Il dietro le quinte dell'ultimo special project per il primo di aprile di xkcd: The Machine
Money quote: "This is the story of how we built Machine in 3 weeks, and what I learned along the way."
https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/
E ovviamente The Machine:
https://xkcd.com/2916/
(Se volete farvi divorare la ram del computer da una singola pagina web, non c'è niente di meglio).
Money quote: "This is the story of how we built Machine in 3 weeks, and what I learned along the way."
https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/
E ovviamente The Machine:
https://xkcd.com/2916/
(Se volete farvi divorare la ram del computer da una singola pagina web, non c'è niente di meglio).
Chromakode
Development notes from xkcd's "Machine"
How we designed xkcd's massive rube goldberg machine game in 3 weeks.
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Letture per la domenica.
I piccoli leggono, leggono tantissimo. Poi, tutto a un tratto, fra gli 8 e i 9 anni, smettono. Alcune riflessioni e dati che aiutano a capire un fenomeno più complesso di quel che sembra.
Money quote: "Most alarmingly, kids in third and fourth grade are beginning to stop reading for fun. It’s called the “Decline by 9,” and it’s reaching a crisis point for publishers and educators. According to research by the children’s publishers Scholastic, at age 8, 57 percent of kids say they read books for fun most days; at age 9, only 35 percent do. This trend started before the pandemic, experts say, but the pandemic accelerated things."
https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/kids-reading-fun-books-decline-by-nine-crisis.html
Il Decline by 9 spiegato bene:
https://www.scholastic.com/readingreport/navigate-the-world.html
I piccoli leggono, leggono tantissimo. Poi, tutto a un tratto, fra gli 8 e i 9 anni, smettono. Alcune riflessioni e dati che aiutano a capire un fenomeno più complesso di quel che sembra.
Money quote: "Most alarmingly, kids in third and fourth grade are beginning to stop reading for fun. It’s called the “Decline by 9,” and it’s reaching a crisis point for publishers and educators. According to research by the children’s publishers Scholastic, at age 8, 57 percent of kids say they read books for fun most days; at age 9, only 35 percent do. This trend started before the pandemic, experts say, but the pandemic accelerated things."
https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/kids-reading-fun-books-decline-by-nine-crisis.html
Il Decline by 9 spiegato bene:
https://www.scholastic.com/readingreport/navigate-the-world.html
Slate Magazine
The Real Reading Crisis Involves the Kids Who Don’t Have Phones
It’s not the pandemic. It’s not (only) the Devices. So what causes the “decline by 9”?
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Le cose che devi sapere per fare un buon viaggio e altre amenità: Mostly Weekly è appena uscita.
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/278/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/278/
Mostly Here
~278
Arrivano le vacanze e dei buoni consigli per quando viaggiate
I Raspberry Pi sono piccoli e utilissimi, sia per progetti specifici che per fare amicizia con Linux. Si usano con una molteplicità di distribuzioni (io uso DietPI, per tenerli leggeri). Ma volendo si può usare anche il sistema operativo sviluppato da Arm, l'azienda che ha progettato i processori omonimi: il RiscOS.
Money quote: "RISC OS 5.30 is the latest release of Acorn's original native operating system for its Arm processors. Original, but not first: As Acornsoft project lead Paul Fellows told the Reg in 2022, what was then called "Arthur" supplanted a far more ambitious project called ARX, which never shipped. ROS 5.30 is the first stable release from the RISC OS Open (aka ROOL) project since version 5.28 in 2020. (If you have that, you can upgrade in place.)"
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/02/rool_530_is_here/
Money quote: "RISC OS 5.30 is the latest release of Acorn's original native operating system for its Arm processors. Original, but not first: As Acornsoft project lead Paul Fellows told the Reg in 2022, what was then called "Arthur" supplanted a far more ambitious project called ARX, which never shipped. ROS 5.30 is the first stable release from the RISC OS Open (aka ROOL) project since version 5.28 in 2020. (If you have that, you can upgrade in place.)"
