A quanto pare tutti si stanno dirigendo verso il Giappone. È il momento del paese del Sol Levante e l'iperturismo sta iniziando a pretendere un pedaggio sempre più pesante. Come sempre, Craig Mod offre una prospettiva ponderata che riformula la questione, non solo per il Giappone, ma per qualsiasi luogo alle prese con la tensione tra la vita locale e l'attenzione globale. Vivendo a Milano e proveniendo a Firenze penso di averne un'idea.
Money quote: “If you’ve ever wondered why overtourism can be a kind of death for parts of a city (the parts that involve: living there, commuting there, creating a life there) it’s because it paradoxically disincentivizes building small businesses. Nobody opens a tiny restaurant or café to be popular on a grand, viral scale. Nor do they open them to become rich.”
https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/210/
Money quote: “If you’ve ever wondered why overtourism can be a kind of death for parts of a city (the parts that involve: living there, commuting there, creating a life there) it’s because it paradoxically disincentivizes building small businesses. Nobody opens a tiny restaurant or café to be popular on a grand, viral scale. Nor do they open them to become rich.”
https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/210/
Craig Mod
Overtourism in Japan, and How it Hurts Small Businesses
Why being popular is not the goal of most small businesses
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Visto che d'estate si passa il tempo a guardare i video, vi consiglio di farvi un giro su questo canale, B1M. E guardare qualcuno dei video su palazzi, modalità costruttive, sviluppo economico. Non è niente male.
Money quote: "The B1M is the world’s largest, most subscribed-to (and best) video channel for construction. Over 30 million people watch our videos each month.
We inspire a better industry by sharing knowledge and expertise with a mass audience. We attract the best talent by showing construction at its best to millions."
https://www.theb1m.com/
Money quote: "The B1M is the world’s largest, most subscribed-to (and best) video channel for construction. Over 30 million people watch our videos each month.
We inspire a better industry by sharing knowledge and expertise with a mass audience. We attract the best talent by showing construction at its best to millions."
https://www.theb1m.com/
Theb1M
Construction's Leading Video Channel - The B1M
The world's largest, most subscribed-to (and best) video channel for construction, architecture and engineering (AEC).
Anteprima!
Sogni infranti, insegnanti alle prese con studenti e smartphone, mappe che riscrivono il mondo, segreti di famiglia svelati dal DNA: è pronto Mostly Weekly 338 (arriva domani nelle inbox degli abbonati, queta è una anteprima)
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/338/
Sogni infranti, insegnanti alle prese con studenti e smartphone, mappe che riscrivono il mondo, segreti di famiglia svelati dal DNA: è pronto Mostly Weekly 338 (arriva domani nelle inbox degli abbonati, queta è una anteprima)
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/338/
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Nvidia sta spingendo molto sull'aspetto fisico dell'intelligenza artificiale: dare letteralmente braccia e gambe ai modelli.
Money quote: "La nuova ossessione è la "physical AI", l’intelligenza artificiale che non vive soltanto nei data center, ma interagisce fisicamente con il mondo, comandando robot e macchine autonome."
https://www.rivista.ai/2025/08/12/la-prossima-ondata-di-intelligenza-artificiale-lintelligenza-artificiale-fisica-physical-ai/
Money quote: "La nuova ossessione è la "physical AI", l’intelligenza artificiale che non vive soltanto nei data center, ma interagisce fisicamente con il mondo, comandando robot e macchine autonome."
https://www.rivista.ai/2025/08/12/la-prossima-ondata-di-intelligenza-artificiale-lintelligenza-artificiale-fisica-physical-ai/
Letture per la domenica
Un'analisi dei modelli open source più avanzati attualmente disponibili ha rilevato che gpt-oss-120b di OpenAI ha ottenuto il peggior punteggio su LiveBench, un benchmark privato che utilizza domande segrete. Mentre il modello sembrava buono il giorno dell'uscita, da allora sono stati rilasciati un sacco di rapporti critici: il retropensiero è che questi modelli siano addestrati per rendere bene nei benchmark pubblici.
