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Le app di navigazione (Waze, le mappe di Google e quelle di Apple) sono diventate via via sempre più sofisticate e indispensabili agli automobilisti che vogliono evitare il traffico. Con una conseguenza: piccole e tranquille città sono ora indicati dalle mappe come “percorsi alternativi” o “più veloci”. Le piccole città non sono più così tranquille e i residenti sono molto meno sereni di un tempo. Così hanno ideato vari metodi per rallentare il traffico: dai divieti di circolazione per i non residenti, alla segnalazione di incidenti fake.
Link: http://nyti.ms/2BCiMFd
Link: http://nyti.ms/2BCiMFd
Nytimes
Navigation Apps Are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods Into Traffic Nightmares
As motorists turn onto residential streets, towns are fighting back by creating turn restrictions, speed humps and even closing roads to outsiders.
L’Illuminismo? È arrivato due o trecento anni prima in Etiopia, grazia a un uomo solo, un eremita dalla storia (e soprattutto dal pensiero) molto particolari.
Money quote: “In short: many of the highest ideals of the later European Enlightenment had been conceived and summarised by one man, working in an Ethiopian cave from 1630 to 1632. Yacob’s reason-based philosophy is presented in his main work, Hatäta (meaning ‘the enquiry’). The book was written down in 1667 on the insistence of his student, Walda Heywat, who himself wrote a more practically oriented Hatäta. Today, 350 years later, it’s hard to find a copy of Yacob’s book. The only translation into English was done in 1976, by the Canadian professor and priest Claude Sumner. He published it as part of a five-volume work on Ethiopian philosophy, with the far-from-commercial Commercial Printing Press in Addis Ababa. The book has been translated into German, and last year into Norwegian, but an English version is still basically unavailable.”
https://aeon.co/essays/yacob-and-amo-africas-precursors-to-locke-hume-and-kant
Money quote: “In short: many of the highest ideals of the later European Enlightenment had been conceived and summarised by one man, working in an Ethiopian cave from 1630 to 1632. Yacob’s reason-based philosophy is presented in his main work, Hatäta (meaning ‘the enquiry’). The book was written down in 1667 on the insistence of his student, Walda Heywat, who himself wrote a more practically oriented Hatäta. Today, 350 years later, it’s hard to find a copy of Yacob’s book. The only translation into English was done in 1976, by the Canadian professor and priest Claude Sumner. He published it as part of a five-volume work on Ethiopian philosophy, with the far-from-commercial Commercial Printing Press in Addis Ababa. The book has been translated into German, and last year into Norwegian, but an English version is still basically unavailable.”
https://aeon.co/essays/yacob-and-amo-africas-precursors-to-locke-hume-and-kant
aeon.co
Yacob and Amo: Africa’s precursors to Locke, Hume and Kant | Aeon Essays
The highest ideals of Locke, Hume and Kant were first proposed more than a century earlier by an Ethiopian in a cave
Quattordici scrittrici di fantascienza da non perdere - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
Money quote: “Quattordici romanzi di fantascienza al femminile, scritti cioè da donne, per seguire una pista poco frequentata dalla FS in generale e da quella italiana in particolare, e ribadire (purtroppo ce n’è bisogno) che la fantascienza è letteratura di genere ma non di un solo genere. Una piccola lista esplorativa in attesa del Natale.”
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/12/libri-scrittrici-fantascienza/
Money quote: “Quattordici romanzi di fantascienza al femminile, scritti cioè da donne, per seguire una pista poco frequentata dalla FS in generale e da quella italiana in particolare, e ribadire (purtroppo ce n’è bisogno) che la fantascienza è letteratura di genere ma non di un solo genere. Una piccola lista esplorativa in attesa del Natale.”
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/12/libri-scrittrici-fantascienza/
Fumettologica
14 scrittrici di fantascienza da non perdere
14 romanzi di fantascienza al femminile, scritti cioè da donne, per seguire una pista poco frequentata dalla FS, in particolare quella italiana.
