La storia dell’avvocato che estorce soldi ai big della comunicazione perché non pagano le foto che utilizzano nei loro prodotti editoriali.
Money quote: “Liebowitz works on contingency and does a volume business, both of which are unusual approaches for a copyright attorney. His escalation tactics have unnerved his media-industry targets, who have grown accustomed to amicably resolving minor infringement cases long before a lawsuit is filed. “His whole scheme seems to be: He throws out a demand of something between $25,000 or $30,000 to start, and basically is negotiating down from there,” said one attorney who has faced Liebowitz. My sources for this story were reluctant to cite specific settlement amounts, which makes it impossible to say exactly how much money Liebowitz has won for his clients—and for himself”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/richard-liebowitz-why-media-companies-fear-and-photographers-love-this-guy.html
Money quote: “Liebowitz works on contingency and does a volume business, both of which are unusual approaches for a copyright attorney. His escalation tactics have unnerved his media-industry targets, who have grown accustomed to amicably resolving minor infringement cases long before a lawsuit is filed. “His whole scheme seems to be: He throws out a demand of something between $25,000 or $30,000 to start, and basically is negotiating down from there,” said one attorney who has faced Liebowitz. My sources for this story were reluctant to cite specific settlement amounts, which makes it impossible to say exactly how much money Liebowitz has won for his clients—and for himself”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/richard-liebowitz-why-media-companies-fear-and-photographers-love-this-guy.html
Slate Magazine
Why Every Media Company Fears This Guy
(And photographers love him.)
Forwarded from Scrivere zen
🏄🏻♀️ Non lasciare che gli altri ti risucchino le energie https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/30646-10-ways-you-might-be-giving-other-people-too-much-power-over-your-life-without-even-realizing-it
Thriveglobal
10 Ways You Might Be Giving Other People Too Much Power Over Your Life (Without Even Realizing It)
You only have so much time and energy. Don't let people take it from you.
Perché la tacca dell’iPhone non è come tutte le altre tacche (mal copiate)
Money quote: “Interestingly, not all notch designs are created equal and some of the Android copycats we’ve seen thus far have sported horrible looking implementations. As it turns out, there’s more to the iPhone X notch design than meets the eye. “
http://bgr.com/2018/05/27/iphone-x-vs-android-notch-design-looks-better-explanation/
Money quote: “Interestingly, not all notch designs are created equal and some of the Android copycats we’ve seen thus far have sported horrible looking implementations. As it turns out, there’s more to the iPhone X notch design than meets the eye. “
http://bgr.com/2018/05/27/iphone-x-vs-android-notch-design-looks-better-explanation/
BGR
Why the iPhone X notch design looks better than Android copycats
When Apple first introduced the iPhone X, the design was met with its fair share of controversy. Though everyone appreciated the device’s edgeless display, it was hard for many people to wrap…
Arrabbiato. Riconoscente? A proposito di Anthony Bourdain
Money quote: “Uneasily settled back into my hometown, I fought to push the dogs of my recent past down into the cellar of my soul where their bark did not seem so loud”
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/08/i-owe-anthony-bourdain-so-much.html
Money quote: “Uneasily settled back into my hometown, I fought to push the dogs of my recent past down into the cellar of my soul where their bark did not seem so loud”
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/08/i-owe-anthony-bourdain-so-much.html
Boing Boing
I owe Anthony Bourdain so much
I owe Anthony Bourdain so much
WWDC 2018, non s'interrompe così un'emozione - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/wwdc-2018-non-sinterrompe-cosi-unemozione/
https://www.macitynet.it/wwdc-2018-non-sinterrompe-cosi-unemozione/
Macitynet.it
WWDC 2018, non s'interrompe così un'emozione - Macitynet.it
Troppo frammentato, troppo analitico, senza storytelling: quel che è mancato sul palco di San Josè non è stato l'hardware, ma la passione e l'emozione
Dos è megl che quater - il mio post per Il Post che racconta un po’ di cose sulle grandi opportunità degli aerei di linea a due motori
https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2018/06/09/dos-e-megl-che-quater/
https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2018/06/09/dos-e-megl-che-quater/
Il Post
Dos è megl che quater - Antonio Dini
La fine di un'epoca: i colossi a quattro (e tre) motori non vanno più. Anche per il lungo raggio meglio gli snelli bimotori, che stanno cambiando la geopolitica del trasporto aereo civile
Una riflessione apparentemente “leggera” nella pagina delle opinioni del New York Times su cosa significhi e quale impatto abbia sulle nostre vite avere quarant’anni. (Hint: per una donna molto più che non per un uomo)
Money quote: “Forty isn’t even technically middle age anymore. Someone who’s now 40 has a 50 percent chance of living to 95, says the economist Andrew Scott, a co-author of “The 100-Year Life.”
