Ogni tanto qualcuno se lo potrebbe anche chiedere: adesso che dentro c’è tanta intelligenza artificiale, che cosa vede realmente il Mac? Un sacco di cose, viene da dire. E l’ho detto, in questo mio pezzetto per Wired.it
https://www.wired.it/gadget/computer/2016/06/22/cosa-vede-il-mac/
https://www.wired.it/gadget/computer/2016/06/22/cosa-vede-il-mac/
La storia del "club dei suicidi", i piloti del servizio postale che negli anni venti e trenta volavano per consegnare la posta in tutti gli States. Morte praticamente sicura entro le 900 ore di volo. Una storia da farci un film.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-pilots-who-risked-their-lives-to-deliver-the-mail
Money quote: "But Otto Praeger, Second Assistant Postmaster General, wasn’t convinced of the danger or simply didn’t care, according to Pope. He had a worldview limited to what he could see out of his Washington, D.C. tower. If the weather he saw was good, he thought, the pilots should fly. “He was very demanding of his pilots… All he cared about was that you kept to the schedule. And he drove that into his division superintendents, the guys who were across the country in all these spots. ‘Keep to the schedule! Keep to the schedule!’... Nothing else mattered,” she says"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-pilots-who-risked-their-lives-to-deliver-the-mail
Money quote: "But Otto Praeger, Second Assistant Postmaster General, wasn’t convinced of the danger or simply didn’t care, according to Pope. He had a worldview limited to what he could see out of his Washington, D.C. tower. If the weather he saw was good, he thought, the pilots should fly. “He was very demanding of his pilots… All he cared about was that you kept to the schedule. And he drove that into his division superintendents, the guys who were across the country in all these spots. ‘Keep to the schedule! Keep to the schedule!’... Nothing else mattered,” she says"
Atlas Obscura
The Pilots Who Risked Their Lives to Deliver the Mail
Being an airmail carrier was one of the most dangerous jobs in America.
È morto l'inventore dell'Otello. Era un signore giapponese di più di novant'anni.
Money quote: "His father, an English literature expert, was behind the name, inspired by Shakespeare's play because the game uses round pieces — black on one side, white on the other"
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/06/23/world/asia/ap-as-obit-othello-creator.html
Money quote: "His father, an English literature expert, was behind the name, inspired by Shakespeare's play because the game uses round pieces — black on one side, white on the other"
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/06/23/world/asia/ap-as-obit-othello-creator.html
Apple conferma che ha pubblicato il Kernel di iOS 10 senza crittarlo intenzionalmente.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/22/apple-unencrypted-kernel/
https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/22/apple-unencrypted-kernel/
TechCrunch
Apple confirms iOS kernel code left unencrypted intentionally
When Apple released a preview version of iOS 10 at its annual developers conference last week, the company slipped in a surprise for security researchers —..
Sogno di una notte d’estate: l’iOssizzazione del Mac - Un mio pezzo per Macity che vi farà divertire. Soprattutto se andrete a curiosare tra i commenti, tra qualche ora...
https://m.macitynet.it/sogno-di-una-notte-prima-dellestate-liossizzazione-del-mac/
Money quote: "Il futuro? Un’interfaccia sempre più lunare, convergente su tecnologie aliene, lontane dall’utente, una lavatrice essenziale o un microonde minimalista, più che una efficiente bicicletta per la mente. È questa la strada che stiamo imboccando? Ditemi, è proprio questa?"
https://m.macitynet.it/sogno-di-una-notte-prima-dellestate-liossizzazione-del-mac/
Money quote: "Il futuro? Un’interfaccia sempre più lunare, convergente su tecnologie aliene, lontane dall’utente, una lavatrice essenziale o un microonde minimalista, più che una efficiente bicicletta per la mente. È questa la strada che stiamo imboccando? Ditemi, è proprio questa?"
Macitynet.it
Sogno di una notte d’estate: l’iOssizzazione del Mac
iOssizzazione: Lasciamo parlare l’intelligenza emotiva che forse ci racconta la vera storia profonda del cambiamento del Mac
Alan Turing viene spesso sottovalutato o male interpretato. In realtà, ci sono parecchie cose che si potrebbero imparare da questa figura decisamente significativa in più ambiti.
Money quote: "Fascinated by the presence of Fibonacci numbers in the leaf arrangements of plants and the color patterns of animals, he developed some of the earliest mathematical models of how biological shapes emerge — a pioneering effort to crack the algorithmic code of nature, correctly predicting the diffusion of chemical signals that determine the patterns of shape-development. All of this he did at a time before Cartwright, Watson, and Crick discovered the molecular structure of DNA — the dawn of molecular biology and biochemistry as we know them today."
