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L'ultimo videoregistratore sarà prodotto oggi 30 luglio 2016
L'ultimo videoregistratore potrebbe essere prodotto oggi 30 luglio 2016: Funai, unico produttore rimasto, ne interromperà la produzione oggi.
Le configurazioni di fabbrica chi le ha scelte? E perché sono quelle? In effetti sono le configurazioni che danno forma alla nostra vita, anche perché non vengono quasi mai cambiare. Dovremmo prestarci più attenzione.
Money quote: "Behavioral economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein pretty much wrote the book on the implications of defaults on human behavior. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness is full of ways in which default options can steer human choices, even if we have no idea it’s happening"
https://www.propublica.org/article/set-it-and-forget-it-how-default-settings-rule-the-world?
Money quote: "Behavioral economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein pretty much wrote the book on the implications of defaults on human behavior. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness is full of ways in which default options can steer human choices, even if we have no idea it’s happening"
https://www.propublica.org/article/set-it-and-forget-it-how-default-settings-rule-the-world?
ProPublica
Set It and Forget It: How Default Settings Rule the World — ProPublica
The many ways we act by default (without even knowing it).
Quelli bravi a fare le cose non solo hanno molto chiari i loro obiettivi e lunghe liste di cose da fare, ma sono anche molto bravi a decidere cosa non vogliono fare. Insomma, per fare molte cose devi saper dire di no a molte altre. Intrigante.
Money quote: "I don’t over-program my daily schedule so that there is no downtime."
https://jkglei.com/getting-things-done/
Money quote: "I don’t over-program my daily schedule so that there is no downtime."
https://jkglei.com/getting-things-done/
Jocelyn K. Glei
Productivity Is Really About What You Don’t Do
The best productivity tip I ever got was the idea of a “stop-doing list” from Jim Collins. In this Age of Distraction, we’re all dodging and weaving between so much incoming information that what you don’t do on a daily basis has become as important—if not…
Ci siamo, adesso è ufficiale. Game of Thrones finisce con la stagione numero otto. Però poi non spoilerate il finale TV a Martin, altrimenti non finisce più i libri
Money quote: "The showrunners have also planned for the eighth season to consist of merely six episodes. On that front, however, Bloys said the exact number of season eight episodes is not yet final"
https://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/30/game-thrones
Money quote: "The showrunners have also planned for the eighth season to consist of merely six episodes. On that front, however, Bloys said the exact number of season eight episodes is not yet final"
https://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/30/game-thrones
Entertainment Weekly's EW.com
'Game of Thrones': HBO confirms season 8 will be last
HBO has just answered a huge lingering question about Game of Thrones. EW asked the network’s new programming president Casey Bloys if he plans to...
Una delle grandi campionesse del liberismo e conservatorismo americano è stata Ayn Rand. Un personaggio notevole, russa, filosofa, determinata, ha costruito la trama della sua filosofia di vita scrivendo romanzi anziché saggi (che non è stata una cattiva idea perché sono abbastanza buoni) e creando un cenacolo di giovani intellettuali attorno a sé (il più famoso dei quali è stato Alan Greenspan, poi governatore della Federal reserve americana).
Beh, la cosa davvero interessante era il suo indomito ateismo, parte centrale della sua filosofia basata sull'uomo. Oggi però i conservatori americani sono tutto tranne che laici. Anzi, sono praticamente degli integralisti cristiani, antiabortisti, antigay, anti questo e anti quello. Ciò rende ancora più particolare la figura della Rand e del cambiamento dei tempi.
Money quote: "If she were alive today, Rand would easily give the “new atheists” (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, etc.) a very good run for their money"
Nel 1979 ad esempio la Rand litigava in TV al Phil Donahue Show perché considerava offensivo il pensiero stesso di Dio. Da vedere.
https://www.openculture.com/2010/11/ayn_rand_talks_atheism_with_phil_donahue_.html
Beh, la cosa davvero interessante era il suo indomito ateismo, parte centrale della sua filosofia basata sull'uomo. Oggi però i conservatori americani sono tutto tranne che laici. Anzi, sono praticamente degli integralisti cristiani, antiabortisti, antigay, anti questo e anti quello. Ciò rende ancora più particolare la figura della Rand e del cambiamento dei tempi.
