Lo stato dell'arte: c'è un coso nello spazio che fa cose, e ce ne siamo accorti cosando per caso.
Money quote: "Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly magnetized dead star like a neutron or white dwarf, Curtin University’s Ziteng Andy Wang said in an email from Australia.
Or it could be “something exotic” and unknown, said Wang, lead author of the study published in the journal Nature."
https://apnews.com/article/strange-celestial-object-milky-way-7c119d11d37b2b5b0fa254154b4aba8e
Money quote: "Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly magnetized dead star like a neutron or white dwarf, Curtin University’s Ziteng Andy Wang said in an email from Australia.
Or it could be “something exotic” and unknown, said Wang, lead author of the study published in the journal Nature."
https://apnews.com/article/strange-celestial-object-milky-way-7c119d11d37b2b5b0fa254154b4aba8e
AP News
Astronomers discover strange new celestial object in our Milky Way galaxy
Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the same time it's shooting out radio waves.
Uno strano articolo che prende sul serio gli origami (e perché non dovremmo?) spiegando come hanno cambiato e stanno continuando a cambiare il mondo.
Money quote: "The art form didn’t stop at paper. As early as 1529, high courts of Europe folded linen and other fabrics for decoration. Today, the art of origami inspires advancements in fields like architecture, medicine, biology, and robotics. Some modern-day inventions that are in debt to origami engineering are the ability for rapid rebuilding of structures following natural disasters; and for creating a small, flexible tool that attaches to laparoscopes and endoscopes that can quickly expand and contract so that surgeons can clean the scope without having to remove it from the surgical site."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/the-history-of-towel-art
Supplemento:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/origami-driving-futuristic-technologies-feature
Money quote: "The art form didn’t stop at paper. As early as 1529, high courts of Europe folded linen and other fabrics for decoration. Today, the art of origami inspires advancements in fields like architecture, medicine, biology, and robotics. Some modern-day inventions that are in debt to origami engineering are the ability for rapid rebuilding of structures following natural disasters; and for creating a small, flexible tool that attaches to laparoscopes and endoscopes that can quickly expand and contract so that surgeons can clean the scope without having to remove it from the surgical site."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/the-history-of-towel-art
Supplemento:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/origami-driving-futuristic-technologies-feature
Magazine
Origami is revolutionizing technology, from medicine to space
The centuries-old art of folding paper is yielding new applications in spacecraft, architecture, and even the human body.
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La nuova Mostly Weekly numero 329 è pronta: Boeing in picchiata, sogni antichissimi e ciao Brian Wilson. Una lettura piena di spunti per chi ama farsi domande senza prendersi mai troppo sul serio (ChatGPT dixit)
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/329/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/329/
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Letture per la domenica.
Dobbiamo studiare il progresso per capire come fare a farlo meglio. O di più, che negli Usa temo sia considerata la stessa cosa.
Money quote: "Looking backwards, it’s striking how unevenly distributed progress has been in the past. In antiquity, the ancient Greeks were discoverers of everything from the arch bridge to the spherical earth. By 1100, the successful pursuit of new knowledge was probably most concentrated in parts of China and the Middle East. Along the cultural dimension, the artists of Renaissance Florence enriched the heritage of all humankind, and in the process created the masterworks that are still the lifeblood of the local economy. The late 18th and early 19th century saw a burst of progress in Northern England, with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. In each case, the discoveries that came to elevate standards of living for everyone arose in comparatively tiny geographic pockets of innovative effort. Present-day instances include places like Silicon Valley in software and Switzerland’s Basel region in life sciences."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946/
Dobbiamo studiare il progresso per capire come fare a farlo meglio. O di più, che negli Usa temo sia considerata la stessa cosa.
Money quote: "Looking backwards, it’s striking how unevenly distributed progress has been in the past. In antiquity, the ancient Greeks were discoverers of everything from the arch bridge to the spherical earth. By 1100, the successful pursuit of new knowledge was probably most concentrated in parts of China and the Middle East. Along the cultural dimension, the artists of Renaissance Florence enriched the heritage of all humankind, and in the process created the masterworks that are still the lifeblood of the local economy. The late 18th and early 19th century saw a burst of progress in Northern England, with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. In each case, the discoveries that came to elevate standards of living for everyone arose in comparatively tiny geographic pockets of innovative effort. Present-day instances include places like Silicon Valley in software and Switzerland’s Basel region in life sciences."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946/
The Atlantic
We Need a New Science of Progress
Humanity needs to get better at knowing how to get better.
