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Fenomenologia (ma bisognerebbe dire psicopatologia, secondo me) degli influencer Money quote: "Social media influencers ply their trade in realms far beyond fake lashes. Marketers of literature, wellness, fashion, entertainment, and other wares are all hooked on influencers. As brands have warmed to social-media advertising, influencer marketing has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry. Unlike traditional television or print ads, influencers have dedicated niche followings who take their word as gospel." https://www.wired.com/story/pricey-war-influence-your-instagram-feed/

Giovani padri stressati dal senso del dovere e del provvedere alla prole? Ecco pronto per voi un nuovo senso di colpa, fresco fresco. Adesso lo stress lo trasmettete anche ai figli. Untori! Money quote: "Carrying proteins, lipids and nucleic acids, these particles ejected from a cell act like a postal system that extends to all parts of the body, releasing little packages known as extracellular vesicles. Their contents seem carefully chosen. “The cargo inside the vesicle determines not just where it came from but where it’s going and what it’s doing when it gets there,” says Tracy Bale, a neurobiologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-dads-stresses-get-passed-along-to-offspring/

La prima puntata di Tilde ~ è su YouTube. Solo questa, non le altre. È un modo per far conoscere il podcast anche agli altri ragazzi, via, non facciamo gli snob. https://youtu.be/mQAxkyYxAvw

Sarebbe arrivato il momento di capire finalmente il genio di Kurt Gödel. Seriously. Money quote: "The logician and philosopher Kurt Gödel passes the Einstein/Russell test, in doing work whose importance is beyond argument, but can also seem beyond comprehension as well. If you wanted to make the case that he should join them as a celebrated public figure, you could point out that among his work is an important contribution to the interpretation of Einstein’s relativity theory, and that he pulled the rug out from under the project on which Russell spilled most sweat. And Gödel’s advocate would start out with more name-recognition to build on than you might imagine. In 1999, when Time magazine conducted a survey of its readers to determine the 20 most influential thinkers of the 20th century (a poll topped by Einstein), Gödel, who has often been described as “the most important logician since Aristotle,” came ninth—ahead of Keynes, Watson and Crick of DNA fame and world wide web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee." https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/kurt-godel-and-the-romance-of-logic

Sviluppatori del software italici che sognano di andare a San Francisco, ecco a voi il racconto di chi lo ha fatto per un anno (ma non è italico) Money quote: "On my first trip to SF, it was already quite telling. Flying from Toronto airport I noticed a higher than usual technology themed tees, stickers on laptops and black terminals. Pretty exciting! By chance My Uber driver to downtown told me he was applying to a free machine learning course ran by Google. On the way I noticed that the billboards next to the highways were directly targetting developers." https://evertpot.com/a-look-back-at-sf/

Grazie a una gentile lettrice ho scoperto che l’articolo è stato cambiato e la storia è praticamente evaporata. Per fortuna c’è la copia nella cache di Google http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XjdCrG8_Vm0J:https://letgrow.org/mom-lets-her-kids-walk-to-the-bakery-down-the-block-child-protective-services-tells-her-never-again-till-they-are-12&hl=it&gl=it&strip=1&vwsrc=0

Caterina Emili: I polimeri di Olimpia - il mio articolo per Anobii https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/02/23/caterina-emili-i-polimeri-di-olimpia/

Abbandono di minore. C'è un lato del reato al quale non si pensa, e che è profondamente discutibile Money quote: "I didn't think too much more about it, but then a month later a Child and Family Services worker showed up. I was busy in the kitchen -- I was canning or something. He said he was from CFS and a complaint had come in. And I realized right away what he was talking about. It was a stranger interaction than I'd had with the woman. If people are watching out for kids in the neighborhood, I think that's great! But this wasn't a helpful interaction, it was more suspicious and accusatory. So I said, "I think I know what you're referring to. Let me explain the situation. I was watching where they were going, it was to a familiar place," and all that. And he said, "Yeah. I know. But you can't let them do that. Things can happen. They can get kidnapped."" https://letgrow.org/mom-lets-her-kids-walk-to-the-bakery-down-the-block-child-protective-services-tells-her-never-again-till-they-are-12/

Il fantasy Made in Cividale del Friuli - il mio articolo per Anobii https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/02/16/il-fantasy-made-in-cividale-del-friuli/

