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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.
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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
La livella per l’accessibilità secondo Apple - il mio articolo per Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2020/12/03/la-livella-per-laccessibilita-secondo-apple/
https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2020/12/03/la-livella-per-laccessibilita-secondo-apple/
Il Post
La livella per l’accessibilità secondo Apple
Non ci sono solo l'uomo e la donna vitruviani, perfetti nella mente e nel corpo. L'uso delle tecnologie deve servire anche per l'inclusione e livellare una volta per tutte differenze che un tempo lo erano ma che oggi non dovrebbero più esserlo
Storia di Choc, il font che ha conquistato New York
Money quote: "Typefaces are characterized by redundancies. Notice how often the “d” and “b” can be rotated to make a “p” or a “q,” or how a capital “Z” is so plainly a grown-up version of its lowercase counterpart. But Choc is full of irregularity. Its lowercase “r” resembles a “z.” Its “g” looks like a capital “S.” And its “h” crouches forward as though in starting position for a race, whereas its more heavyset uppercase incarnation is on the verge of rolling backward.
“Choc expresses a certain violence,” said Sandra Chamaret, a French designer and publisher, and a co-author of a 2010 monograph on Excoffon. “It seems spattered on the page, the letters going in all directions.” (“Choc” — the ‘ch’ is soft, as in ‘sh’ — is French for “shock” or “crash.”)"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/21/nyregion/new-york-storefronts-mystery-font.html
Money quote: "Typefaces are characterized by redundancies. Notice how often the “d” and “b” can be rotated to make a “p” or a “q,” or how a capital “Z” is so plainly a grown-up version of its lowercase counterpart. But Choc is full of irregularity. Its lowercase “r” resembles a “z.” Its “g” looks like a capital “S.” And its “h” crouches forward as though in starting position for a race, whereas its more heavyset uppercase incarnation is on the verge of rolling backward.
“Choc expresses a certain violence,” said Sandra Chamaret, a French designer and publisher, and a co-author of a 2010 monograph on Excoffon. “It seems spattered on the page, the letters going in all directions.” (“Choc” — the ‘ch’ is soft, as in ‘sh’ — is French for “shock” or “crash.”)"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/21/nyregion/new-york-storefronts-mystery-font.html
Nytimes
The Mystery Font That Took Over New York (Published 2018)
How did Choc, a quirky calligraphic typeface drawn by a French graphic designer in the 1950s, end up on storefronts everywhere?
Apple, nel 2021 due MacBook Pro con nuovo schermo e design - il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/12/04/news/apple-nel-2021-due-macbook-pro-con-nuovo-schermo-e-design-1.39615065
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/12/04/news/apple-nel-2021-due-macbook-pro-con-nuovo-schermo-e-design-1.39615065
La Stampa
Apple, nel 2021 due MacBook Pro con nuovo schermo e design
L'analista più attendibile che studia il mondo Apple, Ming-Chi Kuo, ha aggiornato le sue stime: display mini Led per MacBook (in forte crescita) e iPad Pro dell'anno prossimo e MacBook Air rinnovato nel 2022
Pochi giorni dopo averne scritto quasi per caso in un articolo dedicato alle altre forme di calcolo possibili (i calcolatori analogici), ho trovato questo articolo sui computer ad acqua dell'era sovietica. Sublime.
Money quote: "Built in 1936, this machine was “the world's first computer for solving [partial] differential equations,” which “for half a century has been the only means of calculations of a wide range of problems in mathematical physics.” Absolutely its most amazing aspect is that solving such complex equations meant playing around with a series of interconnected, water-filled glass tubes. You “calculated” with plumbing."
https://pruned.blogspot.com/2012/01/gardens-as-crypto-water-computers.html
Money quote: "Built in 1936, this machine was “the world's first computer for solving [partial] differential equations,” which “for half a century has been the only means of calculations of a wide range of problems in mathematical physics.” Absolutely its most amazing aspect is that solving such complex equations meant playing around with a series of interconnected, water-filled glass tubes. You “calculated” with plumbing."
https://pruned.blogspot.com/2012/01/gardens-as-crypto-water-computers.html
Blogspot
Gardens as Crypto-Water-Computers
A blog on landscape architecture and related fields
Tutto per il bene della scienza: una bella scansione del cervello di bambini che leggono/ascoltano/vedono una storia. Cosa succede nella testa dei bambini? La risposta è alquanto letterale.
