La vicenda del volo di Alaska Airlines al quale si è staccato un portellone/pezzo di fusoliera in fase di ascesa dopo il decollo è pazzesca. Le conseguenze per Boeing spero saranno notevoli. Però c'è altro da dire. Siccome nessuno c'è rimasto secco, Alaska Airlines gioca a far finta che si trattasse di poca cosa. Per questo è significativo secondo me leggere questa storia madre-figlio. Il nome della madre non è noto al pubblico e inizialmente non voleva raccontare la sua storia alla stampa. Ha cambiato idea solo dopo che l'Alaska Airlines ha presentato una versione dei fatti che ha fatto sembrare l'incidente molto più tranquillo di quanto fosse chiaramente.
Il fatto che gli sia andata bene, ad Alaska e a Boeing, non deve essere la scusa per far finta di nulla.
Money quote: "When the Boeing 737 MAX 9’s side blew out explosively on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Friday evening, a 15-year-old high school student was in the window seat in the row directly ahead, his shoulder beside the edge of the gaping hole.
His mother, who was seated beside him, in the middle seat of row 25, described the moment as a very loud bang, like “a bomb exploding.”
As the air in the passenger cabin rushed out, the Oregon woman turned and saw her son’s seat twisting backward toward the hole, his seat headrest ripped off and sucked into the void, her son’s arms jerked upward.
“He and his seat were pulled back and towards the exterior of the plane in the direction of the hole,” she said. “I reached over and grabbed his body and pulled him towards me over the armrest.”
The boy had been wearing a T-shirt and a V-neck pullover windbreaker. Both were ripped off his body. “I could see his back,” Faye said. “My mind just assumed his shirt had been pulled up by me grabbing him. I did not know that it had been torn off. It didn’t even occur to me.”"
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/when-hole-opened-on-alaska-flight-1282-a-mom-held-tight-to-her-son/
(Ottime anche le infografiche).
Il fatto che gli sia andata bene, ad Alaska e a Boeing, non deve essere la scusa per far finta di nulla.
Money quote: "When the Boeing 737 MAX 9’s side blew out explosively on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Friday evening, a 15-year-old high school student was in the window seat in the row directly ahead, his shoulder beside the edge of the gaping hole.
His mother, who was seated beside him, in the middle seat of row 25, described the moment as a very loud bang, like “a bomb exploding.”
As the air in the passenger cabin rushed out, the Oregon woman turned and saw her son’s seat twisting backward toward the hole, his seat headrest ripped off and sucked into the void, her son’s arms jerked upward.
“He and his seat were pulled back and towards the exterior of the plane in the direction of the hole,” she said. “I reached over and grabbed his body and pulled him towards me over the armrest.”
The boy had been wearing a T-shirt and a V-neck pullover windbreaker. Both were ripped off his body. “I could see his back,” Faye said. “My mind just assumed his shirt had been pulled up by me grabbing him. I did not know that it had been torn off. It didn’t even occur to me.”"
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/when-hole-opened-on-alaska-flight-1282-a-mom-held-tight-to-her-son/
(Ottime anche le infografiche).
The Seattle Times
When Alaska flight 1282 blew open, a mom went into ‘go mode’ to protect her son
"I was just holding him and saying repeatedly, 'It's OK. It's OK. It's OK, buddy. It's OK. It's OK.' "
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Faranno una piscina nel mezzo dell'Hudson, oh yes.
Money quote: "L’idea della piscina che galleggia sul fiume e filtra le sue acque nasce da quattro giovani designer Archie Lee Coates IV, Dong-Ping Wong, Jeffrey Franklin e Oana Stanescu aveva guadagnato popolarità grazie anche alla campagna di crowdfunding da cui si cominciarono a cercare i fondi per realizzarla. La volontà alla base di questa iniziativa era trovare un modo per pulire l’Hudson River e realizzare una struttura di architettura pubblica aperta a tutti."
https://living.corriere.it/architettura/la-piscina-che-galleggia-di-new-york-si-fara/
Money quote: "L’idea della piscina che galleggia sul fiume e filtra le sue acque nasce da quattro giovani designer Archie Lee Coates IV, Dong-Ping Wong, Jeffrey Franklin e Oana Stanescu aveva guadagnato popolarità grazie anche alla campagna di crowdfunding da cui si cominciarono a cercare i fondi per realizzarla. La volontà alla base di questa iniziativa era trovare un modo per pulire l’Hudson River e realizzare una struttura di architettura pubblica aperta a tutti."
https://living.corriere.it/architettura/la-piscina-che-galleggia-di-new-york-si-fara/
Living
La piscina che galleggia di New York si farà
Pensato per filtrare le acque dell'Hudosn River, il progetto ha trovato dopo molti anni i fondi per diventare realtà
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Volete veramente prendervi un dottorato di ricerca? Una decina di anni fa Andrej Karpathy (cofondatore di OpenAI e capo dello sviluppo della guida autonoma di Tesla) ha messo giù una guida su come sopravvivere a un PhD. Utile anche in retrospettiva.
