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Per Brian May, chitarrista dei Queen «Apple è diventata un mostro egoista» https://www.macitynet.it/brian-may-contro-apple/
Macitynet.it
Per Brian May, chitarrista dei Queen «Apple è diventata un mostro egoista» - Macitynet.it
Brian May contro Apple: il leggendario chitarrista dei Queen si scaglia contro Cupertino per le scelte delle porte di collegamento
Lettura per il sabato pomeriggio. Il libro di chi parla L’ Atlantic deve essere fenomenale. Perché aspettare ha senso. Perché il contrario è male. E comunque perché aspettiamo sempre di più e sempre con maggiore sofferenza.
Money quote: “So waiting, within that context, is often understood as wasted time: When someone makes me wait, they’re wasting my most valuable resource, my time, and preventing me from living up to that moral expectation of using time wisely. My book, then, tries to flip that on its head, to look at how waiting can be an antidote to some of these notions of acceleration and productivity that we actually just can’t keep up with”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/576181/
Money quote: “So waiting, within that context, is often understood as wasted time: When someone makes me wait, they’re wasting my most valuable resource, my time, and preventing me from living up to that moral expectation of using time wisely. My book, then, tries to flip that on its head, to look at how waiting can be an antidote to some of these notions of acceleration and productivity that we actually just can’t keep up with”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/576181/
The Atlantic
The Tyranny of ‘Sorry for My Delay’
A communications scholar reflects on what gets lost in a culture that prizes speed.
Patti Smith racconta il libro più rivoluzionario della sua vita: “Piccole donne”
Money quote: “Many wonderful books captured my imagination, but in Little Women something extraordinary happened. I recognized myself, as if in a mirror, the lanky headstrong girl, who raced on foot, ripped her skirts climbing trees, spoke in common slang, and denounced social pretensions. A girl who could be found leaning against a great oak with a book, or at her desk in the attic bowed over a manunoscript. She was Josephine March. Even her name breathed freedom, a girl called Jo.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/09/24/a-responsible-freedom-patti-smith-on-little-women/
Money quote: “Many wonderful books captured my imagination, but in Little Women something extraordinary happened. I recognized myself, as if in a mirror, the lanky headstrong girl, who raced on foot, ripped her skirts climbing trees, spoke in common slang, and denounced social pretensions. A girl who could be found leaning against a great oak with a book, or at her desk in the attic bowed over a manunoscript. She was Josephine March. Even her name breathed freedom, a girl called Jo.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/09/24/a-responsible-freedom-patti-smith-on-little-women/
The Paris Review
A Responsible Freedom: Patti Smith on ‘Little Women’
"I recognized myself, as if in a mirror, the lanky headstrong girl, who raced on foot, ripped her skirts climbing trees, spoke in common slang, and denounced social pretensions."
Certo che tutta quella bella letteratura distopica, migliaia di film e romanzi che mostrano che fine facciano quando cerchiamo di costruire degli incubi del controllo, è veramente passata invano. Forse i manager di questi progetti leggevano solo Topolino, chissà.
Money quote: “Soon enough, we’ll have a smart city: Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is building one “from the internet up,” with help from a series of private-public real-estate partnerships in the downtown Toronto neighborhood Quayside (pronounced Key-side).”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/575551/
Money quote: “Soon enough, we’ll have a smart city: Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is building one “from the internet up,” with help from a series of private-public real-estate partnerships in the downtown Toronto neighborhood Quayside (pronounced Key-side).”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/575551/
The Atlantic
The City of the Future Is a Data-Collection Machine
In Toronto, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, hopes to create the sensor-filled metropolis of tomorrow.
iPad con USB-C, si risparmia spazio e si viaggia leggeri - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/usb-c-viaggiare-leggeri/
https://www.macitynet.it/usb-c-viaggiare-leggeri/
Macitynet.it
iPad con USB-C, si risparmia spazio e si viaggia leggeri
Le gioie di USB-C su iPad Pro: Pochi cavetti e adattatori per fare tutto con Apple Watch, MAcBook e MacBook Pro, iPhone e naturalmente iPad
Tre piccoli segreti per scrivere saggistica migliore.
