Spiegare i supereroi con un podcast - la mia rubrica su Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2023/04/super-chora-media-podcast-supereroi/
https://fumettologica.it/2023/04/super-chora-media-podcast-supereroi/
Fumettologica
Spiegare i supereroi con un podcast
Il podcast Super! di Chora Media, realizzato da Diego Cajelli e Serena Rossi, è un buon modo per spiegare i supereroi ai più piccoli.
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Avete presente la porta sull'estate? Una coppia svedese ha costruito una serra attorno a casa propria. Se sopravvivono al puzzo di stantio, il clima è temperato anche d'inverno.
Money quote: "Marie Granmar and Charles Sacilotto literally live in a bubble, insulated from the cold and the harshness of the elements, while taking in the best of what nature has to offer."
https://returntonow.net/2019/03/04/swedish-couple-builds-greenhouse-around-home-to-stay-warm-and-grow-food-all-year-long/
Money quote: "Marie Granmar and Charles Sacilotto literally live in a bubble, insulated from the cold and the harshness of the elements, while taking in the best of what nature has to offer."
https://returntonow.net/2019/03/04/swedish-couple-builds-greenhouse-around-home-to-stay-warm-and-grow-food-all-year-long/
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I giornali sportivi e la tv offrono una visione tostissima dei concorrenti vittime di dolorose sconfitte. È facile immaginare un atleta sconfitto: postura prona, occhi bassi e il peso del mondo sulle spalle. E lo spauracchio per moltissime persone. Conosciamo tutti la sensazione di sprofondamento, il vuoto nello stomaco che accompagna il dolore di una sconfitta. La delusione per la sconfitta è universale. Ma come si fa ad accettarla?
Money quote: "A core lesson is that the act of losing is not the problem in itself. The problems often arise in one’s relationship to the concept of losing and in how one responds to losing. Part of what separates truly elite competitors from their counterparts is their ability to respond to losses in ways that lead to growth, rather than to a merging with the pain of loss."
https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-be-a-better-loser-and-grow-from-your-mistakes
Money quote: "A core lesson is that the act of losing is not the problem in itself. The problems often arise in one’s relationship to the concept of losing and in how one responds to losing. Part of what separates truly elite competitors from their counterparts is their ability to respond to losses in ways that lead to growth, rather than to a merging with the pain of loss."
https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-be-a-better-loser-and-grow-from-your-mistakes
Psyche
How to be a better loser
As a competitor, you can’t avoid the hurt of losing. But you can learn ways to bounce back stronger and more motivated
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La brutta storia di MySpace che ha perso tutto. Ma lo ha davvero perso?
Money quote: "NPR has reached out for comment from MySpace. According to several media reports, it posted a message on its site recently reading, "As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from MySpace. We apologize for the inconvenience."
"More than 50 million tracks from 14 million artists has been lost," reports The Guardian."
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/18/704458168/myspace-says-it-lost-years-of-user-uploaded-music?t=1553640319879
Money quote: "NPR has reached out for comment from MySpace. According to several media reports, it posted a message on its site recently reading, "As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from MySpace. We apologize for the inconvenience."
"More than 50 million tracks from 14 million artists has been lost," reports The Guardian."
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/18/704458168/myspace-says-it-lost-years-of-user-uploaded-music?t=1553640319879
NPR
MySpace Says It Lost Years Of User-Uploaded Music
Millions of music and other media files may have been lost, the company acknowledges. The news comes after some users reported difficulty accessing their music files over the past year.
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L'invenzione dell'aldilà passa da quelli che hanno avuto una Near Death Experience (e sono cioè tornati per raccontarla)? A quanto pare sì.
Money quote: "Is it possible that this type of extraordinary experience that is universally associated with nearly dying is a fundamental source of beliefs about the afterlife? For many societies, there’s no need to speculate. In historical as well as modern accounts, NDEs are often said to lead directly to new beliefs, including the belief that consciousness can separate from the body and that it continues after death. I’ve unearthed more than 70 Native American NDE accounts dating from the 16th-19th centuries, and in more than 20 of them it was stated that the experience was a source of knowledge about the afterlife. Likewise, from the Pacific islands, 19 of the 36 NDE accounts I found had similar claims."
