Salone Libro Torino

Domani comincia #BCM19, e ci saremo anche noi.

Caffè e cornetto già in forno per domenica 17 alle 11, da @thisiscombo_: ci sono "I giornali, spiegati bene", la peraltro famosa rassegna stampa del @ilpost.

Ci vediamo lì 🗞️ https://t.co/BN1XvfS0AL pic.twitter.com/GVfGZFlZW9

— Salone Libro Torino (@SalonedelLibro) November 12, 2019

Tomorrow begins #BCM19 , and we will be there too. Coffee and croissant already in the oven for Sunday 17th at 11am, from
@thisiscombo_ : there are "The newspapers, well explained", the other famous press review of the
@ilpost . We see them
http://bit.ly/Giornalispiegatibene19

this a disturbing video: Restrain and Taser Woman Who Was Smoking & Had Dog Off Leash

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7656315/Disturbing-video-shows-sheriffs-deputies-tasering-woman-strapped-chair.html

Software Heritage, the world library of source code, opens in Bologna

TECHNOLOGY

The ENEA of Bologna will be the official residence of Software Heritage, the world's largest source code library, for the preservation of the software heritage that has changed the world.

of Tom's Hardware for IL FATTO QUOTIDIANO

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The first European source code archive is called "Software Heritage". It will be hosted at the Enea Research Center (National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) of Bologna, which will hold over 6 billion files from which all publicly available software is generated worldwide. There is talk of the single source code of 90.8 million software, developed by 25 million programmers, a real world heritage, which will be ordered, stored and made available to users around the world. Not surprisingly, Heritage literally means inheritance.

On the official website we read that...

I AM FREE...

https://free-libbberamente.blogspot.com/

the present and the future

This CNC robot has so much strength and accuracy it creates a spinning revolution!

Via: https://t.co/JnHT7E1NGT#engineering #mechanicalengineering #robotics pic.twitter.com/fzTetZj6C1

— Interesting Engineering (@IntEngineering) October 19, 2019

THE PRESENT

THE ROBOT WORKS 

AND YOU WALK AROUND 

LOOKING FOR A JOB

THE FUTURE

THE ROBOT WORK

YOU GET YOUR PART OF MONEY

YOU WORK A LITTLE

AND THEN YOU CAN WASTE 

THE REST OF YOUR TIME

 USING INTERNET...

The history of the Cardiff giant is a hoax of the past - by Flavio Lo Faro

Speaker's corner
For those who have something to say

OCTOBER 16, 2019

I have always believed that there were endless files at the post office and that it was better to go at six in the morning - finding in that case the real crowd. Once I went at nine and strangely I hurried. The preconception I had was based on hearsay: after all, it is a story already heard and partly stereotyped.

At the base of a belief is the assumption, directly and indirectly, of a condition of superiority and confirmation. I rely on a "truth" and this is insurmountable, like a fenced field. What is in my field - the belief - is the certain; little by little other facts will enter and become part of my vision of the world. I believe this mechanism is fundamental in hoaxes. Very often they are so ridiculous that they cannot assume, to those who do not believe, that they are acceptable.

And yet there are those who do it and this cannot be explained by supporting the simple idiocy of those who believe: in fact it would not explain much. Behind the acceptance of a hoax there is the conviction of having found a proof that confirms the thesis: this means that we are all potentially buffaloes and gullible. Imagine, for example, finding a giant buried in your garden. Would you believe it an authentic find or not?

On October 16, 1869 (150 years ago) in Cardiff, a small township in the state of New York, two workers who worked for the farmer William Newell found a petrified man three meters tall. The news of the discovery spread immediately. Was he a giant? 

eletric cars and nuclear power plant

Although electric cars may seem to be a new innovation, their history goes all the way back to 1828. 🚗⚡https://t.co/U7lOj7Fa67

— Interesting Engineering (@IntEngineering) October 11, 2019

I do not really believe that a car can be considered
"commercially mass-produced"
until one can recharge battery all over in a country... and not mainly in the garden of his own house...

because cannot be used by a mass of people.
only an elite have the condition to use it :-)

and I would take it seriously when the most of energy come out from something different then nuclear power plant

Would you live here?

Would you live here? pic.twitter.com/BepJ0OGvaH

— The Human Experience (@thehumanxp) October 10, 2019

the answer is

I love you all, nearly all :-)

I do not like to use chats as people type too slowly...

