La relatività dei sentimenti e degli stati d’animo, la capacità di apprezzare i miglioramenti e di evitare i peggioramenti, il bisogno di stare meglio, più che di stare bene ma per potersi sentire bene. Sono lezioni che troppo spesso dimentichiamo

Money quote: “The rest of my life will always be entwined with rheumatoid arthritis. But it’s my choice to also be something more, to not feel sick, to still find those shadows of a dancer, which is to say tiny flecks of magic, within me.”

https://longreads.com/2021/05/25/happy-is-a-relative-state

Oggi, 50 anni fa, andava in onda la prima puntata della serie animata di Lupin, quella a cui lavorarono Isao Takahata e Hayao Miyazaki.
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/10/avventure-di-lupin-iii-anime/

Il più grande scandalo nel mondo del Bridge l’hanno fatto gli italiani. Sistematicamente. Reitaratamente. Ancora oggi. Sapevatelo.

Money quote: “More often than seemed mathematically conceivable, Fantoni and Nunes made unusual bids and low-percentage plays that succeeded brilliantly, suggesting that they were illegally exchanging information about their hands. But how?" The New Yorker: The Great Bridge Boycott. "At a recent tournament, thirty teams refused to compete when faced with the prospect of playing against Fulvio Fantoni, a notorious Italian player who has been accused of cheating."

https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/the-great-bridge-boycott

La cosa divertente, se non fosse che è da piangere, è che i cinquantenni se perdono il lavoro non ne trovano un altro a piangere. E invece, quando se ne vogliono andare in pensione (negli Usa, dove il sistema funziona in maniera diversa da noi), tutti a piangere che se ne vanno i migliori e i più competenti che sanno far funzionare le cose. Decidetevi.

Money quote: "Early retirements, whether desired or forced, will deprive the labor market of some of its most productive workers and have an impact on the economic recovery that is still too early to evaluate. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell this week cited a “significant number" of people saying they've retired as one reason companies are reporting labor shortages, although it's unclear if they'll eventually rejoin the job market."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-30/more-americans-are-considering-retirement-because-of-covid

Scusate il vuoto di post, è la prima volta che succede ma è stata una settimana luuuuunga e ho sbagliato io la gestione dei post (my bad!)

Intanto, mi sa che mi ci vorrà del tempo per riabituarmi al "vecchio normale" quando, tra qualche giorno, finita la prova lo restituirò...

Cosa vuol dire aver vissuto attraverso un lockdown o due? Lo racconta perfettamente Jon Mooallem

Money quote: "But it meant I’d never been forced, or forced myself, to acclimate to the virus as much as other people seemed to have done. I wasn’t learning to live within the odds. This made me uneasy — personally uneasy, because I interpreted it as a lack of toughness, but also ethically uneasy, because I knew that in a broken society like ours, my comfort came at the expense of other people’s demoralization and discomfort. Still, that’s what happened. And while I’m sure this left me with an exaggerated sense of the risks of leaving my particular bubble, the real problem was, I’d started chronically undervaluing the rewards. I’d been forgoing so much that forgoing felt easy. Too many things I imagined doing began to feel skippable, arbitrary, not a tragedy to decline. Either I was approaching some new state of equanimity and contentedness or I was depressed."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/magazine/spokane-indians-minor-league-baseball.html

Cos'è veramente Meta di Zuckerberg e perché i metaversi falliscono? - quelle che o tre cose per niente sbrodolate che volevo scrivere, su Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/cose-veramente-meta-di-zuckerberg-e-perche-i-metaversi-falliscono/

Le "China girls" erano delle foto di ragazze messe dai tecnici all'inizio delle pellicole dei film come forma di controllo di qualità. Apparivano per un attimo, già nel passaggio al cinema o in televisione venivano tolte e rimanevano solo in casi di trasmissioni fate da operatori non competenti o riversaggi in Vhs di scarsa qualità. Oggi sono una rarità da ricercare e c'è chi le colleziona, con varie esposizioni su YouTube. (E no, non sappiamo perché si chiamino "China girls").

Money quote: "For many years photo labs would produce unique China girl images; around a couple hundred women, perhaps more, had their images hidden at the beginning of films. As movies have transitioned from analog to digital, though, the China girls are disappearing."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-china-girls-hidden-at-the-beginning-of-old-films

Lo so che siete dei timidoni e non venite a iscrivervi alla newsletter perché Mostly Weekly vi sembra troppo figa per voi. Ed è vero: ma per fortuna è talmente figa che viene lei da voi sia su Twitter che anche qui su Telegram

https://antoniodini.com/weekly/139/

Uno strano teatro giapponese

Money quote: "At tonight’s show in Osaka, the zachou, or troupe leader, is Shinya-san. “Nothing makes me happier than having people from all walks of life watch the shows,” he explains. “If there’s one thing to expect from taishū engeki, it’s to have fun and enjoy yourself.”"