But the number 40 still has symbolic resonance. Jesus fasted for 40 days. Muhammad was 40 when the archangel Gabriel appeared to him. The Israelites wandered the desert for 40 years. Mr. Brandes writes that in some languages, 40 means “a lot.”
And age 40 still feels pivotal. “The 40s are when you become who you are,” a British author in his 70s tells me, adding ominously, “And if you don’t know by your 40s, you never will.””
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-survive-your-40s.html
Money quote: “Forty isn’t even technically middle age anymore. Someone who’s now 40 has a 50 percent chance of living to 95, says the economist Andrew Scott, a co-author of “The 100-Year Life.”
But the number 40 still has symbolic resonance. Jesus fasted for 40 days. Muhammad was 40 when the archangel Gabriel appeared to him. The Israelites wandered the desert for 40 years. Mr. Brandes writes that in some languages, 40 means “a lot.”
And age 40 still feels pivotal. “The 40s are when you become who you are,” a British author in his 70s tells me, adding ominously, “And if you don’t know by your 40s, you never will.””
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-survive-your-40s.html
NY Times
Opinion | How to Survive Your 40s (Published 2018)
You know you’re in your 40s when you’ve spent 48 hours trying to think of a word, and that word was “hemorrhoids.”
Uno Yurt è la tenda dei nomadi della Mongolia. Oggi sta diventando uno strumento per un nuovo genere di campeggiatori
Money quote: “The Mongols are said to have built their yurts from saplings laced together with leather thongs. The rafters might have been either painted or plain. Felt was used for the walls and roof. It is not clear to me how they transported the yurt; the folded walls would be quite a burden for a horse.”
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/yurt/
Money quote: “The Mongols are said to have built their yurts from saplings laced together with leather thongs. The rafters might have been either painted or plain. Felt was used for the walls and roof. It is not clear to me how they transported the yurt; the folded walls would be quite a burden for a horse.”
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/yurt/
Dentro Amazon la cosa più importante sono le recensioni, perché spostano le persone da un prodotto all’altro e modellano i risultati delle ricerche. Amazon è gigantesca. L’economia delle recensioni false è un fenomeno gigantesco.
Money quote: “At just over $760 billion, Amazon is the world’s second most valuable company, behind Apple. CEO Jeff Bezos recently revealed the company counts more than 100 million paying Amazon Prime members globally, the $119-per-year membership that gets subscribers — the most devoted Amazon customers — free two-day shipping; music, TV, and movie streaming; access to an e-book library; and more. The company operates 13 third-party seller marketplaces around the world, and rents space to house those sellers’ inventory in more than 150 warehouses. In 2017, third-party merchants brought in $32 billion of revenue, and nearly 300,000 new sellers joined the marketplace last year alone.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/nicolenguyen/amazon-fake-review-problem
Money quote: “At just over $760 billion, Amazon is the world’s second most valuable company, behind Apple. CEO Jeff Bezos recently revealed the company counts more than 100 million paying Amazon Prime members globally, the $119-per-year membership that gets subscribers — the most devoted Amazon customers — free two-day shipping; music, TV, and movie streaming; access to an e-book library; and more. The company operates 13 third-party seller marketplaces around the world, and rents space to house those sellers’ inventory in more than 150 warehouses. In 2017, third-party merchants brought in $32 billion of revenue, and nearly 300,000 new sellers joined the marketplace last year alone.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/nicolenguyen/amazon-fake-review-problem
BuzzFeed News
Inside The Ecosystem That Fuels Amazon’s Fake Review Problem
A vast web of Amazon review fraud lives online, and it's designed to evade the company’s efforts to thwart it.
Non vi sbagliate, la “giapponesizzazione degli Stati Uniti” segue e non precede la “giapponesizzazione dell’Italia”. Grande articolo del New Yorker, btw.
