Lettura della domenica. Il motore di ricerca di Google, la sua arma più potente, sta andando in vacca. Letteralmente.
Money quote: "But those Ten Blue Links surfaced by the PageRank-that-was had a special magic. I found them intensely human, a reflection of the voices populating what remains of the Web, the only platform without a vendor. This was true when I was there and I said so, but was laughed at.
And now, in Anno Domini 2024, Google has lost its edge in search. There are plenty of things it can’t find. There are compelling alternatives. To me this feels like a big inflection point, because around the stumbling feet of the Big Tech dinosaurs, the Web’s mammals, agile and flexible, still scurry. They exhibit creative energy and strongly-flavored voices, and those voices still sometimes find and reinforce each other without being sock puppets of shareholder-value-focused private empires."
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024
Money quote: "But those Ten Blue Links surfaced by the PageRank-that-was had a special magic. I found them intensely human, a reflection of the voices populating what remains of the Web, the only platform without a vendor. This was true when I was there and I said so, but was laughed at.
And now, in Anno Domini 2024, Google has lost its edge in search. There are plenty of things it can’t find. There are compelling alternatives. To me this feels like a big inflection point, because around the stumbling feet of the Big Tech dinosaurs, the Web’s mammals, agile and flexible, still scurry. They exhibit creative energy and strongly-flavored voices, and those voices still sometimes find and reinforce each other without being sock puppets of shareholder-value-focused private empires."
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024
ongoing by Tim Bray
Mourning Google
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Uno sviluppatore che da 43 anni scrive codice per le piattaforma di Apple (fin dai tempi dell'Apple II, prima del Macintosh) ci ricorda qualcosa che si potrebbe dimenticare facilmente.
Money quote: "But I need to remember, now and again, that Apple is a corporation, and corporations aren’t people, and they can’t love you back. You wouldn’t love GE or Exxon or Comcast — and you shouldn’t love Apple. It’s not an exception to the rule: there are no exceptions.
Apple doesn’t care about you personally in the least tiny bit, and if you were in their way somehow, they would do whatever their might — effectively infinite compared to your own — enables them to deal with you."
https://inessential.com/2024/01/17/corporations_are_not_to_be_loved
Money quote: "But I need to remember, now and again, that Apple is a corporation, and corporations aren’t people, and they can’t love you back. You wouldn’t love GE or Exxon or Comcast — and you shouldn’t love Apple. It’s not an exception to the rule: there are no exceptions.
Apple doesn’t care about you personally in the least tiny bit, and if you were in their way somehow, they would do whatever their might — effectively infinite compared to your own — enables them to deal with you."
https://inessential.com/2024/01/17/corporations_are_not_to_be_loved
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La prossima volta che capitate a New York City sapete dove dovete andare.
Money quote: "Every month, more than two hundred people from the media, academia, and other intellectual circles are invited to a private hangout in New York City, which is known as the Gathering of Thought Criminals. There are two rules. The first is that you have to be willing to break bread with people who have been socially ostracized, or, as the attendees would say, “cancelled”—whether they’ve lost a job, lost friends, or simply feel persecuted for holding unpopular opinions. Some people on the guest list are notorious: élite professors who have deviated from campus consensus or who have broken university rules, and journalists who have made a name for themselves amid public backlash (or who have weathered it quietly). Others are relative nobodies, people who for one reason or another have become exasperated with what they see as rampant censorious thinking in our culture.
The second rule of the gatherings is that Pamela has to like you. Pamela is Pamela Paresky, the gathering’s organizer, a fifty-six-year-old psychologist who lives in Chelsea. "
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-is-cancelled
Archivio: https://archive.is/c4OwH
Money quote: "Every month, more than two hundred people from the media, academia, and other intellectual circles are invited to a private hangout in New York City, which is known as the Gathering of Thought Criminals. There are two rules. The first is that you have to be willing to break bread with people who have been socially ostracized, or, as the attendees would say, “cancelled”—whether they’ve lost a job, lost friends, or simply feel persecuted for holding unpopular opinions. Some people on the guest list are notorious: élite professors who have deviated from campus consensus or who have broken university rules, and journalists who have made a name for themselves amid public backlash (or who have weathered it quietly). Others are relative nobodies, people who for one reason or another have become exasperated with what they see as rampant censorious thinking in our culture.