Money quote: "First, should you want to get a PhD? I was in a fortunate position of knowing since young age that I really wanted a PhD. Unfortunately it wasn’t for any very well-thought-through considerations: First, I really liked school and learning things and I wanted to learn as much as possible, and second, I really wanted to be like Gordon Freeman from the game Half-Life (who has a PhD from MIT in theoretical physics). I loved that game. But what if you’re more sensible in making your life’s decisions? Should you want to do a PhD? There’s a very nice Quora thread and in the summary of considerations that follows I’ll borrow/restate several from Justin/Ben/others there. I’ll assume that the second option you are considering is joining a medium-large company (which is likely most common). Ask yourself if you find the following properties appealing"
https://karpathy.github.io/2016/09/07/phd/
Money quote: "First, should you want to get a PhD? I was in a fortunate position of knowing since young age that I really wanted a PhD. Unfortunately it wasn’t for any very well-thought-through considerations: First, I really liked school and learning things and I wanted to learn as much as possible, and second, I really wanted to be like Gordon Freeman from the game Half-Life (who has a PhD from MIT in theoretical physics). I loved that game. But what if you’re more sensible in making your life’s decisions? Should you want to do a PhD? There’s a very nice Quora thread and in the summary of considerations that follows I’ll borrow/restate several from Justin/Ben/others there. I’ll assume that the second option you are considering is joining a medium-large company (which is likely most common). Ask yourself if you find the following properties appealing"
https://karpathy.github.io/2016/09/07/phd/
karpathy.github.io
A Survival Guide to a PhD
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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Internet sta producendo il frutto più velenoso della storia: il ritorno della destra ultrafascista, questa volta su scala mondiale, sotterranea e centrata su valori suprematisti: il potere degli uomini bianchi, la salvaguardia della religione cristiana, la sottomissione della donna e delle altre culture e religioni, la teoria della cospirazione. Sono cavoli.
Money quote: "Esta alarma ha alcanzado cotas mucho más elevadas en países como Alemania, Francia, Reino Unido o los países nórdicos. Solo un ejemplo: en Berlín, el ministro del Interior anunció en mayo de 2021 que la ultraderecha era ya la principal amenaza para la seguridad del país, por delante del terrorismo yihadista. La declaración llegó tras una lista de atentados que se han cobrado 23 muertos en las dos últimas décadas. En diciembre de 2022, 3.000 policías alemanes participaron en una operación que desarticuló un grupo extremista que planeaba dar un golpe de Estado por “medios militares” para derrocar al Gobierno federal."
https://elpais.com/eps/2024-01-20/terror-invisible-asi-es-la-nueva-ola-de-ultraderecha-que-defiende-pasar-a-la-accion-terrorista.html
Archivio: https://archive.is/mErIh
Money quote: "Esta alarma ha alcanzado cotas mucho más elevadas en países como Alemania, Francia, Reino Unido o los países nórdicos. Solo un ejemplo: en Berlín, el ministro del Interior anunció en mayo de 2021 que la ultraderecha era ya la principal amenaza para la seguridad del país, por delante del terrorismo yihadista. La declaración llegó tras una lista de atentados que se han cobrado 23 muertos en las dos últimas décadas. En diciembre de 2022, 3.000 policías alemanes participaron en una operación que desarticuló un grupo extremista que planeaba dar un golpe de Estado por “medios militares” para derrocar al Gobierno federal."
https://elpais.com/eps/2024-01-20/terror-invisible-asi-es-la-nueva-ola-de-ultraderecha-que-defiende-pasar-a-la-accion-terrorista.html
Archivio: https://archive.is/mErIh
El País
Terror invisible: así es la nueva ola de ultraderecha que defiende pasar a la acción | Especial
Las fuerzas de seguridad alertan de un fenómeno global soterrado que trasciende a los esquemas clásicos. En base a ideas compartidas en internet, se mueven en torno al supremacismo blanco, la salvaguarda de la cultura cristiana occidental, la sumisión de…
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Se sognate il Giappone, sognate di girarlo, sognate di perdervici, allora preparatevi a prendere il treno. Tanti treni.
Money quote: "It’s likely that anyone traveling to Japan will end up on a train at some point. Yet if you want to create a thorough train itinerary to see the best of the country, some advanced planning is necessary. Where to start? Which trains to take? Where to go? How much time to spend? Japan Rail Pass or not?