Money quote: ”Stripped down to its most minimalist outlines (an approach that Kondo would surely approve), a life of uncluttered simplicity represents a fantasy. Why should Americans be so compelled by one from Japan? Close to twenty years ago, the answer would have been “because Japan is the global imagination’s default setting for the future,” as the author William Gibson wrote in 2001. “The Japanese seem to the rest of us to live several measurable clicks down the time line.” Gibson was referring to a Japan of trendy gadgets and services, such as high-tech cell phones and robot sushi bars, the flashy products of a hyper-consumer metropolis that inspired the creators of such films as “Blade Runner” and “The Matrix.” But what Gibson wrote about products was just as true about other, less visible trends in Japanese society: economic stagnation; a plunging fertility rate; a dramatic postponement of the “normal” milestones of adulthood, such as getting married or simply moving out of the family home; a creeping sense of ambivalence about what the future might hold. Seventeen years later, America has finally caught up. We don’t buy into Kondo’s life-changing magic just because we think Japan is cool; we also buy because our country is, in many ways, increasingly like Japan”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-united-states-of-japan
Money quote: ”Stripped down to its most minimalist outlines (an approach that Kondo would surely approve), a life of uncluttered simplicity represents a fantasy. Why should Americans be so compelled by one from Japan? Close to twenty years ago, the answer would have been “because Japan is the global imagination’s default setting for the future,” as the author William Gibson wrote in 2001. “The Japanese seem to the rest of us to live several measurable clicks down the time line.” Gibson was referring to a Japan of trendy gadgets and services, such as high-tech cell phones and robot sushi bars, the flashy products of a hyper-consumer metropolis that inspired the creators of such films as “Blade Runner” and “The Matrix.” But what Gibson wrote about products was just as true about other, less visible trends in Japanese society: economic stagnation; a plunging fertility rate; a dramatic postponement of the “normal” milestones of adulthood, such as getting married or simply moving out of the family home; a creeping sense of ambivalence about what the future might hold. Seventeen years later, America has finally caught up. We don’t buy into Kondo’s life-changing magic just because we think Japan is cool; we also buy because our country is, in many ways, increasingly like Japan”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-united-states-of-japan
The New Yorker
The United States of Japan
Hit Japanese products, from the Walkman to Pokémon, have long captivated us, but Japan’s most influential export might be its own lived experience.
Il senso di cosa sia l’informatica -e il computer- dal punto di vista del loro scopo sociale: uno strumento per potenziare la capacità della nostra mente, per sostituirsi a noi nel lavoro o per comunicare con altre persone? Le visioni di Google, Microsoft, Apple.
Money quote: “This is technology’s second philosophy, and it is orthogonal to the other: the expectation is not that the computer does your work for you, but rather that the computer enables you to do your work better and more efficiently. And, with this philosophy, comes a different take on responsibility. Pichai, in the opening of Google’s keynote, acknowledged that “we feel a deep sense of responsibility to get this right”, but inherent in that statement is the centrality of Google generally and the direct culpability of its managers. Nadella, on the other hand, insists that responsibility lies with the tech industry collectively, and all of us who seek to leverage it individually.”
https://stratechery.com/2018/techs-two-philosophies/
Money quote: “This is technology’s second philosophy, and it is orthogonal to the other: the expectation is not that the computer does your work for you, but rather that the computer enables you to do your work better and more efficiently. And, with this philosophy, comes a different take on responsibility. Pichai, in the opening of Google’s keynote, acknowledged that “we feel a deep sense of responsibility to get this right”, but inherent in that statement is the centrality of Google generally and the direct culpability of its managers. Nadella, on the other hand, insists that responsibility lies with the tech industry collectively, and all of us who seek to leverage it individually.”
https://stratechery.com/2018/techs-two-philosophies/
Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Tech’s Two Philosophies
Google and Facebook represent one philosophy, and Microsoft and Apple represent another; tech needs both, but ultimately platforms are more important than aggregators.
