C'è un buco nero per quanto riguarda l'industria editoriale: non c'è un accesso ampio e gratuito ai dati delle vendite. E questo crea una distorsione enorme nella percezione e nello studio del settore, che invece è rilevante e critico per la società. Il consumo di libri è fondamentale ma non può ridursi a una pratica commerciale analoga a quella della vendita dei latticini o delle guarnizioni per sanitari. O no?
Money quote: "The problem with book sales data may not, at first, be apparent. Every week, the New York Times of course releases its famous list of “bestselling” books, but this list does not include individual sales numbers. Moreover, select book sales figures are often reported to journalists—like the fact that Station Eleven has sold more than 1.5 million copies overall—and also shared through outlets like Publishers Weekly. However, the underlying source for all these sales figures is typically an exclusive subnoscription service called BookScan: the most granular, comprehensive, and influential book sales data in the industry (though it still has significant holes—more on that to come)."
https://www.publicbooks.org/where-is-all-the-book-data/
Money quote: "The problem with book sales data may not, at first, be apparent. Every week, the New York Times of course releases its famous list of “bestselling” books, but this list does not include individual sales numbers. Moreover, select book sales figures are often reported to journalists—like the fact that Station Eleven has sold more than 1.5 million copies overall—and also shared through outlets like Publishers Weekly. However, the underlying source for all these sales figures is typically an exclusive subnoscription service called BookScan: the most granular, comprehensive, and influential book sales data in the industry (though it still has significant holes—more on that to come)."
https://www.publicbooks.org/where-is-all-the-book-data/
Public Books
Where Is All the Book Data?
Industry is already using data to remake culture. To reverse the tide—to make culture more equitable—we need to decode that data for ourselves.
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Siamo quasi alla fine dell'anno. Per tutti quelli che vogliono sostenere il canale ho preparato un omaggio: la cartolina di Mostly Happy New Year 2023!
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Voi donate e io ve la spedisco per posta con il francobollo e tutto. Scritta a mano da me. Con gli auguri. Come si faceva una volta, insomma.
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Jack Ma è praticamente in esilio a Tokyo: sta fuggendo dalla Cina e dai lockdown.
Money quote: "Since his fallout with Chinese authorities, Ma has been spotted in various countries including Spain and the Netherlands. Spending less time in his home in China means the billionaire has avoided the tough Covid-19 quarantines imposed on anyone entering the country, as well as thorny political issues arising from his previous push to build influence in the country’s halls of power."
https://archive.ph/vNnhK#selection-1955.0-1959.321
Money quote: "Since his fallout with Chinese authorities, Ma has been spotted in various countries including Spain and the Netherlands. Spending less time in his home in China means the billionaire has avoided the tough Covid-19 quarantines imposed on anyone entering the country, as well as thorny political issues arising from his previous push to build influence in the country’s halls of power."
https://archive.ph/vNnhK#selection-1955.0-1959.321
archive.ph
Jack Ma stays in Tokyo during China’s tech crackdown | Financial Times
archived 29 Nov 2022 12:18:59 UTC
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Prima dei licenziamenti i segnali c'erano. Ma adesso, rileggendo cosa è successo e le varie tappe, si capisce meglio che siamo alla fine di un paradigma di internet dei contenuti social. O no?
Money quote: "Tech companies focused on creators are laying off workers, shelving products and curbing perks such as cash advances for online influencers. Funding for U.S. creator startups in the third quarter sank 53% from the year-ago period, the third straight quarter of annual decline."
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-buzz-over-creator-economy-dulls-to-a-quiet-roar
Money quote: "Tech companies focused on creators are laying off workers, shelving products and curbing perks such as cash advances for online influencers. Funding for U.S. creator startups in the third quarter sank 53% from the year-ago period, the third straight quarter of annual decline."
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-buzz-over-creator-economy-dulls-to-a-quiet-roar
The Information
The Buzz Over Creator Economy Dulls to a Quiet Roar
The creator economy is going through a shakeout. Tech companies focused on creators are laying off workers, shelving products and curbing perks such as cash advances for online influencers. Funding for U.S. creator startups in the third quarter sank 53% from…
Notizie che non lo erano. A settembre un tribunale texano sembrava avesse messo in ginocchio la rete. Però anche no, non è vero.
