Apple gioca con le nostre menti. Lo ricorda un vecchio articolo di Forbes (mai passato di moda).
Money quote: "We believe neurological connectivity is achieved when a retailer, brand or service creates a strong psychological and emotional response that operates on a subconscious level for the consumer in a way that is typically not readily understood nor necessarily recognized by the consumer. As various research studies in the field of neuroscience have found, when people encounter an elevated experience, their brains release many chemicals. One in particular that has attracted a lot of attention is dopamine, which leads to feelings of euphoria, self-satisfaction and well-being, and which can also actually lead to addiction.
Consumer connectivity is no longer about merely the physical or practical connection of products or services with consumers. This, too, is simply a point of entry. Far more important is the mind connection, or neurological connectivity."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinlewis/2014/09/02/how-apple-neurologically-hooked-its-customers/
Money quote: "We believe neurological connectivity is achieved when a retailer, brand or service creates a strong psychological and emotional response that operates on a subconscious level for the consumer in a way that is typically not readily understood nor necessarily recognized by the consumer. As various research studies in the field of neuroscience have found, when people encounter an elevated experience, their brains release many chemicals. One in particular that has attracted a lot of attention is dopamine, which leads to feelings of euphoria, self-satisfaction and well-being, and which can also actually lead to addiction.
Consumer connectivity is no longer about merely the physical or practical connection of products or services with consumers. This, too, is simply a point of entry. Far more important is the mind connection, or neurological connectivity."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinlewis/2014/09/02/how-apple-neurologically-hooked-its-customers/
Forbes
How Apple Neurologically Hooked Its Customers
On January 9, 2007, on a big stage at the Macworld convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone. With the already unprecedented cult following of Apple—and for that matter, of Jobs himself—this would be the first…
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A far girare l'economia ci penserà Sam Altman, che vuole spendere decine di miliardi (nono suoi) per far volare OpenAI e ChatGPT.
Money quote: "The discussions come as OpenAI is nearing a new multibillion-dollar funding round that would value the company at more than $100 billion. That deal is expected to be led by Thrive Capital with participation from Microsoft, as well as Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp.
Asked about its plans for an infrastructure push, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company “believes building additional infrastructure in the US is critical to further advancing artificial intelligence and making its benefits widely accessible.” They added: “We are exploring opportunities with this goal in mind and look forward to sharing more details at a later date.”"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-03/altman-infrastructure-plan-aims-to-spend-tens-of-billions-in-us
Archivio: https://archive.is/OoQoL
Money quote: "The discussions come as OpenAI is nearing a new multibillion-dollar funding round that would value the company at more than $100 billion. That deal is expected to be led by Thrive Capital with participation from Microsoft, as well as Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp.
Asked about its plans for an infrastructure push, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company “believes building additional infrastructure in the US is critical to further advancing artificial intelligence and making its benefits widely accessible.” They added: “We are exploring opportunities with this goal in mind and look forward to sharing more details at a later date.”"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-03/altman-infrastructure-plan-aims-to-spend-tens-of-billions-in-us
Archivio: https://archive.is/OoQoL
Bloomberg.com
Altman Infrastructure Plan Aims to Spend Tens of Billions in US
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman’s plans for a massive buildout of the machinery and systems needed for artificial intelligence are coming into clearer focus, beginning with an effort in US states slated to costs tens of billions of dollars, according…
È il mito del gruppo di amici veri, quelli di una vita, che stnano sempre assieme. Non è fatto da relazioni uno-a-uno, ma è proprio una "banda" di fratelli o di sorelle. Ma è un mito salvo rarissime eccezioni. E ci fa soffrire, perché ce lo vendono come qualcosa che dovremmo avere.
Money quote: "The stereotypical “friend group” that’s constantly depicted on small (and big) screens seems to have seeped into our consciousness to the point that we hold our own social lives up to this fictional standard. It usually looks something like this: A group of pals who have known each other a long time spend a lot of time together (usually in coffee shops, restaurants, and bars), travel together, make big decisions and attend major life events together, and generally rely on each other constantly.
Not only is this mythical crew of close-knit pals—popularized by the Carries, Charlottes, Samanthas, and Mirandas of the pop-culture world—an inaccurate depiction of reality, but some experts say it’s doing a lot of us more harm than good. “People are constantly feeling like they’re not living up to their own friendship expectations, and that there’s something wrong with them because they don’t have that core group,” Elizabeth Earnshaw, LMFT, Philadelphia-based therapist and author of ’Til Stress Do Us Part, tells SELF.
https://www.self.com/story/friend-group-myth
Money quote: "The stereotypical “friend group” that’s constantly depicted on small (and big) screens seems to have seeped into our consciousness to the point that we hold our own social lives up to this fictional standard. It usually looks something like this: A group of pals who have known each other a long time spend a lot of time together (usually in coffee shops, restaurants, and bars), travel together, make big decisions and attend major life events together, and generally rely on each other constantly.
