Quando anche Tex sbagliava - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/07/tex-willer-bonelli-fumetto/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/07/tex-willer-bonelli-fumetto/
Fumettologica
Quando anche Tex sbagliava
Come va Tex Willer, la collana di Sergio Bonelli Editore dedicata al giovane Tex, a 20 numeri e a quasi 2 anni dal suo debutto?
Google maps e il piccolo trucco con cui gli Usa proteggono alcune delle location più sensibili del pianeta. Se lo fanno una volta, vedete che lo fanno anche altre volte.
Money quote: "After stumbling onto this strange piece of information, we, as researchers critical of the National Security State wanted to know how and why this happened. While the area has since been updated (the current image you see in Google Earth/Maps was taken on October 1st, 2017), the gap in Google Earth’s historical data set remains. (Since we began our investigation, Google Earth updated its historical dataset to include images from both 2014 and 2015, making the total gap remaining 6 years.)
That this gap occurred for eight years without any acknowledgement from Google, Alphabet, or the federal government suggests that it can happen again with no warning or oversight. This is Google’s Earth, not ours."
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gye79x/google-earth-stopped-mapping-this-military-installation
Money quote: "After stumbling onto this strange piece of information, we, as researchers critical of the National Security State wanted to know how and why this happened. While the area has since been updated (the current image you see in Google Earth/Maps was taken on October 1st, 2017), the gap in Google Earth’s historical data set remains. (Since we began our investigation, Google Earth updated its historical dataset to include images from both 2014 and 2015, making the total gap remaining 6 years.)
That this gap occurred for eight years without any acknowledgement from Google, Alphabet, or the federal government suggests that it can happen again with no warning or oversight. This is Google’s Earth, not ours."
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gye79x/google-earth-stopped-mapping-this-military-installation
Vice
The One Place in the US Google Earth Stopped Mapping
For eight years, Google Earth didn't update its satellite image of a military installation in Nevada. So we bought one ourselves.
Quarantine 15, il numero di once guadagnate durante la pandemia dai newyorkesi. Non penso qui ci sia niente di meglio. E le sartorie riprendono fiato.
Money quote: “In a city where gyms are still closed, and Netflix and couch the safest evening entertainment, the phenomenon of stay-at-home weight gain — playfully called the Quarantine 15 by some — has brought an unexpected windfall for some tailors. Some say they have seen business rise by as much as 80 percent, with customers asking for buttons to be moved, waistbands lengthened and jackets made more roomy"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/nyregion/coronavirus-tailors-cleaners-weight-gain.html
Money quote: “In a city where gyms are still closed, and Netflix and couch the safest evening entertainment, the phenomenon of stay-at-home weight gain — playfully called the Quarantine 15 by some — has brought an unexpected windfall for some tailors. Some say they have seen business rise by as much as 80 percent, with customers asking for buttons to be moved, waistbands lengthened and jackets made more roomy"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/nyregion/coronavirus-tailors-cleaners-weight-gain.html
NY Times
Tailors Know New Yorkers’ Pandemic Secret: ‘Everybody Got Fat!’ (Published 2020)
Tailors across New York City are expanding waistlines and moving buttons to accommodate the “Quarantine 15.”
Perché Apple sta producendo gli iPhone in India - il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/07/29/news/perche-apple-sta-producendo-gli-iphone-in-india-1.39134072?refresh_ce
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/07/29/news/perche-apple-sta-producendo-gli-iphone-in-india-1.39134072?refresh_ce
La Stampa
Perché Apple sta producendo gli iPhone in India
L'azienda mira a evitare i dazi di Nuova Delhi e addomesticare l'incertezza geopolitica dello scontro sino-americano, ma c'è di più: India e Brasile vogliono diventare produttori della loro ricchezza digitale
Un libro di mappe immaginarie, più vere del vero però perché sono letterariamente corrette.
Money quote: "The book includes the map from Thomas More’s Utopia, which when published in 1516 contained the first fantasy map in a work of fiction, as far as anyone can tell. The book also has the maps that were the objects of obsession of many a fantasy-filled childhood: Middle Earth, the mysterious Narnia, the Hundred Acre Wood, the roads Milo explores in The Phantom Tollbooth."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/writers-maps
Money quote: "The book includes the map from Thomas More’s Utopia, which when published in 1516 contained the first fantasy map in a work of fiction, as far as anyone can tell. The book also has the maps that were the objects of obsession of many a fantasy-filled childhood: Middle Earth, the mysterious Narnia, the Hundred Acre Wood, the roads Milo explores in The Phantom Tollbooth."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/writers-maps
Atlas Obscura
How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds
A new book collects fantastic literary geographies.