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/01/alan-turing-morphogenesis-diagrams/
Money quote: "Fascinated by the presence of Fibonacci numbers in the leaf arrangements of plants and the color patterns of animals, he developed some of the earliest mathematical models of how biological shapes emerge — a pioneering effort to crack the algorithmic code of nature, correctly predicting the diffusion of chemical signals that determine the patterns of shape-development. All of this he did at a time before Cartwright, Watson, and Crick discovered the molecular structure of DNA — the dawn of molecular biology and biochemistry as we know them today."
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/01/alan-turing-morphogenesis-diagrams/
Brain Pickings
Alan Turing’s Little-Known Contributions to Biology and His Mesmerizing Hand-Drawn Diagrams of Dappling Patterns
What the Fibonacci fascinations of daisies have to do with Kandinsky and mid-century graphic design.
C'è bisogno di ripensare le interfacce utente per i nuovi apparecchi digitali basati su realtà virtuale e 3D. Lungo e dettagliato articolo, contiene la base di quasi tutto quel che leggerete altrove.
Money quote: This results from the fact that our eyes don’t move smoothly across the text when we read longer sentences. Instead, they make discrete jumps between words, which are called saccades."
https://viljamis.com/2016/typography-for-user-interfaces/
Money quote: This results from the fact that our eyes don’t move smoothly across the text when we read longer sentences. Instead, they make discrete jumps between words, which are called saccades."
https://viljamis.com/2016/typography-for-user-interfaces/
Viljami Salminen
Typography for User Interfaces
Back in 2004, when I had just started my career, sIFR was the hottest thing out there. It was developed by Shaun Inman and it embedded custom fonts in a small Flash movie, which could be...
Fra le tante cose storte e probabilmente sbagliate della cultura dominante negli Usa spicca l'abuso dell'automobile e la riduzione degli spazi previsti per camminare. Ad Atlanta, la prima città statunitense in cui sono stato, sono moltissime le strade prive di marciapiedi o di sistemi di attraversamento pedonale pensati effettivamente per i pedoni.
Una riflessione sul privilegio di poter cammianare ogni giorno che spesso sottovalutiamo. Eppure, fa molto bene.
https://aeon.co/essays/step-by-step-americans-are-sacrificing-the-right-to-walk
Money quote: "Our most basic access to health comes from walking. Walking for just 30 minutes five days a week has been shown to have a significant impact on everything from obesity to depression and colon cancer. A normal day’s errands would easily take more than 30 minutes on foot. When we get around by driving instead we’re liable to become overweight, insular, edgy."
Una riflessione sul privilegio di poter cammianare ogni giorno che spesso sottovalutiamo. Eppure, fa molto bene.
https://aeon.co/essays/step-by-step-americans-are-sacrificing-the-right-to-walk
Money quote: "Our most basic access to health comes from walking. Walking for just 30 minutes five days a week has been shown to have a significant impact on everything from obesity to depression and colon cancer. A normal day’s errands would easily take more than 30 minutes on foot. When we get around by driving instead we’re liable to become overweight, insular, edgy."
Aeon
The end of walking
In Orwellian fashion, Americans have been stripped of the right to walk, challenging their humanity, freedom and health
Se avete comprato Ebook per Kindle con un account americano, avete diritto a un risarcimento pagato da Apple, che ha perso una caus milionaria con l'accusa di aver fatto comunella con gli editori. Vertenza interessante ma ancora più singolare e intrigante la ricaduta sui consumatori
https://www.slashgear.com/check-your-amazon-account-for-a-surprise-from-apple-today-21445168/
Money quote: "In order to qualify, you need to have purchased an ebook published by Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin, or Macmillan, between April 1st, 2010, and May 21st, 2012."
https://www.slashgear.com/check-your-amazon-account-for-a-surprise-from-apple-today-21445168/
Money quote: "In order to qualify, you need to have purchased an ebook published by Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin, or Macmillan, between April 1st, 2010, and May 21st, 2012."
SlashGear
Check your Amazon account for a surprise from Apple today
If you’re an Amazon customer who has bought ebooks in the past, you might have a pleasant surprise waiting for you in your account today as the retail behemoth starts delivering Apple credits…
Non ho commentato la Brexit né intendo farlo, perlomeno non qui. Però, tra i tanti angoli possibili, questo alla "Game of Thrones" mi pare sorprendente.
