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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Insomma, chi è l’erede spirituale di Steve Jobs? Una bella domanda, tra Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Sam Altman, Alexandr Wan e altri.
Money quote: "That doesn't make him the next Steve Jobs, and it's fair to ask whether the company can still be an industry-leading innovator. And Cook, like Satya Nadella, is essentially ineligible for next-Steve-Jobshood anyway, as the crown requires founder mojo.
But it seems pretty likely that whomever we collectively decide is the singular, transcendent tech impresario of the new era won't look like the original Steve Jobs. They will carry their own collage of special genes, and for Altman and the other contenders, what they might yield is still playing out."
https://www.newcomer.co/p/ai-moguls-vie-for-leadership-crown
Money quote: "That doesn't make him the next Steve Jobs, and it's fair to ask whether the company can still be an industry-leading innovator. And Cook, like Satya Nadella, is essentially ineligible for next-Steve-Jobshood anyway, as the crown requires founder mojo.
But it seems pretty likely that whomever we collectively decide is the singular, transcendent tech impresario of the new era won't look like the original Steve Jobs. They will carry their own collage of special genes, and for Altman and the other contenders, what they might yield is still playing out."
https://www.newcomer.co/p/ai-moguls-vie-for-leadership-crown
www.newcomer.co
AI Moguls Vie for Leadership Crown
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La storia dello Speedmaster di Omega, l’orologio che è andato sulla Luna (e nello spazio)
Money quote: "Al momento del lancio, lo Speedmaster era il primo cronografo da polso con scala tachimetrica sulla lunetta e non sul quadrante, un elemento di design preferito dai piloti da corsa. Il segnatempo è animato dal leggendario calibro Omega 321 dotato di cronografo con ruota a colonne. Omega ha impiegato il movimento basato sul calibro 2310 di Lemania fino al 1968. Molti però vedono lo Speedmaster originale come il "Santo Graal" degli orologi. La sua introduzione risale a 60 anni fa e la sua produzione è durata soli due anni, motivo per cui non ne esistono molti modelli in circolazione. Se avete intenzione di comprare questo segnatempo e siete abbastanza fortunati da trovarne uno, aspettatevi di pagare una cifra compresa tra diverse decine di migliaia e centinaia di migliaia di euro per un modello in buone condizioni."
https://www.chrono24.it/magazine/storia-di-unicona-lomega-speedmaster-p_33971/
Money quote: "Al momento del lancio, lo Speedmaster era il primo cronografo da polso con scala tachimetrica sulla lunetta e non sul quadrante, un elemento di design preferito dai piloti da corsa. Il segnatempo è animato dal leggendario calibro Omega 321 dotato di cronografo con ruota a colonne. Omega ha impiegato il movimento basato sul calibro 2310 di Lemania fino al 1968. Molti però vedono lo Speedmaster originale come il "Santo Graal" degli orologi. La sua introduzione risale a 60 anni fa e la sua produzione è durata soli due anni, motivo per cui non ne esistono molti modelli in circolazione. Se avete intenzione di comprare questo segnatempo e siete abbastanza fortunati da trovarne uno, aspettatevi di pagare una cifra compresa tra diverse decine di migliaia e centinaia di migliaia di euro per un modello in buone condizioni."
https://www.chrono24.it/magazine/storia-di-unicona-lomega-speedmaster-p_33971/
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Storia di un'icona: l'Omega Speedmaster | Il magazine di Chrono24
L'Omega Speedmaster è forse l'orologio più famoso mai realizzato, grazie al suo ruolo in uno dei momenti più importanti della storia.
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Il ricordare e il ricordo, ma anche il dimenticare e la dimenticanza.
