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Forwarded from Riccardo
È uscita Tilde ~ 23, la quarta puntata della seconda stagione!
Titolo: Riccardo trafficante e Antonio amanuense, ChatGPT, edizioni da collezione.
"Puntatona natalizia dove si scoprono cose come l'Odissea in prosa, la voglia di fare libri a mano, e l'NFC mancato."
→ tilde ~ su Spotify
→ tilde ~ su Apple Podcast
→ tilde ~ su Google Podcast
Potete ascoltare il podcast da Spotify, Google Podcast o Apple Podcast, oppure dal sito: tilde.show. Buon ascolto e buon Natale!
P.S. Anche la copertina di questa puntata è stata generata da Dall-E!
Titolo: Riccardo trafficante e Antonio amanuense, ChatGPT, edizioni da collezione.
"Puntatona natalizia dove si scoprono cose come l'Odissea in prosa, la voglia di fare libri a mano, e l'NFC mancato."
→ tilde ~ su Spotify
→ tilde ~ su Apple Podcast
→ tilde ~ su Google Podcast
Potete ascoltare il podcast da Spotify, Google Podcast o Apple Podcast, oppure dal sito: tilde.show. Buon ascolto e buon Natale!
P.S. Anche la copertina di questa puntata è stata generata da Dall-E!
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Auguri ancora!
E se volete fare una cosa speciale, rifatevi le unghie con lo spirito giusto!
Money quote: “Ai colori della tradizione, rosso, oro e argento, è d'obbligo aggiungere una pioggia di glitter e, perché no, tanti piccoli disegni a tema natalizio, simpatici e allegri. Ecco una selezione di idee e ispirazioni”
https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/2022/12/14/unghie-natale-2022-idee-piu-belle-tendenza
E se volete fare una cosa speciale, rifatevi le unghie con lo spirito giusto!
Money quote: “Ai colori della tradizione, rosso, oro e argento, è d'obbligo aggiungere una pioggia di glitter e, perché no, tanti piccoli disegni a tema natalizio, simpatici e allegri. Ecco una selezione di idee e ispirazioni”
https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/2022/12/14/unghie-natale-2022-idee-piu-belle-tendenza
tg24.sky.it
Unghie natalizie per il 2022, le 15 idee più belle e di tendenza
Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Unghie natalizie per il 2022, le 15 idee più belle e di tendenza da ricreare
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Il record di volo continuo sono 64 giorni per un Cessna 172. Semplicemente folle.
Money quote: “The long flying hours, high work load, and poor sleep began to wear on the crew over time. On January 9 around 2:55 AM, Timm fell asleep while flying over Blythe, California, a few minutes before the end of his 4-hour shift. Cook remained asleep, and Timm eventually woke up at 4 a.m, with the aircraft having flown itself for over an hour with the wing-levelling Mitchell autopilot keeping the plane in the air. Speaking to a reporter after the flight, Timm noted “I made a vow to myself that I would never tell John what had happened.””
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/25/the-longest-ever-flight-was-over-64-days-in-a-cessna-172/
Money quote: “The long flying hours, high work load, and poor sleep began to wear on the crew over time. On January 9 around 2:55 AM, Timm fell asleep while flying over Blythe, California, a few minutes before the end of his 4-hour shift. Cook remained asleep, and Timm eventually woke up at 4 a.m, with the aircraft having flown itself for over an hour with the wing-levelling Mitchell autopilot keeping the plane in the air. Speaking to a reporter after the flight, Timm noted “I made a vow to myself that I would never tell John what had happened.””
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/25/the-longest-ever-flight-was-over-64-days-in-a-cessna-172/
Hackaday
The Longest Ever Flight Was Over 64 Days In A Cessna 172
Often, when we think of long-endurance flights, our first thoughts jump to military operations. Big planes with highly-trained crew will fly for long periods, using air-to-air refuelling to stay al…
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Pensierino natalizio. Sapete una cosa? È più soddisfacente l'erotismo di duemila anni fa che la pornografia onnipresente di oggi, in 4K e dolby surround. Strano eh? Ma ci sono dei motivi.
