Ghost in the Shell è una specie di capolavoro nipponico del cyberpunk. Ci sono almeno due generazioni (se non tre) del manga e degli anime di Shirow Masamune (è uno pseudonimo non invertibile). Adesso arriva il film con Scarelett Johansson.
Una prece. Signore dei manga e degli anime, fa che non sia una tavanata.
Qui il secondo trailer (vale la pena, se non altro per i panorami post-urbani alla Blade Runner). L’uscita del film è prevista nelle sale americane il 31 marzo 2017 e il Italia il 30 marzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRkb1X9ovI4
Una prece. Signore dei manga e degli anime, fa che non sia una tavanata.
Qui il secondo trailer (vale la pena, se non altro per i panorami post-urbani alla Blade Runner). L’uscita del film è prevista nelle sale americane il 31 marzo 2017 e il Italia il 30 marzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRkb1X9ovI4
YouTube
Ghost In The Shell (2017) - Official Trailer - Paramount Pictures
"They created me, but they cannot control me."
GHOST IN THE SHELL starring Scarlett Johansson opens in theaters nationwide on March 31, 2017.
In the near future, Major (Scarlett Johansson) is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who…
GHOST IN THE SHELL starring Scarlett Johansson opens in theaters nationwide on March 31, 2017.
In the near future, Major (Scarlett Johansson) is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who…
Mi piace molto un certo approccio descrittivo e investigativo, avvolto però in un velo di parole che mostrino l’umanità di chi scrive, quando si affronta l’argomento della malattia, del cervello, della mente. Mi piace Oliver Sacks, per dire (che, non c’entra, ma ha lasciato un ultimo blocchetto di parole intitolato da noi “Gratitudine”, prima di morire), e invece soffro quando leggo dell’ennesima supercazzola delle neuroscienze. In questo caso, a sorpresa, ho trovato questa piccola storia che potrebbe rimettere a tutti noi i piedi per terra, riportarci nella neurologia quando era narrazione non (come oggi) completamente separata dalla psicologia.
Anche se, lasciatemelo dire, una storia così era meglio se la raccontava uno che non scrive con il machete: l’umanità di un trattore che ara il campo. Mamma mia. Quindi, cioè, magari non leggetelo va, che a me è già passata la voglia.
Money quote: “Without an intact and functioning hippocampus, Johnson, who was in her late 50s at the time, no longer had access to most of the vast store of memories she’d accumulated over her lifetime. She didn’t remember that she had once been married. She no longer knew that her beloved father had died nearly 20 years earlier. The farm in upstate New York where she’d been living for a decade, and which she deeply loved, was completely unfamiliar. She did recognise her mother and sister, but her oldest and closest friends were now complete strangers to her.”
https://aeon.co/essays/what-amnesiac-patients-can-tell-us-about-how-memories-are-made
Anche se, lasciatemelo dire, una storia così era meglio se la raccontava uno che non scrive con il machete: l’umanità di un trattore che ara il campo. Mamma mia. Quindi, cioè, magari non leggetelo va, che a me è già passata la voglia.
Money quote: “Without an intact and functioning hippocampus, Johnson, who was in her late 50s at the time, no longer had access to most of the vast store of memories she’d accumulated over her lifetime. She didn’t remember that she had once been married. She no longer knew that her beloved father had died nearly 20 years earlier. The farm in upstate New York where she’d been living for a decade, and which she deeply loved, was completely unfamiliar. She did recognise her mother and sister, but her oldest and closest friends were now complete strangers to her.”