Storie di gente che abbandona Snapchat
Money quote: “Throughout each day, friends browse my story and fire back a chat message if they like it, and I do the same. Before I switched, I was probably checking Snapchat once an hour to see if anything new had happened. Like you, I was addicted to the service — more than a disturbing amount”
https://medium.com/charged-tech/why-im-leaving-snapchat-and-so-are-all-your-friends-dd241f0cd14
Money quote: “Throughout each day, friends browse my story and fire back a chat message if they like it, and I do the same. Before I switched, I was probably checking Snapchat once an hour to see if anything new had happened. Like you, I was addicted to the service — more than a disturbing amount”
https://medium.com/charged-tech/why-im-leaving-snapchat-and-so-are-all-your-friends-dd241f0cd14
Medium
Why I’m leaving Snapchat and so are all your friends
Snapchat is the darling of technology: for years, we’ve fawned over the company for being innovative, using daring interfaces and out of…
Negli Usa sta per arrivare la vera ricarica wireless - il mio articolo per Macity
Money quote: "È la startup californiana Energous a far sapere di avere ricevuto il disco verde per il suo trasmettitore WattUp Mid Field. Il sistema è profondamente differente da quelli utilizzati finora dai vari dispositivi a contatto, come usati da Apple e da Samsung sui loro telefoni, e basati sul principio dell’induzione. Invece Energous ha la capacità di convertire l’energia elettrica in onde radio e poter quindi trasmetterle per un raggio di circa un metro."
https://www.macitynet.it/negli-usa-sta-arrivare-la-vera-ricarica-wireless/
Money quote: "È la startup californiana Energous a far sapere di avere ricevuto il disco verde per il suo trasmettitore WattUp Mid Field. Il sistema è profondamente differente da quelli utilizzati finora dai vari dispositivi a contatto, come usati da Apple e da Samsung sui loro telefoni, e basati sul principio dell’induzione. Invece Energous ha la capacità di convertire l’energia elettrica in onde radio e poter quindi trasmetterle per un raggio di circa un metro."
https://www.macitynet.it/negli-usa-sta-arrivare-la-vera-ricarica-wireless/
Macitynet.it
Negli Usa sta per arrivare la vera ricarica wireless - Macitynet.it
La Fcc approva il primo sistema di ricarica a distanza: energia wireless “a distanza” fino a un metro
Una Startup svedese, Storytel, trova i soldi in televisione e si lancia alla conquista del mercato dell’audiolibro. Anche in Italia.
Money quote: “Yet the deal might never have happened had Tellander not secured cash on TV show Dragons’ Den, on which entrepreneurs seek financing from venture capitalists, effectively saving his budding business from bankruptcy.“
http://fortune.com/2017/06/15/storytel-books/
Money quote: “Yet the deal might never have happened had Tellander not secured cash on TV show Dragons’ Den, on which entrepreneurs seek financing from venture capitalists, effectively saving his budding business from bankruptcy.“
http://fortune.com/2017/06/15/storytel-books/
Fortune
http://fortune.com
Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Il tema è facile: l'organizzazione delle librerie di undici scrittori. Perché vengono presentati come scrittori, ma in realtà sono una pattuglia di psicopatici milionari che accumulano libri in più di una casa. Che fastidio! (disse quello che i libri li accumulava in scatole in soffitte sue e di amici).
Money quote: "Hanya Yanagihara keeps some 12,000 books in her Manhattan apartment. She arranges them alphabetically, of course. “Anyone who arranges their books by color doesn’t truly care what’s in the books,” she told The Guardian. “I’ve always had them and collected them. I have multiple editions of certain noscripts so I can give them away. But I do try to do a big cull every few years.”"
http://lithub.com/how-11-writers-organize-their-personal-libraries/
Money quote: "Hanya Yanagihara keeps some 12,000 books in her Manhattan apartment. She arranges them alphabetically, of course. “Anyone who arranges their books by color doesn’t truly care what’s in the books,” she told The Guardian. “I’ve always had them and collected them. I have multiple editions of certain noscripts so I can give them away. But I do try to do a big cull every few years.”"
http://lithub.com/how-11-writers-organize-their-personal-libraries/
Literary Hub
How 11 Writers Organize Their Personal Libraries
There’s a secret war raging on the internet. The stakes are high. The warriors are fierce. The battleground is your bookshelf. Do you alphabetize? Do you color-code? Do you have no system at …
La street photography è morta, viva la street photography: uno sfogo.
