Una storia da paura: due "uomini d'affari" irlandesi sono quasi riusciti a rubare 11 miliardi di dollari alla Nigeria. Così, uno scam al contrario (tipo "uomo morde cane"). Pazzesco.
Money quote: "Quinn was an Irish oil-and-gas man with warm eyes and a mustache; Cahill was his longtime partner, an accountant by training. The two had been working in Nigeria since the 1970s, doing small-time deals in the energy and defense sectors, like fixing tanks and siting oil wells. But in the mid-2000s, they spied a bigger opportunity. They knew that Nigeria’s refineries were burning off most of the gas that was recovered during oil drilling — a practice that poisoned the atmosphere and deprived the country of a source of electricity. Quinn and Cahill proposed a “gas leaning” plant, which would take in the “wet” gas that would otherwise be flared and spit out “lean” gas that could actually power the grid. It would transform waste into fuel."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/magazine/nigeria-corruption-michael-quinn-brendan-cahill.html
Archivio: https://archive.is/NEh2L
Money quote: "Quinn was an Irish oil-and-gas man with warm eyes and a mustache; Cahill was his longtime partner, an accountant by training. The two had been working in Nigeria since the 1970s, doing small-time deals in the energy and defense sectors, like fixing tanks and siting oil wells. But in the mid-2000s, they spied a bigger opportunity. They knew that Nigeria’s refineries were burning off most of the gas that was recovered during oil drilling — a practice that poisoned the atmosphere and deprived the country of a source of electricity. Quinn and Cahill proposed a “gas leaning” plant, which would take in the “wet” gas that would otherwise be flared and spit out “lean” gas that could actually power the grid. It would transform waste into fuel."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/magazine/nigeria-corruption-michael-quinn-brendan-cahill.html
Archivio: https://archive.is/NEh2L
NY Times
How Two Irish Businessmen Almost Took Nigeria for $11 Billion
A mundane contractual provision met with rampant corruption — revealing a serious vulnerability in one of the backbones of international commerce.
Fra le tante mode che tornano, c'è la passione per il buon vecchio web (e la rete) degli anni Novanta. Alcuni videogiochi lo stanno usando per ricreare quell'ambiente. È una fiction molto interessante, sia nei motivi che nei contenuti. E con tante difficoltà.
Money quote: "Games like last year’s Videoverse, 2019’s Hypnospace Outlaw and the upcoming Darkweb Streamer use chat interfaces akin to AIM or MSN, as well as fake websites that greet people with MIDI songs and text written in bold fonts. Each experience has its own nostalgic lens but is a snapshot of lost expression, creativity and independence.
Chantal Ryan, an anthropologist and the lead developer of Darkweb Streamer, a horror simulation game that merges the perils of modern streaming with the ’90s internet, bemoaned how high-quality independent services were often cannibalized by corporate interests. She pointed to sites like Goodreads and AbeBooks, both bought by Amazon.
“It reminds me of forest clearing,” said Ryan, who studied at the University of Adelaide. “You have this habitat with sustainable ecosystems, and communities of beings living harmoniously. And then the bulldozer comes in and destroys literally everything in its path with no regard to who’s being affected.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/arts/video-games-internet.html
Archivio: https://archive.is/Wf7Wm
Money quote: "Games like last year’s Videoverse, 2019’s Hypnospace Outlaw and the upcoming Darkweb Streamer use chat interfaces akin to AIM or MSN, as well as fake websites that greet people with MIDI songs and text written in bold fonts. Each experience has its own nostalgic lens but is a snapshot of lost expression, creativity and independence.
Chantal Ryan, an anthropologist and the lead developer of Darkweb Streamer, a horror simulation game that merges the perils of modern streaming with the ’90s internet, bemoaned how high-quality independent services were often cannibalized by corporate interests. She pointed to sites like Goodreads and AbeBooks, both bought by Amazon.
“It reminds me of forest clearing,” said Ryan, who studied at the University of Adelaide. “You have this habitat with sustainable ecosystems, and communities of beings living harmoniously. And then the bulldozer comes in and destroys literally everything in its path with no regard to who’s being affected.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/arts/video-games-internet.html
Archivio: https://archive.is/Wf7Wm
NY Times
Video Games Are Mourning the Old, Weird, Clunky Internet
Developers have created nostalgic experiences recalling online life before homogenized websites and algorithmic social media feeds.