Money quote: "Earlier this month, the court upheld a preposterous Texas law stating that online platforms with more than 50 million monthly active users in the United States no longer have First Amendment rights regarding their editorial decisions. Put another way, the law tells big social-media companies that they can’t moderate the content on their platforms. YouTube purging terrorist-recruitment videos? Illegal. Twitter removing a violent cell of neo-Nazis harassing people with death threats? Sorry, that’s censorship, according to Andy Oldham, a judge of the United States Court of Appeals and the former general counsel to Texas Governor Greg Abbott."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/netchoice-paxton-first-amendment-social-media-content-moderation/671574/
Money quote: "Earlier this month, the court upheld a preposterous Texas law stating that online platforms with more than 50 million monthly active users in the United States no longer have First Amendment rights regarding their editorial decisions. Put another way, the law tells big social-media companies that they can’t moderate the content on their platforms. YouTube purging terrorist-recruitment videos? Illegal. Twitter removing a violent cell of neo-Nazis harassing people with death threats? Sorry, that’s censorship, according to Andy Oldham, a judge of the United States Court of Appeals and the former general counsel to Texas Governor Greg Abbott."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/netchoice-paxton-first-amendment-social-media-content-moderation/671574/
The Atlantic
Is This the Beginning of the End of the Internet?
How a single Texas ruling could change the web forever
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Chi è il diavolo? Satana, Satanasso e poi le varie declinazioni nella nostra letteratura sono in realtà qualcosa di molto recente. Il diavolo dell'Antico Testamento era tutta un'altra cosa.
Money quote: "To understand the Devil of 19th-century literature, it’s important to understand the Satan of the Bible. In the Book of Job he is called ‘a son of God’, and he roams the earth as a disinterested – and inconspicuous – supervisor of human affairs. At one point, after making his rounds, Satan returns to the court of the Lord and suggests that Job, God’s most loyal follower, only has faith because he was blessed with material advantages. The heavenly father agrees to an experiment: He will suspend the protection that surrounds the exemplary man and see whether his faith survives."
https://psyche.co/ideas/the-devil-you-dont-know-the-satan-of-the-19th-century
Money quote: "To understand the Devil of 19th-century literature, it’s important to understand the Satan of the Bible. In the Book of Job he is called ‘a son of God’, and he roams the earth as a disinterested – and inconspicuous – supervisor of human affairs. At one point, after making his rounds, Satan returns to the court of the Lord and suggests that Job, God’s most loyal follower, only has faith because he was blessed with material advantages. The heavenly father agrees to an experiment: He will suspend the protection that surrounds the exemplary man and see whether his faith survives."
https://psyche.co/ideas/the-devil-you-dont-know-the-satan-of-the-19th-century
Psyche
The Devil you don’t know: the Satan of the 19th century
Satan wasn’t always a wicked, horned figure. The Romantics imagined the Devil as a resourceful and well-spoken gentleman
Lo faccio tutti gli anni, è un'abitudine e l'unica promozione (ci metto la faccia) di un servizio esterno. State per partire per le vacanze? Staccare tutto? Fate backup. Per il mio MacBook faccio il doppio backup: Time Machine locale (su un disco che resta sempre a casa) e backup cloud continuo ovunque con BackBlaze. Costa poco e ne vale la pena: se usate il mio referral avete tre mesi gratuiti voi e io. Mi ha salvato in passato e lo consiglio a tutti, a prescindere.
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È uscita Tilde ~ 23, la quarta puntata della seconda stagione!
Titolo: Riccardo trafficante e Antonio amanuense, ChatGPT, edizioni da collezione.
"Puntatona natalizia dove si scoprono cose come l'Odissea in prosa, la voglia di fare libri a mano, e l'NFC mancato."
→ 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 Natale!
P.S. Anche la copertina di questa puntata è stata generata da Dall-E!
Titolo: Riccardo trafficante e Antonio amanuense, ChatGPT, edizioni da collezione.
"Puntatona natalizia dove si scoprono cose come l'Odissea in prosa, la voglia di fare libri a mano, e l'NFC mancato."
→ 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 Natale!
P.S. Anche la copertina di questa puntata è stata generata da Dall-E!
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Auguri ancora!
E se volete fare una cosa speciale, rifatevi le unghie con lo spirito giusto!
Money quote: “Ai colori della tradizione, rosso, oro e argento, è d'obbligo aggiungere una pioggia di glitter e, perché no, tanti piccoli disegni a tema natalizio, simpatici e allegri. Ecco una selezione di idee e ispirazioni”
https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/2022/12/14/unghie-natale-2022-idee-piu-belle-tendenza
E se volete fare una cosa speciale, rifatevi le unghie con lo spirito giusto!