https://psyche.co/ideas/near-death-experiences-have-long-inspired-afterlife-beliefs
Money quote: "Is it possible that this type of extraordinary experience that is universally associated with nearly dying is a fundamental source of beliefs about the afterlife? For many societies, there’s no need to speculate. In historical as well as modern accounts, NDEs are often said to lead directly to new beliefs, including the belief that consciousness can separate from the body and that it continues after death. I’ve unearthed more than 70 Native American NDE accounts dating from the 16th-19th centuries, and in more than 20 of them it was stated that the experience was a source of knowledge about the afterlife. Likewise, from the Pacific islands, 19 of the 36 NDE accounts I found had similar claims."
https://psyche.co/ideas/near-death-experiences-have-long-inspired-afterlife-beliefs
Psyche
Near-death experiences have long inspired afterlife beliefs
Through time and across cultures, near-death experiences share common themes and have inspired beliefs about the afterlife
Ikea all'assalto del centro della città. Ha saturato il mercato periferico oppure sta capendo qualcosa che ancora noi non vediamo?
Money quote: "The furniture retailer has been working on these small format stores, dubbed Planning Studios, for the last three years. It recently opened two planning studios in Los Angeles, in Arcadia and Long Beach, in August. Ikea also has small-format locations in Paris, Moscow, Toronto and New York City.
Ikea’s Planning Studio was developed to reach shoppers living in areas that its typical big-box stores aren’t located in. These new Planning Studios in the U.S. are around 8,000 to 9,000 square feet and focus on key areas integral to city living, such as kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms. Ikea plans to open more Planning Studio locations in Rome, Tokyo and San Francisco among others.
The new Planning Studios are part of the 3 billion euros (or about $3.2 billion) Ingka Group, Ikea’s largest franchisee, planned to invest in its new and existing stores. The investment also focuses on developing physical stores so they can serve as e-commerce distribution centers. Ikea did not share financial figures on how the Planning Studios are performing so far."
https://www.modernretail.co/operations/inside-ikeas-small-format-store-strategy-the-retail-environment-is-changing/
Money quote: "The furniture retailer has been working on these small format stores, dubbed Planning Studios, for the last three years. It recently opened two planning studios in Los Angeles, in Arcadia and Long Beach, in August. Ikea also has small-format locations in Paris, Moscow, Toronto and New York City.
Ikea’s Planning Studio was developed to reach shoppers living in areas that its typical big-box stores aren’t located in. These new Planning Studios in the U.S. are around 8,000 to 9,000 square feet and focus on key areas integral to city living, such as kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms. Ikea plans to open more Planning Studio locations in Rome, Tokyo and San Francisco among others.
The new Planning Studios are part of the 3 billion euros (or about $3.2 billion) Ingka Group, Ikea’s largest franchisee, planned to invest in its new and existing stores. The investment also focuses on developing physical stores so they can serve as e-commerce distribution centers. Ikea did not share financial figures on how the Planning Studios are performing so far."
https://www.modernretail.co/operations/inside-ikeas-small-format-store-strategy-the-retail-environment-is-changing/
Modern Retail
Inside Ikea’s small-format store strategy: ‘The retail environment is changing’
Selwyn Crittendon, business development manager at Ikea U.S., spoke about the retailer's small-format store strategy.
Come facciamo a costruire la nostra rappresentazione della realtà? Attraverso la società, il che vuol dire attraverso scuola, libri, musica, film, amici e ovviamente la nostra famiglia. Ma molte di queste cose sono decisamente sbagliate.
Money quote: "The notion of “core memories” has become well known in popular culture. First seen in the 2015 movie Inside Out, core memories are thought to be your five or so most important memories. The idea is that some specific events are so important, experiencing them instantly shapes your personality, behaviours and sense of self.
Thousands of TikTok users have made “core memory” posts about salient memories (often from childhood), with more than 880 million views worldwide. Typically these posts have a strong element of nostalgia and focus on small moments: watching Saturday morning cartoons, holding hands with a schoolyard crush, or splashing through the rain.
So, do core memories actually exist? While we do use memories to construct a sense of self, and these memories support our psychological wellbeing, memory science suggests the notion of a “core memory” is faulty in five key ways."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/are-core-memories-real-the-science-behind-5-common-myths
Money quote: "The notion of “core memories” has become well known in popular culture. First seen in the 2015 movie Inside Out, core memories are thought to be your five or so most important memories. The idea is that some specific events are so important, experiencing them instantly shapes your personality, behaviours and sense of self.