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/02/rool_530_is_here/
The Register
Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, literally, something else
V5.30 arrives – with RPi Wi-Fi support
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La storia del design di Braun, e dei suoi eroi come Dieter Rams e adesso Oliver Grabes, è cosa nota. Che ci sia una mini fiera per appassionati e collezionisti, la Braun+Design Börse, molto meno.
Money quote: "Because of this, since 1982, there has been an annual event at the Braun HQ (Kronberg, Germany) for these people to come together. Initially, it was held multiple times per year, but it was later decided that once per year was better."
https://arslan.io/2024/05/05/braun-borse-2024/
Una chicca su Grabes:
https://www.untappedjournal.com/issues/issue-7/oliver-grabes-braun-design-philosophy
Money quote: "Because of this, since 1982, there has been an annual event at the Braun HQ (Kronberg, Germany) for these people to come together. Initially, it was held multiple times per year, but it was later decided that once per year was better."
https://arslan.io/2024/05/05/braun-borse-2024/
Una chicca su Grabes:
https://www.untappedjournal.com/issues/issue-7/oliver-grabes-braun-design-philosophy
Fatih Arslan
Braun Börse 2024
The Braun+Design Börse is an annual event and fair focusing on Braun products. Braun might not be the design icon it was 40 years ago, but starting in 1955, it profoundly impacted the design world, starting with its cooperation with the Ulm School of Design.…
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Il design è un modo intelligente di esplorare il mondo e la nostra realtà, quando è fatto bene. In questo caso chiedersi quanto debbano durare le cose è una domanda di ricerca molto interessante.
Money quote: "My recent research has been looking into the issue of longevity and how long objects in our material world should last. I want to understand our disposable consumer culture better, but also try to define what techniques and materials suit which application. 'Conditional Longevity' is a project that maps out the gains and losses of strategies that designers use to extend or shorten the life of the physical items that furnish our lives. In equal parts, research into this longevity is both reassuring and bewildering. It proves that solutions to our problems are diverse and imperfect. Every object we bring into the world has a contextual backdrop, and every design decision is a compromise. The challenge is finding which compromises are the best to make."
https://www.core77.com/posts/132088/Fantastic-Industrial-Design-Student-Work-How-Long-Should-Objects-Last
Money quote: "My recent research has been looking into the issue of longevity and how long objects in our material world should last. I want to understand our disposable consumer culture better, but also try to define what techniques and materials suit which application. 'Conditional Longevity' is a project that maps out the gains and losses of strategies that designers use to extend or shorten the life of the physical items that furnish our lives. In equal parts, research into this longevity is both reassuring and bewildering. It proves that solutions to our problems are diverse and imperfect. Every object we bring into the world has a contextual backdrop, and every design decision is a compromise. The challenge is finding which compromises are the best to make."
https://www.core77.com/posts/132088/Fantastic-Industrial-Design-Student-Work-How-Long-Should-Objects-Last
Core77
Fantastic Industrial Design Student Work: "How Long Should Objects Last?"
This incredibly ambitious and thoroughly-executed project is by Charlie Humble-Thomas, done while pursuing his Masters in the Design Products program at the RCA. Called Conditional Longevity, it asks the question: "How long should objects last?" Seeking the…
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Qualche giorno fa ho rivisto al cinema Lupin III - La pietra della saggezza , il primo film del ladro creato da Monkey Punch. La mia retro-recensione per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2024/07/lupin-iii-la-pietra-della-saggezza-film-recensione/
https://fumettologica.it/2024/07/lupin-iii-la-pietra-della-saggezza-film-recensione/
Fumettologica
Lupin III e la pietra della saggezza
Recensione di Lupin III - La pietra della saggezza, film anime del 1978 diretto da Sôji Yoshikawa, rivisto in 4K.