Not only is this mythical crew of close-knit pals—popularized by the Carries, Charlottes, Samanthas, and Mirandas of the pop-culture world—an inaccurate depiction of reality, but some experts say it’s doing a lot of us more harm than good. “People are constantly feeling like they’re not living up to their own friendship expectations, and that there’s something wrong with them because they don’t have that core group,” Elizabeth Earnshaw, LMFT, Philadelphia-based therapist and author of ’Til Stress Do Us Part, tells SELF.
https://www.self.com/story/friend-group-myth
SELF
The Core ‘Friend Group’ Is a Myth—and It’s Making Us Feel Bad About Ourselves
A tight crew that does everything together isn’t that common, and it’s unrealistic for many of us.
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Sono i documenti del secolo; va conosciuto tutto degli NDA. Altrimenti non capiamo il nostro tempo
Money quote: "As the name suggests, a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) is a document which primarily governs the relationship between the parties during the pre-contract negotiation stage. Frequently executed as a standard template, an NDA is often not given the attention of being a necessary contract documentation, despite the fact that the NDA is a legally binding contract that establishes a contractual relationship to protect confidential information, know-how, trade secrets etc. exchanged between the parties to the agreement. NDA is also addressed as a Confidentiality Agreement (CA), Confidentiality Disclosure Agreement (CDA) or Secrecy Agreement.
The aim of this article is to acquaint and familiarise ourselves with the important aspects of an NDA, its needs, related legal principles and precedents that help understand how NDAs can be effectively leveraged for business, through a series of questions and answers".
https://lntedutech.com/blogs/understanding-non-disclosure-agreements-ndas-part-1/
Money quote: "As the name suggests, a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) is a document which primarily governs the relationship between the parties during the pre-contract negotiation stage. Frequently executed as a standard template, an NDA is often not given the attention of being a necessary contract documentation, despite the fact that the NDA is a legally binding contract that establishes a contractual relationship to protect confidential information, know-how, trade secrets etc. exchanged between the parties to the agreement. NDA is also addressed as a Confidentiality Agreement (CA), Confidentiality Disclosure Agreement (CDA) or Secrecy Agreement.
The aim of this article is to acquaint and familiarise ourselves with the important aspects of an NDA, its needs, related legal principles and precedents that help understand how NDAs can be effectively leveraged for business, through a series of questions and answers".
https://lntedutech.com/blogs/understanding-non-disclosure-agreements-ndas-part-1/
L&T EduTech | Building value for Learner, Academia and Industry
Understanding Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs): Part 1 | Blogs
Unlock the power of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) in pre-contract negotiations. Dive into the world of NDAs and their business applications in this informative blog.
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Questa settimana su Mostly Weekly: l’idea dell’Europa ha smesso di crescere (la Brexit l’ha uccisa?). E ancora, la storia del pomo-d’oro
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/289/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/289/
Mostly Here
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Pomodori, riviste ed Europa
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Lettura per la domenica (repetita iuvant)
L'AI produce arte oppure no? Tema divisivo. Ancora di più da quando Ted Chiang, uno dei miei scrittori di fantascienza preferiti di sempre, si è schierato nettamente contro.
Money quote: "I think the same underlying principle applies to visual art, although it’s harder to quantify the choices that a painter might make. Real paintings bear the mark of an enormous number of decisions. By comparison, a person using a text-to-image program like dall-e enters a prompt such as “A knight in a suit of armor fights a fire-breathing dragon,” and lets the program do the rest. (The newest version of dall-e accepts prompts of up to four thousand characters—hundreds of words, but not enough to describe every detail of a scene.) Most of the choices in the resulting image have to be borrowed from similar paintings found online; the image might be exquisitely rendered, but the person entering the prompt can’t claim credit for that."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art
Archivio: https://archive.is/XGKUd
L'AI produce arte oppure no? Tema divisivo. Ancora di più da quando Ted Chiang, uno dei miei scrittori di fantascienza preferiti di sempre, si è schierato nettamente contro.