I’ve spent more than a decade visiting Japan, often multiple times a year, and traveling by train across this beautiful and fascinating country is one of my favorite things to do in the world.
Here’s how to build your own Japan rail trip."
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/train-travel-trip-japan-planning-guide
Money quote: "It’s likely that anyone traveling to Japan will end up on a train at some point. Yet if you want to create a thorough train itinerary to see the best of the country, some advanced planning is necessary. Where to start? Which trains to take? Where to go? How much time to spend? Japan Rail Pass or not?
I’ve spent more than a decade visiting Japan, often multiple times a year, and traveling by train across this beautiful and fascinating country is one of my favorite things to do in the world.
Here’s how to build your own Japan rail trip."
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/train-travel-trip-japan-planning-guide
Lonely Planet
How to see Japan by train - Lonely Planet
Japanese railway enthusiast John Walton shares advice on how to stretch your yen as far as possible on a train trip through Japan.Whether you’re a train…
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Steven Levy, la penna senior di Wired Usa, ci regala una bella riflessione in occasione dei 40 anni dal lancio del Macintosh.
Money quote: "My own relationship with the computer dates back to its beginnings, when I got a prelaunch peek some weeks before its January 1984 launch. I even wrote a book about the Mac—Insanely Great—in which I described it as “the computer that changed everything.” Unlike every other nonfiction subnoscript, the hyperbole was justified. The Mac introduced the way all computers would one day work, and the break from controlling a machine with typed commands ushered us into an era that extends to our mobile interactions. It also heralded a focus on design that transformed our devices.
That legacy has been long-lasting."
https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-apple-secret-40-year-old-mac-still-rules/
Archivio: https://archive.is/jKEAB
Money quote: "My own relationship with the computer dates back to its beginnings, when I got a prelaunch peek some weeks before its January 1984 launch. I even wrote a book about the Mac—Insanely Great—in which I described it as “the computer that changed everything.” Unlike every other nonfiction subnoscript, the hyperbole was justified. The Mac introduced the way all computers would one day work, and the break from controlling a machine with typed commands ushered us into an era that extends to our mobile interactions. It also heralded a focus on design that transformed our devices.
That legacy has been long-lasting."
https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-apple-secret-40-year-old-mac-still-rules/
Archivio: https://archive.is/jKEAB
WIRED
Apple Shares the Secret of Why the 40-Year-Old Mac Still Rules
The pioneering PC revolutionized how people interact with computers. As the Mac enters its fifth decade, Apple says it will continue to evolve.
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"The Orville" ha una marcia in più - la mia rubrica per Fumettologica alla scoperta di questo che è un vero "classico nascosto"
https://fumettologica.it/2024/01/the-orville-serie-tv/
https://fumettologica.it/2024/01/the-orville-serie-tv/
Fumettologica
"The Orville" ha una marcia in più
The Orville, ideata Seth MacFarlane, il creatore dei Griffin, è una serie tv di fantascienza che ha una traiettoria eccentrica.
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La moda al tempo degli antichi romani doveva essere complicata, o forse la vediamo male noi da qua, chissà.
Money quote: "Pur rimanendo l'abito formale per eccellenza, malgrado gli inviti ad indossarla in particolare nelle occasioni pubbliche, ben presto i Romani preferirono l'uso del più pratico pallium, molto simile all'himation greco, o della lacerna, un pallium colorato, o della paenula, un pallium con cappuccio. Osservava infatti Giovenale che ormai «in gran parte dell'Italia nessuno indossa la toga, tranne il morto.» Si usava infatti nelle cerimonie, funerali compresi."
https://www.romanoimpero.com/2018/11/abbigliamento-dei-romani.html?m=0
Money quote: "Pur rimanendo l'abito formale per eccellenza, malgrado gli inviti ad indossarla in particolare nelle occasioni pubbliche, ben presto i Romani preferirono l'uso del più pratico pallium, molto simile all'himation greco, o della lacerna, un pallium colorato, o della paenula, un pallium con cappuccio. Osservava infatti Giovenale che ormai «in gran parte dell'Italia nessuno indossa la toga, tranne il morto.» Si usava infatti nelle cerimonie, funerali compresi."
https://www.romanoimpero.com/2018/11/abbigliamento-dei-romani.html?m=0
romanoimpero.com
ABBIGLIAMENTO DEI ROMANI
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Ma tu dove compri i dischi?, mi chiede il curioso. Da Metropolis Due, rispondo io. Ormai da quasi vent'anni. Perché, ci sono altri posti dove andare?
