Ho trovato pochi argomenti più divisivi di quello che vede opposti gli amanti delle auto tradizionali e quelli delle nuove auto elettriche. Leticano in maniera veramente spettacolare alle volte, e sono – entrambe le fazioni – portatrici di verità assolute. Ebbene, forse il cambiamento è un po' più profondo di quel che sembra, se è vero che i giovani non amano più l'auto, che una volta era il simbolo dell'emancipazione.
Money quote: "Few technologies defined the 20th century more than the car. On the surface, the love affair with the personal automobile continues unabated into this century. The number of drivers on the world’s roads continues to rise almost everywhere. The distance driven by American motorists hit a new peak last year, according to data from the Federal Highway Administration. But there are hints that this is changing. People like Ms Crandall show why. Getting a driving licence was once a nearly universal rite of passage into adulthood. Now it is something that a growing minority of young people either ignore or actively oppose, into their 20s and beyond."
https://www.economist.com/international/2023/02/16/throughout-the-rich-world-the-young-are-falling-out-of-love-with-cars
Money quote: "Few technologies defined the 20th century more than the car. On the surface, the love affair with the personal automobile continues unabated into this century. The number of drivers on the world’s roads continues to rise almost everywhere. The distance driven by American motorists hit a new peak last year, according to data from the Federal Highway Administration. But there are hints that this is changing. People like Ms Crandall show why. Getting a driving licence was once a nearly universal rite of passage into adulthood. Now it is something that a growing minority of young people either ignore or actively oppose, into their 20s and beyond."
https://www.economist.com/international/2023/02/16/throughout-the-rich-world-the-young-are-falling-out-of-love-with-cars
The Economist
Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars
Discover why Gen Zs and millennials in developed countries are choosing not to drive, a trend that is reshaping urban planning, transport policy and consumer preferences
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Cibo. Fumo. Dipendenze varie. Come smetterle? C'è il modo. Anzi, i modi. Qui una collezione di articoli che spiega come fare.
Money quote: "Whether you’re interested in the science of habit change or specific tactics for cutting out sugar or social media, these strategies can help you find meaning in self sacrifice beyond self-improvement."
https://getpocket.com/collections/how-to-quit-almost-anything
Money quote: "Whether you’re interested in the science of habit change or specific tactics for cutting out sugar or social media, these strategies can help you find meaning in self sacrifice beyond self-improvement."
https://getpocket.com/collections/how-to-quit-almost-anything
Pocket
How to Quit Just About Anything
Whether you’re interested in the science of habit change or specific tactics for cutting out sugar or social media, these strategies can help you find meaning in self sacrifice beyond self-improvement.
Volete sapere una cosa? Il cinema sta diventando una schifezza. Non tanto i film, quanto le proiezioni nelle sale cinematografiche. E il paradosso è che costano sempre di più. Il che, da un punto di vista economico ma anche semplicemente logico non ha semplicemente senso.
Money quote: "I’m watching Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — in which she plays Ant-Man’s girlfriend’s mom, Janet van Dyne, and he plays time-traveling villain Kang the Conqueror — at the AMC Empire 25 near Times Square. Although a ticket to this matinee costs more than a month’s worth of Netflix’s priciest subnoscription plan, the image onscreen is so dim that it’s hard to make out much of the movie’s action and all of its glamorous stars have been turned dark gray. Next to me is Jack Theakston, a projection specialist who works as a contractor at Dolby Laboratories, who immediately diagnoses the problem: This is a 2-D showing of Ant-Man, but some neglectful employee has forgotten to remove the 3-D filter from the projector.
“It’s a polarized lens that cuts a picture’s brightness by a third,” he says. “They just have to push it to the side when they switch to 2-D, but theaters forget to do it all the time. You can tell when it’s happening because if you look at the port-window glass, instead of a single image, you’ll see two, with one stacked on top of the other.” He points up to the booth behind us, and sure enough, there are two stacked beams."
https://www.vulture.com/2023/03/movie-theater-projector-amc-regal.html
Money quote: "I’m watching Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — in which she plays Ant-Man’s girlfriend’s mom, Janet van Dyne, and he plays time-traveling villain Kang the Conqueror — at the AMC Empire 25 near Times Square. Although a ticket to this matinee costs more than a month’s worth of Netflix’s priciest subnoscription plan, the image onscreen is so dim that it’s hard to make out much of the movie’s action and all of its glamorous stars have been turned dark gray. Next to me is Jack Theakston, a projection specialist who works as a contractor at Dolby Laboratories, who immediately diagnoses the problem: This is a 2-D showing of Ant-Man, but some neglectful employee has forgotten to remove the 3-D filter from the projector.
