Secondo me ci sta: un'ode all'iPod Classic, quello con l'hard disk da 160 giga. I pezzi ancora in circolazione spaccano di brutto. È un sogno per gli appassionati di musica. Un pezzo di futuro ormai passato.
Money quote: "On September 9, 2014, Apple announced that it would no longer be making the iPod Classic. For a seemingly all-powerful corporation, its reasoning was uncharacteristically defeatist: “We couldn’t get the parts anymore, not anywhere on Earth,” Apple CEO Tim Cook later explained. “It wasn’t a matter of me swinging the ax, saying ‘what can I kill today?’ The engineering work was massive, and the number of people who wanted it very small.”
Well, relatively small. He was not wrong about the low sales numbers — especially when compared to a product like the iPhone, which essentially ended the need for a separate mobile music player. But in the weeks after Apple killed off the Classic, something unexpected happened: Used iPods started selling for double, triple, even quadruple their original retail price on eBay. By December, a characteristically melodramatic Daily Mail headline enthused: “iPod Classic which is THREE YEARS OLD is Apple’s hottest item this Christmas.” The Apple Watch never stood a chance."
https://theringer.com/an-ode-to-the-ipod-classic-629e89681c6e#.nsutbvia5
Money quote: "On September 9, 2014, Apple announced that it would no longer be making the iPod Classic. For a seemingly all-powerful corporation, its reasoning was uncharacteristically defeatist: “We couldn’t get the parts anymore, not anywhere on Earth,” Apple CEO Tim Cook later explained. “It wasn’t a matter of me swinging the ax, saying ‘what can I kill today?’ The engineering work was massive, and the number of people who wanted it very small.”
Well, relatively small. He was not wrong about the low sales numbers — especially when compared to a product like the iPhone, which essentially ended the need for a separate mobile music player. But in the weeks after Apple killed off the Classic, something unexpected happened: Used iPods started selling for double, triple, even quadruple their original retail price on eBay. By December, a characteristically melodramatic Daily Mail headline enthused: “iPod Classic which is THREE YEARS OLD is Apple’s hottest item this Christmas.” The Apple Watch never stood a chance."
https://theringer.com/an-ode-to-the-ipod-classic-629e89681c6e#.nsutbvia5
The Ringer
An Ode to the iPod Classic
What the click wheel taught us about listening to music
L'affascinante vita sui pianeti senza un sistema solare (e soprattutto senza un Sole)
Moneta quote: "Free-floating planets are the popcorn kernels that escape from the pot"
https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-make-our-home-on-a-rogue-planet-without-a-sun
Moneta quote: "Free-floating planets are the popcorn kernels that escape from the pot"
https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-make-our-home-on-a-rogue-planet-without-a-sun
Aeon
Life in the dark
In the dark corners of our galaxy, there are billions of rogue planets roaming around, starless – can they support life?
Intervista al padre di Carolina, suicide nel 2013 vittima di bullismo. Oggi il padre non ha rabbia ("non serve, non la riporterebbe indietro") ma vuole che i bulli diventino ambasciatori contro il bullismo.
Money quote: "Quello che più interessa al papà di Carolina è che l’educazione contro il bullismo sia resa centrale. «Mia figlia ha lasciato una specie di testamento, non ci è voluto molto a risalire a chi le ha reso la vita impossibile per mesi e mesi». I ragazzi coinvolti erano sei, un maggiorenne e gli altri minorenni, tra cui anche l’ex fidanzatino della giovane."
https://letteradonna.it/250503/intervista-padre-carolina-picchio-morta-suicida-14-anni-cyberbullismo/
Money quote: "Quello che più interessa al papà di Carolina è che l’educazione contro il bullismo sia resa centrale. «Mia figlia ha lasciato una specie di testamento, non ci è voluto molto a risalire a chi le ha reso la vita impossibile per mesi e mesi». I ragazzi coinvolti erano sei, un maggiorenne e gli altri minorenni, tra cui anche l’ex fidanzatino della giovane."
