Un rant contro Google di un utente smanettone che fa di tutto per far vedere sul tablet Android un film regolarmente comprato su Google dalla zia malata terminale ricoverata in ospedale. La tecnologia è una cosa che ha impatti molto più ampi di quelli che non sembra.
Money quote: "After spending ages, I eventually give up. The visiting slot to see my auntie is approaching, there is too little time left. So I pirate the movie (please don't arrest me, it's google's fault). Now she has an mp4 on her tablet that will always work."
https://deijin.bearblog.dev/im-done-with-google/
Money quote: "After spending ages, I eventually give up. The visiting slot to see my auntie is approaching, there is too little time left. So I pirate the movie (please don't arrest me, it's google's fault). Now she has an mp4 on her tablet that will always work."
https://deijin.bearblog.dev/im-done-with-google/
Deijin's Blog
I'm Done With Google
My auntie is in hospital for christmas this year.
It's been identified as flu, but it seriously affected her because she has a lot of heath problems includin...
It's been identified as flu, but it seriously affected her because she has a lot of heath problems includin...
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Avete presente una di quelle scoperte che poi uno dice "A-ha!" Lo abbiamo sempre saputo, era così ovvio, ma colpisce lo stesso "scoprirlo".
Money quote: "For decades, psychologists have studied the differences in career interests of men and women. When their results are considered from the perspective of the spherical model of vocational interests, research results consistently indicate that women prefer to work with people much more than men. On the other hand, men prefer working with things (e.g., machines, tools, vehicles) much more than women."
https://www.psypost.org/2022/12/women-like-working-with-people-men-like-working-with-things-all-across-the-world-64485
Money quote: "For decades, psychologists have studied the differences in career interests of men and women. When their results are considered from the perspective of the spherical model of vocational interests, research results consistently indicate that women prefer to work with people much more than men. On the other hand, men prefer working with things (e.g., machines, tools, vehicles) much more than women."
https://www.psypost.org/2022/12/women-like-working-with-people-men-like-working-with-things-all-across-the-world-64485
PsyPost
Women like working with people, men like working with things, all across the world
An analysis of responses of people from 42 countries on a vocational interest inventory confirmed the well-known finding that women tend to prefer jobs and activities that focus on working with people, much more than men. Men tend to prefer working with things…
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Forwarded from Riccardo
È uscita Tilde ~ 24, la prima puntata del
2023!
Tokyo vs Milano, fotocamere razziste, e come (non) fare soldi col software.
"Potevano diventare due vecchi scemi che giocano al Dreamcast davanti al CRT, ma per fortuna abitano in città diverse. "
→ 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 venerdì!
P.S. Anche la copertina di questa puntata è stata generata da Dall-E. Descrizione "Two old guys play some videogames in front of an old CRT TV. There are many books and the Tokyo skyline. Comics style".
2023!
Tokyo vs Milano, fotocamere razziste, e come (non) fare soldi col software.
"Potevano diventare due vecchi scemi che giocano al Dreamcast davanti al CRT, ma per fortuna abitano in città diverse. "
→ 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 venerdì!
P.S. Anche la copertina di questa puntata è stata generata da Dall-E. Descrizione "Two old guys play some videogames in front of an old CRT TV. There are many books and the Tokyo skyline. Comics style".
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Obsidian, la app per prendere appunti e fare schede con markdown senza finire in un ambito proprietario (i documenti di testo vengono strutturati in cartelle sul file system) ha una nuova funzionalità: Canvas. Una specie di sistema per le mappe mentali e tanto altro, che permette di mettere in relazione oggetti (cioè tipi di documenti) diversi.
Money quote: "An infinite space to visualize and make sense of your ideas."
https://obsidian.md/canvas
Money quote: "An infinite space to visualize and make sense of your ideas."
https://obsidian.md/canvas
Obsidian
Obsidian Canvas - Visualize your ideas
Obsidian Canvas gives you infinite space to research, brainstorm, diagram, and lay out your ideas.