La memoria cos'è? A me, che ne ho pochissima, la questione affascina molto. In quest'epoca di continue interruzioni sembra che abbiamo tutti la mente come un budino, anche quelli che ricordavano tutto. Io a scuola ero una frana nell'imparare a memoria ma ho sempre avuto una discreta presenza mentale ("nel momento"). Sono meccanismi complicati, sto mescolando cose diverse.
Tuttavia, la fascinazione di chi era capace di imparare tutta la Divina Commedia a memoria non è mai venuta meno. Come facevano? Dovevano viverla.
Money quote: "This same process of learning and remembering lines by deep understanding enabled a septuagenarian actor to recite all 10,565 lines of Milton’s epic poem, “Paradise Lost.” At the age of 58, John Basinger began studying this poem as a form of mental activity to accompany his physical activity at the gym, each time adding more lines to what he had already learned. Eight years later, he had committed the entire poem to memory, reciting it over three days. When I tested him at age 74, giving him randomly drawn couplets from the poem and asking him to recite the next ten lines, his recall was nearly flawless. Yet, he did not accomplish this feat through mindless repetition. In the course of studying the poem, he came to a deep understanding of Milton."
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-actors-remember-their-lines/
Tuttavia, la fascinazione di chi era capace di imparare tutta la Divina Commedia a memoria non è mai venuta meno. Come facevano? Dovevano viverla.
Money quote: "This same process of learning and remembering lines by deep understanding enabled a septuagenarian actor to recite all 10,565 lines of Milton’s epic poem, “Paradise Lost.” At the age of 58, John Basinger began studying this poem as a form of mental activity to accompany his physical activity at the gym, each time adding more lines to what he had already learned. Eight years later, he had committed the entire poem to memory, reciting it over three days. When I tested him at age 74, giving him randomly drawn couplets from the poem and asking him to recite the next ten lines, his recall was nearly flawless. Yet, he did not accomplish this feat through mindless repetition. In the course of studying the poem, he came to a deep understanding of Milton."
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-actors-remember-their-lines/
The MIT Press Reader
How Actors Remember Their Lines
In describing how they remember their lines, actors are telling us an important truth about memory.
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Ci sono il Deck di Steam e poi il Rog Ally di Asus. E poi c'è questo Claw di MSI che pare sia una ciofeca epoca. Tant'è vero che è stato stroncato da The Verge. Non capita spessissimo.
Money quote: "I didn’t start my MSI Claw journey by running benchmarks. My expectations were already at rock bottom, so I began with an easier test: making the Claw my daily driver for the not-particularly-intensive games I’d already been playing on other handhelds. I fired up the PC port of Studio Ghibli’s Ni No Kuni, Dave the Diver, and Fallout New Vegas — a game that’s nearly 14 years old.
Every one of them runs smoothly on a $549 Steam Deck OLED. Not one ran smoothly on the $749 MSI Claw."
https://www.theverge.com/24105991/msi-claw-review
Money quote: "I didn’t start my MSI Claw journey by running benchmarks. My expectations were already at rock bottom, so I began with an easier test: making the Claw my daily driver for the not-particularly-intensive games I’d already been playing on other handhelds. I fired up the PC port of Studio Ghibli’s Ni No Kuni, Dave the Diver, and Fallout New Vegas — a game that’s nearly 14 years old.
Every one of them runs smoothly on a $549 Steam Deck OLED. Not one ran smoothly on the $749 MSI Claw."
https://www.theverge.com/24105991/msi-claw-review
The Verge
The MSI Claw is an embarrassment
Every competitor is better, and most of them are cheaper.
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"Horizon: An American Saga", il kolossal western di Kevin Costner - la mia recensione per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2024/07/horizon-an-american-saga-capitolo-1-recensione-film/
https://fumettologica.it/2024/07/horizon-an-american-saga-capitolo-1-recensione-film/
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In generale la fantascienza classica non è riuscita ad anticipare i social media. Ma un autore c'è stato: J.G. Ballard. Lui c'è riuscito in pieno e ci ha preso di brutto.
