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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Se serve, una rappresentazione grafica online dell'andamento del Coronavirus https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Suonava la sua musica, stava facendo un concerto a un festival: si è seduto in silenzio, ha chiesto scusa, ha abbassato la testa ed era morto. Se ne è andato così, a 71 anno, sul palco, David Olney.

Money quote: "“Olney was in the middle of his third song when he stopped, apologized, and shut his eyes,” Rigby wrote on Facebook. “He was very still, sitting upright with his guitar on, wearing the coolest hat and a beautiful rust suede jacket we laughed about because it was raining like hell outside the boathouse where we were playing — I just want the picture to be as graceful and dignified as it was, because it at first looked like he was just taking a moment.”"

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/singer-david-olney-dies-during-performance-festival-1203472389/

Qui una sua interpretazione di "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" con quattro spettacolari ballerine ("Era ironico, papà?" "Si, figliolo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tijs8n-4HCA
Coronavirus e pandemia: cosa sta succedendo? E soprattutto, cosa può succedere?

Mentre questa mappa mostra i fololai del contagio in maniera quasi morbosa (perdonatemi il gioco di parole)

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

e mentre ricordo che ci sono sul mercato non solo documentari di Netflix

https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/netflix-releases-pandemic-docuseries-as-coronavirus-spreads/

ma anche videogiochi sul contagio

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/plague-inc/id525818839

Questo invece è uno degli articoli più sensati che ho letto sinora:

Money quote: "So how big could the outbreak get? Is this the next pandemic — a disease that spreads globally?

An answer to this question requires knowing the answers to two other questions: How easily does the 2019-nCoV spread from person to person, and how deadly is the virus? At the moment, scientists only have informed guesses, which are likely to solidify in the coming weeks and months. But what we know so far is instructive."

https://www.vox.com/2020/1/28/21079946/coronavirus-china-wuhan-deaths-pandemic

(Intanto, Wuhan in quarantena: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/01/coronavirus-photos-wuhan-under-quarantine/605605/ )
Quindici o più anni fa avevo un amico americano che una sera a cena, hamburger e una caraffata di margarita a testa, mi parlò del suo progetto di andare al Burning Man (che all'epoca era poco meno che sconoscuito dalle nostre parti) e mi invitò. Chicken as I am, ovviamente declinai. Ma nella manifestazione ci sono molte cose che vale la pena di vedere e raccontare, nel bene e nel male. Già in passato mi è capitato di citare il festival. Questo articolo è piuttosto interessante perché ne tira fuori un lato oscuro: The God Phone.

Money quote: "In 2018, artist Dustin Weatherford stacked seven old cars, one on top of the other, in a piece called Night at the Climb-In. People scaled the structure, navigating the rickety mirrors and rusted doors to the top where they could sip drinks in a canned-ham trailer 34 feet in the air. (Officials from the Bureau of Land Management and Burning Man closed the installation to climbers a few days into the event after someone fell and got hurt.)

But the God Phone’s risks felt different from Burning Man’s usual danger. There was no purposeful climb to a precarious lookout, no donning of fireproof gear in preparation for something that was obviously a bad idea. What sort of responsibility did the artists have for this other kind of art, I wondered, the kind where the risks were more hidden?

I never thought I’d go back to Burning Man after my God Phone experience, and I definitely didn’t think I’d go back to the phone. But in 2019, I did. I sat there for 24 hours, because I wanted to know if other conversations like mine were happening there. Was the God Phone safe? If someone got hurt, how would we know?"

https://longreads.com/2020/01/14/the-god-phone/
L'ossessione per i social la stiamo pagando cara. Soprattutto in termini di diversità: una monocultura concettuale non fa per niente bene.

Money quote: "When Facebook experienced a 45-minute outage on Aug. 3 in many parts of the world, traffic to news websites sharply spiked, according to a data from Chartbeat, a firm used by many major news publishers to track traffic to their websites."

https://qz.com/1397324/it-took-only-a-45-minute-facebook-outage-for-news-traffic-to-spike/
Whatsapp è brutto e cattivo

Money quote: “«Le backdoor”, continua lo sviluppatore, «sono spesso mascherate come “accidentali” falle di sicurezza. Solo nell’ultimo anno, 12 falle di questo tipo sono state individuate in WhatsApp; sette di queste erano critiche – come ad esempio quella che è stata sfruttata per Jeff Bezos. Qualcuno potrebbe dirvi che WhatsApp è ancora “molto sicuro” malgrado 7 backdoor evidenziate negli ultimi 12 mesi ma tutto ciò è semplicemente statisticamente improbabile».”

https://www.macitynet.it/il-fondatore-di-telegram-usare-whatsapp-e-pericoloso-e-facebook-mente-su-apple/
Nella fredda e logica mente degli scienziati si celano le stesse fallaci illusioni degli altri esseri umani? La scienza deve produrre teorie semplici in modo assoluto, che in realtà è un giudizio decisamente soggettivo.

Money quote: "My colleagues argue that criteria of beauty are experience-based. The most fundamental theories we currently have – the standard model of particle physics and Albert Einstein’s general relativity – are beautiful in specific ways. I agree it was worth a try to assume that more fundamental theories are beautiful in similar ways. But, well, we tried, and it didn’t work. Nevertheless, physicists continue to select theories based on the same three criteria of beauty: simplicity, naturalness, and elegance."

https://aeon.co/ideas/beauty-is-truth-truth-is-beauty-and-other-lies-of-physics
Una cosina semplice. Tutta la storia europea - 2400 anni - condensata in un video, anno per anno. Più che altro da un punto di vista demografico, ma è interessante.

Money quote: "Today’s video comes to us from YouTube channel Cottereau, and it provides an informative overview of European history starting from 400 BC. Empires rise and fall, invasions sweep across the continent, and the borders of modern countries slowly begin to take shape (with the added bonus of an extremely dramatic instrumental)."

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/2400-years-of-european-history/