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Questo romanzo “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” di Gabrielle Zevin sta diventando un vero fenomeno editoriale. È la storia di tre ragazzi ambientata nel settore dei videogame.
Money quote: "This is a story about brilliant young game designers hitting it big and slowly growing apart — and Zevin burns precisely zero calories arguing that game designers are creative artists of the highest order. Instead, she accepts that as a given, and wisely so, for the best of them plainly are. “There is no artist,” one of her characters says, “more empathetic than the game designer.”
Zevin’s three main characters are Sadie, Sam and Marx, bright young things who plunge together into the game-making business while students at Harvard and M.I.T. If anything, Sadie and Sam are possibly a little too bright. Their first meeting takes place in a hospital when they’re both 11, while the chronically ill Sam plays Super Mario Bros. in the children’s ward rec room. When young Sadie asks young Sam if he’s dying, as many of the children around them are, he responds, “This being the world, everyone’s dying.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/books/review/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-gabrielle-zevin.html
Money quote: "This is a story about brilliant young game designers hitting it big and slowly growing apart — and Zevin burns precisely zero calories arguing that game designers are creative artists of the highest order. Instead, she accepts that as a given, and wisely so, for the best of them plainly are. “There is no artist,” one of her characters says, “more empathetic than the game designer.”
Zevin’s three main characters are Sadie, Sam and Marx, bright young things who plunge together into the game-making business while students at Harvard and M.I.T. If anything, Sadie and Sam are possibly a little too bright. Their first meeting takes place in a hospital when they’re both 11, while the chronically ill Sam plays Super Mario Bros. in the children’s ward rec room. When young Sadie asks young Sam if he’s dying, as many of the children around them are, he responds, “This being the world, everyone’s dying.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/books/review/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-gabrielle-zevin.html
NY Times
How to Design a Beautiful, Cruel Universe
Gabrielle Zevin’s novel “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is a love letter to the Literary Gamer.
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Stiamo sconfiggendo la vecchiaia? Anzi, stiamo sconfiggendo l'invecchiamento?
Money quote: "There are more than two dozen companies looking for safe and effective ways to get rid of these senescent cells in people. The biggest is Unity Biotechnology, founded by the Mayo Clinic scientists behind that mouse experiment and with investors including Jeff Bezos, which is trialing a range of senolytic drugs against diseases like macular degeneration (a cause of blindness) and lung fibrosis. There are many approaches under investigation, including small proteins that target senescent cells, vaccines to encourage the immune system to clear them out, and even gene therapy by a company called Oisín Biotechnologies, named after an Irish mythological character who travels to Tir na nÓg, the land of eternal youth."
https://www.wired.com/story/drugs-aging-medicine-biotech/
Money quote: "There are more than two dozen companies looking for safe and effective ways to get rid of these senescent cells in people. The biggest is Unity Biotechnology, founded by the Mayo Clinic scientists behind that mouse experiment and with investors including Jeff Bezos, which is trialing a range of senolytic drugs against diseases like macular degeneration (a cause of blindness) and lung fibrosis. There are many approaches under investigation, including small proteins that target senescent cells, vaccines to encourage the immune system to clear them out, and even gene therapy by a company called Oisín Biotechnologies, named after an Irish mythological character who travels to Tir na nÓg, the land of eternal youth."
https://www.wired.com/story/drugs-aging-medicine-biotech/
WIRED
A Drug to Treat Aging May Not Be a Pipe Dream
New approaches to the biology of senescence can make lives longer and healthier.
Cosa possono fare i computer? E cosa no? Questo articolo del New Yorker è una lunga intervista a Cory Doctorow, che è un animale strano: scrittore e artista ma anche attivista e soprattutto "tecnologicamente consapevole" (che è il mio modo per dire che non è tanto un "esperto" quanto uno che capisce come funzionano le tecnologie digitali e che relazioni costruiscono con economia, società e via dicendo). Una intervista interessante.