Money quote: "If she were alive today, Rand would easily give the “new atheists” (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, etc.) a very good run for their money"
Nel 1979 ad esempio la Rand litigava in TV al Phil Donahue Show perché considerava offensivo il pensiero stesso di Dio. Da vedere.
https://www.openculture.com/2010/11/ayn_rand_talks_atheism_with_phil_donahue_.html
Open Culture
Ayn Rand Argues That Believing in God Is an Insult to Reason on The Phil Donahue Show (Circa 1979)
Ayn Rand - she's often considered the intellectual darling of America's political right. Rand's free market thinking rubbed off on Alan Greenspan in a big way.
Ogni tanto bisognerebbe ripeterselo: il digitale è per sua natura effimero e a rischio obsolescenza. Sarà per questo che scatto foto ancora con la pellicola?
The digital black hole
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/16/digital-black-hole-delete-memories-information-lost-google-vint-cerf
Money quote: "Similarily, deciding on the best format to preserve them for the next hundred years relies on anticipating what technology is likely to still be available in the future. Computer hard disks can hold vast amounts of digitised information, but everything is lost if it fails or is wiped"
The digital black hole
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/16/digital-black-hole-delete-memories-information-lost-google-vint-cerf
Money quote: "Similarily, deciding on the best format to preserve them for the next hundred years relies on anticipating what technology is likely to still be available in the future. Computer hard disks can hold vast amounts of digitised information, but everything is lost if it fails or is wiped"
the Guardian
The digital black hole: will it delete your memories?
Google’s vice-president Vint Cerf has warned that all digitally stored information could be wiped out by tech upgrades, putting the sum total of human knowledge under threat. An author and scientist explains why today’s systems are so vulnerable – and how…
L'Economist puntualizza che c'è già un successore per Game of Thrones. Solo che è cinese.
Money quote: "“Nirvana in Fire” or Langya Bang, a Chinese TV serial based on an online novel, has taken the nation by storm. Its 54 episodes were, according to South China Morning Post, viewed more than 3.3 billion times online in the show’s first two months, twice as much as the next most popular series. Word spread quickly on social media, with over 3.5 billion comments generated on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. Its court intrigue and fantasy elements, along with breakout success and an intricate cast of characters, led fans to dub it the “Chinese Game of Thrones"
https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/the-daily/the-chinese-game-of-thrones
Money quote: "“Nirvana in Fire” or Langya Bang, a Chinese TV serial based on an online novel, has taken the nation by storm. Its 54 episodes were, according to South China Morning Post, viewed more than 3.3 billion times online in the show’s first two months, twice as much as the next most popular series. Word spread quickly on social media, with over 3.5 billion comments generated on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. Its court intrigue and fantasy elements, along with breakout success and an intricate cast of characters, led fans to dub it the “Chinese Game of Thrones"
https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/the-daily/the-chinese-game-of-thrones
1843
The Chinese Game of Thrones
Suffering withdrawal symptoms after season six? Time to brush up on your Mandarin
Una storia brutta di dislocazione dello spirito e dell'energia. Viaggiare troppo fa male? Pare di sì.
Money quote: "A person is not supposed to be in both Asia and Africa in the same week on a regular basis; the world should not be traversed at that speed. It was scrambling, discombobulating; worse, it was damaging – some central element of my subjective self was being ebbed away"
https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-hotel-room-a-place-of-such-lingering-despair
Money quote: "A person is not supposed to be in both Asia and Africa in the same week on a regular basis; the world should not be traversed at that speed. It was scrambling, discombobulating; worse, it was damaging – some central element of my subjective self was being ebbed away"
https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-hotel-room-a-place-of-such-lingering-despair
Aeon
Hotel Melancholia
Travel is supposed to make us feel more alive, so why is the hotel room a place of such loneliness and despair?
