Gli gli artisti, soprattutto gli attori, sono sempre qualcosa di più e qualcosa di meno della loro opera. Nel caso di Carrie Fisher, scomparsa recentemente come sappiamo, c'è veramente da pensarci un po' sopra. Perché forse era qualcosa di più e qualcosa di meno della principessa Leia Organa.
Money quote: "Carrie Fisher's legacy as a mental health advocate and her fiercely ironic sense of humor were encapsulated in one final gesture: Her Prozac pill-shaped urn."
http://mashable.com/2017/01/06/carrie-fisher-urn-prozac-pill-debbie-reynolds/
Money quote: "Carrie Fisher's legacy as a mental health advocate and her fiercely ironic sense of humor were encapsulated in one final gesture: Her Prozac pill-shaped urn."
http://mashable.com/2017/01/06/carrie-fisher-urn-prozac-pill-debbie-reynolds/
Mashable
Carrie Fisher's urn is shaped like a giant Prozac pill, like she would've wanted
She would have laughed the loudest.
Dietro le quinte della campagna elettorale di Donald Trump, seguita dal giornalista del Washington Post che è bravino
Money quote: “Trump saw.
The next night, he called me to say he had just then given away the $1 million, all in one swoop, to a nonprofit run by a friend. That meant when Lewandowski said Trump’s money was “fully spent,” it was actually still in Trump’s pocket.
On the phone, I asked Trump: Would you really have given this money away if I hadn’t been asking about it?
“You know, you’re a nasty guy,” he said. “You’re really a nasty guy.””
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/david-fahrenthold-tells-the-behind-the-scenes-story-of-his-year-covering-trump/2016/12/27/299047c4-b510-11e6-b8df-600bd9d38a02_story.html
Money quote: “Trump saw.
The next night, he called me to say he had just then given away the $1 million, all in one swoop, to a nonprofit run by a friend. That meant when Lewandowski said Trump’s money was “fully spent,” it was actually still in Trump’s pocket.
On the phone, I asked Trump: Would you really have given this money away if I hadn’t been asking about it?
“You know, you’re a nasty guy,” he said. “You’re really a nasty guy.””
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/david-fahrenthold-tells-the-behind-the-scenes-story-of-his-year-covering-trump/2016/12/27/299047c4-b510-11e6-b8df-600bd9d38a02_story.html
Washington Post
David Fahrenthold tells the behind-the-scenes story of his year covering Trump
A reporter reveals how he investigated Trump’s claims on his donations to charity.
È ufficiale, siamo figli dei Turchi. La mia gioventù di splendido etrusco se n’è andata così, in un lampo del Dna, rubata da un articolo del Guardian.
Ps: e poi, anche la “fiorentina” è turca. Ma dai!
Money quote: “Another recent genetic study, of "chianina" and three other Tuscan cattle strains, found they were unrelated to Italian breeds. Yet matches were found in Turkey and the Balkans, along the supposed route of some of ancient Italy's most enigmatic immigrants.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/18/italy.johnhooper
Ps: e poi, anche la “fiorentina” è turca. Ma dai!
Money quote: “Another recent genetic study, of "chianina" and three other Tuscan cattle strains, found they were unrelated to Italian breeds. Yet matches were found in Turkey and the Balkans, along the supposed route of some of ancient Italy's most enigmatic immigrants.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/18/italy.johnhooper
the Guardian
The enigma of Italy's ancient Etruscans is finally unravelled
DNA tests on their Italian descendants show the 'tuscii' came from Turkey.
La coscienza: che cos’è? Un problema che ha traversato la storia dell’umanità, con le migliori menti del passato che si sono dedicate a indagare, speculare, riflettere per cercare di offrire una risposta. Oggi i filosofi non vengono più considerati le migliori menti della nostra società ma le domande di questo genere però non sono scomparse: sono finite in mano a neuroscienziati, psichiatri e cognitivisti, per tacer dei fisici e dei matematici.
Questo passaggio sta pian piano ridefinendo anche i punti chiave del problema stesso: anziché avere due problemi, uno facile e uno difficile (lo diceva Cartesio: quello facile è l’esistenza della coscienza nel cervello, quello difficile è la motivazione per cui essa esiste), siamo arrivati al “vero problema”.
