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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Ero a casa di amici sul lago e a un certo punto un drone ha cominciato a svolazzare sul giardino. È una violazione del mio spazio, lenta, piccola, appuntita, dolorosa. E il discorso dei droni in generale è molto, molto brutto. È il lato "fisico" di quello che avviene con il tracciamento online. Leggere per credere. (lettura lunga)

Money quote: "Drones have come to define the United States’ forever war, the so-called war on terror. The expansion of drone systems developed by the military into new territories — including the continental United States — embodies this era’s hyper-paranoid ethos: new threats are ever imminent, conflict is always without resolution. At the same time, non-militarized drones have entered civilian life in a number of ways, from breathtaking cinematography to flight control at Heathrow airport. There are many avid documenters of this new technology, but no one seems to understand its many facets quite like Arthur Holland Michel, founder and co-director of the Bard Center for the Study of the Drone, which catalogs the growing use of drones around the world. Now, Holland Michel has written Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All, a book of startling revelations about drone surveillance in the United States."

https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night-the-way-the-gorgon-stare-did/
Lavarsi male (o non lavare) i denti porta a malattie di primo e secondo ordine molto brutte. Il trucco? Lo spazzolino elettrico.

https://elemental.medium.com/do-i-need-a-fancy-toothbrush-b6064ba0fa7f

Money quote: “For a 2014 Cochrane review, Deery and colleagues analyzed roughly 50 studies that compared powered and manual toothbrushes in terms of their ability to prevent plaque buildup and gingivitis, which is the first stage of gum disease. “At three months, powered brushes reduced plaque levels by 21% and gingivitis by 11% compared to manual brushes,” he says. “This suggests that in the long term there will be less gum disease and decay if you use a powered brush.””
Ecco a voi la giornalista che spiega com’è seguire un evento di Apple allo Steve Jobs Theater.

Money quote: “Now take a look at what it’s like to cover the event in person as an invited journalist, which is always a privilege.”

https://medium.com/cheddar/covering-an-apple-event-at-the-steve-jobs-theater-278cc7405791
Zitta zitta Korg si sta inventando il futuro della musica a valvole. In particolare, ha inventato un nuovo tipo di valvola a triodo a bassissimo consumo (funziona anche a batteria), forma ultra compatta, ricchezza e colore del suono. Il prezzo? Non me lo chiedete, non sono andato a guardare. Preferisco coltivare i miei sogni.

Money quote: “Nutube, similar to a conventional vacuum tube, has an anode grid filament structure, and operates exactly as a triode vacuum tube. Also similar to a vacuum tube, it creates the same characteristic rich overtones. By applying their vacuum fluorescent display technology, Noritake Itron Corp., a Noritake Co. Ltd affiliated company, have devised a structure which achieves substantial power saving, miniaturization, and quality improvements when compared with a conventional vacuum tube.”

https://korgnutube.com/en/
Sono semplicemente ipnotizzato. E disgustato. Non dalla storia, ma dallo "sport"

Money quote: "The godfather of competitive eating, Takeru Kobayashi burst onto the American scene at the 2001 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, where the lithe 5-foot-8 Japanese 23-year-old, using a revolutionary water-dipping technique and a body-wiggling maneuver known as the “Kobayashi Shake,” ate an astounding 50 hot dogs—double the prior record. That feat thrust Kobayashi to instant superstardom, and his subsequent five wins at the famed July 4th competition only solidified his standing as the king of the eating world—a noscript he’d only officially relinquish in 2007, when American Joey Chestnut dethroned him at the Nathan’s extravaganza."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-takeru-kobayashi-godfather-of-competitive-eating-they-were-making-a-joke-of-me
Se volete progettare una applicazione che fa uso intensivo di dati, avete bisogno di riferimenti. Questo esercizio intrigante di data visualization vi fa vedere di quali libri di riferimento avrete bisogno

Money quote: "Start Here"

https://anvaka.github.io/greview/ddia/1/
Anziché parole, diagrammi, disegni, pittogrammi e chi più ne ha più ne metta. Una notevole invenzione anche grafica di Lapham Quarterly

Money quote: “The pioneer plaque also will tell any extraterrestrial that might come across it that the beings who launched this probe use diagrams and symbols to convey ideas. And we have a long history of doing so.”

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ideas-infographic/