Thousands of TikTok users have made “core memory” posts about salient memories (often from childhood), with more than 880 million views worldwide. Typically these posts have a strong element of nostalgia and focus on small moments: watching Saturday morning cartoons, holding hands with a schoolyard crush, or splashing through the rain.
So, do core memories actually exist? While we do use memories to construct a sense of self, and these memories support our psychological wellbeing, memory science suggests the notion of a “core memory” is faulty in five key ways."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/are-core-memories-real-the-science-behind-5-common-myths
Pocket
Are ‘Core Memories’ Real? The Science Behind 5 Common Myths
While “core memory” is a made-up term, the core memory trend is helpful in showing how valuable our memories are.
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Chi sono i Big Five dell'editoria mondiale, spiegato bene
Money quote: "Per “Big four” si intendono HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan e Penguin Random House: i gruppi più importanti per il mercato dei libri cosiddetti “trade”, cioè quelli di intrattenimento, quindi escludendo l’editoria scolastica e quella che si occupa di testi tecnici. A questi quattro gruppi se ne può aggiungere un quinto – Simon & Schuster – attivo sul mercato statunitense, ed è per questo che spesso si parla dei “Big Five” dell’editoria mondiale. È importante tenere a mente che non si tratta dei gruppi più grandi in assoluto, ma di quelli più grandi nella loro categoria: che comunque riguarda la maggior parte dei libri che si comprano in libreria."
https://www.ilpost.it/2018/01/29/editoria-big-five/
Money quote: "Per “Big four” si intendono HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan e Penguin Random House: i gruppi più importanti per il mercato dei libri cosiddetti “trade”, cioè quelli di intrattenimento, quindi escludendo l’editoria scolastica e quella che si occupa di testi tecnici. A questi quattro gruppi se ne può aggiungere un quinto – Simon & Schuster – attivo sul mercato statunitense, ed è per questo che spesso si parla dei “Big Five” dell’editoria mondiale. È importante tenere a mente che non si tratta dei gruppi più grandi in assoluto, ma di quelli più grandi nella loro categoria: che comunque riguarda la maggior parte dei libri che si comprano in libreria."
https://www.ilpost.it/2018/01/29/editoria-big-five/
Il Post
Chi sono i “Big Five” dell’editoria mondiale
Sono i cinque più grandi gruppi del mercato di libri di intrattenimento in inglese e la maggior parte delle cose che leggiamo hanno in qualche modo a che fare con loro
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Numeri, sempre più numeri. Il mondo si è trasformato in una montagna di numeri. Appiccicati sopra a qualunque cosa, per creare l'illusione della comprensibilità.
Money quote: "Last year, The Times’s Digital Transition team decided to look at how we could help grow beat reporters’ data knowledge to help cover these issues. Our team’s mission is to “continuously transform the newsroom,” and with a focus on training all desks, we were well positioned to address these issues on a large scale.
We wanted to help our reporters better understand the numbers they get from sources and government, and give them the tools to analyze those numbers. We wanted to increase collaboration between traditional and non-traditional journalists for stories like this visual examination of New York football, our campaign finance coverage and this in-depth look at where the good jobs are. And with more competition than ever, we wanted to empower our reporters to find stories lurking in the hundreds of thousands of databases maintained by governments, academics and think tanks. We wanted to give our reporters the tools and support necessary to incorporate data into their everyday beat reporting, not just in big and ambitious projects."
https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-helped-our-reporters-learn-to-love-spreadsheets-adc43a93b919
Money quote: "Last year, The Times’s Digital Transition team decided to look at how we could help grow beat reporters’ data knowledge to help cover these issues. Our team’s mission is to “continuously transform the newsroom,” and with a focus on training all desks, we were well positioned to address these issues on a large scale.
We wanted to help our reporters better understand the numbers they get from sources and government, and give them the tools to analyze those numbers. We wanted to increase collaboration between traditional and non-traditional journalists for stories like this visual examination of New York football, our campaign finance coverage and this in-depth look at where the good jobs are. And with more competition than ever, we wanted to empower our reporters to find stories lurking in the hundreds of thousands of databases maintained by governments, academics and think tanks. We wanted to give our reporters the tools and support necessary to incorporate data into their everyday beat reporting, not just in big and ambitious projects."
https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-helped-our-reporters-learn-to-love-spreadsheets-adc43a93b919
NY Times
How We Helped Our Reporters Learn to Love Spreadsheets
And how your reporters can learn to love spreadsheets, too
Una storia esemplare di truffatori e manigoldi.