Money quote: "Sappho’s restraint remains strangely gratifying today, when sexuality is so intensely visual, imposed top-down through the peculiar marriage of pornography and pop culture. Her verses are themselves pornographic, of course, but we’d be shortsighted in aligning them with the music videos, high-street adverts and internet clips that dominate our sexual imaginations today. Modern porn is, on the whole, relentlessly present-tense, populated by anonymous bodies performing athletic feats for the instant gratification of a voyeuristic audience. That Sappho’s work – intimate, reflective, euphemistic – maintains its allure against such a backdrop is surely significant, then. What does her work provide that modern porn cannot? And what does this tell us about our sexual imaginations more generally?"
https://aeon.co/essays/how-ancient-poetry-can-revitalise-our-erotic-imaginations
Money quote: "Sappho’s restraint remains strangely gratifying today, when sexuality is so intensely visual, imposed top-down through the peculiar marriage of pornography and pop culture. Her verses are themselves pornographic, of course, but we’d be shortsighted in aligning them with the music videos, high-street adverts and internet clips that dominate our sexual imaginations today. Modern porn is, on the whole, relentlessly present-tense, populated by anonymous bodies performing athletic feats for the instant gratification of a voyeuristic audience. That Sappho’s work – intimate, reflective, euphemistic – maintains its allure against such a backdrop is surely significant, then. What does her work provide that modern porn cannot? And what does this tell us about our sexual imaginations more generally?"
https://aeon.co/essays/how-ancient-poetry-can-revitalise-our-erotic-imaginations
Aeon
Eros at play
Why the ancient erotic poems of Sappho and Wallada bint al-Mustakfi are far more stimulating than modern pornography
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Le cuffiette in-ear (gli auricolari dei telefonini) a quanto pare sfasciano l'udito. Stiamo preparando una generazione o due di sordi
Money quote: "Alison M. Grimes, Director of Audiology and Newborn Hearing Screening at UCLA Health, says that two main factors contribute to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL): how loud the sound is and the duration of that sound. “The ear doesn’t care if it’s Tchaikovsky or Grateful Dead,” she says. “It’s all about sound pressure level in the ear canal.”"
https://elemental.medium.com/something-you-dont-want-to-hear-about-earbuds-d554e85696b5
Money quote: "Alison M. Grimes, Director of Audiology and Newborn Hearing Screening at UCLA Health, says that two main factors contribute to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL): how loud the sound is and the duration of that sound. “The ear doesn’t care if it’s Tchaikovsky or Grateful Dead,” she says. “It’s all about sound pressure level in the ear canal.”"
https://elemental.medium.com/something-you-dont-want-to-hear-about-earbuds-d554e85696b5
Medium
Something You Don’t Want to Hear About Earbuds
Young adults are experiencing hearing loss and experts say earbuds are to blame. But there are ways to jam out safely.
Se la stampa sta scomparendo, quale tipo di lavoro alternativo possono trovare i giornalisti? A quanto pare il venture capitalist (che peraltro in Italia praticamente non esiste).
Money quote: "“Journalism is helpful because you are often parachuted into stories that you know absolutely nothing about. I found the fact that I had been trained to make up my mind about a confusing set of information extremely helpful,” Michael Moritz , chairman of Sequoia Capital and former Time bureau chief."
https://medium.com/@jdromberg/why-the-molested-journalist-to-venture-capitalist-path-actually-makes-sense-adecb54b8d78
Money quote: "“Journalism is helpful because you are often parachuted into stories that you know absolutely nothing about. I found the fact that I had been trained to make up my mind about a confusing set of information extremely helpful,” Michael Moritz , chairman of Sequoia Capital and former Time bureau chief."
https://medium.com/@jdromberg/why-the-molested-journalist-to-venture-capitalist-path-actually-makes-sense-adecb54b8d78
Medium
Why The Molested Journalist-to-Venture Capitalist Path Actually Makes Sense
“Journalism is helpful because you are often parachuted into stories that you know absolutely nothing about. I found the fact that I had…
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La parte più intrigante di Tetris: la funzione che genera la discesa dei blocchi con un ordine casuale
Money quote: "In Tetris, a randomizer is a function which returns a randomly chosen piece. Over the years, the rules of how pieces are chosen has evolved, affecting gameplay and actual randomness.
