Scaricabarile. Questo viene fuori quando si pensa alla sistematica difesa dei predatori sessuali ai vertici di Google e le discriminazioni e la stigmatizzazione che avviene invece per i dipendenti persone "nonbinary".
Money quote: "As women and nonbinary people who work at Alphabet (but who do not speak for our employer), and as people who have dealt with sexual harassment and assault, we want to set the record straight: Our existence as sex-positive and polyamorous people is not inherently abusive or scandalous. The abuses reported in the New York Times arose from corporate power dynamics and misogyny, not from polyamory or BDSM. The perpetrators’ appropriation of polyamory and BDSM terminology simply exacerbates existing power dynamics and makes their victims less likely to come forward."
https://medium.com/s/story/google-employees-our-executives-engaged-in-abuse-dont-let-kink-and-polyamory-be-their-scapegoats-9099d473e80e
Money quote: "As women and nonbinary people who work at Alphabet (but who do not speak for our employer), and as people who have dealt with sexual harassment and assault, we want to set the record straight: Our existence as sex-positive and polyamorous people is not inherently abusive or scandalous. The abuses reported in the New York Times arose from corporate power dynamics and misogyny, not from polyamory or BDSM. The perpetrators’ appropriation of polyamory and BDSM terminology simply exacerbates existing power dynamics and makes their victims less likely to come forward."
https://medium.com/s/story/google-employees-our-executives-engaged-in-abuse-dont-let-kink-and-polyamory-be-their-scapegoats-9099d473e80e
Medium
Google Employees: Our Executives Engaged in Abuse. Don’t Let Kink and Polyamory Be Their Scapegoats.
A New York Times report exacerbated stigma while bringing wrongdoing to light
C'è una cosa che nel XXI secolo non ha veramente senso ma che esiste ancora grazie a una serie di trucchi, giochi di immagine, sovversioni della realtà, diplomazia e ovviamente retaggi storici. È il concetto di monarchia e di nobiltà ereditaria soprattutto monarchica.
Casomai aveste il dubbio: che senso ha che alcune persone vengano considerate costituzionalmente diverse e migliori, potenti, intitolate semplicemente a causa della famiglia da cui nascono? Siamo matti?
Money quote: "Cuando se afirma que la monarquía no es incompatible con la democracia y se esgrimen ejemplos como el de la monarquía sueca, se apunta a un argumento razonable. Se trata del último baluarte defensivo de los partidarios del trono, y merece la pena comprobar su consistencia. Desde él, la cuestión consiste en establecer hasta qué punto nuestra monarquía concreta se parece – jurídica, histórica e incluso genealógicamente – a esa monarquía y a las de otros Estados que también suelen citarse, como Noruega u Holanda. Y hay diferencias palpables."
https://www.eldiario.es/opinion/tribuna-abierta/juan-carlos-i-ojos-suecia_129_6164526.html
Casomai aveste il dubbio: che senso ha che alcune persone vengano considerate costituzionalmente diverse e migliori, potenti, intitolate semplicemente a causa della famiglia da cui nascono? Siamo matti?
Money quote: "Cuando se afirma que la monarquía no es incompatible con la democracia y se esgrimen ejemplos como el de la monarquía sueca, se apunta a un argumento razonable. Se trata del último baluarte defensivo de los partidarios del trono, y merece la pena comprobar su consistencia. Desde él, la cuestión consiste en establecer hasta qué punto nuestra monarquía concreta se parece – jurídica, histórica e incluso genealógicamente – a esa monarquía y a las de otros Estados que también suelen citarse, como Noruega u Holanda. Y hay diferencias palpables."
https://www.eldiario.es/opinion/tribuna-abierta/juan-carlos-i-ojos-suecia_129_6164526.html
El Diario
Juan Carlos I y los ojos de Suecia
Cuando se afirma que la monarquía no es incompatible con la democracia se esgrimen ejemplos como el de la monarquía sueca. Se trata del último baluarte defensivo de los partidarios del trono, y merece la pena comprobar su consistencia
Enigma era il nome della macchina per cifrare i messaggi usata dall'esercito tedesco durante la Seconda guerra mondiale. Quella che Alan Turing e gli altri... Bletchey Park... Bomba...
