La storia dei tre Adolf ai giorni nostri - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/01/tre-adolf-osamu-tezuka-manga/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/01/tre-adolf-osamu-tezuka-manga/
Fumettologica
La storia dei tre Adolf ai giorni nostri
I tre Adolf, uno dei capolavori di Osamu Tezuka, racconta l'orrore del nazismo e della Seconda guerra mondiale mettendo a confornto tre personaggi.
Il giorno della memoria - il mio articolo per Anobii
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/01/27/il-giorno-della-memoria/
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/01/27/il-giorno-della-memoria/
Anobii Blog
Il giorno della memoria - Anobii Blog
Nel giorno della memoria, ricordiamo la storia del dottor Janusz Korczak, ebreo polacco e pediatra, che venne ucciso a Treblinka dai nazisti assieme ai 190 bambini del suo orfanotrofio e ad altri 10 educatori
C'è aria di baruffa nel mondo dei software per la produttività per eccellenza: le videoscritture
Money quote: "“Work has totally changed,” said Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO of Box, the online storage company that is building its strategy around unifying data and messaging from a dizzying mix of cloud apps. “Employees were lucky to have two, three, five modern applications in the 90s. Now they have almost unlimited ways of being productive.”"
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/new-word-processor-wars-fresh-crop-productivity-apps-trying-reinvent-workday/
Money quote: "“Work has totally changed,” said Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO of Box, the online storage company that is building its strategy around unifying data and messaging from a dizzying mix of cloud apps. “Employees were lucky to have two, three, five modern applications in the 90s. Now they have almost unlimited ways of being productive.”"
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/new-word-processor-wars-fresh-crop-productivity-apps-trying-reinvent-workday/
GeekWire
The new word processor wars: A fresh crop of productivity apps are trying to reinvent our workday
Microsoft, more than any other institution on earth, has shaped how we work and how we think about it. If you spend your days in an office (and often if you don’t) everything you do is structured…
Apple e la giornata della privacy: stop al tracking – il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-e-la-giornata-della-privacy-stop-al-tracking/
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-e-la-giornata-della-privacy-stop-al-tracking/
macitynet.it
Apple e la giornata della privacy: stop al tracking
Apple, Finanza, Mercato, Privacy
Se il logo è la parte emergente di un brand, Naomi Klein in effetti aveva capito tutto quando ha deciso il titolo del libro che l'ha resa famosa.
In questo articolo, Will Partin fa un percorso piuttosto lungo per raccontarci tutto quel che dobbiamo sapere del mondo in cui viviamo: cos'è, da dove viene e in qualche misura dove sta andando.
Money quote: "Asking these questions means taking stock of the history of branding, which, as it turns out, is also the history of capitalism. If we want to understand what branding is, why it now dominates so much of our lives, and where, if anywhere, it’s going, it helps to know where it all began."
https://theoutline.com/post/6698/brandless-brands-instagram-ads-capitalism
Peraltro, vale la pena anche solo per il passaggio dedicato a Mario Tronti relativo al rapporto della fabbrica e della società, che fa da chiave di basso per il ragionamento. A cosa mi riferisco?
Money quote 2: "The Social factory is a concept developed by Italian autonomist Marxism in the 1960s to help analyse how capitalist social relations had expanded outside the sphere of production to that of society as a whole. Mario Tronti was one of the first theorists to develop the term in his text Factory and Society (1962).[1] Here Tronti uses the Marxist distinction between absolute and relative surplus value to explain how technical and social processes of post-fordist capitalist society become entwined, so that "the whole of society lives as a function of the factory and the factory extends its exclusive domination to the whole of society""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_factory
(la versione italiana stranamente non esiste...)
Insomma, stiamo parlando della nostra società in cui i brand sono la fonte primaria di senso, e tocca a noi produrre questo senso, da cui l'idea che - grazie ai marchi - la fabbrica si sia estesa al resto della società. Maledetti marxisti... mi fate sempre sentire giovane.