Money quote: "Friday morning, Michael Ryan, the chairman of the Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA), the trade association representing companies behind independent film and TV worldwide, said the Brexit is “likely to be devastating” for the creative sector, Variety reports".
https://thinkprogress.org/culture/2016/06/24/3792315/brexit-will-likely-devestating-film-television-industry-uk/
Money quote: "Friday morning, Michael Ryan, the chairman of the Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA), the trade association representing companies behind independent film and TV worldwide, said the Brexit is “likely to be devastating” for the creative sector, Variety reports".
https://thinkprogress.org/culture/2016/06/24/3792315/brexit-will-likely-devestating-film-television-industry-uk/
ThinkProgress
Brexit Is ‘Likely To Be Devastating’ For Film And Television Industry In The U.K.
Why Brexit is "a major blow" to the U.K.'s entertainment industry.
On Icons. Un bel ragionamento di iA sulle icone, il loro significato e il loro peso nelle interfacce moderne.
A me gli Information Architects piacciono moltossimo: hanno ottime idee e ancora migliori capacità di esecuzione. In questo breve saggio sulle icone e le interfacce il ragionamento è parecchio interessante.
Money quote: "What does this tell us? Not much, except that icons save space and great icons look fresh. But unless you have designed and assigned them yourself, their clarity is suspect. An icon can represent a thousand different words, and that is precisely the problem. Anything with a thousand possible meanings needs a lot of context to become unambiguous."
https://ia.net/know-how/on-icons
A me gli Information Architects piacciono moltossimo: hanno ottime idee e ancora migliori capacità di esecuzione. In questo breve saggio sulle icone e le interfacce il ragionamento è parecchio interessante.
Money quote: "What does this tell us? Not much, except that icons save space and great icons look fresh. But unless you have designed and assigned them yourself, their clarity is suspect. An icon can represent a thousand different words, and that is precisely the problem. Anything with a thousand possible meanings needs a lot of context to become unambiguous."
https://ia.net/know-how/on-icons
ia.net
On Icons | iA
iA offers professional advice in the field of user experience design, marketing and management of digital products. We run UX studios in Tokyo, Zurich and Berlin. To get in touch, just write a short mail to [email protected].
Una inchiesta dai toni forti sulla deriva a destra del Pd che difficilmente diventerà mainstream. La portano avanti Wu Ming e Nicoletta Bourbaki, due collettivi nati in momenti diversi e con finalità diverse che oggi però rappresentano gli influencer di una parte rilevante della sinistra extra Pd.
Money quote: «Nel corpo sempre più virtuale del partito – che non ha più una teoria né una minimamente coerente visione del mondo oltre la mera difesa della propria funzione e dello stato delle cose – regnano la più assoluta spregiudicatezza, il peggior eclettismo e la schizofrenia. Se aggiungiamo che la scalata di Renzi ha attirato avventurieri da ogni dove, il risultato è che da dentro il PD giungono addirittura esternazioni chiaramente fasciste.»
https://www.wumingfoundation.com/giap/?p=25467
Money quote: «Nel corpo sempre più virtuale del partito – che non ha più una teoria né una minimamente coerente visione del mondo oltre la mera difesa della propria funzione e dello stato delle cose – regnano la più assoluta spregiudicatezza, il peggior eclettismo e la schizofrenia. Se aggiungiamo che la scalata di Renzi ha attirato avventurieri da ogni dove, il risultato è che da dentro il PD giungono addirittura esternazioni chiaramente fasciste.»
https://www.wumingfoundation.com/giap/?p=25467
Giap
CasaP(oun)D. Rapporti con l’estrema destra nel ventre del partito renziano
di Wu Ming e Nicoletta Bourbaki * «Nel corpo sempre più virtuale del partito – che non ha più una teoria né una minimamente coerente visione del mondo oltre la mera difesa della propria [...]
