Prima che andiamo troppo in là con il mese: consigli per una dieta più sana e di stagione
Money quote: "Il mese di ottobre è sinonimo di autunno 🍁 Le foglie cambiano colore e si profilano nuove varietà di frutta e verdura, come le castagne e i kaki, il cavolfiore e il radicchio rosso.
Ecco la lista di frutta e verdura per il mese di ottobre, e i loro principali benefici."
https://yuka.io/it/frutta-verdura/ottobre/
Money quote: "Il mese di ottobre è sinonimo di autunno 🍁 Le foglie cambiano colore e si profilano nuove varietà di frutta e verdura, come le castagne e i kaki, il cavolfiore e il radicchio rosso.
Ecco la lista di frutta e verdura per il mese di ottobre, e i loro principali benefici."
https://yuka.io/it/frutta-verdura/ottobre/
Yuka
La frutta e verdura di ottobre - Yuka
Scopri la frutta e verdura di ottobre come la castagna, mela, melagrana, pera, uva, broccolo, cavolfiore, porcini, cavolo cappuccio e il radicchio rosso.
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Il dibattito è sempre, ferocemente americano-centrico. Le differenze con noi in Europa ci sono e sono tangibili. Tuttavia, la riflessione è interessante. Come in questo caso: i social media hanno dato il via a una esplosione di suicidi tra gli adolescenti?
Money quote: "Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed in relation to social-media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. Families are not the only plaintiffs. Last year, Seattle’s public-school district sued multiple social-media companies alleging harm to its students and a resulting strain on district resources. Attorneys general for forty-one states and the District of Columbia have sued Meta for harming children by fuelling social-media addiction. Both the United Kingdom and the European Union have recently enacted legislation that heightens companies’ responsibility for content on their platforms, and there is bipartisan support for similar measures in the United States. The surgeon general, Vivek H. Murthy, has called for a warning label on social-media platforms, stating that they are “associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.”"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/07/social-media-mental-health-suicide-crisis-teens
Archivio: https://archive.is/G3Kr1
Money quote: "Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed in relation to social-media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. Families are not the only plaintiffs. Last year, Seattle’s public-school district sued multiple social-media companies alleging harm to its students and a resulting strain on district resources. Attorneys general for forty-one states and the District of Columbia have sued Meta for harming children by fuelling social-media addiction. Both the United Kingdom and the European Union have recently enacted legislation that heightens companies’ responsibility for content on their platforms, and there is bipartisan support for similar measures in the United States. The surgeon general, Vivek H. Murthy, has called for a warning label on social-media platforms, stating that they are “associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.”"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/07/social-media-mental-health-suicide-crisis-teens
Archivio: https://archive.is/G3Kr1
The New Yorker
Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis?
Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers.
"Consigli ai giovani scrittori" è un piccolo libro di Charles Baudelaire che oggi sta tornando di moda. Nella versione di Passigli Editore, comprende una prefazione davvero interessante in cui Baudelaire viene descritto non solo per il suo talento artistico, ma anche per la sua sfacciataggine e creatività di uomo e poeta. Maurizio Ferrara racconta che questo manuale di 60 paginette viene scritto da un Baudelaire anch’egli esordiente, ma già conquistatore di fama nei circoli della bohème.
Money quote: "Baudealire affronta parecchi temi in uno spazio ristrettissimo, ma li dispiega come panni al vento in maniera tanto vera quanto sublime «In amore come in letteratura, le simpatie sono involontarie». E già, è proprio vero. La letteratura è una tra le arti più discusse: c’è a chi piace Montaigne e chi preferisce Proust, alcuni adorano i romanzi d’amore e altri quelli di guerra o dell’orrore. Nulla più della letteratura dà all’uomo la possibilità di esprimere sé e la sua visione della vita. Ma, e cito «L’odio è un liquore prezioso, un veleno più caro di quello dei Borgia […] Occorre esserne avari!» Così, come dice Baudelaire, l’odio è un’emozione da tenersi stretta, raggruppa tutte le nostre forze mentali e i tre quarti del nostro amore."