Uno degli ultimi esemplari esistenti (e ancora funzionanti) è andata all'asta il 30 novembre di due anni fa.
Money quote: "This three-wheeler would have been used by the German Heer (army) or the Luftwaffe (air force), Hatton says—naval machines eventually had four rotors. Because these machines were conceived to be covert, it’s hard to say exactly how many were in circulation, Hatton adds, or precisely when and where each was used. Judging by the serial number on this one, though, it was manufactured in 1944 by the Olympia Büromaschinenwerke company, an outfit better known for typewriters, for Heimsoeth und Rinke."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/for-sale-a-cipher-from-wwii
Uno degli ultimi esemplari esistenti (e ancora funzionanti) è andata all'asta il 30 novembre di due anni fa.
Money quote: "This three-wheeler would have been used by the German Heer (army) or the Luftwaffe (air force), Hatton says—naval machines eventually had four rotors. Because these machines were conceived to be covert, it’s hard to say exactly how many were in circulation, Hatton adds, or precisely when and where each was used. Judging by the serial number on this one, though, it was manufactured in 1944 by the Olympia Büromaschinenwerke company, an outfit better known for typewriters, for Heimsoeth und Rinke."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/for-sale-a-cipher-from-wwii
Atlas Obscura
For Sale: A Tricky Cipher Machine From WWII
Attention, tinkerers: It's still solvable.
Tre libri di fantascienza italiani per l’estate - Il mio articolo di buone letture fantascientifiche scritto per Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/08/libri-fantascienza-italiani-estate/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/08/libri-fantascienza-italiani-estate/
Fumettologica
3 libri di fantascienza italiani per l’estate - Fumettologica
Consigli per un’estate di letture di fantascienza italiane. Forse non tutte recentissime o canoniche, però comunque interessanti e di valore.
La Guerra dei mondi, intesa come sceneggiato radiofonico di Orson Welles, ha cambiato (o meglio: svelato) il mondo della comunicazione. In una maniera che non è per niente positiva, bisogna aggiungere. Due parole: fake news.
Money quote: "In short, by the 1930s, radio had become more trusted than newspapers. Part of the reason was its unique intimacy, and its ability to put you in the centre of an unfolding event without a reporting gap; craven newspapermen could insert their own slant, it appeared, but radio could not. The trust placed in radio also came from the trueness of the sounds it reproduced.
Any conversation about radio’s potential was also a conversation about how Americans listened – and the degree to which radio could persuade them that what they heard was real. ‘Radio has already given sound a wide currency, and sound “effects” are taking the place once enjoyed by sound itself,’ wrote E B White in Harper’s Magazine in 1938. ‘In sufficient accumulation, radio sounds and television sights might become more familiar to us than their originals,’ rendering the solid world make-believe."
https://aeon.co/essays/a-radio-play-about-radio-that-became-the-first-fake-news-story
Money quote: "In short, by the 1930s, radio had become more trusted than newspapers. Part of the reason was its unique intimacy, and its ability to put you in the centre of an unfolding event without a reporting gap; craven newspapermen could insert their own slant, it appeared, but radio could not. The trust placed in radio also came from the trueness of the sounds it reproduced.
Any conversation about radio’s potential was also a conversation about how Americans listened – and the degree to which radio could persuade them that what they heard was real. ‘Radio has already given sound a wide currency, and sound “effects” are taking the place once enjoyed by sound itself,’ wrote E B White in Harper’s Magazine in 1938. ‘In sufficient accumulation, radio sounds and television sights might become more familiar to us than their originals,’ rendering the solid world make-believe."
