 1, 1980. The single-panel comic, which ran until Larson, now 69, retired in 1995, featured men, women, children, animals and insects in often offbeat and sometimes inscrutable situations. One installment, “Cow Tools,” featured a bovine in front of a worktable with an odd assortment of implements. The image was described on Reddit as the comic’s most “notoriously confusing cartoon.” There were also occasional controversies: A chimp once described Jane Goodall as a tramp, though she later wrote the foreword for a collected edition of the series. One scientist even named an insect after Larson."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/arts/far-side-gary-larson.html
NY Times
‘The Far Side’ Is Back. Sort Of. Gary Larson Will Explain. (Published 2019)
A website will feature some of the beloved comic strip’s classics and, Larson says, “I’m looking forward to slipping in some new things every so often.”
Cos'è l'amore incondizionato? E come funziona, matematicamente parlando?
Money quote: "I do not mean to suggest that one type of love is more worthy than the other – after all, we value processes that are reasonable, yet we also aim for the extreme. The evidence-based approach of conditional love is at least more controllable, and as the analogy to Bayesian theory goes, is more rational. But can this reasonable process of conditional love grow rationally to the extreme of unconditional love? Can it develop through reason to reach the equivalent of credence 1? If not, then in loving ‘because’ of certain reasons you limit yourself to never achieving the dizzying height of unconditional love – the love that is as complete and certain and unmovable as credence 1."
https://aeon.co/ideas/beyond-reason-the-mathematical-equation-for-unconditional-love
Money quote: "I do not mean to suggest that one type of love is more worthy than the other – after all, we value processes that are reasonable, yet we also aim for the extreme. The evidence-based approach of conditional love is at least more controllable, and as the analogy to Bayesian theory goes, is more rational. But can this reasonable process of conditional love grow rationally to the extreme of unconditional love? Can it develop through reason to reach the equivalent of credence 1? If not, then in loving ‘because’ of certain reasons you limit yourself to never achieving the dizzying height of unconditional love – the love that is as complete and certain and unmovable as credence 1."
https://aeon.co/ideas/beyond-reason-the-mathematical-equation-for-unconditional-love
Aeon
Beyond reason: the mathematical equation for unconditional love
Is it possible to love unconditionally, and if so, is it rational to do so? On the mathematics of love, with equations
GTA. Cioè Grand Theft Auto. Uno dei miti del mondo dei videogiochi. Per la prima volta, la storia di tutte le versioni
Money quote: "After the success of GTA 1, a sequel was a natural move and GTA 2 was born. Gameplay style was similar to GTA 1 in that this was also a top-down, bird's eye view camera and a two-dimensional action adventure game. The PC version of the game allowed players to play in two different modes called Noon and Dusk. The quality of graphics improved in Dusk mode."
https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/grand-theft-auto
Money quote: "After the success of GTA 1, a sequel was a natural move and GTA 2 was born. Gameplay style was similar to GTA 1 in that this was also a top-down, bird's eye view camera and a two-dimensional action adventure game. The PC version of the game allowed players to play in two different modes called Noon and Dusk. The quality of graphics improved in Dusk mode."
https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/grand-theft-auto
Version Museum
28 Years of Grand Theft Auto Game Design History - 27 Images - Version Museum
A comprehensive visual history of Grand Theft Auto Series from 1997 to 2025. See a gallery of the Grand Theft Auto Series evolution from the beginning to present day.
Un corso rapido sulla differenza tra rapporti causali e quelli di semplice correlazione.
Money quote: "“Correlation is not causation.”
Though true and important, the warning has hardened into the familiarity of a cliché. Stock examples of so-called spurious correlations are now a dime a dozen. As one example goes, a Pacific island tribe believed flea infestations to be good for one’s health because they observed that healthy people had fleas while sick people did not. The correlation is real and robust, but fleas do not cause health, of course: they merely indicate it. Fleas on a fevered body abandon ship and seek a healthier host. One should not seek out and encourage fleas in the quest to ward off sickness."
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/tim-maudlin-you-are-smarter-your-data/
Money quote: "“Correlation is not causation.”
Though true and important, the warning has hardened into the familiarity of a cliché. Stock examples of so-called spurious correlations are now a dime a dozen. As one example goes, a Pacific island tribe believed flea infestations to be good for one’s health because they observed that healthy people had fleas while sick people did not. The correlation is real and robust, but fleas do not cause health, of course: they merely indicate it. Fleas on a fevered body abandon ship and seek a healthier host. One should not seek out and encourage fleas in the quest to ward off sickness."
