La creatività è un progetto (andate a leggervi Munari)
Money quote: “My father told me that the design process started with the abstract, moved to the concept and then finally the design. So I used to use these three words, back in the day, to convey the process of design to my unsuspecting clients. It wasn’t as effective – even if I knew what it meant. So I found myself saying, “Here- it looks like this…” and drawing the squiggle.”
https://revisionlab.wordpress.com/that-squiggle-of-the-design-process/
Money quote: “My father told me that the design process started with the abstract, moved to the concept and then finally the design. So I used to use these three words, back in the day, to convey the process of design to my unsuspecting clients. It wasn’t as effective – even if I knew what it meant. So I found myself saying, “Here- it looks like this…” and drawing the squiggle.”
https://revisionlab.wordpress.com/that-squiggle-of-the-design-process/
ReVision Lab
That Squiggle of the Design Process
The Process of Design from a great height. by Damien Newman Years ago I dropped a simple illustration into a proposal to convey the design process to a client. It was meant to illustrate the charac…
È morto lo scrittore di fantascienza Vittorio Catani - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/11/morto-vito-catani-fantascienza/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/11/morto-vito-catani-fantascienza/
Fumettologica
È morto lo scrittore di fantascienza Vittorio Catani
È morto a 80 anni Vittorio Catani, uno dei più importanti e storici autori della fantascienza italiana, primo vincitore del Premio Urania.
Contenuti per adulti (espliciti) per ebrei ortodossi. Il mercato alle volte è folle in maniera esplicita (pun intended)
Money quote: “The scenario sounds tame, like a video you might produce by accidentally opening your phone’s camera while changing your clothes, but it’s actually anything but. It’s one of the many videos and photos posted by FrumVids, a porn site that caters to the devout Jewish, or “frum,” community.”
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/jewish-porn-frum-orthodox-nude-women-nsfw
Money quote: “The scenario sounds tame, like a video you might produce by accidentally opening your phone’s camera while changing your clothes, but it’s actually anything but. It’s one of the many videos and photos posted by FrumVids, a porn site that caters to the devout Jewish, or “frum,” community.”
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/jewish-porn-frum-orthodox-nude-women-nsfw
MEL Magazine
The Secret, High-Risk World of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Porn
In the frum community, porn and masturbation are banned and disdained. Still, a small group of amateur pornographers are risking it all to turn their neighbors on
iPhone 12 Pro Max, la recensione fatta dai fotografi – la mia prova (corale) per Wired
https://www.wired.it/mobile/smartphone/2020/11/27/recensione-iphone-12-pro-max/
https://www.wired.it/mobile/smartphone/2020/11/27/recensione-iphone-12-pro-max/
WIRED.IT
iPhone 12 Pro Max, la recensione fatta dai fotografi
Come scatta il "grande" della nuova famiglia degli iPhone 12 Pro? Lo abbiamo chiesto a 4 fotografi e a un programmatore. E abbiamo scoperto che è un apparecchio completamente diverso dai suoi fratelli più piccoli
Questo tizio che scrive è uno da seguire con attenzione, perché il suo libro “ il paradosso della scelta” era una bomba. E questo ragionamento che troppa efficienza non faccia bene ancora di più.
Money quote: “A decade ago, the American psychologist Adam Grant and I argued in a journal paper that this ‘too much of a good thing’ phenomenon might be a general rule. Some motivation produces excellent performance; too much motivation produces choking. Some group collaboration produces cohesion and enhances productivity; too much of it leads to staleness. Some empathy enables you to understand what another person is going through; too much could prevent you from saying and doing hard things”
https://psyche.co/ideas/why-efficiency-is-dangerous-and-slowing-down-makes-life-better
Money quote: “A decade ago, the American psychologist Adam Grant and I argued in a journal paper that this ‘too much of a good thing’ phenomenon might be a general rule. Some motivation produces excellent performance; too much motivation produces choking. Some group collaboration produces cohesion and enhances productivity; too much of it leads to staleness. Some empathy enables you to understand what another person is going through; too much could prevent you from saying and doing hard things”
https://psyche.co/ideas/why-efficiency-is-dangerous-and-slowing-down-makes-life-better
Psyche
Why efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better
The urge to do everything faster and better is risky. Far wiser to do what’s good enough for the range of possible futures
Intanto, gimp compie un quarto di secolo. Mamma mia…
Money quote: “Exactly 25 years ago, Peter Mattis wrote a message to several newsgroups announcing a new image editor called GIMP.”