Money quote: “Write Better Non-Fiction By Asking These Three Magic Questions”
https://medium.com/@augustbirch/write-better-non-fiction-by-asking-three-magic-questions-ec82c6da4f9c
Money quote: “Write Better Non-Fiction By Asking These Three Magic Questions”
https://medium.com/@augustbirch/write-better-non-fiction-by-asking-three-magic-questions-ec82c6da4f9c
Medium
Write Better Non-Fiction By Asking These Three Magic Questions
How to make your non-fiction a page-turner and turn your readers into raving fans
Ebbene sì, anche le donne si eccitano senza bisogno di uno che cominci prima di loro.
Money quote: “And finally, women can just be horny and not know why. Random horniness is, again, a universal experience, and sometimes while sitting in a meeting or falling asleep at night, a woman will realize her entire clitoral situation is throbbing like a neon sign for no clear identifiable reason. She’s just… horny. Just like you.”
https://melmagazine.com/potential-reasons-why-your-girlfriend-is-suddenly-horny-f0312a5eafb2
Money quote: “And finally, women can just be horny and not know why. Random horniness is, again, a universal experience, and sometimes while sitting in a meeting or falling asleep at night, a woman will realize her entire clitoral situation is throbbing like a neon sign for no clear identifiable reason. She’s just… horny. Just like you.”
https://melmagazine.com/potential-reasons-why-your-girlfriend-is-suddenly-horny-f0312a5eafb2
MEL Magazine
Potential Reasons Why Your Girlfriend Is Suddenly Horny
Contrary to age-old, legendary tales of stiff breezes and brushed-against boners, men do not have the monopoly on spontaneously induced…
Abbiamo un problema con l’obesità. Non abbiamo capito come trattarla e stiamo massacrando generazioni di persone grasse una dopo l’altra.
Money quote: “Which brings us to one of the largest gaps between science and practice in our own time. Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path.”
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/
Money quote: “Which brings us to one of the largest gaps between science and practice in our own time. Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path.”
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/
The Huffington Post
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong
For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of lives. It's time for a new paradigm.
Stiamo completamente sbagliando il senso e il modo per cui e con cui si disegna
Money quote: ““We have misfiled the significance of drawing because we see it as a professional skill instead of a personal capacity,” he writes. “This essential confusion has stunted our understanding of drawing and kept it from being seen as a tool for learning above all else.””
https://qz.com/quartzy/1381916/drawing-is-the-best-way-to-learn-even-if-youre-no-leonardo-da-vinci/
Money quote: ““We have misfiled the significance of drawing because we see it as a professional skill instead of a personal capacity,” he writes. “This essential confusion has stunted our understanding of drawing and kept it from being seen as a tool for learning above all else.””
https://qz.com/quartzy/1381916/drawing-is-the-best-way-to-learn-even-if-youre-no-leonardo-da-vinci/
Quartz
Drawing is the best way to learn, even if you’re no Leonardo da Vinci
“I just can’t draw.” It’s a refrain most adults say when confronted with a blank piece of paper. Something happens in our teenage years that makes most of us shy away from drawing, fretting that our draftsmanship skills aren’t up to par, and leaving it to…
Il più autorevole sito al mondo di orologi fa un endorsement veramente commovente all’Apple Watch Series 4
Money quote: “Last week, Apple announced a new generation of Apple Watch and I was fortunate enough to be loaned one for a review. I've spent the last six days wearing the Series 4, putting it through its paces. I've been checking out all those new, supposedly life-changing features that were exuberantly spoken about during Apple's keynote presentation at the perfectly-appointed Steve Jobs Theater. I've been exploring the updated operating system, watchOS 5, to see how the Apple Watch is changing at the platform level. I've been thinking a lot about Apple's long-term vision for the Apple Watch and how it's starting to come into clearer focus. And, finally, I've been thinking about how the Apple Watch Series 4 stands up as a product on its own merits and whether or not I think you should open up your Macbook, launch Safari, and pre-order one right now.“
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/apple-watch-series-4-review
Money quote: “Last week, Apple announced a new generation of Apple Watch and I was fortunate enough to be loaned one for a review. I've spent the last six days wearing the Series 4, putting it through its paces. I've been checking out all those new, supposedly life-changing features that were exuberantly spoken about during Apple's keynote presentation at the perfectly-appointed Steve Jobs Theater. I've been exploring the updated operating system, watchOS 5, to see how the Apple Watch is changing at the platform level. I've been thinking a lot about Apple's long-term vision for the Apple Watch and how it's starting to come into clearer focus. And, finally, I've been thinking about how the Apple Watch Series 4 stands up as a product on its own merits and whether or not I think you should open up your Macbook, launch Safari, and pre-order one right now.“
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/apple-watch-series-4-review
HODINKEE
A Week On The Wrist: Apple Watch Series 4 - HODINKEE
The future of the Apple Watch is coming into focus – and I like what I'm starting to see.