Incapace di stare fermo a casa, son andato anche a vedere "Godzilla e Kong - Il nuovo impero": ecco la mia recensione (diciamo: mazzata sulla nuca, così soffre meno) per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2024/03/godzilla-kong-nuovo-impero-recensione-film/
https://fumettologica.it/2024/03/godzilla-kong-nuovo-impero-recensione-film/
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Questo è uno di quegli articoloni con dentro tantissimo da spacchettare. C'è un bel po' di roba per gli appassionati di volo civile, ci sono un po' di tecnicalità da iniziati, un po' di filosofia e un po' di punti di vista e modi di ragionare sulle cose. E poi la legge, il caso, la razionalità. Tanta roba semplicemente per dire che volare non è mai stato così sicuro come adesso.
Money quote: "In the aftermath of a disaster, our immediate reaction is often to search for some person to blame. Authorities frequently vow to “find those responsible” and “hold them to account,” as though disasters happen only when some grinning mischief-maker slams a big red button labeled “press for catastrophe.” That’s not to say that negligence ought to go unpunished. Sometimes there really is a malefactor to blame, but equally often there isn’t, and the result is that normal people who just made a mistake are caught up in the dragnet of vengeance, like the famous 2009 case of six Italian seismologists who were charged for failing to predict a deadly earthquake. But when that happens, what is actually accomplished? Has anything been made better? Or have we simply kicked the can down the road?
It’s often much more productive to ask why than to ask who. In some industries, this is called a “blameless postmortem,” and in aviation, it’s a long-standing, internationally formalized tradition. In the mid-20th century, when technical investigations of aircraft accidents were first being standardized, an understanding emerged that many crashes were not the result of any particular person’s actions. Most famously, in 1956, the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Bureau of Aviation Safety, the predecessor to today’s NTSB, concluded that no one was at fault in a collision of two airliners over the Grand Canyon because the two crews likely could not have seen each other coming until it was too late. The cause of the accident, they determined, was the lack of any positive means to prevent midair collisions."
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/05/why-you-ve-never-been-in-a-plane-crash
Money quote: "In the aftermath of a disaster, our immediate reaction is often to search for some person to blame. Authorities frequently vow to “find those responsible” and “hold them to account,” as though disasters happen only when some grinning mischief-maker slams a big red button labeled “press for catastrophe.” That’s not to say that negligence ought to go unpunished. Sometimes there really is a malefactor to blame, but equally often there isn’t, and the result is that normal people who just made a mistake are caught up in the dragnet of vengeance, like the famous 2009 case of six Italian seismologists who were charged for failing to predict a deadly earthquake. But when that happens, what is actually accomplished? Has anything been made better? Or have we simply kicked the can down the road?
It’s often much more productive to ask why than to ask who. In some industries, this is called a “blameless postmortem,” and in aviation, it’s a long-standing, internationally formalized tradition. In the mid-20th century, when technical investigations of aircraft accidents were first being standardized, an understanding emerged that many crashes were not the result of any particular person’s actions. Most famously, in 1956, the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Bureau of Aviation Safety, the predecessor to today’s NTSB, concluded that no one was at fault in a collision of two airliners over the Grand Canyon because the two crews likely could not have seen each other coming until it was too late. The cause of the accident, they determined, was the lack of any positive means to prevent midair collisions."
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/05/why-you-ve-never-been-in-a-plane-crash
Asteriskmag
Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash—Asterisk
The United States leads the world in airline safety. That’s because of the way we assign blame when accidents do happen.
Intanto, buona Pasqua a tutti gli iscritti al canale.
Poi: vi siete ricordati di rimettere l’ora?
E infine: anche oggi come al solito è uscita la mia newsletter. Eccola qua:
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/265/
Poi: vi siete ricordati di rimettere l’ora?
E infine: anche oggi come al solito è uscita la mia newsletter. Eccola qua:
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/265/
Mostly Here
~265
Buon Pasqua e altre idee (un po' confuse)
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Moltiplicare le matrici è un casino semplicemente perché, a differenza delle moltiplicazioni tradizionali, se si cambia l'ordine delle cifre il risultato cambia.