Al di là dell’indagine di per sé, l’aspetto rilevante ma apparentemente invisibile è il radicale cambiamento di impostazione, una trasformazione dell’uomo e del suo modo di riflettere che segna proprio a cavallo della nostra epoca una traccia profonda, separante l’uomo del ‘900 da quello del XXI secolo.
Money quote: “But there is an alternative, which I like to call the real problem: how to account for the various properties of consciousness in terms of biological mechanisms; without pretending it doesn’t exist (easy problem) and without worrying too much about explaining its existence in the first place (hard problem). (People familiar with ‘neurophenomenology’ will see some similarities with this way of putting things – but there are differences too, as we will see.)”
https://aeon.co/essays/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-is-a-distraction-from-the-real-one
Questo passaggio sta pian piano ridefinendo anche i punti chiave del problema stesso: anziché avere due problemi, uno facile e uno difficile (lo diceva Cartesio: quello facile è l’esistenza della coscienza nel cervello, quello difficile è la motivazione per cui essa esiste), siamo arrivati al “vero problema”.
Al di là dell’indagine di per sé, l’aspetto rilevante ma apparentemente invisibile è il radicale cambiamento di impostazione, una trasformazione dell’uomo e del suo modo di riflettere che segna proprio a cavallo della nostra epoca una traccia profonda, separante l’uomo del ‘900 da quello del XXI secolo.
Money quote: “But there is an alternative, which I like to call the real problem: how to account for the various properties of consciousness in terms of biological mechanisms; without pretending it doesn’t exist (easy problem) and without worrying too much about explaining its existence in the first place (hard problem). (People familiar with ‘neurophenomenology’ will see some similarities with this way of putting things – but there are differences too, as we will see.)”
https://aeon.co/essays/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-is-a-distraction-from-the-real-one
Oggi iPhone compie dieci anni: ecco come ha cambiato il mondo e come lo cambierà - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/oggi-iphone-compie-dieci-anni-cambiato-mondo-lo-cambiera/
http://www.macitynet.it/oggi-iphone-compie-dieci-anni-cambiato-mondo-lo-cambiera/
macitynet.it
Oggi iPhone compie dieci anni: ecco come ha cambiato il mondo e come lo cambierà
IPhone
Gli americani, dopo aver punito il pianeta con una lingua priva di accenti e segni diacritici che ha devastato l’utilizzo dell’informatica (vedere noi e i poveri francesi, ad esempio, che viviamo di accenti gravi e acuti) adesso stanno cominciando a diventare un po’ schizzinosi per quanto riguarda la parte tipografica del web. E così, dopo aver creato numerose spaccature (inclusa quella “little endian, big endian” tra Mac e Pc), arriva il momento in cui ci si mette a ragionare di virgolette dritte o a ricciolino, chiedendosi perché. Già, perché?
Money quote: “This lack of quote sophistication is odd, because the web’s design origins owe a lot to choices Steve Jobs made at Apple and later at his second computer firm, Next. Jobs’s attachment to type famously stems from a calligraphy class taken at Reed College, and he ensured that the first Mac had a mix of bespoke and classic typefaces that included curly quotes and all the other punctuation a designer could want. At Next, he went further, and the web’s father, Tim Berners-Lee, built the first browser and server on a Next.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/quotation-mark-wars/511766/
Money quote: “This lack of quote sophistication is odd, because the web’s design origins owe a lot to choices Steve Jobs made at Apple and later at his second computer firm, Next. Jobs’s attachment to type famously stems from a calligraphy class taken at Reed College, and he ensured that the first Mac had a mix of bespoke and classic typefaces that included curly quotes and all the other punctuation a designer could want. At Next, he went further, and the web’s father, Tim Berners-Lee, built the first browser and server on a Next.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/quotation-mark-wars/511766/
The Atlantic
Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes?
Web publications often favor straight quotation marks, a pragmatic approach to typography that old-school stylists can’t stand.