https://letteradonna.it/250503/intervista-padre-carolina-picchio-morta-suicida-14-anni-cyberbullismo/
Letteradonna
«Hanno tormentato Carolina, ora lottino contro il bullismo»
C'è sofferenza, ma non traspare odio, nelle parole del padre di Carolina, morta suicida a 14 anni. L'uomo, in un'intervista al Corriere, ha ripercorso la vicenda di sua figlia, che tra il 4 e 5 gennaio 2013 ha deciso di farla finita gettandosi dal balcone.…
Un po' di giorni fa parlavo con un'amica del "dopo-sbornia" o come bisognerebbe dire "postumi della sbornia" ed entrambi eravamo stupiti che in italiano non ci sia neanche una parola specifica, come l'inglese "hangover" (in realtà nasce come composto ma poi l'inglese è una lingua molto più creativa dell'italiano e siamo arrivati al sostantivo), il francese "gueule de bois" e lo spagnolo "la resaca" o "la cruda". Adesso salta fuori che i giapponesi ci hanno costruito sopra addirittura un'industria. Lettura interessante.
Money quote: "What makes Japanese cures different is their breadth: the majority of other national hangover cures are simply foods or drinks. In Japan the culture of curing a hangover is closer to homeopathic medicine: these are preventative or curative potions designed to heal specific organs."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-strange-world-of-japanese-hangover-cures
Money quote: "What makes Japanese cures different is their breadth: the majority of other national hangover cures are simply foods or drinks. In Japan the culture of curing a hangover is closer to homeopathic medicine: these are preventative or curative potions designed to heal specific organs."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-strange-world-of-japanese-hangover-cures
Atlas Obscura
The Strange World of Japanese Hangover Cures
It's a $178 million industry, and no one knows if it works.
Forse potrebbe sorprendere alcuni, ma la fantascienza ha radici anche in Africa. Il pensiero unico e le narrazioni dominanti Made in USA distorcono anche questo come la fantascienza dell'Europa centro orientale e di quella asiatica.
Money quote: "Kahiu and her writing partner, Nnedi Okorafor, were named to this year’s Quartz African Innovators list for their feature-length animated film, The Camel Racer. Nigerian-American Okorafor has written multiple science fiction novels set in an Africa that is at once familiar and far-away. Her novella Binti, the story of the first woman of the Namibian Himba tribe, who struggles with her traditions as she studies the galaxy at a prestigious higher learning institute in space, just won a Nebula award."
https://qz.com/743683/without-allowing-space-for-imagination-we-lose-hope/
Money quote: "Kahiu and her writing partner, Nnedi Okorafor, were named to this year’s Quartz African Innovators list for their feature-length animated film, The Camel Racer. Nigerian-American Okorafor has written multiple science fiction novels set in an Africa that is at once familiar and far-away. Her novella Binti, the story of the first woman of the Namibian Himba tribe, who struggles with her traditions as she studies the galaxy at a prestigious higher learning institute in space, just won a Nebula award."
https://qz.com/743683/without-allowing-space-for-imagination-we-lose-hope/
Quartz
Science fiction has ancient roots in Africa. Why shouldn’t it also have a future there?
The Dogon people of Mali believe they are the descendants of an extra-terrestrial race from the Sirius B star system, and the Zulu in South Africa trace their name and origin story to somewhere just beyond the heavens. The African continent is home to a tradition…
Mi sono occupato molte volte, sopratttto per il Sole 24 Ore, di monetica digitale, del costo nella gestione del denaro e la trasformazione grazie alle tecnologie digitali e a internet. Poche volte però si parla dei problemi, soprattutto dei costi di trasformazione. Negli USA questo costo pare sia notevole anche per il "banale" passaggio dalla striscia al chip delle carte di credito (da noi è già successo).
Money quote: "This transition from swiping to chips (or to mobile payments) was always going to be rough. But it’s way worse than I expected and retailers seem to be left to their own devices (literally!) when it comes to knowing what their payment machines should do."
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/7/26/12287360/credit-card-companies-blowing-emv-chip-payments
Money quote: "This transition from swiping to chips (or to mobile payments) was always going to be rough. But it’s way worse than I expected and retailers seem to be left to their own devices (literally!) when it comes to knowing what their payment machines should do."
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/7/26/12287360/credit-card-companies-blowing-emv-chip-payments
The Verge
Credit card companies are blowing it with chip payments
Today I did two things I do nearly every day. 1) I bought something using a credit card, and 2) I complained about something on Twitter. But today, the complaint on Twitter was related to payments,...