The second rule of the gatherings is that Pamela has to like you. Pamela is Pamela Paresky, the gathering’s organizer, a fifty-six-year-old psychologist who lives in Chelsea. "
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-is-cancelled
Archivio: https://archive.is/c4OwH
The New Yorker
A Club for the Cancelled
Inside a monthly New York City hangout, where fired university professors and controversial TikTokers get together to have discussions they feel they can’t have anywhere else.
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L'artista una volta conosciuto come Prince non c'è più. Ed è una gran mancanza, sia dal punto di vista discografico che da quello della performance. I suoi erano concerti da andare a vedere.
Tuttavia, l'artista non è stato ancora sufficientemente compreso e valorizzato. Questo progetto di storia orale del disco "Sign O' The Times" è molto interessante. E il disco era meraviglioso.
Money quote: "In the end, Sign O' The Times was a Frankenstein's monster, stitched together from the remains of three completed, but discarded albums: Dream Factory, Camille and the triple-disc Crystal Ball set.
Now, 33 years on, Prince's estate is releasing an expanded version of Sign O' The Times which includes 45 unreleased tracks from the recording sessions.
To get a better understanding of how it came together, here's a history of the record and its subsequent tour, featuring new and archive interviews from the musicians who were there, and some of Prince's most famous fans."
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54203180
Tuttavia, l'artista non è stato ancora sufficientemente compreso e valorizzato. Questo progetto di storia orale del disco "Sign O' The Times" è molto interessante. E il disco era meraviglioso.
Money quote: "In the end, Sign O' The Times was a Frankenstein's monster, stitched together from the remains of three completed, but discarded albums: Dream Factory, Camille and the triple-disc Crystal Ball set.
Now, 33 years on, Prince's estate is releasing an expanded version of Sign O' The Times which includes 45 unreleased tracks from the recording sessions.
To get a better understanding of how it came together, here's a history of the record and its subsequent tour, featuring new and archive interviews from the musicians who were there, and some of Prince's most famous fans."
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54203180
BBC News
Prince's Sign O' The Times: An oral history
Prince's collaborators recall the chaotic but fertile sessions that produced his greatest album.
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Praticamente la pandemia ci ha forzato a fare rapidamente quello che stava succedendo da anni. La fine dell'open space. È un male? Per alcuni sì, per altri no. Ma non è una questione di relativismo: è che i lavori non sono tutti uguali.
Money quote: "First, let me assure you that I am not a great fan of the whole open-office concept myself. As someone who worked out of a home office for many years, and in a traditional office setting before that, while the comradery that the open office encourages is nice, I don’t love the need to dash for a closed-door “phone booth” every time I receive, or need to make, a personal call — or, in fact, any call. I don’t enjoy having to hide in a cubicle in the ladies’ room if I am even a little upset or angry. In fact, before the pandemic hit, I was strongly tempted to put a photo from the 1928 film The Crowd or 1960’s The Apartment up at my desk to show that, well, open offices aren’t exactly new to our times."
https://www.theverge.com/22412400/open-office-pandemic-privacy-safety
Money quote: "First, let me assure you that I am not a great fan of the whole open-office concept myself. As someone who worked out of a home office for many years, and in a traditional office setting before that, while the comradery that the open office encourages is nice, I don’t love the need to dash for a closed-door “phone booth” every time I receive, or need to make, a personal call — or, in fact, any call. I don’t enjoy having to hide in a cubicle in the ladies’ room if I am even a little upset or angry. In fact, before the pandemic hit, I was strongly tempted to put a photo from the 1928 film The Crowd or 1960’s The Apartment up at my desk to show that, well, open offices aren’t exactly new to our times."
https://www.theverge.com/22412400/open-office-pandemic-privacy-safety
The Verge
Are we seeing the return of the closed-door office? I hope not.
Will COVID-19 finally lead us to abandon the open office?
In America (e dove, sennò) a quanto pare c'è tutta una subcultura di gente che fa la coda davanti ai posti che aprono. I fast food, per essere precisi. E attraversano gli Stati Uniti da un lato all'altro per andarci. Gente tra le altre cose non fighetta come quelli che fanno le code davanti agli Apple Store o ai concerti di Bruce Springsteen. Patologie che varrebbe la pena indagare.
