I migliori libri sulla Open Innovation - La mia selezione per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-sulla-open-innovation/
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-sulla-open-innovation/
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I migliori libri sulla Open Innovation
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A quanto pare quelli di 1Password, che a lungo è stato l'orgoglio del mondo Mac, stanno facendo un disastro
Money quote:
"The issues are twofold:
1Password 8 will become subscription-only, thus removing the option to buy it outright; and
they’ve moved the app over to something called Electron."
https://medium.com/macoclock/the-1password-disaster-and-two-brilliant-1password-alternatives-c9adc2d7ae44
Money quote:
"The issues are twofold:
1Password 8 will become subscription-only, thus removing the option to buy it outright; and
they’ve moved the app over to something called Electron."
https://medium.com/macoclock/the-1password-disaster-and-two-brilliant-1password-alternatives-c9adc2d7ae44
Medium
The 1Password Disaster (And Two Brilliant 1Password Alternatives)
What’s happened to the world’s most-loved password manager?
Forwarded from Scrivere zen
Un’idea di poesia https://www.facebook.com/100044148292215/posts/392204562261150/?d=n: “tutto quello che si forma dentro un essere umano è lingua, se ci pensi bene la casa di tutto è sempre una frase. La poesia è corpo che si affranca dal ronzio della lingua, è la strada per raggiungere il silenzio, la luce, le cose che stanno fuori di noi”🐚.
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Money quote: "Podcasts introductions. We have found introductions to podcasts–for ourselves and for clients– can more easily be produced using GPT-3. To make it even creepier, we have even tested AI-powered voice technology for the audio of the podcasts themselves. Imagine that, a entire podcast show where no humans create any of the content"
https://readwrite.com/2021/08/20/how-gpt-3-and-artificial-intelligence-will-destroy-the-internet/
Money quote: "Podcasts introductions. We have found introductions to podcasts–for ourselves and for clients– can more easily be produced using GPT-3. To make it even creepier, we have even tested AI-powered voice technology for the audio of the podcasts themselves. Imagine that, a entire podcast show where no humans create any of the content"
https://readwrite.com/2021/08/20/how-gpt-3-and-artificial-intelligence-will-destroy-the-internet/
ReadWrite
How GPT-3 and Artificial Intelligence Will Destroy the Internet - ReadWrite
GPT-3 holds great promise, but in the wrong hands, it could be more than just robots taking over the world. It could be just more garbage content online.
Apple, i 10 anni di Tim Cook da ad in 5 successi e 5 sconfitte - di solito non faccio queste classifiche ma per Wired ne è valsa la pena.
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2021/08/24/apple-tim-cook-ad-10-anni-successi-sconfitte/
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2021/08/24/apple-tim-cook-ad-10-anni-successi-sconfitte/
WIRED.IT
I 10 anni di Tim Cook a capo di Apple in 5 successi e 5 sconfitte
Il manager ha saputo far crescere l'azienda e conquistare nuove fette di mercato, ma non ha la visione di Jobs e la scommessa sulla privacy non gli ha risparmiato critiche
C'è un problema con Hugh Jackman. L'uomo universalmente noto per aver interpretato il muscolare Wolverine è in realtà un attore notevole, ma finora poco apprezzato. Adesso sta cercando di costruirsi una seconda metà di carriera molto interessante. Riuscirà a venire fuori?
Money quote: "Though Jackman’s first major starring role was in X-Men, he was originally plucked from the world of musical theater, where his boisterously chipper turn as Curly in a West End production of Oklahoma! had won him plaudits. So his film follow-ups to X-Men were on the gentler side: the overlooked romantic comedies Someone Like You, where he played a charming cad, and Kate & Leopold, which cast him as an English gentleman. In an earlier era, that was the typical strategy for a new male actor in demand: get him in a generic rom-com quickly, along with a generic action thriller (in this case, the nonsensical hacker flick Swordfish)."
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/08/hugh-jackman-underrated-hbo-reminiscence/619857/
Money quote: "Though Jackman’s first major starring role was in X-Men, he was originally plucked from the world of musical theater, where his boisterously chipper turn as Curly in a West End production of Oklahoma! had won him plaudits. So his film follow-ups to X-Men were on the gentler side: the overlooked romantic comedies Someone Like You, where he played a charming cad, and Kate & Leopold, which cast him as an English gentleman. In an earlier era, that was the typical strategy for a new male actor in demand: get him in a generic rom-com quickly, along with a generic action thriller (in this case, the nonsensical hacker flick Swordfish)."