È sera: prendetevi una mezz'ora per ponderare questi numeri. Quanti iPhone e quanti Android ci sono nel pianeta. Chi ha vinto la guerra delle piattaforme? E su quali metriche? Con quale vantaggio?
Le cose sono meno semplici di quanto sembra. Però Benedict Evans fa un ottimo punto della situazione.
https://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/7/25/platform-wars-final-score
Money quote: "The smartphone platform wars are pretty much over, and Apple and Google won. But it's interesting, in passing, to note the final score, and think about what it means"
Le cose sono meno semplici di quanto sembra. Però Benedict Evans fa un ottimo punto della situazione.
https://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/7/25/platform-wars-final-score
Money quote: "The smartphone platform wars are pretty much over, and Apple and Google won. But it's interesting, in passing, to note the final score, and think about what it means"
Benedict Evans
Platform wars: the final score
The platform wars and over and Apple and Google both won. So, what's the
score, how many smartphones and tablet are out there, and what should we
think about next?
score, how many smartphones and tablet are out there, and what should we
think about next?
La straordinaria trasformazione di Howard Stern, anchorman della radio americana. Da personaggio becero a confessore, femminista, realista. Le sue interviste alla radio sono come uno shot di siero della verità: gli ospiti dicono tutto
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/arts/howard-stern-sirius.html
Money quote: "“He’s truth serum,” said the comedian Amy Schumer, who has been on the show four times in the last five years. “It’s like you’re under contract to be totally honest in there, and even though it’s being broadcast, it feels super intimate and protected, even though you definitely aren’t.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/arts/howard-stern-sirius.html
Money quote: "“He’s truth serum,” said the comedian Amy Schumer, who has been on the show four times in the last five years. “It’s like you’re under contract to be totally honest in there, and even though it’s being broadcast, it feels super intimate and protected, even though you definitely aren’t.”"
NY Times
Confessor. Feminist. Adult. What the Hell Happened to Howard Stern? (Published 2016)
Scattered among the gleefully vulgar mainstays are now intimate exchanges that have made Mr. Stern one of the most deft interviewers in the business.
Gianni Dragoni è da una vita un giornalista del Sole 24 Ore. Prende la parola però in qualità di membro di una sigla sindacale di categoria per spiegare che la cassa previdenziale dei giornalisti - privata ma con natura giuridica pubblica, una delle ultime esistenti - non deve assolutamente investire nel fondo Atlante 2, pensato per risanare le banche. Rischio elevato, investimento tossico. Sarebbe un grave errore.
Prendete nota. Perché, quando poi nei giornali invece leggerete che l'investimento da parte di altri soggetti (fondi pensionistici, investitori privati, altre istituzioni) in Atlante 2 serve ed è sensato, patriottico, pensate che i giornalisti però non vogliono mangiare la stessa pappa di cui parlano.
(Pare peraltro che il governo, per convincere i vertici del'Inpgi. che sono peraltro composti da giornalisti eletti, abbia messo sul piatto l'ipotesi di dare natura privatistica all'Inpgi e togliere lo spettro dell'incorporazione dentro l'Inps)
Money quote: "ma constatiamo come non venga smentita la possibilità che l'Inpgi intervenga nel fondo Atlante 2. Il che significherebbe utilizzare fondi versati dai giornalisti per le proprie pensioni, già oggi messe in pericolo dallo squilibrio economico dell'istituto, per salvare una banca in gravissime difficoltà e quindi con un rischio molto alto"
https://www.puntoeacapo.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1276:mps-perche-investire-in-crediti-malati-non-e-un-buon-modo-di-mettere-a-posto-i-conti-inpgi&catid=63:inpgi&Itemid=76
Prendete nota. Perché, quando poi nei giornali invece leggerete che l'investimento da parte di altri soggetti (fondi pensionistici, investitori privati, altre istituzioni) in Atlante 2 serve ed è sensato, patriottico, pensate che i giornalisti però non vogliono mangiare la stessa pappa di cui parlano.