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/tim-maudlin-you-are-smarter-your-data/
Boston Review
The Why of the World
Allured by the promise of Big Data, science has shortchanged causal explanation in favor of data-driven prediction. But ultimately we must ask why.
Chi ha visto solo il film non credo sia molto entusiasta, ma per il lettori della serie di romanzi, soprattutto i primi due, del ciclo di Dune di Frank Herbert, questa è una piccola miniera di informazioni. Almeno, per me è stato così.
Money quote: "Anyone who has obsessed over the mythology of Dune will immediately recognize the language Herbert borrowed from Blanch’s work. Chakobsa, a Caucasian hunting language, becomes the language of a galactic diaspora in Herbert’s universe. Kanly, from a word for blood feud among the Islamic tribes of the Caucasus, signifies a vendetta between Dune’s great spacefaring dynasties. Kindjal, the personal weapon of the region’s Islamic warriors, becomes a knife favored by Herbert’s techno-aristocrats. As Blanch writes, “No Caucasian man was properly dressed without his kindjal.”"
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune
Money quote: "Anyone who has obsessed over the mythology of Dune will immediately recognize the language Herbert borrowed from Blanch’s work. Chakobsa, a Caucasian hunting language, becomes the language of a galactic diaspora in Herbert’s universe. Kanly, from a word for blood feud among the Islamic tribes of the Caucasus, signifies a vendetta between Dune’s great spacefaring dynasties. Kindjal, the personal weapon of the region’s Islamic warriors, becomes a knife favored by Herbert’s techno-aristocrats. As Blanch writes, “No Caucasian man was properly dressed without his kindjal.”"
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Secret History of Dune
Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” an enduring science fiction classic, owes much of its mythology to “The Sabres of Paradise,” an undeservedly forgotten history....
Uno di quegli articoli che mai più senza: perché i bambini finlandesi da 75 anni dormono in scatole di cartone
Money quote: "For 75 years, Finland's expectant mothers have been given a box by the state. It's like a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys that can even be used as a bed. And some say it helped Finland achieve one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates."
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415
Money quote: "For 75 years, Finland's expectant mothers have been given a box by the state. It's like a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys that can even be used as a bed. And some say it helped Finland achieve one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates."
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415
BBC News
Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
For 75 years, Finland's expectant mothers have been given a box of baby clothes and bedding by the state. Some say it helped Finland achieve one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates.
La dialettica tra scienza e ideologia è uno dei temi fondamentali del nostro futuro. Oltre alla religione e della politica, anche la scienza infatti viene impacchettata utilizzata come un martello per schiacciare il pensiero delle persone, riempiendolo di concetti in realtà non compresi e creduti ciecamente. Un paradosso, se volete.
Comunque, l'Amazonia è fondamentale ma non per il motivo che pensiamo di solito.
Money quote: "The Amazon is a vast, ineffable, vital, living wonder. It does not, however, supply the planet with 20 percent of its oxygen."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/amazon-fire-earth-has-plenty-oxygen/596923/
Comunque, l'Amazonia è fondamentale ma non per il motivo che pensiamo di solito.
Money quote: "The Amazon is a vast, ineffable, vital, living wonder. It does not, however, supply the planet with 20 percent of its oxygen."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/amazon-fire-earth-has-plenty-oxygen/596923/
The Atlantic
The Amazon Is Not Earth’s Lungs
Humans could burn every living thing on the planet and still not dent its oxygen supply.
Forwarded from Fumettologica
Fumetterie italiane: quante sono e quanto vendono
I risultati della prima indagine in assoluto sulle fumetterie italiane. Finalmente il punto su un settore importantissimo, ma che raramente viene calcolato alla pari delle normali librerie. Inoltre i dati di vendita mostrati sono molto buoni e, aggiunti a quelli delle librerie, rendono il fumetto sempre più protagonista del mercato del libro in generale.
👉 https://bit.ly/3T65Iit
I risultati della prima indagine in assoluto sulle fumetterie italiane. Finalmente il punto su un settore importantissimo, ma che raramente viene calcolato alla pari delle normali librerie. Inoltre i dati di vendita mostrati sono molto buoni e, aggiunti a quelli delle librerie, rendono il fumetto sempre più protagonista del mercato del libro in generale.
👉 https://bit.ly/3T65Iit
Quando l'elaborazione del lutto di una separazione dopo un matrimonio fallito è una cosa positiva (perché lo è).