Money quote: "E’ un negozio tutto dedicato ai vinili (da 10 euro) e CD (da 7 euro), nuovi e di seconda mano, punto di riferimento per gli appassionati. L’assortimento è ampio e diversificato e abbraccia i diversi generi: rock, jazz, musica italiana, heavy metal e hard rock. A completare l’offerta anche una piccola selezione di libri musicali in lingua inglese."
https://vivimilano.corriere.it/shopping/metropolis-due/
Money quote: "E’ un negozio tutto dedicato ai vinili (da 10 euro) e CD (da 7 euro), nuovi e di seconda mano, punto di riferimento per gli appassionati. L’assortimento è ampio e diversificato e abbraccia i diversi generi: rock, jazz, musica italiana, heavy metal e hard rock. A completare l’offerta anche una piccola selezione di libri musicali in lingua inglese."
https://vivimilano.corriere.it/shopping/metropolis-due/
vivimilano.corriere.it
Metropolis Due - Negozi a Milano: dove fare shopping a Milano - Vivimilano
E’ un negozio tutto dedicato ai vinili (da 10 euro) e CD (da 7 euro), nuovi e di seconda mano, punto di riferimento per gli appassionati. L’assortimento è
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Una bella intervista di Corrado Ori Tanzi a Joe R. Lansdale. Un autore che in Italia forse è ancora poco capito.
Money quote: "Penso la stessa cosa con il Woke movement. Le sue idee sono corrette, ma quando decide che bisogna cancellare qualcuno che lo offende allora andiamo su un altro piano. La fiction, ad esempio, dovrebbe impegnarsi a raccontare la verità o almeno a cercarla. Entrambe, vita reale o fantasia, devono essere sentite come reali. Io scrivo molti libri che sono anche dei libri twainsociali. Per qualcuno il linguaggio di alcuni miei libri è offensivo. Ma non è il linguaggio a esserlo, quanto l’intento che si evidenzia da tutto ciò. Cercare di cancellare Huckleberry Finn o Il buio oltre la siepe per il linguaggio offensivo è ignorare quel che questi libri dicono. Sono romanzi che mantengono il loro potere, arrivano al loro scopo e puntualizzano perfettamente il tempo in cui furono scritti."
https://8thofmay.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/joe-r-lansdale-la-penna-che-inchioda/
Money quote: "Penso la stessa cosa con il Woke movement. Le sue idee sono corrette, ma quando decide che bisogna cancellare qualcuno che lo offende allora andiamo su un altro piano. La fiction, ad esempio, dovrebbe impegnarsi a raccontare la verità o almeno a cercarla. Entrambe, vita reale o fantasia, devono essere sentite come reali. Io scrivo molti libri che sono anche dei libri twainsociali. Per qualcuno il linguaggio di alcuni miei libri è offensivo. Ma non è il linguaggio a esserlo, quanto l’intento che si evidenzia da tutto ciò. Cercare di cancellare Huckleberry Finn o Il buio oltre la siepe per il linguaggio offensivo è ignorare quel che questi libri dicono. Sono romanzi che mantengono il loro potere, arrivano al loro scopo e puntualizzano perfettamente il tempo in cui furono scritti."
https://8thofmay.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/joe-r-lansdale-la-penna-che-inchioda/
8th of May
Joe R. Lansdale, la penna che inchioda
Ripropongo un’intervista che feci qualche anno fa al grande scrittore texano e pubblicata altrove. Joe. R. Lansdale è il compagno di viaggio perfetto. Per il lettore abituato a slegare la mente e f…
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Lettura della domenica. Il motore di ricerca di Google, la sua arma più potente, sta andando in vacca. Letteralmente.
Money quote: "But those Ten Blue Links surfaced by the PageRank-that-was had a special magic. I found them intensely human, a reflection of the voices populating what remains of the Web, the only platform without a vendor. This was true when I was there and I said so, but was laughed at.
And now, in Anno Domini 2024, Google has lost its edge in search. There are plenty of things it can’t find. There are compelling alternatives. To me this feels like a big inflection point, because around the stumbling feet of the Big Tech dinosaurs, the Web’s mammals, agile and flexible, still scurry. They exhibit creative energy and strongly-flavored voices, and those voices still sometimes find and reinforce each other without being sock puppets of shareholder-value-focused private empires."
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024
Money quote: "But those Ten Blue Links surfaced by the PageRank-that-was had a special magic. I found them intensely human, a reflection of the voices populating what remains of the Web, the only platform without a vendor. This was true when I was there and I said so, but was laughed at.
And now, in Anno Domini 2024, Google has lost its edge in search. There are plenty of things it can’t find. There are compelling alternatives. To me this feels like a big inflection point, because around the stumbling feet of the Big Tech dinosaurs, the Web’s mammals, agile and flexible, still scurry. They exhibit creative energy and strongly-flavored voices, and those voices still sometimes find and reinforce each other without being sock puppets of shareholder-value-focused private empires."