La figlia di sua madre e la madre di sua figlia. Hillary Clinton è il candidato ufficiale dei democratici alle presidenziali americane e vale la pena rileggere questo pezzo di due giorni fa che spiega un po' di cose. Tra l'altro, che Hillary Clinton dichiari "credo nella scienza" (Trump evidentemente no). E invece il momento che stiamo vivendo, dai grillini di casa nostra fino alla Brexit per arrivare a Trump, è un momento che richiede un salto di qualità.
Ps: anche la figlia è tosta.
Money quote: ""I'm voting for the progressive who will protect our planet from climate change and our communities from gun violence, who will reform our criminal justice system, and who believes that women's rights are human rights, and LGBT rights are human rights," Chelsea Clinton said."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hillary-clinton-declares-i-believe-in-science/
Ps: anche la figlia è tosta.
Money quote: ""I'm voting for the progressive who will protect our planet from climate change and our communities from gun violence, who will reform our criminal justice system, and who believes that women's rights are human rights, and LGBT rights are human rights," Chelsea Clinton said."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hillary-clinton-declares-i-believe-in-science/
Scientific American
Hillary Clinton Declares, "I Believe in Science"
She also said, in her acceptance speech, "we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean-energy jobs"
La scienza ci possiede ma noi non possediamo la scienza. Però le narrazioni, con il loro intento pacificatore e consolatorio, semplificano. E la scienza diventa un'altra cosa. Questo spesso ci fa pensare che la scienza sia altro.
Mettiamo il caso dell'estinzione (spesso causata da noi, ma non necessariamente) e il desiderio di de-estinguere gli animali persiti. Alla Jurassic Park, per intenderci. Peccato però che il mondo sia complesso e queste cose non funzionino così. If only
Money quote: "Even the most carefully assembled genetic profile isn’t sufficient to recover what extinction has obliterated. A genome is part of a species, not the species itself. Mammut americanum was an interacting population of creatures, the young ones learning what it was to be a mastodon from their mothers as they grew up to tear tree limbs and chaw through bark. Any recreated species would enter a world that has moved beyond it, lacking its original ecological niche and social structure"
https://aeon.co/ideas/extinction-is-forever-de-extinction-can-t-save-what-we-had
Mettiamo il caso dell'estinzione (spesso causata da noi, ma non necessariamente) e il desiderio di de-estinguere gli animali persiti. Alla Jurassic Park, per intenderci. Peccato però che il mondo sia complesso e queste cose non funzionino così. If only
Money quote: "Even the most carefully assembled genetic profile isn’t sufficient to recover what extinction has obliterated. A genome is part of a species, not the species itself. Mammut americanum was an interacting population of creatures, the young ones learning what it was to be a mastodon from their mothers as they grew up to tear tree limbs and chaw through bark. Any recreated species would enter a world that has moved beyond it, lacking its original ecological niche and social structure"
https://aeon.co/ideas/extinction-is-forever-de-extinction-can-t-save-what-we-had
Aeon
Extinction is forever: de-extinction can’t save what we had
Even if it works, genetic resuscitation would begin something new; it can’t restore what we lost. Extinction is forever
Louis Rossmann ha un canale YouTube nel quale mostra riparazioni "impossibili". Cose che non si dovrebbero poter fare e che Apple invece fa pagare moltossimo con sostituzioni di tutto l'apparecchio. Adesso Louis è diventato un problema - troppo popolare -, dice la rete, e lo vogliono far smettere.