(Pare peraltro che il governo, per convincere i vertici del'Inpgi. che sono peraltro composti da giornalisti eletti, abbia messo sul piatto l'ipotesi di dare natura privatistica all'Inpgi e togliere lo spettro dell'incorporazione dentro l'Inps)
Money quote: "ma constatiamo come non venga smentita la possibilità che l'Inpgi intervenga nel fondo Atlante 2. Il che significherebbe utilizzare fondi versati dai giornalisti per le proprie pensioni, già oggi messe in pericolo dallo squilibrio economico dell'istituto, per salvare una banca in gravissime difficoltà e quindi con un rischio molto alto"
https://www.puntoeacapo.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1276:mps-perche-investire-in-crediti-malati-non-e-un-buon-modo-di-mettere-a-posto-i-conti-inpgi&catid=63:inpgi&Itemid=76
www.puntoeacapo.org
MPS, PERCHE' INVESTIRE IN CREDITI MALATI NON E' UN BUON MODO DI METTERE A POSTO I CONTI INPGI
Puntoeacapo, il punto di riferimento per i giornalisti
Ci siamo dimenticati di Cesare Beccaria. Ci siamo dimenticati che la rabbia, l'ira, il desiderio di vendetta non devono avere tutto lo spazio che oggi hanno. Una riflessione interessante.
https://aeon.co/essays/there-s-no-emotion-we-ought-to-think-harder-about-than-anger
Money quote: "The central puzzle is this: the payback idea does not make sense. Whatever the wrongful act was – a murder, a rape, a betrayal – inflicting pain on the wrongdoer does not help restore the thing that was lost. We think about payback all the time, and it is a deeply human tendency to think that proportionality between punishment and offence somehow makes good the offence. Only it doesn’t"
https://aeon.co/essays/there-s-no-emotion-we-ought-to-think-harder-about-than-anger
Money quote: "The central puzzle is this: the payback idea does not make sense. Whatever the wrongful act was – a murder, a rape, a betrayal – inflicting pain on the wrongdoer does not help restore the thing that was lost. We think about payback all the time, and it is a deeply human tendency to think that proportionality between punishment and offence somehow makes good the offence. Only it doesn’t"
Aeon
Beyond anger
Anger is the emotion that has come to saturate our politics and culture. Philosophy can help us out of this dark vortex
Digiunare fa bene. Con metodo e regolarità, ma produce vantaggi non da poco, secondo molta ricerca. Il problema, come in questo caso, è la forma mentis di parecchi americani. Bella storta, direi.
Money quote: "In fact, the biggest surprise was just how much more time we had on our hands. I was struck by how much of the day I normally spend attending to my digestive needs: thinking about what I would have for lunch or dinner; shopping for groceries (which we do almost daily); cooking — in my case, elaborate Pakistani meals most evenings; then actually eating, washing dishes, cleaning up, even moving one’s bowels. Eliminating the simple act of eating frees up much more time than you’d think"
https://aeon.co/essays/is-fasting-good-for-you-what-we-know-so-far
Money quote: "In fact, the biggest surprise was just how much more time we had on our hands. I was struck by how much of the day I normally spend attending to my digestive needs: thinking about what I would have for lunch or dinner; shopping for groceries (which we do almost daily); cooking — in my case, elaborate Pakistani meals most evenings; then actually eating, washing dishes, cleaning up, even moving one’s bowels. Eliminating the simple act of eating frees up much more time than you’d think"
https://aeon.co/essays/is-fasting-good-for-you-what-we-know-so-far
Aeon
One week, no food
Intrigued by the buzz around medical fasting, I tried it. A rollercoaster of boredom and energy ensued
Viviamo ancora nell'epoca dei giganti e degli dei. Oggi però ne è scomparso uno: Seymour Papert, matematico, studioso di intelligenza artificiale, papà del linguaggio di programmazione Logo e pioniere della tecnologia nell’educazione
Il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/addio-seymour-papert-papa-del-logo-pioniere-della-tecnologia-nelleducazione/
Il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/addio-seymour-papert-papa-del-logo-pioniere-della-tecnologia-nelleducazione/
Macitynet.it
Addio a Seymour Papert, papà del Logo e pioniere della tecnologia nell’educazione - Macitynet.it
Morto all'età di 88 anni il famoso scienziato studioso di intelligenza artificiale, apprendimento e creatore tra le altre cose del linguaggio Logo, oltre che della parte logica dei Lego Mindstorm
Microsoft sta mettendo un po' di intelligenza artificiale e machine learning dentro Office. Tra un paio di mesi Word troverà suggerimenti basati sullo stile di chi scrive e con Researcher invece si cercheranno automaticamente materiali web connessi e interessanti. La graffetta di Office forse è cresciuta. Sarà diventata anche simpatica?