Money quote "Some chains try to curtail opening-day frenzy. Chick-fil-A long advertised a “First 100” giveaway, where the first 100 guests would get free food for a year. This led to people camping out overnight in parking lots at new restaurants. When the pandemic hit in 2020, the chain dropped the promotion, and asked restaurant operators to instead select “100 Community Heroes,” such as teachers and healthcare providers, to receive the free food."
https://www.wsj.com/business/superfans-in-n-out-openings-chick-fil-a-c2cea331
Money quote "Some chains try to curtail opening-day frenzy. Chick-fil-A long advertised a “First 100” giveaway, where the first 100 guests would get free food for a year. This led to people camping out overnight in parking lots at new restaurants. When the pandemic hit in 2020, the chain dropped the promotion, and asked restaurant operators to instead select “100 Community Heroes,” such as teachers and healthcare providers, to receive the free food."
https://www.wsj.com/business/superfans-in-n-out-openings-chick-fil-a-c2cea331
WSJ
There Are Superfans. Then There Are Fast-Food Superfans.
Die-hards are lining up at 4:30 a.m., donning long underwear and sleeping in parking lots to be first at In-N-Out or Chick-fil-A openings
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Ho visto con qualche giorni di ritardo questo obituary di Norman Jevison, regista americano scomparso qualche giorno fa. Leggere gli obituary, che negli Usa sono un lavoro vero e di livello, per me come giornalista e curioso della vita delle persone è un esercizio affascinante. Spesso si tratta di microbiografie dense, ricche, a tratti straordinarie. Quando arrivo in fondo e penso: "Avrei voluto conoscerlo e intervistarlo" vuol dire che hanno fatto un gran lavoro.
Money quote: "Oscar-nominated film director and producer Norman Jewison, who steered the 1967 racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” to a best picture Oscar and also helmed such popular films as “Moonstruck,” “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” and “The Thomas Crown Affair,” as well as film musicals “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” died Saturday at his Los Angeles residence. He was 97.
His film career began with fluffy Doris Day comedies like “The Thrill of It All.” But Jewison’s social conscience began to surface with “In the Heat of the Night” and, later, the labor union drama “F.I.S.T.” and other films focusing on racial tensions such as “A Soldier’s Story” and “The Landlord” (the latter of which he only produced), though he never abandoned comedies and romances."
https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/norman-jewison-dead-moonstruck-in-the-heat-of-the-night-1235882301/
Money quote: "Oscar-nominated film director and producer Norman Jewison, who steered the 1967 racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” to a best picture Oscar and also helmed such popular films as “Moonstruck,” “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” and “The Thomas Crown Affair,” as well as film musicals “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” died Saturday at his Los Angeles residence. He was 97.
His film career began with fluffy Doris Day comedies like “The Thrill of It All.” But Jewison’s social conscience began to surface with “In the Heat of the Night” and, later, the labor union drama “F.I.S.T.” and other films focusing on racial tensions such as “A Soldier’s Story” and “The Landlord” (the latter of which he only produced), though he never abandoned comedies and romances."
https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/norman-jewison-dead-moonstruck-in-the-heat-of-the-night-1235882301/
Variety
Norman Jewison, ‘Moonstruck’ and ‘In the Heat of the Night’ Director, Dies at 97
Norman Jewison, the Oscar-nominated director behind "In the Heat of the Night," "Moonstruck," "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Jesus Christ Superstar," has died.
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Dyson ha delle tecnologie incredibili e un posizionamento unico. È costosa, la Patagonia degli asciugacapelli e dei purificatori dell'aria. Però sono connessi (i purificatori) e diffusi, cosicché i dati raccolti in modo anonimo disegnano un quadro piuttosto interessante dell'inquinamento dell'aria perlomeno nelle metropoli dove vengono usati di più. E la scoperta, di qualche giorno fa, è che l'aria a Milano fa schifo. Tipo che è peggio di Shenzen e Amsterdam (che è un po' una sorpresa).
Secondo me se ci fossero sensori calibrati alla stessa maniera in tutti i dispositivi connessi di tutti i produttori avremmo una mappa più completa (questa è fondamentalmente tarata sui benestanti che spendono 700 euro per un purificatore da appartamento) e realistica. Ma anche così fa abbastanza impressione.