Money quote: "I think the same underlying principle applies to visual art, although it’s harder to quantify the choices that a painter might make. Real paintings bear the mark of an enormous number of decisions. By comparison, a person using a text-to-image program like dall-e enters a prompt such as “A knight in a suit of armor fights a fire-breathing dragon,” and lets the program do the rest. (The newest version of dall-e accepts prompts of up to four thousand characters—hundreds of words, but not enough to describe every detail of a scene.) Most of the choices in the resulting image have to be borrowed from similar paintings found online; the image might be exquisitely rendered, but the person entering the prompt can’t claim credit for that."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art
Archivio: https://archive.is/XGKUd
The New Yorker
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
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La cosa più tremenda di questo articolo è che cerca disperatamente di tenere il suo clickbait (il candidato alla vicepresidenza Tim Walz ha fatto una mossa finanziaria sbagliatissima usando i soldi del suo fondo pensione per pagare le tasse universitarie della figlia) nonostante sia sbagliata su tutti i punti di vista.
Intanto perché Walz non ha una situazione finanziaria personale "povera" come quella che lascia intendere il bait del giornale e che tocca probabilmente la maggior parte dei suoi lettori. Poi perché l'articolo spesso si contraddice (spiegando che la cosa non si applica a lui). E infine perché dà un consiglio notevolmente americano e molto poco europeo: tenetevi stretti i soldi della pensione e fate indebitare i vostri figli per gli studi. Come se quello del debito degli studenti non fosse un problema sistemico per gli Usa. Mah.
Money quote: "For Walz, $135,000 represents a relatively small chunk of what he can expect to earn in retirement. The Wall Street Journal estimates the Walzes’ retirement savings at more than $1 million, meaning that the early withdrawal likely represented somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% of the retirement fund.
What’s more, Walz’s situation is a little different than most Americans’. He can expect ample pension income in retirement thanks to his years working as a teacher, national guardsman and politician — some of which he’s already collecting. Of Walz and his wife’s roughly $300,000 in 2023 income, about $135,000 came from pensions or annuities."
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/09/expert-opinion-on-tim-walz-early-withdrawal-from-retirement-account.html
Intanto perché Walz non ha una situazione finanziaria personale "povera" come quella che lascia intendere il bait del giornale e che tocca probabilmente la maggior parte dei suoi lettori. Poi perché l'articolo spesso si contraddice (spiegando che la cosa non si applica a lui). E infine perché dà un consiglio notevolmente americano e molto poco europeo: tenetevi stretti i soldi della pensione e fate indebitare i vostri figli per gli studi. Come se quello del debito degli studenti non fosse un problema sistemico per gli Usa. Mah.
Money quote: "For Walz, $135,000 represents a relatively small chunk of what he can expect to earn in retirement. The Wall Street Journal estimates the Walzes’ retirement savings at more than $1 million, meaning that the early withdrawal likely represented somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% of the retirement fund.
What’s more, Walz’s situation is a little different than most Americans’. He can expect ample pension income in retirement thanks to his years working as a teacher, national guardsman and politician — some of which he’s already collecting. Of Walz and his wife’s roughly $300,000 in 2023 income, about $135,000 came from pensions or annuities."
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/09/expert-opinion-on-tim-walz-early-withdrawal-from-retirement-account.html
CNBC
Tim Walz took a $135,000 early withdrawal from a retirement account—that's generally a 'lose-lose situation,' says CFP
The vice-presidential candidate's finances give him more flexibility than most Americans, who would be smart to avoid making early withdrawals, experts say.
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"Il magico mondo di Harold" è banale e privo di creatività - la mia affettuosa stroncatura per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2024/09/il-magico-mondo-di-harold-film-recensione/
https://fumettologica.it/2024/09/il-magico-mondo-di-harold-film-recensione/
Scusate ci arrivo un po' tardi ma avevo altre cose in fila da pubblicare prima. Comunque, a me di tutto il keynote di Apple dello scorso 9 settembre la novità che più mi ha interessato è quella della trasformazione delle AirPods 2 in apparecchi acustici. Non so se ti spaccano l'orecchio (sono enormi) ma mi sembra un modo per sparigliare un mercato di apparecchi medicali (buongiorni Amplifon) in maniera piuttosto decisa.
Vedremo oltre ai ragazzetti anche le persone anziane sempre con le cuffiettine su.
Money quote: "Firstly, users can take a clinically-validated hearing test. The hearing test uses your AirPods and iPhone, and can be conducted by a user in under five times. The result of your hearing test can be viewed securely in the Health app.
If hearing loss is detected, the hearing aid mode is then available to use. The AirPods will make it easier to hear sounds from the world around you. A custom hearing profile is automatically applied when listening to audio, like music or podcasts.