https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/11/21/25-years-of-gimp/
Money quote: “Exactly 25 years ago, Peter Mattis wrote a message to several newsgroups announcing a new image editor called GIMP.”
https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/11/21/25-years-of-gimp/
www.gimp.org
GIMP - This is 25
Exactly 25 years ago, Peter Mattis wrote a message to several newsgroups announcing a new image editor called GIMP.
Ci sono motivi per credere che la pandemia non durerà per sempre (ma va!) e che neanche il lavoro tutto da remoto sarà il futuro (pensa te).
Money quote: “Right now, while many tech companies still have a predominantly remote workforce, often times important conversations are happening on Slack in channels accessible to anyone at the company. But when some people return to the office, a significant portion of those conversations are going to be moved off of Slack to in-person meetings, removing important context for remote workers.”
https://medium.com/swlh/remote-work-wont-last-e6fd9b82eb7f
Money quote: “Right now, while many tech companies still have a predominantly remote workforce, often times important conversations are happening on Slack in channels accessible to anyone at the company. But when some people return to the office, a significant portion of those conversations are going to be moved off of Slack to in-person meetings, removing important context for remote workers.”
https://medium.com/swlh/remote-work-wont-last-e6fd9b82eb7f
Medium
3 Reasons Remote Work Won’t Last
Working from home has an Achilles heel that no one is talking about
C'è anche a chi ancora manca il mini jack audio nel telefono. Una certa ragione secondo me ce l'ha. Ho ritrovato questo articolo di un tot di tempo che ancora ragionava di quando gli ultimi amanti del jack audio ancora ce l'avevano (e l'emozione nel momento in cui stavano per toglierlo)
Money quote: "In an industry where a CEO can’t order a quinoa bowl without checking how Apple did it first, the 3.5 mm jack disappeared from mid-tier and high-end smartphones almost overnight. Google ditched it. HTC ditched it. Motorola ditched it. Huawei ditched it. Xiaomi ditched it. Sony ditched it. Nokia (they’re still kinda around, yeah!) ditched it. To this day, LG and Samsung are the only two sizable companies to stand their ground and keep the technology around–but rumor has it even Samsung will abandon the 3.5 mm jack in the upcoming Galaxy Note 10, too."
https://www.fastcompany.com/90270691/i-still-miss-my-headphone-jack-and-i-want-it-back
Money quote: "In an industry where a CEO can’t order a quinoa bowl without checking how Apple did it first, the 3.5 mm jack disappeared from mid-tier and high-end smartphones almost overnight. Google ditched it. HTC ditched it. Motorola ditched it. Huawei ditched it. Xiaomi ditched it. Sony ditched it. Nokia (they’re still kinda around, yeah!) ditched it. To this day, LG and Samsung are the only two sizable companies to stand their ground and keep the technology around–but rumor has it even Samsung will abandon the 3.5 mm jack in the upcoming Galaxy Note 10, too."
https://www.fastcompany.com/90270691/i-still-miss-my-headphone-jack-and-i-want-it-back
Fast Company
I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
Hear my plea, Apple.
Forwarded from Social&Positive News - L'informazione che fa bene
⚖️🛍 #EconomiaSolidale #Carcere #Lavoro
Stamani torno su un tema che mi sta molto a cuore, gli acquisti etici e solidali. Dopo il post della scorsa settimana, voglio presentarvi una piattaforma davvero speciale: EconomiaCarceraria.com, il primo e-commerce dedicato ai prodotti realizzati all’interno degli istituti di pena.
Tutto nasce nel 2018 in occasione del primo Festival Nazionale dell’Economia Carceraria, promosso a Roma dall’Associazione Semi (di) Libertà. Qui cooperative e imprese che danno lavoro a persone detenute decidono di mettersi in rete e fondare il network Economia Carceraria che raccoglie 13 realtà d’impresa che operano all’interno di altrettante carceri italiane. Scopo del network unire le forze e creare opportunità di lavoro e spazi di mercato per i prodotti realizzati da detenuti e detenute.