Money quote: "Dal punto di vista delle singole città, il confronto tra l'inquinamento da PM2,5 outdoor e indoor è stato particolarmente negativo a Milano, che ha registrato il peggiore risultato globale: i livelli medi annui di PM2,5 indoor nel 2022 sono stati di 2,63 volte superiori rispetto a quelli outdoor - una discrepanza maggiore rispetto a qualsiasi altra città studiata - con picchi nei mesi di dicembre (3,46) e gennaio (3,48), fino al record di 4,17 volte oltre i valori outdoor a marzo.
Dopo Milano, altri record negativi sono stati quelli di Shenzhen (con livelli annui di PM2,5 indoor superiori del 97% rispetto all’outdoor), Amsterdam (76%), Seoul (53%), Madrid (50%), Melbourne (40%), Vienna (37%), Singapore (36%) e New York (35%). 21 città (su 35 esaminate) hanno registrato livelli medi annui di PM2,5 negli ambienti chiusi superiori rispetto a quelli all'aperto. Analizzando i dati mensili, sono otto le città che hanno registrato livelli di PM2,5 indoor superiori rispetto all’outdoor per ogni singolo mese dell'anno: Shenzhen, New York, Melbourne, Milano, Roma, Seoul, Vienna e Amsterdam."
https://www.innovationcity.it/approfondimenti/1249/laria-negli-ambienti-chiusi-e-piu-inquinata-dellaria-outdoor-per-oltre-6-mesi-allanno-milano-maglia-nera-a-livello-globale.html
Secondo me se ci fossero sensori calibrati alla stessa maniera in tutti i dispositivi connessi di tutti i produttori avremmo una mappa più completa (questa è fondamentalmente tarata sui benestanti che spendono 700 euro per un purificatore da appartamento) e realistica. Ma anche così fa abbastanza impressione.
Money quote: "Dal punto di vista delle singole città, il confronto tra l'inquinamento da PM2,5 outdoor e indoor è stato particolarmente negativo a Milano, che ha registrato il peggiore risultato globale: i livelli medi annui di PM2,5 indoor nel 2022 sono stati di 2,63 volte superiori rispetto a quelli outdoor - una discrepanza maggiore rispetto a qualsiasi altra città studiata - con picchi nei mesi di dicembre (3,46) e gennaio (3,48), fino al record di 4,17 volte oltre i valori outdoor a marzo.
Dopo Milano, altri record negativi sono stati quelli di Shenzhen (con livelli annui di PM2,5 indoor superiori del 97% rispetto all’outdoor), Amsterdam (76%), Seoul (53%), Madrid (50%), Melbourne (40%), Vienna (37%), Singapore (36%) e New York (35%). 21 città (su 35 esaminate) hanno registrato livelli medi annui di PM2,5 negli ambienti chiusi superiori rispetto a quelli all'aperto. Analizzando i dati mensili, sono otto le città che hanno registrato livelli di PM2,5 indoor superiori rispetto all’outdoor per ogni singolo mese dell'anno: Shenzhen, New York, Melbourne, Milano, Roma, Seoul, Vienna e Amsterdam."
https://www.innovationcity.it/approfondimenti/1249/laria-negli-ambienti-chiusi-e-piu-inquinata-dellaria-outdoor-per-oltre-6-mesi-allanno-milano-maglia-nera-a-livello-globale.html
InnovationCity.it
L’aria negli ambienti chiusi è più inquinata dell’aria outdoor per oltre 6 mesi all’anno: Milano maglia nera a livello globale
Questa è la sentenza che emerge dal primo progetto globale Air Quality Connected Data di Dyson che ha esaminato i dati relativi alla qualità dell'aria indoor provenienti da oltre 2,5 milioni di purificatori d'aria connessi. Ogni individuo inala dai 10.000…
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Un po' di tempo fa ho dovuto rifare la carta di credito perché un qualche sito di e-commerce "serio" in cui l'avevo messa è stato sfondato e si sono presi tutto, anche il codice cin.
Ovviamente la banca non mi dice chi sia stato il sito pirla (cioè comunicano un codice assolutamente inutile). E pensare che avevo appena chiuso la ricaricabile perché non la uso mai. Ma vabbè.
Invece, in maniera più intelligente Vans, North Face hanno limitato i danni pur avendo divieto un furto di dati di 35 milioni di clienti (non me, btw).
