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Un vecchio classico da leggere la domenica
Si può finire a fare il senzatetto nella città in cui si è stati sindaci? Non solo la risposta è positiva, ma è anche l'indicazione estemporanea ma concreta che negli Usa c'è un problema sociale enorme.
Money quote: "Now, at age 75, Mr. Coyner was occupying a bed at the shelter on Second Street, his house lost to foreclosure, his toes gnarled by frostbite, his belongings limited to a tub of tattered clothing and books on the floor next to his bed.
In the years since the two old friends had fallen out of touch, Mr. Coyner had been pulled through a vortex of the same crises that were churning through many boom towns across the West: untreated mental illness, widespread addiction, soaring housing costs and a waning sense of community. After a life spent as a pillar of Bend’s civic life, Mr. Coyner had somehow reached a point of near total destitution, surrounded by the prosperity he had helped create."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/us/bend-oregon-mayor-homeless.html
(versione archivio)
https://archive.is/Kk1ou
Si può finire a fare il senzatetto nella città in cui si è stati sindaci? Non solo la risposta è positiva, ma è anche l'indicazione estemporanea ma concreta che negli Usa c'è un problema sociale enorme.
Money quote: "Now, at age 75, Mr. Coyner was occupying a bed at the shelter on Second Street, his house lost to foreclosure, his toes gnarled by frostbite, his belongings limited to a tub of tattered clothing and books on the floor next to his bed.
In the years since the two old friends had fallen out of touch, Mr. Coyner had been pulled through a vortex of the same crises that were churning through many boom towns across the West: untreated mental illness, widespread addiction, soaring housing costs and a waning sense of community. After a life spent as a pillar of Bend’s civic life, Mr. Coyner had somehow reached a point of near total destitution, surrounded by the prosperity he had helped create."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/us/bend-oregon-mayor-homeless.html
(versione archivio)
https://archive.is/Kk1ou
NY Times
Homeless in the City Where He Was Once Mayor
Craig Coyner’s descent onto the streets of Bend, Ore., came after decades spent fighting as a lawyer and politician for those on the edge of society.
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Forwarded from Ossessioni e contaminazioni (Francesco Mazzetta)
C’è un algoritmo che decide cosa può essere detto e cosa no. Non una persona, non un giornalista, non un moderatore preparato, ma una macchina senza volto, senza contesto, senza discernimento. È così che Meta ha riscritto le regole del dibattito pubblico: togliendo di mezzo la responsabilità umana e affidando il controllo delle informazioni a un’intelligenza artificiale incapace di distinguere tra verità e menzogna, tra notizia e pericolo, tra libertà e “contenuto non conforme”.
Il risultato è gravissimo: un potere privato, sottratto a ogni forma di controllo democratico, che censura, oscura, riduce al silenzio. E lo fa nel modo più pericoloso: senza dirlo, senza spiegarlo, senza assumersene la responsabilità.
Nel nome della “sicurezza informatica”, Facebook ha rimosso diversi post di Collettiva che raccontavano la realtà: una frase del Papa sulla pace, la cronaca di tre morti sul lavoro in Sicilia, l’annuncio di uno sciopero dei metalmeccanici. Nessuna violazione. Nessun contenuto d’odio. Solo informazione. Ma per l’algoritmo, evidentemente, raccontare il mondo com’è rappresenta un problema.
E allora interviene: cancella, nasconde, penalizza. In automatico. In silenzio. In assenza totale di trasparenza. La giustificazione, ogni volta, è la stessa: “errore tecnico”. Ma non è un errore. È il sintomo di un sistema costruito per disinnescare il conflitto, sterilizzare il dibattito, rendere il mondo uniforme, addomesticato, privo di domande scomode.
Il danno è profondo. Il prezzo lo paga la libertà di informazione. Lo paga la democrazia. Perché se un algoritmo può decidere quali voci possono circolare e quali no, se può oscurare contenuti senza dare conto a nessuno, allora non siamo più in uno spazio pubblico. Siamo in un recinto privato, dove la parola è concessa a condizione che non disturbi.