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/08/hugh-jackman-underrated-hbo-reminiscence/619857/
The Atlantic
Why Is Hugh Jackman Still Underappreciated?
He can sing, rage, and plumb surprisingly dark depths. In "Reminiscence," he also displays a continued embrace of his age.
Sull'importanza dell'ottimismo
Money quote: "Optimism is our instinct to inhale while suffocating. Our need to declare what “needs to be” in the face of what is. Optimism is not uncool; it is rebellious and daring and vital."
http://time.com/5520554/guillermo-del-toro-radical-optimism/
Money quote: "Optimism is our instinct to inhale while suffocating. Our need to declare what “needs to be” in the face of what is. Optimism is not uncool; it is rebellious and daring and vital."
http://time.com/5520554/guillermo-del-toro-radical-optimism/
TIME
The Most Radical and Rebellious Choice You Can Make Is to Be Optimistic
'It is the hard choice, the brave choice'
Se anziché cercare di fare gli imprenditori della nostra vita, per una volta cercassimo di essere scienziati della nostra esistenza?
Money quote: "When a scientist runs an experiment, there are all sorts of results that could happen. Some results are positive and some are negative, but all of them are data points. Each result is a piece of data that can ultimately lead to an answer.
And that’s exactly how a scientist treats failure: as another data point."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/treat-failure-like-a-scientist
Money quote: "When a scientist runs an experiment, there are all sorts of results that could happen. Some results are positive and some are negative, but all of them are data points. Each result is a piece of data that can ultimately lead to an answer.
And that’s exactly how a scientist treats failure: as another data point."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/treat-failure-like-a-scientist
Pocket
Treat Failure Like a Scientist
Go beyond learning from your mistakes.
Gli americani con Joe Biden stanno entrando una fase di crisi piuttosto intensa e carsica. Rimettono in discussione molto cose perché Donald Trump era talmente sopra le righe da coprire il vero problema. Che non era lui ma il mondo che cambia radicalmente.
Adesso gli americani, dopo averlo criticato per decenni, si chiedono: e se avessero ragione i francesi?
Money quote: "“Buy Taiwan, hold Italy, sell France” advised Thomas Friedman in The Lexus and the Olive Tree, his 1999 paean to liberal globalisation. Around the time of the Iraq War, the French were dismissed as “Old Europe” by Donald Rumsfeld, then the US secretary of defence, and “cheese eating surrender monkeys” elsewhere. “If the French social model is so great, why is the country in flames?” sighed Peter Mandelson in 2005 as riots gripped Parisian suburbs."
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2021/08/why-world-becoming-more-french
Adesso gli americani, dopo averlo criticato per decenni, si chiedono: e se avessero ragione i francesi?
Money quote: "“Buy Taiwan, hold Italy, sell France” advised Thomas Friedman in The Lexus and the Olive Tree, his 1999 paean to liberal globalisation. Around the time of the Iraq War, the French were dismissed as “Old Europe” by Donald Rumsfeld, then the US secretary of defence, and “cheese eating surrender monkeys” elsewhere. “If the French social model is so great, why is the country in flames?” sighed Peter Mandelson in 2005 as riots gripped Parisian suburbs."
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2021/08/why-world-becoming-more-french
New Statesman
Why the world is becoming more French
From industrial policy and nuclear power to "strategic autonomy" and the 35-hour week, the 2020s are popularising many French instincts about world affairs and the state.
