Stiamo sconfiggendo la vecchiaia? Anzi, stiamo sconfiggendo l'invecchiamento?
Money quote: "There are more than two dozen companies looking for safe and effective ways to get rid of these senescent cells in people. The biggest is Unity Biotechnology, founded by the Mayo Clinic scientists behind that mouse experiment and with investors including Jeff Bezos, which is trialing a range of senolytic drugs against diseases like macular degeneration (a cause of blindness) and lung fibrosis. There are many approaches under investigation, including small proteins that target senescent cells, vaccines to encourage the immune system to clear them out, and even gene therapy by a company called Oisín Biotechnologies, named after an Irish mythological character who travels to Tir na nÓg, the land of eternal youth."
https://www.wired.com/story/drugs-aging-medicine-biotech/
Money quote: "There are more than two dozen companies looking for safe and effective ways to get rid of these senescent cells in people. The biggest is Unity Biotechnology, founded by the Mayo Clinic scientists behind that mouse experiment and with investors including Jeff Bezos, which is trialing a range of senolytic drugs against diseases like macular degeneration (a cause of blindness) and lung fibrosis. There are many approaches under investigation, including small proteins that target senescent cells, vaccines to encourage the immune system to clear them out, and even gene therapy by a company called Oisín Biotechnologies, named after an Irish mythological character who travels to Tir na nÓg, the land of eternal youth."
https://www.wired.com/story/drugs-aging-medicine-biotech/
WIRED
A Drug to Treat Aging May Not Be a Pipe Dream
New approaches to the biology of senescence can make lives longer and healthier.
Cosa possono fare i computer? E cosa no? Questo articolo del New Yorker è una lunga intervista a Cory Doctorow, che è un animale strano: scrittore e artista ma anche attivista e soprattutto "tecnologicamente consapevole" (che è il mio modo per dire che non è tanto un "esperto" quanto uno che capisce come funzionano le tecnologie digitali e che relazioni costruiscono con economia, società e via dicendo). Una intervista interessante.
Money quote: "The comeuppance of Big Tech has two major sides. There’s the side that says Facebook invented a mind-control ray to sell you fidget spinners, and then Robert Mercer stole it and made your uncle racist with it, and now we don’t have free will anymore because of Big Data. And those people, I think, are giving cyberpunk real salience, because that is a cyberpunk science-fiction plot, not a thing that happens in the world. Everyone who’s ever claimed to have a mind-control ray turned out to be a liar or deluded.
The other side is, Look at these completely ordinary mediocre monopolists, doing what monopolists have done since the days of the Dutch East India Company, with the same sociopathy, the same cheating, the same ruthlessness—we should do unto them as we did unto the Rockefellers and the Carnegies and so on. And that strain of techlash, I think, rightly views the cyberpunk motifs as fiction that has been mistaken for reality, the same way Elon Musk mistakes the fairy tales about unitary inventors—who, in their lab, create a faster-than-light machine or whatever—for a thing that actually happens in the world, as opposed to a kind of juvenile fantasy, and then declares himself to be Iron Man.
Cyberpunk was a radical literature. And, if you’re going to radicalize people, you have to engage with computers as they are so that people understand that you’re not making up a fairy tale but reflecting on their actual lived experience about things that can happen, do happen, and could be better."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/cory-doctorow-wants-you-to-know-what-computers-can-and-cant-do
Money quote: "The comeuppance of Big Tech has two major sides. There’s the side that says Facebook invented a mind-control ray to sell you fidget spinners, and then Robert Mercer stole it and made your uncle racist with it, and now we don’t have free will anymore because of Big Data. And those people, I think, are giving cyberpunk real salience, because that is a cyberpunk science-fiction plot, not a thing that happens in the world. Everyone who’s ever claimed to have a mind-control ray turned out to be a liar or deluded.