https://aeon.co/essays/a-radio-play-about-radio-that-became-the-first-fake-news-story
Aeon
A radio play about radio that became the first fake-news story | Aeon Essays
The uncanny realism of Orson Welles’s radio play crystallised a fear of communication technology that haunts us today
Il 30 novembre di due anni fa, cioè un paio di giorni dopo la mia partenza da Las Vegas, un A320 della Frontier Airlines (low cost americana) ha perso la copertura di un motore dopo il decollo da quello stesso aeroporto. Identificato il problema, è tornato a terra senza nessuna conseguenza se non il ritardo per i passeggeri. Qui di seguito, 10 minuti e 11 secondi di puro data journalism, o non saprei come altro definirlo. Il video con l'audio della controllo del traffico aereo locale e gli schemi di quel che sta succedendo, animati in tempo reale. Fantastico! Altro che i video "rubati" dal Corriere e da Repubblica.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYNanAZlxyk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYNanAZlxyk
YouTube
Frontier A320 LOSES PART OF THE ENGINE COWLING departing Las Vegas!
Musica e stress. Canzoni da ascoltare. A parte Enya (ve la ricordate?) la maggior parte sono da suicidio.
Money quote: "The study was conducted on participants who attempted to solve difficult puzzles as quickly as possible while connected to sensors. The puzzles induced a certain level of stress, and participants listened to different songs while researchers measured brain activity as well as physiological states that included heart rate, blood pressure, and rate of breathing."
https://www.fastcompany.com/90274251/song-reduces-anxiety-neuroscience
Money quote: "The study was conducted on participants who attempted to solve difficult puzzles as quickly as possible while connected to sensors. The puzzles induced a certain level of stress, and participants listened to different songs while researchers measured brain activity as well as physiological states that included heart rate, blood pressure, and rate of breathing."
https://www.fastcompany.com/90274251/song-reduces-anxiety-neuroscience
Fast Company
Neuroscience says listening to this song reduces anxiety by up to 65%
Sound therapies have long been used to help us cope.
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Il ritorno di Legs Weaver: un’anteprima del nuovo fumetto.
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Accettare le critiche altrui è sempre un problema. Per alcuni, un trauma. Diciamo che Internet, con i social (ma, nel mio piccolo, anche con i commenti agli articoli online) ha trasformato radicalmente tutto questo mondo. Il dolore è palpabile.
Money quote: "The only way to totally avoid criticism is to simply not let anybody find out that you exist. As soon as you start putting your face, name, writing, or actions out into the world, people will have opinions about you. Nobody, no matter how wildly successful, is universally beloved. Haters gonna hate."
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-emotionally-detach-from-criticism-1830740583
Money quote: "The only way to totally avoid criticism is to simply not let anybody find out that you exist. As soon as you start putting your face, name, writing, or actions out into the world, people will have opinions about you. Nobody, no matter how wildly successful, is universally beloved. Haters gonna hate."
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-emotionally-detach-from-criticism-1830740583
Lifehacker
How to Emotionally Detach From Criticism
You’ll never make everybody happy—and the people that aren’t happy are liable to tell you why. Criticism is part of the price of being human. But even though we know that, it’s hard to deal when the negative stuff starts rolling in. Share an opinion on the…
Il declino dell’arte di élite e l’ascesa dei media digitali - il mio articolo per Anobii
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/08/21/il-declino-dellarte-di-elite-e-lascesa-dei-media-digitali/
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/08/21/il-declino-dellarte-di-elite-e-lascesa-dei-media-digitali/
Anobii Blog
Il declino dell'arte di élite e l'ascesa dei media digitali - Anobii Blog
Un viaggio con Jay David Bolter e il suo libro "Digital Plenitude" per capire la cultura di oggi
Domani è domenica. Sto dando gli ultimi ritocchi alla mia newsletter Mostly Weekly. Volete sapere chi ha vinto la guerra per controllare il web? Abbonatevi qui e domani ve lo dico: https://tinyletter.com/MostlyIWrite
Nel ventre molle dell'autoaiuto ci sono alcuni settori letteralmente sotto la cintura: colpi proibiti perché vanno sempre a segno. Tipo: come fare a educare dei figli capaci di resistere alle cose brutte della vita? Ditemi quale giovane genitore può ignorare un titolo del genere...