Several of them have been reversed engineered and documented. I’ve curated a list of ones that I believed to be important and show how the state of Tetris has changed over the years."
https://simon.lc/the-history-of-tetris-randomizers
Money quote: "In Tetris, a randomizer is a function which returns a randomly chosen piece. Over the years, the rules of how pieces are chosen has evolved, affecting gameplay and actual randomness.
Several of them have been reversed engineered and documented. I’ve curated a list of ones that I believed to be important and show how the state of Tetris has changed over the years."
https://simon.lc/the-history-of-tetris-randomizers
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A quando risale quel palazzo? E quell'altro? In Olanda si vede che la domanda la facevano in molti e di frequente, perché hanno tirato su un database con la data di costruzione di quasi tutti gli edifici presenti nel Paese, e l'hanno messo online in un GIS che ha come base la mappa del territorio urbano nazionale. Una bomba.
Money quote: "All 10 million or so buildings in the Netherlands. Building heights and date of construction from 3D BAG (Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen) data."
https://parallel.co.uk/netherlands/
Money quote: "All 10 million or so buildings in the Netherlands. Building heights and date of construction from 3D BAG (Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen) data."
https://parallel.co.uk/netherlands/
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Chiudiamo l'anno con una domanda: esiste vita fuori dalla Terra? Il punto con gli alieni è che non hanno punti di contatto con la vita della Terra. E quindi per cercarli dovremmo dimenticare quel che sappiamo e partire con un approccio molto più aperto. Ammesso che li vogliamo trovare, gli alieni.
Money quote: "The search for exotic life therefore must begin close to home. The moons of Saturn and Jupiter offer a test case of whether biology could exist without an atmosphere. Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus both have inner oceans and internal heat sources. Enceladus spews huge geysers of water vapour from its south pole; Europa appears to puff off occasional plumes as well. Future space missions could fly through the plumes and study them for possible biochemicals. NASA’s proposed Europa lander, which could launch in about a decade, could seek out possible microbe-laced ocean water that seeped up or snowed back down onto the surface."
https://aeon.co/ideas/to-find-aliens-we-must-think-of-life-as-we-dont-know-it
Money quote: "The search for exotic life therefore must begin close to home. The moons of Saturn and Jupiter offer a test case of whether biology could exist without an atmosphere. Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus both have inner oceans and internal heat sources. Enceladus spews huge geysers of water vapour from its south pole; Europa appears to puff off occasional plumes as well. Future space missions could fly through the plumes and study them for possible biochemicals. NASA’s proposed Europa lander, which could launch in about a decade, could seek out possible microbe-laced ocean water that seeped up or snowed back down onto the surface."
https://aeon.co/ideas/to-find-aliens-we-must-think-of-life-as-we-dont-know-it
Aeon
To find aliens, we must think of life as we don’t know it
To find life beyond Earth, we need to open our minds to truly alien types of physical, chemical and biological processes
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Ciao! Fine dell'anno! Ultimissime cartoline! Prima che l'omaggio per chi dona finisca, fai ancora in tempo (passa da qui https://antoniodini.com/cartolina/ ). Invece, io voglio ringraziare tutte voi che avete donato: siete tantissime, mi avete travolto, wow! Grazie! Buon 2023!
Mostly Here
Cartolina
Volete fare qualcosa per supportare Mostly nelle sue varie declinazioni, cioè newsletter, canale Telegram, Tilde (il mio podcast con Riccardo) e poi ovviamente questo sito?
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Su questo canale cerco di toccare i temi della sessualità e dell'affettività tra adulti perché ritengo siano uno degli aspetti che la scrittura liberata da Internet possa arricchire di più. Cose che di solito non si trovano, insomma, e che vanno sempre lette in modo critico. Ma adesso si può scegliere. Questo che segue è un buon esempio. Una donna pansessuale racconta la sua identità e la relazione che ha costruito con il marito etero.
Con un minimo di onestà intellettuale credo che milioni di maschi eterosessuali non riescano a immaginare niente di più (o niente di meglio) che "essere il pene nella vita della propria compagna". Ahimé e ahiloro (le compagne, intendo).
Money quote: "He keeps coming back to this assumption — or is it insecurity ?— that I’ll be sexually unfulfilled without a female sexual partner, no matter how many times I tell him that pansexuality is not about having multiple partners. (Pan people — just like straight or gay people — can be poly or monogamous.)