https://editorgloriamacaluso.com/2018/03/10/baudelaire-consigli-ai-giovani-scrittori/
Money quote: "Baudealire affronta parecchi temi in uno spazio ristrettissimo, ma li dispiega come panni al vento in maniera tanto vera quanto sublime «In amore come in letteratura, le simpatie sono involontarie». E già, è proprio vero. La letteratura è una tra le arti più discusse: c’è a chi piace Montaigne e chi preferisce Proust, alcuni adorano i romanzi d’amore e altri quelli di guerra o dell’orrore. Nulla più della letteratura dà all’uomo la possibilità di esprimere sé e la sua visione della vita. Ma, e cito «L’odio è un liquore prezioso, un veleno più caro di quello dei Borgia […] Occorre esserne avari!» Così, come dice Baudelaire, l’odio è un’emozione da tenersi stretta, raggruppa tutte le nostre forze mentali e i tre quarti del nostro amore."
https://editorgloriamacaluso.com/2018/03/10/baudelaire-consigli-ai-giovani-scrittori/
Editor Gloria Macaluso
Baudelaire – Consigli ai giovani scrittori
«L’esperienza implica una certa quantità di sbagli», così Baudealire apre il suo piccolo manuale di consigli agli scrittori esordienti. Come dargli torto?
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Non siamo in grado di cogliere la complessità ma abbiamo lo stesso opinioni molto forti. Questa settimana Mostly Weekly esplora fra le altre cose i pericoli di leggere la guerra come se fosse una narrazione.
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/293/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/293/
Mostly Here
~293
La guerra letta come un libro e la fine della realtà come fenomeno
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Letture per la domenica.
Che senso ha riguardare una vecchia serie televisiva. E che senso ha Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, per la precisione. Ripesco questa vecchia storia intanto che ne ho preparata un'altra (esce tra qualche giorno).
Money quote: "È una idea a cui penso e ripenso durante una delle missioni impossibili che mi sono dato per le vacanze di Natale e Capodanno dello scorso anno: guardare una vecchia serie televisiva. Un po’ per volta, a cavallo dei pranzi e magari di qualche serata un po’ lenta, da solo a casa, con determinazione e regolarità. Niente abbuffate, perché sette stagioni sono troppe per un fine settimana.
Tuttavia, lo faccio volentieri, perché mi piace ricadere in un’epoca diversa, che non c’entra niente con lo streaming o con la fruizione disarticolata delle storie di oggi. Un’epoca in cui le serie si guardavano a orario fisso soprattutto nel pomeriggio, durante “l’ora dei ragazzi”, con una cadenza che era dettata dai palinsesti, dalla sensibilità dei programmisti televisivi e di chi curava adattamenti e doppiaggi."
https://fumettologica.it/2024/03/deep-space-nine-star-trek-serie-tv/
Che senso ha riguardare una vecchia serie televisiva. E che senso ha Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, per la precisione. Ripesco questa vecchia storia intanto che ne ho preparata un'altra (esce tra qualche giorno).
Money quote: "È una idea a cui penso e ripenso durante una delle missioni impossibili che mi sono dato per le vacanze di Natale e Capodanno dello scorso anno: guardare una vecchia serie televisiva. Un po’ per volta, a cavallo dei pranzi e magari di qualche serata un po’ lenta, da solo a casa, con determinazione e regolarità. Niente abbuffate, perché sette stagioni sono troppe per un fine settimana.
Tuttavia, lo faccio volentieri, perché mi piace ricadere in un’epoca diversa, che non c’entra niente con lo streaming o con la fruizione disarticolata delle storie di oggi. Un’epoca in cui le serie si guardavano a orario fisso soprattutto nel pomeriggio, durante “l’ora dei ragazzi”, con una cadenza che era dettata dai palinsesti, dalla sensibilità dei programmisti televisivi e di chi curava adattamenti e doppiaggi."
https://fumettologica.it/2024/03/deep-space-nine-star-trek-serie-tv/
Fumettologica
L'importanza di "Deep Space Nine"
Deep Space Nine è molto di più di una rilettura di Star Trek: è stata un punto di svolta della serialità televisiva occidentale.