If you're over 19 years old, chances are you type more slowly than teenagers. Ten words per minute more slowly, to be precise. 

A new study carried out by researchers from Aalto University in Finland, Cambridge University in England, and ETH Zürich in Switzerland has discovered that the speed in which we type on our smartphones is becoming faster and faster. It's now almost the same speed as the typing we do on our computer's keyboard.

keep reading in INTERESTING ENGINEERING

I've seen the first pumpkin

I am ready for two months of halloween + two months of christmas...

yes, it is sarcastic

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Does anyone still believe in capitalism? The problem of consensus, yesterday and today

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY - Review a history book but talk about the present. It is the new column of fattoquotidiano.it. In the third episode (google translate)The anxious triumph, a global history of capitalism, 1860-1914 by Donald Sassoon, a multifaceted historian of international fame, which will be released in Italy in January 2020 for Garzanti


by Massimo Asta | SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

* Massimo Asta is a historian of the University of Cambridge

Twitter: @AstaMassimo

IL FATTO QUOTIDIANO

"Capitalism is not a success. It is not intelligent, it is not beautiful, it is not right, it is not virtuous and it does not produce the necessary goods. In short, we don't like it and we're starting to despise it. But when we ask ourselves what to put in his place, we remain extremely perplexed ”. The famous statement by John Maynard Keynes, written when the effects of the 1929 crisis were still at their peak in Europe, could probably translate the bottom of most people's ideas today. Only a decade earlier, the quote by the liberal-progressive economist of Cambridge, would instead have been ascribed to minority and radical positions in Italy. Far left. The phase of the social-democratic compromise and the post-war economic boom has been filed away, and the belief system that had supported the neoliberal hangover since the 1980s has deteriorated, to the point of going into crisis after having crossed dangerously - and still precariously, like the forecasts of growth for the two-year period 2019-2020 provided by the OECD suggest - the 2008 crisis, the sense of dissatisfaction and lack of confidence in the economy became common sense. Without however generalizing in the form of a push, nor even of an anti-capitalist culture.

Already the figures revealed by the Eurobarometer about the perception that European citizens had of the economic crisis showed widespread discouragement. In 2010, 18% (19% EU average) of the sample of respondents for Italy believed that the crisis had had an important impact on their personal situation, 47% (33% EU average) thought it had an impact quite important. The sample was also asked if the loss of his work or that of his partner had been experienced as a direct cause of the crisis. 8% and 11% had answered affirmatively, respectively in Italy and in the European Union. While in the case of loss of work of an acquaintance the percentage went up to 40%. It is also interesting to note that both in Italy and in Europe, the fear of the crisis had probably crystallized, if not modified, the opinion regarding the economic policy recipes. 38% said they were convinced of the need to adopt public spending policies in order to stimulate the economy, or the opportunity for a greater active role of the State. As a result, he showed little confidence in the ability of the market to resolve its economic and national destiny on its own.

Populism and 'demophobia', or where right and left meet

Diego Fusaro
Filosofo

IL FATTO QUOTIDIANO

19 SETTEMBRE 2019





Like the cosmopolitan mastery of which they are cultural and political expression, the fuchsia and rainbows left are today "demophobic": they have lost every "sentimental connection" (Gramsci) and every material and immaterial relationship with the people, towards which they feel a sentiment of pure idiosyncrasy (more and more obviously reciprocated).




As I argued in Glebalizzazione. La lotta di classe al tempo del populismo  (Rizzoli 2019), with the derogatory category of "populism" express, precisely, their hatred towards the national-popular masses and, at the same time, their own fear - which is that of the dominant - that they break into the scene of political conflict, leaving Gramscian from their passivity and withdrawing the consent to the project of the global class. Today the words of Machiavelli clearly resound, as a political program of populism: "that of the people is more honest end than that of the great, wanting these to oppress, and that not to be oppressed" (The Prince, IX) .




Whatever the perspective assumed, to emerge clearly, as highlighted by Luca Ricolfi, is the absolute inability of the rainbow lefts to understand the populist phenomenon. Rejection and condemnation are the only attitude they have been able to demonstrate, revealing an unconditional insensitivity to the requests for protection and support that come from below.




