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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Perché non mettere un "Out Of Office" perenne alla nostra mail, spiegando che non rispondiamo in tempo reale e che la leggiamo solo una o due volte al giorno? Non sarebbe più sincero che non lasciare questo vuoto dove le persone si negano senza spiegazione, salvo riemergere all’improvviso?

Money quote: "While using an OOO response 24/7 may not be for everyone, according to Lauren Gordon, lead behavioural insights advisor at Bupa UK, it could be a great way to remove distractions, reduce presenteeism and help you feel more in control of your workflow.

"It’s hard to be productive at work without boundaries -- they help manage the expectations that our colleagues have for us," Gordon tells *Stylist*.

"For example, if you’re working towards a tight deadline, it might be helpful to put an out-of-office on to explain that it might take longer for you to reply while you concentrate on the task.""

https://www.stylist.co.uk/life/careers/setting-work-boundaries-out-of-office/632254
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La cosa dell’accento tra americani e inglesi è fantastica. Ma non è così fuori di testa come sembra: segue dinamiche diverse ma regole simili anche da noi. Infatti, avete presente il gioco che c’è con gli accenti napoletani, siciliani, romani, milanesi tra i ragazzini? No?

Money quote: "Americans have long been called out for their phony British accents – think Madonna in her Guy Ritchie era, or the friend who just came home from studying abroad in London. But Gen Z has embraced bad imitations of Cockney slang or a Yorkshire dialect, using obviously fake, theatrical voices to make light of low-grade daily dramas.

Vibe check: what does the most overused word of our era actually mean?
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What’s behind the trend? Green, who is 26 and appeared on the US version of Love Island, blames it on her love for the original UK dating show.

“The accent really took over when I started watching the show,” she said. “It blew the accent the fuck up, and everyone was obsessed with their cute little sayings, like ‘doing bits’.” (For the uninitiated, that means getting intimate but not having sex.)"

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/14/fake-british-accents-americans-gen-z
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L’autore di un libro sui funghi, che è una specie di divulgatore-intrattenitore, sta diventando una celebrità. Merito dei suoi talenti di public speaker ma anche dell’argomento che tratta.

Money quote: "At talks like these, Sheldrake is sometimes asked to answer a question he poses in the first chapter of his book: What is it like to be a fungus? The answer, at least according to Sheldrake, is at once alien and wondrous. "If you had no head, no heart, no center of operations," he began. "If you could taste with your whole body. If you could take a fragment of your toe or your hair and it would grow into a new you -- and hundreds of these new yous could fuse together into some impossibly large togetherness. And when you wanted to get around, you would produce spores, this little condensed part of you that could travel in the air." There were nods. In the audience, the woman next to me gave a long, affirming hum.

"Entangled Life" has turned Sheldrake, who is 36, into a kind of human ambassador for the fungal kingdom: the face of fungi."

https://archive.is/vy5K5#selection-611.0-623.125
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Drew Barrymore si è reinventata alla grande. Vivendo in pubblico in maniera "terapeutica".

Money quote: "The Drew Barrymore Show launched into a void during the pandemic and, three seasons in, has become a therapy-infused, feel-good viral sensation — a part-Oprah, post-Ellen lovefest among its famous host, her famous guests, and her adoring audience. The show is by and for Barrymore: a venue for her to laugh, learn, love, cry, get rid of stains, and get snuggly. It is the purest distillation of the Drew Barrymore brand (also available as a chair at Walmart), which she has honed since becoming the most famous child star since Shirley Temple, overcoming her adolescent humiliation with a redemption arc as America’s rom-com sweetheart. Now, she’s bringing the public along for her postdivorce, don’t-call-it-sobriety alcohol-abstaining, single-mom journey of healing and self-discovery. She’s a conduit for all these emotions — hers, her guests’, yours — because rather than shut down or become self-protective, she opened up in the other direction: Let’s feel together five times a week."

https://www.vulture.com/article/drew-barrymore-show-profile.html
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C’è una fotocamera miracolosa e di nicchia che però fa tendenza: la Leica M Monochrom, la fotocamera serie M che fa foto solo in bianco e nero (ma molto meglio di quelle a colori). Ecco, gli altri forse ci stanno arrivando. Ci ha provato Pentax, presentando una sua reflex digitale Aps-C con sensore monocromatico. Ma in molti si sono detti (me incluso) che forse l’azienda - Pentax è di proprietà di Ricoh – ha sbagliato bersaglio. Di brutto.