Questi risultati non sono una prova conclusiva che OpenAI stia barando nei benchmark, ma solleva la questione se valga la pena creare meta-benchmark che cerchino di misurare l'overfitting in modi più robusti.
Money quote: "The new gpt-oss-120b jumps out as getting the most worse on LiveBench. It moved 15 positions down the list, from 9th place (a tie with DeepSeek R1 and Claude 4 Sonnet Thinking) down to 24th place. On LiveBench it ranks below the previous-gen Qwen 3 variants (dense 32B and sparse 30B-A3B). Both of these are 4x smaller parameter count than gpt-oss-120b, and run on my 2-year-old laptop."
https://cmart.blog/gpt-oss-120b-benchmaxxed/
Un'analisi dei modelli open source più avanzati attualmente disponibili ha rilevato che gpt-oss-120b di OpenAI ha ottenuto il peggior punteggio su LiveBench, un benchmark privato che utilizza domande segrete. Mentre il modello sembrava buono il giorno dell'uscita, da allora sono stati rilasciati un sacco di rapporti critici: il retropensiero è che questi modelli siano addestrati per rendere bene nei benchmark pubblici.
Questi risultati non sono una prova conclusiva che OpenAI stia barando nei benchmark, ma solleva la questione se valga la pena creare meta-benchmark che cerchino di misurare l'overfitting in modi più robusti.
Money quote: "The new gpt-oss-120b jumps out as getting the most worse on LiveBench. It moved 15 positions down the list, from 9th place (a tie with DeepSeek R1 and Claude 4 Sonnet Thinking) down to 24th place. On LiveBench it ranks below the previous-gen Qwen 3 variants (dense 32B and sparse 30B-A3B). Both of these are 4x smaller parameter count than gpt-oss-120b, and run on my 2-year-old laptop."
https://cmart.blog/gpt-oss-120b-benchmaxxed/
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Io mi sono inventato le mie "trabahanze" metà lavoro e metà vacanza, ma El Pais invece ha fatto di meglio trovando le "coolcations", concetto che mi sconfinfera molto sopratutto con questo gran caldo.
Money quote: "Cuando agobia el calor tórrido, los granos de arena actúan como brasas y el agua está más caliente que el aire, muchos sufridos veraneantes elevan la vista al norte de España en busca de vacaciones refrescantes y reparadoras. El acrónimo de moda se llama *coolcations*, acrónimo de *cool *(fresco y guay) y *vacations *(vacaciones), que alienta ese creciente éxodo veraniego al norte peninsular pese al riesgo de lluvias y alguna que otra ola de calor que la humedad convierte en insoportable"
https://elpais.com/elviajero/escapadas/espana/2025-07-25/de-san-vicente-de-la-barquera-a-zarautz-10-playas-de-la-costa-norte-de-espana-refrescantes-y-gastronomicas.html
Money quote: "Cuando agobia el calor tórrido, los granos de arena actúan como brasas y el agua está más caliente que el aire, muchos sufridos veraneantes elevan la vista al norte de España en busca de vacaciones refrescantes y reparadoras. El acrónimo de moda se llama *coolcations*, acrónimo de *cool *(fresco y guay) y *vacations *(vacaciones), que alienta ese creciente éxodo veraniego al norte peninsular pese al riesgo de lluvias y alguna que otra ola de calor que la humedad convierte en insoportable"
https://elpais.com/elviajero/escapadas/espana/2025-07-25/de-san-vicente-de-la-barquera-a-zarautz-10-playas-de-la-costa-norte-de-espana-refrescantes-y-gastronomicas.html
El País
De San Vicente de la Barquera a Zarautz: 10 playas de la costa norte de España, refrescantes y gastronómicas
El acrónimo de moda se llama ‘coolcations’, acrónimo de ‘cool’ (fresco y guay) y ‘vacations’ (vacaciones), y alienta ese creciente éxodo veraniego al norte peninsular
Il boss di Microsoft, Satya Nadella, fa un discreto esercizio di equilibrismo dialettico per spiegare come mai la rivoluzione tecnologica dell'intelligenza artificiale è un bene anche se farà fuori montagne di dipendenti, uno dopo l'altro, a partire da quelli di maggior pregio e quindi di maggior costo. Brani della sua lettera meriterebbero di essere letti ncadtonato in una enciclopedia come esempi della voce "ipocrisia".