Il lato oscuro della Mela: una vecchia storia di Bloomberg ancora attuale (forse)
Money quote: "This building is as bland as the main Apple campus is striking. From the outside, there appears to be a reception area, but it’s unstaffed, which makes sense given that people working in this satellite office—mostly employees of Apple contractors working on Apple Maps—use the back door. Workers say managers instructed them to walk several blocks away before calling for a ride home. Several people who worked here say it’s widely referred to within Apple as a “black site,” as in a covert ops facility."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-11/apple-black-site-gives-contractors-few-perks-little-security
Money quote: "This building is as bland as the main Apple campus is striking. From the outside, there appears to be a reception area, but it’s unstaffed, which makes sense given that people working in this satellite office—mostly employees of Apple contractors working on Apple Maps—use the back door. Workers say managers instructed them to walk several blocks away before calling for a ride home. Several people who worked here say it’s widely referred to within Apple as a “black site,” as in a covert ops facility."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-11/apple-black-site-gives-contractors-few-perks-little-security
Bloomberg
What It’s Like to Work Inside Apple’s ‘Black Site’
Apple’s new campus in Cupertino, Calif., is a symbol of how the company views itself as an employer. But a group of Apple contractors finds another building, six miles away on Hammerwood Avenue in Sunnyvale, to be a more apt symbol.
Il mondo è un posto complicato. Anche l'idea che abbiamo di libertà, ad esempio, non è così semplice come sembra.
Money quote: "Could people even be coerced in the name of freedom?
The 20th-century political philosopher Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) thought that the answer to both these questions was ‘Yes’, and in his essay ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ (1958) he distinguished two kinds of freedom (or liberty; Berlin used the words interchangeably), which he called negative freedom and positive freedom."
https://aeon.co/ideas/tools-for-thinking-isaiah-berlins-two-concepts-of-freedom
Money quote: "Could people even be coerced in the name of freedom?
The 20th-century political philosopher Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) thought that the answer to both these questions was ‘Yes’, and in his essay ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ (1958) he distinguished two kinds of freedom (or liberty; Berlin used the words interchangeably), which he called negative freedom and positive freedom."
https://aeon.co/ideas/tools-for-thinking-isaiah-berlins-two-concepts-of-freedom
Aeon
Tools for thinking: Isaiah Berlin’s two concepts of freedom
Freedom from control by others vs freedom to control oneself: Isaiah Berlin’s concepts of negative and positive freedom
A cosa serve Tucidide
Money quote: "For Adams, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War contained within it insight of every possible “usefull” sort: “You will find it full of Instruction to the Orator, the Statesman, the General, as well as to the Historian and the Philosopher.”"
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/possession-all-time
Money quote: "For Adams, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War contained within it insight of every possible “usefull” sort: “You will find it full of Instruction to the Orator, the Statesman, the General, as well as to the Historian and the Philosopher.”"
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/possession-all-time
Lapham’s Quarterly
A Possession for All Time
How should we read Thucydides?
Sono stupito perché non solo ho trovato interessante ma anche sinceramente utile questo articolo su Medium che si presenta malissimo: ti insegno come si fanno le fotografie. Ebbene, c'è molto senso e buon senso, anche. L'estratto che segue mi piace perché parla di film, ma non è assolutamente lo spirito dell'articolo, che va molto oltre e riguarda il mondo moderno del digitale, per intederci.
Money quote: "With a film camera, you have only so many shots per roll, they each cost money to develop and scan. And that, right off the bat, makes you far more purposeful in your approach. The affect is a more trained and disciplined way of shooting; one born of necessity. It’s a creative imperative that is all but destroyed by the convenience of digital. And nobody needs this more than the beginner or intermediate photographer. You need to know the agony of paying $40 for 36 images, none of which are very good. It seems like something that digital photography saves us from, but in fact it only serves to spoil us and atrophies the creative drive born of the nature of competition, with ourselves and our surroundings — a biologically-reasonable set of attributes that make us inventive creatures who find inspiration in challenge. Film shooting is like a natural stimulant to creative growth in photography."
https://medium.com/@joshrose/how-to-take-good-pictures-destroyed-ddcc9c4a0236
Money quote: "With a film camera, you have only so many shots per roll, they each cost money to develop and scan. And that, right off the bat, makes you far more purposeful in your approach. The affect is a more trained and disciplined way of shooting; one born of necessity. It’s a creative imperative that is all but destroyed by the convenience of digital. And nobody needs this more than the beginner or intermediate photographer. You need to know the agony of paying $40 for 36 images, none of which are very good. It seems like something that digital photography saves us from, but in fact it only serves to spoil us and atrophies the creative drive born of the nature of competition, with ourselves and our surroundings — a biologically-reasonable set of attributes that make us inventive creatures who find inspiration in challenge. Film shooting is like a natural stimulant to creative growth in photography."
https://medium.com/@joshrose/how-to-take-good-pictures-destroyed-ddcc9c4a0236
Medium
How To Take Good Pictures, Destroyed
And 5 Real Ways to Improve Your Photography
Forwarded from Social&Positive News - L'informazione che fa bene
🎈#Benessere
Felicità. Parola e concetto difficile da definire perché, come scrive il sociologo Arthur Brooks su Internazionale, cambia a seconda delle sensibilità di ognuno, della cultura e del paese in cui viviamo.