Money quote: "I have the worst luck in the world when it comes to street photography. I’ve NEVER encountered situations like that of Pau Buscato or Bruce Gilden. I’ve tried, trust me. I’ve endlessly walked the streets and everything just disappears in front of me when I have a camera, In exchange, when I’m chilling and have no camera with me, the world is a very interesting place."
https://www.thephoblographer.com/2017/12/20/opinion-street-photography-is-dead/
Money quote: "I have the worst luck in the world when it comes to street photography. I’ve NEVER encountered situations like that of Pau Buscato or Bruce Gilden. I’ve tried, trust me. I’ve endlessly walked the streets and everything just disappears in front of me when I have a camera, In exchange, when I’m chilling and have no camera with me, the world is a very interesting place."
https://www.thephoblographer.com/2017/12/20/opinion-street-photography-is-dead/
The Phoblographer
Opinion and Rant: Street Photography is Dead (So is #streetphotography)
Photographer Xavier De Buendia is really sick of Street Photography. To him, it's nothing more than some sort of marketing scam of some sort.
Apple, scuse e rimborsi tardivi ma comunque apprezzati - il mio articolo per Macity
Money quote: "La posizione che Apple ha preso con Tim Cook, uomo che non può certo vendere al mercato una visione strategica paragonabile a quella che aveva Steve Jobs e invece ha avuto l’intuizione di giocare la carta dei valori, è delicata. Infatti è vero da un lato che il mercato sta impazzendo, con la vendita dei dati degli utenti come fossero buoi al mercato, con regolamentazioni che fanno sembrare il Far West un esclusivo e secolare club londinese, mentre l’idea che ci sia qualcuno che persegue il bello e il buono può apparire semplicemente folle ad alcuni."
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-scuse-rimborsi-tardivi-comunque-apprezzati/
Money quote: "La posizione che Apple ha preso con Tim Cook, uomo che non può certo vendere al mercato una visione strategica paragonabile a quella che aveva Steve Jobs e invece ha avuto l’intuizione di giocare la carta dei valori, è delicata. Infatti è vero da un lato che il mercato sta impazzendo, con la vendita dei dati degli utenti come fossero buoi al mercato, con regolamentazioni che fanno sembrare il Far West un esclusivo e secolare club londinese, mentre l’idea che ci sia qualcuno che persegue il bello e il buono può apparire semplicemente folle ad alcuni."
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-scuse-rimborsi-tardivi-comunque-apprezzati/
macitynet.it
Apple, scuse e rimborsi tardivi ma comunque apprezzati
Apple, Batteria, IPhone, Opinioni, Smartphone, Tim Cook
4chan spiegato bene (e anche Trump e la destra estrema)
Money quote: “As someone who has witnessed 4chan grow from a group of adolescent boys who could fit into a single room at my local anime convention to a worldwide coalition of right wing extremists (which is still somehow also a message board about anime), I feel I have some obligation to explain”
https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb
Money quote: “As someone who has witnessed 4chan grow from a group of adolescent boys who could fit into a single room at my local anime convention to a worldwide coalition of right wing extremists (which is still somehow also a message board about anime), I feel I have some obligation to explain”
https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb
Medium
4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump
Trump’s younger supporters know he’s an incompetent joke; in fact, that’s why they support him.
Ps: siamo alla fine dell’anno e finalmente anch’io ho sbagliato a postare un articolo, destinato a un’altra chat! Evviva il 2017!
Un viaggio straordinario nella latenza dei computer dal 1977 al 2017. Tutto quel che c’è da sapere per capire come mai un Apple II è più “diretto” di quasi tutto quello che esiste oggi. Molto, molto nerd. Molta, molta soddisfazione. Grazie all'amico Giovanni che me lo ha segnalato.