Money quote: "Ballard was a brilliant futurist and his dystopian novels and short stories anticipated the 80s cyberpunk of William Gibson, exploring with a twisted sense of humor what Jean Lyotard famously dubbed in 1979 The Postmodern Condition: a state of ideological, scientific, personal, and social disintegration under the reign of a technocratic, hypercapitalist, “computerized society.” Ballard had his own term for it: “media landscape,” and his dark visions of the future often correspond to the virtual world we inhabit today."
https://www.openculture.com/2016/03/j-g-ballard-predicted-the-rise-of-social-media-and-youtube-celebrity-in-1977.html
Money quote: "Ballard was a brilliant futurist and his dystopian novels and short stories anticipated the 80s cyberpunk of William Gibson, exploring with a twisted sense of humor what Jean Lyotard famously dubbed in 1979 The Postmodern Condition: a state of ideological, scientific, personal, and social disintegration under the reign of a technocratic, hypercapitalist, “computerized society.” Ballard had his own term for it: “media landscape,” and his dark visions of the future often correspond to the virtual world we inhabit today."
https://www.openculture.com/2016/03/j-g-ballard-predicted-the-rise-of-social-media-and-youtube-celebrity-in-1977.html
Open Culture
Sci-Fi Author J.G. Ballard Predicts the Rise of Social Media (1977)
Say you were a fan of Steven Spielberg’s moving coming-of-age drama Empire of the Sun, set in a Japanese internment camp during World War II and starring a young Christian Bale. Say you read the autobiographical novel on which that film is based, written…
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Mostly Weekly non si ferma, anzi si arricchisce di qualche nuova idea, come la poesia (ma c'è sempre tanta tecnologia)
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/279/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/279/
Mostly Here
~279
La felicità dei saggi e le donazioni dei miliardari
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Letture per la domenica.
Viviamo in una cultura in cui restare con le mani in mano è visto malissimo. Bisogna sempre darsi da fare. Anche quando non c'è niente da fare. Ecco un pensiero divergente sull'argomento: è più saggio non far niente.
Money quote: "Before advancing my own arguments for laziness, I must dispose of one which I cannot accept. Whenever a person who already has enough to live on proposes to engage in some everyday kind of job, such as school-teaching or typing, he or she is told that such conduct takes the bread out of other people’s mouths, and is, therefore, wicked. If this argument were valid, it would only be necessary for us all to be idle in order that we should all have our mouths full of bread. What people who say such things forget is that what a man earns he usually spends, and in spending he gives employment. As long as a man spends his income he puts just as much bread into people’s mouths in spending as he takes out of other people’s mouths in earning. The real villain, from this point of view, is the man who saves. If he merely puts his savings in a stocking, like the proverbial French peasant, it is obvious that they do not give employment. If he invests his savings the matter is less obvious, and different cases arise."
https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
Viviamo in una cultura in cui restare con le mani in mano è visto malissimo. Bisogna sempre darsi da fare. Anche quando non c'è niente da fare. Ecco un pensiero divergente sull'argomento: è più saggio non far niente.
Money quote: "Before advancing my own arguments for laziness, I must dispose of one which I cannot accept. Whenever a person who already has enough to live on proposes to engage in some everyday kind of job, such as school-teaching or typing, he or she is told that such conduct takes the bread out of other people’s mouths, and is, therefore, wicked. If this argument were valid, it would only be necessary for us all to be idle in order that we should all have our mouths full of bread. What people who say such things forget is that what a man earns he usually spends, and in spending he gives employment. As long as a man spends his income he puts just as much bread into people’s mouths in spending as he takes out of other people’s mouths in earning. The real villain, from this point of view, is the man who saves. If he merely puts his savings in a stocking, like the proverbial French peasant, it is obvious that they do not give employment. If he invests his savings the matter is less obvious, and different cases arise."
https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
Harper's Magazine
In Praise of Idleness
Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment.…
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Come ci si sente a ricevere una email che il mittente ha fatto scrivere dall'AI? Male.