Ma insomma, questo nuovo "design language" di Apple, il Liquid Glass, piace oppure no? I primi pionieri sono presi bene, a quanto pare.
Money quote: "The idea seems to be that because they're "floating" a layer over things like your lockscreen wallpaper or text, the "glass" can be translucent to give you a sense of what's under them. It makes sense. The initial implementation in the iOS 26 developer beta has many of Apple's signature flourishes and attention to detail.
But boy are the changes jarring when you first see them."
https://www.theverge.com/apple/683914/apple-iphone-ios-26-changes-liquid-glass
Money quote: "The idea seems to be that because they're "floating" a layer over things like your lockscreen wallpaper or text, the "glass" can be translucent to give you a sense of what's under them. It makes sense. The initial implementation in the iOS 26 developer beta has many of Apple's signature flourishes and attention to detail.
But boy are the changes jarring when you first see them."
https://www.theverge.com/apple/683914/apple-iphone-ios-26-changes-liquid-glass
The Verge
Apple’s Liquid Glass was a wild change to my iPhone
It’s jarring, but I’m getting used to it.
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È arrivata l'intelligenza artificiale: che funzioni o non funzioni, c'è chi fa finta di niente. Ad esempio, alcune università americane. E quelle italiane? Chissà.
Money quote: "On the contrary, staggering transformations are in full swing. And yet, on campus, we’re in a bizarre interlude: everyone seems intent on pretending that the most significant revolution in the world of thought in the past century isn’t happening. The approach appears to be: “We’ll just tell the kids they can’t use these tools and carry on as before.” This is, simply, madness. And it won’t hold for long. It’s time to talk about what all this means for university life, and for the humanities in particular."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence
https://archive.is/4EOYW
Money quote: "On the contrary, staggering transformations are in full swing. And yet, on campus, we’re in a bizarre interlude: everyone seems intent on pretending that the most significant revolution in the world of thought in the past century isn’t happening. The approach appears to be: “We’ll just tell the kids they can’t use these tools and carry on as before.” This is, simply, madness. And it won’t hold for long. It’s time to talk about what all this means for university life, and for the humanities in particular."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence
https://archive.is/4EOYW
The New Yorker
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.
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Cosa gli farà l'AI a Hollywood e agli sceneggiatori in particolare? Un mazzo così, verrebbe da dire. E infatti non facevano male a scioperare. Come molte altre categorie non farebbero male.
Money quote: "We met Lyonne in a corner of the studio where uncanny clips generated by Asteria’s AI model were playing on a dozen old-school televisions. The footage was unnerving. Robots with smooth, blank faces typed blindly in an old-fashioned office. Disembodied mannequin heads drifted in space. Lyonne was drinking a sugar-free Red Bull and wearing a structured black velvet jacket with a plunging neckline. She was fresh off a plane from Seattle, where she had done a talk with the science-fiction author Ted Chiang, who has written at length about why AI will never create great art. Over the past few years in Hollywood, it had become clear to Lyonne that many people were not being forthright with how often they were using the technology. “If I’m directing an episode, I like to get really into line items and specifics,” she said. “And you find out that there’s a lot of situations where they’re calling it machine learning or something but, really, it’s AI.” She had begun to do her own research. She read the Oxford scholar Brian Christian and the philosopher Nick Bostrom, who argues that AI presents a significant threat to humanity’s long-term existence. Still, she had come to feel it was too late to “put the genie back in that bottle.” “It’s better to get your hands dirty than pretend it’s not happening,” she said."