Money quote: "Using a microscope connected to a camera, Louis walks the viewer through the entire procedure, which involves tracking down the problem via common sense and diagnostic tools, and then replacing the faulty components. This is the kind of “surface mount” repair Apple considers impossible – much to Louis’ frequent amusement."
https://www.mackungfu.org/LouisRossmanntheguywhorepairsApplehardwareisunderattack
Money quote: "Using a microscope connected to a camera, Louis walks the viewer through the entire procedure, which involves tracking down the problem via common sense and diagnostic tools, and then replacing the faulty components. This is the kind of “surface mount” repair Apple considers impossible – much to Louis’ frequent amusement."
https://www.mackungfu.org/LouisRossmanntheguywhorepairsApplehardwareisunderattack
www.mackungfu.org
Mac Kung Fu: Louis Rossmann, the guy who repairs Apple hardware, is under attack
News, tips, tricks and info for Apple iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch, TV, and more
C'è qualcosa di affascinante oltre che folle e sbagliato in questo articolo che prova a raccontare a tinte forti il futuro digitale della nostra coscienza
Money quote: "Uploading our entire personalities to a network may sound insane, but you upload a large percentage of your life to social media, email and “the cloud.” Is that uploaded data an accurate representation of “you”? Is it part of your identity? If it were all deleted and replaced with other information, would “you” have changed?"
The Future of Self
https://markmanson.net/future-of-self
Money quote: "Uploading our entire personalities to a network may sound insane, but you upload a large percentage of your life to social media, email and “the cloud.” Is that uploaded data an accurate representation of “you”? Is it part of your identity? If it were all deleted and replaced with other information, would “you” have changed?"
The Future of Self
https://markmanson.net/future-of-self
Mark Manson
The Future of Self
Technology is spreading our identities over an increasing number of times and places. Find out what the future might hold for the way we see our "selves".
Secondo me ci sta: un'ode all'iPod Classic, quello con l'hard disk da 160 giga. I pezzi ancora in circolazione spaccano di brutto. È un sogno per gli appassionati di musica. Un pezzo di futuro ormai passato.
Money quote: "On September 9, 2014, Apple announced that it would no longer be making the iPod Classic. For a seemingly all-powerful corporation, its reasoning was uncharacteristically defeatist: “We couldn’t get the parts anymore, not anywhere on Earth,” Apple CEO Tim Cook later explained. “It wasn’t a matter of me swinging the ax, saying ‘what can I kill today?’ The engineering work was massive, and the number of people who wanted it very small.”
Well, relatively small. He was not wrong about the low sales numbers — especially when compared to a product like the iPhone, which essentially ended the need for a separate mobile music player. But in the weeks after Apple killed off the Classic, something unexpected happened: Used iPods started selling for double, triple, even quadruple their original retail price on eBay. By December, a characteristically melodramatic Daily Mail headline enthused: “iPod Classic which is THREE YEARS OLD is Apple’s hottest item this Christmas.” The Apple Watch never stood a chance."
https://theringer.com/an-ode-to-the-ipod-classic-629e89681c6e#.nsutbvia5
Money quote: "On September 9, 2014, Apple announced that it would no longer be making the iPod Classic. For a seemingly all-powerful corporation, its reasoning was uncharacteristically defeatist: “We couldn’t get the parts anymore, not anywhere on Earth,” Apple CEO Tim Cook later explained. “It wasn’t a matter of me swinging the ax, saying ‘what can I kill today?’ The engineering work was massive, and the number of people who wanted it very small.”
Well, relatively small. He was not wrong about the low sales numbers — especially when compared to a product like the iPhone, which essentially ended the need for a separate mobile music player. But in the weeks after Apple killed off the Classic, something unexpected happened: Used iPods started selling for double, triple, even quadruple their original retail price on eBay. By December, a characteristically melodramatic Daily Mail headline enthused: “iPod Classic which is THREE YEARS OLD is Apple’s hottest item this Christmas.” The Apple Watch never stood a chance."
https://theringer.com/an-ode-to-the-ipod-classic-629e89681c6e#.nsutbvia5
The Ringer
An Ode to the iPod Classic
What the click wheel taught us about listening to music
L'affascinante vita sui pianeti senza un sistema solare (e soprattutto senza un Sole)
Moneta quote: "Free-floating planets are the popcorn kernels that escape from the pot"
https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-make-our-home-on-a-rogue-planet-without-a-sun
Moneta quote: "Free-floating planets are the popcorn kernels that escape from the pot"
https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-make-our-home-on-a-rogue-planet-without-a-sun
Aeon
Life in the dark
In the dark corners of our galaxy, there are billions of rogue planets roaming around, starless – can they support life?