https://aeon.co/essays/what-amnesiac-patients-can-tell-us-about-how-memories-are-made
Aeon
Living in the now
She can paint, but not name a painting; learn new music without knowing a tune. Lonni Sue is teaching us much about memory
Abbandoniamo Note: come esportare tutto su Ulysses - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/abbandoniamo-note-esportare-ulysses/
http://www.macitynet.it/abbandoniamo-note-esportare-ulysses/
Macitynet.it
Abbandoniamo Note: come esportare tutto su Ulysses
Avete scritto il vostro romanzo sui giallini di Apple e non sapete come portarlo fuori dalle Note di mac e iOS? Se avete Ulysses una strada c’è
E così a Donald Trump gli è pure scappato il refuso nel poster di celebrazione dell’elezione. Quello ufficiale, a cura del suo staff alla Casa Bianca. Tanto per far capire che sono gente precisa. (Hint: ”no challenge is TO great”, manca una O)
Money quote: “Trump just revealed his official inauguration poster and it has a glaring typo”
http://usuncut.com/news/trump-just-revealed-official-inauguration-poster-glaring-typo/
Money quote: “Trump just revealed his official inauguration poster and it has a glaring typo”
http://usuncut.com/news/trump-just-revealed-official-inauguration-poster-glaring-typo/
U.S. Uncut
Trump just revealed his official inauguration poster and it has a glaring typo
President Trump’s official inauguration portrait went up for sale with an obvious typo on it this evening. The print of Trump, sold on the Library of Congress’s website, features a quote from the president which mistakes “too” for “to.” “No dream is too big…
Diventa difficile lavorare quando hai un presidente come Donald Trump. No, sul serio
Money quote: “Kris Duggan, the CEO of BetterWorks, says that anecdotally he’s seen some changes at the workplace since the election. That’s why the company commissioned the survey in the first place. "People spend time on Facebook, they go and look at cat photos and have some down time, and that's fine. With all the political posts, it seemed like people were getting worked up, argumentative, and distracted," says Duggan.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/work-politics/516120/
Money quote: “Kris Duggan, the CEO of BetterWorks, says that anecdotally he’s seen some changes at the workplace since the election. That’s why the company commissioned the survey in the first place. "People spend time on Facebook, they go and look at cat photos and have some down time, and that's fine. With all the political posts, it seemed like people were getting worked up, argumentative, and distracted," says Duggan.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/work-politics/516120/
The Atlantic
People Are Finding It Hard to Focus on Work Right Now
A survey finds that nearly a third of people say they have been less productive since the election.
Momento nerd. Se amate le macchine virtuali e usate Linux, Mac o Windows, Microsoft regala vm già pronte per titoli i principali virtualizzatori, da Vmware a virtualbox fino a Parallels (ma ce be sono anche altri).
Fate uno snapshot dell'installazione perché scade dopo 90 giorni e dovete ritornare indietro.
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
Fate uno snapshot dell'installazione perché scade dopo 90 giorni e dovete ritornare indietro.
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
Un altro che si è fatto ipnotizzare dagli AirPods di Apple. Io li sto usando da non so neanche quanto, ma devo dire la verità: non mi ricordo più com’era prima di averli
Money quote 1: “Ma come quando al mattino dopo scopri che la ragazza conquistata tra i bagordi non è la più bella del mondo come credevi complice lo spritz, anche per gli AirPods dopo la sbornia della presentazione sono cominciati a montare i dubbi”
Money quote 2: “«Il potere logora chi non ce l’ha» è una citazione attribuita al grande statista francese Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord e citata da Giulio Andreotti, che la riprese in un suo noto libro, Il potere logora, ma è meglio non perderlo, nel quale la racconta di averla ascoltata dal Vicario di Roma, cardinal Marchetti Selvaggiani. Gli AirPods si possono comprare nello Store. Questo test è stato condotto su un sample fornito direttamente da Apple.”
http://www.gqitalia.it/gadget/hi-tech/2017/02/14/gli-airpods-logorano-chi-non-ce-li-ha/
Money quote 1: “Ma come quando al mattino dopo scopri che la ragazza conquistata tra i bagordi non è la più bella del mondo come credevi complice lo spritz, anche per gli AirPods dopo la sbornia della presentazione sono cominciati a montare i dubbi”
Money quote 2: “«Il potere logora chi non ce l’ha» è una citazione attribuita al grande statista francese Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord e citata da Giulio Andreotti, che la riprese in un suo noto libro, Il potere logora, ma è meglio non perderlo, nel quale la racconta di averla ascoltata dal Vicario di Roma, cardinal Marchetti Selvaggiani. Gli AirPods si possono comprare nello Store. Questo test è stato condotto su un sample fornito direttamente da Apple.”
http://www.gqitalia.it/gadget/hi-tech/2017/02/14/gli-airpods-logorano-chi-non-ce-li-ha/
GQ Italia
Gli Airpods logorano chi non ce li ha
Alla presentazione dell’iPhone 7, il premio migliore effetto: Wow! se lo sono decisamente portato a casa gli AirPods, i nuovi auricolari senza fili di Apple. Morto il jack delle cuffie,...