Money quote: “VF Corporation, the company behind brands like Vans, Timberland, The North Face, Dickies, and Supreme, said that more than 35 million customers had their personal information stolen in a December ransomware attack.
The American global apparel and footwear giant said that the affected customers' social security numbers, bank account information, or payment card information was not impacted since it doesn't store such data on its systems."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vans-north-face-owner-says-ransomware-breach-affects-35-million-people/
Ovviamente la banca non mi dice chi sia stato il sito pirla (cioè comunicano un codice assolutamente inutile). E pensare che avevo appena chiuso la ricaricabile perché non la uso mai. Ma vabbè.
Invece, in maniera più intelligente Vans, North Face hanno limitato i danni pur avendo divieto un furto di dati di 35 milioni di clienti (non me, btw).
Money quote: “VF Corporation, the company behind brands like Vans, Timberland, The North Face, Dickies, and Supreme, said that more than 35 million customers had their personal information stolen in a December ransomware attack.
The American global apparel and footwear giant said that the affected customers' social security numbers, bank account information, or payment card information was not impacted since it doesn't store such data on its systems."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vans-north-face-owner-says-ransomware-breach-affects-35-million-people/
BleepingComputer
Vans, North Face owner says ransomware breach affects 35 million people
VF Corporation, the company behind brands like Vans, Timberland, The North Face, Dickies, and Supreme, said that more than 35 million customers had their personal information stolen in a December ransomware attack.
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Se c'è una cosa che sembra la più naturale di tutte, è, quando arriva la sera, cambiarsi e andare a dormire. Andare cioè a letto. Solo che il letto, care signore e cari signori, è tutt'altro che naturale. È una invenzione, una tecnologia, un sistema complesso che oltretutto cambia da cultura a cultura nei suoi usi e significati più profondi. Ma da dove viene fuori, il letto?
Money quote: "Emerging just over 5,000 years ago, not long after other pioneering technologies such as writing, bed frames appeared in several places at around the same time. Some 1,700 miles (2,735km) from Orkney, in Malta, ritualised burial tunnels have revealed evidence of early incarnations of this furniture – including a clay figurine of a woman slumbering peacefully on her side, one hand under her head, on a simple raised platform. These early beds were not just places to rest. They often held deep symbolic meanings and links to the afterlife, according to Fagan and Durrani."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240126-sleep-tight-a-curious-history-of-beds-through-the-centuries
Money quote: "Emerging just over 5,000 years ago, not long after other pioneering technologies such as writing, bed frames appeared in several places at around the same time. Some 1,700 miles (2,735km) from Orkney, in Malta, ritualised burial tunnels have revealed evidence of early incarnations of this furniture – including a clay figurine of a woman slumbering peacefully on her side, one hand under her head, on a simple raised platform. These early beds were not just places to rest. They often held deep symbolic meanings and links to the afterlife, according to Fagan and Durrani."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240126-sleep-tight-a-curious-history-of-beds-through-the-centuries
Bbc
Sleep tight: A curious history of beds through the centuries
From beds for Roman newlyweds, to "hangover" benches for 19th-Century workers: the pursuit of a good night's sleep has followed us through the ages.
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Secondo voi cosa dice della società americana il fatto che le persone che sono in prigione lavorano sostanzialmente in modo gratuito per produrre alimenti da supermercato? Una società che lucra sostanzialmente sugli "schiavi sociali", cioè i colpevoli di reati che vengono "espiati" attraverso forme di sfruttamento del loro lavoro?
Money quote: "The goods these prisoners produce wind up in the supply chains of a dizzying array of products found in most American kitchens, from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour, Coca-Cola and Riceland rice. They are on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the country, including Kroger, Target, Aldi and Whole Foods. And some goods are exported, including to countries that have had products blocked from entering the U.S. for using forced or prison labor."
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e
Money quote: "The goods these prisoners produce wind up in the supply chains of a dizzying array of products found in most American kitchens, from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour, Coca-Cola and Riceland rice. They are on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the country, including Kroger, Target, Aldi and Whole Foods. And some goods are exported, including to countries that have had products blocked from entering the U.S. for using forced or prison labor."
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e
AP News
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola.