“It’s a polarized lens that cuts a picture’s brightness by a third,” he says. “They just have to push it to the side when they switch to 2-D, but theaters forget to do it all the time. You can tell when it’s happening because if you look at the port-window glass, instead of a single image, you’ll see two, with one stacked on top of the other.” He points up to the booth behind us, and sure enough, there are two stacked beams."
https://www.vulture.com/2023/03/movie-theater-projector-amc-regal.html
VULTURE
Bad Projection Is Ruining the Movie Theater Experience
Movie theaters like AMC and Regal are failing at their most basic function: delivering a bright, sharp image.
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Forwarded from Fumettologica
Claudio Villa, uno dei principali disegnatori Bonelli e copertinista di Tex dal 1994, si racconta a Fumettologica in una lunga intervista ricca di passaggi notevoli come questo:
"Mi sono reso conto nel tempo quanta concentrazione e intensità mentale ci vogliano per tenere in piedi una storia a fumetti.
Da fuori, uno legge un fumetto e pensa che il talento naturale basti a risolvere ogni problema. Ma raccontare è un’altra cosa: devi uscire da te stesso, per evitare di proporre qualcosa che potrebbe essere equivocato, ti devi mettere nei panni del lettore, che non conosce la storia, e sottoporti a un fuoco di fila di critiche. Ti devi chiedere il perché di ogni segno che metti sulla carta, perché devi saper giustificare ogni scelta che fai."
👉 https://bit.ly/40seL1h
"Mi sono reso conto nel tempo quanta concentrazione e intensità mentale ci vogliano per tenere in piedi una storia a fumetti.
Da fuori, uno legge un fumetto e pensa che il talento naturale basti a risolvere ogni problema. Ma raccontare è un’altra cosa: devi uscire da te stesso, per evitare di proporre qualcosa che potrebbe essere equivocato, ti devi mettere nei panni del lettore, che non conosce la storia, e sottoporti a un fuoco di fila di critiche. Ti devi chiedere il perché di ogni segno che metti sulla carta, perché devi saper giustificare ogni scelta che fai."
👉 https://bit.ly/40seL1h
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A quanto pare sempre più aziende stanno tornando a usare dei server interni, anche se configurati come forme di cloud. Il pendolo, insomma, sta andando dalla parte del centro di calcolo locale anziché tutto nella nuvola. È più complicato che non una semplice retromarcia, ma è comunque interessante.
Money quote: "According to a 2022 report by Bessemer Ventures, there has been a significant uptick in the adoption of virtual private clouds. The report suggests that, “it is becoming easier to package SaaS products and deploy them inside a customer’s virtual private cloud (VPC). This is due in part to the standardization around Kubernetes as the operating system of the cloud. This makes it easier for SaaS companies to serve a wider range of customers that may prefer to keep certain sensitive data or applications in a VPC.” "
https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/02/20/are-companies-shifting-away-from-public-clouds/
Money quote: "According to a 2022 report by Bessemer Ventures, there has been a significant uptick in the adoption of virtual private clouds. The report suggests that, “it is becoming easier to package SaaS products and deploy them inside a customer’s virtual private cloud (VPC). This is due in part to the standardization around Kubernetes as the operating system of the cloud. This makes it easier for SaaS companies to serve a wider range of customers that may prefer to keep certain sensitive data or applications in a VPC.” "
https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/02/20/are-companies-shifting-away-from-public-clouds/
stackoverflow.blog
Are clouds having their on-prem moment? - Stack Overflow
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Per quelli di voi che non sono tecnici (scrivono o gestiscono contenuti) ma sentono il bisogno di imparare Html e Css (e anche un po' di Javanoscript) divertendosi. Un corso video online con gli zombi. Mah.
Money quote: "This video course, Code Isn’t as Scary as Zombies: HTML & CSS for Writers, Editors, and Beginners, will give you an introduction to HTML and CSS so you can understand what they do, how they work, and get your writing looking great on the web. We’ll pull out the baseball bats and start smacking down some zombie problems you’ve struggled with before like the gobbledygook Microsoft Word throws onto your page, how to align photos independently, how to create tables, how to implement responsive design and so much more.