Moreover, the new left fuchsia has chosen to incardinate its own program of adhesion to the verb of cosmopolitan liberalism on the a priori delegitimization of every request coming from below, from the national-popular classes: to such a point that, without exaggerations, a large part of the cultural program and political of the market-friendly leftists results in the demonization of every national-popular instance that threatens the hegemony of the globalist financial aristocracy.




If the dominated pole sees in the deregulated mass immigration a drama for its daily survival, the anti-Gramscian left responds that it is, on the contrary, an unmissable opportunity for multicultural growth and defames as xenophobic anyone who does not adapt to his globalist orthopedization .




If, again, the national-popular mass reveals a growing diffidence with respect to globalization, the left replies that it must, instead, be experienced as the maximum opportunity and that those who are not able to understand  are affected by an incurable nationalist crudeness. If, then, the pole of the dominated fears the EU and the possibility of regaining national sovereignty is being vented, the left responds with annoyance that the European project cannot be the problem, because it is, instead, the only solution.




The stigmatization of populism, so dear to the neolanguage, hides in itself a more general stigmatization of the people as such: it is the constant background to what was, with good reasons, defined the age of the "denigration of the masses". The demophobia of liberalist left is, even in this case, the same as the liberal rights.




The intellectual clergy completing the hegemonic power relationship stigmatizes as "populist" any theoretical and political position which, instead of taking the top view of the ruling elite, adopts the antithetical bottom-up, coherent with interests and with prospects of redemption of the national-popular masses defeated by capitalist globalism.




The defense of the common man, the people and the simple has ceased to be associated with the order of discourse of the left, which, indeed, in that defense identifies - not unlike the financial patriciate - dangerous elements, which must be neutralized in the name of holding of the cosmopolitan asymmetrical order in force.
IL FATTO QUOTIDIANO

translated with google translate
I totally agree... cinzia opezzi




https://www.amazon.it/Glebalizzazione-Diego-Fusaro-ebook/dp/B07WRG599Y

Diego Fusaro
Philosopher
I was born in Turin in 1983. I teach philosophy at the “Istituto Alti Studi Strategici e Politici” in Milan (IASSP) and I am among the members of the “Eticonomia” project. I consider myself an independent student of Hegel and Marx. Dissident intellectual and non-aligned, they are beyond right and left. I remain convinced that, in every area, the royal road consists in thinking with one's own head, regardless of public opinion and the virtuous chorus of politically correct. Among my most recent works: Bentornato Marx! (Bompiani, 2009), Minima mercatalia. Filosofia e capitalismo (Bompiani, 2012), Il futuro è nostro (Bompiani, Milano 2014), Antonio Gramsci. La passione di essere nel mondo (Feltrinelli, Milano 2015), Pensare altrimenti (Einaudi 2017). Sono il fondatore del progetto “La filosofia e i suoi eroi” (www.filosofico.net) e dell’associazione e rivista “L’Interesse Nazionale” (www.interessenazionale.net) For more information about me, www.diegofusaro.com 

SECOND LIFE: TRAVELLING IS POSSIBLE

Posted April 26

It’s time to add a bit of Linden-approved security to your new homes!

In the interest of creating a more welcoming community experience while still allowing for personal security, we’ve released the official Linden Homes Security System to your Content Creation Packs in all new Linden Homes. It is accessible through your House Controller in front of your property. This new system will enable you to keep your property private while not infringing on navigation of the Bellisseria continent at large.

Your new Linden Homes Security System can be wall-mounted upon placement. When activated, it will scan your parcel as much as 400m above and below the control unit for unauthorized visitors. If any unwanted guests are found, they will be provided with a warning to vacate the area, followed by an ejection if they do not leave within the specified amount of time (minimum of 15 seconds). You can adjust your systems range and warning time greater than 15 seconds; you can also customize your system to ignore members of your group or specific people you have added to its whitelist. 

We’ve chosen a minimum of 15 seconds and a maximum height of 400m to allow for those just passing through (either on the ground or in the air close to your home) to not be immediately booted off-course (while those who linger will get removed). Ejecting rather than send-to-home also allows first-time offenders to get the hint and continue on their travels.

For proper use, you must place the Linden Homes Security System either in your Linden Home or in your skybox at or above 2000m high. The system will not function between 100m and 2000m above sea level, to allow for clear airspace and to prevent low-hanging skyboxes.

Instructions for operating your Linden Homes Security System can be found in the notecard provided with the unit, and a shortened version of the instructions can be found by clicking on the unit’s System Help (?) button.