Intervista al padre di Carolina, suicide nel 2013 vittima di bullismo. Oggi il padre non ha rabbia ("non serve, non la riporterebbe indietro") ma vuole che i bulli diventino ambasciatori contro il bullismo.
Money quote: "Quello che più interessa al papà di Carolina è che l’educazione contro il bullismo sia resa centrale. «Mia figlia ha lasciato una specie di testamento, non ci è voluto molto a risalire a chi le ha reso la vita impossibile per mesi e mesi». I ragazzi coinvolti erano sei, un maggiorenne e gli altri minorenni, tra cui anche l’ex fidanzatino della giovane."
https://letteradonna.it/250503/intervista-padre-carolina-picchio-morta-suicida-14-anni-cyberbullismo/
Money quote: "Quello che più interessa al papà di Carolina è che l’educazione contro il bullismo sia resa centrale. «Mia figlia ha lasciato una specie di testamento, non ci è voluto molto a risalire a chi le ha reso la vita impossibile per mesi e mesi». I ragazzi coinvolti erano sei, un maggiorenne e gli altri minorenni, tra cui anche l’ex fidanzatino della giovane."
https://letteradonna.it/250503/intervista-padre-carolina-picchio-morta-suicida-14-anni-cyberbullismo/
Letteradonna
«Hanno tormentato Carolina, ora lottino contro il bullismo»
C'è sofferenza, ma non traspare odio, nelle parole del padre di Carolina, morta suicida a 14 anni. L'uomo, in un'intervista al Corriere, ha ripercorso la vicenda di sua figlia, che tra il 4 e 5 gennaio 2013 ha deciso di farla finita gettandosi dal balcone.…
Un po' di giorni fa parlavo con un'amica del "dopo-sbornia" o come bisognerebbe dire "postumi della sbornia" ed entrambi eravamo stupiti che in italiano non ci sia neanche una parola specifica, come l'inglese "hangover" (in realtà nasce come composto ma poi l'inglese è una lingua molto più creativa dell'italiano e siamo arrivati al sostantivo), il francese "gueule de bois" e lo spagnolo "la resaca" o "la cruda". Adesso salta fuori che i giapponesi ci hanno costruito sopra addirittura un'industria. Lettura interessante.
Money quote: "What makes Japanese cures different is their breadth: the majority of other national hangover cures are simply foods or drinks. In Japan the culture of curing a hangover is closer to homeopathic medicine: these are preventative or curative potions designed to heal specific organs."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-strange-world-of-japanese-hangover-cures
Money quote: "What makes Japanese cures different is their breadth: the majority of other national hangover cures are simply foods or drinks. In Japan the culture of curing a hangover is closer to homeopathic medicine: these are preventative or curative potions designed to heal specific organs."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-strange-world-of-japanese-hangover-cures
Atlas Obscura
The Strange World of Japanese Hangover Cures
It's a $178 million industry, and no one knows if it works.
Forse potrebbe sorprendere alcuni, ma la fantascienza ha radici anche in Africa. Il pensiero unico e le narrazioni dominanti Made in USA distorcono anche questo come la fantascienza dell'Europa centro orientale e di quella asiatica.
Money quote: "Kahiu and her writing partner, Nnedi Okorafor, were named to this year’s Quartz African Innovators list for their feature-length animated film, The Camel Racer. Nigerian-American Okorafor has written multiple science fiction novels set in an Africa that is at once familiar and far-away. Her novella Binti, the story of the first woman of the Namibian Himba tribe, who struggles with her traditions as she studies the galaxy at a prestigious higher learning institute in space, just won a Nebula award."
https://qz.com/743683/without-allowing-space-for-imagination-we-lose-hope/
Money quote: "Kahiu and her writing partner, Nnedi Okorafor, were named to this year’s Quartz African Innovators list for their feature-length animated film, The Camel Racer. Nigerian-American Okorafor has written multiple science fiction novels set in an Africa that is at once familiar and far-away. Her novella Binti, the story of the first woman of the Namibian Himba tribe, who struggles with her traditions as she studies the galaxy at a prestigious higher learning institute in space, just won a Nebula award."
https://qz.com/743683/without-allowing-space-for-imagination-we-lose-hope/
Quartz
Science fiction has ancient roots in Africa. Why shouldn’t it also have a future there?