Se si vuole seguire la teoria che viviamo un nuovo medioevo, questo breve saggio introduce molto bene un argomento a favore della tesi: andare nei resort Disney è la forma contemporanea di un pellegrinaggio medioevale
Money quote: ““Appetites for direct contact with Disney’s creations have transformed the trek to Disney World into a genuine form of pilgrimage,” writes historian Cheryl Krause Knight, author of Power and Paradise in Walt Disney’s World. In the modern world, a trip to Disney has become a rite of passage that transforms those who make the trek, and the design of the park heightens that experience: Disney World resembles a medieval pilgrimage center, designed to connect pilgrims with the supernatural, represented by Mickey Mouse and company.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/visiting-disney-world-is-the-modern-version-of-making-a-medieval-pilgrimage
Money quote: ““Appetites for direct contact with Disney’s creations have transformed the trek to Disney World into a genuine form of pilgrimage,” writes historian Cheryl Krause Knight, author of Power and Paradise in Walt Disney’s World. In the modern world, a trip to Disney has become a rite of passage that transforms those who make the trek, and the design of the park heightens that experience: Disney World resembles a medieval pilgrimage center, designed to connect pilgrims with the supernatural, represented by Mickey Mouse and company.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/visiting-disney-world-is-the-modern-version-of-making-a-medieval-pilgrimage
Atlas Obscura
Visiting Disney World is the Modern Version of Making a Medieval Pilgrimage
According to anthropologists, religious studies experts, and art historians.
2001 Odissea nello Spazio e i nostri padri: storie di grandi promesse ed enormi tradimenti. (Era meglio Blade Runner)
Money quote: "He’d worked for IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York, a corporate labyrinth of beige cubicles and epochal breakthroughs; a world of punch cards and reel-to-reel magnetic tape, where at least some of the employees were deadly serious about making sure to wear the company tie clip and then, once they were off duty, to switch to their own personal tie clips."
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/09/hal-mother-and-father/
Money quote: "He’d worked for IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York, a corporate labyrinth of beige cubicles and epochal breakthroughs; a world of punch cards and reel-to-reel magnetic tape, where at least some of the employees were deadly serious about making sure to wear the company tie clip and then, once they were off duty, to switch to their own personal tie clips."
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/09/hal-mother-and-father/
The Paris Review
Seeing the Sixties and Seventies Through 2001 and Alien
The two classic sci-fi films reflected the spirit of their times: 2001 full of hope for an evolving humanity, and Alien full of fear about the Me Generation.
Sorpresa Kodak al CES2017 «Ricominciamo a produrre le pellicole Ektachrome» - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/kodak-al-ces2017-ricominciamo-produrre-la-ektachrome/
http://www.macitynet.it/kodak-al-ces2017-ricominciamo-produrre-la-ektachrome/
Macitynet.it
Sorpresa Kodak al CES2017 «Ricominciamo a produrre le pellicole Ektachrome» - Macitynet.it
Anni dopo la cancellazione della storica pellicola, l’azienda di Rochester la rilancia. Torna in produzione Ektachrome: l'analogico rinasce?
Dieci anni di iPhone: Phil Schiller spiega un po' di cose, tra le quali i motivi per cui l'apparecchio di Apple è solo all'inizio della sua traiettoria: ce ne sarà per almeno 50 anni ancora.
Money quote: "Schiller takes pains, however, to specify that Apple maintains, and will continue to maintain, a lead over its rivals, despite the fact that Android outsells iPhone in units — though not in profits — and iPhone sales themselves seem to be slowing. “The quality is unmatched. The ease of use is still unmatched. The integration of hardware software is unmatched. We’re not about the cheapest, we’re not about the most, we’re about the best.”"
https://backchannel.com/phil-schiller-on-iphones-launch-how-it-changed-apple-and-why-it-will-keep-going-for-50-years-e4412ad2c8f5#.3ar7ntr41
Money quote: "Schiller takes pains, however, to specify that Apple maintains, and will continue to maintain, a lead over its rivals, despite the fact that Android outsells iPhone in units — though not in profits — and iPhone sales themselves seem to be slowing. “The quality is unmatched. The ease of use is still unmatched. The integration of hardware software is unmatched. We’re not about the cheapest, we’re not about the most, we’re about the best.”"
https://backchannel.com/phil-schiller-on-iphones-launch-how-it-changed-apple-and-why-it-will-keep-going-for-50-years-e4412ad2c8f5#.3ar7ntr41
Backchannel
Phil Schiller on iPhone’s Launch, How It Changed Apple, and Why It Will Keep Going for 50 Years
A reporter there for the creation gets Apple’s exclusive take on the “Jesus Phone”’s 10th birthday.
Dieci anni di iPhone: Phil Schiller spiega un po' di cose, tra le quali i motivi per cui l'apparecchio di Apple è solo all'inizio della sua traiettoria: ce ne sarà per almeno 50 anni ancora.