Money quote: "Alongside Editor, Word is also getting a feature called Researcher, which will give users a way to find and incorporate additional information from outside sources. This makes it easy to add a quote and even generate proper academic citations for use in papers. Explicit content won’t appear in search results, so you won’t accidentally import it into your work. And you won’t find yourself in some random Wikipedia rabbit hole, because the search for additional information happens in a panel on the right side of your Word document."
https://venturebeat.com/2016/07/26/microsoft-word-researcher/
Money quote: "Alongside Editor, Word is also getting a feature called Researcher, which will give users a way to find and incorporate additional information from outside sources. This makes it easy to add a quote and even generate proper academic citations for use in papers. Explicit content won’t appear in search results, so you won’t accidentally import it into your work. And you won’t find yourself in some random Wikipedia rabbit hole, because the search for additional information happens in a panel on the right side of your Word document."
https://venturebeat.com/2016/07/26/microsoft-word-researcher/
VentureBeat
Microsoft launches Researcher and Editor in Word, Zoom in PowerPoint
Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Microsoft today is announcing new features that are coming to its Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook applications. One new feature in Word, called Editor, is particularly notable…
E se non fosse vero niente che dobbiamo fare quel che amiamo? E se dovessimo fare quello che ci viene bene? Perché dopotutto il lavoro è lavoro, no?
Money quote: "We’re doing people an incredible disservice by telling them they should seek, and pursue, what they love. People usually can’t differentiate what they really love and what they love the idea of."
https://medium.com/personal-growth/youre-not-meant-to-do-what-you-love-you-re-meant-to-do-what-you-re-good-at-4e8e6b8e929d#.dhmrdt9ys
Money quote: "We’re doing people an incredible disservice by telling them they should seek, and pursue, what they love. People usually can’t differentiate what they really love and what they love the idea of."
https://medium.com/personal-growth/youre-not-meant-to-do-what-you-love-you-re-meant-to-do-what-you-re-good-at-4e8e6b8e929d#.dhmrdt9ys
Medium
You’re Not Meant To Do What You Love. You’re Meant To Do What You’re Good At.
When people learn that I’m a writer, more than half of them will immediately tell me about how they have an idea for a book, or that they…
Un po' di cose pratiche: 10 consigli pratici per usare alla grande Google Drive. Magari serve
https://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/10-tricks-to-make-yourself-a-google-drive-master-1784576153
https://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/10-tricks-to-make-yourself-a-google-drive-master-1784576153
Field Guide
10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Google Drive Master
Think you know Google’s online productivity suite back to front? Whether you’ve been using Google Drive for five minutes or five years, there’s always more to learn, and in that spirit we present 10 valuable tips and tricks for mastering the service.
Salesforce, il più grande produttore di software CRM nel cloud, si è comprato Quip, una interessante piccola azienda che eroga dal cloud una sorta di Office (o Google docs) collaborativo.
A differenza di Slack, che è una chat che permette di condividere documenti, Quip è un editor di documenti collaborativo con annessa chat per ogni documento. Due modelli diversi (chat-centrico vs documento-centrico).
Evidentemente Salesforce vuole alzare il tiro in un mercato dove anche Dropbpx si è dotata di un sistema per gestire i documenti in maniera collaborativa. Vedremo cosa succederà.
Money quote: "We’re committed to growing and expanding Quip's productivity platform as part of Salesforce. If you’re a Quip customer, please know that we’ll continue to provide you with the exceptional service and extraordinary products you’ve come to expect from us, and once the transaction closes, we'll do so as part of the world’s #1 CRM company. If you’re not yet a customer, sign your team up today!"
https://quip.com/blog/salesforce
A differenza di Slack, che è una chat che permette di condividere documenti, Quip è un editor di documenti collaborativo con annessa chat per ogni documento. Due modelli diversi (chat-centrico vs documento-centrico).
Evidentemente Salesforce vuole alzare il tiro in un mercato dove anche Dropbpx si è dotata di un sistema per gestire i documenti in maniera collaborativa. Vedremo cosa succederà.