Money quote: "Now, three researchers — Ran Duan and Renfei Zhou of Tsinghua University and Hongxun Wu of the University of California, Berkeley — have taken a major step forward in attacking this perennial problem. Their new results, presented last November at the Foundations of Computer Science conference, stem from an unexpected new technique, Le Gall said. Although the improvement itself was relatively small, Le Gall called it “conceptually larger than other previous ones.”"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-breakthrough-brings-matrix-multiplication-closer-to-ideal-20240307/
Money quote: "Now, three researchers — Ran Duan and Renfei Zhou of Tsinghua University and Hongxun Wu of the University of California, Berkeley — have taken a major step forward in attacking this perennial problem. Their new results, presented last November at the Foundations of Computer Science conference, stem from an unexpected new technique, Le Gall said. Although the improvement itself was relatively small, Le Gall called it “conceptually larger than other previous ones.”"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-breakthrough-brings-matrix-multiplication-closer-to-ideal-20240307/
Quanta Magazine
New Breakthrough Brings Matrix Multiplication Closer to Ideal
By eliminating a hidden inefficiency, computer scientists have come up with a new way to multiply large matrices that’s faster than ever.
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Questo articolo quando è uscito, l'altro giorno, è diventato rapidamente virale. Perché è uno spettacolare assolo di una donna giovane che riflette in maniera molto libera sulla sua scelta di stare con un uomo più vecchio e come questo abbia sostanzialmente creato un equilibrio che non si trova in altre coppie e che è benefico anche per il modo con il quale donne e uomini si trasformano con il passare del tempo. E tutto questo nonostante gli attacchi o quantomeno le considerazioni delle altre donne della stessa età del suo compagno, che l'autrice Grazie Sophia Christie, ha sentito commentare piuttosto acidamente.
Money quote: "We try to put it off, but it will hit us at some point: that we live in a world in which our power has a different shape from that of men, a different distribution of advantage, ours a funnel and theirs an expanding cone. A woman at 20 rarely has to earn her welcome; a boy at 20 will be turned away at the door. A woman at 30 may find a younger woman has taken her seat; a man at 30 will have invited her. I think back to the women in the bathroom, my husband’s classmates. What was my relationship if not an inconvertible sign of this unfairness? What was I doing, in marrying older, if not endorsing it? I had taken advantage of their disadvantage. I had preempted my own. After all, principled women are meant to defy unfairness, to show some integrity or denial, not plan around it, like I had. These were driven women, successful, beautiful, capable. I merely possessed the one thing they had already lost. In getting ahead of the problem, had I pushed them down? If I hadn’t, would it really have made any difference?"
https://www.thecut.com/article/age-gap-relationships-marriage-younger-women-older-man.html
Archivio: https://web.archive.org/web/20240329070214/https://www.thecut.com/article/age-gap-relationships-marriage-younger-women-older-man.html
Money quote: "We try to put it off, but it will hit us at some point: that we live in a world in which our power has a different shape from that of men, a different distribution of advantage, ours a funnel and theirs an expanding cone. A woman at 20 rarely has to earn her welcome; a boy at 20 will be turned away at the door. A woman at 30 may find a younger woman has taken her seat; a man at 30 will have invited her. I think back to the women in the bathroom, my husband’s classmates. What was my relationship if not an inconvertible sign of this unfairness? What was I doing, in marrying older, if not endorsing it? I had taken advantage of their disadvantage. I had preempted my own. After all, principled women are meant to defy unfairness, to show some integrity or denial, not plan around it, like I had. These were driven women, successful, beautiful, capable. I merely possessed the one thing they had already lost. In getting ahead of the problem, had I pushed them down? If I hadn’t, would it really have made any difference?"
https://www.thecut.com/article/age-gap-relationships-marriage-younger-women-older-man.html
Archivio: https://web.archive.org/web/20240329070214/https://www.thecut.com/article/age-gap-relationships-marriage-younger-women-older-man.html
The Cut
The Case for Marrying an Older Man
A woman’s life is all work and little rest. An age gap relationship can help.
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Le luci della macchinina, sì, ma fatte con il legno. Quando uno è un artista bello marcio.
Money quote: "“I immerse myself in a creative game where shapes, dimensions, and perspective intertwine to challenge expectations,” Miyares says."
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/02/kiko-miyares-headlights/
Money quote: "“I immerse myself in a creative game where shapes, dimensions, and perspective intertwine to challenge expectations,” Miyares says."
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/02/kiko-miyares-headlights/
Colossal
A Fleet of Chiseled Cars by Kiko Miyares Adds New Meaning to Getting Caught in the Headlights
Typically, one avoids getting "caught like a deer in headlights," but for Kiko Miyares, that's the whole point.