Se anziché leggere cose come questa leggeste libri, leggereste un botto. Basta che poi però non mi leggete solo romanzi fantasy e rosa...
Money quote: “In January of 2015, I found Buffett’s quote. I decided to read. I was going to read and read and read and never stop until I got some damn answers.
I didn’t quite make 500 pages a day, but, in these last two years, I’ve read over 400 books cover to cover. That decision to start reading was one of the most important decisions in my life”
https://qz.com/895101/in-the-time-you-spend-on-social-media-each-year-you-could-read-200-books/
Money quote: “In January of 2015, I found Buffett’s quote. I decided to read. I was going to read and read and read and never stop until I got some damn answers.
I didn’t quite make 500 pages a day, but, in these last two years, I’ve read over 400 books cover to cover. That decision to start reading was one of the most important decisions in my life”
https://qz.com/895101/in-the-time-you-spend-on-social-media-each-year-you-could-read-200-books/
Quartz
In the time you spend on social media each year, you could read 200 books
Somebody once asked Warren Buffett about his secret to success. Buffett pointed to a stack of books and said,
Amazon entra nel business dei satelliti artificiali - il mio articolo per Il Sole 24 ORE
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-11-28/amazon-entra-business-satelliti-artificiali--100153.shtml?uuid=AEIN5moG
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-11-28/amazon-entra-business-satelliti-artificiali--100153.shtml?uuid=AEIN5moG
Il Sole 24 ORE
Amazon entra nel business dei satelliti artificiali
E-Commerce, cloud computing, intelligenza artificiale, robotica e adesso anche satelliti artificiali. L'oro digitale di domani sono i big data che vengono dal cielo
Nasce RoboMaker, l’idea di Amazon di reinventare il robot intelligente - il mio articolo per Il Sole 24 ORE
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-11-27/nasce-robomaker-l-idea-amazon-reinventare-robot-intelligente-093111.shtml?uuid=AEtVpinG
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-11-27/nasce-robomaker-l-idea-amazon-reinventare-robot-intelligente-093111.shtml?uuid=AEtVpinG
Il Sole 24 ORE
Nasce RoboMaker, l’idea di Amazon di reinventare il robot intelligente
Perché non portare anche l'automazione delle fabbriche o di sistemi complessi nel cloud? L'obiettivo ovviamente è ridurre i costi e accorciare i tempi di addestramento dei sistemi di machine learning, le intelligenze artificiali che stanno diventando…
Gente che fa le diete digiunando. Secondo me c’è un problema...
Money quote: “For the past year and a half, Keith Taylor and his wife have adopted a lifestyle that includes fasting on a regular basis. "For six days per week we don't eat until around 5 pm, but eat as much as we want and whatever we want from 5 pm until we go to bed. It is not a diet in the classic sense -- we do not restrict WHAT we eat or HOW MUCH we eat, but rather just WHEN we eat," Taylor said in an email.
Since the Taylors have been intermittently fasting, often called just IF, they've maintained a healthy body weight, been more alert and energetic, experienced less stress, and are less prone to getting sick”
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/10/01/health/fasting-longevity-food-drayer/index.html
Money quote: “For the past year and a half, Keith Taylor and his wife have adopted a lifestyle that includes fasting on a regular basis. "For six days per week we don't eat until around 5 pm, but eat as much as we want and whatever we want from 5 pm until we go to bed. It is not a diet in the classic sense -- we do not restrict WHAT we eat or HOW MUCH we eat, but rather just WHEN we eat," Taylor said in an email.
Since the Taylors have been intermittently fasting, often called just IF, they've maintained a healthy body weight, been more alert and energetic, experienced less stress, and are less prone to getting sick”
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/10/01/health/fasting-longevity-food-drayer/index.html
CNN
Is fasting the fountain of youth?