The hearing aid feature is currently making its way through the FDA and other regulatory bodies. Apple said the functionality will be available in more than 100 countries. The feature will be enabled through a free software update coming later this year to AirPods Pro 2."
https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/09/airpods-pro-2-adds-clinical-grade-hearing-aid-feature/
Vedremo oltre ai ragazzetti anche le persone anziane sempre con le cuffiettine su.
Money quote: "Firstly, users can take a clinically-validated hearing test. The hearing test uses your AirPods and iPhone, and can be conducted by a user in under five times. The result of your hearing test can be viewed securely in the Health app.
If hearing loss is detected, the hearing aid mode is then available to use. The AirPods will make it easier to hear sounds from the world around you. A custom hearing profile is automatically applied when listening to audio, like music or podcasts.
The hearing aid feature is currently making its way through the FDA and other regulatory bodies. Apple said the functionality will be available in more than 100 countries. The feature will be enabled through a free software update coming later this year to AirPods Pro 2."
https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/09/airpods-pro-2-adds-clinical-grade-hearing-aid-feature/
9to5Mac
AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature - 9to5Mac
Apple has announced some new hearing health related features, coming as a software update for AirPods Pro 2. This includes...
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È un tema che mi ha sempre affascinato. Perché certi beni sono diventati beni assurdamente costosi e vengono comprati sistematicamente. È il fenomeno studiato da molti ma che alla fine trova nel lavoro di Thorstein Veblen la spiegazione più semplice. Divertente vedere Wired Usa che nel 2024 parla di Rolex e beni di Veblen.
Money quote: "This isn’t a new observation: in fact, it is a direct expression of the theories advanced by 19th-century American economist Thorstein Veblen, whose 1899 work The Theory of the Leisure Class introduced the seemingly paradoxical idea of such desirable luxuries—known today simply as “Veblen goods”—and the behavior which leads us to prioritize them over more sensible uses of our money.
And prioritize them we do: The luxury market is forecast to reach a valuation of €2.5 trillion ($2.8 trillion) by 2030, up from €1.5 trillion now, according to consulting firm Bain & Company."
https://www.wired.com/story/the-more-this-rolex-costs-the-more-you-want-it-this-is-why/
Money quote: "This isn’t a new observation: in fact, it is a direct expression of the theories advanced by 19th-century American economist Thorstein Veblen, whose 1899 work The Theory of the Leisure Class introduced the seemingly paradoxical idea of such desirable luxuries—known today simply as “Veblen goods”—and the behavior which leads us to prioritize them over more sensible uses of our money.
And prioritize them we do: The luxury market is forecast to reach a valuation of €2.5 trillion ($2.8 trillion) by 2030, up from €1.5 trillion now, according to consulting firm Bain & Company."
https://www.wired.com/story/the-more-this-rolex-costs-the-more-you-want-it-this-is-why/
WIRED
The More This Rolex Costs, the More You Want It. Here's Why
A 125-year-old theory explains why humans want luxury items even more when the prices go up. Blame social media—and ubiquitous counterfeits—for making it even worse.
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La "repubblica in marcia" mi piace da morire. L'idea di un popolo ossessionato dalle camminate e dai cammini.
Money quote: "La mania di Santiago è in crescita costante da un quarto di secolo, così a un certo punto anche al sottoscritto è venuta la curiosità di capire che cavolo ci facessero tanti novizi del cammino, gente che non si era mai spinta oltre l’itinerario ad anello parcheggio-polenta in rifugio-parcheggio, lungo un percorso che richiede settimane anche agli escursionisti più esperti.
Fra le colline della Navarra e i castagneti del Leonese ho conosciuto centinaia di apprendisti camminatori, con i loro zaini nuovi e scarponcini nuovi e tenute da trekking, nuove anch’esse; li ho trovati generalmente in quello stato che il De Amicis sintetizzò con la mielosa espressione «stanchi ma felici». Anche i più provati sembravano increduli di sentirsi parte di una comunità, una repubblica in marcia, una pacifica orda che ammette e incoraggia rapporti informali, chiacchiere fra sconosciuti, condivisione".
https://www.ilpost.it/2024/08/13/brizzi-libri-sul-camminare-per-camminare/
Money quote: "La mania di Santiago è in crescita costante da un quarto di secolo, così a un certo punto anche al sottoscritto è venuta la curiosità di capire che cavolo ci facessero tanti novizi del cammino, gente che non si era mai spinta oltre l’itinerario ad anello parcheggio-polenta in rifugio-parcheggio, lungo un percorso che richiede settimane anche agli escursionisti più esperti.