Money quote: "Schiller takes pains, however, to specify that Apple maintains, and will continue to maintain, a lead over its rivals, despite the fact that Android outsells iPhone in units — though not in profits — and iPhone sales themselves seem to be slowing. “The quality is unmatched. The ease of use is still unmatched. The integration of hardware software is unmatched. We’re not about the cheapest, we’re not about the most, we’re about the best.”"
https://backchannel.com/phil-schiller-on-iphones-launch-how-it-changed-apple-and-why-it-will-keep-going-for-50-years-e4412ad2c8f5#.3ar7ntr41
Money quote: "Schiller takes pains, however, to specify that Apple maintains, and will continue to maintain, a lead over its rivals, despite the fact that Android outsells iPhone in units — though not in profits — and iPhone sales themselves seem to be slowing. “The quality is unmatched. The ease of use is still unmatched. The integration of hardware software is unmatched. We’re not about the cheapest, we’re not about the most, we’re about the best.”"
https://backchannel.com/phil-schiller-on-iphones-launch-how-it-changed-apple-and-why-it-will-keep-going-for-50-years-e4412ad2c8f5#.3ar7ntr41
Backchannel
Phil Schiller on iPhone’s Launch, How It Changed Apple, and Why It Will Keep Going for 50 Years
A reporter there for the creation gets Apple’s exclusive take on the “Jesus Phone”’s 10th birthday.
Ansia e depressione materna: pare sia più forte se si è data alla luce una coppia di gemelli anziché fratelli e sorelle con gravidanze diverse
Money quote: “As it turns out, despite the exhaustion and feelings of overload during the infancy period, mothers experience a great deal of satisfaction and fulfilment in caring for their babies. But as puberty approaches, mothers find less and less positivity in interactions with their children, and the challenges of parenting become far more complex.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-mothers-of-tweens-not-babies-are-the-most-depressed
Money quote: “As it turns out, despite the exhaustion and feelings of overload during the infancy period, mothers experience a great deal of satisfaction and fulfilment in caring for their babies. But as puberty approaches, mothers find less and less positivity in interactions with their children, and the challenges of parenting become far more complex.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-mothers-of-tweens-not-babies-are-the-most-depressed
Aeon
Why mothers of tweens – not babies – are the most depressed
Mothers’ moods plummet during middle school years and are at their happiest during infancy and the empty nest
È il primo paese al mondo a fare uno switch-off radiofonico totale. La Norvegia gioca una carta pesante, via tutto e solo DAB, che rischia di creare più di un paio di problemi.
Money quote:
“The shutdown of the FM (Frequency Modulation) network, introduced in the 1950s, will begin in the northern city of Bodoe on Jan. 11.
By the end of the year, all national FM broadcasts will be closed in favor of DAB, which backers say carries less hiss and clearer sound throughout the large nation of 5 million people cut by fjords and mountains.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-radio-idUSKBN14P1TH?il=0
Money quote:
“The shutdown of the FM (Frequency Modulation) network, introduced in the 1950s, will begin in the northern city of Bodoe on Jan. 11.
By the end of the year, all national FM broadcasts will be closed in favor of DAB, which backers say carries less hiss and clearer sound throughout the large nation of 5 million people cut by fjords and mountains.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-radio-idUSKBN14P1TH?il=0
A me questa cosa che Yahoo se la compra Verizon e gli cambia nome in Altaba mi pare una cosa poco smart, per usare un eufemismo. Il nome non era un asset da poco! Marissa Mayer intanto verrà giubilata.
Money quote: “Yahoo said that the new company -- which consists of Yahoo's remaining investment in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Yahoo Japan, as well as cash and a few other assets -- will only need five board members, and Mayer as well as Yahoo cofounder David Filo will not be among them.”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/yahoo-leftovers-will-be-called-altaba-mayer-will-not-be-on-board-2017-01-09
Money quote: “Yahoo said that the new company -- which consists of Yahoo's remaining investment in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Yahoo Japan, as well as cash and a few other assets -- will only need five board members, and Mayer as well as Yahoo cofounder David Filo will not be among them.”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/yahoo-leftovers-will-be-called-altaba-mayer-will-not-be-on-board-2017-01-09
MarketWatch
Yahoo leftovers will be called Altaba, Mayer will not be on board
Forwarded from Social&Positive News - L'informazione che fa bene
😀 #Felicità #Bauman
“Non è vero che la felicità significhi una vita senza problemi. La vita felice viene dal superamento dei problemi”. Apriamo le notizie di oggi con un frammento del discorso di Zygmunt Bauman sulla felicità in un brevissimo video di Rai3.