Collettiva è stata colpita duramente. Post cancellati, anche a distanza di mesi, contenuti oscurati, visibilità azzerata. Nessun preavviso, nessuna spiegazione. Solo una constatazione inquietante: se racconti il lavoro, se dai voce alle lotte sociali, se parli di diritti, l’algoritmo ti punisce.
E così la realtà viene espulsa dal dibattito. Il dissenso viene declassato a disturbo. L’informazione indipendente viene silenziata non con la forza, ma con un clic. Non da uno Stato autoritario, ma da una multinazionale senza volto.
Questa è la nuova frontiera della censura. Subdola, asettica, sistematica. E chi oggi non se ne accorge o minimizza, domani rischia di trovarsi nella stessa rete, privato del diritto di parola, della possibilità di informare, del potere di esistere nel discorso pubblico.
https://www.collettiva.it/copertine/diritti/e-lalgoritmo-bruttezza-sa744qj6
Il risultato è gravissimo: un potere privato, sottratto a ogni forma di controllo democratico, che censura, oscura, riduce al silenzio. E lo fa nel modo più pericoloso: senza dirlo, senza spiegarlo, senza assumersene la responsabilità.
Nel nome della “sicurezza informatica”, Facebook ha rimosso diversi post di Collettiva che raccontavano la realtà: una frase del Papa sulla pace, la cronaca di tre morti sul lavoro in Sicilia, l’annuncio di uno sciopero dei metalmeccanici. Nessuna violazione. Nessun contenuto d’odio. Solo informazione. Ma per l’algoritmo, evidentemente, raccontare il mondo com’è rappresenta un problema.
E allora interviene: cancella, nasconde, penalizza. In automatico. In silenzio. In assenza totale di trasparenza. La giustificazione, ogni volta, è la stessa: “errore tecnico”. Ma non è un errore. È il sintomo di un sistema costruito per disinnescare il conflitto, sterilizzare il dibattito, rendere il mondo uniforme, addomesticato, privo di domande scomode.
Il danno è profondo. Il prezzo lo paga la libertà di informazione. Lo paga la democrazia. Perché se un algoritmo può decidere quali voci possono circolare e quali no, se può oscurare contenuti senza dare conto a nessuno, allora non siamo più in uno spazio pubblico. Siamo in un recinto privato, dove la parola è concessa a condizione che non disturbi.
Collettiva è stata colpita duramente. Post cancellati, anche a distanza di mesi, contenuti oscurati, visibilità azzerata. Nessun preavviso, nessuna spiegazione. Solo una constatazione inquietante: se racconti il lavoro, se dai voce alle lotte sociali, se parli di diritti, l’algoritmo ti punisce.
E così la realtà viene espulsa dal dibattito. Il dissenso viene declassato a disturbo. L’informazione indipendente viene silenziata non con la forza, ma con un clic. Non da uno Stato autoritario, ma da una multinazionale senza volto.
Questa è la nuova frontiera della censura. Subdola, asettica, sistematica. E chi oggi non se ne accorge o minimizza, domani rischia di trovarsi nella stessa rete, privato del diritto di parola, della possibilità di informare, del potere di esistere nel discorso pubblico.
https://www.collettiva.it/copertine/diritti/e-lalgoritmo-bruttezza-sa744qj6
www.collettiva.it
È l’algoritmo, bruttezza!
Meta rimuove da Facebook post di Collettiva senza spiegazione, poi le scuse: “Errore tecnico”. Ma sotto si nasconde altro e il prezzo lo paga la libertà di informazione
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Varie ricerche stanno suggerendo che le persone quando vanno sui social media si comportano più o meno come gli stormi di uccelli e altri tipi di flussi di individui appartenenti a una determinata specie.