Money quote: “Ai colori della tradizione, rosso, oro e argento, è d'obbligo aggiungere una pioggia di glitter e, perché no, tanti piccoli disegni a tema natalizio, simpatici e allegri. Ecco una selezione di idee e ispirazioni”
https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/2022/12/14/unghie-natale-2022-idee-piu-belle-tendenza
tg24.sky.it
Unghie natalizie per il 2022, le 15 idee più belle e di tendenza
Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Unghie natalizie per il 2022, le 15 idee più belle e di tendenza da ricreare
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Il record di volo continuo sono 64 giorni per un Cessna 172. Semplicemente folle.
Money quote: “The long flying hours, high work load, and poor sleep began to wear on the crew over time. On January 9 around 2:55 AM, Timm fell asleep while flying over Blythe, California, a few minutes before the end of his 4-hour shift. Cook remained asleep, and Timm eventually woke up at 4 a.m, with the aircraft having flown itself for over an hour with the wing-levelling Mitchell autopilot keeping the plane in the air. Speaking to a reporter after the flight, Timm noted “I made a vow to myself that I would never tell John what had happened.””
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/25/the-longest-ever-flight-was-over-64-days-in-a-cessna-172/
Money quote: “The long flying hours, high work load, and poor sleep began to wear on the crew over time. On January 9 around 2:55 AM, Timm fell asleep while flying over Blythe, California, a few minutes before the end of his 4-hour shift. Cook remained asleep, and Timm eventually woke up at 4 a.m, with the aircraft having flown itself for over an hour with the wing-levelling Mitchell autopilot keeping the plane in the air. Speaking to a reporter after the flight, Timm noted “I made a vow to myself that I would never tell John what had happened.””
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/25/the-longest-ever-flight-was-over-64-days-in-a-cessna-172/
Hackaday
The Longest Ever Flight Was Over 64 Days In A Cessna 172
Often, when we think of long-endurance flights, our first thoughts jump to military operations. Big planes with highly-trained crew will fly for long periods, using air-to-air refuelling to stay al…
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Pensierino natalizio. Sapete una cosa? È più soddisfacente l'erotismo di duemila anni fa che la pornografia onnipresente di oggi, in 4K e dolby surround. Strano eh? Ma ci sono dei motivi.
Money quote: "Sappho’s restraint remains strangely gratifying today, when sexuality is so intensely visual, imposed top-down through the peculiar marriage of pornography and pop culture. Her verses are themselves pornographic, of course, but we’d be shortsighted in aligning them with the music videos, high-street adverts and internet clips that dominate our sexual imaginations today. Modern porn is, on the whole, relentlessly present-tense, populated by anonymous bodies performing athletic feats for the instant gratification of a voyeuristic audience. That Sappho’s work – intimate, reflective, euphemistic – maintains its allure against such a backdrop is surely significant, then. What does her work provide that modern porn cannot? And what does this tell us about our sexual imaginations more generally?"
https://aeon.co/essays/how-ancient-poetry-can-revitalise-our-erotic-imaginations
Money quote: "Sappho’s restraint remains strangely gratifying today, when sexuality is so intensely visual, imposed top-down through the peculiar marriage of pornography and pop culture. Her verses are themselves pornographic, of course, but we’d be shortsighted in aligning them with the music videos, high-street adverts and internet clips that dominate our sexual imaginations today. Modern porn is, on the whole, relentlessly present-tense, populated by anonymous bodies performing athletic feats for the instant gratification of a voyeuristic audience. That Sappho’s work – intimate, reflective, euphemistic – maintains its allure against such a backdrop is surely significant, then. What does her work provide that modern porn cannot? And what does this tell us about our sexual imaginations more generally?"
https://aeon.co/essays/how-ancient-poetry-can-revitalise-our-erotic-imaginations
Aeon
Eros at play
Why the ancient erotic poems of Sappho and Wallada bint al-Mustakfi are far more stimulating than modern pornography
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Le cuffiette in-ear (gli auricolari dei telefonini) a quanto pare sfasciano l'udito. Stiamo preparando una generazione o due di sordi
Money quote: "Alison M. Grimes, Director of Audiology and Newborn Hearing Screening at UCLA Health, says that two main factors contribute to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL): how loud the sound is and the duration of that sound. “The ear doesn’t care if it’s Tchaikovsky or Grateful Dead,” she says. “It’s all about sound pressure level in the ear canal.”"
https://elemental.medium.com/something-you-dont-want-to-hear-about-earbuds-d554e85696b5
Money quote: "Alison M. Grimes, Director of Audiology and Newborn Hearing Screening at UCLA Health, says that two main factors contribute to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL): how loud the sound is and the duration of that sound. “The ear doesn’t care if it’s Tchaikovsky or Grateful Dead,” she says. “It’s all about sound pressure level in the ear canal.”"
https://elemental.medium.com/something-you-dont-want-to-hear-about-earbuds-d554e85696b5
Medium
Something You Don’t Want to Hear About Earbuds
Young adults are experiencing hearing loss and experts say earbuds are to blame. But there are ways to jam out safely.