https://www.vulture.com/article/generative-ai-hollywood-movies-tv.html
archivio: https://archive.is/Ppgsb
Money quote: "We met Lyonne in a corner of the studio where uncanny clips generated by Asteria’s AI model were playing on a dozen old-school televisions. The footage was unnerving. Robots with smooth, blank faces typed blindly in an old-fashioned office. Disembodied mannequin heads drifted in space. Lyonne was drinking a sugar-free Red Bull and wearing a structured black velvet jacket with a plunging neckline. She was fresh off a plane from Seattle, where she had done a talk with the science-fiction author Ted Chiang, who has written at length about why AI will never create great art. Over the past few years in Hollywood, it had become clear to Lyonne that many people were not being forthright with how often they were using the technology. “If I’m directing an episode, I like to get really into line items and specifics,” she said. “And you find out that there’s a lot of situations where they’re calling it machine learning or something but, really, it’s AI.” She had begun to do her own research. She read the Oxford scholar Brian Christian and the philosopher Nick Bostrom, who argues that AI presents a significant threat to humanity’s long-term existence. Still, she had come to feel it was too late to “put the genie back in that bottle.” “It’s better to get your hands dirty than pretend it’s not happening,” she said."
https://www.vulture.com/article/generative-ai-hollywood-movies-tv.html
archivio: https://archive.is/Ppgsb
VULTURE
Everyone Is Already Using AI (And Hiding It)
With dozens of new studios and rapidly evolving tech, generative AI video is more embedded in Hollywood movies and TV than we may realize.
La fine dei processori Intel nel mondo Mac passa dalla fine del sistema di emulazione che garantisce la compatibilità software di un sacco di applicativi, Rosetta 2.
Money quote: "According to a portion of the Platforms State of the Union, developers have until macOS 28 to get their apps running natively on Apple Silicon. They also shared that macOS 26 is the last Mac operating system that will support Intel-based Macs. When it arrives, macOS 28 will still run Rosetta 2, but scaled back significantly to support only legacy apps like old games that won't be updated again. The full Rosetta 2 translation layer will still work in macOS 26 and macOS 27, in the meantime."
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/06/10/macos-27-will-be-the-last-operating-system-to-fully-support-rosetta-2
Money quote: "According to a portion of the Platforms State of the Union, developers have until macOS 28 to get their apps running natively on Apple Silicon. They also shared that macOS 26 is the last Mac operating system that will support Intel-based Macs. When it arrives, macOS 28 will still run Rosetta 2, but scaled back significantly to support only legacy apps like old games that won't be updated again. The full Rosetta 2 translation layer will still work in macOS 26 and macOS 27, in the meantime."
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/06/10/macos-27-will-be-the-last-operating-system-to-fully-support-rosetta-2
AppleInsider
macOS 27 will be the last operating system to fully support Rosetta 2
Developers relying on Rosetta 2 to keep their legacy code running should begin preparing now, as macOS 27 will be the last to provide full support for the translation technology.
Terry Pratchett è il mago segreto della fantascienza - e io ne ho scritto abbondantemente su Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2025/06/terry-pratchett-fantascienza/
https://fumettologica.it/2025/06/terry-pratchett-fantascienza/
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Impariamo tutti a fare i "sogni lucidi", quelli in cui siamo consapevoli di sognare nel mentre che sognamo (e io che non ho ancora capito se sogno a colori o in bianco e nero)
Money quote: "Though scientists still don't know why dreaming is so important for humans, studies suggest that those deprived of REM sleep suffer may from increased risk of obesity, memory problems, and increased inflammation. It's clear that REM sleep adds to our physical quality of life, so it makes sense why one might want to delve further into their subconscious through lucid dreaming, or dreaming with the awareness that you're asleep. The practice's TikTok hashtag alone has close to 600 million views on videos that encourage and instruct viewers on how to tap into their subconscious mind (and sometimes offer creepy advice on what not to do during your experience)."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-lucid-dream-and-enjoy-it-according-to-experts
Money quote: "Though scientists still don't know why dreaming is so important for humans, studies suggest that those deprived of REM sleep suffer may from increased risk of obesity, memory problems, and increased inflammation. It's clear that REM sleep adds to our physical quality of life, so it makes sense why one might want to delve further into their subconscious through lucid dreaming, or dreaming with the awareness that you're asleep. The practice's TikTok hashtag alone has close to 600 million views on videos that encourage and instruct viewers on how to tap into their subconscious mind (and sometimes offer creepy advice on what not to do during your experience)."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-lucid-dream-and-enjoy-it-according-to-experts
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L'ex premier neozelandese, Jacinta Ardern, ha avuto una parabola molto particolare: per un periodo è stata il segnale di qualcosa di nuovo che ha influenzato anche l'immagine dei politici italiani (vedi Elly Schlein). Poi, puf, andata. E con lei anche la spiegazione del perché. Eppure, di cose da dire ce ne sarebbero state molte. Solo che lei non le affronta.