Money quote: "Martin died in July 2022 at age 63. Liberty never settled the bills that she had begged them to pay.
What Martin didn’t know when she joined Liberty was that she was sending her money to members of a family with a long and well-documented history of fraud.
For generations, members of the Beers family of Canton, Ohio, have used Christian faith to sell health coverage to more than a hundred thousand people like Martin. Instead they delivered pain, debt and financial ruin, according to an investigation by ProPublica based on leaked internal documents, land records, court files and interviews. They have done this not once but twice and have faced few consequences."
https://www.propublica.org/article/liberty-healthshare-healthcare-sharing-ministries-obamacare
Money quote: "Martin died in July 2022 at age 63. Liberty never settled the bills that she had begged them to pay.
What Martin didn’t know when she joined Liberty was that she was sending her money to members of a family with a long and well-documented history of fraud.
For generations, members of the Beers family of Canton, Ohio, have used Christian faith to sell health coverage to more than a hundred thousand people like Martin. Instead they delivered pain, debt and financial ruin, according to an investigation by ProPublica based on leaked internal documents, land records, court files and interviews. They have done this not once but twice and have faced few consequences."
https://www.propublica.org/article/liberty-healthshare-healthcare-sharing-ministries-obamacare
ProPublica
A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline
Despite a history of fraud, one family has thrived in the regulatory no man’s land of health care sharing ministries, where insurance commissioners can’t investigate, federal agencies turn a blind eye and prosecutors reach paltry settlements.
Calmare la propria tempesta interiore, spiegato bene.
Money quote: "In the right amounts, emotions serve a useful purpose. They provide us with information, influence our decisions, and compel us to act. For example, if you experience fear when you’re walking alone at night and you hear footsteps nearby, your brain automatically mobilises you to get ready to run in case there’s danger. Or if you’re being treated in an unfair way, anger will motivate you to make changes so that people treat you more fairly.
Nonetheless, emotions can be painful and distressing. When they arise, we try to manage and cope with them. This process is known as emotion regulation, and can include redirecting our attention away from whatever is causing us distress; changing our thoughts about the situation; or changing how we’re behaving in the situation. Emotion regulation doesn’t (and shouldn’t) make our emotions disappear altogether, but it helps us calm them, so they’re more manageable.
Trouble arises when emotions become overwhelming and we can’t regulate them in healthy, effective ways. This is known as emotion dysregulation."
https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-calm-your-emotions-with-dialectical-behaviour-therapy
Money quote: "In the right amounts, emotions serve a useful purpose. They provide us with information, influence our decisions, and compel us to act. For example, if you experience fear when you’re walking alone at night and you hear footsteps nearby, your brain automatically mobilises you to get ready to run in case there’s danger. Or if you’re being treated in an unfair way, anger will motivate you to make changes so that people treat you more fairly.
Nonetheless, emotions can be painful and distressing. When they arise, we try to manage and cope with them. This process is known as emotion regulation, and can include redirecting our attention away from whatever is causing us distress; changing our thoughts about the situation; or changing how we’re behaving in the situation. Emotion regulation doesn’t (and shouldn’t) make our emotions disappear altogether, but it helps us calm them, so they’re more manageable.
Trouble arises when emotions become overwhelming and we can’t regulate them in healthy, effective ways. This is known as emotion dysregulation."
https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-calm-your-emotions-with-dialectical-behaviour-therapy
Psyche
How to calm your inner storm
When your emotions become too painful and overwhelming, regain control using skills from dialectical behaviour therapy
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Invecchiare si invecchia tutti, auspicabilmente. Occorre fare esercizio per invecchiare bene, o almeno meglio. Una guida.
Money quote: "In Your 60s
Typically, people accumulate more chronic conditions as they get older, and ageing is a major risk factor for cancer. Maintaining a high level of physical activity can help prevent cancers, such as post-menopausal breast cancer, colon cancer and cancer of the womb, and it reduces the risk of developing chronic conditions, such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
Physical activity tends to decline with age, so keep active and try to buck this trend."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/keeping-fit-how-to-do-the-right-exercise-for-your-age
Money quote: "In Your 60s
Typically, people accumulate more chronic conditions as they get older, and ageing is a major risk factor for cancer. Maintaining a high level of physical activity can help prevent cancers, such as post-menopausal breast cancer, colon cancer and cancer of the womb, and it reduces the risk of developing chronic conditions, such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
Physical activity tends to decline with age, so keep active and try to buck this trend."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/keeping-fit-how-to-do-the-right-exercise-for-your-age
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Dopo una decina di colazioni a suon di medialunas, nel dolce autunno argentino, mi è venuta voglia di esplorarne un po' la storia. Autoctone? Francesi? E invece...