In questo articolo, Will Partin fa un percorso piuttosto lungo per raccontarci tutto quel che dobbiamo sapere del mondo in cui viviamo: cos'è, da dove viene e in qualche misura dove sta andando.
Money quote: "Asking these questions means taking stock of the history of branding, which, as it turns out, is also the history of capitalism. If we want to understand what branding is, why it now dominates so much of our lives, and where, if anywhere, it’s going, it helps to know where it all began."
https://theoutline.com/post/6698/brandless-brands-instagram-ads-capitalism
Peraltro, vale la pena anche solo per il passaggio dedicato a Mario Tronti relativo al rapporto della fabbrica e della società, che fa da chiave di basso per il ragionamento. A cosa mi riferisco?
Money quote 2: "The Social factory is a concept developed by Italian autonomist Marxism in the 1960s to help analyse how capitalist social relations had expanded outside the sphere of production to that of society as a whole. Mario Tronti was one of the first theorists to develop the term in his text Factory and Society (1962).[1] Here Tronti uses the Marxist distinction between absolute and relative surplus value to explain how technical and social processes of post-fordist capitalist society become entwined, so that "the whole of society lives as a function of the factory and the factory extends its exclusive domination to the whole of society""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_factory
(la versione italiana stranamente non esiste...)
Insomma, stiamo parlando della nostra società in cui i brand sono la fonte primaria di senso, e tocca a noi produrre questo senso, da cui l'idea che - grazie ai marchi - la fabbrica si sia estesa al resto della società. Maledetti marxisti... mi fate sempre sentire giovane.
The Outline
What a brandless brand is selling you
How the paradox at the heart of those Instagram ads could signal the horizon of capitalism.
Come trasferire le chat da WhatsApp a Telegram e salutare Zuckerberg - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/come-trasferire-le-chat-da-whatsapp-a-telegram/
https://www.macitynet.it/come-trasferire-le-chat-da-whatsapp-a-telegram/
macitynet.it
Come trasferire le chat da WhatsApp a Telegram e salutare Zuckerberg
App Android, App iPhone, App Social Network, Telegram, WhatsApp
E a New York intanto hanno inaugurato la The Moynihan Train Hall (in ritardo di 20 anni) che risarcisce la distruzione della Penn Station.
Money quote "Moynihan Train Hall, as the new facility is called, occupies the middle slice of the James A. Farley Building, which had been—and partially still is—an iconic New York post office, built in 1912, and also a product of McKim, Mead & White’s studio. The new transit facility, sitting just opposite Madison Square Garden between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, is named for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the long-serving United States senator from New York who was among the first to suggest the reportedly underused postal building as a suitable alternative to the botched Penn Station. As the senator is said to have observed, “Where else but in New York could you tear down a beautiful Beaux Arts building and find another one right across the street?”"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-moynihan-train-halls-glorious-arrivals
Money quote "Moynihan Train Hall, as the new facility is called, occupies the middle slice of the James A. Farley Building, which had been—and partially still is—an iconic New York post office, built in 1912, and also a product of McKim, Mead & White’s studio. The new transit facility, sitting just opposite Madison Square Garden between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, is named for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the long-serving United States senator from New York who was among the first to suggest the reportedly underused postal building as a suitable alternative to the botched Penn Station. As the senator is said to have observed, “Where else but in New York could you tear down a beautiful Beaux Arts building and find another one right across the street?”"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-moynihan-train-halls-glorious-arrivals
Quel piccolo, lurido segreto di Android: la frammentazione.
Money quote: "Android fragmentation has always been an issue but it’s one that many industry onlookers (including myself) thought would improve over time. On the contrary, it seems to be as problematic as ever, so while it’s all well and good defending Android’s open source merits and unique features over the idiot-proof usability of iOS, the question seems increasingly null when hardly any Android devices actually run recent software.