Money quote: "A new memoir by the former Prime Minister revisits her time in office but doesn’t explain the confounding transformation the country underwent during covid.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-did-new-zealand-turn-on-jacinda-ardern
archivio: https://archive.is/qEkOG
Money quote: "A new memoir by the former Prime Minister revisits her time in office but doesn’t explain the confounding transformation the country underwent during covid.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-did-new-zealand-turn-on-jacinda-ardern
archivio: https://archive.is/qEkOG
The New Yorker
Why Did New Zealand Turn on Jacinda Ardern?
A new memoir by the former Prime Minister revisits her time in office but doesn’t explain the confounding transformation the country underwent during COVID.
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Letture per la domenica
Comprereste un orologio il cui interno è pieno di un liquido a bassissima vischiosità e ad altissima trasparenza usato per le bussole di rotta sulle navi? Ecco.
Money quote: "As you can see, since the Type 3’s introduction in 2013, Ressence’s oil-filled watches have constantly been subject to innovation. Compared to the Type 3 and 5, the ROCS module in the Type 7 now features jewel ball bearings instead of regular axes, jewels, and gears. This is a concept taken from the Type 2, which allows for a much slimmer construction. The only disadvantage is that you can hear these ball bearings rattle when you shake the watch. This doesn’t mean that the watch isn’t well constructed, although the sound does make it seem that way. This is something Benoît is trying to solve for future Ressence watches."
https://www.fratellowatches.com/up-close-and-personal-with-benoit-mintiens-and-ressences-oil-filled-watches/
Comprereste un orologio il cui interno è pieno di un liquido a bassissima vischiosità e ad altissima trasparenza usato per le bussole di rotta sulle navi? Ecco.
Money quote: "As you can see, since the Type 3’s introduction in 2013, Ressence’s oil-filled watches have constantly been subject to innovation. Compared to the Type 3 and 5, the ROCS module in the Type 7 now features jewel ball bearings instead of regular axes, jewels, and gears. This is a concept taken from the Type 2, which allows for a much slimmer construction. The only disadvantage is that you can hear these ball bearings rattle when you shake the watch. This doesn’t mean that the watch isn’t well constructed, although the sound does make it seem that way. This is something Benoît is trying to solve for future Ressence watches."
https://www.fratellowatches.com/up-close-and-personal-with-benoit-mintiens-and-ressences-oil-filled-watches/
Fratello Watches - The Magazine Dedicated To Luxury Watches
Up Close And Personal With Benoît Mintiens And Ressence's Oil-Filled Watches
✓ Daan visited Benoît Mintiens at the Ressence headquarters to learn more about the brand's oil-filled watches ✓ Check out the article here ✓
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La gente vuole la pace. Vuole girare, vedere, fare affari, innamorarsi, litigare, fare turismo, mangiare e bere, comprare cose, consumarne altre. Non vuole spararsi, a parte forse una ristretta minoranza di esaltati. Questa è l'idea che mi viene sempre quando leggo le statistiche del consumo di dati dei telefoni cellulari in roaming.
Money quote: "Secondo un rapporto pubblicato da Research And Markets dal titolo Roaming Tariffs – Global Strategic Business Report il mercato globale delle tariffe di roaming è stato stimato a 79,2 miliardi di dollari nel 2024 e si prevede che raggiungerà i 105,6 miliardi di dollari entro il 2030, con una crescita del 4,9% dal 2024 al 2030.
Questo aumento è guidato dalla crescente richiesta di piani di roaming più flessibili, trasparenti e convenienti, in risposta all’espansione dei viaggi internazionali e del lavoro da remoto. I provider stanno adattando le proprie offerte con soluzioni regionali, pay-as-you-go e pacchetti illimitati per soddisfare le esigenze dei vari profili di viaggiatori."