Tuttavia sulla base di alcuni studi, secondo Brooks, è possibile distinguere almeno 4 "modelli di felicità" che corrispondono ad altrettanti modelli geografici e culturali:
1. La felicità viene dall’avere delle ottime relazioni con le persone a cui teniamo. È una combinazione di focus esteriore e relazionale; in questo caso le amicizie e la famiglia sono le principali fonti di felicità.
Gli Stati Uniti sono un buon esempio di paese che corrisponde a questo modello.
2. La felicità deriva da un alto grado di consapevolezza. Questo modello si basa sulla combinazione del focus interiore e di quello basato sulle relazioni interpersonali ed è il modello che corrisponde alle persone con un’indole fortemente spirituale, filosofica o religiosa, soprattutto a chi dà un’alta importanza alla vita di comunità.
L’India risulta la terra di appartenenza di molte persone che seguono questo modello.
3. La felicità consiste nel fare ciò che si ama, spesso insieme agli altri. Questa linea di pensiero si coniuga alla tendenza a vivere dandosi degli obiettivi.
Si possono trovare molte persone che si riconoscono in questo modello soprattutto nei paesi nordici e nel centro Europa.
4. La felicità deriva semplicemente dallo stare bene. In questo modello si assiste a una combinazione di focus interiore e di obiettivi. È il modello delle persone che danno la priorità assoluta alle esperienze da cui possono ricavare sensazioni positive, che siano esperienze fatte in solitaria o insieme ad altre persone.
Questo è il modello più diffuso nel Sudamerica, nell’area mediterranea e in Sud Africa.
Sarà un caso ma io mi riconosco di più nel modello 4 e voi? Cos’è per voi la felicità?
Felicità. Parola e concetto difficile da definire perché, come scrive il sociologo Arthur Brooks su Internazionale, cambia a seconda delle sensibilità di ognuno, della cultura e del paese in cui viviamo.
Tuttavia sulla base di alcuni studi, secondo Brooks, è possibile distinguere almeno 4 "modelli di felicità" che corrispondono ad altrettanti modelli geografici e culturali:
1. La felicità viene dall’avere delle ottime relazioni con le persone a cui teniamo. È una combinazione di focus esteriore e relazionale; in questo caso le amicizie e la famiglia sono le principali fonti di felicità.
Gli Stati Uniti sono un buon esempio di paese che corrisponde a questo modello.
2. La felicità deriva da un alto grado di consapevolezza. Questo modello si basa sulla combinazione del focus interiore e di quello basato sulle relazioni interpersonali ed è il modello che corrisponde alle persone con un’indole fortemente spirituale, filosofica o religiosa, soprattutto a chi dà un’alta importanza alla vita di comunità.
L’India risulta la terra di appartenenza di molte persone che seguono questo modello.
3. La felicità consiste nel fare ciò che si ama, spesso insieme agli altri. Questa linea di pensiero si coniuga alla tendenza a vivere dandosi degli obiettivi.
Si possono trovare molte persone che si riconoscono in questo modello soprattutto nei paesi nordici e nel centro Europa.
4. La felicità deriva semplicemente dallo stare bene. In questo modello si assiste a una combinazione di focus interiore e di obiettivi. È il modello delle persone che danno la priorità assoluta alle esperienze da cui possono ricavare sensazioni positive, che siano esperienze fatte in solitaria o insieme ad altre persone.
Questo è il modello più diffuso nel Sudamerica, nell’area mediterranea e in Sud Africa.
Sarà un caso ma io mi riconosco di più nel modello 4 e voi? Cos’è per voi la felicità?