To me, being with another person would mean transitioning to a poly relationship, and this would be the case regardless of gender. But to him, my being with a woman vs. my being with another man are two completely different things.
He’s a trans ally, but I doubt he’d be so supportive of me being with a woman if that woman had a penis. I want him to be the person in my life. He wants to be the penis in my life."
https://humanparts.medium.com/i-dont-understand-straight-people-even-though-i-m-married-to-one-f63a762fc66c
Con un minimo di onestà intellettuale credo che milioni di maschi eterosessuali non riescano a immaginare niente di più (o niente di meglio) che "essere il pene nella vita della propria compagna". Ahimé e ahiloro (le compagne, intendo).
Money quote: "He keeps coming back to this assumption — or is it insecurity ?— that I’ll be sexually unfulfilled without a female sexual partner, no matter how many times I tell him that pansexuality is not about having multiple partners. (Pan people — just like straight or gay people — can be poly or monogamous.)
To me, being with another person would mean transitioning to a poly relationship, and this would be the case regardless of gender. But to him, my being with a woman vs. my being with another man are two completely different things.
He’s a trans ally, but I doubt he’d be so supportive of me being with a woman if that woman had a penis. I want him to be the person in my life. He wants to be the penis in my life."
https://humanparts.medium.com/i-dont-understand-straight-people-even-though-i-m-married-to-one-f63a762fc66c
Medium
I Don’t Understand Straight People, Even Though I’m Married to One
I’m confident in my sexuality, but my husband’s makes no sense to me
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C'è un pezzetto di Francia che è stato talmente tanto devastato durante la Prima guerra mondiale da essere tuttora non abitabile. Benvenuti nella Zone Rouge. Questo anche, visto che sono passati settant’anni, per rendersi conto di cosa sta succedendo in Ucraina.
Money quote: "In an attempt to salvage this land, a special munitions-clearing agency was created. Called the Department du Deminage, it has, over the decades, helped to reduce the extent of the Zone Rouge, destroying hundreds of thousands of munitions and chemical shells, and returning some land to civilian and agricultural use. Their overwhelming task is aided by French farmers, who each year collect a huge amount of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, shrapnel, and bullets during the annual “Iron Harvest.”
Despite these efforts, the Zone Rouge is unlikely to be restored completely any time soon."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/zone-rouge
Money quote: "In an attempt to salvage this land, a special munitions-clearing agency was created. Called the Department du Deminage, it has, over the decades, helped to reduce the extent of the Zone Rouge, destroying hundreds of thousands of munitions and chemical shells, and returning some land to civilian and agricultural use. Their overwhelming task is aided by French farmers, who each year collect a huge amount of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, shrapnel, and bullets during the annual “Iron Harvest.”
Despite these efforts, the Zone Rouge is unlikely to be restored completely any time soon."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/zone-rouge
Atlas Obscura
France's Forbidden 'Red Zone'
A swath of the country so devastated by war it is still too dangerous to go there.
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Missioni impossibili: insegnare ai giornalisti a usare Excel (e poi Big Data e Data Visualization, why not?). Da noi è praticamente impossibile.
Money quote: "Even with some of the best data and graphics journalists in the business, we identified a challenge: data knowledge wasn’t spread widely among desks in our newsroom and wasn’t filtering into news desks’ daily reporting.
Yet fluency with numbers and data has become more important than ever. While journalists once were fond of joking that they got into the field because of an aversion to math, numbers now comprise the foundation for beats as wide ranging as education, the stock market, the Census and criminal justice. More data is released than ever before — there are nearly 250,000 datasets on data.gov alone — and increasingly, government, politicians and companies try to twist those numbers to back their own agendas."
https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-helped-our-reporters-learn-to-love-spreadsheets-adc43a93b919
Money quote: "Even with some of the best data and graphics journalists in the business, we identified a challenge: data knowledge wasn’t spread widely among desks in our newsroom and wasn’t filtering into news desks’ daily reporting.