Money quote: "The comeuppance of Big Tech has two major sides. There’s the side that says Facebook invented a mind-control ray to sell you fidget spinners, and then Robert Mercer stole it and made your uncle racist with it, and now we don’t have free will anymore because of Big Data. And those people, I think, are giving cyberpunk real salience, because that is a cyberpunk science-fiction plot, not a thing that happens in the world. Everyone who’s ever claimed to have a mind-control ray turned out to be a liar or deluded.
The other side is, Look at these completely ordinary mediocre monopolists, doing what monopolists have done since the days of the Dutch East India Company, with the same sociopathy, the same cheating, the same ruthlessness—we should do unto them as we did unto the Rockefellers and the Carnegies and so on. And that strain of techlash, I think, rightly views the cyberpunk motifs as fiction that has been mistaken for reality, the same way Elon Musk mistakes the fairy tales about unitary inventors—who, in their lab, create a faster-than-light machine or whatever—for a thing that actually happens in the world, as opposed to a kind of juvenile fantasy, and then declares himself to be Iron Man.
Cyberpunk was a radical literature. And, if you’re going to radicalize people, you have to engage with computers as they are so that people understand that you’re not making up a fairy tale but reflecting on their actual lived experience about things that can happen, do happen, and could be better."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/cory-doctorow-wants-you-to-know-what-computers-can-and-cant-do
Money quote: "The comeuppance of Big Tech has two major sides. There’s the side that says Facebook invented a mind-control ray to sell you fidget spinners, and then Robert Mercer stole it and made your uncle racist with it, and now we don’t have free will anymore because of Big Data. And those people, I think, are giving cyberpunk real salience, because that is a cyberpunk science-fiction plot, not a thing that happens in the world. Everyone who’s ever claimed to have a mind-control ray turned out to be a liar or deluded.
The other side is, Look at these completely ordinary mediocre monopolists, doing what monopolists have done since the days of the Dutch East India Company, with the same sociopathy, the same cheating, the same ruthlessness—we should do unto them as we did unto the Rockefellers and the Carnegies and so on. And that strain of techlash, I think, rightly views the cyberpunk motifs as fiction that has been mistaken for reality, the same way Elon Musk mistakes the fairy tales about unitary inventors—who, in their lab, create a faster-than-light machine or whatever—for a thing that actually happens in the world, as opposed to a kind of juvenile fantasy, and then declares himself to be Iron Man.
Cyberpunk was a radical literature. And, if you’re going to radicalize people, you have to engage with computers as they are so that people understand that you’re not making up a fairy tale but reflecting on their actual lived experience about things that can happen, do happen, and could be better."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/cory-doctorow-wants-you-to-know-what-computers-can-and-cant-do
The New Yorker
Cory Doctorow Wants You to Know What Computers Can and Can’t Do
A conversation about the “mediocre monopolists” of Big Tech, the weirdness of crypto, and the real lessons of science fiction.
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Segnali di vita nella mente degli americani. Inizia un lentissimo dibattito che potrebbe – dico potrebbe – portare alla riconsiderazione del linguaggio e del politicamente corretto nel dibattito pubblico.
Money quote: "The Civic Signals project, which began about four years ago, initially involved conducting a thorough literature review and expert interviews in the U.S. and four other countries to identify the values — or “signals” — people want reflected in the design of online spaces. The team then conducted focus groups and polled more than 22,000 people in 20 countries who were frequent users of social, search, and messaging platforms. Gina Masullo, a professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin, brought an expertise in incivility research to the group. But “pretty early on in the process,” she said, the team concluded that if one of the goals was to support productive political discourse, civility alone was insufficient.
“It’s not really that we are advocating for incivility,” said Masullo. “But if you are going to have passionate discussion about politics, which we want in a democracy, I would argue, people are not always going to talk perfectly about it.” In her book “Nasty Talk: Online Incivility and Public Debate,” she points out that “perfect” speech can be so sanitized that we wind up saying nothing."
https://undark.org/2022/08/15/researchers-ask-does-enforcing-civility-stifle-online-debate/
Money quote: "The Civic Signals project, which began about four years ago, initially involved conducting a thorough literature review and expert interviews in the U.S. and four other countries to identify the values — or “signals” — people want reflected in the design of online spaces. The team then conducted focus groups and polled more than 22,000 people in 20 countries who were frequent users of social, search, and messaging platforms. Gina Masullo, a professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin, brought an expertise in incivility research to the group. But “pretty early on in the process,” she said, the team concluded that if one of the goals was to support productive political discourse, civility alone was insufficient.