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Nel frattempo, in una galassia lontana lontana…
Money quote: “Intanto, vale la pena sottolineare alcune cose. La prima è che Vision Pro, nonostante due mini aggiornamenti, è ancora all’alba della sua vita. L’interfaccia utente c’è tutta, il flusso per spostarsi da una funzione all’altra anche, l’usabilità è molto forte e semplice, le prime app molto promettenti anche. Ma siamo ancora all’inizio.
La qualità degli schermi oculari è incredibile ma ancora migliorabile (le videocamere esterne risentono un po’ delle condizioni di bassa luminosità, ad esempio) e si avverte la mancanza di un ingrediente ulteriore che possa tenere tutto assieme in maniera ancora più compatta ed efficace: probabilmente uno strato di intelligenza artificiale capace di mettere ancora più opzioni a disposizione degli utenti.”
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-vision-pro-prova-italia/
Money quote: “Intanto, vale la pena sottolineare alcune cose. La prima è che Vision Pro, nonostante due mini aggiornamenti, è ancora all’alba della sua vita. L’interfaccia utente c’è tutta, il flusso per spostarsi da una funzione all’altra anche, l’usabilità è molto forte e semplice, le prime app molto promettenti anche. Ma siamo ancora all’inizio.
La qualità degli schermi oculari è incredibile ma ancora migliorabile (le videocamere esterne risentono un po’ delle condizioni di bassa luminosità, ad esempio) e si avverte la mancanza di un ingrediente ulteriore che possa tenere tutto assieme in maniera ancora più compatta ed efficace: probabilmente uno strato di intelligenza artificiale capace di mettere ancora più opzioni a disposizione degli utenti.”
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-vision-pro-prova-italia/
macitynet.it
Apple Vision Pro, ecco cosa succede quando lo provi
Apple Vision Pro, Fotogalleria, Hardware Apple, Realtà Aumentata, Realtà Virtuale, VisionOS
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C'è qualcuno in ascolto su di noi. Letteralmente.
Money quote: "Larghi 2 centimetri e lunghi 4, i nuovi wearable device per la salute aderiscono con morbidezza all’epidermide e lavorano “in team” per acquisire – in maniera simultanea – i suoni che provengono dall’interno dell’organismo. Con quali risultati? Cambiando la posizione è possibile comprendere come varia la cadenza dei battiti quando si è attivi oppure a riposo e in che modo i fluidi si spostano mentre attraversano l’intestino."
https://www.key4biz.it/wearable-device-per-la-salute-i-nuovi-dispositivi-indossabili-che-catturano-il-rumori-del-corpo-umano/477653/
Money quote: "Larghi 2 centimetri e lunghi 4, i nuovi wearable device per la salute aderiscono con morbidezza all’epidermide e lavorano “in team” per acquisire – in maniera simultanea – i suoni che provengono dall’interno dell’organismo. Con quali risultati? Cambiando la posizione è possibile comprendere come varia la cadenza dei battiti quando si è attivi oppure a riposo e in che modo i fluidi si spostano mentre attraversano l’intestino."
https://www.key4biz.it/wearable-device-per-la-salute-i-nuovi-dispositivi-indossabili-che-catturano-il-rumori-del-corpo-umano/477653/
Key4biz
Wearable device per la salute catturano i suoni del nostro corpo
I wearable device per la salute permettono di monitorare la propria condizione fisica e di condividere i dati in tempo reale con i medici
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Hollywood e la letteratura contemporanea ci regalano degli spaccati del nostro inconscio che sono deliziosi oltre che perniciosi (la parola di oggi da cercare sul dizionario, caro lettore). Avete presente il saggio molto zen, la creatura superiore, l'alieno trascendente ma anche il killer, il fotografo o l'artista "nella zona"? Sono tutti dei gran santoni, super-cool, la cui arma definitiva è la meditazione. Se suona come il buddismo, ma in maniera falsata, è perché lo è: buddismo falsato.