Money quote "It felt like getting a birthday card with only the prewritten message inside, and no added well-wishes from the wisher’s own pen. An item off the shelf, paid for and handed over, transaction complete."
https://mrgan.com/ai-email-from-a-friend/
Money quote "It felt like getting a birthday card with only the prewritten message inside, and no added well-wishes from the wisher’s own pen. An item off the shelf, paid for and handed over, transaction complete."
https://mrgan.com/ai-email-from-a-friend/
Mrgan
How it feels to get an AI email from a friend
Recently I received an AI-written email from a friend. I'm trying to understand why I had the reaction to it that I did.
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Un anno di programmazione e costruzione di prodotti usando le AI. Ecco cosa hanno imparato (molto interessante).
Money quote: "We’ve identified some crucial, yet often neglected, lessons and methodologies informed by machine learning that are essential for developing products based on LLMs. Awareness of these concepts can give you a competitive advantage against most others in the field without requiring ML expertise! Over the past year, the six of us have been building real-world applications on top of LLMs. We realized that there was a need to distill these lessons in one place for the benefit of the community."
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/what-we-learned-from-a-year-of-building-with-llms-part-i/
Money quote: "We’ve identified some crucial, yet often neglected, lessons and methodologies informed by machine learning that are essential for developing products based on LLMs. Awareness of these concepts can give you a competitive advantage against most others in the field without requiring ML expertise! Over the past year, the six of us have been building real-world applications on top of LLMs. We realized that there was a need to distill these lessons in one place for the benefit of the community."
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/what-we-learned-from-a-year-of-building-with-llms-part-i/
O’Reilly Media
What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part I)
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Fly Me to the Moon - la mia recensione del film "vecchio stile" per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2024/07/fly-me-to-the-moon-le-due-facce-della-luna-film-recensione/
https://fumettologica.it/2024/07/fly-me-to-the-moon-le-due-facce-della-luna-film-recensione/
Fumettologica
Un nuovo film di Hollywood alla vecchia maniera
Recensione di Fly Me to the Moon, un film che racconta non solo una storia d'amore ma anche la storia della NASA e della corsa alla Luna.
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Mancano i soldi o forse il progetto non funziona. Comunque, hanno scorciato La Linea, The Line. Se la facessero davvero però , sarebbe un'opera gigantesca.
Money quote: "Centosettanta chilometri di città al costo di 500 miliardi di dollari in cui fa vivere più di 9 milioni di abitanti (il 25% della popolazione saudita). Il tutto in una città progettata per non avere automobili, camion, strade tradizionali e praticamente zero emissioni di carbonio. Il segreto? Ripensare l'idea stessa di città."
https://techdale.it/hanno-scorciato-la-linea/
Money quote: "Centosettanta chilometri di città al costo di 500 miliardi di dollari in cui fa vivere più di 9 milioni di abitanti (il 25% della popolazione saudita). Il tutto in una città progettata per non avere automobili, camion, strade tradizionali e praticamente zero emissioni di carbonio. Il segreto? Ripensare l'idea stessa di città."
https://techdale.it/hanno-scorciato-la-linea/
TechDale
Il megaprogetto dell'Arabia Saudita è un flop?
La fantascientifica città mediorientale che doveva tagliare il deserto come una linea di acciaio e vetro è stata ridotta: da 170 chilometri a 2,4
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Clamoroso! Un buco nero che ci perseguiterà per anni. È il momento di abbandonare le password e andare oltre (passkey e altro).
Money quote: "The world's largest compilation of passwords to be leaked online has been discovered by a research team at Cybernews, containing 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext entries. The credentials were discovered in a file named "rockyou2024.txt" that was posted on a popular hacking forum on July 4, 2024."