By the end of this course you’ll have knocked the snot out of your coding fears and be armed with practical skills you can take to the bank (or wherever you store your money after the apocalypse)."
https://undead.institute/tired-of-your-online-writing-looking-like-unformatted-zombie-puke/
Money quote: "This video course, Code Isn’t as Scary as Zombies: HTML & CSS for Writers, Editors, and Beginners, will give you an introduction to HTML and CSS so you can understand what they do, how they work, and get your writing looking great on the web. We’ll pull out the baseball bats and start smacking down some zombie problems you’ve struggled with before like the gobbledygook Microsoft Word throws onto your page, how to align photos independently, how to create tables, how to implement responsive design and so much more.
By the end of this course you’ll have knocked the snot out of your coding fears and be armed with practical skills you can take to the bank (or wherever you store your money after the apocalypse)."
https://undead.institute/tired-of-your-online-writing-looking-like-unformatted-zombie-puke/
The Undead Institute
Tired of Your Online Writing Looking Like Unformatted, Zombie Barf? - The Undead Institute
Have you put the finishing touches on your latest masterpiece only to have it published online looking like a pile of rotting Zombie-the-pooh? Have you excitedly uploaded an awesome post to your blog, just to be frustrated by how it looked? You put hard work…
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La fantastica storia del Giappone, del Natale e del Kentucky Fried Chicken. Notevole.
Money quote: "After visiting a KFC test-store in the 1970 World Expo in Osaka, a young entrepreneur named Takeshi Okawara was smitten by the late-stage success of the company’s founder, Harland Sanders. A restless businessman himself, Okawara was humbled by the jovial American who job-hopped into his 60s before hitting the big time with his first KFC. When a recruiter offered Okawara an administrative position, he declined, opting instead to be the in-store manager of Japan’s very first KFC. “By doing that I can learn and study about how to make wonderful fried chicken, by myself, from scratch,” he told Business Insider’s podcast Household Name."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-japanese-christmas
Money quote: "After visiting a KFC test-store in the 1970 World Expo in Osaka, a young entrepreneur named Takeshi Okawara was smitten by the late-stage success of the company’s founder, Harland Sanders. A restless businessman himself, Okawara was humbled by the jovial American who job-hopped into his 60s before hitting the big time with his first KFC. When a recruiter offered Okawara an administrative position, he declined, opting instead to be the in-store manager of Japan’s very first KFC. “By doing that I can learn and study about how to make wonderful fried chicken, by myself, from scratch,” he told Business Insider’s podcast Household Name."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-japanese-christmas
Atlas Obscura
How a White Lie Gave Japan KFC for Christmas
One cunning business maneuver created a tradition and saved a franchise.
Spigolature per capire la politica americana in un passaggio storico complesso e difficile da comprendere: un lungo ritratto di Brett Kavanaugh, ineffabile e inaffondabile giudice della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti (una posizione di enorme potere, per quanto molto tecnico).
Money quote: "In 1987, Judge Robert Bork, who sat on the DC circuit that Kavanaugh later served on, was the first originalist judge nominated to the Supreme Court. And though the Court was much less conservative than it is now, the Bork nomination and Bork’s philosophy became this flashpoint for conservatives and liberals. And he was ultimately defeated. For the first time, we were debating whether or not nominees’ judicial philosophy was legitimate to take into account –– which is taken as accepted reason now.
Eventually, Anthony Kennedy, another appeals court judge, was named to take his place. That created a much less conservative, much more moderate court than if Bork had been named."
https://longreads.com/2019/12/17/interview-with-ruth-marcus/
Money quote: "In 1987, Judge Robert Bork, who sat on the DC circuit that Kavanaugh later served on, was the first originalist judge nominated to the Supreme Court. And though the Court was much less conservative than it is now, the Bork nomination and Bork’s philosophy became this flashpoint for conservatives and liberals. And he was ultimately defeated. For the first time, we were debating whether or not nominees’ judicial philosophy was legitimate to take into account –– which is taken as accepted reason now.