https://goo.gl/GzD5bZ
“Non è vero che la felicità significhi una vita senza problemi. La vita felice viene dal superamento dei problemi”. Apriamo le notizie di oggi con un frammento del discorso di Zygmunt Bauman sulla felicità in un brevissimo video di Rai3.
https://goo.gl/GzD5bZ
YouTube
Discorso sulla Felicità - Zygmunt Bauman
Il famoso discorso di Bauman sulla Felicità. Bauman ha focalizzato le sue ricerche sui temi della stratificazione sociale e del movimento dei lavoratori, pri...
Un inquietante viaggio nella mente di Donald Trump: questa volta siamo alla psicanalisi del mostro. A me sta venendo un dubbio, però. Se continuano a scrivere articolo così, i giornali americano fanno ancora peggio di quelli italiani con Silvio Berlusconi: possibile non lo capiscano?
Money quote: “I might have phrased Singer’s question this way: Who are you, Mr. Trump, when you are alone? Singer never got an answer, leaving him to conclude that the real-estate mogul who would become a reality-TV star and, after that, a leading candidate for president of the United States had managed to achieve something remarkable: “an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.””
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/
Money quote: “I might have phrased Singer’s question this way: Who are you, Mr. Trump, when you are alone? Singer never got an answer, leaving him to conclude that the real-estate mogul who would become a reality-TV star and, after that, a leading candidate for president of the United States had managed to achieve something remarkable: “an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.””
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/
The Atlantic
The Mind of Donald Trump
A psychologist’s guide to an extraordinary personality—and Donald Trump’s possible presidency
A quanto pare c’è una nuova serie di fantascienza “tosta” (navi nello spazio, battaglie, corse contro il tempo, asteroidi, Marte...) che sta rinverdendo i tempi di Battlestar Galactica. Era l’ora. Si chiama “The Expanse” ed è l’adattamento di una serie di libri di un certo successo. Spacca duro.
Money quote: “Just before the series aired, I wrote a post pleading to the gods of science fiction to please, please, please not let television destroy this thing of beauty I love so dearly. With the final credits rolled up, it's time to answer that all-important question.”
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/03/10/469626620/the-expanse-best-science-fiction-show-in-a-decade
Money quote: “Just before the series aired, I wrote a post pleading to the gods of science fiction to please, please, please not let television destroy this thing of beauty I love so dearly. With the final credits rolled up, it's time to answer that all-important question.”
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/03/10/469626620/the-expanse-best-science-fiction-show-in-a-decade
La nascita del nomade digitale, del road warrior che sfrutta la tecnologia per spostarsi ovunque. Vivere il sogno oppure precariato all’ennesima potenza? Il mio articolo per Link
Money quote: “Il punto è che, se si vive lo stesso anno per 75 volte, questa non possiamo chiamarla vita”
http://www.linkideeperlatv.it/nomadi-digitali/
Money quote: “Il punto è che, se si vive lo stesso anno per 75 volte, questa non possiamo chiamarla vita”
http://www.linkideeperlatv.it/nomadi-digitali/
Link
Nomadi digitali - Link
Cos’è il fenomeno del digital nomadism, come si è evoluto e perché esistono i nomadi digitali.
AirPods, per Apple è un successo che vale 10 miliardi di dollari - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/airpods-un-successo-vale-10-miliardi-dollari/
http://www.macitynet.it/airpods-un-successo-vale-10-miliardi-dollari/
Macitynet.it
AirPods, per Apple è un successo che vale 10 miliardi di dollari
Secondo le previsioni Apple venderà 22 milioni di auricolari AirPods nel 2017. È il primo, grande successo dell’era Tim Cook
Forwarded from macitynet.it
Tutto merito di AirPods: Apple domina il 40% delle cuffie wireless http://www.macitynet.it/merito-airpods-apple-domina-40-del-mercato-cuffie-wireless/
Macitynet.it
Tutto merito di AirPods: Apple domina il 40% delle cuffie wireless
le cuffie wireless di Apple sono un successo planetario: insieme Beats e airpods rappresentano il 40% mercato delle cuffie wireless