Money quote: "But if Ricoh was going to make an oddball camera for its fanbase, it missed one incredibly important opportunity. They should have made a Ricoh GR III Monochrome first. The GR has always been a camera for photo nerds by photo nerds, from the very start. Ricoh’s APS-C cameras have been phenomenal tools that are easy to shoot but can output impressive results in the right hands. Matching the street-smart GR III with a monochrome sensor would let users shoot in the dark practically, and ape the look that made photographers like Daido Moriyama famous. Rugged DSLRs like the K-3 III aren’t well suited for fast one-handed shooting, making the Monochrome version that much more of a head-scratcher."

https://www.dpreview.com/opinion/2301491718/did-ricoh-put-a-monochrome-sensor-in-the-wrong-camera
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Gli appassionati di fotografia scoprono presto che ci sono differenti formati. Nel mondo digitale sono le dimensioni dei sensori, in quello analogico quelle della pellicola. Non è banalissimo e per quanto riguarda l’analogico anche piuttosto importante da capire. Questa guida non è fatta male perché fa capire un po’ di cose sugli obiettivi per il medio e il piccolo formato.

Money quote: "Numbers are pretty abstract, so I’ll include some more tangible examples from the lenses I’m currently using with my Hasselblad 500 C/M.

With a 6×6 aspect ratio, the 80mm lens is considered the 50mm equivalent on 35mm. It’s the lens I use most often, as it gives me the field of view that’s closest to what the human eye sees, and it’s versatile for shooting any subject matter."

https://shootitwithfilm.com/understanding-medium-format-vs-35mm-lenses/
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L'incredibile solitudine delle grandi città

Money quote: "Throughout the town, Mike collects evidence that he has just missed people: Douglas Sirk’s movie Battle Hymn (1957) flickers in the empty cinema; a cigar burns in an ashtray; coffee boils on a stove in the diner; a phone in a phone booth rings, but no one is on the other end when he answers. A line of direction from Rod Serling’s noscript describes a long shot of the main street: ‘Once again the sense of emptiness and loneliness and that bizarre quality of activity with no actors.’"

https://psyche.co/ideas/struths-unpeopled-photos-evoke-the-loneliness-of-urban-life
Cory Doctorow ci prova a spiegare cos'è il Social Quitting dei social media e dove vorrebbe che andassimo tutti. Bella analisi ma assurdo lo sbocco.

Money quote: "In "Social Quitting," my latest _Locus Magazine_ column, I advance a theory to explain the precipitous vibe shift in how many of us view the once-dominant social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter, and how it is that we have so quickly gone asking what we can do to get these services out of our lives to where we should go now that we're all ready to leave them"

https://doctorow.medium.com/social-quitting-f049b33ad3f6
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È arrivata Tilde 29!

Tappi o fucile ~ Leggere Wodehouse ~ Laptop o Mini PC ~ Pirateria ~ Magnum P.I. e PTSD

https://tilde.show
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Il Vaticano e i suoi problemi di cybersicurezza.

Money quote: "In general, though, "the same security principles apply everywhere." The Vatican would need sufficient endpoint security, he says, alongside network security, physical security, "and perhaps an underestimated angle: training and awareness in an organization that is not particularly technology savvy.""

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/pope-mobile-security-vatican-mdm-move
Troppa, veramente troppa roba da fare in troppo poco tempo.

Money quote: "The following are five common self-sabotaging mistakes overwhelmed people tend to make. There are practical solutions for each that will help you feel like you're on top of things and do a better job of navigating your most important tasks and solving problems."

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/5-mistakes-we-make-when-we-re-overwhelmed
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I ritagli di giornale. Nel 2023.

Strane abitudini.

Money quote: "Sharing newspaper clippings used to be common before the internet disrupted everything. It wasn't just the move from snail mail to email. There are now a lot fewer printed newspapers and magazines to clip from.

Peter Butkus said when he was growing up his father must have subscribed to as many as six newspapers and more than a dozen magazines. "It looked like a dentist's office in our house," said Butkus, a 39-year-old hedge-fund manager in Barrington, R.I. The elder Butkus doesn't dispute it.

