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
Andare negli Stati Uniti sta per diventare un problema? Raccolgo segnali contraddittori da parti diverse: molte persone che non sono per niente serene. E ne hanno ben donde.
Money quote:
“If a police officer were to stop you on the street of America and ask you to unlock your phone and give it to them, these amendments [Fourth and Fifth, Ndr] would give you strong legal ground for refusing to do so.
But unfortunately, the US border isn’t technically the US, and you don’t have either of these rights at the border.
It’s totally legal for a US Customs and Border Patrol officer to ask you to unlock your phone and hand it over to them. And they can detain you indefinitely if you don’t. Even if you’re a American citizen.”
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/ill-never-bring-my-phone-on-an-international-flight-again-neither-should-you-e9289cde0e5f#.hcajzi9lb
Money quote:
“If a police officer were to stop you on the street of America and ask you to unlock your phone and give it to them, these amendments [Fourth and Fifth, Ndr] would give you strong legal ground for refusing to do so.
But unfortunately, the US border isn’t technically the US, and you don’t have either of these rights at the border.
It’s totally legal for a US Customs and Border Patrol officer to ask you to unlock your phone and hand it over to them. And they can detain you indefinitely if you don’t. Even if you’re a American citizen.”
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/ill-never-bring-my-phone-on-an-international-flight-again-neither-should-you-e9289cde0e5f#.hcajzi9lb
freeCodeCamp
I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you.
A few months ago I wrote about how you can encrypt your entire life in less than an hour. Well, all the security in the world can’t save…
Riparte l’industria del vinile: adesso c’è una nuova macchina per stampare i dischi, la prima da cinquant’anni. Il mio articolo per Repubblica
Money quote: “Si chiama WarmTone, arriva dal Canada ed è la nuova pressa super-tecnologica e robotizzata per stampare album in vinile da 180 grammi. Sforna quattromila dischi al giorno, quasi un milione e mezzo all’anno, con un livello di precisione impossibile per i vecchi impianti nati negli anni Cinquanta e ancora in uso”
http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/prodotti/2017/02/15/news/macchina_hi-tech_vinile-158377152/
Money quote: “Si chiama WarmTone, arriva dal Canada ed è la nuova pressa super-tecnologica e robotizzata per stampare album in vinile da 180 grammi. Sforna quattromila dischi al giorno, quasi un milione e mezzo all’anno, con un livello di precisione impossibile per i vecchi impianti nati negli anni Cinquanta e ancora in uso”
http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/prodotti/2017/02/15/news/macchina_hi-tech_vinile-158377152/
la Repubblica
Il vinile rinasce e dopo 40 anni arriva una nuova macchina per stampare i dischi
Si chiama WarmTone, arriva dal Canada ed è la nuova pressa super-tecnologica e robotizzata per stampare album in vinile da 180 grammi. Sforna quattromil…
E qui la gallery dei giradischi supertecnologici
http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2017/02/15/foto/ecco_i_giradischi_super_tecnologici-158379164/1/?ref=nrct-1#1
http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2017/02/15/foto/ecco_i_giradischi_super_tecnologici-158379164/1/?ref=nrct-1#1
La Repubblica
Ecco i giradischi super tecnologici
Dalla nuova edizione del mitico Technics SL-1200 al piatto Mag-Lev che sembra galleggiare sospeso nell'aria grazie a un cuscinetto elettromagnetico (per
Affrontiamo il tema duro e dibattuto dei fanatici della grammatica. I nazisti della grammatica, come si dice. Quelli che si inalberano per un congiuntivo mozzato o per una preposizione fuori luogo. (O per un calco dall'inglese). Il tema è vivacemente dibattuto anche nei paesi anglofoni. C'è chi si chiede però se l'effetto della troppa puntuta precisione non faccia solo peggiorare le cose. Perché la lingua è viva e cambia.
Money quote: "Knox, a self-described “ambiguity ally,” says her attitude to English was shaped by growing up in a family of dyslexics"
https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2017/02/grammar-confession-contd/517017/
Money quote: "Knox, a self-described “ambiguity ally,” says her attitude to English was shaped by growing up in a family of dyslexics"
https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2017/02/grammar-confession-contd/517017/
The Atlantic
Readers Debate: Does Grammar Pedantry Perpetuate Ignorance About Language?
There’s no such thing as a split infinitive. It’s perfectly fine to strand prepositions. So, what’s so important about your usage rules?
Con due batterie arrivava a dodici ore di autonomia. Era il 16 febbraio del 2000 e Apple lanciava uno dei più bei computer portatili di sempre: il Pismo. Abbandonava la porta SCSI e invece utilizzava per la prima volta USB e FireWire. Fu l’ultimo PowerBook con sinuoso design in plastica, i modelli successivi (a partire dal “Titanium”) invece passarono alla scocca di metallo. Ma quella è tutta un’altra storia.