The latest and greatest Google functionality, therefore, isn’t available to huge swathes of Android users – and this is the crux of the problem with Android fragmentation."
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/iphone-vs-android-3633532
Money quote: "Android fragmentation has always been an issue but it’s one that many industry onlookers (including myself) thought would improve over time. On the contrary, it seems to be as problematic as ever, so while it’s all well and good defending Android’s open source merits and unique features over the idiot-proof usability of iOS, the question seems increasingly null when hardly any Android devices actually run recent software.
The latest and greatest Google functionality, therefore, isn’t available to huge swathes of Android users – and this is the crux of the problem with Android fragmentation."
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/iphone-vs-android-3633532
Trusted Reviews
This shocking iPhone vs Android fact continues to shame Google in 2019
The latest iOS 12 statistics have been revealed by Apple, with the iPhone vs Android adoption war is looking as one-sided as ever in 2019.
La domanda è abbastanza semplice: se il computer decide chi è il potenziale terrorista, dovremmo poter sapere anche quali sono i criteri con i quali decide? Questo articolo è di due anni fa ma sembra scritto stamani
Money quote: "DataRobot’s bread and butter is turning vast troves of raw data, which all modern businesses accumulate, into predictions of future action, which all modern companies desire. Its clients include Monsanto and the CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel. But not all of DataRobot’s clients are looking to pad their revenues; DHS plans to integrate the code into an existing DHS offering called the Global Travel Assessment System, or GTAS, a toolchain that has been released as open source software and which is designed to make it easy for other countries to quickly implement no-fly lists like those used by the U.S."
https://theintercept.com/2018/12/03/air-travel-surveillance-homeland-security/
Money quote: "DataRobot’s bread and butter is turning vast troves of raw data, which all modern businesses accumulate, into predictions of future action, which all modern companies desire. Its clients include Monsanto and the CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel. But not all of DataRobot’s clients are looking to pad their revenues; DHS plans to integrate the code into an existing DHS offering called the Global Travel Assessment System, or GTAS, a toolchain that has been released as open source software and which is designed to make it easy for other countries to quickly implement no-fly lists like those used by the U.S."
https://theintercept.com/2018/12/03/air-travel-surveillance-homeland-security/
The Intercept
Homeland Security Will Let Computers Predict Who Might Be a Terrorist on Your Plane — Just Don’t Ask How It Works
The software, developed under contract, will be given to foreign governments. It is already being tested.
Fuga da WhatsApp. Ecco come trasferire le chat su Telegram -il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/tutorial/2021/02/01/news/fuga-da-whatsapp-ecco-come-migrare-le-chat-su-telegram-1.39844484
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/tutorial/2021/02/01/news/fuga-da-whatsapp-ecco-come-migrare-le-chat-su-telegram-1.39844484
La Stampa
Fuga da WhatsApp. Ecco come trasferire le chat su Telegram
È possibile spostare le proprie conversazioni, immagini e vocali dall'app di Facebook a quella russa di Pavel Durov sia su Android che su iOS
È da un po' che sui miei canali - nei percorsi che seguo in rete - continuo ad inciampare su BeOS e la sua versione moderna, Haiku. Un motivo ci dovrà pur essere. Sto cominciando a leggere con maggiore attenzione per capire. E magari, chissà, anche provare. Leggete questo vecchio articolo.
Money quote: "And welcome to the world of BeOS and Haiku! Today’s article is going to look at both the classic BeOS (which you’ll see a few screenshots of) and the modern-day successor to the BeOS, the Haiku operating system (which we’ll also have screenshots of here as well)."
https://osvoyager.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/what-makes-beos-and-haiku-unique/
Money quote: "And welcome to the world of BeOS and Haiku! Today’s article is going to look at both the classic BeOS (which you’ll see a few screenshots of) and the modern-day successor to the BeOS, the Haiku operating system (which we’ll also have screenshots of here as well)."