During the golden age of print, when newspapers were generally regarded as having the last word, people regularly passed around articles on shared interests or to settle arguments in I-told-you-so missives. Parents often mailed clippings as thinly veiled advice or criticism to grown children."

https://archive.is/OQP5m
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Speciale 4 di luglio: se stasera avete voglia di mangiare americano, cioè un hambuger, ecco qualche ricetta valida.

Money quote: "The slugburger is not alone. From a Prohibition-era speakeasy that still slings bitters-filled patties to a roadside stand that’s carrying on a century-old tradition of steaming burgers, American history is filled with unusual burgers born of unusual times."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/unique-burger-ideas
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La casa d'aste Sotheby’s si è comprata un palazzo storico di New York, il Breuer Building. Chissà come lo ridurrà.

Money quote: "Sotheby's will take over the Breuer in September 2024, before ultimately relocating in 2025. The auction house plans to "sensitively review the internal spaces and maintain key elements such as the building's striking lobby," as the new space will boast updated galleries, exhibition space, and a reimagined auction room. The galleries will be free and open to the public.

Sotheby's will retain ownership of its current headquarters in New York's Lenox Hill neighborhood, where it has been since 1980, for the time being."

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sothebys-buys-whitney-museums-iconic-breuer-building-1234670229/
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Arrivano le vacanze. Tempo di fare le valigie. I consigli degli esperti.

Money quote: "So here is our most comprehensive roundup of all the great travel packing tips we've given over the years, all in one place. Whether you're looking for help packing a carry on, packing tips for international travel, or even suitcase packing tips, we can help you. So sit down, relax, and get packing!"

https://packhacker.com/blog/general/packing-tips/
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Quando mi sono laureato in diritto internazionale, una vita fa, era semplicemente inimmaginabile. Oggi avere accesso liberamente a tutti gli atti del tribunale di Norimberga in formato digitale da qualsiasi parte del mondo è incredibile.

Money quote: "The Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg, 1945-46 archival collection provides access to a digital version of Nuremberg IMT courtroom proceedings and documentation, including evidentiary films, full audio recordings of the proceedings, and approximately 250,000 pages of digitized paper documents. These documents include trannoscripts of the hearings in English, French, German and Russian; written pleadings; evidence exhibits filed by the prosecution and the defense; documents of the Committee for the Investigation and Prosecution of Major War Criminals; the judgment. All 9,920 collection items are searchable and viewable in digital form."

https://virtualtribunals.stanford.edu/nuremberg
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Poi a un certo punto scopri che sei diventato vecchio perché il volume della musica è diventato troppo alto, no? No, le cose non stanno esattamente così. E comunque, viviamo (noi che viviamo in città) in un mondo che è diventato rumorosamente pericoloso per la nostra salute, non solo per l'udito. Il troppo rumore uccide, come ogni forma di inquinamento.

Money quote: "Unpleasant noise enters your body through your ears, but it is relayed to the stress detection center in your brain. This area, called the amygdala, triggers a cascade of reactions in your body. If the amygdala is chronically overactivated by noise, the reactions begin to produce harmful effects. The endocrine system can overreact, causing too much cortisol, adrenaline and other chemicals to course through the body. The sympathetic nervous system can also become hyperactivated, quickening the heart rate, raising blood pressure, and triggering the production of inflammatory cells. Over time, these changes can lead to inflammation, hypertension and plaque buildup in arteries, increasing the risk of heart disease, heart attacks and stroke."

https://archive.is/APMLv
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Quando esce un nuovo iPhone, ad esempio, e le persone si stracciano le vesti perche costa troppo, c'è sempre in differenziale che non viene considerato. Cioè che in Europa, e in italia in particolare, abbiamo un costo della vita completamente diverso. Sono generalizzazioni, ma fino a un certo punto.

Money quote: "In Orange County, one-person households making less than $80,000 a year are considered low-income, according to the California Department of Housing and Community Development.

That's up from just under $76,000 last year, and puts Orange County as the most expensive of the Southern California counties."

https://abc7.com/what-are-the-low-income-limits-in-california-how-much-do-people-make-i-qualify-for-affordable-housing-income/13419469/
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