Mostly, I Write

Lavorare sui big data con il terminale e la riga di comando - il mio articolo per Macity. https://www.macitynet.it/lavorare-sui-big-data-con-il-terminale-e-la-riga-di-comando/

Per quelli tra noi che sono su piazza da un po' di tempo...

Saluti dal senescente poeta residente, Roberto R. Corsi https://robertocorsi.wordpress.com/ssss/

Se il giorno del proprio compleanno è il giorno ideale per esplorare i propri sogni e le proprie fantasie, allora lo vorrei investire leggendo questo resconto della mente affascinante delle persone poliglotte, nel senso che parlano molte, molte lingue. Tipo una dozzina (11, al minimo) o più. Gente “linguisticamente molto funzionale”, insomma. Magari la mia è una neanche troppo nascosta (ma mai molto praticata) aspirazione. Money quote: “Last May, Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, a doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, flew to Malta for a week to learn Maltese. He had a hefty grammar book in his backpack, but he didn’t plan to open it unless he had to. “We’ll do this as I would in the Amazon,” he told me, referring to his fieldwork as a linguist. Our plan was for me to observe how he went about learning a new language, starting with “hello” and “thank you.”” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/the-mystery-of-people-who-speak-dozens-of-languages

Dai tempi del liceo adoro Yukio Mishima e quel che ho letto di suo. Ma è oggi, con internet, che si potrebbe accedere a così tanto così facilmente. Peccato la mia età non sia più così fertile e ricettiva. Money quote: “Mishima was a literary prodigy. With haiku, it also helped that his Japanese-language teacher in the Middle Division of the Peers School was Kurō Iwata. Iwata didn’t just encourage his students to write. After the war, he established his reputation as an authority on Edo haikai. He published, among other things, a large compilation of commentaries on all of Bashō’s hokku. One of Mishima’s earliest haiku dates from when he was seven years old, and it reads: おとうとがお手手ひろげてもみじかな Otōto ga o-tete hirogete momiji kana My younger brother spreads his palms, maple leaves The “younger brother” here is Chiyuki, two years old at the time. He went on to become a diplomat, serving as ambassador to Morocco and Portugal” https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/26/my-younger-brother-spreads-his-palms-maple-leaves-yukio-mishimas-haiku/

In un sito fatto molto bene che finalmente chiarisce in modo semplice parecchi punti riguardo le vicende e i capisaldi europei, la manovra di bilancio e le responsabilità di Bruxelles e dei singoli stati. http://www.europeainfo.eu/le-manovre-economiche-degli-stati-membri-sono-responsabilita-di-bruxelles/

L’intervista - molto bella - fatta dalla Paris Review ad Amos Oz un bel po’ di tempo fa, da rileggere per ricordare l’autore scomparso pochi giorni fa. Money quote: “The novelist has no political aim but is concerned with truth, not facts. As I say in one of my essays, sometimes the worst enemy of truth is fact.” https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1366/amos-oz-the-art-of-fiction-no-148-amos-oz

Il 2018 di Apple, l'anno che ha cambiato tutto - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/il-2018-di-apple-un-anno-particolare/

La scuola di New York è il punto di partenza per la fotografia in bianco e nero. Che deve essere pensata e ripensata, certamente. Ma nasce in bianco e nero già come intenzione. Money quote: “These “influences, aesthetic assumptions, subjects and stylistic earmarks” spread out far beyond New York, but they are an understood set of qualities that have become the pinnacle of black and white photography. Because they had no choice, they mastered and defined the process of thinking and shooting for black and white. For anyone looking to do effective black and white, the answers are all in the photographs of those who reached the height of photojournalism in the era where black and white was how it was done” https://medium.com/s/the-photographers-almanac/mastering-black-and-white-photography-2b723f794b59

Si avvicina la fine dell’anno. È il momento dei buoni propositi...

In un'intervista a il Venerdì di Repubblica Tiziano Sclavi ha espresso giudizi piuttosto duri su Bonelli Editore e sul suo attuale rapporto con essa. http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/12/tiziano-sclavi-bonelli-intervista/

È Natale, giusto un paio di giorni fa. Tempo di cosine luminose e sbriluccicanti. Ma cosa sono? Cos’è che luccica in realtà? Se lo chiede il NYTimes Money quote: “What is glitter? The simplest answer is one that will leave you slightly unsatisfied, but at least with your confidence in comprehending basic physical properties intact. Glitter is made from glitter. Big glitter begets smaller glitter; smaller glitter gets everywhere, all glitter is impossible to remove; now never ask this question again.” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.html

Voci dalla rete Money quote: “son: mommy what’s a podcast? me: well, dear, when a group of men love their opinions very much...”

Abbiamo un problema. Anzi, abbiamo creato un problema. Money quote: “Years of metrics-driven growth, lucrative manipulative systems, and unregulated platform marketplaces, have created an environment where it makes more sense to be fake online — to be disingenuous and cynical, to lie and cheat, to misrepresent and distort” http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html

GitHub supera i 100 milioni di repository - Il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/github-supera-i-100-milioni-di-repository/

Aerei e aeroporti, il piano della Cina per surclassare gli Stati Uniti - Il mio articolo per Wired https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2018/12/26/cina-aerei-aeroporti/

Addio 3G: Taiwan spegne la rete UTMS - Il mio articolo per La Stampa https://www.lastampa.it/2018/12/27/tecnologia/addio-g-taiwan-spegne-la-rete-utms-omJminSw8HEvnMoTAtRVJK/premium.html

Mentre i giornalisti finiscono a consegnare pacchi per Amazon, prosegue l’utopia del road warrior e del telelavoro. Money quote: “When you’re feeling down or stuck in a rut, it can be tempting to think about quitting your job, packing your bags, and going to someplace to snorkel with sea turtles on a journey of self-discovery. But not all of us have the financial means—or the desire—to blow up our lives full-stop. (Plus, even if you reach turtle nirvana, chances are you will eventually have to head home to replenish your funds.) Thankfully, in the age of wifi and international data plans, there’s a middle path: Taking your work on the road with you.“ https://qz.com/work/1494641/the-complete-guide-to-traveling-the-world-without-quitting-your-job/

Storia di Natale. Giornalista una volta, giornalista per sempre? Anche se guidi il furgoncino delle consegne di Amazon per vivere? Il racconto fatto a The Atlantic è tutto da leggere. Money quote: “Let’s face it, when you’re a college-educated 57-year-old slinging parcels for a living, something in your life has not gone according to plan. That said, my moments of chagrin are far outnumbered by the upsides of the job, which include windfall connections with grateful strangers. There’s a certain novelty, after decades at a legacy media company—Time Inc.—in playing for the team that’s winning big, that’s not considered a dinosaur, even if that team is paying me $17 an hour (plus OT!). It’s been healthy for me, a fair-haired Anglo-Saxon with a Roman numeral in my name (John Austin Murphy III), to be a minority in my workplace, and in some of the neighborhoods where I deliver. As Amazon reaches maximum ubiquity in our lives (“Alexa, play Led Zeppelin”), as online shopping turns malls into mausoleums, it’s been illuminating to see exactly how a package makes the final leg of its journey” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/what-its-like-to-deliver-packages-for-amazon/578986/

«Oggi, Natale, è anche l'anniversario della morte del celebre scrittore e intellettuale Robert Walser. Walser scrisse, tra l'altro, il libro "La passeggiata". Morì d'improvviso mentre si faceva una passeggiata. Dal che ho concluso che il titolo del mio prossimo libro sarà "La modella di lingerie"» (R.R.Corsi, resident poet di Mostly, I Write)