Fra le colline della Navarra e i castagneti del Leonese ho conosciuto centinaia di apprendisti camminatori, con i loro zaini nuovi e scarponcini nuovi e tenute da trekking, nuove anch’esse; li ho trovati generalmente in quello stato che il De Amicis sintetizzò con la mielosa espressione «stanchi ma felici». Anche i più provati sembravano increduli di sentirsi parte di una comunità, una repubblica in marcia, una pacifica orda che ammette e incoraggia rapporti informali, chiacchiere fra sconosciuti, condivisione".
https://www.ilpost.it/2024/08/13/brizzi-libri-sul-camminare-per-camminare/
Il Post
Libri sul camminare per camminare
«Ora, non sfugge né e me né a voi che questa faccenda del camminare sta dilagando come non mai. In qualità di narratore e appassionato di cammini mi ha sempre intrigato il rapporto fra zaini e libri. Che i primi possano con profitto contenere i secondi lo…
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Sta arrivando la stagione dell'anti-influenzale negli Usa. Stagione interessante come sempre perchè là funziona in maniera diversa che qua da noi.
Money quote: "This year’s flu shots are trivalent, meaning they protect against three flu viruses: two versions of influenza A and one type of influenza B. For more than a decade, flu shots in the U.S. also protected against a fourth strain of influenza B, but that strain hasn’t circulated since March 2020, so the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee elected this year to exclude it."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/flu-shot-when-covid-vaccine-rcna169364
Money quote: "This year’s flu shots are trivalent, meaning they protect against three flu viruses: two versions of influenza A and one type of influenza B. For more than a decade, flu shots in the U.S. also protected against a fourth strain of influenza B, but that strain hasn’t circulated since March 2020, so the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee elected this year to exclude it."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/flu-shot-when-covid-vaccine-rcna169364
NBC News
Flu shots are here. When's the ideal time to get one, and should you get it with the Covid vaccine?
Flu and Covid shots are now available at pharmacies. Both have new formulas this year, and they can be administered at the same time.
Dietro ogni grande uomo c'è un fratello geniale. O qualcosa del genere.
Money quote: "While Pavel was the muscular, jet-setting face of the operation, a Russian tech prince flirting with the limelight, Nikolai was his technical pillar, as Woz was to Steve Jobs during Apple's early days.
It was Nikolai who drew up the MTProto protocol that has attracted so many users with the promise of security — including those with nefarious intentions — and become a headache for the French authorities."
https://www.politico.eu/article/nikolai-durov-brother-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-tech-platforms-privacy-safety-encryption/
Money quote: "While Pavel was the muscular, jet-setting face of the operation, a Russian tech prince flirting with the limelight, Nikolai was his technical pillar, as Woz was to Steve Jobs during Apple's early days.
It was Nikolai who drew up the MTProto protocol that has attracted so many users with the promise of security — including those with nefarious intentions — and become a headache for the French authorities."
https://www.politico.eu/article/nikolai-durov-brother-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-tech-platforms-privacy-safety-encryption/
POLITICO
This genius cat-lover helped Pavel Durov turbocharge Telegram – POLITICO
Nikolai Durov, who is also wanted by cops in France, is responsible for the messaging app’s encryption standard.
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Affilate le unghie perché Mostly Weekly è tornato proprio mentre l'estate sta finendo (cantavano i Righeira). Questa settimana c'è di mezzo Mozart, il ceo di Ford, il ritorno del nero (inteso come colore) e quello di Goldrake (inteso come robottone). E questa è solo la punta dell'iceberg settimanale. Tutto free ovviamente.
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/290/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/290/
Mostly Here
~290
La fine dell'estate è arrivata e non ci sono più le mezze stagioni
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Letture per la domenica
A quanto pare parlare con un chatbot come ChatGPT può servire a diminuire le idee del cavolo nella testa di chi crede alle teorie della cospirazione. Semplicemente scrivendo la frase precedente mi vengono in mente almeno una decina di idee sul perché la notizia potrebbe essere vera e terribile al tempo stesso.
Money quote: "The issue is that "conspiracy theories just vary a lot from person to person," said co-author Thomas Costello, a psychologist at American University who is also affiliated with MIT. "They're quite heterogeneous. People believe a wide range of them and the specific evidence that people use to support even a single conspiracy may differ from one person to another. So debunking attempts where you try to argue broadly against a conspiracy theory are not going to be effective because people have different versions of that conspiracy in their heads."