Money quote: “It’s a bit absurd that a modern gaming machine running at 4,000x the speed of an apple 2, with a CPU that has 500,000x as many transistors (with a GPU that has 2,000,000x as many transistors) can maybe manage the same latency as an apple 2 in very carefully coded applications if we have a monitor with nearly 3x the refresh rate”
https://danluu.com/input-lag/
Money quote: “It’s a bit absurd that a modern gaming machine running at 4,000x the speed of an apple 2, with a CPU that has 500,000x as many transistors (with a GPU that has 2,000,000x as many transistors) can maybe manage the same latency as an apple 2 in very carefully coded applications if we have a monitor with nearly 3x the refresh rate”
https://danluu.com/input-lag/
I dolori (e le gioie) di un giovane programmatore alle prese con il suo primo videogioco per... GameBoy
Money quote: "Everyone has childhood dreams. Mine was to make a game for my fist console: the Nintendo Game Boy. Today, I fulfilled this dream, by releasing my first Game Boy game on a actual cartridge: Sheep It Up!
In this article, I'll present the tools I used, and some pitfalls a newcomer like me had to overcome to make this project a reality! Due to it's length, this article will be split in two parts:
Part 1 : Tools used / Technical challenges / Art challenges
Part 2 : Audio Constraints / Making Cartridges / Player Feedback (Upcoming)"
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DoctorLudos/20171207/311143/Making_a_Game_Boy_game_in_2017_A_quotSheep_It_Upquot_PostMortem_part_12.php
Money quote: "Everyone has childhood dreams. Mine was to make a game for my fist console: the Nintendo Game Boy. Today, I fulfilled this dream, by releasing my first Game Boy game on a actual cartridge: Sheep It Up!
In this article, I'll present the tools I used, and some pitfalls a newcomer like me had to overcome to make this project a reality! Due to it's length, this article will be split in two parts:
Part 1 : Tools used / Technical challenges / Art challenges
Part 2 : Audio Constraints / Making Cartridges / Player Feedback (Upcoming)"
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DoctorLudos/20171207/311143/Making_a_Game_Boy_game_in_2017_A_quotSheep_It_Upquot_PostMortem_part_12.php
Game Developer
Making a Game Boy game in 2017: A "Sheep It Up!" Post-Mortem
What does it take to release a new game cartridge for the Game Boy in 2017?
Here�s my experience, with a lot of details on the tools I used and the challenge
Here�s my experience, with a lot of details on the tools I used and the challenge
Scrivere. Varie volte ho condiviso articoli su VIm, che come editor per il codice funziona alla grande ma può avere senso anche come editor per la prosa. La strategia è lavorare con documenti txt "arricchiti" dal markdown, cioè da un sistema di marcatura leggera che consenta di dare struttura al testo infischiandosene dello stile.
C'è un passo ulteriore: backup e versioni di quello che state scrivendo. Una strategia è quella basata su Git, che è uno strumento pensato per controllare le versioni del codice sorgente, coordinare il lavoro di più programmatori (ma questo ci interessa meno) e avere anche una copia di sicurezza in remoto se usate piattaforme gratuite come GitHub o BitBucket. Vanessa Gaudenes introduce molto bene il discorso
https://medium.com/@sayhellotovanessa/git-for-writers-write-fiction-like-a-good-programmer-ea6f0309a69a
Money quote: "Since Git is a tool to control drafts and resources in a directory, to make infinite versions of it and allow merges while keeping its original (or main) version, I think it is the writer’s best friend. You can keep many versions of your novel or watch the process you took while writing. It is amazing."
Qui potete imparare a usare Git con un tutorial interattivo molto carino, che parte da zero. Vivamente consigliato
https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1
Qui un altro approfondimenti su Git per scrittori
https://thoughtstreams.io/joeld/git-for-authors/
Qui un programmatore che cercava di creare qualcosa di originale dedicato agli scrittori: un GitHub per la prosa (ma va benissimo GitHub o BitBucket)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6296630
e infine qui alcuni limiti nell'utilizzo di questa tecnologia
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/the-limitations-of-github-for-writers/48299
Money quote: "GitHub, in its current form, can serve the needs of writers and scholars, just as it currently serves programmers, and more recently, groups adding laws and government regulations as repositories on the site. For many reasons, however, both GitHub, and the broader approach to collaboration that it has promoted in the world of coding, is not ideal for writers and there are good reasons to support the development of alternative services more suited to our academic or other writing needs."