Money quote: "We’re committed to growing and expanding Quip's productivity platform as part of Salesforce. If you’re a Quip customer, please know that we’ll continue to provide you with the exceptional service and extraordinary products you’ve come to expect from us, and once the transaction closes, we'll do so as part of the world’s #1 CRM company. If you’re not yet a customer, sign your team up today!"
https://quip.com/blog/salesforce
Quip
Quip + Salesforce = Big News
We have some big news to share — Salesforce has agreed to acquire Quip!
E poi, nel caso qualcuno fosse interessato, metto le mie foto su Instagram. Bianco e nero, ormai da parecchio tempo. È un hobby che mi rilassa https://www.instagram.com/antoniodini/
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Uber vende a Didi per un miliardo di dollari le sue attività in Cina, sei mesi dopo che Apple aveva investito un miliardo proprio in Didi. Una delle mosse più azzeccate da parte dell'azienda californiana che sta lavorando per una auto elettrica che si guida da sola
Money quote: "Uber has said that it’s profitable in the U.S. and Canada, but losses in developing markets have undercut that hard-fought progress. The huge losses in China have been one of the main sticking points holding up Uber’s potential IPO, according to people familiar with the matter"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-01/uber-said-to-merge-china-business-with-didi-in-35-billion-deal
Money quote: "Uber has said that it’s profitable in the U.S. and Canada, but losses in developing markets have undercut that hard-fought progress. The huge losses in China have been one of the main sticking points holding up Uber’s potential IPO, according to people familiar with the matter"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-01/uber-said-to-merge-china-business-with-didi-in-35-billion-deal
Bloomberg.com
In Deal With Didi, Uber Frees Itself to Expand in Other Markets
Uber Technologies Inc. is selling its China operations to fierce rival Didi Chuxing, ending an expensive price war and freeing it up to focus on other markets and possibly an initial public offering.
Il Villaggio Olimpico di Berlino è una cosa che neanche i tedeschi conoscono. Voluto da Hitler per le Olimpiadi di Berlino, venne preso poi dai sovietici e adesso cade in rovina. Ma forse c'è un piano per riattivarlo, superando gli imbarazzi storici dei tedeschi.
Money quote: "During World War II, the Olympic complex was used as a hospital for German soldiers, and it was taken over in 1945 and used as a barracks by the Soviet Army, which occupied the complex for almost 50 years until the fall of communism, repurposing the old swimming pool and training facilities for the likes of KGB interrogations."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hitler-s-olympic-village
Money quote: "During World War II, the Olympic complex was used as a hospital for German soldiers, and it was taken over in 1945 and used as a barracks by the Soviet Army, which occupied the complex for almost 50 years until the fall of communism, repurposing the old swimming pool and training facilities for the likes of KGB interrogations."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hitler-s-olympic-village
Atlas Obscura
Hitler's Olympic Village in Wustermark
The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.
Non capita solo da noi che si critichi la magistratura. Solo che negli USA ci sono delle differenze. I giudici non vengono quasi mai messi in mezzo, casomai la pubblica accusa, che però ha una carriera diversa (viene eletta). E comunque i critici del sistema sono un po' degli originaloni. Dei radicali. Non forze politiche e sicuramente non di maggioranza e di governo. Siamo noi l'anomalia.
Money quote: "While former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can use a mens rea defense to escape the consequences of her email shenanigans, others facing federal prosecution don’t have that option. Unintentionally and unknowingly breaking some vague, overly expansive, and obscure regulation can still be punished with lengthy jail terms, egregious fines, and personal ruin. Just ask Dinesh D’Souza, singled out for technical violations of campaign finance laws."
https://fee.org/articles/one-mans-fight-against-bureaucratic-tyranny-moves-on-campus/
Money quote: "While former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can use a mens rea defense to escape the consequences of her email shenanigans, others facing federal prosecution don’t have that option. Unintentionally and unknowingly breaking some vague, overly expansive, and obscure regulation can still be punished with lengthy jail terms, egregious fines, and personal ruin. Just ask Dinesh D’Souza, singled out for technical violations of campaign finance laws."
https://fee.org/articles/one-mans-fight-against-bureaucratic-tyranny-moves-on-campus/
fee.org
One Man's Fight against Bureaucratic Tyranny Moves On-Campus
Harvey Silverglate gives no quarter battling bureaucratic tyranny on two fronts—overcriminalization and campus speech restrictions.