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La vita va avanti, gli impegni si moltiplicano, e ho sempre meno tempo di aggiornare questo tumblr.

Tanto vale rendere ufficiale la fine, senza far finta che in futuro gli aggiornamenti riprendano a pieno regime.

Addio, e grazie di tutto il pesce.

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Diverse registrazioni della Gymnopédie no. 1 di Erik Satie, sovrapposte e rallentate in modo che avessero la stessa durata.

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In some families, you grow up with the expectation that it's OK to ask for anything at all, but you gotta realize you might get no for an answer. This is Ask Culture. In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes. Guess Culture depends on a tight net of shared expectations. A key skill is putting out delicate feelers. If you do this with enough subtlety, you won't even have to make the request directly; you'll get an offer. Even then, the offer may be genuine or pro forma; it takes yet more skill and delicacy to discern whether you should accept. All kinds of problems spring up around the edges. If you're a Guess Culture person […] then unwelcome requests from Ask Culture people seem presumptuous and out of line, and you're likely to feel angry, uncomfortable, and manipulated. If you're an Ask Culture person, Guess Culture behavior can seem incomprehensible, inconsistent, and rife with passive aggression. […] Thing is, Guess behaviors only work among a subset of other Guess people -- ones who share a fairly specific set of expectations and signalling techniques. The farther you get from your own family and friends and subculture, the more you'll have to embrace Ask behavior. Otherwise you'll spend your life in a cloud of mild outrage at (pace Moomin fans) the Cluelessness of Everyone.

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[theeconomist]

Afghan football fans cheer for their national team as they watch a live broadcast of the South Asia Football Federation (SAFF) Championship match between India and Afghanistan, shown on a screen at Shar-e-Naw Park in Kabul on January 3rd 2016. India beat Afghanistan 2-1 in the SAFF to win the championship cup. Credit: AFP/Wakil Kohsar

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Perché le pagine web diventano sempre più pesanti, anziché alleggerirsi? Maciej Cegłowski, creatore di Pinboard, commenta.

To repeat a suggestion I made on Twitter, I contend that text-based websites should not exceed in size the major works of Russian literature. […]

If you open that tweet in a browser, you'll see the page is 900 KB big.

That's almost 100 KB more than the full text of The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov’s funny and enigmatic novel about the Devil visiting Moscow with his retinue (complete with a giant cat!) during the Great Purge of 1937, intercut with an odd vision of the life of Pontius Pilate, Jesus Christ, and the devoted but unreliable apostle Matthew.

For a single tweet.

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Buon giorno, e buon anno a tutti!

Come ogni capodanno, è l’occasione per vedere quali opere entrano oggi nel pubblico dominio – almeno in Europa, dove vale la regola del 70º anno dalla morte dell’autore. Quindi da oggi sono di pubblico dominio le opere delle persone scomparse nel 1945.

Fra queste ci sono gli scrittori Ada Negri, Paul Valéry e Theodore Dreiser, i compositori Béla Bartók, Pietro Mascagni e Anton Webern, lo storico Johan Huizinga e lo storico illustratore della Domenica del Corriere, Achille Beltrame.

Probabilmente avrete sentito la notizia di qualche mese fa, per cui l’Anne Frank Foundation ha deciso di considerare Otto Frank coautore del Diario. La testimonianza di Anne sarebbe entrata oggi nel pubblico dominio, ma invece no, la nuova decisione rimanda questo evento al 2050. E questo mi preoccupa non poco, perché nel frattempo un altro libro è diventato di pubblico dominio: il Mein Kampf di Adolf Hitler. È triste che dei due libri, quello che tutti dovrebbero leggere rimane ancora legato ai diritti d’autore, mentre quello di cui vorremmo dimenticarcene sia adesso ripubblicabile da chiunque.