(Pealtro sono molto interessanti anche i precedenti articoli dello stesso autore su Git)
E quasi dimenticavo: Git vs Mercurial, che è come dire MacGyver vs James Bond...
https://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/
C'è un passo ulteriore: backup e versioni di quello che state scrivendo. Una strategia è quella basata su Git, che è uno strumento pensato per controllare le versioni del codice sorgente, coordinare il lavoro di più programmatori (ma questo ci interessa meno) e avere anche una copia di sicurezza in remoto se usate piattaforme gratuite come GitHub o BitBucket. Vanessa Gaudenes introduce molto bene il discorso
https://medium.com/@sayhellotovanessa/git-for-writers-write-fiction-like-a-good-programmer-ea6f0309a69a
Money quote: "Since Git is a tool to control drafts and resources in a directory, to make infinite versions of it and allow merges while keeping its original (or main) version, I think it is the writer’s best friend. You can keep many versions of your novel or watch the process you took while writing. It is amazing."
Qui potete imparare a usare Git con un tutorial interattivo molto carino, che parte da zero. Vivamente consigliato
https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1
Qui un altro approfondimenti su Git per scrittori
https://thoughtstreams.io/joeld/git-for-authors/
Qui un programmatore che cercava di creare qualcosa di originale dedicato agli scrittori: un GitHub per la prosa (ma va benissimo GitHub o BitBucket)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6296630
e infine qui alcuni limiti nell'utilizzo di questa tecnologia
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/the-limitations-of-github-for-writers/48299
Money quote: "GitHub, in its current form, can serve the needs of writers and scholars, just as it currently serves programmers, and more recently, groups adding laws and government regulations as repositories on the site. For many reasons, however, both GitHub, and the broader approach to collaboration that it has promoted in the world of coding, is not ideal for writers and there are good reasons to support the development of alternative services more suited to our academic or other writing needs."
(Pealtro sono molto interessanti anche i precedenti articoli dello stesso autore su Git)
E quasi dimenticavo: Git vs Mercurial, che è come dire MacGyver vs James Bond...
https://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/
Medium
Git for writers: Write fiction like a (good) programmer
An introduction on Git as a writing tool
I videogiochi non sono solo una cosa per ragazzini.
Money quote: "Catherine first launched for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 back in 2011. Visually, it has the vibe of a modern day Persona game (and notably, featured longtime series artist Shigenori Soejima as its art director). Narratively, it explores adult relationships and their complications: infidelity, lust, sexuality, and so on. Vincent Brooks, the game’s hero (and I use that term loosely), is torn between the pressure to marry his longterm girlfriend Katherine and a seductive young woman he meets named Catherine. The choices he makes — how he answers their respective questions, for example, or responds to texts — impact his relationships with them and, ultimately, his fate."
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/16810556/catherine-full-body-remake-ps4-psvita
Money quote: "Catherine first launched for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 back in 2011. Visually, it has the vibe of a modern day Persona game (and notably, featured longtime series artist Shigenori Soejima as its art director). Narratively, it explores adult relationships and their complications: infidelity, lust, sexuality, and so on. Vincent Brooks, the game’s hero (and I use that term loosely), is torn between the pressure to marry his longterm girlfriend Katherine and a seductive young woman he meets named Catherine. The choices he makes — how he answers their respective questions, for example, or responds to texts — impact his relationships with them and, ultimately, his fate."
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/16810556/catherine-full-body-remake-ps4-psvita
The Verge
Soon you’ll have no excuse to ignore one of the best games about love and infidelity
Catherine’s incoming remaster is the perfect excuse to revisit it
Sempre parlando di videogiochi. Negli Usa c'è da un po' di tempo la pratica dello "swatting", cioè mentre si gioca online (e magari il nostro avversario è in streaming su Twitch) si chiama la polizia dicendo che in quella casa c'è un terrorista. Arriva la Swat che sfonda la porta e arresta il tizio che fino a un attimo prima sparava come un ossesso dentro Call of Duty, e gli amici giù a farsi grasse risate. Solo che questa volta c'è scappato il morto, perché ogni tanto la Swat ha il grilletto facile.
Money quote: "In this case, Wichita local Andrew Finch, whose family members say did not play video games and was a father of two young boys, answered his door only to face down a SWAT team-level response. Allegedly, one officer immediately fired upon Finch, who later died at a hospital. It’s unclear why Finch, who is said not to have had a weapon on him, was fired upon. The Wichita Eagle reports that the police department is investigating the issue, which occurred late Thursday night."