Se la stampa sta scomparendo, quale tipo di lavoro alternativo possono trovare i giornalisti? A quanto pare il venture capitalist (che peraltro in Italia praticamente non esiste).
Money quote: "“Journalism is helpful because you are often parachuted into stories that you know absolutely nothing about. I found the fact that I had been trained to make up my mind about a confusing set of information extremely helpful,” Michael Moritz , chairman of Sequoia Capital and former Time bureau chief."
https://medium.com/@jdromberg/why-the-molested-journalist-to-venture-capitalist-path-actually-makes-sense-adecb54b8d78
Money quote: "“Journalism is helpful because you are often parachuted into stories that you know absolutely nothing about. I found the fact that I had been trained to make up my mind about a confusing set of information extremely helpful,” Michael Moritz , chairman of Sequoia Capital and former Time bureau chief."
https://medium.com/@jdromberg/why-the-molested-journalist-to-venture-capitalist-path-actually-makes-sense-adecb54b8d78
Medium
Why The Molested Journalist-to-Venture Capitalist Path Actually Makes Sense
“Journalism is helpful because you are often parachuted into stories that you know absolutely nothing about. I found the fact that I had…
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La parte più intrigante di Tetris: la funzione che genera la discesa dei blocchi con un ordine casuale
Money quote: "In Tetris, a randomizer is a function which returns a randomly chosen piece. Over the years, the rules of how pieces are chosen has evolved, affecting gameplay and actual randomness.
Several of them have been reversed engineered and documented. I’ve curated a list of ones that I believed to be important and show how the state of Tetris has changed over the years."
https://simon.lc/the-history-of-tetris-randomizers
Money quote: "In Tetris, a randomizer is a function which returns a randomly chosen piece. Over the years, the rules of how pieces are chosen has evolved, affecting gameplay and actual randomness.
Several of them have been reversed engineered and documented. I’ve curated a list of ones that I believed to be important and show how the state of Tetris has changed over the years."
https://simon.lc/the-history-of-tetris-randomizers
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A quando risale quel palazzo? E quell'altro? In Olanda si vede che la domanda la facevano in molti e di frequente, perché hanno tirato su un database con la data di costruzione di quasi tutti gli edifici presenti nel Paese, e l'hanno messo online in un GIS che ha come base la mappa del territorio urbano nazionale. Una bomba.
Money quote: "All 10 million or so buildings in the Netherlands. Building heights and date of construction from 3D BAG (Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen) data."
https://parallel.co.uk/netherlands/
Money quote: "All 10 million or so buildings in the Netherlands. Building heights and date of construction from 3D BAG (Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen) data."
https://parallel.co.uk/netherlands/
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Chiudiamo l'anno con una domanda: esiste vita fuori dalla Terra? Il punto con gli alieni è che non hanno punti di contatto con la vita della Terra. E quindi per cercarli dovremmo dimenticare quel che sappiamo e partire con un approccio molto più aperto. Ammesso che li vogliamo trovare, gli alieni.
Money quote: "The search for exotic life therefore must begin close to home. The moons of Saturn and Jupiter offer a test case of whether biology could exist without an atmosphere. Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus both have inner oceans and internal heat sources. Enceladus spews huge geysers of water vapour from its south pole; Europa appears to puff off occasional plumes as well. Future space missions could fly through the plumes and study them for possible biochemicals. NASA’s proposed Europa lander, which could launch in about a decade, could seek out possible microbe-laced ocean water that seeped up or snowed back down onto the surface."
https://aeon.co/ideas/to-find-aliens-we-must-think-of-life-as-we-dont-know-it
Money quote: "The search for exotic life therefore must begin close to home. The moons of Saturn and Jupiter offer a test case of whether biology could exist without an atmosphere. Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus both have inner oceans and internal heat sources. Enceladus spews huge geysers of water vapour from its south pole; Europa appears to puff off occasional plumes as well. Future space missions could fly through the plumes and study them for possible biochemicals. NASA’s proposed Europa lander, which could launch in about a decade, could seek out possible microbe-laced ocean water that seeped up or snowed back down onto the surface."
https://aeon.co/ideas/to-find-aliens-we-must-think-of-life-as-we-dont-know-it
Aeon
To find aliens, we must think of life as we don’t know it
To find life beyond Earth, we need to open our minds to truly alien types of physical, chemical and biological processes
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Ciao! Fine dell'anno! Ultimissime cartoline! Prima che l'omaggio per chi dona finisca, fai ancora in tempo (passa da qui https://antoniodini.com/cartolina/ ). Invece, io voglio ringraziare tutte voi che avete donato: siete tantissime, mi avete travolto, wow! Grazie! Buon 2023!