“It’s not really that we are advocating for incivility,” said Masullo. “But if you are going to have passionate discussion about politics, which we want in a democracy, I would argue, people are not always going to talk perfectly about it.” In her book “Nasty Talk: Online Incivility and Public Debate,” she points out that “perfect” speech can be so sanitized that we wind up saying nothing."
https://undark.org/2022/08/15/researchers-ask-does-enforcing-civility-stifle-online-debate/
Undark Magazine
Researchers Ask: Does Enforcing Civility Stifle Online Debate?
Some researchers argue that civility is a poor metric by which to judge the quality of a debate.
6 libri di fantascienza per iniziare l'anno nuovo - la mia lista per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2023/01/libri-fantascienza-anno-nuovo/
https://fumettologica.it/2023/01/libri-fantascienza-anno-nuovo/
Fumettologica
6 libri di fantascienza per iniziare l’anno nuovo
Una selezione di libri, tra classici e novità, per iniziare l'anno all'insegna di buone letture di fantascienza.
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Ho imparato una parola nuova, molto interessante: "parentificazione". È quando i genitori affidano a un figlio il ruolo di mediatore, amico e custode. In quel caso le ferite psicologiche sono profonde e occorre un lavoro serio e complesso per riuscire a sanarle (terapeutico, direi).
Money quote: "The idea of the ‘parental child’ first appears in the literature in the late 1960s, when a group of psychologists in the United States studied family structure in the inner city. Given the high rates of single motherhood, incarceration, poverty and drugs, they found, it often fell to a child to act as the family’s glue.
The term ‘parentification’ was introduced in 1967 by the family systems theorist Salvador Minuchin, who said the phenomenon occurred when parents de facto delegated parenting roles to children. The concept of parentification was expanded and honed by the psychologist Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, who offered that deep problems could emerge in the child when a family exhibited an imbalanced ledger of give and take between parents and children. Since then, psychologists have charted parentification across cultures and taken an inventory of the fallout, from the consequences to adult life on the one hand to hard-earned resilience on the other.
If you think about it, your adult circle of acquaintances, colleagues and friends probably include some who fit the bill. You might recognise the once-parentified child in the over-responsible coworker, the always-available friend – the one who always seems to be weighed down by something, yet manages to tend to everything despite never asking for help in return. Despite her conscientiousness, this person’s inner world may be impoverished and, if you asked her, she might say she’s running on fumes, or that she wished she had a friend like her."
https://aeon.co/essays/how-can-adults-undo-the-harm-of-being-parentified-as-children
Money quote: "The idea of the ‘parental child’ first appears in the literature in the late 1960s, when a group of psychologists in the United States studied family structure in the inner city. Given the high rates of single motherhood, incarceration, poverty and drugs, they found, it often fell to a child to act as the family’s glue.
The term ‘parentification’ was introduced in 1967 by the family systems theorist Salvador Minuchin, who said the phenomenon occurred when parents de facto delegated parenting roles to children. The concept of parentification was expanded and honed by the psychologist Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, who offered that deep problems could emerge in the child when a family exhibited an imbalanced ledger of give and take between parents and children. Since then, psychologists have charted parentification across cultures and taken an inventory of the fallout, from the consequences to adult life on the one hand to hard-earned resilience on the other.