Forwarded from Riccardo
A new funding model for open source software
Introducing "sponsor pools"
- Every month, you donate some amount into a "wallet".
- Your funds are then distributed to the projects in your "sponsor pool". Your sponsor pool is just the set of open-source projects you want to support.
- Adding new projects to your pool should require one click — as easy as starring the repo on GitHub.
That's it.
Info: https://vriad.com/essays/a-new-funding-model-for-open-source-software
Introducing "sponsor pools"
- Every month, you donate some amount into a "wallet".
- Your funds are then distributed to the projects in your "sponsor pool". Your sponsor pool is just the set of open-source projects you want to support.
- Adding new projects to your pool should require one click — as easy as starring the repo on GitHub.
That's it.
Info: https://vriad.com/essays/a-new-funding-model-for-open-source-software
Sembra un altro mondo: un po' di tempo fa questo articolo affrontava il tema del peso dei social media, e di youtube in particolare. Abbiamo finito di parlare di Facebook, infatti, e adesso parliamo degli youtuber come influencer politici. Il resto doveva ancora venire.
Money quote: "One thing is very clear: His YouTube channel, the memes, the fake news, and MBL’s army of supporters have helped Kataguiri, 22, become the youngest person ever elected to Congress in Brazil. He’s also trying to become Brazil’s equivalent of speaker of the House."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/brazils-congressional-youtubers
Money quote: "One thing is very clear: His YouTube channel, the memes, the fake news, and MBL’s army of supporters have helped Kataguiri, 22, become the youngest person ever elected to Congress in Brazil. He’s also trying to become Brazil’s equivalent of speaker of the House."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/brazils-congressional-youtubers
BuzzFeed News
YouTubers Are Running For Office In Brazil, And They’re Winning By Huge Numbers
A group of twentysomethings leveraged their huge YouTube audiences and actually won seats in Brazil's federal and state elections. What happens next is anyone's guess.
La potenza della cultura dei popoli. Un esempio? Il concetto di wabi-sabi per i giapponesi.
Money quote: "“The aesthetics of wabi-sabi opened our eyes to everyday life and gave us a method of handling what is common in an uncommon, aesthetic way,” Prof Otabe said, highlighting the importance of acceptance in Japanese culture, a society forced to contend with devastating natural disasters on a semi-regular basis. Rather than casting nature solely as a dangerous and destructive force, it helps frame it as a source of beauty, to be appreciated on the smallest of levels. It becomes a provider of colours, designs and patterns, a source of inspiration, and a force to work alongside, rather than against."
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181021-japans-unusual-way-to-view-the-world
Money quote: "“The aesthetics of wabi-sabi opened our eyes to everyday life and gave us a method of handling what is common in an uncommon, aesthetic way,” Prof Otabe said, highlighting the importance of acceptance in Japanese culture, a society forced to contend with devastating natural disasters on a semi-regular basis. Rather than casting nature solely as a dangerous and destructive force, it helps frame it as a source of beauty, to be appreciated on the smallest of levels. It becomes a provider of colours, designs and patterns, a source of inspiration, and a force to work alongside, rather than against."
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181021-japans-unusual-way-to-view-the-world
Bbc
Japan’s unusual way to view the world
Wabi-sabi offers a refuge from the modern world's obsession with perfection, and accepts imperfections as all the more meaningful – and, in their own way, beautiful.
Questa app, Muzmatch, fa matchmaking in maniera diversa dalle altre: è rivolta ai musulmani e cerca di innovare il mercato dei matrimoni arrangiati e al tempo stesso essere halal, cioè rispettare i valori culturali dell'Islam.
Money quote: "Hawaya’s strategy is to embed Muslim cultural values into its design. Its minimum age was raised from 18 to 21, to ensure that people were serious about marriage. To adhere to traditional Muslim attitudes around modesty, Hawaya gives female users the option of hiding their photos until they feel comfortable revealing them to a match. There is also a “Guardian Angel” feature that allows a family member to “chaperone” and oversee conversations. The message in all of this, says Ali, is that “our users respect our traditions and culture.”"
https://restofworld.org/2020/muslim-dating-apps/
Money quote: "Hawaya’s strategy is to embed Muslim cultural values into its design. Its minimum age was raised from 18 to 21, to ensure that people were serious about marriage. To adhere to traditional Muslim attitudes around modesty, Hawaya gives female users the option of hiding their photos until they feel comfortable revealing them to a match. There is also a “Guardian Angel” feature that allows a family member to “chaperone” and oversee conversations. The message in all of this, says Ali, is that “our users respect our traditions and culture.”"
https://restofworld.org/2020/muslim-dating-apps/
Rest of World
E-rranged marriages
For young Muslims, a new slate of dating apps have become a merger of love and tradition.