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024
ongoing by Tim Bray
Mourning Google
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Uno sviluppatore che da 43 anni scrive codice per le piattaforma di Apple (fin dai tempi dell'Apple II, prima del Macintosh) ci ricorda qualcosa che si potrebbe dimenticare facilmente.
Money quote: "But I need to remember, now and again, that Apple is a corporation, and corporations aren’t people, and they can’t love you back. You wouldn’t love GE or Exxon or Comcast — and you shouldn’t love Apple. It’s not an exception to the rule: there are no exceptions.
Apple doesn’t care about you personally in the least tiny bit, and if you were in their way somehow, they would do whatever their might — effectively infinite compared to your own — enables them to deal with you."
https://inessential.com/2024/01/17/corporations_are_not_to_be_loved
Money quote: "But I need to remember, now and again, that Apple is a corporation, and corporations aren’t people, and they can’t love you back. You wouldn’t love GE or Exxon or Comcast — and you shouldn’t love Apple. It’s not an exception to the rule: there are no exceptions.
Apple doesn’t care about you personally in the least tiny bit, and if you were in their way somehow, they would do whatever their might — effectively infinite compared to your own — enables them to deal with you."
https://inessential.com/2024/01/17/corporations_are_not_to_be_loved
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La prossima volta che capitate a New York City sapete dove dovete andare.
Money quote: "Every month, more than two hundred people from the media, academia, and other intellectual circles are invited to a private hangout in New York City, which is known as the Gathering of Thought Criminals. There are two rules. The first is that you have to be willing to break bread with people who have been socially ostracized, or, as the attendees would say, “cancelled”—whether they’ve lost a job, lost friends, or simply feel persecuted for holding unpopular opinions. Some people on the guest list are notorious: élite professors who have deviated from campus consensus or who have broken university rules, and journalists who have made a name for themselves amid public backlash (or who have weathered it quietly). Others are relative nobodies, people who for one reason or another have become exasperated with what they see as rampant censorious thinking in our culture.
The second rule of the gatherings is that Pamela has to like you. Pamela is Pamela Paresky, the gathering’s organizer, a fifty-six-year-old psychologist who lives in Chelsea. "
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-is-cancelled
Archivio: https://archive.is/c4OwH
Money quote: "Every month, more than two hundred people from the media, academia, and other intellectual circles are invited to a private hangout in New York City, which is known as the Gathering of Thought Criminals. There are two rules. The first is that you have to be willing to break bread with people who have been socially ostracized, or, as the attendees would say, “cancelled”—whether they’ve lost a job, lost friends, or simply feel persecuted for holding unpopular opinions. Some people on the guest list are notorious: élite professors who have deviated from campus consensus or who have broken university rules, and journalists who have made a name for themselves amid public backlash (or who have weathered it quietly). Others are relative nobodies, people who for one reason or another have become exasperated with what they see as rampant censorious thinking in our culture.
The second rule of the gatherings is that Pamela has to like you. Pamela is Pamela Paresky, the gathering’s organizer, a fifty-six-year-old psychologist who lives in Chelsea. "
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-is-cancelled
Archivio: https://archive.is/c4OwH
The New Yorker
A Club for the Cancelled
Inside a monthly New York City hangout, where fired university professors and controversial TikTokers get together to have discussions they feel they can’t have anywhere else.
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L'artista una volta conosciuto come Prince non c'è più. Ed è una gran mancanza, sia dal punto di vista discografico che da quello della performance. I suoi erano concerti da andare a vedere.
Tuttavia, l'artista non è stato ancora sufficientemente compreso e valorizzato. Questo progetto di storia orale del disco "Sign O' The Times" è molto interessante. E il disco era meraviglioso.
Money quote: "In the end, Sign O' The Times was a Frankenstein's monster, stitched together from the remains of three completed, but discarded albums: Dream Factory, Camille and the triple-disc Crystal Ball set.
Now, 33 years on, Prince's estate is releasing an expanded version of Sign O' The Times which includes 45 unreleased tracks from the recording sessions.
To get a better understanding of how it came together, here's a history of the record and its subsequent tour, featuring new and archive interviews from the musicians who were there, and some of Prince's most famous fans."
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54203180
Tuttavia, l'artista non è stato ancora sufficientemente compreso e valorizzato. Questo progetto di storia orale del disco "Sign O' The Times" è molto interessante. E il disco era meraviglioso.
Money quote: "In the end, Sign O' The Times was a Frankenstein's monster, stitched together from the remains of three completed, but discarded albums: Dream Factory, Camille and the triple-disc Crystal Ball set.
Now, 33 years on, Prince's estate is releasing an expanded version of Sign O' The Times which includes 45 unreleased tracks from the recording sessions.