Money quote: "I sought out other women who had been where I was, who were left holding relationships and families together when their partners decided to chart their own course. My mother was my first model of rebuilding after heartbreak — separating from and subsequently divorcing my father just before I turned 16. I’ve watched over the years as she transformed from a shell of herself to a brand new woman, sure of her happiness and worth. A close girlfriend also traveled down the marriage and separation road, reminding me that even in my deepest darkness, the sun would come out again. One common thread in their rebounding was allowing themselves time to grieve. I had never given myself that permission, and I truly didn’t know where to start."
https://zora.medium.com/grieving-my-failed-marriage-helped-me-grow-stronger-105cae1c440a
Money quote: "I sought out other women who had been where I was, who were left holding relationships and families together when their partners decided to chart their own course. My mother was my first model of rebuilding after heartbreak — separating from and subsequently divorcing my father just before I turned 16. I’ve watched over the years as she transformed from a shell of herself to a brand new woman, sure of her happiness and worth. A close girlfriend also traveled down the marriage and separation road, reminding me that even in my deepest darkness, the sun would come out again. One common thread in their rebounding was allowing themselves time to grieve. I had never given myself that permission, and I truly didn’t know where to start."
https://zora.medium.com/grieving-my-failed-marriage-helped-me-grow-stronger-105cae1c440a
Medium
Grieving My Failed Marriage Helped Me Grow Stronger
We don’t always associate grief with this kind of loss, but maybe we should
Il filosofo Herbert Fingarette (1921-2018) ha scritto un bel libro, da stoico e laico, sulla non-esistenza. Però ha ripreso il tema poco prima di morire, registrando questo video che mette in una prospettiva più realistica i timori e la serenità di un 97enne.
Money quote: "In a later book, Death: Philosophical Soundings (1999), Fingarette contemplated mortality, bringing him to a conclusion that echoed the Epicureans: in non-existence, there is nothing to fear. But as Being 97 makes evident, grappling with death can be quite different when the thoughts are personal rather than theoretical."
https://aeon.co/videos/an-ageing-philosopher-returns-to-the-essential-question-what-is-the-point-of-it-all
Money quote: "In a later book, Death: Philosophical Soundings (1999), Fingarette contemplated mortality, bringing him to a conclusion that echoed the Epicureans: in non-existence, there is nothing to fear. But as Being 97 makes evident, grappling with death can be quite different when the thoughts are personal rather than theoretical."
https://aeon.co/videos/an-ageing-philosopher-returns-to-the-essential-question-what-is-the-point-of-it-all
Aeon
Being 97
An ageing philosopher returns to the essential question: ‘What is the point of it all?’
Forwarded from Riccardo
È uscita Tilde ~ 21, la seconda puntata della seconda stagione!
Titolo: Monitor E-ink, acquisti in Giappone, libri di James Bond e server di Netflix
"La strana coppia dei famosi ladri di tè è tornata più in gamba che mai, a parte gli acciacchi."
→ tilde ~ su Spotify
→ tilde ~ su Apple Podcast
→ tilde ~ su Google Podcast
Potete ascoltare il podcast da Spotify, Google Podcast o Apple Podcast, oppure dal sito: tilde.show. Buon ascolto e buon lunedì!
P.S. La copertina di questa puntata è stata generata da Dall-E con descrizione "copertina astratta e colorata del podcast tilde stagione 2 episodio 2".
Titolo: Monitor E-ink, acquisti in Giappone, libri di James Bond e server di Netflix
"La strana coppia dei famosi ladri di tè è tornata più in gamba che mai, a parte gli acciacchi."
→ tilde ~ su Spotify
→ tilde ~ su Apple Podcast
→ tilde ~ su Google Podcast
Potete ascoltare il podcast da Spotify, Google Podcast o Apple Podcast, oppure dal sito: tilde.show. Buon ascolto e buon lunedì!
P.S. La copertina di questa puntata è stata generata da Dall-E con descrizione "copertina astratta e colorata del podcast tilde stagione 2 episodio 2".
L'iPad è in stato confusionale? Siamo arrivati a fine corsa per un approccio guidato da esigenze di marketing ma incapace di vedere ancora il profilo dell'innovazione?