Scaviamo dietro all'ideologia dell'urbanesimo ipertecnologico contemporaneo. C'è una profonda, tremenda distorsione che passa attraverso gli ultimi trent'anni. E fa probabilmente prendere fischi per fiaschi. Ad esempio, parliamo di SimCity...
Money quote: "Despite all this attention, few writers looked closely at the work which sparked Wright’s interest in urban simulation in the first place. Largely forgotten now, Jay Forrester’s Urban Dynamics put forth the controversial claim that the overwhelming majority of American urban policy was not only misguided but that these policies aggravated the very problems that they were intended to solve. In place of Great Society-style welfare programs, Forrester argued that cities should take a less interventionist approach to the problems of urban poverty and blight, and instead encourage revitalization indirectly through incentives for businesses and for the professional class. Forrester’s message proved popular among conservative and libertarian writers, Nixon Administration officials, and other critics of the Great Society for its hands-off approach to urban policy. This outlook, supposedly backed up by computer models, remains highly influential among establishment pundits and policymakers today."
https://logicmag.io/06-model-metropolis/
Money quote: "Despite all this attention, few writers looked closely at the work which sparked Wright’s interest in urban simulation in the first place. Largely forgotten now, Jay Forrester’s Urban Dynamics put forth the controversial claim that the overwhelming majority of American urban policy was not only misguided but that these policies aggravated the very problems that they were intended to solve. In place of Great Society-style welfare programs, Forrester argued that cities should take a less interventionist approach to the problems of urban poverty and blight, and instead encourage revitalization indirectly through incentives for businesses and for the professional class. Forrester’s message proved popular among conservative and libertarian writers, Nixon Administration officials, and other critics of the Great Society for its hands-off approach to urban policy. This outlook, supposedly backed up by computer models, remains highly influential among establishment pundits and policymakers today."
https://logicmag.io/06-model-metropolis/
Logic Magazine
Model Metropolis
The strange prehistory and dangerous afterlife of SimCity.
Negli Usa c'è parecchio dibattito sul tema dell'allattamento al seno, considerato molto più sano ed igienico di quello con latte artificiale: risulta che le donne di colore sono meno educate e usano il latte artificiale più spesso, mentre l'allattamento al seno avrebbe numerosi vantaggi, inclusa la riduzione dei tassi di obesità che sono molto più alti nella popolazione di colore.
Money quote: "What is surprising is one of the solutions the Department of Health offered to combat obesity: promoting breastfeeding among Black women. Ameliorating the racial breastfeeding gap, the report found, would increase breastfeeding rates and decrease obesity. Breastfeeding would help postpartum Black women lose weight and instruct Black infants on how to develop healthier relationships to satiety. New York’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program had been offering enhanced food packages for exclusively breastfeeding mothers since 1994, but was newly ordered to create “breastfeeding-friendly environments,” physical spaces that would promote breastfeeding."
https://www.thecut.com/2021/08/the-real-reason-black-mothers-are-being-pushed-to-breastfeed.html
Money quote: "What is surprising is one of the solutions the Department of Health offered to combat obesity: promoting breastfeeding among Black women. Ameliorating the racial breastfeeding gap, the report found, would increase breastfeeding rates and decrease obesity. Breastfeeding would help postpartum Black women lose weight and instruct Black infants on how to develop healthier relationships to satiety. New York’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program had been offering enhanced food packages for exclusively breastfeeding mothers since 1994, but was newly ordered to create “breastfeeding-friendly environments,” physical spaces that would promote breastfeeding."
https://www.thecut.com/2021/08/the-real-reason-black-mothers-are-being-pushed-to-breastfeed.html
The Cut
The Real Reason Black Mothers Are Being Pushed to Breastfeed Efforts to close the racial breastfeeding gap are more complicated…
Efforts to close the racial breastfeeding gap are more complicated than they appear.
Storia di gente che si stufa di Amazon, li fa secchi e vende direttamente con i piccoli negozi indipendenti. Succede anche questo. Storia lunga e che parla di biciclette (e delle loro componenti) ma molto interessante.