Money quote: "Sin embargo, a pesar de tanto glamour francés, el origen de esta factura que se aporteñó como tantos inmigrantes, no tuvo su principio en el país de Napoleón Bonaparte. Su historia dice que llegó desde Austria y que su formato tiene relación con una batalla que sirvió para ponerle punto final a un bloqueo militar que afectaba a la ciudad de Viena. La leyenda habla de la batalla de Kahlenberg (ocurrió en septiembre de 1683) y marcó la derrota de las tropas del gran visir Merzifonlu "Kará" Mustafá, uno de los líderes del entonces Imperio Otomano, que aspiraba conquistar el centro de Europa."
https://www.clarin.com/gourmet/quien-invento-el-croissant-o-medialuna_0_nFi-KcdiT.amp.html
Money quote: "Sin embargo, a pesar de tanto glamour francés, el origen de esta factura que se aporteñó como tantos inmigrantes, no tuvo su principio en el país de Napoleón Bonaparte. Su historia dice que llegó desde Austria y que su formato tiene relación con una batalla que sirvió para ponerle punto final a un bloqueo militar que afectaba a la ciudad de Viena. La leyenda habla de la batalla de Kahlenberg (ocurrió en septiembre de 1683) y marcó la derrota de las tropas del gran visir Merzifonlu "Kará" Mustafá, uno de los líderes del entonces Imperio Otomano, que aspiraba conquistar el centro de Europa."
https://www.clarin.com/gourmet/quien-invento-el-croissant-o-medialuna_0_nFi-KcdiT.amp.html
Clarín
Ni francesas, ni argentinas: quién inventó las medialunas
El origen se remonta al siglo XVII, cuando se creó un tipo de pan antecesor del famoso croissant y las facturas criollas.
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Ray Kurzweil è una specie di Nostradamus in chiave pop. Predice futuro sconvolgenti. Si realizzano? In parte. Ma c'è una grande mistificazione dietro. E una bolla sistemica.
Money quote: "By the 2040s, non-biological intelligence will be a billion times more capable than biological intelligence (a.k.a. us). Nanotech foglets will be able to make food out of thin air and create any object in physical world at a whim."
https://medium.com/@singularity_41680/ray-kurzweils-mind-boggling-predictions-for-the-next-25-years-ce3c9163588b
Money quote: "By the 2040s, non-biological intelligence will be a billion times more capable than biological intelligence (a.k.a. us). Nanotech foglets will be able to make food out of thin air and create any object in physical world at a whim."
https://medium.com/@singularity_41680/ray-kurzweils-mind-boggling-predictions-for-the-next-25-years-ce3c9163588b
Medium
Ray Kurzweil’s Mind-Boggling Predictions for the Next 25 Years
This text was originally written by Peter H. Diamandis, MD and published on Singularity Hub.
Non so se è per come la raccontano i giornali (in questo caso il Washington Post) ma la celebrità e la rete sono due cose agghiaccianti se mescolate anche in piccole dosi.
Money quote: "Wollmann is not an influencer or professional content creator: He is a niche internet micro celebrity, or "nimcel." Niche internet micro celebrities are people online who are known to a small but often dedicated group and they represent a growing variant of the attention economy. Online fame is a consequence for a niche internet micro celebrity, never the goal. They rarely make money from their social accounts, choosing instead to post for the fun of it. The term is often used in a tongue-in-cheek way.
TikTok and YouTube stars chasing fame in Hollywood or joining content houses are not niche internet micro celebrities. But a meme account admin, hyper local Twitter personality, founder of a popular Discord server or random guy who has gone viral for being repeatedly featured on a popular Instagram account would be."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/24/nimcel-influencers-tiktok-youtube/
Money quote: "Wollmann is not an influencer or professional content creator: He is a niche internet micro celebrity, or "nimcel." Niche internet micro celebrities are people online who are known to a small but often dedicated group and they represent a growing variant of the attention economy. Online fame is a consequence for a niche internet micro celebrity, never the goal. They rarely make money from their social accounts, choosing instead to post for the fun of it. The term is often used in a tongue-in-cheek way.