By contrast, an AI chatbot would be able to tailor debunking efforts to those different versions of a conspiracy. So in theory a chatbot might prove more effective in swaying someone from their pet conspiracy theory."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/study-conversations-with-ai-chatbots-can-reduce-belief-in-conspiracy-theories/
A quanto pare parlare con un chatbot come ChatGPT può servire a diminuire le idee del cavolo nella testa di chi crede alle teorie della cospirazione. Semplicemente scrivendo la frase precedente mi vengono in mente almeno una decina di idee sul perché la notizia potrebbe essere vera e terribile al tempo stesso.
Money quote: "The issue is that "conspiracy theories just vary a lot from person to person," said co-author Thomas Costello, a psychologist at American University who is also affiliated with MIT. "They're quite heterogeneous. People believe a wide range of them and the specific evidence that people use to support even a single conspiracy may differ from one person to another. So debunking attempts where you try to argue broadly against a conspiracy theory are not going to be effective because people have different versions of that conspiracy in their heads."
By contrast, an AI chatbot would be able to tailor debunking efforts to those different versions of a conspiracy. So in theory a chatbot might prove more effective in swaying someone from their pet conspiracy theory."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/study-conversations-with-ai-chatbots-can-reduce-belief-in-conspiracy-theories/
Ars Technica
AI chatbots might be better at swaying conspiracy theorists than humans
Co-author Gordon Pennycook: “The work overturns a lot of how we thought about conspiracies.”…
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Il ventesimo anniversario di quando la televisione è cambiata per sempre: "Lost" è stato trasmesso oggi nel 2004. È la nascita delle serie tv moderne.
Money quote: "Un 22 de septiembre de hace 20 años, la tele cambió: se estrenó Perdidos, lo que inició el motor de las series como el primer entretenimiento de masas global. Ese mismo año también llegaron Mujeres desesperadas, Anatomía de Grey, House, Battlestar Galactica, Veronica Mars y The Office"
https://elpais.com/television/2024-09-22/perdidos-cumple-20-anos-2004-la-temporada-que-revoluciono-las-series.html
Archivio: https://archive.is/RpHh9
Money quote: "Un 22 de septiembre de hace 20 años, la tele cambió: se estrenó Perdidos, lo que inició el motor de las series como el primer entretenimiento de masas global. Ese mismo año también llegaron Mujeres desesperadas, Anatomía de Grey, House, Battlestar Galactica, Veronica Mars y The Office"
https://elpais.com/television/2024-09-22/perdidos-cumple-20-anos-2004-la-temporada-que-revoluciono-las-series.html
Archivio: https://archive.is/RpHh9
El País
‘Perdidos’ cumple 20 años: 2004, la temporada que revolucionó las series
La coincidencia en el tiempo de ‘Mujeres desesperadas’, ‘House’ o ‘Anatomía de Grey’ y la piratería llevaron a la ficción televisiva a alcanzar un punto de fenómeno global
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L'epoca dell'eccesso e della personalizzazione di massa: era una promessa che è stata mantenuta. Solo che, tra tutte le categorie di prodotti, si è realizzata nelle bibite fredde o calde.
Money quote: "At Starbucks, the world’s second-largest restaurant chain, one-quarter of all custom drinks it sells in the United States have more than three modifications — like an extra shot of espresso, a pump of flavored syrup or a cap of the chain’s wildly popular cold foam, a company spokeswoman said.
Consumers increasingly expect everything from their social media feeds to the drinks in their hands to be tailored to their tastes, said Nik Modi, a co-head of consumer research at RBC Capital Markets, an investment bank in Toronto. And as America’s demographics shift and its tastes diversify, the flavor combinations possible in a single drink have grown exponentially."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/dining/drinks/customized-drinks.html
Money quote: "At Starbucks, the world’s second-largest restaurant chain, one-quarter of all custom drinks it sells in the United States have more than three modifications — like an extra shot of espresso, a pump of flavored syrup or a cap of the chain’s wildly popular cold foam, a company spokeswoman said.
Consumers increasingly expect everything from their social media feeds to the drinks in their hands to be tailored to their tastes, said Nik Modi, a co-head of consumer research at RBC Capital Markets, an investment bank in Toronto. And as America’s demographics shift and its tastes diversify, the flavor combinations possible in a single drink have grown exponentially."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/dining/drinks/customized-drinks.html
NY Times
The Customized Drink Is Out of Control
As cafes grant us the power to cobble together ultra-personalized beverages filled with syrups, powders, fruit chunks, boba and plenty of caffeine, we’re all soda jerks now.
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Mi cito da solo ma ogni tanto non fa male. Una storia sulla fine della privacy in rete.