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La storia di Roberto Escobar, il fratello-contabile di Pablo, che si è dato alle truffe online
Money quote: "Il mondo tecnologico è pieno di follia, assurdità e tutti i tipi di truffe, che possono essere ridicole in molti modi. Uno di questi è l'iniziativa del famoso Escobar, che si è posto l'obiettivo di distruggere Apple e Samsung con il suo fantastico nuovo telefono pieghevole. E no, non ci riferiamo a quel barone della droga ucciso che ha davvero tormentato la Colombia alla fine dello scorso millennio e ha creato un enorme impero. Suo fratello Roberto è altrettanto intraprendente e invece che sul traffico illegale di droga si è concentrato sulle frodi tecnologiche."
https://www.letemsvetemapplem.eu/it/2020/03/03/podvod-roku-bratr-pabla-escobara-prodaval-levne-ohebne-mobily-misto-nich-posila-knihy/
Money quote: "Il mondo tecnologico è pieno di follia, assurdità e tutti i tipi di truffe, che possono essere ridicole in molti modi. Uno di questi è l'iniziativa del famoso Escobar, che si è posto l'obiettivo di distruggere Apple e Samsung con il suo fantastico nuovo telefono pieghevole. E no, non ci riferiamo a quel barone della droga ucciso che ha davvero tormentato la Colombia alla fine dello scorso millennio e ha creato un enorme impero. Suo fratello Roberto è altrettanto intraprendente e invece che sul traffico illegale di droga si è concentrato sulle frodi tecnologiche."
https://www.letemsvetemapplem.eu/it/2020/03/03/podvod-roku-bratr-pabla-escobara-prodaval-levne-ohebne-mobily-misto-nich-posila-knihy/
LSA Magazine
La truffa dell'anno? Il fratello di Pablo Escobar vendeva telefoni cellulari flessibili a buon mercato, invece manda libri
Il mondo tecnologico è pieno di follia, assurdità e tutti i tipi di truffe, che possono essere ridicole in molti modi. Una di queste è l'iniziativa del famoso...
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C'è un problema nel giornalismo americano e nella sua incapacità di processare il cambiamento sistemico che lo ha travolto. Il declino dei link è la dimostrazione che dopo trent'anni ancora non è stato metabolizzato sino in fondo il cambiamento rispetto agli schemi di pensiero e agli assetti pre-internet.
Money quote: "There is a real bias against hyperlinking that has developed on platforms and apps over the last five years in particular. It’s something that’s kind of operating hand-in-hand with the rise of algorithmic recommendations. You see this on Elon Musk’s version of Twitter, where posts with hyperlinks are degraded. Facebook itself has decided to detach itself from displaying a lot of links. That’s why you get so much AI scum on Facebook these days. Instagram itself has always been kind of hostile to linking. TikTok as well...
If you degrade hyperlinks, and you degrade this idea of the internet as something that refers you to other things, you instead have this stationary internet where a generative AI agent will hoover up and summarize all the information that’s out there, and place it right in front of you so that you never have to leave the portal… That was a real epiphany to me, because the argument against one form of this legislation was, “My God, you’ll destroy this fundamental way of how the internet works.” I’m like, dude, these companies are already destroying the fundamental way of how the internet works."
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/beyond-the-link-tax-journalism-and-the-changing-nature-of-the-internet/
Money quote: "There is a real bias against hyperlinking that has developed on platforms and apps over the last five years in particular. It’s something that’s kind of operating hand-in-hand with the rise of algorithmic recommendations. You see this on Elon Musk’s version of Twitter, where posts with hyperlinks are degraded. Facebook itself has decided to detach itself from displaying a lot of links. That’s why you get so much AI scum on Facebook these days. Instagram itself has always been kind of hostile to linking. TikTok as well...
If you degrade hyperlinks, and you degrade this idea of the internet as something that refers you to other things, you instead have this stationary internet where a generative AI agent will hoover up and summarize all the information that’s out there, and place it right in front of you so that you never have to leave the portal… That was a real epiphany to me, because the argument against one form of this legislation was, “My God, you’ll destroy this fundamental way of how the internet works.” I’m like, dude, these companies are already destroying the fundamental way of how the internet works."
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/beyond-the-link-tax-journalism-and-the-changing-nature-of-the-internet/
Halifax Examiner
Beyond the link tax: journalism and the changing nature of the internet - Halifax Examiner
By Philip Moscovitch This item originally appeared as VIEWS in Morning File, September 17, 2024 By now, it feels like we have heard most of the arguments and theories about the decline of journalism: The industry was too slow to respond to the new ways of…
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Quando un articolo inizia così, come fare a non leggerlo?