Money quote: "From soothing smartphone apps and Zen gardens to premium yoga classes and silent retreats, Buddhist ideas, practices, and aesthetics have become increasingly widespread in the Western world, thanks in large part to their promise of providing relief from the chaos and anxiety of modern life. But, as the writer Ronald Purser noted in his best-selling book McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, Buddhism’s contemporary commercialization — the global meditation industry alone is expected to bring in $31.9 billion by 2032 — bears little resemblance to the movement that originated in ancient India."
https://bigthink.com/thinking/buddhism-mindfullness/
Money quote: "From soothing smartphone apps and Zen gardens to premium yoga classes and silent retreats, Buddhist ideas, practices, and aesthetics have become increasingly widespread in the Western world, thanks in large part to their promise of providing relief from the chaos and anxiety of modern life. But, as the writer Ronald Purser noted in his best-selling book McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, Buddhism’s contemporary commercialization — the global meditation industry alone is expected to bring in $31.9 billion by 2032 — bears little resemblance to the movement that originated in ancient India."
https://bigthink.com/thinking/buddhism-mindfullness/
Big Think
Beyond "McMindfulness": How Buddhism actually eases suffering
Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion reshaped her view of the world – and herself.
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Ennesimo ragionamento attorno a un concetto: mangiamo troppo e mangiamo le cose sbagliate o quelle giuste ma nelle quantità sbagliate. Siamo diventati tutta un'altra cosa rispetto agli splendidi animali nomadi della savana che eravamo una volta.
Money quote: "The National Academies of Sciences’ more nuanced guidelines break down suggested protein intake by body weight, recommending 0.36 grams of protein per pound of weight every day (pregnant and elderly people should consume more, along with highly active individuals). For the average American man, weighing just under 200 pounds, that’s 72 grams. For the average woman, weighing just under 171 pounds, that’s 61.5 grams. American men exceed that recommendation by 31 percent, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey data; women exceed it by about 12 percent.
Public health authorities design these recommendations with plenty of slack, meaning they’re higher than what most people actually need to ensure they don’t become protein deficient. But despite exceeding the recommended intake, 60 percent of US adults are trying to get even more of it into their diets."
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24049505/protein-intake-fiber-plant-based-vegetarian-vegan-meat
Money quote: "The National Academies of Sciences’ more nuanced guidelines break down suggested protein intake by body weight, recommending 0.36 grams of protein per pound of weight every day (pregnant and elderly people should consume more, along with highly active individuals). For the average American man, weighing just under 200 pounds, that’s 72 grams. For the average woman, weighing just under 171 pounds, that’s 61.5 grams. American men exceed that recommendation by 31 percent, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey data; women exceed it by about 12 percent.
Public health authorities design these recommendations with plenty of slack, meaning they’re higher than what most people actually need to ensure they don’t become protein deficient. But despite exceeding the recommended intake, 60 percent of US adults are trying to get even more of it into their diets."
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24049505/protein-intake-fiber-plant-based-vegetarian-vegan-meat
Vox
You’re probably eating way too much protein
Americans are obsessing over protein and forgetting about fiber.
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Mondadori sta ripubblicando tutte le opere di Philip K. Dick (o quasi tutte) in una nuova edizione. Hanno dedicato anche un'intera pagina web al nostro eroe della scrittura Avantpop. Una pagina devo dire non male.
Money quote: "Oggi Philip K. Dick è considerato un gigante, tra i grandi autori della letteratura contemporanea: lo "Shakespeare della fantascienza", capace di regalarci infiniti mondi da esplorare, senza smettere mai, però, di mostrarceli pieni dei nostri difetti, in cui non possiamo che specchiarci.
Nelle sue storie ha raccontato con un’incredibile capacità predittiva il mondo che sarebbe arrivato dopo di lui: l'ubiquità di Internet, la realtà virtuale, i software di riconoscimento facciale, la capacità della pubblicità di inviare messaggi personalizzati, le auto senza conducente...
Ma le sue storie partivano dal presente, non dal futuro: da quel “più umano dell’umano” di cui i suoi libri sono intrisi. "
https://www.oscarmondadori.it/approfondimenti/philip-k-dick-mondo-autore-cult-postmodernismo/
Money quote: "Oggi Philip K. Dick è considerato un gigante, tra i grandi autori della letteratura contemporanea: lo "Shakespeare della fantascienza", capace di regalarci infiniti mondi da esplorare, senza smettere mai, però, di mostrarceli pieni dei nostri difetti, in cui non possiamo che specchiarci.