Privacy and fostering an open, welcoming community can’t always exist simultaneously, but we believe this new security system will allow for the best of both worlds. In addition to this system, you can use your home’s Control Panel to control who may enter your home and use its redecorate functions.  You may also use the Options tab in World >> About Land to determine who is allowed to rez objects on your parcel and whether people outside the parcel can see and hear what you are doing. The use of ban lines overall is disabled, but you can still ban individuals from your parcel by utilizing your parcel ban list. 

We feel as a compromise, at the present you may only use other security systems that conform to the same Linden Homes Security System standards (warning time no shorter than 15 seconds, no greater detection range than 400m in height; must only work within the boundaries of your parcel, and eject instead of teleport-to-home). If we incur too many issues with non-conforming security systems, we will update the policy to prohibit the use of all non-Linden provided security systems in the new Linden Homes regions.

We also have some additional features planned for the security system to provide the best home experience for you in the future, so stay tuned for more information on what’s to come with our next version.

THIS NEW COME FROM HERE

I LOVE YOU ALL, REALLY!!!!

The era of post logic

Luca Sofri
wittgenstein

16 September 2019

It is an interesting and actually predictable development of the post truth: once all the value of truth and factual data has been eliminated, it is becoming normal and accepted to expose patently contradictory, groundless, illogical arguments, and it is becoming useless to oppose these arguments with the logical reasons that in other times they would have "dismantled" and canceled. Theses and opinions are no longer just detaching from the reality of the facts, but from the same logic and plausibility. If in recent years it seemed to us that by now it could be said "it is raining outside" even if there was the sun, with contempt for visible reality, now the impression is that we can also say "it is raining outside, I go out with a carrot so not I bathe ".




Matteo Salvini is the most visible champion of this Orwellian "double think", but above all because it occupies the scene a lot: in reality it is a dialectical tactic that is very widespread, since he stopped being a loser (or since someone told you “but what are you saying? how does a carrot cover you from the rain? "and then you let it go, embarrassed, and folded over the umbrella, among the raspberries of those present). Salvini who repeats the torment of the "attached to the armchair" while he struggles in every way to reconstruct situations that preserve him minister, or bring him back to us; Salvini who adopts the slogan "never with PD" without that hypothesis ever appearing, and without anyone being able to say what it means; Salvini who shouts at the betrayal of the voters and at the mess for the PD / M5S alliance, after a year of alliance Lega / M5S; Salvini who says "we don't insult anyone" seriously; Salvini who is denied on Savoini in Russia, and yet continues to repeat implausible versions; Salvini, which orders the League's mayors to disobey civil unions, then threatens progressive mayors with criminal and personal consequences if they disobey the security decree and then suggests the League's mayors disobey the migrants' dislocation; Salvini who says "To those who involve children in the political controversy I have nothing to say", and then shows up on the stage of Pontida exhibiting a child for political controversy; etc.

"Bispensiero, or bipensiero (doublethink in English), is a neolanguage term coined by George Orwell for his 1984 dystopian science fiction book, used by the Big Brother Party (English Socialism, or Socing) to indicate the psychological mechanism that allows believing that everything can be done and unraveled: the will and the ability to support an idea and its opposite, so as to never find oneself outside of orthodoxy, forgetting at the same time, this fundamental aspect, the change of opinion and even the very act of forgetting. Whoever uses the doublethink is therefore consciously convinced of the truthfulness (or falsity) of something, even though unconsciously aware of its falseness (or truthfulness). The doublethink is hypothetically essential in totalitarian societies which, by definition, require constant adherence to changing political lines."

I am not talking - there is a difference - of simple falsifications of facts: I am talking about rhetoric, propaganda, thesis, which do not stand up and would collapse at the objection of a child, but which today become indifferent to any more obvious objection instead (I quote only en passant Bibbiano: become a winning and popular accusation against a party without any sustainable reason; only for an accusation of abuse of office - maybe even founded, let alone, we will see - against an administrator of a small town, or that one that in one year it happens to a thousand administrators of many parties in a thousand municipalities).


And I'm not even talking about inconsistency, something old and always present in politics: the deputies of the Democratic Party who said "never with the M5S" if you remind them today are embarrassed, claim reasons, say the League had to be stopped, things changed, they realize they are in a corner and struggle, in difficulty. Logic cares, yet. When they learn the Salvini approach, they will completely ignore the disputes and they will go straight by declaring "we are proud of the alliance with the M5S, a party of competent for the good of the country" and will reply "Salvini wants only to limon with the clerks of the ministry: enough necking! enough with the gay Northern League lobby! ”.