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/worlds-largest-password-leak/
Money quote: "The world's largest compilation of passwords to be leaked online has been discovered by a research team at Cybernews, containing 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext entries. The credentials were discovered in a file named "rockyou2024.txt" that was posted on a popular hacking forum on July 4, 2024."
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/worlds-largest-password-leak/
TechRepublic
Nearly 10 Billion Passwords Leaked in Biggest Compilation of All Time
Nearly 10 billion passwords have been leaked on a popular hacking forum, according to Cybernews.
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Quando l'intelligenza artificiale prenderà il comando potrebbe sorprenderci - ritorna la mia rubrica sempre più tech su Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2024/07/intelligenza-artificiale-film-here-robert-zemeckis/
https://fumettologica.it/2024/07/intelligenza-artificiale-film-here-robert-zemeckis/
Fumettologica
Quando l'intelligenza artificiale prenderà il comando potrebbe sorprenderci
Tra gli scenari futuri c'è quello che prevede la fruizione di film e altri contenuti costruiti al volo su misura dall'intelligenza artificiale.
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I migranti esistono, e non sono solo quelli che vengono dai paesi poveri. Il cambiamento climatico farà lo stesso anche nei posti sviluppati. Vedi ad esempio cosa sta succedendo negli Usa.
Money quote: "About 3.2 million Americans have moved due to the mounting risk of flooding, the First Street Foundation said in a report that focuses on so-called "climate abandonment areas," or locations where the local population fell between 2000 and 2020 because of risks linked to climate change.
Many of those areas are in parts of the country that also have seen a surge of migration during the past two decades, including Sun Belt states such as Florida and Texas. Such communities risk an economic downward spiral as population loss causes a decline in property values and local services, the group found."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-america-3-million-migrants-first-street-nature/
Money quote: "About 3.2 million Americans have moved due to the mounting risk of flooding, the First Street Foundation said in a report that focuses on so-called "climate abandonment areas," or locations where the local population fell between 2000 and 2020 because of risks linked to climate change.
Many of those areas are in parts of the country that also have seen a surge of migration during the past two decades, including Sun Belt states such as Florida and Texas. Such communities risk an economic downward spiral as population loss causes a decline in property values and local services, the group found."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-america-3-million-migrants-first-street-nature/
CBS News
About 3 million Americans are already "climate migrants," analysis finds. Here's where they left.
Communities across the U.S. are facing greater risks from extreme weather. Some are already seeing their population shrink.
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La più grande trasformazione nel modo con il quale mangiamo non viene determinata dagli OGM o dalla scoperta dell'America (pomodori e patate) o da chissà quale altro cambiamento culturale. Il più grande cambiamento mai avvenuto nel mondo è dovuto a un solo, singolo progresso tecnologico: il congelamento.
Money quote: "Today, nearly three-quarters of everything Americans consume is processed, packaged, shipped, and stored under refrigeration. In the century since Chicago’s banquet, the so-called cold chain—the shipping containers, trucks, warehouses, ripening rooms, tank farms, walk-ins, and fridges through which food moves from farm to table—has transformed what we eat, where it’s grown, the layout of our cities and homes, and the very definition of freshness. But perhaps its most remarkable imprint can still be found in how our food actually tastes, for better and for worse."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/how-the-fridge-changed-flavor
Money quote: "Today, nearly three-quarters of everything Americans consume is processed, packaged, shipped, and stored under refrigeration. In the century since Chicago’s banquet, the so-called cold chain—the shipping containers, trucks, warehouses, ripening rooms, tank farms, walk-ins, and fridges through which food moves from farm to table—has transformed what we eat, where it’s grown, the layout of our cities and homes, and the very definition of freshness. But perhaps its most remarkable imprint can still be found in how our food actually tastes, for better and for worse."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/how-the-fridge-changed-flavor
The New Yorker
How the Fridge Changed Flavor
From the tomato to the hamburger bun, the invention has transformed not just what we eat but taste itself.
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