Money quote: "WE LIVE IN UNDENIABLY UGLY TIMES. Architecture, industrial design, cinematography, probiotic soda branding — many of the defining features of the visual field aren’t sending their best. Despite more advanced manufacturing and design technologies than have existed in human history, our built environment tends overwhelmingly toward the insubstantial, the flat, and the gray, punctuated here and there by the occasional childish squiggle. This drab sublime unites flat-pack furniture and home electronics, municipal infrastructure and commercial graphic design: an ocean of stuff so homogenous and underthought that the world it has inundated can feel like a digital rendering — of a slightly duller, worse world."
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/
Money quote: "WE LIVE IN UNDENIABLY UGLY TIMES. Architecture, industrial design, cinematography, probiotic soda branding — many of the defining features of the visual field aren’t sending their best. Despite more advanced manufacturing and design technologies than have existed in human history, our built environment tends overwhelmingly toward the insubstantial, the flat, and the gray, punctuated here and there by the occasional childish squiggle. This drab sublime unites flat-pack furniture and home electronics, municipal infrastructure and commercial graphic design: an ocean of stuff so homogenous and underthought that the world it has inundated can feel like a digital rendering — of a slightly duller, worse world."
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/
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Why Is Everything So Ugly? | The Editors
Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully into focus. The ruling class seized cities and chose to turn them into . . . this?
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Continuando sul tema di ieri: perché oggi le auto sono così brutte?
Money quote: "Blackbird Spyplane is well-established as the no. 1 source for “unbeatable musings” on visual culture in all its forms, and while we tend to focus on mad-cool developments in clothes and home jawns, sometimes our critical gaze dilates to include, e.g., perplexing developments in cars."
https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/why-do-new-cars-look-like-this
Money quote: "Blackbird Spyplane is well-established as the no. 1 source for “unbeatable musings” on visual culture in all its forms, and while we tend to focus on mad-cool developments in clothes and home jawns, sometimes our critical gaze dilates to include, e.g., perplexing developments in cars."
https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/why-do-new-cars-look-like-this
Blackbirdspyplane
Why do new cars look like this??
"Wet Putty" whips are everywhere. What’s behind it? ... a BBSP investigation
Il termometro del futuro segna febbre alta - la mia rubrica su Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2024/10/termometro-futuro-a-cosa-serve-la-fantascienza/
https://fumettologica.it/2024/10/termometro-futuro-a-cosa-serve-la-fantascienza/
Continuo a pensare che Ian Fleming fosse veramente un grande scrittore di intrattenimento che incarnava anche lo spirito inglese. La sua filosofia e i consigli per la scrittura di un buon thriller sono qualcosa di unico.
Money quote: "I am not an angry young, or even middle-aged, man. I am not “involved.” My books are not “engaged.” I have no message for suffering humanity and, though I was bullied at school and lost my virginity like so many of us used to do in the old days, I have never been tempted to foist these and other harrowing personal experiences on the public. My opuscula do not aim at changing people or making them go out and do something. They are written for warm-blooded heterosexuals in railway trains, airplanes and beds."
https://lithub.com/ian-fleming-explains-how-to-write-a-thriller/
Money quote: "I am not an angry young, or even middle-aged, man. I am not “involved.” My books are not “engaged.” I have no message for suffering humanity and, though I was bullied at school and lost my virginity like so many of us used to do in the old days, I have never been tempted to foist these and other harrowing personal experiences on the public. My opuscula do not aim at changing people or making them go out and do something. They are written for warm-blooded heterosexuals in railway trains, airplanes and beds."
https://lithub.com/ian-fleming-explains-how-to-write-a-thriller/
Literary Hub
Ian Fleming Explains How to Write a Thriller
There is no literary spy—and perhaps no literary character, full stop—more famous than James Bond, which should already be enough of an argument for any aspiring writer, but particularly any aspiri…
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Un approccio interessante al problema del cambiamento climatico: il vero problema siamo noi. Non "noi tutti quindi nessuno in particolare", proprio "noi ciascuno di noi".
Money quote: "Everyone belongs to a tribe and underestimates how influential that tribe is on their thinking. There is little correlation between climate change denial and scientific literacy. But there is a strong correlation between climate change denial and political affiliation. That’s an extreme example, but everyone has views persuaded by identity over pure analysis."
https://collabfund.com/blog/ideas-that-changed-my-life/
Questo articolo procede con una vera e propria miniera di altre idee che hanno cambiato il modo di pensare del suo autore.