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Su questo canale cerco di toccare i temi della sessualità e dell'affettività tra adulti perché ritengo siano uno degli aspetti che la scrittura liberata da Internet possa arricchire di più. Cose che di solito non si trovano, insomma, e che vanno sempre lette in modo critico. Ma adesso si può scegliere. Questo che segue è un buon esempio. Una donna pansessuale racconta la sua identità e la relazione che ha costruito con il marito etero.
Con un minimo di onestà intellettuale credo che milioni di maschi eterosessuali non riescano a immaginare niente di più (o niente di meglio) che "essere il pene nella vita della propria compagna". Ahimé e ahiloro (le compagne, intendo).
Money quote: "He keeps coming back to this assumption — or is it insecurity ?— that I’ll be sexually unfulfilled without a female sexual partner, no matter how many times I tell him that pansexuality is not about having multiple partners. (Pan people — just like straight or gay people — can be poly or monogamous.)
To me, being with another person would mean transitioning to a poly relationship, and this would be the case regardless of gender. But to him, my being with a woman vs. my being with another man are two completely different things.
He’s a trans ally, but I doubt he’d be so supportive of me being with a woman if that woman had a penis. I want him to be the person in my life. He wants to be the penis in my life."
https://humanparts.medium.com/i-dont-understand-straight-people-even-though-i-m-married-to-one-f63a762fc66c
Con un minimo di onestà intellettuale credo che milioni di maschi eterosessuali non riescano a immaginare niente di più (o niente di meglio) che "essere il pene nella vita della propria compagna". Ahimé e ahiloro (le compagne, intendo).
Money quote: "He keeps coming back to this assumption — or is it insecurity ?— that I’ll be sexually unfulfilled without a female sexual partner, no matter how many times I tell him that pansexuality is not about having multiple partners. (Pan people — just like straight or gay people — can be poly or monogamous.)
To me, being with another person would mean transitioning to a poly relationship, and this would be the case regardless of gender. But to him, my being with a woman vs. my being with another man are two completely different things.
He’s a trans ally, but I doubt he’d be so supportive of me being with a woman if that woman had a penis. I want him to be the person in my life. He wants to be the penis in my life."
https://humanparts.medium.com/i-dont-understand-straight-people-even-though-i-m-married-to-one-f63a762fc66c
Medium
I Don’t Understand Straight People, Even Though I’m Married to One
I’m confident in my sexuality, but my husband’s makes no sense to me
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C'è un pezzetto di Francia che è stato talmente tanto devastato durante la Prima guerra mondiale da essere tuttora non abitabile. Benvenuti nella Zone Rouge. Questo anche, visto che sono passati settant’anni, per rendersi conto di cosa sta succedendo in Ucraina.
Money quote: "In an attempt to salvage this land, a special munitions-clearing agency was created. Called the Department du Deminage, it has, over the decades, helped to reduce the extent of the Zone Rouge, destroying hundreds of thousands of munitions and chemical shells, and returning some land to civilian and agricultural use. Their overwhelming task is aided by French farmers, who each year collect a huge amount of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, shrapnel, and bullets during the annual “Iron Harvest.”
Despite these efforts, the Zone Rouge is unlikely to be restored completely any time soon."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/zone-rouge
Money quote: "In an attempt to salvage this land, a special munitions-clearing agency was created. Called the Department du Deminage, it has, over the decades, helped to reduce the extent of the Zone Rouge, destroying hundreds of thousands of munitions and chemical shells, and returning some land to civilian and agricultural use. Their overwhelming task is aided by French farmers, who each year collect a huge amount of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, shrapnel, and bullets during the annual “Iron Harvest.”
Despite these efforts, the Zone Rouge is unlikely to be restored completely any time soon."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/zone-rouge
Atlas Obscura
France's Forbidden 'Red Zone'
A swath of the country so devastated by war it is still too dangerous to go there.
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