“Eat the Buddha” è un libro sulla vita delle popolazioni tibetane e buddiste in Cina scritto da una giornalista americana che fa quello che fanno i giornalisti americani quando scrivono un libro. Un gran lavoro anche dal punto di vista formale e del metodo.
Money quote: “The chapters on the self-immolations are the heart of “Eat the Buddha” — the terrible climax for which Demick has prepared us through her recounting of more than 60 years of religious repression and human rights abuses. There’s a good deal of exposition, all of it essential, but whenever possible, she presents Ngaba’s brutal history through the stories of individual characters, the technique pioneered by John Hersey in “Hiroshima.” (Hersey took the idea from the Thornton Wilder novel “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” which he read on his ship en route to Japan.) I occasionally felt I needed an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of all the players, some of whom vanish for long stretches — in one case, for more than 100 pages — before re-entering the narrative. But Demick, who used the same technique to excellent effect in her previous books (“Logavina Street,” about Sarajevo, and “Nothing to Envy,” about North Korea), knows what she’s doing.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/books/review/eat-the-buddha-barbara-demick.html
Money quote: “The chapters on the self-immolations are the heart of “Eat the Buddha” — the terrible climax for which Demick has prepared us through her recounting of more than 60 years of religious repression and human rights abuses. There’s a good deal of exposition, all of it essential, but whenever possible, she presents Ngaba’s brutal history through the stories of individual characters, the technique pioneered by John Hersey in “Hiroshima.” (Hersey took the idea from the Thornton Wilder novel “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” which he read on his ship en route to Japan.) I occasionally felt I needed an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of all the players, some of whom vanish for long stretches — in one case, for more than 100 pages — before re-entering the narrative. But Demick, who used the same technique to excellent effect in her previous books (“Logavina Street,” about Sarajevo, and “Nothing to Envy,” about North Korea), knows what she’s doing.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/books/review/eat-the-buddha-barbara-demick.html
NY Times
The Chinese Town That Became the Self-Immolation Capital of the World
In “Eat the Buddha,” Barbara Demick tells the story of Tibetan resistance to Chinese rule through the stories of the people who have seen it up close.
Riccardino, il finale di Montalbano - il mio articolo per Anobii
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/07/31/riccardino-il-finale-di-montalbano/
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/07/31/riccardino-il-finale-di-montalbano/
Anobii Blog
Riccardino, il finale di Montalbano - Anobii Blog
Già nel 2005 Andrea Camilleri aveva preparato l'ultima indagine del commissario di Vigata. Che è una indagine molto particolare
Lo aveva detto e lo ha fatto: Roy Tennant passa il testimone, e in qualche modo finisce un’epoca.
Money quote: “Editor's Note: Current Cites has been published every single month for the last 30 years, without fail. We are the second longest-lived Internet publication in existence (beat out only by TidBITS by a few months). When I started this publication, I would have recoiled at the idea of taking on such a responsibility had I known what would eventually unfold. I'm the only original contributor left, and I've been it's editor longer than anyone (I did not begin as editor, and we've had two other editors).
After two years of retirement, I now am eager to either shutdown or transfer responsibility for my remaining professional responsibilities. This publication is the last of my obligations. Thankfully, I've found a suitable Editor to take over, Edward Lim Junhao. Since the infrastructure I've used for many years to produce the publication has relied on a number of technologies that now seem overly difficult and/or archaic (Perl scripts, XSLT, command line processing, even a step that requires the long-outdated Lynx web browser), it seemed like well past time to move to a different platform.
Edward has therefore found a different way to take Current Cites forward into a new world. I wish him, and our faithful readers, all the best of luck. And speaking of our "faithful readers," thank you for your collective 30 years of attention. We all appreciated it very much. More than you know. Be well and prosper. - Roy Tennant”
http://currentcites.org/2020/cc20.31.7.html
Money quote: “Editor's Note: Current Cites has been published every single month for the last 30 years, without fail. We are the second longest-lived Internet publication in existence (beat out only by TidBITS by a few months). When I started this publication, I would have recoiled at the idea of taking on such a responsibility had I known what would eventually unfold. I'm the only original contributor left, and I've been it's editor longer than anyone (I did not begin as editor, and we've had two other editors).