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I'm completely serious: that anyone, in our normal, everyday lives, is regularly thinking about escape routes and ad hoc self-defense strategies, means that we are now living in the dystopian future we feared. The dystopia is not external, it is internal: when our waking, moment-to-moment consciousness is affected to the degree that many consider the possibility of encountering random mass murder by shooting on a near-daily basis, and how to react to it if so, then this is most definitely not the world I grew up in. These thoughts never entered my mind, ever in my whole life until now. I have never felt randomly, senselessly unsafe no matter where I might be (barring obvious stupid choices), in my home country of the U.S., ever. But now I do. So the terrorists are winning? […] Our individual, internal worlds are being invaded, and basic ideas and feelings and assumptions that allow us to have civilized, free societies are disappearing. I don't fear so much the U.S. government becoming literally fascist, or other external oppression: I'm really fearful that I'm looking at people in line at Target and thinking 'that guy looks like he'd be a mass shooter. Better stay wary of that guy.'

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2014 Winner of the “Wellcome Image” Awards: Bat.

Its creator, Chris Thorn, explained: “The X-ray image was made using minimal kV exposure with a micro-focus system. Exposure parameters were deliberately controlled to allow the complete natural form to be imaged, and to suppress invasive examination of the torso and cranial region”

Judges selected this image as they loved its classic horror like pose.

- blunt-science

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Voight-Kampff Empathy Test 2015

by SMLXist and NobleSasquatch (Twitter)

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(via Andy Baio)

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La prima puntata di una nuova stagione di Serial!

Sto emettendo gli stessi gemiti di entusiasmo di una tredicenne che ha appena ottenuto i biglietti del concerto di Justin Bieber.

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Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza's breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra's howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza's body except for the otherwise central zone.

Morrissey, List of the Lost.

Il paragrafo è stato premiato da Literary Review con il Bad Sex in Fiction Award dell’anno.

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Amsterdam. Foto di AirPano.

(via The Inspiration, via Giavasan)

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Halaa, 14, and her family have been refugees for just over a year. “These were my father’s notebooks for his carpentry business. He was illiterate; he trusted only me and my older sister to keep track of the business records. He wouldn’t let anyone else touch the notebooks, not even my brother. The notebooks are the only material items we have as memories of my father.”

Halaa is learning new skills as part of a Mercy Corps’ partner program. She just finishing the tailoring program and hopes to learn something new next session. Marianna, Halaa’s child protection representative, says: “Every day Halaa and her mother open the two notebooks, read the notes, and cry. When Halaa came she was really devastated by everything that has happened, and she has started to get better here in the center.”

We asked refugees: What did you bring with you?

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Sono gli anziani a trainare i consumi. Per la prima volta in Italia la spesa per consumi delle coppie con un capofamiglia anziano (di 65 anni e oltre) è superiore (e non di poco: circa 1.200 euro in più all’anno) rispetto a quella delle coppie con a capo un giovane di 18-34 anni. E negli anni della crisi (2009-2014) gli anziani che vivono soli hanno aumentato la spesa per consumi del 4,7 per cento in termini reali, mentre quella dei millennials single è andata a picco (-12,4 per cento), così come la spesa media delle famiglie italiane nell’insieme (-11,8 per cento).

Da Internazionale, Non sono i giovani a far girare l’economia

Massimo Mantellini inquadra bene la situazione:

Il titolo della ricerca è “il buon valore della longevità” ma si tratta di una sintesi non corretta, almeno se si prova ad osservare l’insieme e non il particolare. E non basta dire che il benessere degli anziani sostenta almeno in parte la povertà estrema dei più giovani, certo è così, lo vediamo accadere ogni giorno, non è la solidarietà familiare ad essere in dubbio. Semmai una simile dipendenza aumenta – se possibile- il senso di frustrazione e di impotenza dei più giovani.

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So just remember: Y-axes don’t lie to people. People do.

(via Flowing Data)

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Guardate in alto a sinistra: potrebbe essere il photobomb più vecchio della storia. Risale al 1853. (via Wikimedia Blog)

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“BoJack Horseman” captures the essence of the human condition better than any show on television. This talking horse is a brutally honest and accurate portrayal of all of us, and the struggles and suffering we face in life. […] BoJack is depressed. BoJack is depressing. And BoJack’s doing what we all do: trying to find a way to be ok. So we pull for him because we see ourselves in him. If he can figure it out, maybe we can figure it out. As we watch his life unfold, it’s easy to see everything he’s doing wrong — and we know exactly what he needs to do to fix it!

J.D. Andre, The Zen of BoJack Horseman