Nelle sue storie ha raccontato con un’incredibile capacità predittiva il mondo che sarebbe arrivato dopo di lui: l'ubiquità di Internet, la realtà virtuale, i software di riconoscimento facciale, la capacità della pubblicità di inviare messaggi personalizzati, le auto senza conducente...
Ma le sue storie partivano dal presente, non dal futuro: da quel “più umano dell’umano” di cui i suoi libri sono intrisi. "
https://www.oscarmondadori.it/approfondimenti/philip-k-dick-mondo-autore-cult-postmodernismo/
Oscar Mondadori
Philip K. Dick: il mondo di un autore cult del postmodernismo | Oscar Mondadori
Philip K. Dick: il mondo di un autore cult del postmodernismo. Leggi l’approfondimento
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È domenica, tempo di Mostly Weekly, la mia newsletter gratuita. Questa settimana si parla (anche) di tastiere NuPhy e del primo iPhone 2G
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/258/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/258/
Mostly Here
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Tastiere, turbocapitalismo e la svolta digitale di Salerno
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Per quelli di voi che sognano di tornare indietro nel tempo e mettersi a scattare fotografie su pellicola con una macchina molto compatta ma al tempo stesso dalla qualità eccelsa, ecco a voi una onesta recensione della Contax T2
Money quote: "Is it overpriced? Does it deliver on quality at cost? Let’s break down what makes the Contax T2 the most sought-after point and shoot film camera on the market, and see whether it’s actually worth the hype."
https://shootitwithfilm.com/an-honest-review-of-the-contax-t2/
Money quote: "Is it overpriced? Does it deliver on quality at cost? Let’s break down what makes the Contax T2 the most sought-after point and shoot film camera on the market, and see whether it’s actually worth the hype."
https://shootitwithfilm.com/an-honest-review-of-the-contax-t2/
Shoot It With Film
An Honest Review of the Contax T2 » Shoot It With Film
Looking for a point and shoot film camera? Check out this review of the Contax T2 and learn about the build quality, shooting experience, and more!
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Non ci avevo mai pensato, ma a un certo punto morirà l'ultima persona nata prima del primo smartphone. Ci vuole ancora un bel po', ma mica così tanto.
Money quote: "Why it matters: There's been a pronounced generational tipping point: Boomers, Gen Xers and elder millennials are now the last people who remember what it was like to use a pay phone, a paper map, a typewriter, etc. — and they're being rapidly outnumbered by younger adults who don't."
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/05/pre-internet-pay-phones-digital-online-cellphones-vintage-nostalgia
Money quote: "Why it matters: There's been a pronounced generational tipping point: Boomers, Gen Xers and elder millennials are now the last people who remember what it was like to use a pay phone, a paper map, a typewriter, etc. — and they're being rapidly outnumbered by younger adults who don't."
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/05/pre-internet-pay-phones-digital-online-cellphones-vintage-nostalgia
Axios
Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times
How did we get by without smartphones? Few people can recall.
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Con iOS 17.2 Apple ha introdotto una app gratuita per tenere un diario. Si chiama Journal e la usano in pochissimi. Peccato, perché sembrerebbe essere ben fatta. Qui viene spiegato come funziona. (Un influencer a questo punto ci metterebbe una bella "call to action" o CTA: "E tu, lo tieni un diario? Perché non iniziare adesso?")
Money quote: "Apple's Journal provides a sanctuary for your thoughts, experiences, and memories, all while maintaining Apple's commitment to privacy and user-centric design. Here's a glimpse into the features that make the Journal app your future go-to for digital memory keeping."
https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/ios-17-2s-journal-app-makes-digital-memory-keeping-easy-your-iphone-heres-everything-you-need-know-0385454/
Money quote: "Apple's Journal provides a sanctuary for your thoughts, experiences, and memories, all while maintaining Apple's commitment to privacy and user-centric design. Here's a glimpse into the features that make the Journal app your future go-to for digital memory keeping."
https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/ios-17-2s-journal-app-makes-digital-memory-keeping-easy-your-iphone-heres-everything-you-need-know-0385454/
Gadget Hacks
iOS 17.2's Journal App Makes Digital Memory Keeping Easy on Your iPhone — Here's Everything You Need to Know
Perhaps the biggest new feature within Apple's iOS 17.2 update for iPhone is Journal, a new journaling app designed to help you take a moment to reflect each day using reflection prompts, recommend...
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