Money quote: "The COVID-19 pandemic affected supply chains everywhere. By the end of March 2020, there was a global shortage of bikes and bike parts, while demand surged. Most bike manufacturing is based in Asia, and as the pandemic wore on, PNW parts that used to take 45 days to ship from Taiwan took up to 200 days to arrive. By the start of 2021, Kerson heard of bike shops on the brink of closing down due to such high demand and low inventory. Pulling his products from Amazon, he thought, could help those independent bike shops — and rid PNW of an ongoing frustration.
Amazon had been posing serious customer service problems for PNW. Shopping for bike parts is complex, Kerson says, because choosing the right item depends on specifics about the customer and their bike. Amazon offers no way to provide that kind of expertise, so the rate of returns is high."
https://www.theverge.com/22618306/pacific-northwest-components-bike-company-quit-amazon-support-indie-shops
Money quote: "The COVID-19 pandemic affected supply chains everywhere. By the end of March 2020, there was a global shortage of bikes and bike parts, while demand surged. Most bike manufacturing is based in Asia, and as the pandemic wore on, PNW parts that used to take 45 days to ship from Taiwan took up to 200 days to arrive. By the start of 2021, Kerson heard of bike shops on the brink of closing down due to such high demand and low inventory. Pulling his products from Amazon, he thought, could help those independent bike shops — and rid PNW of an ongoing frustration.
Amazon had been posing serious customer service problems for PNW. Shopping for bike parts is complex, Kerson says, because choosing the right item depends on specifics about the customer and their bike. Amazon offers no way to provide that kind of expertise, so the rate of returns is high."
https://www.theverge.com/22618306/pacific-northwest-components-bike-company-quit-amazon-support-indie-shops
The Verge
As demand for bikes surged, Amazon got in the way
Customer service on Amazon can’t compare to an independent bike shop.
L'utilizzo del Green Pass da oggi diventa più frequente: ho preparato un articolo in cui spiego come usarlo con il Wallet di Apple se avete un iPhone (ma anche un iPad e magari un Apple Watch) oppure con Stockard (sia sugli iPhone che nei vari Android) e anche con un altro, piccolo trucco.
Fate girare, perché gli amici a cui sto consigliando questi modi sono entusiasti e si trovano molto meglio rispetto alle app della pubblica amministrazione.
Money quote: "La prima modalità, e di gran lunga la mia preferita, è usare il Wallet di iPhone, che permette di raccogliere documenti molto diversi: carte di credito e bancomat, carte di fedeltà, biglietti di treni e di aerei"
https://antoniodini.com/green-pass-wallet/
Fate girare, perché gli amici a cui sto consigliando questi modi sono entusiasti e si trovano molto meglio rispetto alle app della pubblica amministrazione.
Money quote: "La prima modalità, e di gran lunga la mia preferita, è usare il Wallet di iPhone, che permette di raccogliere documenti molto diversi: carte di credito e bancomat, carte di fedeltà, biglietti di treni e di aerei"
https://antoniodini.com/green-pass-wallet/
Mostly Here
Metti il Green Pass nel Wallet di iPhone (o su Stocard)
Due trucchi e mezzo per poter mostrare facilmente e velocemente il QR Code ai controlli
L'America si è svegliata, stamani, e si sta scoprendo di nuovo Puritana
Money quote: "In America, of course, we don’t have that kind of state coercion. There are currently no laws that shape what academics or journalists can say; there is no government censor, no ruling-party censor. But fear of the internet mob, the office mob, or the peer-group mob is producing some similar outcomes. How many American manuscripts now remain in desk drawers—or unwritten altogether—because their authors fear a similarly arbitrary judgment? How much intellectual life is now stifled because of fear of what a poorly worded comment would look like if taken out of context and spread on Twitter?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/
Money quote: "In America, of course, we don’t have that kind of state coercion. There are currently no laws that shape what academics or journalists can say; there is no government censor, no ruling-party censor. But fear of the internet mob, the office mob, or the peer-group mob is producing some similar outcomes. How many American manuscripts now remain in desk drawers—or unwritten altogether—because their authors fear a similarly arbitrary judgment? How much intellectual life is now stifled because of fear of what a poorly worded comment would look like if taken out of context and spread on Twitter?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/
The Atlantic
The New Puritans
Social codes are changing, in many ways for the better. But for those whose behavior doesn’t adapt fast enough to the new norms, judgment can be swift—and merciless.