The other side is, Look at these completely ordinary mediocre monopolists, doing what monopolists have done since the days of the Dutch East India Company, with the same sociopathy, the same cheating, the same ruthlessness—we should do unto them as we did unto the Rockefellers and the Carnegies and so on. And that strain of techlash, I think, rightly views the cyberpunk motifs as fiction that has been mistaken for reality, the same way Elon Musk mistakes the fairy tales about unitary inventors—who, in their lab, create a faster-than-light machine or whatever—for a thing that actually happens in the world, as opposed to a kind of juvenile fantasy, and then declares himself to be Iron Man.
Cyberpunk was a radical literature. And, if you’re going to radicalize people, you have to engage with computers as they are so that people understand that you’re not making up a fairy tale but reflecting on their actual lived experience about things that can happen, do happen, and could be better."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/cory-doctorow-wants-you-to-know-what-computers-can-and-cant-do
The New Yorker
Cory Doctorow Wants You to Know What Computers Can and Can’t Do
A conversation about the “mediocre monopolists” of Big Tech, the weirdness of crypto, and the real lessons of science fiction.
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Segnali di vita nella mente degli americani. Inizia un lentissimo dibattito che potrebbe – dico potrebbe – portare alla riconsiderazione del linguaggio e del politicamente corretto nel dibattito pubblico.
Money quote: "The Civic Signals project, which began about four years ago, initially involved conducting a thorough literature review and expert interviews in the U.S. and four other countries to identify the values — or “signals” — people want reflected in the design of online spaces. The team then conducted focus groups and polled more than 22,000 people in 20 countries who were frequent users of social, search, and messaging platforms. Gina Masullo, a professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin, brought an expertise in incivility research to the group. But “pretty early on in the process,” she said, the team concluded that if one of the goals was to support productive political discourse, civility alone was insufficient.
“It’s not really that we are advocating for incivility,” said Masullo. “But if you are going to have passionate discussion about politics, which we want in a democracy, I would argue, people are not always going to talk perfectly about it.” In her book “Nasty Talk: Online Incivility and Public Debate,” she points out that “perfect” speech can be so sanitized that we wind up saying nothing."
https://undark.org/2022/08/15/researchers-ask-does-enforcing-civility-stifle-online-debate/
Money quote: "The Civic Signals project, which began about four years ago, initially involved conducting a thorough literature review and expert interviews in the U.S. and four other countries to identify the values — or “signals” — people want reflected in the design of online spaces. The team then conducted focus groups and polled more than 22,000 people in 20 countries who were frequent users of social, search, and messaging platforms. Gina Masullo, a professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin, brought an expertise in incivility research to the group. But “pretty early on in the process,” she said, the team concluded that if one of the goals was to support productive political discourse, civility alone was insufficient.
“It’s not really that we are advocating for incivility,” said Masullo. “But if you are going to have passionate discussion about politics, which we want in a democracy, I would argue, people are not always going to talk perfectly about it.” In her book “Nasty Talk: Online Incivility and Public Debate,” she points out that “perfect” speech can be so sanitized that we wind up saying nothing."
https://undark.org/2022/08/15/researchers-ask-does-enforcing-civility-stifle-online-debate/
Undark Magazine
Researchers Ask: Does Enforcing Civility Stifle Online Debate?
Some researchers argue that civility is a poor metric by which to judge the quality of a debate.
6 libri di fantascienza per iniziare l'anno nuovo - la mia lista per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2023/01/libri-fantascienza-anno-nuovo/
https://fumettologica.it/2023/01/libri-fantascienza-anno-nuovo/
Fumettologica
6 libri di fantascienza per iniziare l’anno nuovo
Una selezione di libri, tra classici e novità, per iniziare l'anno all'insegna di buone letture di fantascienza.
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Ho imparato una parola nuova, molto interessante: "parentificazione". È quando i genitori affidano a un figlio il ruolo di mediatore, amico e custode. In quel caso le ferite psicologiche sono profonde e occorre un lavoro serio e complesso per riuscire a sanarle (terapeutico, direi).
Money quote: "The idea of the ‘parental child’ first appears in the literature in the late 1960s, when a group of psychologists in the United States studied family structure in the inner city. Given the high rates of single motherhood, incarceration, poverty and drugs, they found, it often fell to a child to act as the family’s glue.