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/roaming-globale-connettivita-mobile-verso-i-105-miliardi-di-dollari-entro-il-2030/
Money quote: "Secondo un rapporto pubblicato da Research And Markets dal titolo Roaming Tariffs – Global Strategic Business Report il mercato globale delle tariffe di roaming è stato stimato a 79,2 miliardi di dollari nel 2024 e si prevede che raggiungerà i 105,6 miliardi di dollari entro il 2030, con una crescita del 4,9% dal 2024 al 2030.
Questo aumento è guidato dalla crescente richiesta di piani di roaming più flessibili, trasparenti e convenienti, in risposta all’espansione dei viaggi internazionali e del lavoro da remoto. I provider stanno adattando le proprie offerte con soluzioni regionali, pay-as-you-go e pacchetti illimitati per soddisfare le esigenze dei vari profili di viaggiatori."
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/roaming-globale-connettivita-mobile-verso-i-105-miliardi-di-dollari-entro-il-2030/
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Pazza idea: e se l'AI che distrugge la parte commerciale del web ci lasciasse con un web più piccolo ma migliore? Chissà, d'estate la notte si può sognare, no?
Money quote: "Think about it: if AI-generated search results (or even direct use of AI chat interfaces) subsumes web search as a primary way to look up information, there will be no more motivation to crank out SEO-driven content. These kinds of articles will fade into obscurity as the only purpose for their existence (monetization) is gone.
Perhaps we will be left with the blogosphere of old with webrings and RSS (not that these things went away but they're certainly not mainstream anymore)."
https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/ai-will-make-blogging-better/
Money quote: "Think about it: if AI-generated search results (or even direct use of AI chat interfaces) subsumes web search as a primary way to look up information, there will be no more motivation to crank out SEO-driven content. These kinds of articles will fade into obscurity as the only purpose for their existence (monetization) is gone.
Perhaps we will be left with the blogosphere of old with webrings and RSS (not that these things went away but they're certainly not mainstream anymore)."
https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/ai-will-make-blogging-better/
www.pcloadletter.dev
Generative AI will probably make blogs better
What the **** does that mean?
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Interrotto alcuni giorni fa il Parigi-Milano perché ha piovuto. Negare che ci sia un cambiamento climatico in atto e contestualmente un problema forte di infrastrutture mi sembra sempre più in malafede, francamente.
Money quote: "Al momento sono in corso operazioni di bonifica per ripristinare la sicurezza e la funzionalità della linea ferroviaria. La SNCF ha espresso l'auspicio che non siano stati compromessi i binari, poiché eventuali danni strutturali potrebbero prolungare ulteriormente la sospensione del collegamento tra le due città."
https://www.lastampa.it/torino/2025/07/01/news/treni_milano_parigi_interrotti_maltempo-15213788/
Money quote: "Al momento sono in corso operazioni di bonifica per ripristinare la sicurezza e la funzionalità della linea ferroviaria. La SNCF ha espresso l'auspicio che non siano stati compromessi i binari, poiché eventuali danni strutturali potrebbero prolungare ulteriormente la sospensione del collegamento tra le due città."
https://www.lastampa.it/torino/2025/07/01/news/treni_milano_parigi_interrotti_maltempo-15213788/
La Stampa
Il maltempo ferma il treno Parigi-Milano: “Stop di alcuni giorni”
La piena del Charmaix ferma il treno che fa scalo a Torino. Operazioni di ripristino in corso, nessuna vittima segnalata
Il mondo dei videogiochi sta cambiando alla velocità della luce. Wow.