To get a better understanding of how it came together, here's a history of the record and its subsequent tour, featuring new and archive interviews from the musicians who were there, and some of Prince's most famous fans."
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54203180
BBC News
Prince's Sign O' The Times: An oral history
Prince's collaborators recall the chaotic but fertile sessions that produced his greatest album.
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Praticamente la pandemia ci ha forzato a fare rapidamente quello che stava succedendo da anni. La fine dell'open space. È un male? Per alcuni sì, per altri no. Ma non è una questione di relativismo: è che i lavori non sono tutti uguali.
Money quote: "First, let me assure you that I am not a great fan of the whole open-office concept myself. As someone who worked out of a home office for many years, and in a traditional office setting before that, while the comradery that the open office encourages is nice, I don’t love the need to dash for a closed-door “phone booth” every time I receive, or need to make, a personal call — or, in fact, any call. I don’t enjoy having to hide in a cubicle in the ladies’ room if I am even a little upset or angry. In fact, before the pandemic hit, I was strongly tempted to put a photo from the 1928 film The Crowd or 1960’s The Apartment up at my desk to show that, well, open offices aren’t exactly new to our times."
https://www.theverge.com/22412400/open-office-pandemic-privacy-safety
Money quote: "First, let me assure you that I am not a great fan of the whole open-office concept myself. As someone who worked out of a home office for many years, and in a traditional office setting before that, while the comradery that the open office encourages is nice, I don’t love the need to dash for a closed-door “phone booth” every time I receive, or need to make, a personal call — or, in fact, any call. I don’t enjoy having to hide in a cubicle in the ladies’ room if I am even a little upset or angry. In fact, before the pandemic hit, I was strongly tempted to put a photo from the 1928 film The Crowd or 1960’s The Apartment up at my desk to show that, well, open offices aren’t exactly new to our times."
https://www.theverge.com/22412400/open-office-pandemic-privacy-safety
The Verge
Are we seeing the return of the closed-door office? I hope not.
Will COVID-19 finally lead us to abandon the open office?
In America (e dove, sennò) a quanto pare c'è tutta una subcultura di gente che fa la coda davanti ai posti che aprono. I fast food, per essere precisi. E attraversano gli Stati Uniti da un lato all'altro per andarci. Gente tra le altre cose non fighetta come quelli che fanno le code davanti agli Apple Store o ai concerti di Bruce Springsteen. Patologie che varrebbe la pena indagare.
Money quote "Some chains try to curtail opening-day frenzy. Chick-fil-A long advertised a “First 100” giveaway, where the first 100 guests would get free food for a year. This led to people camping out overnight in parking lots at new restaurants. When the pandemic hit in 2020, the chain dropped the promotion, and asked restaurant operators to instead select “100 Community Heroes,” such as teachers and healthcare providers, to receive the free food."
https://www.wsj.com/business/superfans-in-n-out-openings-chick-fil-a-c2cea331
Money quote "Some chains try to curtail opening-day frenzy. Chick-fil-A long advertised a “First 100” giveaway, where the first 100 guests would get free food for a year. This led to people camping out overnight in parking lots at new restaurants. When the pandemic hit in 2020, the chain dropped the promotion, and asked restaurant operators to instead select “100 Community Heroes,” such as teachers and healthcare providers, to receive the free food."
https://www.wsj.com/business/superfans-in-n-out-openings-chick-fil-a-c2cea331
WSJ
There Are Superfans. Then There Are Fast-Food Superfans.
Die-hards are lining up at 4:30 a.m., donning long underwear and sleeping in parking lots to be first at In-N-Out or Chick-fil-A openings
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Ho visto con qualche giorni di ritardo questo obituary di Norman Jevison, regista americano scomparso qualche giorno fa. Leggere gli obituary, che negli Usa sono un lavoro vero e di livello, per me come giornalista e curioso della vita delle persone è un esercizio affascinante. Spesso si tratta di microbiografie dense, ricche, a tratti straordinarie. Quando arrivo in fondo e penso: "Avrei voluto conoscerlo e intervistarlo" vuol dire che hanno fatto un gran lavoro.
Money quote: "Oscar-nominated film director and producer Norman Jewison, who steered the 1967 racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” to a best picture Oscar and also helmed such popular films as “Moonstruck,” “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” and “The Thomas Crown Affair,” as well as film musicals “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” died Saturday at his Los Angeles residence. He was 97.