Money quote: "A growing body of research suggests that human behavior on social media — coordinated activism, information cascades, harassment mobs — bears striking similarity to this kind of so-called “emergent behavior” in nature: occasions when organisms like birds or fish or ants act as a cohesive unit, without hierarchical direction from a designated leader. How that local response is transmitted — how one bird follows another, how I retweet you and you retweet me — is also determined by the structure of the network. For birds, signals along the network are passed from eyes or ears to brains pre-wired at birth with the accumulated wisdom of the millenia. For humans, signals are passed from screen to screen, news feed to news feed, along an artificial superstructure designed by humans but increasingly mediated by at-times-unpredictable algorithms. It is curation algorithms, for example, that choose what content or users appear in your feed; the algorithm determines the seven birds, and you react."
https://www.noemamag.com/how-online-mobs-act-like-flocks-of-birds/
Money quote: "A growing body of research suggests that human behavior on social media — coordinated activism, information cascades, harassment mobs — bears striking similarity to this kind of so-called “emergent behavior” in nature: occasions when organisms like birds or fish or ants act as a cohesive unit, without hierarchical direction from a designated leader. How that local response is transmitted — how one bird follows another, how I retweet you and you retweet me — is also determined by the structure of the network. For birds, signals along the network are passed from eyes or ears to brains pre-wired at birth with the accumulated wisdom of the millenia. For humans, signals are passed from screen to screen, news feed to news feed, along an artificial superstructure designed by humans but increasingly mediated by at-times-unpredictable algorithms. It is curation algorithms, for example, that choose what content or users appear in your feed; the algorithm determines the seven birds, and you react."
https://www.noemamag.com/how-online-mobs-act-like-flocks-of-birds/
NOEMA
How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks Of Birds
A growing body of research suggests human behavior on social media is strikingly similar to collective behavior in nature.
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Un saggio letterario ed etnografico, "On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë", cerca di rispondere a una domanda piuttosto complessa, che non si ferma semplicemente alla fascinazione che il Giappone ha per Emily Brontë ma tocca anche le ragioni di una forma di egemonia culturale (quella americana) su varie parti del mondo.
Money quote: "While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights" has enjoyed there. Nearly one hundred years after its first formal introduction to the country, the novel continues to engage the imaginations of Japanese novelists, filmmakers, manga artists, and others, resulting in numerous translations, adaptations, and dramatizations. "On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë" is Pascoe’s lively account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of "Wuthering Heights". At the same time, the book chronicles Pascoe’s experience as an adult student of Japanese. She contemplates the multiple Japanese translations of Brontë, as contrasted to the single (or nonexistent) English translations of major Japanese writers. Carrying out a close reading of a distant country’s "Wuthering Heights", Pascoe begins to see American literary culture as a small island on which readers are isolated from foreign literature."
https://www.press.umich.edu/9373334/on_the_bullet_train_with_emily_bronte
Money quote: "While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights" has enjoyed there. Nearly one hundred years after its first formal introduction to the country, the novel continues to engage the imaginations of Japanese novelists, filmmakers, manga artists, and others, resulting in numerous translations, adaptations, and dramatizations. "On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë" is Pascoe’s lively account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of "Wuthering Heights". At the same time, the book chronicles Pascoe’s experience as an adult student of Japanese. She contemplates the multiple Japanese translations of Brontë, as contrasted to the single (or nonexistent) English translations of major Japanese writers. Carrying out a close reading of a distant country’s "Wuthering Heights", Pascoe begins to see American literary culture as a small island on which readers are isolated from foreign literature."
https://www.press.umich.edu/9373334/on_the_bullet_train_with_emily_bronte
press.umich.edu
On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë
While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nearly one hundred years after its first formal introduction ...
Nel Novecento la filosofia ha abbandonato i problemi metafisici che hanno a che fare con Dio, la realtà, il senso, e si è interrogata sull'espressione, la linguistica, il testo. Fino ad ora, perché ci sono nuove svolte, nuove ossessioni che sta emergendo all'indagine.