Dal caffè prodotto nella Casa circondariale femminile di Pozzuoli al vino del carcere di Alba, dalle marmellate del carcere di Vasto alla panetteria dell’Istituto Penale Minorile “Malaspina” di Palermo, alla pasta dell’Ucciardone. E poi torroni, cioccolate, frutta secca, birra e, in occasione del Natale, bellissimi cesti natalizi. Non solo. Sul sito di Economia Carceraria si possono acquistare anche le magliette JailFree, realizzate a Roma da ex detenuti e detenuti in esecuzione penale esterna.
Con un paio di click e pochi euro potete comprare prodotti che sono buoni due volte: perché di qualità e perché ”realizzati da persone che, attraverso il proprio lavoro, correggono traiettorie di vita”.
Se poi abitate Roma potete scoprire di persona i tanti prodotti di Economia Carceraria recandovi in uno dei due punti vendita.
Stamani torno su un tema che mi sta molto a cuore, gli acquisti etici e solidali. Dopo il post della scorsa settimana, voglio presentarvi una piattaforma davvero speciale: EconomiaCarceraria.com, il primo e-commerce dedicato ai prodotti realizzati all’interno degli istituti di pena.
Tutto nasce nel 2018 in occasione del primo Festival Nazionale dell’Economia Carceraria, promosso a Roma dall’Associazione Semi (di) Libertà. Qui cooperative e imprese che danno lavoro a persone detenute decidono di mettersi in rete e fondare il network Economia Carceraria che raccoglie 13 realtà d’impresa che operano all’interno di altrettante carceri italiane. Scopo del network unire le forze e creare opportunità di lavoro e spazi di mercato per i prodotti realizzati da detenuti e detenute.
Dal caffè prodotto nella Casa circondariale femminile di Pozzuoli al vino del carcere di Alba, dalle marmellate del carcere di Vasto alla panetteria dell’Istituto Penale Minorile “Malaspina” di Palermo, alla pasta dell’Ucciardone. E poi torroni, cioccolate, frutta secca, birra e, in occasione del Natale, bellissimi cesti natalizi. Non solo. Sul sito di Economia Carceraria si possono acquistare anche le magliette JailFree, realizzate a Roma da ex detenuti e detenuti in esecuzione penale esterna.
Con un paio di click e pochi euro potete comprare prodotti che sono buoni due volte: perché di qualità e perché ”realizzati da persone che, attraverso il proprio lavoro, correggono traiettorie di vita”.
Se poi abitate Roma potete scoprire di persona i tanti prodotti di Economia Carceraria recandovi in uno dei due punti vendita.
Vorrei che questa cosa - che io ho letto subito dopo pranzo - non la leggeste a pancia piena o mentre mangiate. Invece, riflettete (a stomaco vuoto) sul fatto che il cibo del futuro farà ancora più schifo di quanto non sia possibile concepire oggi.
Money quote: "Chinese cities are generating more food waste than they can handle with landfills, so now in the city of Jinan, farms with a billion cockroaches are fed 50 tons of food waste daily through pipes. These cockroaches are then used as pig feed. It's illegal to use food waste directly as pig feed due to African swine fever outbreaks. Thus, the solution is to use cockroaches as an intermediate step. A farmer asked about cockroaches escaping said "We have a moat filled with water and fish. If the cockroaches escape, they will fall into the moat and the fish will eat them all." Enjoy your breakfast!"
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/bug-business-cockroaches-corralled-by-the-millions-in-china-to-crunch-waste
Money quote: "Chinese cities are generating more food waste than they can handle with landfills, so now in the city of Jinan, farms with a billion cockroaches are fed 50 tons of food waste daily through pipes. These cockroaches are then used as pig feed. It's illegal to use food waste directly as pig feed due to African swine fever outbreaks. Thus, the solution is to use cockroaches as an intermediate step. A farmer asked about cockroaches escaping said "We have a moat filled with water and fish. If the cockroaches escape, they will fall into the moat and the fish will eat them all." Enjoy your breakfast!"