His film career began with fluffy Doris Day comedies like “The Thrill of It All.” But Jewison’s social conscience began to surface with “In the Heat of the Night” and, later, the labor union drama “F.I.S.T.” and other films focusing on racial tensions such as “A Soldier’s Story” and “The Landlord” (the latter of which he only produced), though he never abandoned comedies and romances."
https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/norman-jewison-dead-moonstruck-in-the-heat-of-the-night-1235882301/
Money quote: "Oscar-nominated film director and producer Norman Jewison, who steered the 1967 racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” to a best picture Oscar and also helmed such popular films as “Moonstruck,” “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” and “The Thomas Crown Affair,” as well as film musicals “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” died Saturday at his Los Angeles residence. He was 97.
His film career began with fluffy Doris Day comedies like “The Thrill of It All.” But Jewison’s social conscience began to surface with “In the Heat of the Night” and, later, the labor union drama “F.I.S.T.” and other films focusing on racial tensions such as “A Soldier’s Story” and “The Landlord” (the latter of which he only produced), though he never abandoned comedies and romances."
https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/norman-jewison-dead-moonstruck-in-the-heat-of-the-night-1235882301/
Variety
Norman Jewison, ‘Moonstruck’ and ‘In the Heat of the Night’ Director, Dies at 97
Norman Jewison, the Oscar-nominated director behind "In the Heat of the Night," "Moonstruck," "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Jesus Christ Superstar," has died.
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Dyson ha delle tecnologie incredibili e un posizionamento unico. È costosa, la Patagonia degli asciugacapelli e dei purificatori dell'aria. Però sono connessi (i purificatori) e diffusi, cosicché i dati raccolti in modo anonimo disegnano un quadro piuttosto interessante dell'inquinamento dell'aria perlomeno nelle metropoli dove vengono usati di più. E la scoperta, di qualche giorno fa, è che l'aria a Milano fa schifo. Tipo che è peggio di Shenzen e Amsterdam (che è un po' una sorpresa).
Secondo me se ci fossero sensori calibrati alla stessa maniera in tutti i dispositivi connessi di tutti i produttori avremmo una mappa più completa (questa è fondamentalmente tarata sui benestanti che spendono 700 euro per un purificatore da appartamento) e realistica. Ma anche così fa abbastanza impressione.
Money quote: "Dal punto di vista delle singole città, il confronto tra l'inquinamento da PM2,5 outdoor e indoor è stato particolarmente negativo a Milano, che ha registrato il peggiore risultato globale: i livelli medi annui di PM2,5 indoor nel 2022 sono stati di 2,63 volte superiori rispetto a quelli outdoor - una discrepanza maggiore rispetto a qualsiasi altra città studiata - con picchi nei mesi di dicembre (3,46) e gennaio (3,48), fino al record di 4,17 volte oltre i valori outdoor a marzo.
Dopo Milano, altri record negativi sono stati quelli di Shenzhen (con livelli annui di PM2,5 indoor superiori del 97% rispetto all’outdoor), Amsterdam (76%), Seoul (53%), Madrid (50%), Melbourne (40%), Vienna (37%), Singapore (36%) e New York (35%). 21 città (su 35 esaminate) hanno registrato livelli medi annui di PM2,5 negli ambienti chiusi superiori rispetto a quelli all'aperto. Analizzando i dati mensili, sono otto le città che hanno registrato livelli di PM2,5 indoor superiori rispetto all’outdoor per ogni singolo mese dell'anno: Shenzhen, New York, Melbourne, Milano, Roma, Seoul, Vienna e Amsterdam."
https://www.innovationcity.it/approfondimenti/1249/laria-negli-ambienti-chiusi-e-piu-inquinata-dellaria-outdoor-per-oltre-6-mesi-allanno-milano-maglia-nera-a-livello-globale.html
Secondo me se ci fossero sensori calibrati alla stessa maniera in tutti i dispositivi connessi di tutti i produttori avremmo una mappa più completa (questa è fondamentalmente tarata sui benestanti che spendono 700 euro per un purificatore da appartamento) e realistica. Ma anche così fa abbastanza impressione.
Money quote: "Dal punto di vista delle singole città, il confronto tra l'inquinamento da PM2,5 outdoor e indoor è stato particolarmente negativo a Milano, che ha registrato il peggiore risultato globale: i livelli medi annui di PM2,5 indoor nel 2022 sono stati di 2,63 volte superiori rispetto a quelli outdoor - una discrepanza maggiore rispetto a qualsiasi altra città studiata - con picchi nei mesi di dicembre (3,46) e gennaio (3,48), fino al record di 4,17 volte oltre i valori outdoor a marzo.