After two years of retirement, I now am eager to either shutdown or transfer responsibility for my remaining professional responsibilities. This publication is the last of my obligations. Thankfully, I've found a suitable Editor to take over, Edward Lim Junhao. Since the infrastructure I've used for many years to produce the publication has relied on a number of technologies that now seem overly difficult and/or archaic (Perl scripts, XSLT, command line processing, even a step that requires the long-outdated Lynx web browser), it seemed like well past time to move to a different platform.
Edward has therefore found a different way to take Current Cites forward into a new world. I wish him, and our faithful readers, all the best of luck. And speaking of our "faithful readers," thank you for your collective 30 years of attention. We all appreciated it very much. More than you know. Be well and prosper. - Roy Tennant”
http://currentcites.org/2020/cc20.31.7.html
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Le cose che abbiamo sotto gli occhi ma che l'odio non ci fa guardare. Il Guardian racconta la storia di un paesino siciliano, che stava scomparendo, e che si ripopola con i migranti.
Money quote: "In Rosario’s day, the “foreigner” who came to this picturesque Sicilian village was likely to be from Palermo, 100km away, or nearby Agrigento. But Wale, 35, is from Ekiti state in Nigeria, and he reached Sutera four months ago after a trek covering 6,000km. He lives with his wife and a son, like dozens of other African people seeking asylum who have come from another continent with their families to live here.
“The world is changing,” says Rosario, a 65-year-old retired architect who was born, raised and will grow old in this village, as did his ancestors for generations. “And Sutera is a part of that change.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/27/how-refugees-are-breathing-new-life-into-dying-italian-village
Money quote: "In Rosario’s day, the “foreigner” who came to this picturesque Sicilian village was likely to be from Palermo, 100km away, or nearby Agrigento. But Wale, 35, is from Ekiti state in Nigeria, and he reached Sutera four months ago after a trek covering 6,000km. He lives with his wife and a son, like dozens of other African people seeking asylum who have come from another continent with their families to live here.
“The world is changing,” says Rosario, a 65-year-old retired architect who was born, raised and will grow old in this village, as did his ancestors for generations. “And Sutera is a part of that change.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/27/how-refugees-are-breathing-new-life-into-dying-italian-village
the Guardian
What happened when migrants moved into my family’s Sicilian village
Refugees are breathing vibrant new life into the dying home town of Lorenzo Tondo’s father-in-law. If only Italy’s ascendant rightwingers saw it that way
È morto a 91 anni Bill English, il braccio (e parte della mente) dietro 'The Mother of All Demos'
Money quote: “English essentially choreographed Engelbart's presentation. Just as important, he made sure there were no technical glitches. That was a challenge, since Engelbart would be in San Francisco demonstrating a system that was being operated 30 miles away in Menlo Park, the two sites connected via a microwave relay. The event went off virtually without a hitch, and a new world was born. "Doug wasn't doing it," recalls Roberta, who had worked as Engelbart's secretary. "It was all Bill." Engelbart died in 2013.”
https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/08/01/023248/william-english-engineer-behind-the-mother-of-all-demos-dies-at-91
Money quote: “English essentially choreographed Engelbart's presentation. Just as important, he made sure there were no technical glitches. That was a challenge, since Engelbart would be in San Francisco demonstrating a system that was being operated 30 miles away in Menlo Park, the two sites connected via a microwave relay. The event went off virtually without a hitch, and a new world was born. "Doug wasn't doing it," recalls Roberta, who had worked as Engelbart's secretary. "It was all Bill." Engelbart died in 2013.”
https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/08/01/023248/william-english-engineer-behind-the-mother-of-all-demos-dies-at-91
news.slashdot.org
William English, Engineer Behind 'The Mother of All Demos', Dies at 91
An anonymous reader quotes The Los Angeles Times: On Dec. 9, 1968, the then-small world of computer engineering was shaken to its core by a presentation of new technologies projected onto a screen in a San Francisco hall. The attendees at the historic event…
Fare un libro di testo per la scuola - o meglio ancora, per l'università - non è opera da poco. Anzi.