Money quote: "The phrase “enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value” is another bit of rationalization at work. At best,it’s a psychological sleight of hand, as much for himself as for his audience. Nadella’s comparison of the current shift with the 1990s PC revolution is very calculated. It stirs excitement and fear of missing out, while simultaneously normalizing the idea that major technological shifts require human casualties.
Sure, they do."
https://om.co/2025/07/26/the-satya-of-satyas-layoff-memo/
Money quote: "The phrase “enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value” is another bit of rationalization at work. At best,it’s a psychological sleight of hand, as much for himself as for his audience. Nadella’s comparison of the current shift with the 1990s PC revolution is very calculated. It stirs excitement and fear of missing out, while simultaneously normalizing the idea that major technological shifts require human casualties.
Sure, they do."
https://om.co/2025/07/26/the-satya-of-satyas-layoff-memo/
On my Om
The Satya of Satya’s Layoff Memo
“The tournament of today – a set-to between labor and monopoly. To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a memo is not just a memo. That’s why we have to read between …
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La numerazione delle strade di Firenze fa letteralmente impazzire un sacco di gente. Sia per i colori che per il verso.
Money quote: "Nel centro storico di Firenze la numerazione stradale segue un particolare sistema con numeri rossi e blu: i numeri rossi vengono assegnati alle attività commerciali, quelli blu agli edifici residenziali. Succede così che nella stessa via esistano due numeri uguali corrispondenti a edifici diversi, ma uno contrassegnato con il blu e uno con il rosso. Le due numerazioni quindi non procedono di pari passo e talvolta possono essere spaiate anche di decine di metri."
https://firenzecuriosita.blogspot.com/2008/07/la-numerazione-civica-di-firenze.html
Money quote: "Nel centro storico di Firenze la numerazione stradale segue un particolare sistema con numeri rossi e blu: i numeri rossi vengono assegnati alle attività commerciali, quelli blu agli edifici residenziali. Succede così che nella stessa via esistano due numeri uguali corrispondenti a edifici diversi, ma uno contrassegnato con il blu e uno con il rosso. Le due numerazioni quindi non procedono di pari passo e talvolta possono essere spaiate anche di decine di metri."
https://firenzecuriosita.blogspot.com/2008/07/la-numerazione-civica-di-firenze.html
Blogspot
La numerazione civica di Firenze
Nel centro storico di Firenze la numerazione stradale segue un particolare sistema con numeri rossi e blu: i numeri rossi vengono assegnati ...
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Il paradosso formale del cinema di supereroi - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2025/08/il-paradosso-formale-del-cinema-di-supereroi/
https://fumettologica.it/2025/08/il-paradosso-formale-del-cinema-di-supereroi/
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Visto che ieri parlavo di Firenze, mi sposto a Rignano sull'Arno, il paesino di Renzi, con questa relazione tecnico-storica (pdf)che ne spiega origini e funzionamento.
Money quote: "In virtù delle favorevoli condizioni ambientali, il territorio di Rignano fu stabilmente abitato fin dall’epoca antica.
La presenza degli Etruschi è testimoniata da vari ritrovamenti archeologici, i più importanti dei quali sul Poggio di Firenze.
Più densa e diffusa la presenza romana."
https://cloud.ldpgis.it/rignanosullarno/sites/rignanosullarno/files/ps/PS_QC_54_87_122.pdf
Money quote: "In virtù delle favorevoli condizioni ambientali, il territorio di Rignano fu stabilmente abitato fin dall’epoca antica.