The Dogon people of Mali believe they are the descendants of an extra-terrestrial race from the Sirius B star system, and the Zulu in South Africa trace their name and origin story to somewhere just beyond the heavens. The African continent is home to a tradition…
Mi sono occupato molte volte, sopratttto per il Sole 24 Ore, di monetica digitale, del costo nella gestione del denaro e la trasformazione grazie alle tecnologie digitali e a internet. Poche volte però si parla dei problemi, soprattutto dei costi di trasformazione. Negli USA questo costo pare sia notevole anche per il "banale" passaggio dalla striscia al chip delle carte di credito (da noi è già successo).
Money quote: "This transition from swiping to chips (or to mobile payments) was always going to be rough. But it’s way worse than I expected and retailers seem to be left to their own devices (literally!) when it comes to knowing what their payment machines should do."
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/7/26/12287360/credit-card-companies-blowing-emv-chip-payments
Money quote: "This transition from swiping to chips (or to mobile payments) was always going to be rough. But it’s way worse than I expected and retailers seem to be left to their own devices (literally!) when it comes to knowing what their payment machines should do."
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/7/26/12287360/credit-card-companies-blowing-emv-chip-payments
The Verge
Credit card companies are blowing it with chip payments
Today I did two things I do nearly every day. 1) I bought something using a credit card, and 2) I complained about something on Twitter. But today, the complaint on Twitter was related to payments,...
È sera: prendetevi una mezz'ora per ponderare questi numeri. Quanti iPhone e quanti Android ci sono nel pianeta. Chi ha vinto la guerra delle piattaforme? E su quali metriche? Con quale vantaggio?
Le cose sono meno semplici di quanto sembra. Però Benedict Evans fa un ottimo punto della situazione.
https://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/7/25/platform-wars-final-score
Money quote: "The smartphone platform wars are pretty much over, and Apple and Google won. But it's interesting, in passing, to note the final score, and think about what it means"
Le cose sono meno semplici di quanto sembra. Però Benedict Evans fa un ottimo punto della situazione.
https://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/7/25/platform-wars-final-score
Money quote: "The smartphone platform wars are pretty much over, and Apple and Google won. But it's interesting, in passing, to note the final score, and think about what it means"
Benedict Evans
Platform wars: the final score
The platform wars and over and Apple and Google both won. So, what's the
score, how many smartphones and tablet are out there, and what should we
think about next?
score, how many smartphones and tablet are out there, and what should we
think about next?
La straordinaria trasformazione di Howard Stern, anchorman della radio americana. Da personaggio becero a confessore, femminista, realista. Le sue interviste alla radio sono come uno shot di siero della verità: gli ospiti dicono tutto
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/arts/howard-stern-sirius.html
Money quote: "“He’s truth serum,” said the comedian Amy Schumer, who has been on the show four times in the last five years. “It’s like you’re under contract to be totally honest in there, and even though it’s being broadcast, it feels super intimate and protected, even though you definitely aren’t.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/arts/howard-stern-sirius.html
Money quote: "“He’s truth serum,” said the comedian Amy Schumer, who has been on the show four times in the last five years. “It’s like you’re under contract to be totally honest in there, and even though it’s being broadcast, it feels super intimate and protected, even though you definitely aren’t.”"
NY Times
Confessor. Feminist. Adult. What the Hell Happened to Howard Stern? (Published 2016)
Scattered among the gleefully vulgar mainstays are now intimate exchanges that have made Mr. Stern one of the most deft interviewers in the business.