Eventually, Anthony Kennedy, another appeals court judge, was named to take his place. That created a much less conservative, much more moderate court than if Bork had been named."
https://longreads.com/2019/12/17/interview-with-ruth-marcus/
Longreads
‘They Were Growing Seedlings…Which Would Sprout To Become Supreme Court Justices’ - Longreads
Ruth Marcus discusses the Federalist Society’s 30-year Justice-grooming project, the botched investigations, and everything else that brought us “too big to fail” Brett Kavanaugh.
Preoccuparsi della propria mortalità come individui e di coppia. La miseria della vita messa in scena ovviamente in un lungo, lunghissimo articolo di quel genere memorialistico che contribuisce a fare del giornalismo americano una eccezione storica e planetaria.
Money quote: "My first husband is a traveling salesman and I live in constant fear he’ll die in a plane crash. It’s an anxiety exacerbated by my mother’s habit of phoning every single time she’s about to board a flight and reciting the same litany of worst-case information: her bank account numbers, who to call to cash out her life insurance policy, which jewelry I can expect to find in her safety deposit box."
https://longreads.com/2018/12/19/losing-the-plot/
Money quote: "My first husband is a traveling salesman and I live in constant fear he’ll die in a plane crash. It’s an anxiety exacerbated by my mother’s habit of phoning every single time she’s about to board a flight and reciting the same litany of worst-case information: her bank account numbers, who to call to cash out her life insurance policy, which jewelry I can expect to find in her safety deposit box."
https://longreads.com/2018/12/19/losing-the-plot/
Longreads
Losing the Plot - Longreads
A personal essay from our Fine Lines series in which Sari Botton finds that not planning for death is, well, killing her.
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A Portland, la città nell'Oregon che sta a metà fra San Francisco e Seattle, c'è la Nike e c'è una vivace scena di baracchini del cibo che sono diventati un fenomeno molto superiore a quello che si trova in una strada a Midtown, a Manhattan, o davanti al Politecnico a Milano. Lettura gustosa.
Money quote: "Over the years, food carts have served as launching pads for some of Portland’s best-known restaurants: Nong’s Khao Man Gai, outlandish sandwich shop Lardo, and the Salt & Straw ice cream behemoth all started as food carts. So it could be that the sandwich you’re eating from a compostable carton or the unexpected fusion dish you’re slurping in a gravel lot might be from the next James Beard Award-winning restaurant."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-portlands-food-cart-culture
Money quote: "Over the years, food carts have served as launching pads for some of Portland’s best-known restaurants: Nong’s Khao Man Gai, outlandish sandwich shop Lardo, and the Salt & Straw ice cream behemoth all started as food carts. So it could be that the sandwich you’re eating from a compostable carton or the unexpected fusion dish you’re slurping in a gravel lot might be from the next James Beard Award-winning restaurant."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-portlands-food-cart-culture
Atlas Obscura
Inside Portland’s Food Cart Culture
The city's iconic pods are famous for innovative–and often outlandish—culinary creations.
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Una delle cose più affascinanti di Medium è l'assoluta medietà complessiva delle cose che vi si trovano. Il sito è costruito per premiare chi tra gli anonimi autori non professionisti (ma a cui piacerebbe molto diventarlo) viene più applaudito dai lettori e quindi non ci si può trovare l'eccellenza quanto la lusinga e la furbizia. In questo caso, un vecchio caso: le ragioni del cuore, in un tentativo di condividere le proprie miserie con le altrui. Ovviamente, nella sua nicchia, funziona. Anche se, bisogna dirlo, per arrivare ai livelli della televisione del pomeriggio, ce ne vuole.
Money quote: "I had left my husband for many reasons, but this man in front of me had been the crow bar I’d finally used to wedge myself out of that annihilating relationship.
I’d been a coward in not leaving years before, in not leaving as soon as I filed for divorce three months before, in waiting to leave until after this man got me alone in his office and pointed to the soft spot below his ear and said, “I love your short hair. It makes me want to touch you right here.”
The heart is an extremely forgiving muscle. It airbrushes defects when we love someone."
https://web.archive.org/web/20191216203332/https://psiloveyou.xyz/what-its-like-to-date-the-person-you-left-your-husband-for-7b5b35e99e41?gi=dd79db9ddaad
Money quote: "I had left my husband for many reasons, but this man in front of me had been the crow bar I’d finally used to wedge myself out of that annihilating relationship.
I’d been a coward in not leaving years before, in not leaving as soon as I filed for divorce three months before, in waiting to leave until after this man got me alone in his office and pointed to the soft spot below his ear and said, “I love your short hair. It makes me want to touch you right here.”