If you think about it, your adult circle of acquaintances, colleagues and friends probably include some who fit the bill. You might recognise the once-parentified child in the over-responsible coworker, the always-available friend – the one who always seems to be weighed down by something, yet manages to tend to everything despite never asking for help in return. Despite her conscientiousness, this person’s inner world may be impoverished and, if you asked her, she might say she’s running on fumes, or that she wished she had a friend like her."
https://aeon.co/essays/how-can-adults-undo-the-harm-of-being-parentified-as-children
Aeon
The parentified child
When parents cast a child into the role of mediator, friend and carer, the wounds are profound. But recovery is possible
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Fare le liste dei libri per me è diventato un vero e proprio lavoro, nel senso che mi pagano per farlo, anche se altre le faccio per mio piacere e vostra lettura. In questo caso, ne prendo una già fatta da Kottke, che mi pare pop abbastanza per chi ama muoversi di là dall'oceano.
Money quote: "Oh man, I read so many books during my time away from the site this summer — but barely made a dent in the towering pile of books I desired to read. Even so, I am excited to dig into the various end-of-year book lists to see what everyone else has been reading — and what I might add to my own pile for 2023."
https://kottke.org/22/12/the-best-books-of-2022
Money quote: "Oh man, I read so many books during my time away from the site this summer — but barely made a dent in the towering pile of books I desired to read. Even so, I am excited to dig into the various end-of-year book lists to see what everyone else has been reading — and what I might add to my own pile for 2023."
https://kottke.org/22/12/the-best-books-of-2022
kottke.org
The Best Books of 2022
Oh man, I read so many books during my time away from the site this summer — but barely made a dent in the towering pile of books I desired to read.1 Even so, I am excited to dig into the various end-of-year book lists t
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Un altro capitolo nel libro sulla nostalgia che ci pervade: il ritorno delle marche di una volta, sembra quasi il sogno di un vecchio pubblicitario in pensione.
Money quote: "Champion had double-digit growth during the holiday season, which drove the company’s best fourth-quarter performance in four years. Teens in particular are latching on to the label, with 9 percent of upper-income boys and 5 percent of girls starting to wear its clothes this spring, according to a recent survey from Piper Jaffray. Male teens consider it a top-15 brand, ranking alongside such names as Gucci and Tommy Hilfiger. Last year it had nearly $1.4 billion in global sales. The company hopes to cash in on Champion’s newfound cultural cachet and grow it into a $2 billion unit by 2022."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-16/champion-sports-shoes-hoodies-and-brand-make-unlikely-comeback
Money quote: "Champion had double-digit growth during the holiday season, which drove the company’s best fourth-quarter performance in four years. Teens in particular are latching on to the label, with 9 percent of upper-income boys and 5 percent of girls starting to wear its clothes this spring, according to a recent survey from Piper Jaffray. Male teens consider it a top-15 brand, ranking alongside such names as Gucci and Tommy Hilfiger. Last year it had nearly $1.4 billion in global sales. The company hopes to cash in on Champion’s newfound cultural cachet and grow it into a $2 billion unit by 2022."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-16/champion-sports-shoes-hoodies-and-brand-make-unlikely-comeback
Bloomberg.com
Champion Accidentally Hit the Fashion Jackpot
The century-old sports apparel brand is suddenly cool again.
La birra glocal di un impero è la sua colla socio-politica
Money quote: "For Williams, this combination of local materials and imperial iconography reveals a society in the process of solving a question as pertinent in ancient Peru as it is in Brexit-obsessed Europe: How can a large state create political unity across cultural and geographic diversity?"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/alcohol-wari-empire
Money quote: "For Williams, this combination of local materials and imperial iconography reveals a society in the process of solving a question as pertinent in ancient Peru as it is in Brexit-obsessed Europe: How can a large state create political unity across cultural and geographic diversity?"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/alcohol-wari-empire
Atlas Obscura
How Breweries Helped Keep This Pre-Columbian Empire Together
Researchers recreated Wari chicha for science and happy hour.
Certo, cambiare si può, ma non è sempre facile. Ad esempio: il 3 settembre 1967 la Svezia ha cambiato lato di guida: dall'approccio britannico è passata a quello continentale. Non è stata una cosa facile né indolore.
Money quote: "No wonder, the Swedish protested when a suggestion was put forward in the early 1950s. When a referendum was held in 1955, 83 percent voters voted against the idea. Despite this, the government pushed forward for the change to put Sweden on the same path as the rest of its European neighbors."