Money quote: "Tutto comincia con una di quelle forme di gamificazione della nostra esistenza che la rete ha ampliato in maniera folle. Il 27 gennaio 2020 l’utente finlandese di Reddit “u/TontsaH” posta sul subreddit r/TipOfMyTongue una richiesta di aiuto per identificare una serie di celebrità stampate su un telo che dice di aver acquistato in un negozio locale “forse nel 2008”.
“Challenge accepted”, rispondono un numero crescente di utenti di Reddit. E comincia la caccia ai volti. Alcuni sono facili da identificare, altri meno. Delle otto facce presenti sette vengono subito “capiti”: Josh Holloway, Jessica Alba, Travis Fimmel, Ian Somerhalder, Orlando Bloom e Adriana Lima, che è presente ben due volte. Non è una foto di gruppo ma un collage.
Ne manca una però: la Celebrity Numero 6, per l’appunto."
https://www.macitynet.it/la-storia-della-numero-6-e-la-fine-della-privacy/
Money quote: "Tutto comincia con una di quelle forme di gamificazione della nostra esistenza che la rete ha ampliato in maniera folle. Il 27 gennaio 2020 l’utente finlandese di Reddit “u/TontsaH” posta sul subreddit r/TipOfMyTongue una richiesta di aiuto per identificare una serie di celebrità stampate su un telo che dice di aver acquistato in un negozio locale “forse nel 2008”.
“Challenge accepted”, rispondono un numero crescente di utenti di Reddit. E comincia la caccia ai volti. Alcuni sono facili da identificare, altri meno. Delle otto facce presenti sette vengono subito “capiti”: Josh Holloway, Jessica Alba, Travis Fimmel, Ian Somerhalder, Orlando Bloom e Adriana Lima, che è presente ben due volte. Non è una foto di gruppo ma un collage.
Ne manca una però: la Celebrity Numero 6, per l’appunto."
https://www.macitynet.it/la-storia-della-numero-6-e-la-fine-della-privacy/
macitynet.it
La storia della “Numero 6” e la fine della privacy
Privacy
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Il documentario su Prince che non vedremo mai. Praticamente una miniserie per lo streaming che gli eredi hanno deciso non possa andare in onda. Maledetti.
Money quote: "The film took Edelman almost five years to finish, and it nearly broke him. Whenever he makes a documentary, he told me, “It’s like willingly walking into the jail or locking myself up into a box like Houdini and being like, ‘Can I get out?’ ” But he had been locked in for a long time, often working nights and weekends, chasing down recalcitrant subjects who seemed haunted by their friendships with Prince and researching in Prince’s personal archive, which was filled with gaps and elisions. Prince kept slipping away from him. “How can you tell the truth about someone who, when you’re talking to people, they all had different things to say?” Edelman told me. “How can you tell the truth about someone who never told the truth about himself?”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/magazine/prince-netflix-ezra-edelman-documentary.html
Money quote: "The film took Edelman almost five years to finish, and it nearly broke him. Whenever he makes a documentary, he told me, “It’s like willingly walking into the jail or locking myself up into a box like Houdini and being like, ‘Can I get out?’ ” But he had been locked in for a long time, often working nights and weekends, chasing down recalcitrant subjects who seemed haunted by their friendships with Prince and researching in Prince’s personal archive, which was filled with gaps and elisions. Prince kept slipping away from him. “How can you tell the truth about someone who, when you’re talking to people, they all had different things to say?” Edelman told me. “How can you tell the truth about someone who never told the truth about himself?”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/magazine/prince-netflix-ezra-edelman-documentary.html
NY Times
The Prince We Never Knew
A revealing new documentary could redefine our understanding of the pop icon. But you will probably never get to see it.
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Gli Usa e l'Opus Dei: l'organizzazione cattolica sta cercando di attirare a sé J.D. Vance e buona parte dei politici americani disponibili. È la il cattolicesimo di destra degli Usa, non è maggioritario ma è piuttosto attivo.