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/bug-business-cockroaches-corralled-by-the-millions-in-china-to-crunch-waste
World Economic Forum
Billions of cockroaches are being farmed in China to tackle food waste
In rapidly expanding cities in China, more food waste is produced than can be stored in landfill. It is fed to cockroaches instead.
Forwarded from Riccardo
È tutto online. Forse è troppo tecnica e poco pratica, ma ho solo seguito il divertimento.
"Ragionare sul MacBook Pro 13 con Apple M1 porta ad una tempesta di idee e di conseguenze, oltre che a tutta una serie di grafici gustosi e affascinanti."
Recensione finale: https://riccardo.im/recensioni/apple-macbook-pro-13-m1/
"Ragionare sul MacBook Pro 13 con Apple M1 porta ad una tempesta di idee e di conseguenze, oltre che a tutta una serie di grafici gustosi e affascinanti."
Recensione finale: https://riccardo.im/recensioni/apple-macbook-pro-13-m1/
"Lo apolítico no existe", la recensione ddl libro su Página12
Money quote: “"La felicidad es un invento del capitalismo, Susana. Yo le ofrezco un amor modesto pero sincero, de centro izquierda", le confiesa un personaje a una posible pareja. Esas son algunas de las viñetas que se pueden encontrar en Todo es político! (Hotel de ideas), el nuevo libro del humorista gráfico Tute que llegará en diciembre a las librerías”
https://www.pagina12.com.ar/309053-tute-lo-apolitico-no-existe
Money quote: “"La felicidad es un invento del capitalismo, Susana. Yo le ofrezco un amor modesto pero sincero, de centro izquierda", le confiesa un personaje a una posible pareja. Esas son algunas de las viñetas que se pueden encontrar en Todo es político! (Hotel de ideas), el nuevo libro del humorista gráfico Tute que llegará en diciembre a las librerías”
https://www.pagina12.com.ar/309053-tute-lo-apolitico-no-existe
PAGINA12
Tute: "Lo apolítico no existe" | El dibujante publicó un nuevo libro de humor
"Los cuatro años de gobierno macrista son un poco la razón de este libro", argumenta Matías Loiseau, que en los últimos años fue encontrando nuevos mecanismos para que el humor "construya puentes hacia el sentido."
Addio a Ben Bova, uno degli ultimi grandi della fantascienza americana - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/12/ben-bova-morto-fantascienza/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/12/ben-bova-morto-fantascienza/
Fumettologica
Addio a Ben Bova, uno degli ultimi grandi della fantascienza americana
Ben Bova, tra i più importanti scrittori di fantascienza e sei volte vincitore del Premio Hugo, è morto a causa del Covid-19 all'età di 88 anni.
Secondo me non è neanche assurdo che si utilizzi il riconoscimento dei volti per beccare persone pericolose in ambienti pubblici. Ti immagini: la polizia o qualche forma di Gestapo di un regime totalitarista. Ci sta. Ma che sia Taylor Swift a farlo per beccare gli stalker con il riconoscimento automatico dei volti durante i suoi concerti - e che la cantante abbia anche un database di centinaia di questi tizi - lo trovo sconcertante.
Money quote: "Taylor Swift is now using facial recognition at her concerts to scan crowds to find potential stalkers. She has hundreds of stalkers in a database, data was streamed from the Rose Bowl to a "command post" in Nashville to monitor. This is permitted because concerts are technically private events."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137984/taylor-swift-facial-recognition-tech-concert-attendees-stalkers
Money quote: "Taylor Swift is now using facial recognition at her concerts to scan crowds to find potential stalkers. She has hundreds of stalkers in a database, data was streamed from the Rose Bowl to a "command post" in Nashville to monitor. This is permitted because concerts are technically private events."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137984/taylor-swift-facial-recognition-tech-concert-attendees-stalkers
The Verge
Taylor Swift tracked stalkers with facial recognition tech at her concert
Swift was scanning you as you walked in
Sono poche le cose che hanno definito il 900 rispetto al secolo che l'ha preceduto. È stato nel XIX secolo infatti che abbiamo costruito buona parte di quello che è la nostra società contemporanea, adesso sottoposta a mio avviso e per la prima volta da duecento anni a una vera, grande torsione trasformativa per via delle tecnologie digitali e di rete.