Money quote: "‘There is nothing outside the text,’ wrote Jacques Derrida in 1967. Like most everything Derrida said, this notorious declaration becomes more difficult to interpret as one examines its context and the context of its context. But it aptly captures the flavour of academic philosophy at the time it appeared, which was also the year of Richard Rorty’s anthology The Linguistic Turn, which embodied an argument that the most important philosophy of the 20th century was linguistic philosophy. By then, everyone but a few reactionaries would have agreed with that assessment. Philosophy had for decades been relentlessly emphasising the nature of language (as opposed to, for example, the nature of reality, goodness or beauty). There was some dispute about whether there could be any genuine philosophical questions that were not questions about language."
https://aeon.co/essays/how-philosophys-obsession-with-language-unravelled
Money quote: "‘There is nothing outside the text,’ wrote Jacques Derrida in 1967. Like most everything Derrida said, this notorious declaration becomes more difficult to interpret as one examines its context and the context of its context. But it aptly captures the flavour of academic philosophy at the time it appeared, which was also the year of Richard Rorty’s anthology The Linguistic Turn, which embodied an argument that the most important philosophy of the 20th century was linguistic philosophy. By then, everyone but a few reactionaries would have agreed with that assessment. Philosophy had for decades been relentlessly emphasising the nature of language (as opposed to, for example, the nature of reality, goodness or beauty). There was some dispute about whether there could be any genuine philosophical questions that were not questions about language."
https://aeon.co/essays/how-philosophys-obsession-with-language-unravelled
Aeon
The post-linguistic turn
Analytic and continental philosophers were once united in their obsession with language. But now new questions have arisen
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I Meridiani Mondadori di Philip K. Dick - un suggerimento di lettura per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2025/05/philip-k-dick-meridiani-mondadori/
https://fumettologica.it/2025/05/philip-k-dick-meridiani-mondadori/
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La AI non ci porterà via il lavoro. Sarà qualcuno che ha imparato a usarla a farlo. Per questo ha senso cercare di capire come funziona e provarci. Se ne parla già da tempo, direi. Forse qualcosa dietro c'è.
Money quote: "We believe it’s no longer useful to debate whether this tool is “smarter “or “better” than us. The tools are here, and they’re already being widely used. What matters to us — Tomas, the author of the new book I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique, and Dorie, a consultant and keynote speaker on personal branding and career development — is how we can better ourselves by using them."
https://hbr.org/2023/04/5-ways-to-future-proof-your-career-in-the-age-of-ai
Money quote: "We believe it’s no longer useful to debate whether this tool is “smarter “or “better” than us. The tools are here, and they’re already being widely used. What matters to us — Tomas, the author of the new book I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique, and Dorie, a consultant and keynote speaker on personal branding and career development — is how we can better ourselves by using them."
https://hbr.org/2023/04/5-ways-to-future-proof-your-career-in-the-age-of-ai
Harvard Business Review
5 Ways to Future-Proof Your Career in the Age of AI
What can we do personally to stave off the displacement that may happen as a result of AI? In this article, the authors offer five strategies to future-proof your career in the age of intelligent machines: 1) Avoid predictability. It’s important to remember…
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Il Giappone ha inventato la macchina per cuocere il riso automaticamente. Un vero e proprio robot da cucina che fa una cosa sola ma la fa molto bene. E non è un semplice bollitore.
Money quote: "For centuries, most Japanese cooks made rice with a kamado, a box-shaped range topped with a heavy iron pot. It was painfully tricky. Cooking rice this way, says columnist and food writer Makiko Itoh, takes heat modulation: high heat until the water and rice boils, then low heat, then high heat again. “And that, with a wood-burning stove, is very difficult.” Each day, Japanese women rose at dawn and labored for several sweaty hours to make rice."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rice-cooker-history/
Money quote: "For centuries, most Japanese cooks made rice with a kamado, a box-shaped range topped with a heavy iron pot. It was painfully tricky. Cooking rice this way, says columnist and food writer Makiko Itoh, takes heat modulation: high heat until the water and rice boils, then low heat, then high heat again. “And that, with a wood-burning stove, is very difficult.” Each day, Japanese women rose at dawn and labored for several sweaty hours to make rice."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rice-cooker-history/
Atlas Obscura
The Battle to Invent the Automatic Rice Cooker
The biggest names in Japanese technology vied to bring them to market.
Il participio passato di "soccombere", così come quello di "dirimere" e "prudere" non è in uso. Sarebbe "soccombuto" ma si preferisce usare una sorta di perifrasi: "io ho dovuto soccombere".