Money quote 2: "Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works. People believe what they’ve seen happen exponentially more than what they read about has happened to other people, if they read about other people at all. We’re all biased to our own personal history. Everyone."
Money quote: "Everyone belongs to a tribe and underestimates how influential that tribe is on their thinking. There is little correlation between climate change denial and scientific literacy. But there is a strong correlation between climate change denial and political affiliation. That’s an extreme example, but everyone has views persuaded by identity over pure analysis."
https://collabfund.com/blog/ideas-that-changed-my-life/
Questo articolo procede con una vera e propria miniera di altre idee che hanno cambiato il modo di pensare del suo autore.
Money quote 2: "Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works. People believe what they’ve seen happen exponentially more than what they read about has happened to other people, if they read about other people at all. We’re all biased to our own personal history. Everyone."
Collaborative Fund
Ideas That Changed My Life
You spend years trying to learn new stuff but then look back and realize that maybe like 10 big ideas…
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Cosa ci faccio in Giappone? Curiosità varie dal mondo questa settimana sulla mia newsletter Mostly Weekly
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/294/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/294/
Mostly Here
~294
Tokyo e l'AI come strumento di mediazione linguistica
Letture per la domenica
Stiamo scoprendo cose straordinarie su come funzionava il mondo (Europa e Asia) più di tremila anni fa grazie a una singola nave che è affondata al largo della Turchia.
Money quote: "More than 3,000 years before the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean, another famous ship wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern shores of Uluburun—in present-day Turkey— carrying tons of rare metal. Since its discovery in 1982, scientists have been studying the contents of the Uluburun shipwreck to gain a better understanding of the people and political organizations that dominated the time period known as the Late Bronze Age."
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-year-old-uluburun-shipwreck-reveal-complex.html
Stiamo scoprendo cose straordinarie su come funzionava il mondo (Europa e Asia) più di tremila anni fa grazie a una singola nave che è affondata al largo della Turchia.
Money quote: "More than 3,000 years before the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean, another famous ship wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern shores of Uluburun—in present-day Turkey— carrying tons of rare metal. Since its discovery in 1982, scientists have been studying the contents of the Uluburun shipwreck to gain a better understanding of the people and political organizations that dominated the time period known as the Late Bronze Age."
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-year-old-uluburun-shipwreck-reveal-complex.html
phys.org
Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network
More than 3,000 years before the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean, another famous ship wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern shores of Uluburun—in present-day Turkey— carrying tons ...
Una bella riflessione sul giornalismo "unbiased", senza pregiudizi. Magari fosse possibile.
Money quote: "While news outlets like CNN and Fox News don’t even try to hide their bias, other outlets like Reuters and AP advertise their unbiased approach. It is true that their reports tend to be strictly factual, bias seeps into the press through the facts they choose to present and what goes unsaid. Bias by omission is a huge factor in journalism, as some news outlets will choose to present certain facts that make their narrative stronger while avoiding others that support a different narrative.
The bias ultimately stems from people, who are scientifically shown to be biased at an unconscious level, regardless of whether they are aware of it. We tend to engage in, believe in and support things that are comfortable to us. If something is uncomfortable, people are great at finding ways to stay delusional. Since news outlets want to maintain viewership, uncomfortable journalism is hard to come across nowadays because there is always another option.
Is unbiased journalism possible? I think it is impossible, and if you disagree with that, then I would love to see a good argument to consider it, but you are probably just wrong, and I do not care how biased it sounds for me to say that. "
https://unewsonline.com/2024/10/is-unbiased-journalism-possible/
Money quote: "While news outlets like CNN and Fox News don’t even try to hide their bias, other outlets like Reuters and AP advertise their unbiased approach. It is true that their reports tend to be strictly factual, bias seeps into the press through the facts they choose to present and what goes unsaid. Bias by omission is a huge factor in journalism, as some news outlets will choose to present certain facts that make their narrative stronger while avoiding others that support a different narrative.
The bias ultimately stems from people, who are scientifically shown to be biased at an unconscious level, regardless of whether they are aware of it. We tend to engage in, believe in and support things that are comfortable to us. If something is uncomfortable, people are great at finding ways to stay delusional. Since news outlets want to maintain viewership, uncomfortable journalism is hard to come across nowadays because there is always another option.