Se su qualche bancarella vi capita, è ancora un computer più che eccellente
Money quote: “The Pismo PowerBook is the first not to include the SCSI or Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) connector, and instead to opt for USB and Apple’s Emmy award-winning FireWire. Optional AirPort wireless support, tremendous battery life, and a gorgeous curvy design just makes it better.”
http://www.cultofmac.com/467887/today-in-apple-history-pismo-powerbook-is-a-multimedia-powerhouse/
Se su qualche bancarella vi capita, è ancora un computer più che eccellente
Money quote: “The Pismo PowerBook is the first not to include the SCSI or Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) connector, and instead to opt for USB and Apple’s Emmy award-winning FireWire. Optional AirPort wireless support, tremendous battery life, and a gorgeous curvy design just makes it better.”
http://www.cultofmac.com/467887/today-in-apple-history-pismo-powerbook-is-a-multimedia-powerhouse/
Cult of Mac
Today in Apple history: Pismo PowerBook is a multimedia powerhouse
On February 16, 2000, Apple unveiled the Pismo PowerBook. FireWire and expandability made it one of Apple's best laptops ever.
Se avete voglia di spaventarvi un po', qui trovate pane per le vostre ansie
Money quote: "The next pandemic will erupt, not from the jungle, but from the disease factories of hospitals, refugee camps and cities"
https://aeon.co/essays/the-next-pandemic-will-be-nothing-like-ebola
Money quote: "The next pandemic will erupt, not from the jungle, but from the disease factories of hospitals, refugee camps and cities"
https://aeon.co/essays/the-next-pandemic-will-be-nothing-like-ebola
Aeon
How plagues really work
The next pandemic will erupt, not from the jungle, but from the disease factories of hospitals, refugee camps and cities
Il presidente FCC parla a tutti ma pensa ad Apple: vuole sentire la radio FM sugli iPhone - il mio articolo su Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/lfcc-vuol-sentire-la-radio-fm-sugli-iphone/
http://www.macitynet.it/lfcc-vuol-sentire-la-radio-fm-sugli-iphone/
Macitynet.it
Il presidente FCC parla a tutti ma pensa ad Apple: vuole sentire la radio FM sugli iPhone
Un altro "miracolo" dell'era Trump: il presidente della FCC appena nominato vuole sbloccare la radio FM su tutti i telefoni
È quasi finita la settimana. Per due giorni non avete niente da fare. Sta venendo anche la bella stagione: a maggior ragione chiudetevi in casa a rimpiangere le sere nebbiose o nevose dell’inverno. Volete vivere un fine settimana nerd con pienezza? È il momento di takeover.sh
Compitino per venerdì-sera-sabato-domenica
Se usate Linux con questo “semplice” script potete rimpiazzare la distribuzione che state usando con un’altra senza formattare o riavviare la vostra macchina. Non usate Linux? Fate una VM e giocateci là dentro
Money quote: “A script to completely take over a running Linux system remotely, allowing you to log into an in-memory rescue environment, unmount the original root filesystem, and do anything you want, all without rebooting. Replace one distro with another without touching a physical console.”
https://github.com/marcan/takeover.sh
Compitino per venerdì-sera-sabato-domenica
Se usate Linux con questo “semplice” script potete rimpiazzare la distribuzione che state usando con un’altra senza formattare o riavviare la vostra macchina. Non usate Linux? Fate una VM e giocateci là dentro
Money quote: “A script to completely take over a running Linux system remotely, allowing you to log into an in-memory rescue environment, unmount the original root filesystem, and do anything you want, all without rebooting. Replace one distro with another without touching a physical console.”
https://github.com/marcan/takeover.sh
GitHub
GitHub - marcan/takeover.sh: Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH, without rebooting. You know you want to.
Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH, without rebooting. You know you want to. - marcan/takeover.sh
Cala anche negli Usa il tasso di fertilità. Se siete giovani, si prospettano lavori piuttosto singolari
Money quote: "Memo to job-seekers: You've probably got more of a chance walking dogs for a living than teaching kids in the coming decade's labor market"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-17/dog-walkers-to-be-more-in-demand-than-teachers-in-next-decade
Money quote: "Memo to job-seekers: You've probably got more of a chance walking dogs for a living than teaching kids in the coming decade's labor market"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-17/dog-walkers-to-be-more-in-demand-than-teachers-in-next-decade
Bloomberg
Dog Walkers to Be More in Demand Than Teachers in Next Decade
Demographics to drive changes in spending patterns, report says
Apple riparte con una serie di spot che ricordano quelli della fortunata campagna "I'm a Mac, I'm a Pc" (ricordate? I due attori che somigiavano a Steve Jobs e Bill Gates in siparietti da 20 secondi). Questa nuova campagna si chiama 'We hear you' ed è tutta centrata su iPad Pro, strumento di lavoro e di creatività personale senza complessi d'inferiorità rispetto ai laptop (anzi, qualche sentimento di superiorità). A me gli spot sono piaciuti molto, suggerisco di guardarli. Su iMore sono raccolti tutti assieme, perlomeno quelli prodotti sinora.
http://www.imore.com/hi-im-ipad-pro-apple-hears-you-brings-classic-feel-new-ads
http://www.imore.com/hi-im-ipad-pro-apple-hears-you-brings-classic-feel-new-ads
iMore
Hi, I'm an iPad Pro! — 'We hear you' brings classic feel to new ads
Apple has just launched a new ad campaign called 'We Hear You' and it's going to show real people how iPad Pro can solve their real computing problems.