The heart is an extremely forgiving muscle. It airbrushes defects when we love someone."
https://web.archive.org/web/20191216203332/https://psiloveyou.xyz/what-its-like-to-date-the-person-you-left-your-husband-for-7b5b35e99e41?gi=dd79db9ddaad
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I problemi di leggere fumetti sul tablet - la mia nuova rubrica su Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2023/03/leggere-fumetti-tablet/
https://fumettologica.it/2023/03/leggere-fumetti-tablet/
Fumettologica
I problemi di leggere fumetti sul tablet
Leggere fumetti su tablet comporta una serie di vantaggi, ma anche molti problemi, come perdere il senso delle dimensioni della pagina.
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La mia recensione di Apple Music Classical per Macity
Money quote 1: "Abbiamo detto che l’app consente di “pescare” da un catalogo sconfinato in maniera finalmente soddisfacente. Siamo andati a cercare alcune cose che abbiamo nel cuore per vedere se la potenza di ricerca di Apple Music Classical ci permette di trovarle visto che con Apple Music era praticamente impossibile."
Money quote 2: “Sostanzialmente abbiamo trovato tutto il piccolo tesoro della musica più cara di cui conserviamo CD o addirittura dischi di vinile, e altre cose che abbiamo cercato e ascoltato in momenti diversi. Non edizioni analoghe, remix o compilation. Abbiamo trovato esattamente l’edizione che volevamo, quando la volevamo e come la volevamo."
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-music-classical-recensione/
Money quote 1: "Abbiamo detto che l’app consente di “pescare” da un catalogo sconfinato in maniera finalmente soddisfacente. Siamo andati a cercare alcune cose che abbiamo nel cuore per vedere se la potenza di ricerca di Apple Music Classical ci permette di trovarle visto che con Apple Music era praticamente impossibile."
Money quote 2: “Sostanzialmente abbiamo trovato tutto il piccolo tesoro della musica più cara di cui conserviamo CD o addirittura dischi di vinile, e altre cose che abbiamo cercato e ascoltato in momenti diversi. Non edizioni analoghe, remix o compilation. Abbiamo trovato esattamente l’edizione che volevamo, quando la volevamo e come la volevamo."
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-music-classical-recensione/
macitynet.it
Recensione Apple Music Classical, lo streaming per ascoltatori esigenti
App Musica, Apple, Apple Music, Musica Digitale, Recensioni, Streaming
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Una vita di successo senza avere un riscontro materiale (soldi, donne, etc). Ve lo spiega l'ultimo dei raccattati che ho trovato su Medium.
Money quote: "If you’re not careful you can chase the wrong goals for the wrong reasons.
Often people’s goals are associated with making money or achieving a high level of status, which are fine in an of themselves, but they don’t tell the whole story.
If money and fame weren’t part of the equation, how would you define success?"
https://web.archive.org/web/20191209131151/https://medium.com/@Chef_BoyarDEJI/8-signs-of-a-successful-life-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-money-or-fame-e1b6824355cf
Money quote: "If you’re not careful you can chase the wrong goals for the wrong reasons.
Often people’s goals are associated with making money or achieving a high level of status, which are fine in an of themselves, but they don’t tell the whole story.
If money and fame weren’t part of the equation, how would you define success?"
https://web.archive.org/web/20191209131151/https://medium.com/@Chef_BoyarDEJI/8-signs-of-a-successful-life-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-money-or-fame-e1b6824355cf
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Forwarded from Fumettologica
Oggi, nel 1941, nasceva Bonvi, leggendario fumettista italiano creatore delle Sturmtruppen. Per l’occasione pubblichiamo un’intervista del 1974, piuttosto rara e mai più ripubblicata fino ad oggi, in cui Bonvi racconta il suo lavoro e il suo rapporto con i critici e la censura.
👉 https://bit.ly/3lZA77G
👉 https://bit.ly/3lZA77G
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Grazie alle moderne tecnologie siamo in grado di leggere il passato e "vedere" i tatuaggi sulla pelle munmificata degli antichi egizi. Fantastico.