La presenza degli Etruschi è testimoniata da vari ritrovamenti archeologici, i più importanti dei quali sul Poggio di Firenze.
Più densa e diffusa la presenza romana."
https://cloud.ldpgis.it/rignanosullarno/sites/rignanosullarno/files/ps/PS_QC_54_87_122.pdf
Parola nuova da imparare: "microcation", vacanza microscopica. Quattro notti massimo. È una nuova tendenza? È una forma di moderna nevrosi? Una mazzata ulteriore all'ambiente? Capitalismo al suo estremo? Intanto, registriamola.
Money quote: "Microcations are all about enjoying a quick, refreshing change of scenery without draining your wallet or burning through your vacation days. For people with limited PTO or those juggling work, family and everything in between, these bite-sized getaways make it possible to see more of the world without cashing in on two full weeks or splurging on one big annual trip.
Leigh Rowan, founder and CEO of Savanti Travel, a San Francisco-based full-service travel management company, says the biggest driver behind microcations is simple: time scarcity. “But people are starting to realize that you don’t need a lot of time to feel recharged, you just need to use the time you do have exceptionally well.” He’s seeing microcations catch on with two main groups: high-performing professionals and busy executives who can’t fully unplug for an entire week, and couples or families looking to maximize quality time without coordinating complex schedules."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-is-a-microcation_l_689f4dcde4b0ef392c223261
Money quote: "Microcations are all about enjoying a quick, refreshing change of scenery without draining your wallet or burning through your vacation days. For people with limited PTO or those juggling work, family and everything in between, these bite-sized getaways make it possible to see more of the world without cashing in on two full weeks or splurging on one big annual trip.
Leigh Rowan, founder and CEO of Savanti Travel, a San Francisco-based full-service travel management company, says the biggest driver behind microcations is simple: time scarcity. “But people are starting to realize that you don’t need a lot of time to feel recharged, you just need to use the time you do have exceptionally well.” He’s seeing microcations catch on with two main groups: high-performing professionals and busy executives who can’t fully unplug for an entire week, and couples or families looking to maximize quality time without coordinating complex schedules."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-is-a-microcation_l_689f4dcde4b0ef392c223261
HuffPost UK
The 'Microcation' Is The Smartest Travel Trend You Can Actually Afford
Experts share the secrets to enjoying a quick, refreshing change of scenery without draining your wallet or burning through your vacation days.
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Siamo tutti ossessionati dal matcha, il tè verde giapponese. È diventato un fenomeno mondiale. E sta mandando in tilt l'industria locale, anche perché i prezzi sono altissimi ma i piccoli produttori indipendenti non riescono a stargli dietro. Articolo fenomenale per capire come funziona e le ragioni indirette di questa bolla del tè.
Money quote: "If you’re on social media, there’s a bankable chance your algorithm has served you matcha in some form or another. It’s easy to picture the verdant powder, whisked to froth in glazed chawan before being tipped, streaming, into a glass of cold milk; or a domestic surface populated with small tins and at least one bamboo whisk—the prototypical post-Japan haul. On MatchaTok, you’ll see influencers whip up their foamy beverages in zellige-tiled kitchens, cramped hotel rooms, and even on long-haul flights."
https://atmos.earth/the-world-wants-matcha-japans-farms-cant-keep-up/
Money quote: "If you’re on social media, there’s a bankable chance your algorithm has served you matcha in some form or another. It’s easy to picture the verdant powder, whisked to froth in glazed chawan before being tipped, streaming, into a glass of cold milk; or a domestic surface populated with small tins and at least one bamboo whisk—the prototypical post-Japan haul. On MatchaTok, you’ll see influencers whip up their foamy beverages in zellige-tiled kitchens, cramped hotel rooms, and even on long-haul flights."
https://atmos.earth/the-world-wants-matcha-japans-farms-cant-keep-up/
Atmos
The World Wants Matcha. Japan’s Farms Can’t Keep Up.