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/dagen-h-day-sweden-switched-traffic.html
Money quote: "No wonder, the Swedish protested when a suggestion was put forward in the early 1950s. When a referendum was held in 1955, 83 percent voters voted against the idea. Despite this, the government pushed forward for the change to put Sweden on the same path as the rest of its European neighbors."
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/dagen-h-day-sweden-switched-traffic.html
Amusingplanet
Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides
Lavori di trascrizione e letture domenicali: una lezione di Larry Tesler e Chris Espinosa sulle origini della Apple Human Interface presentata al Computer History Museum
Money quote: "Being extremely interested in the subject myself, and seeing how apparently little thought is being given today to the subject, I wanted to quote a few selected excerpts from the talk, just to show what kind of hard work creating a user interface was back in the day when the Apple Lisa was being developed. It turns out that isolating this or that bit was futile, as the whole talk is made up of such cohesive, engrossing discourse. So I chose to transcribe it almost entirely, and add a few personal remarks here and there. I hope this turns out to be as interesting to you as it was to me."
http://morrick.me/archives/8432
Money quote: "Being extremely interested in the subject myself, and seeing how apparently little thought is being given today to the subject, I wanted to quote a few selected excerpts from the talk, just to show what kind of hard work creating a user interface was back in the day when the Apple Lisa was being developed. It turns out that isolating this or that bit was futile, as the whole talk is made up of such cohesive, engrossing discourse. So I chose to transcribe it almost entirely, and add a few personal remarks here and there. I hope this turns out to be as interesting to you as it was to me."
http://morrick.me/archives/8432
Riccardo Mori
“Origins of the Apple human interface” lecture — an annotated trannoscription
The lecture was delivered by Larry Tesler and Chris Espinosa in 1997 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
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Se per caso dopocena siete di quelli che guardano le dirette YouTube, yours truly va in diretta qui: https://www.youtube.com/live/MgNU1iBNKZk?feature=share
YouTube
TECNOLOGIA nel GIORNALISMO!💻 - con Antonio Dini
Prosegue il nostro viaggio alla scoperta di nuovi orizzonti su cui posare il nostro sguardo digitale e terreno.
Approdiamo sul pianeta della Comunicazione e del Giornalismo.
Antonio Dini, nato a Firenze, è giornalista, saggista e scrittore. Dal 2000 svolge…
Approdiamo sul pianeta della Comunicazione e del Giornalismo.
Antonio Dini, nato a Firenze, è giornalista, saggista e scrittore. Dal 2000 svolge…
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Il rapporto Usa-Cina è veramente complicato. L'ultima novità è una piattaforma di ecommerce cinese, Temu, che sta sbancando negli Usa. E questo provoca un problema di concorrenza ai campioni americani e di possibili influenze non solo commerciali.
Money quote: "Online shopping site Temu has soared in popularity in the U.S. since its launch in September. The rapid growth of the site, which sells ultra-low-priced goods mostly made in China, has made Shanghai-based Pinduoduo Inc. PDD -1.27% the latest Chinese firm to find success in a country increasingly wary of Beijing as a technology rival.
In less than four months, Temu has racked up 10.8 million installations in the U.S., according to analytics firm Sensor Tower, making it the country’s most downloaded mobile app in any category between Nov. 1 and Dec. 14."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-bargain-hunters-flock-to-a-new-online-platform-forged-in-china-11671851837
Money quote: "Online shopping site Temu has soared in popularity in the U.S. since its launch in September. The rapid growth of the site, which sells ultra-low-priced goods mostly made in China, has made Shanghai-based Pinduoduo Inc. PDD -1.27% the latest Chinese firm to find success in a country increasingly wary of Beijing as a technology rival.