Invece, il 900 ha visto pochi cambiamenti in profondità paragonabili a quello che ha interessato la scoperta del corpo delle persone durante la Prima guerra mondiale.
Money quote: "The doctors who identified this new human body saw an organism that organises itself, regulates itself, integrates itself, yet was extremely brittle. It was marked by fragility buried under the skin. It shattered easily, even worked against itself. The great number of injured and maimed bodies enabled doctors to create new kinds of medicine, physiology and psychiatry. In doing so, they also helped to foster a new language of politics and the welfare state.
Hints of this new conception of the body were present before the war, but when tens of thousands of soldiers returned with visible and invisible injuries, disordered hearts and broken psyches, it forced medicine to change too"
Money quote 2: "Until about 1900, physiologists discussed the body on a part-by-part basis: the stomach, the lungs, the muscles, the eyes. With the discovery of hormones in 1905 and the first attempts to explain the organisation of the nervous system, organs and regions of the body seemed to merge. Research on them gave a place to work on the processes by which the body regulated itself. Pioneers such as Walter B Cannon at Harvard Medical School and Ernest Starling at University College London explained this regulation on the basis of human evolution. Over millions of years, fluids, reflex arcs and emotions had transformed, helping human bodies to adapt internally by developing more complex responses to external threats.
The war amplified this talk of integration: it distributed and buried wounds deep in the flesh. By 1916, groups of English and American scholars were perplexed by the disparate ways in which patients suffered and died. Many medical scientists created exhaustive case histories of patients – Elmer E Southard in Boston wrote a 1,000-page book with some 600 of them – that couldn’t be readily understood through the panoply of established disorders. An editorial in The Lancet in 1916 lamented that, just as in the fields of eastern France, a ‘no man’s land’ had opened up in medicine."
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-first-world-war-gave-medicine-a-new-body-of-evidence
Invece, il 900 ha visto pochi cambiamenti in profondità paragonabili a quello che ha interessato la scoperta del corpo delle persone durante la Prima guerra mondiale.
Money quote: "The doctors who identified this new human body saw an organism that organises itself, regulates itself, integrates itself, yet was extremely brittle. It was marked by fragility buried under the skin. It shattered easily, even worked against itself. The great number of injured and maimed bodies enabled doctors to create new kinds of medicine, physiology and psychiatry. In doing so, they also helped to foster a new language of politics and the welfare state.
Hints of this new conception of the body were present before the war, but when tens of thousands of soldiers returned with visible and invisible injuries, disordered hearts and broken psyches, it forced medicine to change too"
Money quote 2: "Until about 1900, physiologists discussed the body on a part-by-part basis: the stomach, the lungs, the muscles, the eyes. With the discovery of hormones in 1905 and the first attempts to explain the organisation of the nervous system, organs and regions of the body seemed to merge. Research on them gave a place to work on the processes by which the body regulated itself. Pioneers such as Walter B Cannon at Harvard Medical School and Ernest Starling at University College London explained this regulation on the basis of human evolution. Over millions of years, fluids, reflex arcs and emotions had transformed, helping human bodies to adapt internally by developing more complex responses to external threats.
The war amplified this talk of integration: it distributed and buried wounds deep in the flesh. By 1916, groups of English and American scholars were perplexed by the disparate ways in which patients suffered and died. Many medical scientists created exhaustive case histories of patients – Elmer E Southard in Boston wrote a 1,000-page book with some 600 of them – that couldn’t be readily understood through the panoply of established disorders. An editorial in The Lancet in 1916 lamented that, just as in the fields of eastern France, a ‘no man’s land’ had opened up in medicine."
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-first-world-war-gave-medicine-a-new-body-of-evidence
Aeon
The maimed and the healing
The casualties of the First World War brought a new understanding of human fragility and wholeness
Qui si lavora alacremente (insomma Riccardo lavora alacremente, io sto finendo altre cose). Comunque, c’è una tilde che si sta avvicinando