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È arrivato il nuovo numero di 2600 (ma in Italia lo venderanno da qualche parte?)
Quella cosa folle che è Craiglist. Anche durante il coronavirus

Money quote: "I’ll never forget, for example, the 200 sealed VHS copies of the Oscar-winning Coen Brothers masterwork Fargo, which when I absolutely had no room left to store them in my fetid studio apartment, I humbly returned to the Craigslist free section, specifically to a guy named Jerry, who vowed to make them into a throne. “I don’t care what anyone else says,” he told me at the time. “I’ve dreamed of sitting on a throne made out of masked taped copies of Fargo since I was young.”"

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/craigslist-free-section-coronavirus
Batterista metallaro e satanico va in coma, passa dodici giorni di visioni con Satana in persona, torna fuori e si sente un po' meno satanista di prima

Money quote: "Carroll had more reason to celebrate, not just because he was returning to good health, but because those 12 days were full of some pretty upsetting visions."

https://www.gq.com/story/coronavirus-satan-not-cool
Finita la quarantena, per adesso. C'è da dire che abbiamo imparato molto. Dovesse ricapitare mi sa che la faremmo tutti in maniera diversa. Che ne dite?

Money quote: "Eventually, once we’d all been quarantined in our homes for at least two weeks, we started making distanced contact. We went on a hike together and didn’t share snacks. We had a backyard hangout around a fire pit, with each couple seated 6 feet from the next. It was then that we started talking about taking things to the next level."

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/05/why-i-decided-to-join-a-quarantine-bubble-and-you-should-too.html
Per evitare di distrarsi questo lavora solo su iPad Pro (quello più grande, che costa quanto un portatile da Formula Uno). In pratica, lo strumento è la soluzione. Il pensiero no. Il metodo neanche. Che filosofia devastata per gente devastata.

Money quote: "For some reason, it still wasn’t enough for me. As soon as I opened my laptop, the temptation to procrastinate by either distracting myself or by being “fake productive” was just too high. Fake productivity is doing work-related activities that don’t bring much value to your job, such as checking analytics, planning your day for hours, watching educational YouTube content, looking at your competitors’ content on social media. Not that these kinds of tasks aren’t useful, but they’re not always necessary. If you’re a writer, checking out your stats on Medium every 10 minutes doesn’t bring as much value as sitting down and write."

https://medium.com/macoclock/the-ipad-pro-solved-my-distraction-problems-d652a9eb9390
È arrivato il momento di migrare la moda in rete?

Money quote: "Our consumer-sentiment surveys, conducted in April, show declines in purchase intent of 70 to 80 percent in offline and 30 to 40 percent in online in Europe and North America, even in countries that haven’t been under full lockdown. E-commerce is clearly not offsetting the sales declines in stores. Nevertheless, it has been a lifeline for fashion brands as stores have been shuttered—and it will continue to be critical during and after the recovery period. In China, the return of offline traffic has been gradual, with 74 percent of Chinese consumers saying they avoided shopping malls in the two weeks after stores reopened.1 This suggests that some percentage of offline sales could permanently migrate to e-commerce."

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/fashions-digital-transformation-now-or-never
Il Vitra Design Musem espone la sua epica collezione di seggiole. Perché nel mondo del design la seggiola è una sfida e una dichiarazione di principio, un gesto d'invenzione e la presentazione di una poetica. Un designer lo giudichi dalla sua sedia (e se non ne ha mai fatta una, lo giudichi per questa sua mancanza).

Money quote: "Chairs are important historical artefacts. They can represent the fashion and ethos of a particular moment in time or stand for an epochal idea. They are portraits of their users and reflect the production techniques with which they were created. You can recognise and understand an era – its social structures, its materials, techniques and fashions – by its chairs. I would go as far as to say that no other everyday object is so multi-faceted."

https://www.vitra.com/en-un/page/chair-times
Sembrava tanto una buona idea, eppure adesso anche il panorama delle newsletter è completamente inondato da migliaia, milioni di alternative. Che fare?

Money quote: "A funny thing happened in our current Newsletter Renaissance: inundation. Much like the television streaming era which is now in full-swing, we’re learning that there can, in fact, be too much of a good thing. At least for those of us who are completists. Which is to say: there are too many newsletters that I now subscribe to and want to read, but often cannot. Because, well, time.

There are a few possible solutions here.

First, we could simply unsubscribe from several of these newsletters. But that’s no fun. What if time magically appears and you yearn for one of those old friends in your inbox?"

https://500ish.com/newsletters-as-newspapers-906938ca4a2e
Che impressione vedere i ragionamenti di studiosi di lingua inglese attorno alle "hapax legomenon", le parole che in tutta l'antichità ricorrono solo in un testo e solo una volta. Neologismi? Parole inventate o parole create? Goliardia? Gusto per la lingua? A un italiano termini come “apoculamus”, letteralmente "leviamo il culo da qui" (da "apo", via, e "culamus" muovere il culo), suonano molto più naturali.

Money quote: "The Satyricon contains a number of hapaxes, including “bacalusias” (possibly “sweetmeat” or ”lullabies”) and “baccibalum” (“attractive woman”)."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hapax-legomenon-hapaxes
Forwarded from Riccardo
Nel weekend sono stato in libreria e ho fatto un salto al mercatino (finalmente!) dell'usato. Ho preso diversi libri, e ne ho iniziati giusto un paio. Questa è la lista aggiornata.

https://riccardo.im/libri/