In less than four months, Temu has racked up 10.8 million installations in the U.S., according to analytics firm Sensor Tower, making it the country’s most downloaded mobile app in any category between Nov. 1 and Dec. 14."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-bargain-hunters-flock-to-a-new-online-platform-forged-in-china-11671851837
WSJ
American Bargain Hunters Flock to a New Online Platform Forged in China
Online marketplace Temu, with deep discounts and copious coupons, has become the most downloaded mobile app in the U.S.
La mia anteprima per Macitynet, ecco HomePod 2, la grande musica di Apple. Una bomba!
https://www.macitynet.it/anteprima-macitynet-ecco-homepod-2-la-grande-musica-di-apple/
https://www.macitynet.it/anteprima-macitynet-ecco-homepod-2-la-grande-musica-di-apple/
macitynet.it
Recensione HomePod 2, la grande musica di Apple
Apple, HomeKit, HomePod, Matter, Thread
Casomai voleste fare un giro nella metro di Città del Messico, siate consapevoli che ci sono disfunzioni e polemiche, e anche qualche incidente.
Money quote: "For years now, drivers have said that the Metro system’s faulty automatic pilot program has forced conductors to operate many of the trains manually. To do this, they need to be in close contact to avoid collisions, and workers say the trains’ radio-based communications system is not up to the task. So instead, they often have to use their own cellphones and WhatsApp chats to coordinate with the control center. "
https://restofworld.org/2023/mexico-metro-drivers-whatsapp-trains/
Money quote: "For years now, drivers have said that the Metro system’s faulty automatic pilot program has forced conductors to operate many of the trains manually. To do this, they need to be in close contact to avoid collisions, and workers say the trains’ radio-based communications system is not up to the task. So instead, they often have to use their own cellphones and WhatsApp chats to coordinate with the control center. "
https://restofworld.org/2023/mexico-metro-drivers-whatsapp-trains/
Rest of World
Mexico’s subway drivers depend on WhatsApp to keep the trains running
Cellphone use is banned, but conductors say their work radios have been failing for years.
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Roma ha un problema e non è il traffico. Sono gli storni. Solo che per leggere un articolo decente che lo spieghi ammodo devi aprire il Washington Post.
Money quote: "They return to Rome, bellies full, soon after 4 p.m. They meet in the sky.
The birds move with such synchronicity that one pioneering British ornithologist, Edmund Selous, hypothesized that the starlings were telepathic."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/rome-starlings-birds-murmuration/
Money quote: "They return to Rome, bellies full, soon after 4 p.m. They meet in the sky.
The birds move with such synchronicity that one pioneering British ornithologist, Edmund Selous, hypothesized that the starlings were telepathic."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/rome-starlings-birds-murmuration/
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Forwarded from Fumettologica
Debutta oggi “And So What?”, una nuova rubrica di Fumettologica a cura di Antonio Dini (che trovate anche su Telegram, qui: @mostlyiwrite).
Ogni 15 giorni su “And So What?” troverete analisi critiche e laterali attorno a quell'incrocio molto trafficato fra cultura, tecnologia e mercato.
La rubrica si affiancherà a quelle già in corso da circa un anno, “Sofisticazioni popolari” di Marco Andreoletti (https://bit.ly/3XXXJY1) e “Margini” (https://bit.ly/3Y1FSPS) di Tonio Troiani.
Per noi si tratta della prima novità che vi offriremo nel 2023. Qui a Fumettologica abbiamo in serbo grosse soprese. Stay tuned…
Leggi la prima puntata di “And So What?”
👉 https://bit.ly/3Yllrxd
Ogni 15 giorni su “And So What?” troverete analisi critiche e laterali attorno a quell'incrocio molto trafficato fra cultura, tecnologia e mercato.
La rubrica si affiancherà a quelle già in corso da circa un anno, “Sofisticazioni popolari” di Marco Andreoletti (https://bit.ly/3XXXJY1) e “Margini” (https://bit.ly/3Y1FSPS) di Tonio Troiani.
Per noi si tratta della prima novità che vi offriremo nel 2023. Qui a Fumettologica abbiamo in serbo grosse soprese. Stay tuned…
Leggi la prima puntata di “And So What?”
👉 https://bit.ly/3Yllrxd
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