The available research indicates that your risk of disease can be lowered by even moderate intermittent fasting, in turn increasing your lifespan.
Il lato economico di Jane Austen. Ebbene sì, lo faceva anche per soldi!
Money quote: “Austen, too, was a fortune hunter, after a fashion. Like any author, she wrote for many reasons—personal artistic expression, to entertain herself and her beloved sister Cassandra, to comment on the world around her in the guise of mere stories—but also for money. She made efforts to get herself a publisher, and did”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/375486/
Money quote: “Austen, too, was a fortune hunter, after a fashion. Like any author, she wrote for many reasons—personal artistic expression, to entertain herself and her beloved sister Cassandra, to comment on the world around her in the guise of mere stories—but also for money. She made efforts to get herself a publisher, and did”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/375486/
The Atlantic
The Economics of Jane Austen
In her fiction, the 18th-century novelist wrestled with the same question that preoccupied Adam Smith: Does the pursuit of wealth diminish a person's moral integrity?
Qual è il futuro dell’informatica dopo la fine della legge di Moore? - Il mio articolo per La Stampa (a pagamento)
https://www.lastampa.it/2018/11/29/tecnologia/qual-il-futuro-dellinformatica-dopo-la-fine-della-legge-di-moore-LLWlBXgrE3B2eESZVK3eML/premium.html
https://www.lastampa.it/2018/11/29/tecnologia/qual-il-futuro-dellinformatica-dopo-la-fine-della-legge-di-moore-LLWlBXgrE3B2eESZVK3eML/premium.html
LaStampa.it
Qual è il futuro dell’informatica dopo la fine della legge di Moore?
Dal passato dei computer ad acqua sovietici ai processori costruite come reti di neuroni del cervello, sino ad arrivare al computer quantistico. Il futuro dell’informatica non è mai sembrato così ricco e fruttifero da quando è entrato in crisi
Un effetto collaterale del test del dna - va di moda a scopo genealogico - è che fa scoprire cose che un tempo non erano immaginabili. Come certi tradimenti femminili antichi per il tramite delle loro conseguenze: i propri figli sono in realtà generati da altri padri. Questa è la storia di uno dei padri che ha scoperto che sua figlia non è in realtà sia figlia. Tredici anni dopo.
Money quote: “Yes. I can say she’s my daughter without feeling that pain anymore. Used to be, I’d say, “Oh, you’re my daughter,” and my heart would just hurt, and now I just say, “You’re my daughter,” and I’m fine.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/571684/
Money quote: “Yes. I can say she’s my daughter without feeling that pain anymore. Used to be, I’d say, “Oh, you’re my daughter,” and my heart would just hurt, and now I just say, “You’re my daughter,” and I’m fine.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/571684/
The Atlantic
When a DNA Test Reveals Your Daughter Is Not Your Biological Child
A father reflects on an experience that is becoming more common.
L’avaro di Moliere in salsa di soia: Chow Yun-fat fa una vita spartana in vista del trapasso e della beneficienza postuma.
Money quote: “Chow’s wife, Jasmine Tan, says that her husband manages to live so frugally in one of the world’s most expensive cities by frequenting street food stalls and rarely buying new things, according to an Oriental Daily report from last week. For example, for 17 years, Chow stuck with his trusty Nokia flip phone, only recently purchasing a new smartphone when his old device finally stopped working.”
https://shanghai.ist/2018/10/15/chow-yun-fat-lives-on-just-100-a-month-will-leave-entire-714-million-fortune-to-charity
Money quote: “Chow’s wife, Jasmine Tan, says that her husband manages to live so frugally in one of the world’s most expensive cities by frequenting street food stalls and rarely buying new things, according to an Oriental Daily report from last week. For example, for 17 years, Chow stuck with his trusty Nokia flip phone, only recently purchasing a new smartphone when his old device finally stopped working.”
https://shanghai.ist/2018/10/15/chow-yun-fat-lives-on-just-100-a-month-will-leave-entire-714-million-fortune-to-charity
shanghaiist
Chow Yun-fat lives on just $100 a month, will leave entire $714 million fortune to charity - shanghaiist
The Hong Kong movie legend had used the same Nokia flip phone for 17 years until it stopped working recently.