C'è un libro in uscita, di cui si parla in questo articolo, che racconta la storia dell'Opus Dei negli Usa: l'ha scritto il giornalista finanziario britannico Gareth Gore e si intitola: "Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church"
(Il titolo è in effetti tutto un progamma)
Money quote: "A great deal has been written this year about the resurgence of the Catholic right in America. This is not President Biden’s liberal Catholicism. In surveys, American Catholics as a whole are firmly in the mainstream in their political opinions, from contraception to divorce, gay marriage to abortion rights. But there is an elite vanguard on the rise that holds much more conservative views — many of these elites have some association with Opus Dei — and has sought to influence policies that might be enacted in a second Trump presidency. The now-infamous Project 2025 was cooked up under the auspices of the Heritage Foundation’s conservative Catholic and Opus Dei–connected president, Kevin Roberts. All three of the Trump-appointed Roe-wrecking Supreme Court justices (two of whom are Catholic) got there thanks in part to the tireless dark-money-funded efforts of the right-wing Catholic Leonard Leo, a major CIC donor who has also become the go-to conservative disburser of anonymously donated big bucks to political causes. The three other justices in the Dobbs majority are hard-right Catholics. Beyond the high court, current and former Washington power lawyers and influencers have Opus Dei connections."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/opus-dei-members-catholic-washington-dc-politicans-jd-vance.html
Archivio: https://archive.is/k92wM
C'è un libro in uscita, di cui si parla in questo articolo, che racconta la storia dell'Opus Dei negli Usa: l'ha scritto il giornalista finanziario britannico Gareth Gore e si intitola: "Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church"
(Il titolo è in effetti tutto un progamma)
Money quote: "A great deal has been written this year about the resurgence of the Catholic right in America. This is not President Biden’s liberal Catholicism. In surveys, American Catholics as a whole are firmly in the mainstream in their political opinions, from contraception to divorce, gay marriage to abortion rights. But there is an elite vanguard on the rise that holds much more conservative views — many of these elites have some association with Opus Dei — and has sought to influence policies that might be enacted in a second Trump presidency. The now-infamous Project 2025 was cooked up under the auspices of the Heritage Foundation’s conservative Catholic and Opus Dei–connected president, Kevin Roberts. All three of the Trump-appointed Roe-wrecking Supreme Court justices (two of whom are Catholic) got there thanks in part to the tireless dark-money-funded efforts of the right-wing Catholic Leonard Leo, a major CIC donor who has also become the go-to conservative disburser of anonymously donated big bucks to political causes. The three other justices in the Dobbs majority are hard-right Catholics. Beyond the high court, current and former Washington power lawyers and influencers have Opus Dei connections."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/opus-dei-members-catholic-washington-dc-politicans-jd-vance.html
Archivio: https://archive.is/k92wM
New York
How Opus Dei Conquered D.C.
A new book — not The Da Vinci Code — shows just how much sway the mysterious right-wing Catholic group has — and might have over Trump’s next term.
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Un po' scherza, un po' fa sul serio, e un po' è bello prolisso (ho preso il pezzetto alla fine, il viaggio per arrivarci è lungo ma ne vale abbastanza la pena).
Tuttavia l'idea è potente: il culto del CLOUD
Money quote: "All this is to say I have changed my mind. Those tourists that have been pissing me off from Edinburgh to Istanbul, enjoying not the place they have travelled to see, but the screens through which they document and consume their experience — they are not vain. They are not foolish. Instead, they are devout. For who would the Sky Father favour most, if not those who feed Him?
For the CLOUD is always hungry. He knows no satisfaction, no happy state of glut. He is never sated, never gorged to the full. All we can do is feed Him more, and hope that it’s enough.
We know little about the Proto-Indo-European belief for sure. But, in the traditions that have come down to us, there are traces of an eschaton — an End of Days battle, fought between the forces of Good and Evil. As more and more of us turn to recording every moment of our lives and beaming it up to the CLOUD, it feels like we’re approaching THE END. Why else would we spend so much of our lives feverishly uploading, instead of living?"
https://cosmographia.substack.com/p/all-hail-the-cloud
Tuttavia l'idea è potente: il culto del CLOUD
Money quote: "All this is to say I have changed my mind. Those tourists that have been pissing me off from Edinburgh to Istanbul, enjoying not the place they have travelled to see, but the screens through which they document and consume their experience — they are not vain. They are not foolish. Instead, they are devout. For who would the Sky Father favour most, if not those who feed Him?
For the CLOUD is always hungry. He knows no satisfaction, no happy state of glut. He is never sated, never gorged to the full. All we can do is feed Him more, and hope that it’s enough.
We know little about the Proto-Indo-European belief for sure. But, in the traditions that have come down to us, there are traces of an eschaton — an End of Days battle, fought between the forces of Good and Evil. As more and more of us turn to recording every moment of our lives and beaming it up to the CLOUD, it feels like we’re approaching THE END. Why else would we spend so much of our lives feverishly uploading, instead of living?"
https://cosmographia.substack.com/p/all-hail-the-cloud
Substack
All Hail the Cloud
Something is coming, something big.
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