The world’s obsession with the green tea pushed prices to historic highs. But as droughts and extreme heat squeeze harvests, small farmers question how long they can keep up.
Critici sostituiti da influencer, software che si piegano all’utente, retrofuturo giapponese e pure Gesù nel muro: Mostly Weekly numero 339 è appena uscita
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/339/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/339/
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Letture per la domenica
Tratto da un libro che raccoglie dei saggi dello scrittore cubano Abraham Jiménez Enoa, intitolato originariamente "La isla oculta" e appena tradotto in inglese appropriatamente come "The Hidden Island", questo saggio parla della rete underground che fa funzionare La Bolita, la lotteria quotidiana totalmente illegale ma popolarissima a Cuba. Stupendo.
Money quote: "Cuba’s gambling laws threaten any “banker, messenger, collector, or promoter of illegal gambling” with “one to three years in prison, payments of 300 to 1,000 pesos, or both,” adding that “if the aforementioned crimes are committed by two or more people or involve minors under sixteen years of age, the prison term will be three to eight years.” But more Cubans play La Bolita than baseball, the national sport.
“No city, town, or corner is free from this devouring cancer,” wrote the nineteenth-century intellectual José Antonio Saco in his celebrated 1832 treatise Memoir on Vagrancy in Cuba. “It has crept from Punta de Maisí to Cabo de San Antonio, from the westernmost tip of the island to the east.”
In the twentieth century, when Cuba was a neocolonial property of the United States, the game was run by men who sold small, numbered balls called bolitas, hence its name. A ball cost anywhere from a cent to a peso. You could hear the winning numbers on the radio or public-access television. Unlike the state lottery, which cost much more, even the poorest people could play."
https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2025-08/lucks-children-hidden-island-jimenez-enoa-meyer/
Tratto da un libro che raccoglie dei saggi dello scrittore cubano Abraham Jiménez Enoa, intitolato originariamente "La isla oculta" e appena tradotto in inglese appropriatamente come "The Hidden Island", questo saggio parla della rete underground che fa funzionare La Bolita, la lotteria quotidiana totalmente illegale ma popolarissima a Cuba. Stupendo.
Money quote: "Cuba’s gambling laws threaten any “banker, messenger, collector, or promoter of illegal gambling” with “one to three years in prison, payments of 300 to 1,000 pesos, or both,” adding that “if the aforementioned crimes are committed by two or more people or involve minors under sixteen years of age, the prison term will be three to eight years.” But more Cubans play La Bolita than baseball, the national sport.
“No city, town, or corner is free from this devouring cancer,” wrote the nineteenth-century intellectual José Antonio Saco in his celebrated 1832 treatise Memoir on Vagrancy in Cuba. “It has crept from Punta de Maisí to Cabo de San Antonio, from the westernmost tip of the island to the east.”
In the twentieth century, when Cuba was a neocolonial property of the United States, the game was run by men who sold small, numbered balls called bolitas, hence its name. A ball cost anywhere from a cent to a peso. You could hear the winning numbers on the radio or public-access television. Unlike the state lottery, which cost much more, even the poorest people could play."
https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2025-08/lucks-children-hidden-island-jimenez-enoa-meyer/
Words Without Borders
Luck's Children by Abraham Jiménez Enoa - Words Without Borders
Cuban writer Abraham Jiménez Enoa draws us into the underground network that runs La Bolita, Cuba’s wildy popular—and illegal—daily lottery.
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In italiano in effetti non viene usato se non per introdurre delle battute di dialogo (e la convenzione tipografica è leggermente diversa) ma in inglese il trattino lungo (cioè l'em dash) viene usato e anche parecchio. Per questo l'idea che circola nella rete anglofona, cioè che si tratti di un chiaro segnale che un testo è stato scritto dall'intelligenza artificiale perché "l'em dash non viene usato dalle persone" è abbastanza balzana.