Money quote: "“One complication with the textual record is it biases our understanding of the past to what was recorded,” says Anne Austin, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis who studied the Deir el-Medina mummies for three years while working with the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo. “These tattoos reveal new information that does not appear in the textual record and give us the potential to better understand women’s experiences in the village.”"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tattooed-egyptian-mummies-infrared
Money quote: "“One complication with the textual record is it biases our understanding of the past to what was recorded,” says Anne Austin, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis who studied the Deir el-Medina mummies for three years while working with the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo. “These tattoos reveal new information that does not appear in the textual record and give us the potential to better understand women’s experiences in the village.”"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tattooed-egyptian-mummies-infrared
Atlas Obscura
Modern Tech Is Revealing Ancient Egyptian Tattooing
One woman had 30 images or symbols adorning her body.
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Qual è il senso della vita? Perché vivere? Qual è una vita degna di essere vissuta? Vivi o semplicemente esistenti? Una raffica di domande che hanno steso menti ben penetranti degli ultimi 5mila anni di storia (e pure di qualche migliaio di anni nella preistoria) vengono condensate partendo da un grande ponte sospeso su un fiume per arrivare a William James.
Money quote: "To my surprise and delight, the walkways on the bridge were empty. I’d have the view to myself. With a maximum height of 276 feet (84 metres), it was once regarded as one of the seven wonders of the industrial world. During its construction, 27 workers died, before it was completed in 1883; two years later, Robert Odlum became the first man to jump off the bridge. A swimming instructor who wanted to prove that descending through air at high speed was not necessarily fatal, he sadly died. In the next century, approximately 1,500 people have followed Odlum, for different reasons. I’m not sure how many people are saved by the sign, but I am inclined to think that it is highly ineffective."
https://aeon.co/essays/is-life-worth-living-the-pragmatic-maybe-of-william-james
Money quote: "To my surprise and delight, the walkways on the bridge were empty. I’d have the view to myself. With a maximum height of 276 feet (84 metres), it was once regarded as one of the seven wonders of the industrial world. During its construction, 27 workers died, before it was completed in 1883; two years later, Robert Odlum became the first man to jump off the bridge. A swimming instructor who wanted to prove that descending through air at high speed was not necessarily fatal, he sadly died. In the next century, approximately 1,500 people have followed Odlum, for different reasons. I’m not sure how many people are saved by the sign, but I am inclined to think that it is highly ineffective."
https://aeon.co/essays/is-life-worth-living-the-pragmatic-maybe-of-william-james
Aeon
The greatest use of life
The pragmatist philosopher William James had a crisp and consistent response when asked if life was worth living: maybe
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Un manga che non è molto comune: Arte.
Money quote: "La storia è ambientata all’inizio del XVI secolo in una Firenze rinascimentale in pieno fermento culturale. La protagonista, che dà il nome al manga, è appunto Arte, palesemente ispirata ad Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654), una delle figure più interessanti e carismatiche del panorama artistico di ogni tempo e luogo.
Non è sicuramente l’unica donna degna di nota che la storia dell'arte ci abbia consegnato, infatti di primo acchito non si può far a meno di citare Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) o anche Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625), Camille Claudel (1864-1943) e Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). La vita e l’opera di Artemisia Gentileschi però suscitano particolare curiosità e ammirazione ancora oggi perché lei si fece protagonista di una conquista rivoluzionaria, riuscendo ad ottenere gli stessi diritti e la legittimità accademica dei suoi colleghi maschi, in un contesto estremamente ostile."
https://www.animeclick.it/news/79108-arte-recensione-del-piccolo-capolavoro-manga
Money quote: "La storia è ambientata all’inizio del XVI secolo in una Firenze rinascimentale in pieno fermento culturale. La protagonista, che dà il nome al manga, è appunto Arte, palesemente ispirata ad Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654), una delle figure più interessanti e carismatiche del panorama artistico di ogni tempo e luogo.
Non è sicuramente l’unica donna degna di nota che la storia dell'arte ci abbia consegnato, infatti di primo acchito non si può far a meno di citare Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) o anche Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625), Camille Claudel (1864-1943) e Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). La vita e l’opera di Artemisia Gentileschi però suscitano particolare curiosità e ammirazione ancora oggi perché lei si fece protagonista di una conquista rivoluzionaria, riuscendo ad ottenere gli stessi diritti e la legittimità accademica dei suoi colleghi maschi, in un contesto estremamente ostile."
https://www.animeclick.it/news/79108-arte-recensione-del-piccolo-capolavoro-manga
AnimeClick.it
Arte: recensione del piccolo capolavoro manga
Una vera sorpresa quest’opera prima di Kei Ōkubo
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Alcune foto spettacolari dei maestri giapponesi del bianco e nero
Money quote: "The Japanese Shōwa period, coinciding with the reign of Emperor Hirohito from 1926 to 1989, is noted as one of Japan’s most tumultuous and transformative eras. Over these many decades Japan went from a militaristic empire to a conquered, occupied nation – one that had experienced first-hand the horrors of atomic warfare. After WWII, it crawled out of the embers of defeat to metamorphose into a liberal democracy and an economic powerhouse. This rebirth opened Japan to a deluge of foreign ideas and influences.