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La tocco piano: l'impatto delle auto sul pianeta spiegato dal National Geographic. (O forse la battuta migliore era: "Duro ma giusto"?)
Money quote: "Cars can convey a sense of freedom and movement, not to mention style and status. But they also can have a big impact on the planet. Here's a few key areas to consider."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/environmental-impact
Money quote: "Cars can convey a sense of freedom and movement, not to mention style and status. But they also can have a big impact on the planet. Here's a few key areas to consider."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/environmental-impact
Environment
The environmental impacts of cars explained
From tailpipe emissions to road infrastructure, cars affect the environment in big ways.
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Ne parlano tutti, non potevo non parlarne anche io. La mia recensione di Shogun per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2024/04/shogun-serie-tv/
https://fumettologica.it/2024/04/shogun-serie-tv/
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Buone notizie per gli appassionati di francobolli o di fotografia o di entrambe: negli Usa sta per uscire una serie dedicata ad Ansel Adams.
Money quote: "Experience the wonder of the American West through the lens of one of America’s most iconic photographers, Ansel Adams (1902-1984). This pane of 16 Forever® stamps features some of Adams’ most famous images in his signature “straight photography” style, an approach defined by its precision and directness."
https://www.stampinformation.com/2024/stamps/ansel-adams
Money quote: "Experience the wonder of the American West through the lens of one of America’s most iconic photographers, Ansel Adams (1902-1984). This pane of 16 Forever® stamps features some of Adams’ most famous images in his signature “straight photography” style, an approach defined by its precision and directness."
https://www.stampinformation.com/2024/stamps/ansel-adams
Stampsforever
Ansel Adams — Stamps Forever
This pane of 16 Forever® stamps features some of Adams’ most famous images in his signature “straight photography” style, an approach defined by its precision and directness.
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A me del messaggio pasquale di Donald Trump, che ha rantolato ininterrottamente con 168 parole di cui 165 fanno parte di una, delirante frase sola, la cosa che veramente manda in palla è: perché quella maledetta "s" minuscola a sette righe dalla fine?
(Quell'uomo è fuori di testa, comunque. Quest'anno sta anche peggio di quando era presidente)
(Quell'uomo è fuori di testa, comunque. Quest'anno sta anche peggio di quando era presidente)
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C'è gente che sta male, direi. Ad esempio, la proposta che per essere felici dovremmo tornare a fare i giochi che facevamo da piccoli, mi dà l'idea che parecchie cose non tornino. Forse perché la vita da grandi è brutta. Ma di chi è la responsabilità?
Money quote: "Halfway through my 36th year, on a hamster-wheel day packed with lunchbox-making, cat feeding, working, going to doctor’s appointments, grocery shopping, vacuuming, and frantic bathing, I tried to remember what joy felt like.
What even was joy? I wondered with my gloved hands submerged in a sink full of gray water studded with a flotsam of cat food. What did that word even mean?
I couldn’t remember."
https://cupofjo.com/2024/03/12/singing-as-adult/
Money quote: "Halfway through my 36th year, on a hamster-wheel day packed with lunchbox-making, cat feeding, working, going to doctor’s appointments, grocery shopping, vacuuming, and frantic bathing, I tried to remember what joy felt like.
What even was joy? I wondered with my gloved hands submerged in a sink full of gray water studded with a flotsam of cat food. What did that word even mean?
I couldn’t remember."
https://cupofjo.com/2024/03/12/singing-as-adult/
Cup of Jo
The Great Joy of Returning to Your Childhood Hobbies
"Our house is now full of music."
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Una modesta proposta: eliminiamo il carburante per le auto così come abbiamo fatto per le sigarette e altro. Perché no?
Money quote: "An overnight ban on fossil fuels is effectively impossible, of course. Other sources of energy such as solar panels, wind turbines and nuclear plants aren’t nearly able to fill the gap today. The economy, starved for energy, would come to a halt.
But a ban or severe restriction isn’t entirely crazy, either, if it’s phased in as part of a long-term plan to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to zero. Why not? We’ve banned things before.
“In the last four decades, the United States has outlawed lead paint, phased out asbestos and curtailed tobacco marketing and sales. Similar policies can be used for fossil fuels,” a pair of economists, Mark Paul and Lina Moe, wrote last year for an advocacy group called the Climate and Community Project in a piece noscriptd “An Economist’s Case for Restrictive Supply-Side Policy.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opinion/fossil-fuel-ban-climate.html
Archivio: https://archive.is/3DyY8
Money quote: "An overnight ban on fossil fuels is effectively impossible, of course. Other sources of energy such as solar panels, wind turbines and nuclear plants aren’t nearly able to fill the gap today. The economy, starved for energy, would come to a halt.