Yet fluency with numbers and data has become more important than ever. While journalists once were fond of joking that they got into the field because of an aversion to math, numbers now comprise the foundation for beats as wide ranging as education, the stock market, the Census and criminal justice. More data is released than ever before — there are nearly 250,000 datasets on data.gov alone — and increasingly, government, politicians and companies try to twist those numbers to back their own agendas."
https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-helped-our-reporters-learn-to-love-spreadsheets-adc43a93b919
NY Times
How We Helped Our Reporters Learn to Love Spreadsheets
And how your reporters can learn to love spreadsheets, too
Una lista interessante per gli appassionati di intelligenze artificiali facili da usare
Forwarded from JuliusDesign
I migliori AI TOOLS da provare nel 2023! Altri da segnalare?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/giulianoambrosio_innovation-ai-magictools-activity-7015962983721807872-0RWL
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/giulianoambrosio_innovation-ai-magictools-activity-7015962983721807872-0RWL
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Alla fine è così: Slack ha costruito una quotazione miliardaria e tutta la sua fama, adesso lentamente tramontata, sull'idea di poter rimpiazzare la mail. Poi è stato acquisito da Salesforce e ha perso il suo potenziale rivoluzionario. Ma anche ai tempi c'era chi non è d'accordo. Una lettera aperta piuttosto rissosa.
Money quote: "I love what Slack has accomplished and think its success revealed a true need in the world — better work communication. However, I must say:
Your goal of replacing email with Slack is in complete conflict with the efficient flow of communication that gets real work done."
https://medium.com/swlh/why-slack-will-never-replace-email-873a20856716
Money quote: "I love what Slack has accomplished and think its success revealed a true need in the world — better work communication. However, I must say:
Your goal of replacing email with Slack is in complete conflict with the efficient flow of communication that gets real work done."
https://medium.com/swlh/why-slack-will-never-replace-email-873a20856716
Medium
An open letter to Stewart Butterfield: Why Slack will never replace email.
Hello Mr Butterfield,
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Forwarded from 📢 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 - 𝘣𝘺 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙤 𝙍𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙞
Personalmente, questo articolo di The Vision ha fatto risuonare molto il mood che percepisco negli utlimi tempi, e non credo di essere l'unico.
“Negli anni recenti per proteggerci dai numerosi rivolgimenti epocali che si sono presentati in serie, impattando per forza di cose sulla nostra emotività, ci siamo trovati a dover sfruttare proprio l’aspetto più rischioso di questa nostra capacità adattiva, alzando la soglia della sopportazione fino a sviluppare una sorta di assuefazione alla catastrofe che ci consente – o meglio, ci illude – di attenuare almeno in parte gli effetti deleteri che avvenimenti come lo scoppio della pandemia, la guerra in Ucraina e il progressivo aggravarsi della crisi climatica hanno sulla nostra psiche. ”
https://thevision.com/attualita/assuefazione-dolore/
“Negli anni recenti per proteggerci dai numerosi rivolgimenti epocali che si sono presentati in serie, impattando per forza di cose sulla nostra emotività, ci siamo trovati a dover sfruttare proprio l’aspetto più rischioso di questa nostra capacità adattiva, alzando la soglia della sopportazione fino a sviluppare una sorta di assuefazione alla catastrofe che ci consente – o meglio, ci illude – di attenuare almeno in parte gli effetti deleteri che avvenimenti come lo scoppio della pandemia, la guerra in Ucraina e il progressivo aggravarsi della crisi climatica hanno sulla nostra psiche. ”
https://thevision.com/attualita/assuefazione-dolore/
THE VISION
A forza di imparare a sopportare il dolore del mondo, per difenderci, ci stiamo spegnendo
A forza di imparare a tollerare il dolore dei traumi sociali sembra che stiamo progressivamente spegnendo anche tutti gli altri nostri impulsi.
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L'idea da aperitivo del giorno: il sito frizzante fatto direttamente dal telefonino. Oh yeah. Gattini inclusi.
Money quote: "Fun, easy, beautiful, instant
Make and update your Insta website anytime. No desktops, design or web skills needed!"
https://milkshake.app
Money quote: "Fun, easy, beautiful, instant
Make and update your Insta website anytime. No desktops, design or web skills needed!"
https://milkshake.app
Milkshake
Milkshake App | Free Website Builder
Make a free website on your phone in minutes. Turn your 'link in bio' into a Milkshake website to say more, sell more and share more. You only link once!
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