https://osvoyager.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/what-makes-beos-and-haiku-unique/
The OS Voyager
What makes BeOS and Haiku unique
Hello there! And welcome to the world of BeOS and Haiku! Today’s article is going to look at both the classic BeOS (which you’ll see a few screenshots of) and the modern-day successor t…
Premio Strega 2021: ecco i primi cinque titoli - il mio articolo per Anobii
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/02/01/premio-strega-2021-ecco-i-primi-cinque-titoli/
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/02/01/premio-strega-2021-ecco-i-primi-cinque-titoli/
Anobii Blog
Premio Strega 2021: ecco i primi cinque titoli - Anobii Blog
Arrivano i candidati al prestigioso premio letterario. Nei prossimi giorni verrà finalizzata la rosa con le altre proposte degli Amici della Domenica, la giuria del premio
È il momento migliore per acquistare un Mac di seconda mano. Oppure no - il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/tutorial/2021/02/02/news/e-il-momento-migliore-per-acquistare-un-mac-di-seconda-mano-oppure-no-1.39848832
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/tutorial/2021/02/02/news/e-il-momento-migliore-per-acquistare-un-mac-di-seconda-mano-oppure-no-1.39848832
La Stampa
È il momento migliore per acquistare un Mac di seconda mano. Oppure no
Dopo il lancio dei tre nuovi modelli con processore M1, in rete, su eBay e nei siti specializzati il prezzo di quelli vecchi sta crollando: in certi casi può essere un grande vantaggio, in altri un cattivo affare
Un po' di utility "must have" se passate parte delle vostre giornate nel terminale su macOS
Money quote: "Syntax highlighting in cat"
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/12161/os-x-terminal-must-have-utilities
Money quote: "Syntax highlighting in cat"
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/12161/os-x-terminal-must-have-utilities
Ask Different
OS X Terminal "must have" utilities
I've just read with pleasure, and learned a lot from these questions :
OS X Terminal Tips and Tricks
OS X Hidden features and nice tips & tricks
OS X Applications you can't live without
But I...
OS X Terminal Tips and Tricks
OS X Hidden features and nice tips & tricks
OS X Applications you can't live without
But I...
La piovra è un animale molto, molto intelligente. Gli manca solo la parola. Forse.
Money quote: "For scientists who study animal behavior, intelligence is not about acing a calculus test or taking a car apart and putting it back together. Intelligence comprises sophisticated cognitive skills that help an animal thrive.
That may include the ability to come up with solutions to the problem of finding food, for example, or a knack for planning for some challenge in the future. Intelligent animals don’t rely on fixed responses to survive — they can invent new behaviors on the fly."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/science/animal-intelligence-octopus-cephalopods.html
Money quote: "For scientists who study animal behavior, intelligence is not about acing a calculus test or taking a car apart and putting it back together. Intelligence comprises sophisticated cognitive skills that help an animal thrive.
That may include the ability to come up with solutions to the problem of finding food, for example, or a knack for planning for some challenge in the future. Intelligent animals don’t rely on fixed responses to survive — they can invent new behaviors on the fly."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/science/animal-intelligence-octopus-cephalopods.html
NY Times
Yes, the Octopus Is Smart as Heck. But Why? (Published 2018)
It has eight arms, three hearts — and a plan. Scientists aren’t sure how the cephalopods got to be so intelligent.
I dati sono la cartografia dell'interno della nostra psiche (qualunque cosa sia l'interno della nostra psiche. Però fa impressione dirlo). Tuttavia siamo abbastanza daccordo che il vero rischio scaturente dai grandi bestioni che usano l'intelligenza artificiale e i big data è il fatto che uccidono il pensiero indipendente. No? Articolo breve, podcast medio, libro lungo (ma interessante): “World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech”. Dopo due anni se ne parla ancora.