La passione per il “vino naturale” è il più grande scisma mai accaduto nel settore della vinicoltura. Potrebbe essere il colpo mortale che la farà sprofondare. Un articolo molto molto interessante del Guardian, se volete rendervi conto delle tendenze che stanno emergendo e delle loro conseguenze
Money quote: “As natural wine has grown, it has made enemies. To its many detractors, it is a form of luddism, a sort of viticultural anti-vax movement that lauds the cidery, vinegary faults that science has spent the past century painstakingly eradicating. According to this view, natural wine is a cult intent on rolling back progress in favour of wine best suited to the tastes of Roman peasants. The Spectator has likened it to “flawed cider or rotten sherry” and the Observer to “an acrid, grim burst of acid that makes you want to cry”.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/15/has-wine-gone-bad-organic-biodynamic-natural-wine
Money quote: “As natural wine has grown, it has made enemies. To its many detractors, it is a form of luddism, a sort of viticultural anti-vax movement that lauds the cidery, vinegary faults that science has spent the past century painstakingly eradicating. According to this view, natural wine is a cult intent on rolling back progress in favour of wine best suited to the tastes of Roman peasants. The Spectator has likened it to “flawed cider or rotten sherry” and the Observer to “an acrid, grim burst of acid that makes you want to cry”.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/15/has-wine-gone-bad-organic-biodynamic-natural-wine
the Guardian
Has wine gone bad?
The long read: ‘Natural wine’ advocates say everything about the modern industry is ethically, ecologically and aesthetically wrong – and have triggered the biggest split in the wine world for a generation
Un buon addestramento è quello che fa il successo delle AI di oggi. E i calcola con il tempo di compitazione. Che a livello planetario sta crescendo in maniera straordinaria. Le conseguenze stanno arrivando.
Money quote: “Three factors drive the advance of AI: algorithmic innovation, data (which can be either supervised data or interactive environments), and the amount of compute available for training. Algorithmic innovation and data are difficult to track, but compute is unusually quantifiable, providing an opportunity to measure one input to AI progress. Of course, the use of massive compute sometimes just exposes the shortcomings of our current algorithms. But at least within many current domains, more compute seems to lead predictably to better performance, and is often complementary to algorithmic advances.”
https://blog.openai.com/ai-and-compute/
Money quote: “Three factors drive the advance of AI: algorithmic innovation, data (which can be either supervised data or interactive environments), and the amount of compute available for training. Algorithmic innovation and data are difficult to track, but compute is unusually quantifiable, providing an opportunity to measure one input to AI progress. Of course, the use of massive compute sometimes just exposes the shortcomings of our current algorithms. But at least within many current domains, more compute seems to lead predictably to better performance, and is often complementary to algorithmic advances.”
https://blog.openai.com/ai-and-compute/
OpenAI
AI and Compute
We’re releasing an analysis showing that since 2012, the amount of compute used in the largest AI training runs has been increasing exponentially with a 3.4-month doubling time (by comparison, Moore’s Law had a 2-year doubling period).
Una lettera di un maestro ex leghista al ministro Salvini sul Fatto Quotidiano da leggere e da rileggere. Per cominciare bene la giornata.
Money quote: “Feci quell’esperienza con tutta la passione possibile, forse fin troppa. Avevo come lei ha ancora l “Albertino da Giussano” al bavero della giacca; adesivi ovunque sulla mia Fiat Panda e durante la campagna elettorale giravo con un altoparlante sull’auto che urlava una canzone: “Mi son lumbard, mi son lumbard e ai terun ghe spachi li ball” (lo scrivo senza gli accenti giusti, perdonatemi).
Se la ricorda Salvini? Pensi ho persino ancora una foto con Umberto Bossi…”
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2018/06/05/lettera-di-un-maestro-ex-leghista-al-ministro-salvini/4404218/
Money quote: “Feci quell’esperienza con tutta la passione possibile, forse fin troppa. Avevo come lei ha ancora l “Albertino da Giussano” al bavero della giacca; adesivi ovunque sulla mia Fiat Panda e durante la campagna elettorale giravo con un altoparlante sull’auto che urlava una canzone: “Mi son lumbard, mi son lumbard e ai terun ghe spachi li ball” (lo scrivo senza gli accenti giusti, perdonatemi).
Se la ricorda Salvini? Pensi ho persino ancora una foto con Umberto Bossi…”
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2018/06/05/lettera-di-un-maestro-ex-leghista-al-ministro-salvini/4404218/
Il Fatto Quotidiano
Lettera di un maestro ex leghista al ministro Salvini
Gentile ministro Salvini, le voglio raccontare una storia vera. Quando avevo 18 anni c’era ancora la Democrazia Cristiana e l’allora Pds. Ai tempi ero un giovane cattolico, cresciuto all’oratorio con il desiderio di darmi da fare per il mio paese. Ero arrivato…
Certo che scrivere su Medium perché non ha senso pagare per leggere gli articoli di Medium è veramente una doppia libidine con i fiocchi.