TikTok and YouTube stars chasing fame in Hollywood or joining content houses are not niche internet micro celebrities. But a meme account admin, hyper local Twitter personality, founder of a popular Discord server or random guy who has gone viral for being repeatedly featured on a popular Instagram account would be."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/24/nimcel-influencers-tiktok-youtube/
‘Beau Is Afraid’ non sta piacendo per niente.
Money quote: "The first hour of the movie is amazing. I was like, ‘If the rest of the movie's like this, this is gonna be incredible’" he said. "But the rest of the movie isn't like that. It's not like I can point to any individual scenes that I think are bad. It's a cumulative thing -- as the film continues, you lose some level of engagement. The surrealism just piles on top of itself. There's a kind of numbing effect. You feel it less and less."
https://www.vulture.com/2023/04/beau-is-afraid-ending-explained.html
Money quote: "The first hour of the movie is amazing. I was like, ‘If the rest of the movie's like this, this is gonna be incredible’" he said. "But the rest of the movie isn't like that. It's not like I can point to any individual scenes that I think are bad. It's a cumulative thing -- as the film continues, you lose some level of engagement. The surrealism just piles on top of itself. There's a kind of numbing effect. You feel it less and less."
https://www.vulture.com/2023/04/beau-is-afraid-ending-explained.html
VULTURE
Let’s Talk About the Ending of Beau Is Afraid
It would be tempting to say that ‘Beau Is Afraid’ is the story of Beau’s journey back home, but really, there isn’t much of a journey.
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Star Trek è una cosa complicata - la mia rubrica per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2023/04/star-trek-picard-serie-tv-film/
https://fumettologica.it/2023/04/star-trek-picard-serie-tv-film/
Fumettologica
Star Trek è una cosa complicata
Negli anni la saga di Star Trek è diventata un qualcosa di enorme, stratificato, complesso e confuso, ma anche molto affascinante.
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La cosa più tragica del negozio di alimentari americano diventato di culto è che Erewhon è più o meno come una nostra Esselunga. Ma negli Usa è fantascienza.
Money quote: "The store's price tag contributes to its clout, according to Andrea Hernández, founder and self-described "cult leader" of the online food-and-beverage community Snaxshot. Hernández describes Erewhon as "affordable affluence" -- a way for regular people to position themselves adjacent to the upper class. "Those who know about Erewhon are in the know. They get to signal that," she says. A 2021 study in the ‘International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity’ found that the 2008 recession was associated with a decrease in fruit and vegetable intake. But Hernández insists that the store is a place for everyone to feel a part of something, especially during fraught times. "Maybe you can't afford to have a house because of the housing crisis and inflation and everything is so expensive, but you have Erewhon.""
https://www.thecut.com/2023/04/erewhon-addicts.html
Money quote: "The store's price tag contributes to its clout, according to Andrea Hernández, founder and self-described "cult leader" of the online food-and-beverage community Snaxshot. Hernández describes Erewhon as "affordable affluence" -- a way for regular people to position themselves adjacent to the upper class. "Those who know about Erewhon are in the know. They get to signal that," she says. A 2021 study in the ‘International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity’ found that the 2008 recession was associated with a decrease in fruit and vegetable intake. But Hernández insists that the store is a place for everyone to feel a part of something, especially during fraught times. "Maybe you can't afford to have a house because of the housing crisis and inflation and everything is so expensive, but you have Erewhon.""
https://www.thecut.com/2023/04/erewhon-addicts.html
The Cut
Meet the People Working 3 Jobs to Afford Erewhon
“Even though I’m a starving artist, it’s become my identity.”
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Non sottovalutate questa corrente carsica: gli americani hanno già vinto una guerra fredda con musica e film di contrabbando al di là della Cortina di ferro. Che fosse la volta buona anche con la Cina?
Money quote: "The Great Firewall can be breached. The barrier that blocks Chinese users from accessing international sites, from Facebook to LinkedIn, is routinely hopped by users in the country with VPNs. But even those without a technical bent can get a glimpse of what’s trending beyond the firewall, thanks to Weibo’s translator-influencers.
