Sta finendo un'epoca. Con Sonoma, la nuova versione di macOS, vanno in pensione alcuni degli ultimi modelli di Mac con processore Intel e tra poco potrebbero non essercene proprio più. Ecco qui la situazione aggiornata, per chi in autunno pensa di aggiornare.
Money quote: "In addition to the new Mac Pro, Apple also announced macOS Sonoma at WWDC 2023 earlier this week. The update doesn’t bring any significant changes, except for some improvements to FaceTime, interactive widgets on the desktop, and a new API for porting Windows games to the Mac. But even so, Apple has dropped support for some Intel Macs with the update.
For instance, none of the iconic 12-inch MacBooks can run the new version of macOS. The 2017 MacBook Pro won’t get the update either. When it comes to the iMac, while the 2017 iMac was the oldest supported model on macOS Ventura, the update to macOS Sonoma requires the 2019 iMac or newer."
https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/08/apple-intel-mac-macos-updates/
Money quote: "In addition to the new Mac Pro, Apple also announced macOS Sonoma at WWDC 2023 earlier this week. The update doesn’t bring any significant changes, except for some improvements to FaceTime, interactive widgets on the desktop, and a new API for porting Windows games to the Mac. But even so, Apple has dropped support for some Intel Macs with the update.
For instance, none of the iconic 12-inch MacBooks can run the new version of macOS. The 2017 MacBook Pro won’t get the update either. When it comes to the iMac, while the 2017 iMac was the oldest supported model on macOS Ventura, the update to macOS Sonoma requires the 2019 iMac or newer."
https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/08/apple-intel-mac-macos-updates/
9to5Mac
Intel Macs may not get macOS updates for much longer
After a very long wait, Apple finally announced a new version of the Mac Pro powered by the M2 Ultra...
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Planimetria di un Silo, anatomia di una storia - la mia rubrica su Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2023/07/silo-serie-tv-apple-romanzi-hugh-howey/
https://fumettologica.it/2023/07/silo-serie-tv-apple-romanzi-hugh-howey/
Fumettologica
Planimetria di un Silo, anatomia di una storia
Silo, la serie tv di Apple TV+, è un racconto notevole che nasce dai romanzi autoprodotti di Hugh Howey, la cui storia vale la pena indagare.
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I "Golden passport" sono una cosa davvero interessante: a fronte di un mondo dove la gente letteralmente muore per arrivare in paesi dove non vogliono farli entrare in nessun modo, ci sono altre persone che si comprano nazionalità e passaporti per potersene andare dove vogliono. Gli ultraricchi possono, i comuni mortali no.
Money quote: "The ultrarich are collecting not one, but sometimes two or three passports and multiple citizenships, and all the privileges they confer. These passports, often issued by nations particularly welcoming of cash, can be a kind of collector’s item, a status symbol luxury good to show off at bougie soirees. It also cracks open the door to a possible escape, should things go south for the holder in their personal life or in their country of origin.
All it requires is money — anywhere from $100,000 on the low end to more than $1 million on the high end, invested in property or a public good — plus background checks and a short wait for approval. Called “golden” passports, they don’t even actually require the wealthy to reside in the places where they hold citizenship."
https://www.vox.com/money/23762537/golden-passports-wealthy-explained
Money quote: "The ultrarich are collecting not one, but sometimes two or three passports and multiple citizenships, and all the privileges they confer. These passports, often issued by nations particularly welcoming of cash, can be a kind of collector’s item, a status symbol luxury good to show off at bougie soirees. It also cracks open the door to a possible escape, should things go south for the holder in their personal life or in their country of origin.
All it requires is money — anywhere from $100,000 on the low end to more than $1 million on the high end, invested in property or a public good — plus background checks and a short wait for approval. Called “golden” passports, they don’t even actually require the wealthy to reside in the places where they hold citizenship."
https://www.vox.com/money/23762537/golden-passports-wealthy-explained
Vox
The ultimate score for rich people? “Golden” passports.
A few hundred thousand dollars can buy citizenship in some very pretty places.
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Come si disegna un cavallo? Mica facile. Disegnatori anche bravi ci sbattono il grugno. Ma adesso Emma Hunsinger sul New Yorker spiega bene come si fa. Interessante! E pieno di disegni facili.
https://archive.is/yfz5d
https://archive.is/yfz5d
Una storia di balene salvate durante la pandemia. Ma anche di studenti che si raccontano sul giornale dell'università. E di come si raccontano le storie e di che voce cercare per dire quello che vuoi dire. E dell'impatto della pandemia in chi vuole fare la differenza. L'idealismo della biologia marina in una lettura forse non spettacolare ma certamente intrigante, perché apre le porte di un posto luminoso e pulito: un ambiente completamente estraneo al resto della società.