Dopo Milano, altri record negativi sono stati quelli di Shenzhen (con livelli annui di PM2,5 indoor superiori del 97% rispetto all’outdoor), Amsterdam (76%), Seoul (53%), Madrid (50%), Melbourne (40%), Vienna (37%), Singapore (36%) e New York (35%). 21 città (su 35 esaminate) hanno registrato livelli medi annui di PM2,5 negli ambienti chiusi superiori rispetto a quelli all'aperto. Analizzando i dati mensili, sono otto le città che hanno registrato livelli di PM2,5 indoor superiori rispetto all’outdoor per ogni singolo mese dell'anno: Shenzhen, New York, Melbourne, Milano, Roma, Seoul, Vienna e Amsterdam."
https://www.innovationcity.it/approfondimenti/1249/laria-negli-ambienti-chiusi-e-piu-inquinata-dellaria-outdoor-per-oltre-6-mesi-allanno-milano-maglia-nera-a-livello-globale.html
InnovationCity.it
L’aria negli ambienti chiusi è più inquinata dell’aria outdoor per oltre 6 mesi all’anno: Milano maglia nera a livello globale
Questa è la sentenza che emerge dal primo progetto globale Air Quality Connected Data di Dyson che ha esaminato i dati relativi alla qualità dell'aria indoor provenienti da oltre 2,5 milioni di purificatori d'aria connessi. Ogni individuo inala dai 10.000…
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Un po' di tempo fa ho dovuto rifare la carta di credito perché un qualche sito di e-commerce "serio" in cui l'avevo messa è stato sfondato e si sono presi tutto, anche il codice cin.
Ovviamente la banca non mi dice chi sia stato il sito pirla (cioè comunicano un codice assolutamente inutile). E pensare che avevo appena chiuso la ricaricabile perché non la uso mai. Ma vabbè.
Invece, in maniera più intelligente Vans, North Face hanno limitato i danni pur avendo divieto un furto di dati di 35 milioni di clienti (non me, btw).
Money quote: “VF Corporation, the company behind brands like Vans, Timberland, The North Face, Dickies, and Supreme, said that more than 35 million customers had their personal information stolen in a December ransomware attack.
The American global apparel and footwear giant said that the affected customers' social security numbers, bank account information, or payment card information was not impacted since it doesn't store such data on its systems."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vans-north-face-owner-says-ransomware-breach-affects-35-million-people/
Ovviamente la banca non mi dice chi sia stato il sito pirla (cioè comunicano un codice assolutamente inutile). E pensare che avevo appena chiuso la ricaricabile perché non la uso mai. Ma vabbè.
Invece, in maniera più intelligente Vans, North Face hanno limitato i danni pur avendo divieto un furto di dati di 35 milioni di clienti (non me, btw).
Money quote: “VF Corporation, the company behind brands like Vans, Timberland, The North Face, Dickies, and Supreme, said that more than 35 million customers had their personal information stolen in a December ransomware attack.
The American global apparel and footwear giant said that the affected customers' social security numbers, bank account information, or payment card information was not impacted since it doesn't store such data on its systems."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vans-north-face-owner-says-ransomware-breach-affects-35-million-people/
BleepingComputer
Vans, North Face owner says ransomware breach affects 35 million people
VF Corporation, the company behind brands like Vans, Timberland, The North Face, Dickies, and Supreme, said that more than 35 million customers had their personal information stolen in a December ransomware attack.
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Se c'è una cosa che sembra la più naturale di tutte, è, quando arriva la sera, cambiarsi e andare a dormire. Andare cioè a letto. Solo che il letto, care signore e cari signori, è tutt'altro che naturale. È una invenzione, una tecnologia, un sistema complesso che oltretutto cambia da cultura a cultura nei suoi usi e significati più profondi. Ma da dove viene fuori, il letto?
Money quote: "Emerging just over 5,000 years ago, not long after other pioneering technologies such as writing, bed frames appeared in several places at around the same time. Some 1,700 miles (2,735km) from Orkney, in Malta, ritualised burial tunnels have revealed evidence of early incarnations of this furniture – including a clay figurine of a woman slumbering peacefully on her side, one hand under her head, on a simple raised platform. These early beds were not just places to rest. They often held deep symbolic meanings and links to the afterlife, according to Fagan and Durrani."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240126-sleep-tight-a-curious-history-of-beds-through-the-centuries
Money quote: "Emerging just over 5,000 years ago, not long after other pioneering technologies such as writing, bed frames appeared in several places at around the same time. Some 1,700 miles (2,735km) from Orkney, in Malta, ritualised burial tunnels have revealed evidence of early incarnations of this furniture – including a clay figurine of a woman slumbering peacefully on her side, one hand under her head, on a simple raised platform. These early beds were not just places to rest. They often held deep symbolic meanings and links to the afterlife, according to Fagan and Durrani."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240126-sleep-tight-a-curious-history-of-beds-through-the-centuries
Bbc
Sleep tight: A curious history of beds through the centuries
From beds for Roman newlyweds, to "hangover" benches for 19th-Century workers: the pursuit of a good night's sleep has followed us through the ages.
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