Money quote: "Un participio passato che non ci aspettiamo è invece incusso (verbo incutere), formato normalmente sul modello di discutere > discusso."
https://www.treccani.it/magazine/lingua_italiana/domande_e_risposte/grammatica/grammatica_1663.html
Sono i "verbi difficili", di cui la Treccani ci parla diffusamente qui:
https://accademiadellacrusca.it/it/consulenza/verbi-difficili/221
Money quote: "Un participio passato che non ci aspettiamo è invece incusso (verbo incutere), formato normalmente sul modello di discutere > discusso."
https://www.treccani.it/magazine/lingua_italiana/domande_e_risposte/grammatica/grammatica_1663.html
Sono i "verbi difficili", di cui la Treccani ci parla diffusamente qui:
https://accademiadellacrusca.it/it/consulenza/verbi-difficili/221
Treccani
Invece di soccombuto, si può benissimo scrivere: io ho dovuto soccombere; tu hai dovuto soccombere; egli ha dovuto soccombere;…
A questa raccomandazione non v’è nulla da aggiungere, la accogliamo in forza della pragmatica saggezza che esprime. Certo, il participio passato del verbo soccombere non è in uso, così come quello di dirimere e prudere , tanto per fare qualche altro esempio.…
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Foreste, hacking, libri e nostalgia del futuro: Mostly Weekly 323 è online e presto vi arriva anche via email, se siete iscritti (è tutto gratuito)
www.antoniodini.com/weekly/323/
www.antoniodini.com/weekly/323/
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Letture per la domenica
Ho una passione particolare per un solo tipo di orologi meccanici: quelli con la complicazione che indica un secondo fuso orario. Si chiamano "orologi GMT" e ce ne sono di veramente belli ma decisamente costosi.
Money quote: "Of all the complications offered by mechanical timepieces, globetrotters arguably find none more practical than the GMT. So named after the Greenwich Mean Time, the watch’s ability to indicate two different time zones allows its wearer to keep track of the local time and the home time at a glance. It’s an extremely useful tool that helps travellers stay connected to life back home. Even more so when the watch’s good looks get one respect and nods of approval at any corner of the globe. Here are four GMT timepieces that will easily take you from meetings to merrymaking, no matter the time zone."
https://cnaluxury.channelnewsasia.com/obsessions/gmt-watches-rolex-patek-philippe-bell-ross-tudor-236056
Ho una passione particolare per un solo tipo di orologi meccanici: quelli con la complicazione che indica un secondo fuso orario. Si chiamano "orologi GMT" e ce ne sono di veramente belli ma decisamente costosi.
Money quote: "Of all the complications offered by mechanical timepieces, globetrotters arguably find none more practical than the GMT. So named after the Greenwich Mean Time, the watch’s ability to indicate two different time zones allows its wearer to keep track of the local time and the home time at a glance. It’s an extremely useful tool that helps travellers stay connected to life back home. Even more so when the watch’s good looks get one respect and nods of approval at any corner of the globe. Here are four GMT timepieces that will easily take you from meetings to merrymaking, no matter the time zone."
https://cnaluxury.channelnewsasia.com/obsessions/gmt-watches-rolex-patek-philippe-bell-ross-tudor-236056
CNA Luxury
These GMT watches from Rolex, Patek Philippe, Bell & Ross, and Tudor get the job done in absolute style
No world traveller would want to do without these GMT timepieces.
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La macchina fotografica a pellicola perfetta non esiste. Ma ogni tanto si trovano piccole gemme per usi particolari.