Money quote: "The worst thing parents can do, says Morin, is rescue their kids too much. Such actions prevent kids from learning how to act on their own. In other words, the parents who teach their kids that hard work is a necessary part of life, and sometimes that hard work is really hard are the ones who raise well-adjusted kids."
https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/build-resilient-kids-prepared-for-life/
Money quote: "The worst thing parents can do, says Morin, is rescue their kids too much. Such actions prevent kids from learning how to act on their own. In other words, the parents who teach their kids that hard work is a necessary part of life, and sometimes that hard work is really hard are the ones who raise well-adjusted kids."
https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/build-resilient-kids-prepared-for-life/
Fatherly
If You Want Resilient Kids, Always Do These 8 Things
Letting your kids fail and talking to them about it goes a long way.
Forwarded from Riccardo
Ventoy 1.019 è l'ultima versione del sistema per creare dischi USB avviabili senza masterizzare la ISO/IMG o quel che è ma, semplicemente, copiando l'immagine dentro. E se ci metto più ISO? Fa da solo un menu di selezione. Funziona anche con quella sciagura chiamata UEFI.
Uscita giorni fa su Hacker News, io la leggo solo adesso. Da provare.
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
Uscita giorni fa su Hacker News, io la leggo solo adesso. Da provare.
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
Piccoli misteri della vita: le gallery del Post (una delle pochissime testate generaliste ad aver portato una “buona” cultura dell’immagine), sono super-scomode da vedere con l’iPad.
https://www.ilpost.it/2020/08/22/weekly-beasts-321/
https://www.ilpost.it/2020/08/22/weekly-beasts-321/
Il Post
Weekly Beasts
Un piccolo entello, due cerve del Giappone e tre cercopitechi dorati, tra gli animali più fotogenici della settimana
La sindrome dell’ADHD (Disturbo da deficit di attenzione e iperattività) è un problema. Anche perché sta diventando una epidemia, ma evidentemente c'è da chiedersi come venga diagnosticata. C'è in tutto questo una vena di follia neanche troppo sotterranea.
Money quote: "The rate of diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among children has nearly doubled in the past two decades. Rates of A.D.H.D. diagnoses also vary considerably across states, with nearly three times as many children getting the diagnosis in Kentucky (where one in five children are said to have the condition) as in Nevada. More than 5 percent of all children in the United States now take an A.D.H.D. medication. All this raises the question of whether the disease is being overdiagnosed."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/opinion/august-birthdays-adhd.html
Money quote: "The rate of diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among children has nearly doubled in the past two decades. Rates of A.D.H.D. diagnoses also vary considerably across states, with nearly three times as many children getting the diagnosis in Kentucky (where one in five children are said to have the condition) as in Nevada. More than 5 percent of all children in the United States now take an A.D.H.D. medication. All this raises the question of whether the disease is being overdiagnosed."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/opinion/august-birthdays-adhd.html
NY Times
Opinion | The Link Between August Birthdays and A.D.H.D. (Published 2018)
A new study raises questions about age, maturity and overdiagnosis.
Gioco dell'estate: Apple deve fare un MacBook SE? - Il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/gioco-dellestate-apple-deve-fare-un-macbook-se/
https://www.macitynet.it/gioco-dellestate-apple-deve-fare-un-macbook-se/
Macitynet.it
Gioco dell’estate: Apple deve fare un MacBook SE?
Dopo l'arrivo dell'iPhone SE Apple avrebbe convenienza a fare anche un MacBook SE? In un gioco per l'estate proviamo ad immaginare come potrebbe essere...
Iniziamo la settimana con qualcosa di leggero. Le mummie dei bambini Inca, drogati e sacrificati agli dei per proteggere la comunità, non sono concettualmente lontani da quel che succedeva in Europa migliaia di anni fa. La ricostruzione delle mummie dei bambini Inca che hanno fatto gli archeologi è però impressionante.
