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
Pronto per il nuovo numero di Mostly Weekly? Esce domani il primo numero della villeggiatura. Iscriviti qui e fai proseliti anche per questo canale. https://tinyletter.com/MostlyIWrite
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…
Newsletter, le opere struggenti di solitari geni della scrittura digitale - il mio articolo (molto autoreferenziale) per Il Post.
https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2020/08/05/newsletter-le-opere-struggenti-di-solitari-geni-della-scrittura-digitale/
https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2020/08/05/newsletter-le-opere-struggenti-di-solitari-geni-della-scrittura-digitale/
Il Post
Newsletter, le opere struggenti di solitari geni della scrittura digitale
Le newsletter, queste amate e anche queste sconosciute. Ce ne sono tante, tantissime. Ma attenzione, il prodotto genuino non sono quelle fatte a nastro dai giornali come tentativo di sbarcare il loro traballante lunario
Il mio uso di git è poco più che ricreativo (non mi serve per il codice, ma per il testo) e decisamente non collaborativo (scrivo da solo). Però trovo git utile e molto efficace. Basta allontanarsi un giorno dalla riga di comando e ti giochi quasi tutta la memoria delle opzioni anche solo di base.
La cosa speciale è che questo libro sintetico e potente è fatto dalla ottima Julia Evans in collaborazione con Katie Sylor-Miller, una vera esperta. Non lo regalano (12 dollari) ma li vale tutti.
Money quote: "If you find git confusing, don't worry! You're not alone.
People who've been using it every day for years still make mistakes and aren't sure how to fix them. A lot of git commands are confusingly named (why do you create new branches with git checkout?) and there are 20 million different ways to do everything.
This zine explains git fundamentals (what's a SHA?) and how to fix a lot of common git mistakes (I committed to the wrong branch!!)."
https://gumroad.com/l/dangit-git
La cosa speciale è che questo libro sintetico e potente è fatto dalla ottima Julia Evans in collaborazione con Katie Sylor-Miller, una vera esperta. Non lo regalano (12 dollari) ma li vale tutti.
Money quote: "If you find git confusing, don't worry! You're not alone.
People who've been using it every day for years still make mistakes and aren't sure how to fix them. A lot of git commands are confusingly named (why do you create new branches with git checkout?) and there are 20 million different ways to do everything.
This zine explains git fundamentals (what's a SHA?) and how to fix a lot of common git mistakes (I committed to the wrong branch!!)."
https://gumroad.com/l/dangit-git
Gumroad
Dangit, git!
If you find git confusing, don't worry! You're not alone.People who've been using it every day for years still make mistakes and aren't sure how to fix them. A lot of git commands a...
Con Phil Schiller finisce l’epoca dei cavalieri di Steve Jobs - Il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/con-phil-schiller-finisce-lepoca-dei-cavalieri-di-steve-jobs/
https://www.macitynet.it/con-phil-schiller-finisce-lepoca-dei-cavalieri-di-steve-jobs/
macitynet.it
Con Phil Schiller finisce l’epoca dei cavalieri di Steve Jobs
La “pensione” del dirigente di Apple, che a sessant’anni e un notevole patrimonio personale assume una carica più distaccata dal lavoro quotidiano in azienda, è anche un passaggio storico nel ricambio all’interno dell’azienda
Ne ho scritto anche io nel mio piccolo: la Ue ha multato Google che adesso ha deciso di mettere a pagamento le sue app e servizi Android per i produttori di smartphone che vendano in Europa (finora era tutto gratuito). La cosa più probabile è che succeda come in Cina: fioriranno un mare di nuovi negozi.
Money quote: "In China, each app store has a different rating system and a different community of users reviewing an app. Different stores also present apps in a different order, with their own ways of prioritizing which apps to highlight or show in search results. For example, Tencent’s Myapp and the 360 Mobile Assistant contain sections that list the most popular apps among men and women. The immense fragmentation of Android in China, which varies across different smartphone makers, means that the average Chinese user uses nearly 40 apps on their phone a month and about 11 a day, according to App Annie. These numbers are slightly higher than ones for users in the US and Europe. They’re also more likely to have 100 apps on their phones in total.
In 2013, 25 percent of Chinese users said that the most important feature on a smartphone was that it had a wide variety of apps, reports Nielsen. The need for more apps has even driven Chinese smartphone companies to be among the first to offer a whopping 1TB of storage."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17984976/android-europe-future-china-play-store-european-commission-antitrust
Money quote: "In China, each app store has a different rating system and a different community of users reviewing an app. Different stores also present apps in a different order, with their own ways of prioritizing which apps to highlight or show in search results. For example, Tencent’s Myapp and the 360 Mobile Assistant contain sections that list the most popular apps among men and women. The immense fragmentation of Android in China, which varies across different smartphone makers, means that the average Chinese user uses nearly 40 apps on their phone a month and about 11 a day, according to App Annie. These numbers are slightly higher than ones for users in the US and Europe. They’re also more likely to have 100 apps on their phones in total.
In 2013, 25 percent of Chinese users said that the most important feature on a smartphone was that it had a wide variety of apps, reports Nielsen. The need for more apps has even driven Chinese smartphone companies to be among the first to offer a whopping 1TB of storage."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17984976/android-europe-future-china-play-store-european-commission-antitrust
The Verge
Want to understand the future of Android in Europe? Look at China
What happens when you no longer have one central hub for apps and services?
Non importa che siate programmatori, questo thread su Twitter è semplicemente fantastico
https://twitter.com/ctrlshifti/status/1290968510521196544?s=21
https://twitter.com/ctrlshifti/status/1290968510521196544?s=21
Twitter
Kat Maddox
Is it better to indent your code from left to right or right to left? Been hearing different opinions