Money quote: "A year ago I was looking for the “ultimate film compact camera”, the Ricoh GR1 series, but I was somewhat afraid of what I’ve read on many websites: they’re fragile, they can’t be repaired (or at least, not easily and cheap), and I was scared of wasting more than 600€ that I could invest in film and chemicals instead of a future paperweight. So, I looked for an alternative
I’m a “stray shooter” (similar to a “street photographer”, but that’s for another day), I’m from Barcelona, Spain, and I shoot A LOT daily. Even though I have a little collection of cameras of different sizes, formats — Leica and Rolleiflex included — I’m personally a fan of 135 film compact wide-angle cameras, they fit perfectly into what I do: shooting in streets, wandering without disturbing or being seen, going light, getting closer…
In my searches I’ve come across to the “younger siblings” of the GR1 series, the R1 (reviewed recently by EM and very promising for me) and something very, very interesting: The Ricoh GR10"
https://emulsive.org/reviews/camera-reviews/ricoh-camera-reviews/the-ricoh-gr10-piggy-in-the-middle-gr-sibling-plus-gr1s-comparison
Money quote: "A year ago I was looking for the “ultimate film compact camera”, the Ricoh GR1 series, but I was somewhat afraid of what I’ve read on many websites: they’re fragile, they can’t be repaired (or at least, not easily and cheap), and I was scared of wasting more than 600€ that I could invest in film and chemicals instead of a future paperweight. So, I looked for an alternative
I’m a “stray shooter” (similar to a “street photographer”, but that’s for another day), I’m from Barcelona, Spain, and I shoot A LOT daily. Even though I have a little collection of cameras of different sizes, formats — Leica and Rolleiflex included — I’m personally a fan of 135 film compact wide-angle cameras, they fit perfectly into what I do: shooting in streets, wandering without disturbing or being seen, going light, getting closer…
In my searches I’ve come across to the “younger siblings” of the GR1 series, the R1 (reviewed recently by EM and very promising for me) and something very, very interesting: The Ricoh GR10"
https://emulsive.org/reviews/camera-reviews/ricoh-camera-reviews/the-ricoh-gr10-piggy-in-the-middle-gr-sibling-plus-gr1s-comparison
EMULSIVE
The Ricoh GR10: "piggy in the middle" GR sibling (plus GR1s comparison)
A year ago I was looking for the "ultimate film compact camera", the Ricoh GR1 series, but I was somewhat afraid of what I've read on many websites:
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L'articolo di JR Moehringer sul *New Yorker* che parla del memoir "Spare" (la vita del principe Harry scritta dal famoso ghostwriter) è un modo straordinario per "vedere" il suo modo di lavorare come ghost.
Money quote: "Although this wasn’t the first time that Harry and I had argued, it felt different; it felt as if we were hurtling toward some kind of decisive rupture, in part because Harry was no longer saying anything. He was just glaring into the camera. Finally, he exhaled and calmly explained that, all his life, people had belittled his intellectual capabilities, and this flash of cleverness proved that, even after being kicked and punched and deprived of sleep and food, he had his wits about him.
“Oh,” I said. “O.K.” It made sense now. But I still refused.
“Why?”
Because, I told him, everything you just said is about you. You want the world to know that you did a good job, that you were smart. But, strange as it may seem, memoir isn’t about you. It’s not even the story of your life. It’s a story carved from your life, a particular series of events chosen because they have the greatest resonance for the widest range of people, and at this point in the story those people don’t need to know anything more than that your captors said a cruel thing about your mom."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/15/j-r-moehringer-ghostwriter-prince-harry-memoir-spare
Money quote: "Although this wasn’t the first time that Harry and I had argued, it felt different; it felt as if we were hurtling toward some kind of decisive rupture, in part because Harry was no longer saying anything. He was just glaring into the camera. Finally, he exhaled and calmly explained that, all his life, people had belittled his intellectual capabilities, and this flash of cleverness proved that, even after being kicked and punched and deprived of sleep and food, he had his wits about him.
“Oh,” I said. “O.K.” It made sense now. But I still refused.
“Why?”
Because, I told him, everything you just said is about you. You want the world to know that you did a good job, that you were smart. But, strange as it may seem, memoir isn’t about you. It’s not even the story of your life. It’s a story carved from your life, a particular series of events chosen because they have the greatest resonance for the widest range of people, and at this point in the story those people don’t need to know anything more than that your captors said a cruel thing about your mom."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/15/j-r-moehringer-ghostwriter-prince-harry-memoir-spare
The New Yorker
Notes from Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter
Collaborating on his memoir, “Spare,” meant spending hours together on Zoom, meeting his inner circle, and gaining a new perspective on the tabloids.