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/taishu-engeki-theater-japan

La frugalità eletta a sistema

Money quote: "But the most impactful way to improve your financial outlook isn’t a one-time, band-aid type solution. It’s the slow fix of adopting more frugal lifestyle habits. You’re not going to save a fortune—at least not right away—but if you take on a few small changes, you’ll rack up a snowball of savings that will set you up for life."

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/100-frugal-habits-to-live-by-if-you-re-trying-to-save-money

Ho ripescato un appunto che mi ero preso prima della pandemia, per intenderci, quando ero passato all'allora nuova Bash 5. Un po' di cose erano cambiate. Bisognava ad esempio capire come gestire gli aggiornamenti di Homebrew, perché ogni volta il binario finiva da una parte diversa. Bisognava cambiare la configurazione generale. Però c'erano cose interessanti. Poi siamo tutti migrati a zsh.

Money quote: "This release fixes several outstanding bugs in bash-4.4 and introduces several new features. The most significant bug fixes are an overhaul of how nameref variables resolve and a number of potential out-of-bounds memory errors discovered via fuzzing. There are a number of changes to the expansion of $@ and $* in various contexts where word splitting is not performed to conform to a Posix standard interpretation, and additional changes to resolve corner cases for Posix conformance."

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-01/msg00063.html

New York City ha un nuovo sindaco, per la seconda volta di colore. Ma è solo l’inizio.

Money quote: “New York is about to have:
a Black Attorney General
a Black DA for Manhattan
a Black DA for the Bronx
a Black US Attorney in Manhattan
a Black US Attorney in Brooklyn/Queens
And a Black mayor of NYC.

Let's see if it makes a difference in policy.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/nyregion/alvin-bragg-wins-manhattan-da.html

Folli e bellissime visualizzazioni di informazioni georeferenziate

Money quote: "Scott Reinhard is a Brooklyn-based graphic designer. He works at the New York multi-disciplinary design studio 2 × 4 and was formerly a Senior Designer at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and VSA Partners. Scott has taught in the Graduate Communications Design program at the Pratt Institute and holds a Master of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University."

https://scottreinhard.com/Mapping-and-Visualization

"Eternals" cambia il passo ai film Marvel - la mia recensione per Fumettologica

https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/11/eternals-film-marvel-recensione/

A quanto pare, se i soldi in famiglia scarseggiano, i genitori parlano sempre meno con i figli

Money quote: "In the first experiment, researchers sought to observe how parents would interact with their children (in this case, 3-year-olds) after the parents were asked to describe times in which they had recently experienced scarcity. A control group of parents were instead asked to describe other recent activities.

Of the 84 parents in the study, those in the experimental group who described their experiences of financial scarcity spoke less to their 3-year-olds during laboratory observations than parents who reflected on other forms of scarcity (like not having enough fruit), or parents who had not been asked to recollect experiences of resource insecurity."

https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/07/16/word-gap-when-moneys-tight-parents-talk-less-to-kids/

Grandi occasioni!

Se la vostra cosa è scrivere qualche riga di codice in Lisp e contemplarne la bellezza ovunque, anche in vasca da bagno, ecco a voi il computer perfetto, grande come un badge e autocostruito.

Money quote: "This is a self-contained computer with its own display and keyboard, based on an ATmega1284, that you can program in the high-level language Lisp:"

http://www.technoblogy.com/show?2AEE

Ogni tanto ci sono stroncature che passano alla storia della critica. Quella del New York Times per Pearl Harbour, il film di Michael Bay del 2001 è leggendaria e ancora oggi studiata da chi vuole stroncare con il machete.

Money quote: "The Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War II has inspired a splendid movie, full of vivid performances and unforgettable scenes, a movie that uses the coming of war as a backdrop for individual stories of love, ambition, heroism and betrayal. The name of that movie is ''From Here to Eternity.''

''Pearl Harbor,'' the noisy, expensive and very long new blockbuster from Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay, steals an occasional glance in the direction of ''Eternity,'' Fred Zinnemann's durable 1953 melodrama, adapted from James Jones's sprawling best seller. A couple smooches in front of pounding Pacific surf, though they don't actually roll around in it, as did Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr. Military police officers break up a barroom fight. And since the movie is in ripe, lustrous color, the sun dresses and Hawaiian shirts look just fabulous. But ''Pearl Harbor'' has as little interest in character as it does, ultimately, in history."

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/25/movies/film-review-war-is-hell-but-very-pretty.html?mtrref=undefined