The term ‘parentification’ was introduced in 1967 by the family systems theorist Salvador Minuchin, who said the phenomenon occurred when parents de facto delegated parenting roles to children. The concept of parentification was expanded and honed by the psychologist Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, who offered that deep problems could emerge in the child when a family exhibited an imbalanced ledger of give and take between parents and children. Since then, psychologists have charted parentification across cultures and taken an inventory of the fallout, from the consequences to adult life on the one hand to hard-earned resilience on the other.
If you think about it, your adult circle of acquaintances, colleagues and friends probably include some who fit the bill. You might recognise the once-parentified child in the over-responsible coworker, the always-available friend – the one who always seems to be weighed down by something, yet manages to tend to everything despite never asking for help in return. Despite her conscientiousness, this person’s inner world may be impoverished and, if you asked her, she might say she’s running on fumes, or that she wished she had a friend like her."
https://aeon.co/essays/how-can-adults-undo-the-harm-of-being-parentified-as-children
Money quote: "The idea of the ‘parental child’ first appears in the literature in the late 1960s, when a group of psychologists in the United States studied family structure in the inner city. Given the high rates of single motherhood, incarceration, poverty and drugs, they found, it often fell to a child to act as the family’s glue.
The term ‘parentification’ was introduced in 1967 by the family systems theorist Salvador Minuchin, who said the phenomenon occurred when parents de facto delegated parenting roles to children. The concept of parentification was expanded and honed by the psychologist Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, who offered that deep problems could emerge in the child when a family exhibited an imbalanced ledger of give and take between parents and children. Since then, psychologists have charted parentification across cultures and taken an inventory of the fallout, from the consequences to adult life on the one hand to hard-earned resilience on the other.
If you think about it, your adult circle of acquaintances, colleagues and friends probably include some who fit the bill. You might recognise the once-parentified child in the over-responsible coworker, the always-available friend – the one who always seems to be weighed down by something, yet manages to tend to everything despite never asking for help in return. Despite her conscientiousness, this person’s inner world may be impoverished and, if you asked her, she might say she’s running on fumes, or that she wished she had a friend like her."
https://aeon.co/essays/how-can-adults-undo-the-harm-of-being-parentified-as-children
Aeon
The parentified child
When parents cast a child into the role of mediator, friend and carer, the wounds are profound. But recovery is possible
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Fare le liste dei libri per me è diventato un vero e proprio lavoro, nel senso che mi pagano per farlo, anche se altre le faccio per mio piacere e vostra lettura. In questo caso, ne prendo una già fatta da Kottke, che mi pare pop abbastanza per chi ama muoversi di là dall'oceano.
Money quote: "Oh man, I read so many books during my time away from the site this summer — but barely made a dent in the towering pile of books I desired to read. Even so, I am excited to dig into the various end-of-year book lists to see what everyone else has been reading — and what I might add to my own pile for 2023."
https://kottke.org/22/12/the-best-books-of-2022
Money quote: "Oh man, I read so many books during my time away from the site this summer — but barely made a dent in the towering pile of books I desired to read. Even so, I am excited to dig into the various end-of-year book lists to see what everyone else has been reading — and what I might add to my own pile for 2023."
https://kottke.org/22/12/the-best-books-of-2022
kottke.org
The Best Books of 2022
Oh man, I read so many books during my time away from the site this summer — but barely made a dent in the towering pile of books I desired to read.1 Even so, I am excited to dig into the various end-of-year book lists t
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Un altro capitolo nel libro sulla nostalgia che ci pervade: il ritorno delle marche di una volta, sembra quasi il sogno di un vecchio pubblicitario in pensione.