Is unbiased journalism possible? I think it is impossible, and if you disagree with that, then I would love to see a good argument to consider it, but you are probably just wrong, and I do not care how biased it sounds for me to say that. "
https://unewsonline.com/2024/10/is-unbiased-journalism-possible/
The University News
Is unbiased journalism possible?
How is it possible that so often, we end up with two distinct narratives from the same set of facts? You have probably seen this happen plenty of times in your life. With friends and family, you can debate what is right and wrong, but in journalism, the divide…
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Il problema della memoria è un bel problema. Soprattutto quella dei conflitti. È un punto di vista, ma sufficientemente vicino a quel che succede da resistiture più interpretazioni possibili e un senso di realtà che altrimenti manca. Anche quando è memoria digitale.
Money quote: "Preservation of this material from conflicts has therefore fallen to smaller organizations, which have developed their own archives and workarounds in the face of the potential mass disappearance of digital information. Many, like the material they collect, emerged from the grassroots: individuals and collectives who scrape data off the internet, often using it to reveal trend lines. Others are more established but still rely on small teams and face constant fundraising struggles and political insecurity. In terms of archiving at scale, the best-known organization — and the progenitor of the field — is the Syrian Archive, which the activist Hadi Al Khatib started as a side project in his apartment in Berlin in 2014. It now holds more than 15 million digital records of violence and conflict."
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/preserving-the-ephemera-of-war/
Money quote: "Preservation of this material from conflicts has therefore fallen to smaller organizations, which have developed their own archives and workarounds in the face of the potential mass disappearance of digital information. Many, like the material they collect, emerged from the grassroots: individuals and collectives who scrape data off the internet, often using it to reveal trend lines. Others are more established but still rely on small teams and face constant fundraising struggles and political insecurity. In terms of archiving at scale, the best-known organization — and the progenitor of the field — is the Syrian Archive, which the activist Hadi Al Khatib started as a side project in his apartment in Berlin in 2014. It now holds more than 15 million digital records of violence and conflict."
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/preserving-the-ephemera-of-war/
New Lines Magazine
Preserving the Ephemera of War
Social media is increasingly important for documenting conflicts and atrocities as they occur, but efforts to store the data for the future are fragile and fragmentary
Nuovi studi sul cambiamento climatico
Money quote: "A recent study conducted by the University of Washington examines the most recent ice age, during which a significant portion of North America was covered in ice, in order to gain a better understanding of the correlation between CO2 levels and global temperature. The study concludes that while the majority of projections for future warming remain unchanged, the absolute worst-case scenario is unlikely."
https://www.techexplorist.com/predicting-future-climate-help-ice-age-data/85482/
Money quote: "A recent study conducted by the University of Washington examines the most recent ice age, during which a significant portion of North America was covered in ice, in order to gain a better understanding of the correlation between CO2 levels and global temperature. The study concludes that while the majority of projections for future warming remain unchanged, the absolute worst-case scenario is unlikely."
https://www.techexplorist.com/predicting-future-climate-help-ice-age-data/85482/
Tech Explorist
Predicting future climate with help from ice age data
Ice age climate analysis reduces worst-case warming expected from rising CO2.
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L'America vuole salvare la radio AM (più efficiente sulle loro lunghe distanze). Qui un po' di storia.
Money quote: "The sounds of AM radio started accompanying drivers in their cars in the late 1920s.
The vehicles of that era featured closed cabins that protected drivers and passengers from weather and noise. People who listened to music on their home radios embraced the idea of listening while driving. Companies such as the Automobile Radio Corporation promoted expensive Transitone radios that ran on a 6-volt battery with the tagline, “You’re never alone with a Transitone.”
In 1930, General Motors began installing radios in its new Cadillacs. Chrysler advertised luxury cars factory-wired for owners to install Transitones. Now, drivers traveling on America’s vast and growing national highway systems could do so while listening to the radio.
As the decade progressed, factory-installed radios — mounted on the floor, with controls on the dash and speakers above the windshield — were touted as a way to enhance the driving experience. As a Philco radio commercial from 1934 put it, “You wouldn’t be without a radio at home — why be without one in your car?”
By 1940, at a time when 61% of Americans listened regularly to news on the radio, 20% of cars in the U.S. had built-in radios."
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/congress-fights-to-keep-am-radio-in-cars/
Money quote: "The sounds of AM radio started accompanying drivers in their cars in the late 1920s.