Money quote: "It’s a conversation that would have looked a lot different just one year ago when Anastasia and I were attending graduate school virtually. Likely from home, likely on Zoom, likely with a Google Doc trannoscript of my notes—but certainly not in front of the ocean, inspiring each thread of conversation with a renewed vigor to protect “all of this,” as Anastasia often puts it, gesturing at the brown pelicans, marine mammals, and students all enjoying their local marine protected area. For students like her, going to school virtually highlights just how important it is to connect with the places you’re working so hard to protect."
https://bren.ucsb.edu/news/saving-whales-during-pandemic-story-student-team-navigating-remote-times
Money quote: "It’s a conversation that would have looked a lot different just one year ago when Anastasia and I were attending graduate school virtually. Likely from home, likely on Zoom, likely with a Google Doc trannoscript of my notes—but certainly not in front of the ocean, inspiring each thread of conversation with a renewed vigor to protect “all of this,” as Anastasia often puts it, gesturing at the brown pelicans, marine mammals, and students all enjoying their local marine protected area. For students like her, going to school virtually highlights just how important it is to connect with the places you’re working so hard to protect."
https://bren.ucsb.edu/news/saving-whales-during-pandemic-story-student-team-navigating-remote-times
UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Saving Whales During a Pandemic: The Story of a Student Team Navigating Remote Times
Despite the challenges of the COVID pandemic, a team of Bren master's students examined how undersea acoustic pollution might be impacting marine mammals.
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Il fumetto che racconta la storia di Patrick Zaki - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2023/07/patrick-zaki-fumetto-gianluca-costantini/
https://fumettologica.it/2023/07/patrick-zaki-fumetto-gianluca-costantini/
Fumettologica
Il fumetto che racconta la storia di Patrick Zaki
Dal ritratto col filo spinato al fumetto che ne racconta la storia, come Gianluca Costanini ha lottato per la libertà di Patrick Zaki.
Una mappa semplice semplice che mostra i tassi di morte per l'uso eccessivo di alcool in Europa. L'Italia e la Grecia hanno una educazione al bere che il resto del continente ci dovrebbe invidiare. Pure la Spagna non è male. (I paesi invece islamici hanno un approccio diverso e punteggi conseguenti).
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/uszfck/oc_alcohol_death_rates_in_europe/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/uszfck/oc_alcohol_death_rates_in_europe/
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La terza dentizione
Money quote: "A clinical trial scheduled for July 2024 will initially be for participants with tooth agenesis, a genetic condition that results in the absence of teeth, but the scientists have a view to making the treatment available for general use by as soon as 2030."
https://newatlas.com/medical/humans-grow-new-teeth-drug-trial
Money quote: "A clinical trial scheduled for July 2024 will initially be for participants with tooth agenesis, a genetic condition that results in the absence of teeth, but the scientists have a view to making the treatment available for general use by as soon as 2030."
https://newatlas.com/medical/humans-grow-new-teeth-drug-trial
New Atlas
Humans may soon grow new teeth, with promising drug trial set
Some sharks get a new set of teeth every few weeks, while crocodiles can go through thousands of chompers in their long lifetimes. Yet the ability to endlessly replace our pearly whites is something that’s eluded us and nearly all other mammals. By the time…
"Barbie" è un blockbuster sovversivo e postmoderno - la mia entusiastica recensione per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2023/07/barbie-film-recensione-margot-robbie/
https://fumettologica.it/2023/07/barbie-film-recensione-margot-robbie/
Fumettologica
“Barbie” è un blockbuster sovversivo e postmoderno
Barbie è un clamoroso film camp, un blockbuster sovversivo e postmoderno con una Margot Robbie perfetta nel ruolo.
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Costa solo otto dollari. È la web-serie del regista Steven Soderberg. Bella assai.
Money quote: "Funny Thing About The Future
It’s never going away. Or at least not anytime soon. But what to DO with it? Or ABOUT it? These questions—and many more—can be answered with a few clicks and few bucks (for two good causes). But be warned: with every answer will come more questions, because, hey: IT WERE EVER THUS."
https://extension765.com/blogs/soderblog/command-z
Money quote: "Funny Thing About The Future
It’s never going away. Or at least not anytime soon. But what to DO with it? Or ABOUT it? These questions—and many more—can be answered with a few clicks and few bucks (for two good causes). But be warned: with every answer will come more questions, because, hey: IT WERE EVER THUS."
https://extension765.com/blogs/soderblog/command-z
Extension765
COMMAND Z
Watch The Whole Series Now
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Tokyo è una città meravigliosa e Hayao Miyazaki uno dei miei autori preferiti. Un connubio perfetto vedere il suo ultimo film in un cinema della capitale giapponese.