Money quote: "Champion had double-digit growth during the holiday season, which drove the company’s best fourth-quarter performance in four years. Teens in particular are latching on to the label, with 9 percent of upper-income boys and 5 percent of girls starting to wear its clothes this spring, according to a recent survey from Piper Jaffray. Male teens consider it a top-15 brand, ranking alongside such names as Gucci and Tommy Hilfiger. Last year it had nearly $1.4 billion in global sales. The company hopes to cash in on Champion’s newfound cultural cachet and grow it into a $2 billion unit by 2022."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-16/champion-sports-shoes-hoodies-and-brand-make-unlikely-comeback
Money quote: "Champion had double-digit growth during the holiday season, which drove the company’s best fourth-quarter performance in four years. Teens in particular are latching on to the label, with 9 percent of upper-income boys and 5 percent of girls starting to wear its clothes this spring, according to a recent survey from Piper Jaffray. Male teens consider it a top-15 brand, ranking alongside such names as Gucci and Tommy Hilfiger. Last year it had nearly $1.4 billion in global sales. The company hopes to cash in on Champion’s newfound cultural cachet and grow it into a $2 billion unit by 2022."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-16/champion-sports-shoes-hoodies-and-brand-make-unlikely-comeback
Bloomberg.com
Champion Accidentally Hit the Fashion Jackpot
The century-old sports apparel brand is suddenly cool again.
La birra glocal di un impero è la sua colla socio-politica
Money quote: "For Williams, this combination of local materials and imperial iconography reveals a society in the process of solving a question as pertinent in ancient Peru as it is in Brexit-obsessed Europe: How can a large state create political unity across cultural and geographic diversity?"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/alcohol-wari-empire
Money quote: "For Williams, this combination of local materials and imperial iconography reveals a society in the process of solving a question as pertinent in ancient Peru as it is in Brexit-obsessed Europe: How can a large state create political unity across cultural and geographic diversity?"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/alcohol-wari-empire
Atlas Obscura
How Breweries Helped Keep This Pre-Columbian Empire Together
Researchers recreated Wari chicha for science and happy hour.
Certo, cambiare si può, ma non è sempre facile. Ad esempio: il 3 settembre 1967 la Svezia ha cambiato lato di guida: dall'approccio britannico è passata a quello continentale. Non è stata una cosa facile né indolore.
Money quote: "No wonder, the Swedish protested when a suggestion was put forward in the early 1950s. When a referendum was held in 1955, 83 percent voters voted against the idea. Despite this, the government pushed forward for the change to put Sweden on the same path as the rest of its European neighbors."
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/dagen-h-day-sweden-switched-traffic.html
Money quote: "No wonder, the Swedish protested when a suggestion was put forward in the early 1950s. When a referendum was held in 1955, 83 percent voters voted against the idea. Despite this, the government pushed forward for the change to put Sweden on the same path as the rest of its European neighbors."
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/dagen-h-day-sweden-switched-traffic.html
Amusingplanet
Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides
Lavori di trascrizione e letture domenicali: una lezione di Larry Tesler e Chris Espinosa sulle origini della Apple Human Interface presentata al Computer History Museum
Money quote: "Being extremely interested in the subject myself, and seeing how apparently little thought is being given today to the subject, I wanted to quote a few selected excerpts from the talk, just to show what kind of hard work creating a user interface was back in the day when the Apple Lisa was being developed. It turns out that isolating this or that bit was futile, as the whole talk is made up of such cohesive, engrossing discourse. So I chose to transcribe it almost entirely, and add a few personal remarks here and there. I hope this turns out to be as interesting to you as it was to me."
http://morrick.me/archives/8432
Money quote: "Being extremely interested in the subject myself, and seeing how apparently little thought is being given today to the subject, I wanted to quote a few selected excerpts from the talk, just to show what kind of hard work creating a user interface was back in the day when the Apple Lisa was being developed. It turns out that isolating this or that bit was futile, as the whole talk is made up of such cohesive, engrossing discourse. So I chose to transcribe it almost entirely, and add a few personal remarks here and there. I hope this turns out to be as interesting to you as it was to me."
http://morrick.me/archives/8432
Riccardo Mori
“Origins of the Apple human interface” lecture — an annotated trannoscription
The lecture was delivered by Larry Tesler and Chris Espinosa in 1997 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
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Se per caso dopocena siete di quelli che guardano le dirette YouTube, yours truly va in diretta qui: https://www.youtube.com/live/MgNU1iBNKZk?feature=share
YouTube
TECNOLOGIA nel GIORNALISMO!💻 - con Antonio Dini
Prosegue il nostro viaggio alla scoperta di nuovi orizzonti su cui posare il nostro sguardo digitale e terreno.