Money quote: "Expedition 33', el juego mejor valorado del año y convertido en un superventas, ha costado 10 millones de euros, ni la décima parte de lo que cuesta una superproducción. La tecnología ayuda a abaratar obras que, hasta hace no tanto, habrían costado fortunas"
https://elpais.com/cultura/2025-06-28/la-revolucion-creativa-low-cost-cuando-la-tecnologia-pone-el-arte-al-alcance-de-todos.html
Money quote: "Expedition 33', el juego mejor valorado del año y convertido en un superventas, ha costado 10 millones de euros, ni la décima parte de lo que cuesta una superproducción. La tecnología ayuda a abaratar obras que, hasta hace no tanto, habrían costado fortunas"
https://elpais.com/cultura/2025-06-28/la-revolucion-creativa-low-cost-cuando-la-tecnologia-pone-el-arte-al-alcance-de-todos.html
El País
La revolución creativa ‘low cost’: cuando la tecnología pone el arte al alcance de todos
Películas de presupuestos bajos como ‘Flow’ y ‘El brutalista’ o videojuegos como ‘Clair Obscur’ compiten con grandes producciones gracias a herramientas accesibles como la IA y el ‘software’ libre
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Esiste una dieta che faccia bene? A quanto pare sì.
Money quote: "The self-reported study was conducted among 12,499 employees from five companies, of whom 88 percent were male with an average age of 42.5 years.
A total of 30.9 percent of the cohort exhibited depressive symptoms, but those who followed a typical Japanese diet were found to be less likely to do so. The researchers made efforts to isolate other potential factors that could influence the results."
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250628/p2g/00m/0sc/009000c
Money quote: "The self-reported study was conducted among 12,499 employees from five companies, of whom 88 percent were male with an average age of 42.5 years.
A total of 30.9 percent of the cohort exhibited depressive symptoms, but those who followed a typical Japanese diet were found to be less likely to do so. The researchers made efforts to isolate other potential factors that could influence the results."
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250628/p2g/00m/0sc/009000c
The Mainichi
Japanese diet may help in fight against depression, study shows
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The rate of depressive symptoms was lower among working-age people who consume a Japanese-style diet including rice, miso soup and fi
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Letture per il fine settimana
Il teatrino dei big del tech e il loro grande amore per la filosofoa antica farebbe sorridere se non stessimo tutti piangendo.
Money quote: "Infatti, il paradosso è evidente: chi ha fondato il social network più invasivo della storia cita filosofi che predicavano il "vivi nascosto". Epicuro sosteneva che la felicità si raggiungesse attraverso l'atarassia, l'assenza di turbamento , evitando la vita pubblica e politica. Il suo celebre motto (in greco) "làthe biōsas", vivi nascosto, invitava a una vita riservata, lontana dai clamori del mondo. Zuckerberg ha reso pubblica l'esistenza di miliardi di persone, ma dice di ispirarsi a un pensatore che considerava la privacy totale l'essenza della saggezza."
https://www.macitynet.it/nuovi-imperatori-digitali/
Il teatrino dei big del tech e il loro grande amore per la filosofoa antica farebbe sorridere se non stessimo tutti piangendo.
Money quote: "Infatti, il paradosso è evidente: chi ha fondato il social network più invasivo della storia cita filosofi che predicavano il "vivi nascosto". Epicuro sosteneva che la felicità si raggiungesse attraverso l'atarassia, l'assenza di turbamento , evitando la vita pubblica e politica. Il suo celebre motto (in greco) "làthe biōsas", vivi nascosto, invitava a una vita riservata, lontana dai clamori del mondo. Zuckerberg ha reso pubblica l'esistenza di miliardi di persone, ma dice di ispirarsi a un pensatore che considerava la privacy totale l'essenza della saggezza."
https://www.macitynet.it/nuovi-imperatori-digitali/
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Letture per la domenica
Il costo della chiusura degli spazi aerei. La versione del Guardian e poi quella derivativa e casereccia del Post, come al solito.
Money quote 1: "The incident demonstrated how the effects of unexpected strikes and airspace closures can reverberate across the world: Qantas was forced to divert two flights in mid-air, while Air India said it would suspend all flights to eastern North America and Europe due to the increasingly narrow path between those destinations and the Indian subcontinent. Hundreds more flights were cancelled altogether.
The re-routings are placing a bigger burden on airlines' bottom lines -- and on the environment."