Money quote: "Yet for months, the em dash has been the victim of a relentless campaign of online persecution the likes of which no punctuation mark, not even the semicolon, has ever seen. Any chucklehead who disagrees with an online post can, if that post happens to include an em dash, dismiss it with the claim that it was written by a chatbot. It’s gotten so bad that people on random subreddits are having to issue PSAs informing their fellow users that em dashes were not invented by ChatGPT. These people are heroes of our time. Normally I’m an enthusiastic advocate of AI-shaming, but I will not stand idly by while you make the em dash a pawn in your dirty game of bot-spotting."
https://www.theringer.com/2025/08/20/pop-culture/em-dash-use-ai-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-google-gemini
Post scritto mio: il trattino semplice in italiano ha una lunghezza diversa dall'em dash. Nelle due lingue questi trattini sono comunque più lunghi dal trattino usato per legare assieme le parole, tipo "part-time" (quello che nelle nostre tastiere sta a destra prima del tasto delle maiscole). In inglese invece l'em dash introduce digressioni o chiarimenti, serve a dare enfasi e colore. Negli ultimi anni sta entrando anche nella scrittura italiana come prestito stilistico, anche se le varie funzioni dell'em dash in italiano sono coperte a seconda della bisogna dai due punti (per introdurre spiegazioni o elenchi), parentesi (per le digressioni), virgole e punti e virgola (per le pause più o meno forti).
Tipo: "C’era una sola cosa da fare — scappare."
Che in italiano di solito si scrive: "C’era una sola cosa da fare: scappare."
Quindi, esiste il segno dell'em dash (c'è nell'Unicode, per dire) ma non appartiene alla norma italiana; invece, lo stiamo importanto sempre più di frequente, salvo che le AI non lo rendano "cancellabile".
Money quote: "Yet for months, the em dash has been the victim of a relentless campaign of online persecution the likes of which no punctuation mark, not even the semicolon, has ever seen. Any chucklehead who disagrees with an online post can, if that post happens to include an em dash, dismiss it with the claim that it was written by a chatbot. It’s gotten so bad that people on random subreddits are having to issue PSAs informing their fellow users that em dashes were not invented by ChatGPT. These people are heroes of our time. Normally I’m an enthusiastic advocate of AI-shaming, but I will not stand idly by while you make the em dash a pawn in your dirty game of bot-spotting."
https://www.theringer.com/2025/08/20/pop-culture/em-dash-use-ai-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-google-gemini
Post scritto mio: il trattino semplice in italiano ha una lunghezza diversa dall'em dash. Nelle due lingue questi trattini sono comunque più lunghi dal trattino usato per legare assieme le parole, tipo "part-time" (quello che nelle nostre tastiere sta a destra prima del tasto delle maiscole). In inglese invece l'em dash introduce digressioni o chiarimenti, serve a dare enfasi e colore. Negli ultimi anni sta entrando anche nella scrittura italiana come prestito stilistico, anche se le varie funzioni dell'em dash in italiano sono coperte a seconda della bisogna dai due punti (per introdurre spiegazioni o elenchi), parentesi (per le digressioni), virgole e punti e virgola (per le pause più o meno forti).
Tipo: "C’era una sola cosa da fare — scappare."
Che in italiano di solito si scrive: "C’era una sola cosa da fare: scappare."
Quindi, esiste il segno dell'em dash (c'è nell'Unicode, per dire) ma non appartiene alla norma italiana; invece, lo stiamo importanto sempre più di frequente, salvo che le AI non lo rendano "cancellabile".
Theringer
Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please
Human writers have always used the em dash. In fact, it’s the most human punctuation mark there is.
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In Canada hanno legalizzato l'eutanasia quasi dieci anni fa. Questo sta avendo un impatto sociale notevole al punto che adesso è statisticamente rilevante per le cause di morte di quel Paese.