Approdiamo sul pianeta della Comunicazione e del Giornalismo.
Antonio Dini, nato a Firenze, è giornalista, saggista e scrittore. Dal 2000 svolge…
Approdiamo sul pianeta della Comunicazione e del Giornalismo.
Antonio Dini, nato a Firenze, è giornalista, saggista e scrittore. Dal 2000 svolge…
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Il rapporto Usa-Cina è veramente complicato. L'ultima novità è una piattaforma di ecommerce cinese, Temu, che sta sbancando negli Usa. E questo provoca un problema di concorrenza ai campioni americani e di possibili influenze non solo commerciali.
Money quote: "Online shopping site Temu has soared in popularity in the U.S. since its launch in September. The rapid growth of the site, which sells ultra-low-priced goods mostly made in China, has made Shanghai-based Pinduoduo Inc. PDD -1.27% the latest Chinese firm to find success in a country increasingly wary of Beijing as a technology rival.
In less than four months, Temu has racked up 10.8 million installations in the U.S., according to analytics firm Sensor Tower, making it the country’s most downloaded mobile app in any category between Nov. 1 and Dec. 14."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-bargain-hunters-flock-to-a-new-online-platform-forged-in-china-11671851837
Money quote: "Online shopping site Temu has soared in popularity in the U.S. since its launch in September. The rapid growth of the site, which sells ultra-low-priced goods mostly made in China, has made Shanghai-based Pinduoduo Inc. PDD -1.27% the latest Chinese firm to find success in a country increasingly wary of Beijing as a technology rival.
In less than four months, Temu has racked up 10.8 million installations in the U.S., according to analytics firm Sensor Tower, making it the country’s most downloaded mobile app in any category between Nov. 1 and Dec. 14."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-bargain-hunters-flock-to-a-new-online-platform-forged-in-china-11671851837
WSJ
American Bargain Hunters Flock to a New Online Platform Forged in China
Online marketplace Temu, with deep discounts and copious coupons, has become the most downloaded mobile app in the U.S.
La mia anteprima per Macitynet, ecco HomePod 2, la grande musica di Apple. Una bomba!
https://www.macitynet.it/anteprima-macitynet-ecco-homepod-2-la-grande-musica-di-apple/
https://www.macitynet.it/anteprima-macitynet-ecco-homepod-2-la-grande-musica-di-apple/
macitynet.it
Recensione HomePod 2, la grande musica di Apple
Apple, HomeKit, HomePod, Matter, Thread
Casomai voleste fare un giro nella metro di Città del Messico, siate consapevoli che ci sono disfunzioni e polemiche, e anche qualche incidente.
Money quote: "For years now, drivers have said that the Metro system’s faulty automatic pilot program has forced conductors to operate many of the trains manually. To do this, they need to be in close contact to avoid collisions, and workers say the trains’ radio-based communications system is not up to the task. So instead, they often have to use their own cellphones and WhatsApp chats to coordinate with the control center. "
https://restofworld.org/2023/mexico-metro-drivers-whatsapp-trains/
Money quote: "For years now, drivers have said that the Metro system’s faulty automatic pilot program has forced conductors to operate many of the trains manually. To do this, they need to be in close contact to avoid collisions, and workers say the trains’ radio-based communications system is not up to the task. So instead, they often have to use their own cellphones and WhatsApp chats to coordinate with the control center. "
https://restofworld.org/2023/mexico-metro-drivers-whatsapp-trains/
Rest of World
Mexico’s subway drivers depend on WhatsApp to keep the trains running
Cellphone use is banned, but conductors say their work radios have been failing for years.
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Roma ha un problema e non è il traffico. Sono gli storni. Solo che per leggere un articolo decente che lo spieghi ammodo devi aprire il Washington Post.