Money quote: “But what will I get if I subscribe to Medium for 5€/month?
Let’s start with the price, it is cheap, and I can afford more than that if I really think I need it, but here are the points that are not OK for me”
https://medium.com/writing-blog-2018/why-i-dont-pay-medium-membership-92c2c4afd9e9
Money quote: “But what will I get if I subscribe to Medium for 5€/month?
Let’s start with the price, it is cheap, and I can afford more than that if I really think I need it, but here are the points that are not OK for me”
https://medium.com/writing-blog-2018/why-i-dont-pay-medium-membership-92c2c4afd9e9
Medium
Why I Don’t Pay For Medium Membership
Yes, I read a lot, but that’s not a reason to pay for.
Un tizio va lungo disteso dal punto di vista professionale (anzi, imprenditoriale) e da questo trova lo spunto per scrivere che è riuscendo a uscire da queste secche che si diventa migliori. L’acqua calda invece la scopriamo settimana prossima.
Money quote: “One thing that helped me was realizing that we all have career low points. This thought gave me perspective”
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-deal-with-a-huge-low-point-in-your-career-47fa81ce67c4
Money quote: “One thing that helped me was realizing that we all have career low points. This thought gave me perspective”
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-deal-with-a-huge-low-point-in-your-career-47fa81ce67c4
Medium
How To Deal With A Huge Low Point In Your Career.
I’ve been going through a huge low point in my career. Other than leaving a startup I started with my brother, this would have to be the…
Forwarded from MacchiaChannel
La scelta della canzone che conclude l’ultimo episodio di “The Staircase” (un vero capolavoro che ha creato un genere, oggi rimandato in onda da Netflix con l’aggiunta di tre nuovi episodi che chiudono definitivamente una storia durata vent’anni e per vent’anni documentata dalla troupe che confezionava il documentario) è, ovviamente, un capolavoro.
Link: http://bit.ly/2Jw8Jtr
Link: http://bit.ly/2Jw8Jtr
Netflix
The Staircase | Sito ufficiale Netflix
Incidente o assassinio? Dopo la misteriosa morte della moglie, la vita dello scrittore Michael Peterson viene analizzata al microscopio.
Non solo Julia Evans mi ha fatto riscoprire le gioie dell’editing in batch di file di testo con “ed” (una opportunità anche per chi scrive prosa, oltre che per chi fa codice), ma mi ha fatto anche comprare un libro fantastico su come si usa “ed”.
Money quote: “In a surprising turn of events, I ended up using the ed editor to do this task, and it was really easy and simple to do! In this blog post I’ll make the case that if you have something you might normally accomplish with a Vim macro, you might conceivably want to use Ed for it!”
https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/05/11/batch-editing-files-with-ed/
Money quote: “In a surprising turn of events, I ended up using the ed editor to do this task, and it was really easy and simple to do! In this blog post I’ll make the case that if you have something you might normally accomplish with a Vim macro, you might conceivably want to use Ed for it!”
https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/05/11/batch-editing-files-with-ed/
La ricchezza dei romani incapsulata nei ghiacci della Groenlandia.
Money quote: “Modern people aren’t the only ones who’ve polluted the atmosphere. Two thousand years ago, the Romans smelted precious ores in clay furnaces, extracting silver and belching lead into the sky. Some of that lead settled on Greenland’s ice cap and mixed in with ever-accumulating layers of ice. Now, scientists studying annual deposits of those ice layers have found that spikes and dips in lead pollution during the Roman era mirror the timing of many historical events, including wars fought by Julius Caesar.”
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/rise-and-fall-roman-empire-exposed-greenland-ice-samples
Money quote: “Modern people aren’t the only ones who’ve polluted the atmosphere. Two thousand years ago, the Romans smelted precious ores in clay furnaces, extracting silver and belching lead into the sky. Some of that lead settled on Greenland’s ice cap and mixed in with ever-accumulating layers of ice. Now, scientists studying annual deposits of those ice layers have found that spikes and dips in lead pollution during the Roman era mirror the timing of many historical events, including wars fought by Julius Caesar.”
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/rise-and-fall-roman-empire-exposed-greenland-ice-samples
Science
Rise and fall of Roman Empire exposed in Greenland ice samples
Spikes and dips in lead pollution track wars and other historical events