Against this backdrop many Japanese photographers would emerge to document the profound changes in their nation with bare, raw realism. Others pushed the boundaries of long held societal norms and taboos.
I’ve taken on the daunting task of picking just five photographers from this long period. These five Shōwa era masters of light exemplify the blistering pace of life that was challenging the very foundations of the nation. They propelled Japanese photography down new pathways."
https://casualphotophile.com/2021/03/16/five-masters-of-light-from-japans-showa-era/
Money quote: "The Japanese Shōwa period, coinciding with the reign of Emperor Hirohito from 1926 to 1989, is noted as one of Japan’s most tumultuous and transformative eras. Over these many decades Japan went from a militaristic empire to a conquered, occupied nation – one that had experienced first-hand the horrors of atomic warfare. After WWII, it crawled out of the embers of defeat to metamorphose into a liberal democracy and an economic powerhouse. This rebirth opened Japan to a deluge of foreign ideas and influences.
Against this backdrop many Japanese photographers would emerge to document the profound changes in their nation with bare, raw realism. Others pushed the boundaries of long held societal norms and taboos.
I’ve taken on the daunting task of picking just five photographers from this long period. These five Shōwa era masters of light exemplify the blistering pace of life that was challenging the very foundations of the nation. They propelled Japanese photography down new pathways."
https://casualphotophile.com/2021/03/16/five-masters-of-light-from-japans-showa-era/
Casual Photophile
Five Masters of Light from Japan's Shōwa Era
The Japanese Shōwa period, coinciding with the reign of Emperor Hirohito from 1926 to 1989, is noted as one of Japan’s most tumultuous and transformative eras. Over these many decades Japan went from a militaristic empire to a conquered, occupied nation –…
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C'è uno strano, ambivalente rapporto tra i filosofi e l'immaginazione: dalla razionalità nata nel Settecento a oggi infatti l'immaginazione ha avuto molteplici ruoli, non sempre accolti in maniera positiva. Una esplorazione un po' classicheggiante/occidentale come scelta e profondità ma interessante.
Money quote: "Kant’s bifurcation hints at why philosophers treat the imagination with both despair and delight. Perhaps the kind of imagination we despise is totally different from its more useful cousin. But in accepting this subdivision, we give up on the possibility of seeing the imagination as a unified mental faculty – which is perhaps more how we experience it."
https://aeon.co/ideas/imagination-is-a-powerful-tool-why-is-philosophy-afraid-of-it
Money quote: "Kant’s bifurcation hints at why philosophers treat the imagination with both despair and delight. Perhaps the kind of imagination we despise is totally different from its more useful cousin. But in accepting this subdivision, we give up on the possibility of seeing the imagination as a unified mental faculty – which is perhaps more how we experience it."
https://aeon.co/ideas/imagination-is-a-powerful-tool-why-is-philosophy-afraid-of-it
Aeon
Imagination is a powerful tool: why is philosophy afraid of it?
Philosophers treat the imagination with trepidation and despair, but it can be a powerful tool if used with constraint
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Manzanar era il campo di concentramento per gli americani di discendenza giapponese durante la Seconda guerra mondiale. Una delle storie vergognose che scompaiono quando chi le mette in essere risulta poi essere il vincitore. Le foto di Dorothea Lange mostrano una storia che è stata censurata fino al 2006.
Money quote: “A viper is nonetheless a viper wherever the egg is hatched—so a Japanese-American, born of Japanese parents—grows up to be a Japanese, not an American.”
https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs
Money quote: “A viper is nonetheless a viper wherever the egg is hatched—so a Japanese-American, born of Japanese parents—grows up to be a Japanese, not an American.”
https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs
Anchor Editions
Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps — Anchor Editions
The military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until 2006.
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