Money quote: "They return to Rome, bellies full, soon after 4 p.m. They meet in the sky.
The birds move with such synchronicity that one pioneering British ornithologist, Edmund Selous, hypothesized that the starlings were telepathic."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/rome-starlings-birds-murmuration/
Money quote: "They return to Rome, bellies full, soon after 4 p.m. They meet in the sky.
The birds move with such synchronicity that one pioneering British ornithologist, Edmund Selous, hypothesized that the starlings were telepathic."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/rome-starlings-birds-murmuration/
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Forwarded from Fumettologica
Debutta oggi “And So What?”, una nuova rubrica di Fumettologica a cura di Antonio Dini (che trovate anche su Telegram, qui: @mostlyiwrite).
Ogni 15 giorni su “And So What?” troverete analisi critiche e laterali attorno a quell'incrocio molto trafficato fra cultura, tecnologia e mercato.
La rubrica si affiancherà a quelle già in corso da circa un anno, “Sofisticazioni popolari” di Marco Andreoletti (https://bit.ly/3XXXJY1) e “Margini” (https://bit.ly/3Y1FSPS) di Tonio Troiani.
Per noi si tratta della prima novità che vi offriremo nel 2023. Qui a Fumettologica abbiamo in serbo grosse soprese. Stay tuned…
Leggi la prima puntata di “And So What?”
👉 https://bit.ly/3Yllrxd
Ogni 15 giorni su “And So What?” troverete analisi critiche e laterali attorno a quell'incrocio molto trafficato fra cultura, tecnologia e mercato.
La rubrica si affiancherà a quelle già in corso da circa un anno, “Sofisticazioni popolari” di Marco Andreoletti (https://bit.ly/3XXXJY1) e “Margini” (https://bit.ly/3Y1FSPS) di Tonio Troiani.
Per noi si tratta della prima novità che vi offriremo nel 2023. Qui a Fumettologica abbiamo in serbo grosse soprese. Stay tuned…
Leggi la prima puntata di “And So What?”
👉 https://bit.ly/3Yllrxd
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Se n'è andato un altro pezzetto di "storia artificiale", quella creata dal cinema ma poi diventata più vera del vero: il bar di Amici Miei. Da notare che la serie di tre film a Firenze, dove sono nato e cresciuto, non era un complementare. Dopo i viola era materia obbligatoria: a non esser ferrati sulle battete e citazioni della trilogia si rischiava l'ammonizione o addirittura l'espulsione dalla compagnia. E oggi tutto questo non c'è più. Ma l'ottimo Giovanni Bogani ne tratteggia un profilo identitario di buon livello (esame passato a pieni voti).
Money quote: "Ma soprattutto, è scomparso quel mondo. "Amici miei" si ispira in gran parte a personaggi realmente esistiti: come Silvano Nelli, l’autore radiofonico della trasmissione "Il Grillo canterino", che dà spunto al personaggio del Perozzi; o il conte Giorgio Menicanti, che ispira il personaggio del Mascetti. Come gli umoristi Giulio Scarnicci e Renato Tarabusi, autori televisivi degli anni ’50 e ’60; come Ernesto Nelli, architetto che nel 1957 contribuì a progettare il ponte Vespucci. O Mazzingo Donati, immunologo di fama, che ha ispirato la figura del chirurgo Sassaroli. O Cesarino Ricci, autore di operette goliardiche rappresentate anche al teatro Verdi. Viene dalla goliardia fiorentina il cuore antico del film, il suo gusto per la dissacrazione. E quella goliardia non c’è più."