Money quote: "Proviamo a trarre alcune conseguenze. Se ci sono diversi modi della memoria, l'incapacità di ricordare potrebbe essere causata non dal conflitto tra memoria e oblio, o da un processo non conflittuale di indebolimento della memoria, ma dal *conflitto tra modi della memoria*. Ciò significa che, oltre a dimenticare dati o idee, ci si può dimenticare di qualche modo del ricordare."
https://www.giovannibottiroli.it/it/letteratura/personaggi-e-identita/92-solo-una-cosa-no-hay-es-el-olvido.html
Money quote: "Proviamo a trarre alcune conseguenze. Se ci sono diversi modi della memoria, l'incapacità di ricordare potrebbe essere causata non dal conflitto tra memoria e oblio, o da un processo non conflittuale di indebolimento della memoria, ma dal *conflitto tra modi della memoria*. Ciò significa che, oltre a dimenticare dati o idee, ci si può dimenticare di qualche modo del ricordare."
https://www.giovannibottiroli.it/it/letteratura/personaggi-e-identita/92-solo-una-cosa-no-hay-es-el-olvido.html
www.giovannibottiroli.it
“Sólo una cosa no hay. Es el olvido”
Sito ufficiale di Giovanni Bottiroli - professore ordinario di Teoria della letteratura e Retorica e narrazione all’Università di Bergamo
Un giorno ci rimetteremo tutti a studiare Charles Bukowski, e scopriremo che c’era molto di più di quel che abbiamo letto finora. Ad esempio, la sua poesia dedicata al computer.
Money quote: "In general Bukowski kept abreast of new innovations that would further his writing. In a letter to John Martin, his Black Sparrow publisher, Bukowski mentioned the availability of a technology (the Internet) that would allow him to send poems instantly. The speed and ease of new technologies amazed, excited, and inspired him. When he first got a fax machine, Bukowski immediately wrote Martin a fax poem. In late 1992, Bruce Kijewski approached Bukowski with the idea of electronic books. Bukowski was intrigued. He wrote back, "Yes, you have a strange project: electronic books. It might be the future as more and more people find that the computer is such a magic thing: time-saver, charmer, energizer." Bukowski's open-mindedness in old age is refreshing, when you consider all the aging writers who fall back and rely on the familiar, be it in technologies of writing or actual writing style. But there are still reservations and a sense of nostalgia. The same letter to Kijewski continues, "But, still, when [the electronic book] comes I will still miss the old fashioned book." Despite such statements, it is clear that Bukowski was a writer not afraid of, or pessimistic about, the future."
https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/charles-bukowski-william-burroughs-and-the-computer/
Money quote: "In general Bukowski kept abreast of new innovations that would further his writing. In a letter to John Martin, his Black Sparrow publisher, Bukowski mentioned the availability of a technology (the Internet) that would allow him to send poems instantly. The speed and ease of new technologies amazed, excited, and inspired him. When he first got a fax machine, Bukowski immediately wrote Martin a fax poem. In late 1992, Bruce Kijewski approached Bukowski with the idea of electronic books. Bukowski was intrigued. He wrote back, "Yes, you have a strange project: electronic books. It might be the future as more and more people find that the computer is such a magic thing: time-saver, charmer, energizer." Bukowski's open-mindedness in old age is refreshing, when you consider all the aging writers who fall back and rely on the familiar, be it in technologies of writing or actual writing style. But there are still reservations and a sense of nostalgia. The same letter to Kijewski continues, "But, still, when [the electronic book] comes I will still miss the old fashioned book." Despite such statements, it is clear that Bukowski was a writer not afraid of, or pessimistic about, the future."
https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/charles-bukowski-william-burroughs-and-the-computer/
realitystudio.org
Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer – RealityStudio
Reports from the Bibliographic BunkerJed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting 16-bit Intel 8088 chip with an Apple Macintosh ...
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Dalle migrazioni globali a un CD trasparente che non suona, passando per Lorde, MiniDisc, Gmail impazzite e funerali di carta: Mostly Weekly è pieno di sorprese, storie vere e un pizzico di nostalgia tech.
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/332/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/332/
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