Money quote: "When the iPad was announced in 2010, one model was available in one of six possible configurations: 16, 32, & 64GB with either WiFi or WiFi+Cellular. Fast forward to 2022, Apple now sells six different models of iPad. And when you add all the colours, storage configurations, and connectivity options available, your decision of an iPad is among 98 possible models."
https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/the-state-of-ipad
Money quote: "When the iPad was announced in 2010, one model was available in one of six possible configurations: 16, 32, & 64GB with either WiFi or WiFi+Cellular. Fast forward to 2022, Apple now sells six different models of iPad. And when you add all the colours, storage configurations, and connectivity options available, your decision of an iPad is among 98 possible models."
https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/the-state-of-ipad
Basic Apple Guy
The State of iPad — Basic Apple Guy
25 price points, nine colour finishes, six different models, five screen sizes & chip variations, four different keyboard accessories, three different connectivity options, two different pencils; 1 chaotic lineup.
"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" è un grande film - la mia recensione piuttosto entusiasta per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2022/11/black-panther-wakanda-forever-recensione-film/
https://fumettologica.it/2022/11/black-panther-wakanda-forever-recensione-film/
Fumettologica
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” è un grande film
Recensione di Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, il nuovo film del Marvel Cinematic Universe dedicato a Pantera Nera.
La fine di Olap cube (che peraltro era iniziata con un bel conflitto di interessi) è in realtà l'inizio di un fantastico viaggio nell'evoluzione dei database al tempo dei big data.
Money quote: "Online Analytical Processing (or OLAP) is a fancy term used to describe a certain class of database applications. The term was invented by database legend Edgar F. Codd, in a 1993 paper noscriptd Providing OLAP to User-Analysts: An IT Mandate.
Codd’s creation of the term wasn’t without controversy. A year before he published the paper, Arbor Software had released a software product called Essbase, and — surprise, surprise! — Codd’s paper defined properties that happened to fit Essbase’s feature set perfectly.
Computerworld magazine soon discovered that Arbor had paid Codd to ‘invent’ OLAP as a new category of database applications, in order to better sell its product. Codd got called out for his conflict of interest and was forced to retract his paper … but without much fallout, it seems: today, Codd is still regarded as ‘the father of the relational database’, and OLAP has stuck around as a category ever since."
https://www.holistics.io/blog/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-olap-cube/
Money quote: "Online Analytical Processing (or OLAP) is a fancy term used to describe a certain class of database applications. The term was invented by database legend Edgar F. Codd, in a 1993 paper noscriptd Providing OLAP to User-Analysts: An IT Mandate.
Codd’s creation of the term wasn’t without controversy. A year before he published the paper, Arbor Software had released a software product called Essbase, and — surprise, surprise! — Codd’s paper defined properties that happened to fit Essbase’s feature set perfectly.
Computerworld magazine soon discovered that Arbor had paid Codd to ‘invent’ OLAP as a new category of database applications, in order to better sell its product. Codd got called out for his conflict of interest and was forced to retract his paper … but without much fallout, it seems: today, Codd is still regarded as ‘the father of the relational database’, and OLAP has stuck around as a category ever since."
https://www.holistics.io/blog/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-olap-cube/
The Holistics Blog
The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube
A definitive history of the rise of the OLAP cube, how it's affected our industry, and what comes after.
In America vanno più in biblioteca che non al cinema o allo stadio. Però va detto che in America c'è una infrastruttura di biblioteche pubbliche che da noi ce la sogniamo.
Money quote: "Visiting the library remains the most common cultural activity Americans engage in, by far. The average 10.5 trips to the library U.S. adults report taking in 2019 exceeds their participation in eight other common leisure activities. Americans attend live music or theatrical events and visit national or historic parks roughly four times a year on average and visit museums and gambling casinos 2.5 times annually. Trips to amusement or theme parks (1.5) and zoos (.9) are the least common activities among this list."
https://news.gallup.com/poll/284009/library-visits-outpaced-trips-movies-2019.aspx
Money quote: "Visiting the library remains the most common cultural activity Americans engage in, by far. The average 10.5 trips to the library U.S. adults report taking in 2019 exceeds their participation in eight other common leisure activities. Americans attend live music or theatrical events and visit national or historic parks roughly four times a year on average and visit museums and gambling casinos 2.5 times annually. Trips to amusement or theme parks (1.5) and zoos (.9) are the least common activities among this list."
https://news.gallup.com/poll/284009/library-visits-outpaced-trips-movies-2019.aspx
Gallup.com
In U.S., Library Visits Outpaced Trips to Movies in 2019
Of nine leisure activities, visiting a library is the one Americans did most frequently in the past year, followed by attending movies and live sporting events.