Money quote 2: "La chiusura degli spazi aerei su determinati paesi, o la forte riduzione dei voli che li attraversano per il rischio di essere colpiti e abbattuti intenzionalmente o accidentalmente, ha spesso conseguenze non solo su scala locale, ma anche globale. Oltre a essere molto esteso, il Medio Oriente è un'area pressoché irrinunciabile per le compagnie aeree che dall'Europa offrono rotte verso l'Asia e l'Oceania. Per evitare alcuni dei cieli più a rischio, gli aerei di linea compiono lunghe deviazioni, allungando i tempi di percorrenza, consumando più carburante e inquinando di più."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/flying-in-the-new-age-of-conflict-the-hotspots-diverting-flights-and-leaving-pilots-blind
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/06/24/aerei-volare-guerra-gps/
Bonus: la ricerca accademica
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-52652-7_38
Il costo della chiusura degli spazi aerei. La versione del Guardian e poi quella derivativa e casereccia del Post, come al solito.
Money quote 1: "The incident demonstrated how the effects of unexpected strikes and airspace closures can reverberate across the world: Qantas was forced to divert two flights in mid-air, while Air India said it would suspend all flights to eastern North America and Europe due to the increasingly narrow path between those destinations and the Indian subcontinent. Hundreds more flights were cancelled altogether.
The re-routings are placing a bigger burden on airlines' bottom lines -- and on the environment."
Money quote 2: "La chiusura degli spazi aerei su determinati paesi, o la forte riduzione dei voli che li attraversano per il rischio di essere colpiti e abbattuti intenzionalmente o accidentalmente, ha spesso conseguenze non solo su scala locale, ma anche globale. Oltre a essere molto esteso, il Medio Oriente è un'area pressoché irrinunciabile per le compagnie aeree che dall'Europa offrono rotte verso l'Asia e l'Oceania. Per evitare alcuni dei cieli più a rischio, gli aerei di linea compiono lunghe deviazioni, allungando i tempi di percorrenza, consumando più carburante e inquinando di più."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/flying-in-the-new-age-of-conflict-the-hotspots-diverting-flights-and-leaving-pilots-blind
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/06/24/aerei-volare-guerra-gps/
Bonus: la ricerca accademica
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-52652-7_38
the Guardian
Flying in the new age of conflict – the hotspots diverting flights and leaving pilots blind
Amid conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, airlines have been forced to divert around warzones while managing new threats to their systems
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È il momento di imparare a scrivere codice, nonostante tutto quello che si dice sull’AI che manderà i programmatori nel limbo dei disoccupati.
Money quote: "I'm having a blast; am I doing something wrong? Aren't developers supposed to be miserable? I suppose there are storm clouds yonder; AI wars and rumors of AI wars. I'm told the very models I'm having fun with today will be the reason I'm laid off tomorrow, that some execs are jumping the gun and pulling the plug on new talent already. Evidently I've been a highly paid craft farmer my whole life, and the LLM is the mighty combine harvester, here to harvest my codes. Or plant them and then harvest idk what an analogy is."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-165655726
Money quote: "I'm having a blast; am I doing something wrong? Aren't developers supposed to be miserable? I suppose there are storm clouds yonder; AI wars and rumors of AI wars. I'm told the very models I'm having fun with today will be the reason I'm laid off tomorrow, that some execs are jumping the gun and pulling the plug on new talent already. Evidently I've been a highly paid craft farmer my whole life, and the LLM is the mighty combine harvester, here to harvest my codes. Or plant them and then harvest idk what an analogy is."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-165655726
Substack
Now might be the best time to learn software development
And the most fun
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Un informatico in vena di sperimentazioni ha provato a riattivare il sito di uno degli indirizzi ip dei tracker "morti" dei torrent (parliamo della condivisione di file su reti peer-to-peer. Pochi minuti dopo bussavano alla sua porta tre milioni di agenti desiderosi di condividere. Lui ha spento tutto, ma l’idea è che fuori ci sia una rete da paura.
Money quote: "I then started the tracker. After about an hour, it peaked at about 1.7 million distinct torrents across 3.1 million peers!"
https://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.html
Money quote: "I then started the tracker. After about an hour, it peaked at about 1.7 million distinct torrents across 3.1 million peers!"
https://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.html
Kian Bradley’s Blog
Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers
So I was uh, downloading some linux isos, like usual. It was going slowly, so I opened up the Trackers tab in qBittorrent and saw the following:
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