Il Dna mitocondriale viene ereditato dalle madri e non dai padri. È uno dei meccanismi meno chiari della riproduzione: perché è così? Nuove ipotesi.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/science/mitochondrial-dna-mothers.html
Money quote: "It’s unclear whether having some paternal mitochondrial DNA in our cells leads to health problems. To date, there’s been one reported possible case, detailed in 2002 by researchers in Denmark. In a man with mitochondrial myopathy, a neuromuscular disease, the scientists discovered a mutation on mitochondrial DNA that came from his father. It’s possible, however, that the mutation occurred spontaneously after conception, rather than being inherited directly from his father"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/science/mitochondrial-dna-mothers.html
Money quote: "It’s unclear whether having some paternal mitochondrial DNA in our cells leads to health problems. To date, there’s been one reported possible case, detailed in 2002 by researchers in Denmark. In a man with mitochondrial myopathy, a neuromuscular disease, the scientists discovered a mutation on mitochondrial DNA that came from his father. It’s possible, however, that the mutation occurred spontaneously after conception, rather than being inherited directly from his father"
NY Times
Why Do We Inherit Mitochondrial DNA Only From Our Mothers? (Published 2016)
New research investigates why paternal mitochondria perish in embryos.
Forwarded from macitynet.it
Parigi, Amazon consegna in un’ora: il comune preoccupato per l’economia https://www.macitynet.it/comune-parigi-preoccupato-dalla-concorrenza-amazon-nei-confronti-commercianti-artigiani/
Macitynet.it
Parigi, Amazon consegna in un'ora: il comune preoccupato per l'economia
L’amministrazione comunale di Parigi preoccupata dal lancio del servizio Prime Now che garantisce il recapito gratuito, inclusi prodotti freschi e congelati, entro due ore dall’ordine. “Le operazioni di Amazon potrebbero seriamente destabilizzare l'economia…
Trovo affascinante la maniera con la quale a seconda dei contesti e dei periodi storici cambia il significato delle cose ma al tempo stesso le parole rimangono attaccate.
“Divorare un libro”: un segno di superficialità? La riflessione, per quanto come sempre anglocentrica, è intrigante perché l’autrice, Louise Adams, scava a fondo e trova nessi e connessioni non banali.
Money quote: “Novels particularly were associated with such habits of consumption, for they became a symbol of the newly accessible literary market. Commentators described them as feeding unwholesome appetites. In turn, certain readers were linked to novel-imbibing habits, particularly women. Describing their reading as consumption was a way of denigrating them, for it positioned them as vulnerable, ignorant and morally contagious. Gustatory metaphors often implied that women read according to the flesh, in contrast to the disembodied realm of ‘rational’ masculinity.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/is-devouring-books-a-sign-of-superficiality-in-a-reader
“Divorare un libro”: un segno di superficialità? La riflessione, per quanto come sempre anglocentrica, è intrigante perché l’autrice, Louise Adams, scava a fondo e trova nessi e connessioni non banali.
Money quote: “Novels particularly were associated with such habits of consumption, for they became a symbol of the newly accessible literary market. Commentators described them as feeding unwholesome appetites. In turn, certain readers were linked to novel-imbibing habits, particularly women. Describing their reading as consumption was a way of denigrating them, for it positioned them as vulnerable, ignorant and morally contagious. Gustatory metaphors often implied that women read according to the flesh, in contrast to the disembodied realm of ‘rational’ masculinity.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/is-devouring-books-a-sign-of-superficiality-in-a-reader
Aeon
Is ‘devouring’ books a sign of superficiality in a reader? | Aeon Ideas
The idea of devouring a book wasn’t always as complimentary as it is today. Why do we talk about reading as eating?
Uno di quei pezzi che solo gli americani fanno e che sono tutti da leggere. Anche quando, come in questo caso, sono davvero lunghi.
Un giornalista di Mother Jones va in incognito a fare da guardia penitenziaria in una struttura privata (negli USA ci sono le prigioni private) e il suo pezzo cambia un po' il modo in cui si fa giornalismo.
È una lettura domenicale perfetta
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-prisons-corrections-corporation-inmates-investigation-bauer
Money quote: ""If a inmate hit me, I'm go' hit his ass right back. I don't care if the camera's rolling. If a inmate spit on me, he's gonna have a very bad day." Mr. Tucker says we should call for backup in any confrontation. "If a midget spit on you, guess what? You still supposed to call for backup. You don't supposed to ever get into a one-on-one encounter with anybody. Period. Whether you can take him or not. Hell, if you got a problem with a midget, call me. I'll help you. Me and you can whup the hell out of him.""
Un giornalista di Mother Jones va in incognito a fare da guardia penitenziaria in una struttura privata (negli USA ci sono le prigioni private) e il suo pezzo cambia un po' il modo in cui si fa giornalismo.