La capacità di Nintendo di avere successo nonostante tutto, cosa che spesso vuol dire nonostante se stessa, è veramente rimarchevole.
Money quote: "Writing on social media, Dr Serkan Toto, CEO of Japanese game industry consultancy firm Kantan Games, described the amount of interest in Switch 2 as "ridiculous", but also noted Nintendo had "originally promised enough supply for launch - which of course immediately sounded like a fairy tale for anybody with a basic understanding of the game market"."
https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-admits-switch-2-demand-far-exceeds-expectations-in-japan-as-company-president-offers-stark-warning-over-stock
Money quote: "Writing on social media, Dr Serkan Toto, CEO of Japanese game industry consultancy firm Kantan Games, described the amount of interest in Switch 2 as "ridiculous", but also noted Nintendo had "originally promised enough supply for launch - which of course immediately sounded like a fairy tale for anybody with a basic understanding of the game market"."
https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-admits-switch-2-demand-far-exceeds-expectations-in-japan-as-company-president-offers-stark-warning-over-stock
Eurogamer.net
Nintendo admits Switch 2 demand "far exceeds expectations" in Japan, as company president offers stark warning over stock
Huge numbers of people have attempted to pre-order Switch 2 in Japan, whom Nintendo has admitted it won't be able to cater to at launch.
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La storia e il pensiero di James Baldwin, uno dei più grandi intellettuali e attivisti del Novecento.
Money quote: "Between the ages of fourteen and seventeen, Baldwin became a preacher at the Fireside Pentecostal Assembly, where he developed a celebrated preaching style. His brief experience in the church would have a sustained impact on his rhetorical style and on the themes, symbols, and biblical allusions in his writings. Baldwin’s Pentecostal experience is, in fact, essential to understanding his complex views on Christianity, which he espoused in his speeches and publications. His experience in the pulpit also served to inflect his overall stance on religion, and his ultimate rejection of it in the name of humanistic love. In The Fire Next Time, Baldwin proclaims, “If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, it is time we got rid of Him.”"
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/introduction-james-baldwin
Money quote: "Between the ages of fourteen and seventeen, Baldwin became a preacher at the Fireside Pentecostal Assembly, where he developed a celebrated preaching style. His brief experience in the church would have a sustained impact on his rhetorical style and on the themes, symbols, and biblical allusions in his writings. Baldwin’s Pentecostal experience is, in fact, essential to understanding his complex views on Christianity, which he espoused in his speeches and publications. His experience in the pulpit also served to inflect his overall stance on religion, and his ultimate rejection of it in the name of humanistic love. In The Fire Next Time, Baldwin proclaims, “If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, it is time we got rid of Him.”"
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/introduction-james-baldwin
National Museum of African American History and Culture
An Introduction to James Baldwin
Learn more about the life of James Baldwin as he traveled the world while remaining close to family and establishing enduring friendships.
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Cosa sarebbe successo se? La storia non è fatta di se e di ma, però con l'intelligenza artificiale si può illustrare una contro-storia costruita sull'emergere di ipotesi e desiderata. Magari alternativi anche alla cultura che più è dilagata nel pianeta. Benvenuti nell'epoca della decolonizzazione smart.
Money quote: "Since the launch of image generators like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, a new wave of generative AI-focused creators have taken to TikTok. These accounts, some of which already have followings in the hundreds of thousands, post slideshow carousels of novel AI art. But one subset of creators is playing into a decolonial curiosity with its content — one that seems to ask, what if Western imperial nations never came to power?
The TikTok account @what.if_ai, for one, already has over 27,000 followers. It posts videos with prompts like, “What if Mexico invaded the U.S.?” and “What if Somalia conquered Europe?”"
https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-tiktok-creators-rewrite-history/
Money quote: "Since the launch of image generators like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, a new wave of generative AI-focused creators have taken to TikTok. These accounts, some of which already have followings in the hundreds of thousands, post slideshow carousels of novel AI art. But one subset of creators is playing into a decolonial curiosity with its content — one that seems to ask, what if Western imperial nations never came to power?