https://www.lanazione.it/firenze/cronaca/bar-necchi-all-asta-1.8496532
Money quote: "Ma soprattutto, è scomparso quel mondo. "Amici miei" si ispira in gran parte a personaggi realmente esistiti: come Silvano Nelli, l’autore radiofonico della trasmissione "Il Grillo canterino", che dà spunto al personaggio del Perozzi; o il conte Giorgio Menicanti, che ispira il personaggio del Mascetti. Come gli umoristi Giulio Scarnicci e Renato Tarabusi, autori televisivi degli anni ’50 e ’60; come Ernesto Nelli, architetto che nel 1957 contribuì a progettare il ponte Vespucci. O Mazzingo Donati, immunologo di fama, che ha ispirato la figura del chirurgo Sassaroli. O Cesarino Ricci, autore di operette goliardiche rappresentate anche al teatro Verdi. Viene dalla goliardia fiorentina il cuore antico del film, il suo gusto per la dissacrazione. E quella goliardia non c’è più."
https://www.lanazione.it/firenze/cronaca/bar-necchi-all-asta-1.8496532
La Nazione
Amici miei, atto finale. Va all'asta il bar Necchi - Cronaca - lanazione.it
Scomparsi registi e attori della leggendaria trilogia. Le location dei film o non ci sono più o sono diventate altro. E la scena degli schiaffi alla stazione oggi sarebbe impossibile
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Le sfide dell'integrazione dall'altra parte del pianeta: mentre la popolazione invecchia il Giappone sta rivedendo le sue politiche sull'immigrazione aprendo sempre più le frontiere. Il risultato è che ci saranno forti tensioni perché il Giappone, come l'Italia, è un paese di emigrazione e non di immigrazione (inclusa tutta la storia dello ius solis e dello ius sanguinis, ricodate?). Un approfondimento pre-pandemico.
Money quote: "While this new immigration will help keep Japan’s economy and pension system afloat, it will inevitably introduce social strains. Unlike the U.S., Canada and other nations whose populations are mainly a hodgepodge of the descendants of recent immigrants, Japan has little history of mass immigration. The one major recent episode of immigration was the movement of Koreans to Japan during the Japanese colonization of Korea and later during the Korean War. Due to Japan’s lack of birthright citizenship, the descendants of those immigrants have become a racialized minority, speaking no Korean but bearing Korean passports. Discrimination against these people, sometimes called Zainichi Koreans, was severe for decades, and though it has decreased substantially in recent years, a far-right fringe has emerged to persecute and slander the Zainichi."
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-22/japan-begins-experiment-of-opening-to-immigration
Money quote: "While this new immigration will help keep Japan’s economy and pension system afloat, it will inevitably introduce social strains. Unlike the U.S., Canada and other nations whose populations are mainly a hodgepodge of the descendants of recent immigrants, Japan has little history of mass immigration. The one major recent episode of immigration was the movement of Koreans to Japan during the Japanese colonization of Korea and later during the Korean War. Due to Japan’s lack of birthright citizenship, the descendants of those immigrants have become a racialized minority, speaking no Korean but bearing Korean passports. Discrimination against these people, sometimes called Zainichi Koreans, was severe for decades, and though it has decreased substantially in recent years, a far-right fringe has emerged to persecute and slander the Zainichi."
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-22/japan-begins-experiment-of-opening-to-immigration
Bloomberg.com
Japan Begins Experiment of Opening to Immigration
As the population ages and shrinks, the country is making it easier for foreigners to work and become citizens.
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Crociera lesbica. Un esempio di giornalismo long form con metodologia post femminista a momenti fin troppo travolgente. Una giornalista che sta esplorando la sua relazione, una compagnia di navigazione che organizza crociere per donne lesbiche, duemila passeggeri e un lungo, lento giro nei Caraibi. Cosa può andare storto?
Money quote: "I had only a vague idea of what to expect when I boarded the Celebrity Summit in April for a weeklong excursion to the Caribbean. Olivia, a groundbreaking women’s record label turned lesbian travel company, named for the hero of a Dorothy Bussy novel, has catered specifically to lesbian vacationers since its maiden voyage in 1990. When I reached out to Olivia, the company offered me a press ticket for one of its Celebrity-partnered cruises so that I could get a sense of how it's become one of the most successful lesbian companies of all time. I generally expected to meet some nice older ladies with interesting life stories, to explore the tensions of intergenerational lesbian culture and the fraught future of lesbian spaces, to laze about on a beach in the Virgin Islands and get to say I was swimming and sunbathing “for work.”