Money quote: "When Canada’s Parliament in 2016 legalized the practice of euthanasia—Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID, as it’s formally called—it launched an open-ended medical experiment. One day, administering a lethal injection to a patient was against the law; the next, it was as legitimate as a tonsillectomy, but often with less of a wait. MAID now accounts for about one in 20 deaths in Canada—more than Alzheimer’s and diabetes combined—surpassing countries where assisted dying has been legal for far longer."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/canada-euthanasia-demand-maid-policy/683562/
archivio: https://archive.is/GLzqm
Money quote: "When Canada’s Parliament in 2016 legalized the practice of euthanasia—Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID, as it’s formally called—it launched an open-ended medical experiment. One day, administering a lethal injection to a patient was against the law; the next, it was as legitimate as a tonsillectomy, but often with less of a wait. MAID now accounts for about one in 20 deaths in Canada—more than Alzheimer’s and diabetes combined—surpassing countries where assisted dying has been legal for far longer."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/canada-euthanasia-demand-maid-policy/683562/
archivio: https://archive.is/GLzqm
The Atlantic
Canada Is Killing Itself
The country gave its citizens the right to die. Doctors are struggling to keep up with demand.
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Questo articolo sostiene che i sistemi di credenze, come il modello geocentrico della Chiesa cattolica, sono strutturati come cattedrali concettuali con idee interconnesse. Mettere in discussione una convinzione fondamentale, come l'eliocentrismo, può destabilizzare l'intero sistema, portando a dissonanza cognitiva e ragionamenti divergenti. Strategie efficaci per cambiare le credenze implicano il targeting dei nodi principali o la rottura delle connessioni tra le idee, piuttosto che fare affidamento esclusivamente su prove fattuali. Le convinzioni strutturate in sistemi sono difficili ma non impossibili da riorganizzare.
Money quote: "The Church’s worldview was a bonafide conceptual cathedral. Its visible rituals and teachings rested on a hidden architecture of interlocking ideas, each supporting and reinforcing the others. At the very foundation was the belief that Christianity—and specifically the Church—was the sole authority on interpreting reality. The geocentric model was a crucial supporting pillar: it was drawn directly from noscripture and literally carved into the intellectual and physical fabric of Christian society. To question geocentrism was to question the explanatory power of noscripture itself, and by extension, the Church’s authority to define what was true."
https://vasily.cc/blog/facts-dont-change-minds/
Money quote: "The Church’s worldview was a bonafide conceptual cathedral. Its visible rituals and teachings rested on a hidden architecture of interlocking ideas, each supporting and reinforcing the others. At the very foundation was the belief that Christianity—and specifically the Church—was the sole authority on interpreting reality. The geocentric model was a crucial supporting pillar: it was drawn directly from noscripture and literally carved into the intellectual and physical fabric of Christian society. To question geocentrism was to question the explanatory power of noscripture itself, and by extension, the Church’s authority to define what was true."
https://vasily.cc/blog/facts-dont-change-minds/
Vas Zayarskiy
Why Facts Don’t Change Minds in the Culture Wars—Structure Does
Why do facts bounce off some people? It’s not about logic; it’s about structure. Your worldview isn’t a list of opinions—it's a living network. And right now, it's at war.
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Classifichiamola come "una modesta proposta"
Money quote: "At the age of 82, he is only a couple years older than the current president and the same age as the prior one. Amelio could hop right back in and provide leadership that doesn’t involve building one-of-a-kind objects that are designed as elaborate appeasement vehicles.
So … yeah! Get Gil Amelio back in the chair, put him on the board, let him run the company, have him figure out how to manage with higher tariffs and less political support. But at least he won’t be out there making cringey shows of support just to keep a political figure on the company’s side."
https://tedium.co/2025/08/06/tim-cook-apple-trump-gift/
Money quote: "At the age of 82, he is only a couple years older than the current president and the same age as the prior one. Amelio could hop right back in and provide leadership that doesn’t involve building one-of-a-kind objects that are designed as elaborate appeasement vehicles.