These new influencers are dubbed “translator-creators” (译制博主). They take short videos from banned foreign social media platforms, like YouTube or TikTok, and translate, subnoscript, and edit them for local consumption."
https://restofworld.org/2023/how-translator-influencers-bring-banned-foreign-videos-onto-chinas-internet/
Money quote: "The Great Firewall can be breached. The barrier that blocks Chinese users from accessing international sites, from Facebook to LinkedIn, is routinely hopped by users in the country with VPNs. But even those without a technical bent can get a glimpse of what’s trending beyond the firewall, thanks to Weibo’s translator-influencers.
These new influencers are dubbed “translator-creators” (译制博主). They take short videos from banned foreign social media platforms, like YouTube or TikTok, and translate, subnoscript, and edit them for local consumption."
https://restofworld.org/2023/how-translator-influencers-bring-banned-foreign-videos-onto-chinas-internet/
Rest of World
How translator-influencers bring banned foreign videos onto China’s internet
On social media platform Weibo, influencers curate, translate, and edit content from the outside world.
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Secondo me è un'operazione furbetta, alla Dan Brown, più che un esercizio di "creative non fiction". Ma forse ha ragione Carlo Vecce e la madre di Leonardo da Vinci, Caterina, era veramente un'ebrea circassa arrivata a Firenze come schiava. Chissà.
Money quote: "Ne è nato un romanzo, Il sorriso di Caterina – La madre di Leonardo (Giunti), presentato martedì nella storica sede della casa editrice a Villa La Loggia a Firenze prima del tour che toccherà anche Milano e Parigi, che promette di far discutere, in Italia e all’estero, perché riscrive, in parte, la storia di Leonardo e racconta dinamiche che sono anche di oggi: una donna profuga che arriva nel nostro paese su un barcone, senza voce né dignità, e mette al mondo il genio universalmente riconosciuto di Leonardo, lo allatta, lo accudisce per dieci anni prima che le loro strade si separino e lei vada in sposa a un contadinotto di Vinci, tale Antonio Buti, detto Accattabriga, con cui vive quarant’anni insieme mettendo alla luce altri cinque figli, quattro femmine e un maschio."
https://www.illibraio.it/news/dautore/la-madre-di-leonardo-1436290/
Money quote: "Ne è nato un romanzo, Il sorriso di Caterina – La madre di Leonardo (Giunti), presentato martedì nella storica sede della casa editrice a Villa La Loggia a Firenze prima del tour che toccherà anche Milano e Parigi, che promette di far discutere, in Italia e all’estero, perché riscrive, in parte, la storia di Leonardo e racconta dinamiche che sono anche di oggi: una donna profuga che arriva nel nostro paese su un barcone, senza voce né dignità, e mette al mondo il genio universalmente riconosciuto di Leonardo, lo allatta, lo accudisce per dieci anni prima che le loro strade si separino e lei vada in sposa a un contadinotto di Vinci, tale Antonio Buti, detto Accattabriga, con cui vive quarant’anni insieme mettendo alla luce altri cinque figli, quattro femmine e un maschio."
https://www.illibraio.it/news/dautore/la-madre-di-leonardo-1436290/
ilLibraio.it
La storia della schiava che fu (forse) la madre di Leonardo
Promette di far discutere il romanzo “Il sorriso di Caterina – La madre di Leonardo”. Carlo Vecce riscrive, in parte, la storia dell’artista e genio del Rinascimento. Grazie a nuovi documenti, infatti, fa luce sull’identità della misteriosa donna che diede…
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Un nuovo convertito al culto di ChatGPT
Money quote: "In conclusion, while I was initially reluctant to try ChatGPT, I now see the value that AI technology can bring to the world of software development. While the value of some of our skills may be decreasing, the opportunity to leverage the remaining 10% in new and innovative ways is tremendous. By embracing AI tools like ChatGPT, we can work smarter, not harder, and deliver even greater value to our clients and our industry as a whole."
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/90-of-my-skills-are-now-worth-0
Money quote: "In conclusion, while I was initially reluctant to try ChatGPT, I now see the value that AI technology can bring to the world of software development. While the value of some of our skills may be decreasing, the opportunity to leverage the remaining 10% in new and innovative ways is tremendous. By embracing AI tools like ChatGPT, we can work smarter, not harder, and deliver even greater value to our clients and our industry as a whole."
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/90-of-my-skills-are-now-worth-0
Substack
90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0
...but the other 10% are worth 1000x
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