https://antoniodini.com/ultimo-film-hayao-miyazaki/
https://antoniodini.com/ultimo-film-hayao-miyazaki/
Mostly Here
L’emozione di vedere l’ultimo film di Miyazaki a Tokyo
Come ci si sente ad andare al cinema di Tokyo per assistere alla prima di Kimi-tachi wa dō ikiru ka, il nuovo e ultimo film di Hayao Miyazaki
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10 libri di fantascienza da leggere questa estate - la mia selezione per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2023/07/libri-di-fantascienza-estate-2023/
https://fumettologica.it/2023/07/libri-di-fantascienza-estate-2023/
Fumettologica
10 libri di fantascienza da leggere questa estate
Una serie di libri di fantascienza, tra romanzi e antologie, perfetti da leggere sotto l'ombrellone questa estate.
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Stranissimo articolo su una artista che conoscevo solo superficialmente. Ma la foto di apertura vale tutto.
Money quote: "Joanna Sternberg’s relationship with visual art has been a lifelong pursuit. They recall developing a childhood interest that wasn’t always encouraged in school. “When I was home drawing, it was so much fun, and I would just get lost in it. In middle school, I started really wanting to draw all the time and was always drawing something else during class,” they explain. "
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/joanna-sternberg-interview/
Money quote: "Joanna Sternberg’s relationship with visual art has been a lifelong pursuit. They recall developing a childhood interest that wasn’t always encouraged in school. “When I was home drawing, it was so much fun, and I would just get lost in it. In middle school, I started really wanting to draw all the time and was always drawing something else during class,” they explain. "
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/joanna-sternberg-interview/
The Vinyl Factory
Inteview: Joanna Sternberg's intimate world of music and art
Ahead of the release of I’ve Got Me, Joanna Sternberg discusses their love of art and the relationship it has with their music.
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Storia orale della serie animata di Batman che nel 1992 aprì una nuova prospettiva sul cavaliere oscuro.
Money quote: "BT: Neither of us had ever produced a series before, so that was a big gamble on her part. There was a period in the early couple months of production where, literally, Eric and I didn’t know if we were gonna show up and find the locks changed on our offices. I mean, this had never really been done before for TV. What we wanted to do was quite a bit more adult than, say, shows like G.I. Joe or Transformers or He-Man. Those shows were deliberately designed for young kids, and nobody else. If you were 13, that was pretty much the cutoff point for a show like He-Man or G.I. Joe. But we wanted to do a show that would appeal to kids and also to adults, as well. Basically, we were making the show for ourselves."
https://www.vulture.com/article/oral-history-batman-the-animated-series.html
Money quote: "BT: Neither of us had ever produced a series before, so that was a big gamble on her part. There was a period in the early couple months of production where, literally, Eric and I didn’t know if we were gonna show up and find the locks changed on our offices. I mean, this had never really been done before for TV. What we wanted to do was quite a bit more adult than, say, shows like G.I. Joe or Transformers or He-Man. Those shows were deliberately designed for young kids, and nobody else. If you were 13, that was pretty much the cutoff point for a show like He-Man or G.I. Joe. But we wanted to do a show that would appeal to kids and also to adults, as well. Basically, we were making the show for ourselves."
https://www.vulture.com/article/oral-history-batman-the-animated-series.html
VULTURE
An Oral History of Batman: The Animated Series
Fox’s ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ defined the character for a generation — and gave us Harley Quinn.
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Dovremmo cominciare a parlare di più dei libri per ragazzi e bambini. E dovremmo anche cominciare a pensarli in maniera diversa, lasciando più spazio ad autori che sono percepiti come meno convenzionali dalla cultura mainstream.
Money quote: "I get it—trees are a thing that kids and adults have in common (also: benches). Kids climb them and adults like to … look at them, I guess. We adults can’t stop writing and publishing books like this. And since there is no real critique of children’s books (since any children’s book author or illustrator is assumed to be trying to do something nice for kids, and don’t knock it), we keep making more of them—the kids haven’t told us otherwise. As The Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson put it in a radio interview, “When you read an adult novel there’s always about three pages of reviews.”
For kids’ books, there are none."
https://lithub.com/let-the-kids-get-weird-the-adult-problem-with-childrens-books/
Money quote: "I get it—trees are a thing that kids and adults have in common (also: benches). Kids climb them and adults like to … look at them, I guess. We adults can’t stop writing and publishing books like this. And since there is no real critique of children’s books (since any children’s book author or illustrator is assumed to be trying to do something nice for kids, and don’t knock it), we keep making more of them—the kids haven’t told us otherwise. As The Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson put it in a radio interview, “When you read an adult novel there’s always about three pages of reviews.”