È una lettura domenicale perfetta
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-prisons-corrections-corporation-inmates-investigation-bauer
Money quote: ""If a inmate hit me, I'm go' hit his ass right back. I don't care if the camera's rolling. If a inmate spit on me, he's gonna have a very bad day." Mr. Tucker says we should call for backup in any confrontation. "If a midget spit on you, guess what? You still supposed to call for backup. You don't supposed to ever get into a one-on-one encounter with anybody. Period. Whether you can take him or not. Hell, if you got a problem with a midget, call me. I'll help you. Me and you can whup the hell out of him.""
Mother Jones
My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard: A Mother Jones Investigation
This is the biggest investigation we’ve ever published.
Circola una voce in rete: che Apple stia per fare lo spin-off dei Mac in una nuova società, concentrandosi solo su prodotti di lusso hi-tech, dai telefoni ai tablet fino agli orologi e alle tv. Di più: si dice anche che potrebbe dare in licenza la realizzazione dell'hardware a delle terze parti, mantenendo in sostanza solo il controllo delle tecnologie software e dei servizi connessi.
A me pare follia, ne scrivo su Wired
https://www.wired.it/gadget/computer/2016/06/27/spin-off-mac/
A me pare follia, ne scrivo su Wired
https://www.wired.it/gadget/computer/2016/06/27/spin-off-mac/
Wired
Perché Apple non deve fare lo spin-off del Mac
Un’idea che gira in rete in queste settimane ma che sarebbe deleteria. Così come pensare di concedere il sistema operativo in licenza a produttori di cloni del Mac
Da tempo sta emergendo un nuovo tipo di thriller: storie scritte da donne, che trattano temi antichi (per il genere dei gialli e dintorni) in maniera nuova, differente. Intrigante, soprattutto se pensate che i Italia da quindici-venti anni a questa parte c’è stata una rinascita di giallo, thriller, poliziesco e affini tutta al maschile e tutta basata su stereotipi codificati a cavallo della Seconda guerra mondiale.
Mony quote: “The female writers, for whatever reason (men?), don’t much believe in heroes, which makes their kind of storytelling perhaps a better fit for these cynical times. Their books are light on gunplay, heavy on emotional violence. Murder is de rigueur in the genre, so people die at the hands of others—lovers, neighbors, obsessive strangers—but the body counts tend to be on the low side. “I write about murder,” Tana French once said, “because it’s one of the great mysteries of the human heart: How can one human being deliberately take another one’s life away?””
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/women-are-writing-the-best-crime-novels/485576/
Mony quote: “The female writers, for whatever reason (men?), don’t much believe in heroes, which makes their kind of storytelling perhaps a better fit for these cynical times. Their books are light on gunplay, heavy on emotional violence. Murder is de rigueur in the genre, so people die at the hands of others—lovers, neighbors, obsessive strangers—but the body counts tend to be on the low side. “I write about murder,” Tana French once said, “because it’s one of the great mysteries of the human heart: How can one human being deliberately take another one’s life away?””
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/women-are-writing-the-best-crime-novels/485576/
The Atlantic
Women Are Writing the Best Crime Novels
The secrets of the ‘Gone Girl’ era
Nel 1994 venne pubblicato "E-Mail from Bill" uno di quei lunghi pezzo-ritratto-Exposé per cui il New Yorker va giustamente famoso.
È un gran bel racconto, anche lungo da leggere. Oggi fa tanto reperto storico e anche un po' tenerezza.
Money quote: "Ballmer is the reason Gates always flies coach when he is traveling on business. “If you’re going to work for this company,” Ballmer told me, “you’re going to rent a certain kind of car and stay in a certain kind of hotel and fly coach, because that’s business, and anything else is just aggrandizement.” Gates once chartered a plane because he had to get somewhere in a hurry, but Ballmer gave him so much grief that Gates is still explaining why he did it. Experienced fliers into and out of Seattle know to scan the cabin for a man with a blanket over his head—that’s Bill Gates, taking a nap"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/01/10/e-mail-from-bill
È un gran bel racconto, anche lungo da leggere. Oggi fa tanto reperto storico e anche un po' tenerezza.
Money quote: "Ballmer is the reason Gates always flies coach when he is traveling on business. “If you’re going to work for this company,” Ballmer told me, “you’re going to rent a certain kind of car and stay in a certain kind of hotel and fly coach, because that’s business, and anything else is just aggrandizement.” Gates once chartered a plane because he had to get somewhere in a hurry, but Ballmer gave him so much grief that Gates is still explaining why he did it. Experienced fliers into and out of Seattle know to scan the cabin for a man with a blanket over his head—that’s Bill Gates, taking a nap"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/01/10/e-mail-from-bill
The New Yorker
E-Mailing with Bill Gates
A vision of the future.