Money quote: "“Facebook and Google are constantly organizing things in ways in which we’re not really cognizant, and we’re not even taught to be cognizant, and most people aren’t, and done in a way in which they’re leveraging our data,” Foer said. “Our data is this cartography of the inside of our psyche. They know our weaknesses, and they know the things that give us pleasure and the things that cause us anxiety and anger. They use that information in order to keep us addicted. That makes the companies the enemies of independent thought.”"
https://www.recode.net/2018/12/3/18123225/amazon-google-facebook-antitrust-monopoly-franklin-foer-world-without-mind-book-kara-swisher-decode
Money quote: "“Facebook and Google are constantly organizing things in ways in which we’re not really cognizant, and we’re not even taught to be cognizant, and most people aren’t, and done in a way in which they’re leveraging our data,” Foer said. “Our data is this cartography of the inside of our psyche. They know our weaknesses, and they know the things that give us pleasure and the things that cause us anxiety and anger. They use that information in order to keep us addicted. That makes the companies the enemies of independent thought.”"
https://www.recode.net/2018/12/3/18123225/amazon-google-facebook-antitrust-monopoly-franklin-foer-world-without-mind-book-kara-swisher-decode
Vox
Why Amazon is a ‘bully’ and Facebook and Google are ‘the enemies of independent thought’
The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer, author of "World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech," critiques the tech giants on the latest Recode Decode.
Scatto da anni e anni foto in bianco e nero. Sempre o quasi sempre in bianco e nero. E questa cosa del bianco e nero che sta tornando, in alcuni ambiti (non solo nella fotografia), mi fa solo piacere. Ricordate "Roma"?
Money quote: "Per molti, bianco e nero = vecchio. Oppure, al massimo, bianco e nero = noioso. Cuarón ha spiegato a IndieWire di aver scelto di girare in bianco e nero perché è un film di ricordi, ma di aver cercato di ottenere un bianco e nero contemporaneo, che non fosse vintage e nostalgico e che «non sembrasse quello di un film degli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta». È in effetti tra le cose più apprezzate del film e i critici l’hanno definito luminoso e radiante."
https://www.ilpost.it/2018/12/18/roma-netflix-film/
Money quote: "Per molti, bianco e nero = vecchio. Oppure, al massimo, bianco e nero = noioso. Cuarón ha spiegato a IndieWire di aver scelto di girare in bianco e nero perché è un film di ricordi, ma di aver cercato di ottenere un bianco e nero contemporaneo, che non fosse vintage e nostalgico e che «non sembrasse quello di un film degli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta». È in effetti tra le cose più apprezzate del film e i critici l’hanno definito luminoso e radiante."
https://www.ilpost.it/2018/12/18/roma-netflix-film/
Il Post
“Roma” è un film particolare
Il nuovo film di Alfonso Cuarón appena uscito è già su Netflix, ha vinto il Leone d'oro ed è piaciuto ai critici, e ha più di una cosa notevole
Quel pasticciaccio brutto di Urania: è uscito un romanzo in edicola con alcune pagine rimescolate per un errore di rilegatura. Poca roba, poche pagine e che comunque sono solo spostate, non mancano. Mondadori però l’ha presa sul serio e ci mette una toppa. Uno scherzo che dal punto di vista economico costerà un sacco di soldi.
Money quote: “”Tutti coloro che hanno già acquistato il libro nella sua versione fallata potranno rivolgersi al proprio edicolante per farselo sostituire con una nuova copia, non appena la nuova tiratura sarà a disposizione dei punti vendita, cosa che cercheremo di realizzare nel minor tempo possibile.
http://blog.librimondadori.it/blogs/urania/2021/02/04/problema-per-urania-di-febbraio/
Money quote: “”Tutti coloro che hanno già acquistato il libro nella sua versione fallata potranno rivolgersi al proprio edicolante per farselo sostituire con una nuova copia, non appena la nuova tiratura sarà a disposizione dei punti vendita, cosa che cercheremo di realizzare nel minor tempo possibile.
http://blog.librimondadori.it/blogs/urania/2021/02/04/problema-per-urania-di-febbraio/