Se ne è andato il padre di tutti i poeti

Ho usato il Mini Disc per lavoro e l'ho adorato. Mi piacerebbe averne uno, anche se mi rendo conto che è attuale come un Commodore 64. Forse un po' di più, ma mica tanto. Però era bellissimo Money quote: "When digital music began to dominate, MD faded away with its niche no longer needed. MDs were unable to match CD’s quality for tangible media—though, the gap has closed in more recent years. While Sony stopped selling MD players in 2013, it continues to make blank MDs and support its Mini-Disc players. Teac is currently the only Japanese company making and selling MD players." https://kotaku.com/japan-hasnt-given-up-on-the-mini-disc-just-yet-1831454992

Oggi Steve Jobs avrebbe compiuto 66 anni: "smart but directionless" Money quote: “Born in 1955 to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption, Jobs was smart but directionless, dropping out of college and experimenting with different pursuits before co-founding Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Jobs left the company in 1985, launching Pixar Animation Studios, then returned to Apple more than a decade later. Jobs died in 2011 following a long battle with pancreatic cancer.“ https://www.biography.com/business-figure/steve-jobs

Il futuro del mondo nel 2050: per me un traguardo piuttosto lontano ma l'idea è che siamo di fronte a un cambiamento di paradigma totale. Money quote: "China’s rise is just one part of a larger shift that’s already under way and looks set to accelerate in the decades ahead. Bloomberg Economics has used a growth accounting framework—adding up the contributions of labor, capital and productivity—to forecast potential GDP through 2050 for 39 countries, from the U.S. to Ghana. We’ve used that data to map some of the key geographic and political shifts in store for the world economy. The results suggest that a remarkable period of stability, stretching from the end of World War II through to the early 21st century, is coming to an end. The center of economic gravity is shifting from West to East, from advanced economies to emerging markets, from free markets to state controls and from established democracies to authoritarian and populist rulers. The transition is already upending global politics, economics and markets. This is just the beginning." https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-global-economic-forecast-2050

Ci (ri)siamo, ecco a voi il nono episodio di Tilde, il podcast che conduco con Riccardo. In parecchi lo aspettavate (almeno, tra i miei parenti) ma non c'è una cadenza regolare, per cui esce quando esce, ogni 7-10 giorni o giù di lì. In compenso, ogni volta è sempre meglio. O perlomeno, così dicono i soliti parenti che l'hanno sentito. Questa volta di roba di cui parlare ce n'era parecchia, quindi non mi dilungo oltre: si trova in tutti i soliti luoghi sospetti (Apple, Spotify, Spreaker., Google) e pure sul suo sito, che lo fa Riccardo ed è bellino parecchio. I testi sono miei, lasciate una recensione casomai, così la classifica cresce e diventiamo eroi del tempo perso. Buon ascolto! https://tilde.show/podcast-09/

I migliori libri sul marketing: comunicazione per i prodotti e servizi nell'era digitale - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/migliori-libri-marketing/

Un po' di belle foto del Café de Flore Money quote: "After the war Juliette Gréco, Ernest Hemingway, Trumane Capote, later Roman Polonski, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Belmondo and Yves Saint Laurent all were regulars. Juliette Gréco has said, “In Flore people are less ugly than anywhere else”." https://flashbak.com/photographs-of-the-famous-cafe-de-flore-in-paris-409903/

C’è stata un’epoca in cui gli Expo hanno preso forma e sono diventati uno strumento per il progresso. Alcuni anni fa, in occasione del secondo Expo di Milano, ho cercato di raccontarne la storia e le motivazioni. Questo è un breve saggio dell’epoca, ma ho pubblicato anche due ebook ora fuori commercio che presto rimetterò online qui sul mio sito Ma a questo racconto sono particolarmente affezionato perché contiene al suo interno una piccola e insospettabile storia d’amore… https://antoniodini.com/storie/articoli/expo-posto-innovazione

ThinkPad X1 Nano, recensione dell'anti-MacBook Air M1 - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/thinkpad-x1-nano-recensione-dellanti-macbook-air-m1/

È arrivato il momento di ripensare il nostro rapporto con la tecnologia quotidiana, soprattutto quella personale/portatile/mobile. Ma non in questo modo. Money quote: "Moment’s popularity reflects a growing consciousness around “digital wellness”, the name given to lifestyle practices that encourage healthy device use. Wellness trends reflect the anxieties of the era in which they arise; this one is about time being stolen from us. If being on the phone 24/7, or having tech-savvy kids, was once a signifier of productivity and affluence, now device addiction signifies a loss of control. Many digital wellness books, programs and apps encourage commonsense behavioral changes – say, leaving your phone outside your room when you go to sleep – aimed to help people regain control of their time in a digital economy designed to drip-feed information and dopamine in return for our data and attention." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/13/digital-wellness-phone-addiction-tech