The vehicles of that era featured closed cabins that protected drivers and passengers from weather and noise. People who listened to music on their home radios embraced the idea of listening while driving. Companies such as the Automobile Radio Corporation promoted expensive Transitone radios that ran on a 6-volt battery with the tagline, “You’re never alone with a Transitone.”
In 1930, General Motors began installing radios in its new Cadillacs. Chrysler advertised luxury cars factory-wired for owners to install Transitones. Now, drivers traveling on America’s vast and growing national highway systems could do so while listening to the radio.
As the decade progressed, factory-installed radios — mounted on the floor, with controls on the dash and speakers above the windshield — were touted as a way to enhance the driving experience. As a Philco radio commercial from 1934 put it, “You wouldn’t be without a radio at home — why be without one in your car?”
By 1940, at a time when 61% of Americans listened regularly to news on the radio, 20% of cars in the U.S. had built-in radios."
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/congress-fights-to-keep-am-radio-in-cars/
Nieman Lab
Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars
The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act is being deliberated in both houses of Congress.
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Cosa sta succedendo all'informazione, cioè alla professione giornalistica? I pilastri che hanno sempre sostenuto il giornalismo e la politica occidentale sono crollati? Molto probabile: un bel saggio spiega perché.
Money quote: "“In principio fu la stampa, e poi apparve il mondo,” così scrisse Karl Kraus nel 1921. Il riferimento biblico non era solo un artificio retorico. L’autore austriaco, considerato il primo grande critico dei media, viveva in un’epoca apocalittica e per lui il giornalismo non si limitava più a essere un filtro neutrale tra l’immaginario collettivo e il mondo esterno: era diventato uno strumento per forgiare la realtà."
https://www.indiscreto.org/gli-ultimi-giorni-dellumanita/
Money quote: "“In principio fu la stampa, e poi apparve il mondo,” così scrisse Karl Kraus nel 1921. Il riferimento biblico non era solo un artificio retorico. L’autore austriaco, considerato il primo grande critico dei media, viveva in un’epoca apocalittica e per lui il giornalismo non si limitava più a essere un filtro neutrale tra l’immaginario collettivo e il mondo esterno: era diventato uno strumento per forgiare la realtà."
https://www.indiscreto.org/gli-ultimi-giorni-dellumanita/
L'INDISCRETO
Gli ultimi giorni dell'umanità
I pilastri che hanno sempre sostenuto il giornalismo e la politica occidentale sono crollati? Il testo che segue è un discorso tenuto da Pankaj Mishra, vincitore del Weston International Award 2024, presso il Royal Ontario Museum lo scorso 16 settembre.…
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Il capo di Epic, Tim Sweeney, ha dei notevoli piani per il futuro che potrebbero rendere il metaverso pervasivo e permanente.
Money quote: "Epic has ambitious plans. Right now, Epic offers both Unreal Engine, its high-end game development tools, and Unreal Editor for Fortnite, which is designed to be simpler to use. What it’s building toward is a new version of Unreal Engine that can tie them together.
“The real power will come when we bring these two worlds together so we have the entire power of our high-end game engine merged with the ease of use that we put together in [Unreal Editor for Fortnite],” Sweeney says. “That’s going to take several years. And when that process is complete, that will be Unreal Engine 6.”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/5/24262376/epic-unreal-engine-6-fortnite-metaverse-plans
Money quote: "Epic has ambitious plans. Right now, Epic offers both Unreal Engine, its high-end game development tools, and Unreal Editor for Fortnite, which is designed to be simpler to use. What it’s building toward is a new version of Unreal Engine that can tie them together.
“The real power will come when we bring these two worlds together so we have the entire power of our high-end game engine merged with the ease of use that we put together in [Unreal Editor for Fortnite],” Sweeney says. “That’s going to take several years. And when that process is complete, that will be Unreal Engine 6.”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/5/24262376/epic-unreal-engine-6-fortnite-metaverse-plans
The Verge
Epic has a plan for the rest of the decade
“We have a very, very long runway,” says Epic’s CEO.
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Di rientro dal Giappone ma Mostly Weekly non si ferma. Avanti con giudizio mentre si parla di metallurgia e audiologia.
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/295/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/295/
Mostly Here
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Gli AirPods curano, il Buddha esplode
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