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/29/16830626/call-of-duty-swatting-prank-kansas-man-dead-police-shooting
Money quote: "In this case, Wichita local Andrew Finch, whose family members say did not play video games and was a father of two young boys, answered his door only to face down a SWAT team-level response. Allegedly, one officer immediately fired upon Finch, who later died at a hospital. It’s unclear why Finch, who is said not to have had a weapon on him, was fired upon. The Wichita Eagle reports that the police department is investigating the issue, which occurred late Thursday night."
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/29/16830626/call-of-duty-swatting-prank-kansas-man-dead-police-shooting
The Verge
Swatting over Call of Duty game results in deadly police shooting of Kansas man
The victim was unrelated to the online feud
Gli sviluppatori? Si estingueranno, parola del Ceo di GitHub - il mio articolo per Macity
Money quote: "La retorica dei nostri tempi moderni nonché digitali vuole che il mestiere del futuro sia scrivere codice. Una sorta di nuova arte, all’incrocio tra la matematica e la logica, il mestiere del futuro. Una volta si mandavano i figli a fare giurisprudenza, “che con quella cadi sempre in piedi”, dicevano le nonne. Oppure, ancora meglio, medicina, perché “l’hai mai visto un medico povero?”. Ecco, oggi li mandiamo tutti a fare informatica, o meglio ancora li andiamo a stanare alle medie, alle elementari, e gli insegniamo a programmare in C++, in Python, in Swift, in qualsiasi cosa basta che i dirigenti ministeriali che autorizzano i piani, degli analfabit totali per la maggior parte, vedano schermi neri con caratteri colorati e pensino “Questa sì che è una roba da hacker!”. Ecco, attenzione perché c’è un problema."
https://www.macitynet.it/gli-sviluppatori-si-estingueranno-parola-del-ceo-github/
Money quote: "La retorica dei nostri tempi moderni nonché digitali vuole che il mestiere del futuro sia scrivere codice. Una sorta di nuova arte, all’incrocio tra la matematica e la logica, il mestiere del futuro. Una volta si mandavano i figli a fare giurisprudenza, “che con quella cadi sempre in piedi”, dicevano le nonne. Oppure, ancora meglio, medicina, perché “l’hai mai visto un medico povero?”. Ecco, oggi li mandiamo tutti a fare informatica, o meglio ancora li andiamo a stanare alle medie, alle elementari, e gli insegniamo a programmare in C++, in Python, in Swift, in qualsiasi cosa basta che i dirigenti ministeriali che autorizzano i piani, degli analfabit totali per la maggior parte, vedano schermi neri con caratteri colorati e pensino “Questa sì che è una roba da hacker!”. Ecco, attenzione perché c’è un problema."
https://www.macitynet.it/gli-sviluppatori-si-estingueranno-parola-del-ceo-github/
Macitynet.it
Gli sviluppatori? Si estingueranno, parola del Ceo di GitHub - Macitynet.it
Se pensavate che scrivere codice fosse il lavoro del futuro siete in errore: lo faranno i computer, dice Chris Wanstrath
Raramente affrontiamo in modo critico argomenti come quello della “guerra giusta”. È successo durante la seconda guerra del Golfo e poche altre volte, nell’ultimo secolo. Ancora meno si parla dello statuto morale in base al quale uccidere altri esseri umani nei conflitti. Una riflessione che però dovrebbe essere portata avanti, perché tutt’altro che inutile. Qui la visione è legata all’aspetto della comunicazione e della rappresentazione, ma è molto stimolante, apre a prospettive nuove.