What I didn’t expect was everything else that would happen to me — and is still happening to me — thanks to this one little week in my otherwise pleasantly uneventful life."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/lesbian-cruise
Money quote: "I had only a vague idea of what to expect when I boarded the Celebrity Summit in April for a weeklong excursion to the Caribbean. Olivia, a groundbreaking women’s record label turned lesbian travel company, named for the hero of a Dorothy Bussy novel, has catered specifically to lesbian vacationers since its maiden voyage in 1990. When I reached out to Olivia, the company offered me a press ticket for one of its Celebrity-partnered cruises so that I could get a sense of how it's become one of the most successful lesbian companies of all time. I generally expected to meet some nice older ladies with interesting life stories, to explore the tensions of intergenerational lesbian culture and the fraught future of lesbian spaces, to laze about on a beach in the Virgin Islands and get to say I was swimming and sunbathing “for work.”
What I didn’t expect was everything else that would happen to me — and is still happening to me — thanks to this one little week in my otherwise pleasantly uneventful life."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/lesbian-cruise
BuzzFeed News
The Time I Went On A Lesbian Cruise And It Blew Up My Entire Life
I didn’t expect that spending a week with a couple thousand lesbians on a cruise ship would push me to radically reconsider the future I’d planned for myself.
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La produzione industriale di cibo è tutta un'altra cosa rispetto al lavoro di una cucina, per quanto di grandi dimensioni. Per questo servono costanti controlli di qualità: per assicurarsi che il prodotto "esca" nel modo giusto. Servono parecchie persone addette a questo tipo di controllo. In Cina ci pensano le intelligenze artificiali, che sono anche più brave.
Money quote: "The machines, which can learn on the job, are planted at various points along production lines to monitor the state of the food from raw ingredients to end product. They are equipped with electrical and optical sensors to simulate human eyes, noses and tongues, with a “brain” running a neural network algorithm, which looks for patterns in data."
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3009014/dish-real-chinese-food-ask-ai-taste-testing-robot
Money quote: "The machines, which can learn on the job, are planted at various points along production lines to monitor the state of the food from raw ingredients to end product. They are equipped with electrical and optical sensors to simulate human eyes, noses and tongues, with a “brain” running a neural network algorithm, which looks for patterns in data."
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3009014/dish-real-chinese-food-ask-ai-taste-testing-robot
South China Morning Post
China’s food factory AI robots boost profits, paving way for mass use
Manufacturers are profiting from machines that mimic the senses of human experts but not everybody is ready to let a device have the last word on Chinese cuisine.
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Alcune peculiari (e lunghe) osservazioni sugli zainetti, ieri e oggi. Soprattutto oggi, ma anche ieri.
Money quote: “The backpacks of my youth were not optimized. They had padded straps and meaningless loops that dangled like ponytails. My friends and I wore our backpacks at night and on weekends, on hillsides behind suburban baseball diamonds, in eucalyptus groves where the mud slipped out from beneath our feet. We wore them when we shoplifted from Payless ShoeSource, stuffing plastic sandals into their depths. Our backpacks hung on our frames as we told our moms we were sleeping at a friend’s house but stayed out all night, dodging the moons of streetlights and cars. They were our accomplices and our life vests, and we needed their compartments to be endless.”
https://www.artpractical.com/column/the-metrics-of-backpacks/
Money quote: “The backpacks of my youth were not optimized. They had padded straps and meaningless loops that dangled like ponytails. My friends and I wore our backpacks at night and on weekends, on hillsides behind suburban baseball diamonds, in eucalyptus groves where the mud slipped out from beneath our feet. We wore them when we shoplifted from Payless ShoeSource, stuffing plastic sandals into their depths. Our backpacks hung on our frames as we told our moms we were sleeping at a friend’s house but stayed out all night, dodging the moons of streetlights and cars. They were our accomplices and our life vests, and we needed their compartments to be endless.”
https://www.artpractical.com/column/the-metrics-of-backpacks/
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