But a ban or severe restriction isn’t entirely crazy, either, if it’s phased in as part of a long-term plan to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to zero. Why not? We’ve banned things before.
“In the last four decades, the United States has outlawed lead paint, phased out asbestos and curtailed tobacco marketing and sales. Similar policies can be used for fossil fuels,” a pair of economists, Mark Paul and Lina Moe, wrote last year for an advocacy group called the Climate and Community Project in a piece noscriptd “An Economist’s Case for Restrictive Supply-Side Policy.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opinion/fossil-fuel-ban-climate.html
Archivio: https://archive.is/3DyY8
NY Times
Opinion | Why Don’t We Just Ban Fossil Fuels?
The idea doesn’t make sense now, but it’s still worth thinking about.
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Quando è uscito l'Apple Vision Pro non si sapeva bene cosa scriverne e sono girati un sacco di articoli. Questo ad esempio si arrampica sugli specchi ma è interessante.
Money quote: "But this is not the first time that Apple has entered a category and completely transformed the space. Be it the Macs or iPod or the iPhone or the iPad or even Apple Watch, the company is known for creating new categories. Let’s have a look at how Apple has fared in the past with some of its iconic products, starting with one of the most important – the Mac."
https://www.mysmartprice.com/gear/the-iphone-to-vision-pro-apple-history-of-products-weird-norm/
Money quote: "But this is not the first time that Apple has entered a category and completely transformed the space. Be it the Macs or iPod or the iPhone or the iPad or even Apple Watch, the company is known for creating new categories. Let’s have a look at how Apple has fared in the past with some of its iconic products, starting with one of the most important – the Mac."
https://www.mysmartprice.com/gear/the-iphone-to-vision-pro-apple-history-of-products-weird-norm/
MySmartPrice
The iPhone to Vision Pro: How Apple Manages to Make “Weird” the Norm
Apple's Vision Pro marks the entry of Cupertino in a new category. But can it repeat history with the mixed reality headset?
È sempre di domenica che esce Mostly Weekly, la mia newsletter (più o meno) settimanale. Questa volta si parla dei 50 anni di "Carrie", l'esordio-capolavoro di Stephen King. E un altro mezzo milione di cose. Tutto qui (ma ci si può anche abbonare)
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/266/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/266/
Mostly Here
~266
Stephen King ci salverà dalla AI, dai social e da Donald Trump?
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Anche voi chiudete sempre le app sul vostro iPhone? Ecco, non serve a niente.
Money quote: "Federighi also notes that closing background apps does nothing to improve your phone’s performance, for many of the same reasons it doesn’t affect your battery. iOS manages your iPhone’s RAM as efficiently as possible by default, and closing your background apps does not optimize anything."
https://qz.com/stop-closing-your-iphone-s-background-apps-1851269132
Money quote: "Federighi also notes that closing background apps does nothing to improve your phone’s performance, for many of the same reasons it doesn’t affect your battery. iOS manages your iPhone’s RAM as efficiently as possible by default, and closing your background apps does not optimize anything."
https://qz.com/stop-closing-your-iphone-s-background-apps-1851269132
Quartz
Closing your iPhone apps is a mythical waste of time
We all perform this iPhone maintenance ritual, but it doesn't really do anything
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Negli Usa questa cosa dell'eclissi di Sole/Luna rischia di scappare di mano a tutti, in Messico e Stati Uniti: hotel pieni, scuole chiuse, milioni di turisti, AirBnB in bomba. La cosa divertente? La Luna è 400 volte più piccola del Sole e 400 volte più vicina alla Terra, quindi ha proprio la "misura giusta" per impallare completamente il Sole. Manca poco, ormai.
Money quote: "Des millions de personnes ont contemplé, lundi 8 avril, l’orbe jaune du Soleil être grignoté par l’ombre de la Lune, puis complètement masqué pendant quelques minutes. Une rare éclipse solaire totale, qui suscite toujours l’émerveillement, a plongé dans l’obscurité en plein jour plus de trente millions de personnes, selon la NASA, en Amérique du Nord.