For kids’ books, there are none."
https://lithub.com/let-the-kids-get-weird-the-adult-problem-with-childrens-books/
Literary Hub
Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Children’s Books
Picture books must hitch a ride on the parent if a child is to get a look-in so the children’s publicity machine is tilted fully at the adults. The frontlist is built around celebrities children ha…
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È uscito il secondo numero dell'annuario "The html Review" (che già il titolo è geniale). Tanta tanta roba da leggere.
Money quote: "Our 2023 issue is made up of 17 contributions that span modes of digital literature and experiment. We have poetic instruments, interactive fictions, illustrated essays, movable lyrics, linguistic gardens, and pixelated memories. I like to think each piece we publish is a specific illumination of how literature can exist in digital spaces. They are each reflective of a World Wide Web built with fingerprints visible, inviting all to participate and take ownership.
After all, this issue comes at a time when both our reading and digital lives are perilous."
https://thehtml.review/02/
Qui invece il primo numero
https://thehtml.review/01/
Money quote: "Our 2023 issue is made up of 17 contributions that span modes of digital literature and experiment. We have poetic instruments, interactive fictions, illustrated essays, movable lyrics, linguistic gardens, and pixelated memories. I like to think each piece we publish is a specific illumination of how literature can exist in digital spaces. They are each reflective of a World Wide Web built with fingerprints visible, inviting all to participate and take ownership.
After all, this issue comes at a time when both our reading and digital lives are perilous."
https://thehtml.review/02/
Qui invece il primo numero
https://thehtml.review/01/
thehtml.review
the html review 02
the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web
Recensione fotocamera digitale Leica Q3, forse la migliore compatta di sempre: il mio articolo (e ci sono anche un po' di foto del Giappone! Ma poco perché nonostante la macchina bestiale non sono bravo)
https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-leica-q3/
https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-leica-q3/
macitynet.it
Recensione fotocamera digitale Leica Q3, forse la migliore compatta di sempre
Recensione, Recensioni
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Mostly Weekly, la mia newsletter gratuita, continua anche d'estate. Si parla di vestiti alla marinara in Giappone e lingue perdute in Cina, fra le altre cose. La trovate qui:
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/230/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/230/
Mostly Here
~230
Vestire alla marinara e perdere la propria lingua
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Avete presente la tragica fine del generale Custer e del Settimo cavalleggeri, massacrato dagli indiani? Beh, la narrativa è molto, molto viziata. E adesso c'è finalmente una riscrittura di quella storia che spiega anche i motivi per cui il racconto è diventato quel che è diventato.
Money quote: "Marshall is writing a book on how distorted narratives about the “Indian wars” after the Civil War made their way into schools. The answer reveals a potent mix of the powerful who engage in history making: soldiers burnishing their own reputations, loved ones honoring family members, lawmakers lobbying for federal dollars, and textbook writers mythologizing American Manifest Destiny."
https://time.com/6288437/custer-last-stand-history-education/
Money quote: "Marshall is writing a book on how distorted narratives about the “Indian wars” after the Civil War made their way into schools. The answer reveals a potent mix of the powerful who engage in history making: soldiers burnishing their own reputations, loved ones honoring family members, lawmakers lobbying for federal dollars, and textbook writers mythologizing American Manifest Destiny."
https://time.com/6288437/custer-last-stand-history-education/
Time
Why We've Gotten 'Custer's Last Stand' Wrong for Nearly 150 Years
We're talking about 'Custer's Last Stand' all wrong.
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Forwarded from Riccardo
🎙 Un paio di bazzecole e qualche buon libro.
Ovvero: Tokyo mon amour - Venedikt Erofeev - L'ultimo Miyazaki - Software aggressivo
Ascoltate Tilde ~ 30, il finale di stagione!
→ tilde ~ su Spotify
→ tilde ~ su Apple Podcast
→ tilde ~ su Google Podcast
Potete ascoltare il podcast da Spotify, Google Podcast o Apple Podcast, oppure dal sito: tilde.show. Buon ascolto, buon martedì e grazie per il supporto di questi mesi. Torneremo a settembre, forse!
Ovvero: Tokyo mon amour - Venedikt Erofeev - L'ultimo Miyazaki - Software aggressivo
Ascoltate Tilde ~ 30, il finale di stagione!
→ tilde ~ su Spotify
→ tilde ~ su Apple Podcast
→ tilde ~ su Google Podcast
Potete ascoltare il podcast da Spotify, Google Podcast o Apple Podcast, oppure dal sito: tilde.show. Buon ascolto, buon martedì e grazie per il supporto di questi mesi. Torneremo a settembre, forse!
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