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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Sono assolutamente dalla parte di chi grida al lupo, parla di “infobesity” e chiede che i telefonini vengano spenti, messi in un sacchetto di piombo e lasciati in fondo a un fiume. Evviva chi si disconnette. Sulla mia pelle, l’ho fatto un po’ di mesi fa da Facebook. Però, esercitiamo un attimo di pensiero critico sul pensiero critico. E indaghiamo il perché i commentatori critichino in maniera così assidua le macchine per la distrazione.

Money quote: “Cries of “technology addiction” may seem to stem from a moral concern with users’ quality of life, but much as sociologist Jock Young found in his 1970s research into attitudes toward recreational drug users, the problem people have is less with the behavior itself than with its interference with work. When technology is deemed “addictive,” it is not phone use itself or its effects on individual well-being that mainly bothers commentators. The concern appears more to be what the epidemic of distraction does to productivity, a tale that’s been spun to workers for over a hundred years: What is “healthy” is simply what improves their job performance.”

https://reallifemag.com/out-of-network/
Un nuovo sex toy sta rivoluzionando l'intero settore dei sex toys. Bonus: la storia dell'intero suddetto settore. Mica male.

Money quote: "When sex toys started emerging in porn shops and adult stores in the mid-20th century, they weren’t exactly peddled by people with a deep commitment to improving the field and destigmatizing sexuality — they were sold by businessmen who wanted to make a quick buck. Those retailers put little thought into anything other than whether people would buy what they were selling.

As our culture liberalized, and as women in particular began to feel more comfortable chatting about sex and sexual pleasure, the sex toy industry underwent a dramatic transformation. “Sex shops are more comfortable than they’ve ever been,” says April Lampert, co-host of the Shameless Sex podcast. “There are no more sticky-floor stores.”"

https://onezero.medium.com/sex-toys-are-finally-getting-the-update-they-deserve-c316d837dd8a
Le meraviglie gastronomiche di Llhasa, in pieno Queens. Ma piccole però.

Money quote: "For lovers of momos, Tibetan dumplings filled with pork or beef and heaps of chives or cilantro, Lhasa has been an open secret. Its walls, the color of creamsicle, are adorned with the American flag and a framed photograph of Bourdain with the restaurant’s owner and chef, Sang Jien Ben. The laminated menus are frayed, the daily specials are stuck to the wall, scrawled on green printer paper. The open kitchen is a fog of boiling stew pots, steam baskets, and the constant swish and thwack of freshly-rolled dough for dumplings and noodles. The Dalai Lama gazes beatifically over the proceedings from another framed portrait on a perch above the kitchen."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lhasa-fast-food
Una alternativa a metodi più strutturati, Yaml e Json. Ecco a voi il CST, ovvero Comma-Separated Tree. Non voglio neanche immaginarmi gli errori di indentazione... Good luck with that!

Money quote: “You’ve heard of comma-separated values (CSV)? Well, a comma-separated tree (CST) is similar, with indentation to determine the hierarchy. This gives you a hierarchical data format with the convenience and readability of CSV!”

https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/comma-separated-tree
Dotsies è un font che usa un modo completamente differente di codificare le lettere: puntini. Questo permette grandi vantaggi nella compattezza dello scritto. Per il resto, è una tavanata galattica, cominciando dal fatto che non ha né le lettere accentate né i segni diacritici né gli alfabeti alternativi a quello latino tradizionale. Simpatica tavanata, insomma.

Money quote: “Since latin letters (a, b, c, etc.) are optimized to be written by hand, they take up a lot of unnecessary space. Your eyes have to move at a frantic pace from left to right to read. The letters in Dotsies words smoosh together, so words look like shapes! Get more screen space! Save paper. Have a more comfortable reading experience.”

http://dotsies.org/
Diventare invisibili. Sfuggire alle grinfie delle intelligenze artificiali che ti cercano in giro per il aeroporti e stazioni. Sulla carta un'idea fantastica, degna di un thriller di serie A. Peccato che poi devi andare in giro con un cartellone colorato appeso al collo...

Money quote: "The latest example comes from a group of engineers from the university of KU Leuven in Belgium. In a paper shared last week on the preprint server arXiv, these students show how simple printed patterns can fool an AI system that’s designed to recognize people in images.

If you print off one of the students’ specially designed patches and hang it around your neck, from an AI’s point of view, you may as well have slipped under an invisibility cloak."

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/23/18512472/fool-ai-surveillance-adversarial-example-yolov2-person-detection