Sur son chemin, qui balaiera après les plages du Mexique les plaines du Texas, l’Etat de New York et Montréal, les touristes venus pour l’occasion assistent à l’événement, armés de lunettes spéciales. Une consigne de sécurité martelée depuis des semaines par les autorités américaines, pour prévenir les risques de graves lésions aux yeux."
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/04/08/eclipse-solaire-totale-en-amerique-du-nord-des-millions-de-personnes-observent-le-phenomene_6226701_1650685.html
Money quote: "Des millions de personnes ont contemplé, lundi 8 avril, l’orbe jaune du Soleil être grignoté par l’ombre de la Lune, puis complètement masqué pendant quelques minutes. Une rare éclipse solaire totale, qui suscite toujours l’émerveillement, a plongé dans l’obscurité en plein jour plus de trente millions de personnes, selon la NASA, en Amérique du Nord.
Sur son chemin, qui balaiera après les plages du Mexique les plaines du Texas, l’Etat de New York et Montréal, les touristes venus pour l’occasion assistent à l’événement, armés de lunettes spéciales. Une consigne de sécurité martelée depuis des semaines par les autorités américaines, pour prévenir les risques de graves lésions aux yeux."
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/04/08/eclipse-solaire-totale-en-amerique-du-nord-des-millions-de-personnes-observent-le-phenomene_6226701_1650685.html
Le Monde.fr
Eclipse solaire totale en Amérique du Nord : des millions de personnes observent le phénomène
Hôtels complets, fêtes de rue, écoles fermées… selon la NASA, près de trente millions de personnes observent ce spectacle céleste lundi, du Mexique au Canada en passant par les Etats-Unis.
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L'emozione nel visore: addomesticare le tecnologie strane con riflessioni di natura emozionale. Intelligente ma un po' arzigogolato.
Money quote: "Sad movies? I’m a sitting duck. On the same January day I sat through another (choreographed) demo of the Apple Vision Pro in Cupertino, I went to the famed Castro Theater to see All of Us Strangers. There we sat in cushioned seats, my friend and I, surrounded by grown men quietly weeping over Andrew Scott’s metaphysical journey. Of course, I cried too. Everything was wet. As another Irish actor, Cillian Murphy—the internet’s boyfriend—said recently to the LA Times, “The greatest democratic collective art form is sitting in a darkened space with strangers.”
https://www.wired.com/story/crying-in-apple-vision-pro/
Money quote: "Sad movies? I’m a sitting duck. On the same January day I sat through another (choreographed) demo of the Apple Vision Pro in Cupertino, I went to the famed Castro Theater to see All of Us Strangers. There we sat in cushioned seats, my friend and I, surrounded by grown men quietly weeping over Andrew Scott’s metaphysical journey. Of course, I cried too. Everything was wet. As another Irish actor, Cillian Murphy—the internet’s boyfriend—said recently to the LA Times, “The greatest democratic collective art form is sitting in a darkened space with strangers.”
https://www.wired.com/story/crying-in-apple-vision-pro/
WIRED
Crying in Apple Vision Pro Is No Laughing Matter
Our writer watched a steady diet of sad movies in Apple’s headset. It was strangely emotional, but the weight of the headset—and aloneness—distracted from the movies.
Credo di essere un grande consumatore di informazioni, proprio come tutte le persone che hanno a che fare con la mia newsletter oltre che con questo canale. La rete ci ha benedetto con l'accesso alle informazioni, ma ci ha anche fatto conoscere un nuovo termine "TMI". TMI sta per Too Much Information (troppe informazioni). Davvero troppe informazioni!
Money quote: "So, relax, there will always be new things, and you will never be able to learn everything. If you find something interesting now, and you have time to read it, do it now! (it might not be interesting tomorrow) When you read it, understand it properly as you are using your mental effort."
https://prertik.com/read-it-never
Money quote: "So, relax, there will always be new things, and you will never be able to learn everything. If you find something interesting now, and you have time to read it, do it now! (it might not be interesting tomorrow) When you read it, understand it properly as you are using your mental effort."
https://prertik.com/read-it-never
(recur think)
Read it never... — (recur think)
I believe I’m a huge consumer of information just like every other people with the internet. The internet has blessed us with access to i...
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Ci sono domande che uno deve porsi, nella vita. Ad esempio: la buona fantascienza da dove viene? Ho cercato di rispondere su Fumettologica con la mia rubrica.
https://fumettologica.it/2024/04/letteratura-fantascienza-cinema/
https://fumettologica.it/2024/04/letteratura-fantascienza-cinema/
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