So … yeah! Get Gil Amelio back in the chair, put him on the board, let him run the company, have him figure out how to manage with higher tariffs and less political support. But at least he won’t be out there making cringey shows of support just to keep a political figure on the company’s side."
https://tedium.co/2025/08/06/tim-cook-apple-trump-gift/
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
Gil Amelio Wouldn’t Give Trump A Desk Ornament
If Tim Cook is busy having Apple make unnecessary ornaments as appeasement for political leaders, why not have Gil Amelio lead the company instead?
Cose strane che si leggono in rete: il tizio che si è bevuto tutti i cocktail della International Bartenders Association (IBA, per gli amici).
Money quote: "As of 2025, there are 102 IBA official cocktails, and as of July 12, 2025, I’ve had every one of them.
The journey has taken me to some interesting places, and now that it’s done, I have a little story to tell for each cocktail. I’m not gonna tell you all 102 stories, but I do want to debrief the experience. Drinking all 102 cocktails turned out to be unexpectedly tricky, and for reasons you’ll soon understand, I might be one of the first people in the world to do it."
https://aaronson.org/blog/i-drank-every-cocktail
Money quote: "As of 2025, there are 102 IBA official cocktails, and as of July 12, 2025, I’ve had every one of them.
The journey has taken me to some interesting places, and now that it’s done, I have a little story to tell for each cocktail. I’m not gonna tell you all 102 stories, but I do want to debrief the experience. Drinking all 102 cocktails turned out to be unexpectedly tricky, and for reasons you’ll soon understand, I might be one of the first people in the world to do it."
https://aaronson.org/blog/i-drank-every-cocktail
Adam Aaronson
I Drank Every Cocktail | Adam Aaronson
The International Bartenders Association, or IBA, maintains a list of official cocktails, ones they deem to be “the most requested recipes” at bars all around the world. It’s the closest thing the bartending industry has to a canonical list of cocktails,…
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Viviamo nell'era della qualità sempre più declinante.
Money quote: "There’s one conclusion that comes up repeatedly throughout this report: the perception that everything is of lower quality is more pronounced among older people. The reasons are varied. One is that attributes like durability — which used to be a major factor in how people judged a product’s quality — have lost relevance.
Psychologist Albert Vinyals, author of El consumidor tarado (The Disordered Consumer) (2019), recalls that years ago, the first thing car ads highlighted was their longevity. “Now we don’t even consider it,” he notes over the phone. “My grandmother, when she went to buy clothes, looked at the type of fabric they were made of. Now, no one knows what their pants are made of. Why would they? In a year, we’ll stop wearing them because they’ll no longer be fashionable.”"
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-20/the-bewildering-phenomenon-of-declining-quality.html
Money quote: "There’s one conclusion that comes up repeatedly throughout this report: the perception that everything is of lower quality is more pronounced among older people. The reasons are varied. One is that attributes like durability — which used to be a major factor in how people judged a product’s quality — have lost relevance.
Psychologist Albert Vinyals, author of El consumidor tarado (The Disordered Consumer) (2019), recalls that years ago, the first thing car ads highlighted was their longevity. “Now we don’t even consider it,” he notes over the phone. “My grandmother, when she went to buy clothes, looked at the type of fabric they were made of. Now, no one knows what their pants are made of. Why would they? In a year, we’ll stop wearing them because they’ll no longer be fashionable.”"
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-20/the-bewildering-phenomenon-of-declining-quality.html
EL PAÍS English
The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
Airplane seats are getting smaller and smaller, clothes are unrecognizable after the second wash, and machines now answer our calls. Quality and care for craftsmanship seem to be things of the past
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Cosa succede quando la politica prova a fare i conti col clima, Trump scoraggia i turisti e un leone veneziano rivela radici cinesi? Ecco Mostly Weekly 340 con questo e molto altro, tipo: l'AI è una enciclopedia difettata
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/340/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/340/
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