The TikTok account @what.if_ai, for one, already has over 27,000 followers. It posts videos with prompts like, “What if Mexico invaded the U.S.?” and “What if Somalia conquered Europe?”"
https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-tiktok-creators-rewrite-history/
Rest of World
TikTok creators use AI to rewrite history
A viral trend imagines alternate timelines in which Western imperial nations never came to power.
L'era del lavoro da remoto è finita. Lo ha detto il capo di OpenAI, Sam Altman già due anni fa.
Money quote: "Talking about work from home, Altman added that he considers remote work as an experiment. He stated, "I think definitely one of tech industry's worst mistakes in a long time was that everybody (thought they) could go full remote forever, and startups didn't need to be together. There was going to be no loss of creativity. I would say that the experiment on that is over, and the technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups.""
https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/chatgpt-maker-sam-altman-says-era-of-remote-work-is-over-380090-2023-05-04
Money quote: "Talking about work from home, Altman added that he considers remote work as an experiment. He stated, "I think definitely one of tech industry's worst mistakes in a long time was that everybody (thought they) could go full remote forever, and startups didn't need to be together. There was going to be no loss of creativity. I would say that the experiment on that is over, and the technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups.""
https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/chatgpt-maker-sam-altman-says-era-of-remote-work-is-over-380090-2023-05-04
Business Today
ChatGPT maker Sam Altman says era of remote work is over - BusinessToday
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that tech industry's worst mistakes was that everybody could go full remote forever
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Le carte di credito con le ali, il vecchio Mujica, le città che sprofondano, i papiri che parlano.
Mostly Weekly #324 è arrivata: storie vere, strane, utili
👉 antoniodini.com/weekly/324/
Le carte di credito con le ali, il vecchio Mujica, le città che sprofondano, i papiri che parlano.
Mostly Weekly #324 è arrivata: storie vere, strane, utili
👉 antoniodini.com/weekly/324/
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Carte di credito alate, città che affondano e papiri parlanti
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Letture per la domenica
Vivere di più: un punto di vista da "interno" sull'uomo che sta ottimizzando tutto per vivere fino a 125 anni. (Tanto poi schiatta lo stesso, no?)
Money quote: "In 2022, some 12 years later, I came across Bryan Johnson. A successful entrepreneur, also ex-Mormon, optimizing his health and longevity through data. It was familiar. He had come to this kind of life optimization in a slightly different way and for different reasons, but I was so excited by what he was doing. I thought, “This is how I’d live if I had unlimited funds.”
He said he was optimizing every organ and body system: What does our heart need? What does our brain need? What does our liver need? He was optimizing the biomarkers for each one. He said he believed in data, honesty and transparency, and following where the data led. He was open to challenging societal norms. He said he had a team of doctors, had reviewed thousands of studies to develop his protocols. He said every calorie had to fight for its life to be in his body. He suggested everything should be third-party tested. He also suggested that in our lifetime advances in medicine would allow people to live radically longer lives, or even to not die. "
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/when-im-125/
Vivere di più: un punto di vista da "interno" sull'uomo che sta ottimizzando tutto per vivere fino a 125 anni. (Tanto poi schiatta lo stesso, no?)
Money quote: "In 2022, some 12 years later, I came across Bryan Johnson. A successful entrepreneur, also ex-Mormon, optimizing his health and longevity through data. It was familiar. He had come to this kind of life optimization in a slightly different way and for different reasons, but I was so excited by what he was doing. I thought, “This is how I’d live if I had unlimited funds.”
He said he was optimizing every organ and body system: What does our heart need? What does our brain need? What does our liver need? He was optimizing the biomarkers for each one. He said he believed in data, honesty and transparency, and following where the data led. He was open to challenging societal norms. He said he had a team of doctors, had reviewed thousands of studies to develop his protocols. He said every calorie had to fight for its life to be in his body. He suggested everything should be third-party tested. He also suggested that in our lifetime advances in medicine would allow people to live radically longer lives, or even to not die. "
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/when-im-125/
Coda Story
When I’m 125? - Coda Story
What it means to live an optimized life and why Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint just doesn’t get it
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