A volte ritornano. Il mio pezzo per la Stampa: A sorpresa torna il Nokia 3310 - Il telefono, tra i più venduti di sempre (125 milioni di pezzi), troverà nuova vita tra pochi giorni
http://www.lastampa.it/2017/02/14/tecnologia/a-sorpresa-torna-il-nokia-rEB6BSGXhClH7DUis1LR5J/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2017/02/14/tecnologia/a-sorpresa-torna-il-nokia-rEB6BSGXhClH7DUis1LR5J/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
A sorpresa torna il Nokia 3310
Il telefono, tra i più venduti di sempre (125 milioni di pezzi), troverà nuova vita tra pochi giorni
Il vinile torna di moda, e con lui anche i giradischi e le puntine. Ma lo sapete che con una delle nuove banconote da cinque sterline potete suonare la musica (male)? Si tratta di un processo fisico: l’angolo fa da puntina, ma è la superficie della banconota a vibrare, emettendo il suono come fosse un vecchio grammofono (che funzionava con quel principio). Divertente (ma musicalmente orrendo).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtNXDTPBzB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtNXDTPBzB0
YouTube
New five pound note plays vinyl records
FREE AIFF DOWNLOAD OF LICKLE ROLLA - https://soundcloud.com/lowfelt/lickle-rolla
The pound may be down, but the tunes are up!
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contact licensing@storyful.com
https://soundcloud.com/jimmy…
The pound may be down, but the tunes are up!
To use this video in a commercial player or in a broadcast please
contact licensing@storyful.com
https://soundcloud.com/jimmy…
San Valentino da paura con l’app degli zombi: The Walking Dead: Dead Yourself, il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/app-paura-san-valentino/
http://www.macitynet.it/app-paura-san-valentino/
Macitynet.it
Una app da paura per San Valentino, The Walking Dead: Dead Yourself gratis per iOS
Zombificate il giorno degli innamorati con The Walking Dead: Dead Yourself. Effetti garantiti con foto e video da paura
Chi è esattamente Stephen Bannon, l’uomo che ha inventato il trumpismo ed è l’eminenza grigia di Donald Trump? E soprattutto: che cosa vuole?
Money quote: “Underlying all of this is the philosophy of Edmund Burke, an influential 18th-century Irish political thinker whom Bannon occasionally references. In Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke presents his view that the basis of a successful society should not be abstract notions like human rights, social justice, or equality. Rather, societies work best when traditions that have been shown to work are passed from generation to generation. The baby boomers, Bannon says in a lecture given to the Liberty Restoration Foundation (LRF), failed to live up to that Burkean responsibility by abandoning the tried-and-true values of their parents (nationalism, modesty, patriarchy, religion) in favor of new abstractions (pluralism, sexuality, egalitarianism, secularism).”
https://qz.com/898134/what-steve-bannon-really-wants/
Money quote: “Underlying all of this is the philosophy of Edmund Burke, an influential 18th-century Irish political thinker whom Bannon occasionally references. In Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke presents his view that the basis of a successful society should not be abstract notions like human rights, social justice, or equality. Rather, societies work best when traditions that have been shown to work are passed from generation to generation. The baby boomers, Bannon says in a lecture given to the Liberty Restoration Foundation (LRF), failed to live up to that Burkean responsibility by abandoning the tried-and-true values of their parents (nationalism, modesty, patriarchy, religion) in favor of new abstractions (pluralism, sexuality, egalitarianism, secularism).”
https://qz.com/898134/what-steve-bannon-really-wants/
Quartz
Steve Bannon has a grand vision for remaking America
If you know what to look for, you'll see it in everything Trump says.