All this seems to me a new thing, to which many of us naive and still slaves of a rational idea of ​​the debate continue to react candidly with sensible, well-founded objections, daughters of reality and logic. When meanwhile the real and the logic no longer have any value: of the scientific method we had already demolished the data collection part (we see three people and we count eight of them), now we are also demolishing the construction of the consequent thesis (we have eight people - or three - and we propose a football match to eleven).

And do not stop at Salvini: he is the one who has the biggest stage to propose this waterproof communication as a model for every demolition: many are taking over the model - he himself will have learned it from Trump and Bannon - until the last of the troublemakers passing on Facebook. As with the post truth - which not only means that lies are said, but that truth no longer has a greater value than lies -, post logic is not just deception, but the loss of value of logic and reasons, which they become useless to deny the deception. One of the followers of logical posts has come to realize what was once a known joke to make fun of the blind faith of PCI militants in the party's instructions.

"A child searches the father who is reading the Unità in the living room chair, and asks him if it is true that the donkeys fly. The father smiles and replies with condescension that no, donkeys cannot fly, "where did you hear it?" And the child replies: "I read it here in your newspaper". To which the father stutters something staring at the page of the newspaper and adds: "Well, they fly ... let's say they fly about".

You can support anything, and never realize it, at the time of post logic.
they fly about.

Doublethink.

And we fools to argue. With logical arguments.


Stupids.

https://www.wittgenstein.it/2019/09/16/lera-della-post-logica/

A government that changes Italy? Are we starting to scrap the LIES?

Jacopo Fo

Author, actor and writer
IL FATTO QUOTIDIANO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019


For different reasons, the majority of politicians and economists have lied to us about a fundamental issue to understand why Italy is struggling to get out of the crisis. Money. They told us again and again that there was no money. But the truth is another: we are the most stupid people of the industrialized West. The money is there, but we throw it away!


I believe it is essential to understand this question. The Italian system must be reformed because it is the primary cause of poverty, unemployment and the economic slowdown. Our country is surrounded by a pincer with three jaws: demented bureaucracy, corruption, antiquated infrastructure.
The bureaucracy gives power to politicians and public officials and creates the fabric on which the ill will of favoritism and clientelism sprouts; it also inflicts a hidden 10% tax on companies, kills thousands of projects in the bud, slows justice; finally it discourages foreign investors who are afraid of having to measure themselves with a sadistic administrative machine, thanks to which after mayor and technicians have assured you "in principle" the possibility of building a shed, you can expect an operating authorization for ten years. And because of the dinosaur bureaucracy, our state now finds itself with 150 billion euros in its pocket, most of which comes from European funds, which we can't spend (and if we can't spend the quota coming from the EU we have to return it) .

Then there is corruption. Thanks to the elephantine system of bureaucracy the processes are eternal, add that the laws are written to favor criminals in suits and that there is no certainty of punishment ... 

Animals, tour operators are against the imprisonment in circuses and zoos.

 Now it's our turn
by Tamara Mastroiaco

IL FATTO QUOTIDIANO


The use of animals in shows made by circuses, marine parks and those imprisoned in zoos are, even today, the first source of entertainment provided to tourists, generating billions of dollars / euros each year. At what cost? Health problems, mental and behavioral disorders, reduced life expectancy, deprivation of their natural habitat, disintegration of family units, captive breeding programs, administration of drugs and sedatives to limit the risk of animals attacking humans.




People continue to visit these places of imprisonment, so companies have no intention of closing the gates. Activists, ethologists, veterinarians, journalists, bloggers have long been fighting to "open the cages" and thanks to their "work" something is changing. For a few years now, various travel companies have finally taken a stand against captivity. A big step forward, there is no doubt, even if many other choices or positions that are not always impeccable could be contested.




The holidays are almost over for everyone, but if you still have to travel for pleasure or if you travel often for work, find out, choosing when possible those companies that have lined up against animal captivity. For advertising reasons I do not name names, avoiding - to those who are ready to launch into mere speculation - to waste time writing, for example, "took the bribes from such companies or companies", also offering them the opportunity to be less off topic and more constructive.




Instead...