Money quote: “What we found was that dehumanising victims predicts support for instrumental violence, but not for moral violence. For example, Americans who saw Iraqi civilians as less human were more likely to support drone strikes in Iraq. In this case, no one wants to kill innocent civilians, but if they die as collateral damage in the pursuit of killing ISIS terrorists, dehumanising them eases our guilt. In contrast, seeing ISIS terrorists as less human predicted nothing about support for drone strikes against them. This is because people want to hurt and kill terrorists. Without their humanity, how could terrorists be guilty, and how could they feel the pain that they deserve?”
https://aeon.co/ideas/our-enemies-are-human-thats-why-we-want-to-kill-them
Money quote: “What we found was that dehumanising victims predicts support for instrumental violence, but not for moral violence. For example, Americans who saw Iraqi civilians as less human were more likely to support drone strikes in Iraq. In this case, no one wants to kill innocent civilians, but if they die as collateral damage in the pursuit of killing ISIS terrorists, dehumanising them eases our guilt. In contrast, seeing ISIS terrorists as less human predicted nothing about support for drone strikes against them. This is because people want to hurt and kill terrorists. Without their humanity, how could terrorists be guilty, and how could they feel the pain that they deserve?”
https://aeon.co/ideas/our-enemies-are-human-thats-why-we-want-to-kill-them
Aeon
Our enemies are human: that’s why we want to kill them
At last count, more than 600,000 of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority had fled the country for Bangladesh. Ever since Rohingya militants attacked Myanmar police outposts, resulting in a dozen deaths in August 2017, Myanmar security forces have be...
Switch: niente cartucce da 64 Giga fino al 2019 - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/switch-niente-cartucce-64-giga-al-2019/
https://www.macitynet.it/switch-niente-cartucce-64-giga-al-2019/
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Switch: niente cartucce da 64 Giga fino al 2019 - Macitynet.it
Nintendo avrebbe dovuto rendere disponibili i cartridge a metà dell’anno prossimo. In forse alcuni giochi che richiedono più memoria
Una bella riflessione in campo scientifico - ma mi pare valga anche in molti altri settori - sul rapporto con la scrittura e quello con la formazione
Money quote: “I do not “edit” students’ writing. I believe in authorship, and unless we work on collaborative papers, I think that being lead author means just that — having written a solid 90% of the words in the paper. My master’s advisor (or was it someone else?) summed up grad school as the process by which we take people that read papers, and train them to be people that write papers. A large part of this training is finding your own voice, and you can’t find your own voice if someone else is shoving down their words down your throat”
https://medium.com/@tpoi/write-dont-type-6250f4c7f0b
Money quote: “I do not “edit” students’ writing. I believe in authorship, and unless we work on collaborative papers, I think that being lead author means just that — having written a solid 90% of the words in the paper. My master’s advisor (or was it someone else?) summed up grad school as the process by which we take people that read papers, and train them to be people that write papers. A large part of this training is finding your own voice, and you can’t find your own voice if someone else is shoving down their words down your throat”
https://medium.com/@tpoi/write-dont-type-6250f4c7f0b
Medium
Write. Don’t type.
These last months, because of a combination of projects being completed, grants being due, and students’ manunoscripts shaping up, I spent an…
Un punto di vista originale sul problema delle batterie e telefoni rallentati di Apple: e se l’idea dell’obsolescenza programmata fosse in realtà uno specchietto per le allodole? Il problema vero secondo questa ipotesi sarebbe un altro: gli iPhone 6-6s-7 (soprattutto 6-6s) sono bacati perché si spengono per eccesso di consumo quando la batteria è appena sotto il pelo. E comunque lavorano male con iOS 11.
Ipotesi intrigante.
Money quote: “iPhone 6 and 6+ have a hardware problem. Apple’s solution should include resolving that problem via hardware recall and replacement, an expensive option. Instead, they slowed the performance of all our phones, and made us pay for the hardware failure.”
https://medium.com/@mrsallee/forget-conspiracies-why-apples-reason-for-slowing-your-iphone-is-hostile-584b91a42603
Ipotesi intrigante.
Money quote: “iPhone 6 and 6+ have a hardware problem. Apple’s solution should include resolving that problem via hardware recall and replacement, an expensive option. Instead, they slowed the performance of all our phones, and made us pay for the hardware failure.”
https://medium.com/@mrsallee/forget-conspiracies-why-apples-reason-for-slowing-your-iphone-is-hostile-584b91a42603
Medium
Forget conspiracies: Why Apple’s reason for slowing your iPhone is hostile
Apple has admitted to intentionally slowing performance of older iPhones, a story that’s been discussed the Web-over. But the global…