Che cosa buffa: leggere sul Guardian di un ristorante di Padova che fa lo sconto del 5% sul conto finale se i bambini sono stati bravi a tavola (nel senso che non tirano il cibo addosso agli altri avventori, non urlano, non sono scalmanati etc). Buffo leggerlo sul Guardian, ma ottima idea di marketing: se avete un ristorante, la strada è tracciata
Money quote: “Unlike the disciplined French children portrayed by Pamela Druckerman in her book Bringing up Bébé who sit quietly through restaurant meals as their parents engage in adult conversation, Italian families are stereotypically more rowdy, with loud behaviour often indulged by parents who see it as as a normal childhood phenomenon.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/14/penne-saving-polite-children-discount-italian-restaurant
Money quote: “Unlike the disciplined French children portrayed by Pamela Druckerman in her book Bringing up Bébé who sit quietly through restaurant meals as their parents engage in adult conversation, Italian families are stereotypically more rowdy, with loud behaviour often indulged by parents who see it as as a normal childhood phenomenon.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/14/penne-saving-polite-children-discount-italian-restaurant
the Guardian
Penne saving: polite children secure discount at Italian restaurant
Owner of wine bar in Padua hopes 5% price cut will encourage parents to rein-in children who disturb other diners
E infatti il ristoratore padovano era finito sul Corriere di ieri (mi era scappato). Mi pareva strano. Grazie a Carlo per la puntuale segnalazione
E adesso abbiamo anche un po' di informazioni su Sebastian Gorka, l'uomo che dietro a Donald Trump si occupa di sicurezza nazionale.
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/02/14/mastering-trump-mastermind-sebastian-gorka/
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/02/14/mastering-trump-mastermind-sebastian-gorka/
EUROPP
Mastering Trump’s mastermind: Sebastian Gorka and the struggle between Islam and the West
British-born Sebastian Gorka was appointed as Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States by Donald Trump in January and is viewed as one of the key figures behind the President’s nation…
I Boston sono pochi conosciuti in Italia ma io li adoro fin da ragazzino. La storia raccontata dal loro fondatore, Tom Schulz, è fantastica. La storia di un hacker della musica, oltre che di un lavoratore veramente tosto.
Money quote: "I spent six years learning how to create the music all by myself. It was the only way that music ever could have seen the light of day. I tried doing it using other musicians. I could never get what I was looking for. I had to get other people completely away from me. That enabled me to come up with the arrangements, and the sounds, and then once I got the actual “band” recorded, Brad Delp (Boston singer) would come in, and he would lay down a quick melody, and then start laying on harmonies"
http://ew.com/article/2016/03/13/more-feeling-boston-tom-scholz/amp/
Money quote: "I spent six years learning how to create the music all by myself. It was the only way that music ever could have seen the light of day. I tried doing it using other musicians. I could never get what I was looking for. I had to get other people completely away from me. That enabled me to come up with the arrangements, and the sounds, and then once I got the actual “band” recorded, Brad Delp (Boston singer) would come in, and he would lay down a quick melody, and then start laying on harmonies"
http://ew.com/article/2016/03/13/more-feeling-boston-tom-scholz/amp/
EW.com
'More Than a Feeling': The making of a rock classic
Boston guitarist-songwriter Tom Scholz recalls the creation of his band’s enduring debut single
Resident Evil: al cinema il capitolo finale di una saga (quasi) artigianale | il mio articolo per Fumettologica
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/02/resident-evil-videogioco-film-cinema-fumetto/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/02/resident-evil-videogioco-film-cinema-fumetto/
Fumettologica
Resident Evil: al cinema il capitolo finale di una saga (quasi) artigianale
Nella città di Akihabara, tra i grattacieli dell’impero dei videogiochi, si chiama ancora Baio Hazādo, ma in Occidente si chiama da sempre Resident Evil.
Com’era stare con Oliver Sacks
Money quote: “My decision to move to New York more than a year later had nothing to do with Oliver, and I did not have a relationship in mind. I had simply reached a point in my life where I had to get away from San Francisco — my home for the past 25 years — and, at age 48, start fresh. But once I moved here in the spring of 2009, O and I started spending time together and quickly got better and better acquainted.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/billhayes/insomniac-city?utm_term=.kszPxzPv73#.vhBQEqQ4eX
Money quote: “My decision to move to New York more than a year later had nothing to do with Oliver, and I did not have a relationship in mind. I had simply reached a point in my life where I had to get away from San Francisco — my home for the past 25 years — and, at age 48, start fresh. But once I moved here in the spring of 2009, O and I started spending time together and quickly got better and better acquainted.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/billhayes/insomniac-city?utm_term=.kszPxzPv73#.vhBQEqQ4eX
BuzzFeed
What It Was Like To Love Oliver Sacks
“I just want to enjoy your nextness and nearness,” O says.