Money quote: "For the study, 27 children around age 4 went into an FMRI machine. They were presented with stories in three conditions: audio only; the illustrated pages of a storybook with an audio voiceover; and an animated cartoon. All three versions came from the Web site of Canadian author Robert Munsch.
While the children paid attention to the stories, the MRI, the machine scanned for activation within certain brain networks, and connectivity between the networks."
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51281/whats-going-on-in-your-childs-brain-when-you-read-them-a-story
Money quote: "For the study, 27 children around age 4 went into an FMRI machine. They were presented with stories in three conditions: audio only; the illustrated pages of a storybook with an audio voiceover; and an animated cartoon. All three versions came from the Web site of Canadian author Robert Munsch.
While the children paid attention to the stories, the MRI, the machine scanned for activation within certain brain networks, and connectivity between the networks."
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51281/whats-going-on-in-your-childs-brain-when-you-read-them-a-story
www.kqed.org
What's Going On In Your Child's Brain When You Read Them A Story? | KQED
There are many ways young children encounter stories. A new study finds a "Goldilocks effect," where a cartoon may be "too hot" and audiobooks "too cold" for learning readers.
Consigli su come comprare regali che le persone vogliono veramente. Anche quello della nonna: "cerca di ascoltare, ogni tanto" (mia nonna era prolifica; era il nonno la pecora nera della famiglia). Anche perché ogni anno devastiamo tonnellate di soldi in regali francamente inutili. L'ideale sarebbe non farli, o farne di tipo non materiale (e anche quelli: parliamone). Qui, comunque, qualche idea.
Money quote: "How to Buy Gifts People Actually Want
All hope is not lost. You shall buy gifts that people will actually want! Here's how.
Be Realistic About Your Relationship With The Recipient
In Waldfogel's 1993 study, there's a chart of gift effectiveness that more or less screams at aunts, uncles and grandparents to simply not bother with material gifts and to give cash instead"
https://www.willpatrick.co.uk/articles/how-to-buy-gifts-that-people-actually-want
Money quote: "How to Buy Gifts People Actually Want
All hope is not lost. You shall buy gifts that people will actually want! Here's how.
Be Realistic About Your Relationship With The Recipient
In Waldfogel's 1993 study, there's a chart of gift effectiveness that more or less screams at aunts, uncles and grandparents to simply not bother with material gifts and to give cash instead"
https://www.willpatrick.co.uk/articles/how-to-buy-gifts-that-people-actually-want
www.willpatrick.co.uk
How to Buy Gifts That People Actually Want - Will Patrick
Every year, we buy more bad gifts than we realise and nobody tells us about it. Here's how to avoid the most common pitfalls and use psychology to drastically improve your gift-giving game.
Un divertente esempio di analisi di dati non troppo big: cosa vede Google quando guarda dove uno è stato (con un telefono Android). Ci sono parti facili e parti più difficili, come ogni buon data scientist sa.
Money quote: "Like most data science problems, data pre-processing was definitely the pain point. The data was in a JSON format where the meaning of different attributes wasn’t very clear."
https://towardsdatascience.com/analyzing-my-google-location-history-d3a5c56c7b70
Se non siete affascinati dal racconto o dall'obiettivo, invece questo altro articolo (che è stato l'ispirazione del lavoro precedente) spiega con chiarezza come fare una "heat map" con i dati delle posizioni presi da Google.
https://towardsdatascience.com/create-a-heat-map-from-your-google-location-history-in-3-easy-steps-e66c93925914
Money quote: "Like most data science problems, data pre-processing was definitely the pain point. The data was in a JSON format where the meaning of different attributes wasn’t very clear."
https://towardsdatascience.com/analyzing-my-google-location-history-d3a5c56c7b70
Se non siete affascinati dal racconto o dall'obiettivo, invece questo altro articolo (che è stato l'ispirazione del lavoro precedente) spiega con chiarezza come fare una "heat map" con i dati delle posizioni presi da Google.
https://towardsdatascience.com/create-a-heat-map-from-your-google-location-history-in-3-easy-steps-e66c93925914
Medium
Analyzing my Google Location History
I recently read this article on how to create a heat-map from your Google Location History data. Trying it out myself, I got some amazing…
Forwarded from Riccardo
Poche ore e finirò questo. I testi e le immagini sono posticce - come chi le ha messe! Abbiamo già registrato due episodi e sono, anche loro, quasi finalizzati.