Money quote: "We started working on it a little over two years ago, in the fall of 2016. Now it is nearing the end of the fall of 2018 and it is becoming a reality.
What does it take to write a textbook? That's a good question; one that I certainly did not know the answer to going in, and one for which I now need several hours of recollection and introspection to tease out the appropriate response. This blog post is my answer to that question. I hope that it is useful to you, whether it helps understand the scope of the work involved, brings up aspects that hadn't been considered, or points out tools that might help you with your own book."
http://tim.hibal.org/blog/how-we-wrote-a-textbook/
Money quote: "We started working on it a little over two years ago, in the fall of 2016. Now it is nearing the end of the fall of 2018 and it is becoming a reality.
What does it take to write a textbook? That's a good question; one that I certainly did not know the answer to going in, and one for which I now need several hours of recollection and introspection to tease out the appropriate response. This blog post is my answer to that question. I hope that it is useful to you, whether it helps understand the scope of the work involved, brings up aspects that hadn't been considered, or points out tools that might help you with your own book."
http://tim.hibal.org/blog/how-we-wrote-a-textbook/
Una trasformazione fondamentale nel mondo contemporaneo è il passaggio (per meglio dire, l'oscillazione del pendolo) da un modello centrato sul prodotto a un modello centrato sul cliente. Le conseguenze sul mondo del lavoro sono incredibili e per niente positive.
Money quote: "In part, this change reflects a rolling back of labour laws and with them the sense of solidarity among workers. It also follows the shift to an economic model that relies on workers to be more accommodating each year in their role as business and consumer service providers.
The irony is that when the consumer is made king, workers are forced to become even more flexible, providing services on a 24-hour cycle, usually to the detriment of their own health and wellbeing."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/27/work-once-way-to-better-life-not-any-more-property-pensions
Money quote: "In part, this change reflects a rolling back of labour laws and with them the sense of solidarity among workers. It also follows the shift to an economic model that relies on workers to be more accommodating each year in their role as business and consumer service providers.
The irony is that when the consumer is made king, workers are forced to become even more flexible, providing services on a 24-hour cycle, usually to the detriment of their own health and wellbeing."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/27/work-once-way-to-better-life-not-any-more-property-pensions
the Guardian
Work was once the way to a better life. Not any more
A job that provides rising living standards is a thing of the past. Now the route to wealth is through property and pensions
“No, Trump can’t delay the election. First, because the law won't allow it. Second, because restraint and delayed gratification has never been his strong suit (Cit.)
Cadaveri nello spazio. Ma per un buon motivo.
Money quote: "No human has ever flown closer to Pluto than Clyde Tombaugh did in 2015, 18 years after his death. That’s fitting, because he was also the first person to lay eyes on it."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/grave-farthest-from-earth
Money quote: "No human has ever flown closer to Pluto than Clyde Tombaugh did in 2015, 18 years after his death. That’s fitting, because he was also the first person to lay eyes on it."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/grave-farthest-from-earth
Atlas Obscura
The Grave Farthest From Earth Is on a Spacecraft Headed Out of Our Solar System
Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, and then hitched a ride toward it.
La fine di un’epoca: Phil Schiller lascia la carica di senior vice president per il marketing mondiale, al suo posto Greg Joswiak (Congratulations!).
Money quote: “Today Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, has officially stepped down after serving the company for close to 33 years. Schiller stated for the press release that "It has been a dream come true for me to work at Apple, on so many products I love, with all of these great friends — Steve, Tim, and so many more. I first started at Apple when I was 27, this year I turned 60 and it is time for some planned changes in my life."”
https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2020/08/apples-phil-schiller-steps-down-as-svp-worldwide-marketing-as-greg-joswiak-is-promoted-to-fill-that-role.html
Money quote: “Today Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, has officially stepped down after serving the company for close to 33 years. Schiller stated for the press release that "It has been a dream come true for me to work at Apple, on so many products I love, with all of these great friends — Steve, Tim, and so many more. I first started at Apple when I was 27, this year I turned 60 and it is time for some planned changes in my life."”
https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2020/08/apples-phil-schiller-steps-down-as-svp-worldwide-marketing-as-greg-joswiak-is-promoted-to-fill-that-role.html
Patently Apple
Apple's Phil Schiller Steps down as SVP Worldwide Marketing as Greg Joswiak is Promoted to fill that Role
Today Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, has officially stepped down after serving the company for close to 33 years. Schiller stated for the press release that "It has been a dream come true for me to work at Apple, on so…