Piccole cose di cui non si parla molto spesso. L’attenzione di Adolf Hitler e del regime nazista negli anni Trenta per le leggi razziali e il suprematismo bianco degli Stati Uniti
Money quote: “The record of that meeting is only one piece of evidence in an unexamined history that is sure to make Americans cringe. Throughout the early 1930s, the years of the making of the Nuremberg Laws, Nazi policymakers looked to US law for inspiration. Hitler himself, in Mein Kampf (1925), described the US as ‘the one state’ that had made progress toward the creation of a healthy racist society, and after the Nazis seized power in 1933 they continued to cite and ponder US models regularly. They saw many things to despise in US constitutional values, to be sure. But they also saw many things to admire in US white supremacy, and when the Nuremberg Laws were promulgated in 1935, it is almost certainly the case that they reflected direct US influence.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-the-nazis-studied-american-race-laws-for-inspiration
Money quote: “The record of that meeting is only one piece of evidence in an unexamined history that is sure to make Americans cringe. Throughout the early 1930s, the years of the making of the Nuremberg Laws, Nazi policymakers looked to US law for inspiration. Hitler himself, in Mein Kampf (1925), described the US as ‘the one state’ that had made progress toward the creation of a healthy racist society, and after the Nazis seized power in 1933 they continued to cite and ponder US models regularly. They saw many things to despise in US constitutional values, to be sure. But they also saw many things to admire in US white supremacy, and when the Nuremberg Laws were promulgated in 1935, it is almost certainly the case that they reflected direct US influence.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-the-nazis-studied-american-race-laws-for-inspiration
Aeon
Why the Nazis studied American race laws for inspiration
When Nazi Germany drew up the racist Nuremberg Laws, it looked to the Jim Crow laws and anti-immigrant policies of the US
Microsoft cambia casa a Milano, il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/trasloca-microsoft-italia-dalla-periferia-al-centro-milano/
http://www.macitynet.it/trasloca-microsoft-italia-dalla-periferia-al-centro-milano/
Macitynet.it
Microsoft Italia cambia casa: nel centro chic di Milano per lo smart work aperto a tutti - Macitynet.it
La nuova sede Microsoft Italia pensata per la collaborazione, spazi aperti a partner, clienti, scuole e cittadini: “Vogliamo mostrare cos’è lo smart work”
Divertiamoci a leggere qualcosa di un po' più "sfidante". Un articolo del filosofo Luciano Floridi sotto forma di paper che affronta il tema del rapporto tra natura, scienza e ricerca. Tenetevelo buono per il fine settimana: richiede un po' di tempo.
Money quote: "I shall conclude that the natural is in itself artefactual (a semantic construction), and that the information revolution is disclosing a tension not between the natural and the non-natural, but a deeper one between a user’s and a producer’s interpretation of knowledge. The outcome is a philosophical view of knowledge and science in the information age that may be called constructionist and a revival of philosophy as a classic, foundationalist enterprise."
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers2.cfm?abstract_id=2913477#.WKWdNftyWOI.twitter
Money quote: "I shall conclude that the natural is in itself artefactual (a semantic construction), and that the information revolution is disclosing a tension not between the natural and the non-natural, but a deeper one between a user’s and a producer’s interpretation of knowledge. The outcome is a philosophical view of knowledge and science in the information age that may be called constructionist and a revival of philosophy as a classic, foundationalist enterprise."
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers2.cfm?abstract_id=2913477#.WKWdNftyWOI.twitter
Ssrn
A Plea for Non-Naturalism As Constructionism by Luciano Floridi :: SSRN
Contemporary science seems to be caught in a strange predicament. On the one hand, it holds a firm and reasonable commitment to a healthy naturalistic methodolo