Money quote: “ The act made by the Inca people of sacrificing their own children was to show the Gods that they are ready to give everything they have or what is most valuable in order to be offered good faith (peace and good health).”
https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/the-inca-children-who-were-given-cocaine-before-being-sacrificed-78a222265a13
Money quote: “ The act made by the Inca people of sacrificing their own children was to show the Gods that they are ready to give everything they have or what is most valuable in order to be offered good faith (peace and good health).”
https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/the-inca-children-who-were-given-cocaine-before-being-sacrificed-78a222265a13
Medium
The Inca Children Who Were Given Cocaine Before Being Sacrificed
Sacrifice in dire times
Apple, la festa è finita? - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-la-festa-e-finita/
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-la-festa-e-finita/
macitynet.it
Apple, la festa è finita?
Apple
Un favoloso articolo di Vanity Fair che indaga un fenomeno critico per la upper class americana: durante la pandemia un sacco di newyorkesi sono rimasti bloccati a casa di amici che vivono negli Hamptons (la zona figa di New York City) e non se ne vogliono andare più via neanche adesso che il lockdown è stato fortemente ridotto.
Money quote: “Nightmare houseguests are a Hamptons staple and complaining about them behind their backs is basically a sport. But this summer, many are yearning for the old days, when a guest leaving a wet towel on the floor or eating the last serving of lobster salad was as bad as it got. Because while much of the New York City lockdown has now been lifted, a recent unscientific survey of New York–area hosts with pandemic-squatting friends suggested that a fair amount of houseguests are continuing to outstay their welcomes.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/08/a-plague-of-hamptons-pandemic-houseguests-who-wont-leave
Money quote: “Nightmare houseguests are a Hamptons staple and complaining about them behind their backs is basically a sport. But this summer, many are yearning for the old days, when a guest leaving a wet towel on the floor or eating the last serving of lobster salad was as bad as it got. Because while much of the New York City lockdown has now been lifted, a recent unscientific survey of New York–area hosts with pandemic-squatting friends suggested that a fair amount of houseguests are continuing to outstay their welcomes.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/08/a-plague-of-hamptons-pandemic-houseguests-who-wont-leave
Vanity Fair
From the Hamptons to the Shore, a Plague of Pandemic Houseguests Who Won’t Leave
Single people lucky enough to ride out COVID-19 lockdowns with friends with summer houses have found it difficult to go back home, and the homeowners aren’t sure how to kick them out either.
Nature pubblica una interessante analisi dell’andamento del coronavirus e degli scenari futuri. Ad esempio, il rischio che ogni sei mesi sia necessario sviluppare un nuovo vaccino, come accade per l’influenza o altre malattie “stagionali”. Ma il cuore della risposta è sociale, ovviamente. Qui ci sono esempi, modelli, ragionamenti e previsioni. Io mi chiedo però il distanziamento, ad esempio nelle scuole, quali conseguenze porti per altri tipi di malattie: i bambini all’asilo passano attraverso cicli comuni di influenze, raffreddori, malattie esantematiche. (Sono chiamati “mocciosi” non a caso). Creare ambienti in cui questo non accade più che conseguenze ha per il loro sistema immunitario? In questo articolo non trovate la risposta, pero me lo chiedo.
Money quote: “June 2021. The world has been in pandemic mode for a year and a half. The virus continues to spread at a slow burn; intermittent lockdowns are the new normal. An approved vaccine offers six months of protection, but international deal-making has slowed its distribution. An estimated 250 million people have been infected worldwide, and 1.75 million are dead.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02278-5
Money quote: “June 2021. The world has been in pandemic mode for a year and a half. The virus continues to spread at a slow burn; intermittent lockdowns are the new normal. An approved vaccine offers six months of protection, but international deal-making has slowed its distribution. An estimated 250 million people have been infected worldwide, and 1.75 million are dead.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02278-5
Nature
How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond
Nature - This coronavirus is here for the long haul — here’s what scientists predict for the next months and years.
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Oggi, 20 anni fa, moriva Carl Barks, uno dei più influenti autori Disney e non solo. Ma cosa è rimasto della sua opera nei fumetti contemporanei?
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