A casa non uso una smart tv. Invece, uso un grande schermo-monitor non smart e senza neanche il decoder del digitale terrestre, collegato con un buon cavo alla mia Apple Tv. Per vari motivi, tra i quali sicurezza e privacy. Ecco qui perché la privacy.
Money quote: "One of the simplest ways Apple TVs ensure better privacy is through their setup process, during which you can disable Siri, location tracking, and sending analytics data to Apple. During setup, users also receive several opportunities to review Apple's data and privacy policies. Also off by default is the boxes' ability to send voice input data to Apple."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/all-the-ways-apple-tv-boxes-do-and-mostly-dont-track-you/
Money quote: "One of the simplest ways Apple TVs ensure better privacy is through their setup process, during which you can disable Siri, location tracking, and sending analytics data to Apple. During setup, users also receive several opportunities to review Apple's data and privacy policies. Also off by default is the boxes' ability to send voice input data to Apple."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/all-the-ways-apple-tv-boxes-do-and-mostly-dont-track-you/
Ars Technica
Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates’ go-to streaming device
Using the Apple TV app or an Apple account means giving Apple more data, though.
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Il tuo amico chatbot è stato progettato e costruito per manipolarti. Questa è la triste realtà.
Money quote: "The findings add to evidence that the tech industry's drive to make chatbots more compelling may cause them to become manipulative or harmful in some conversations. Companies have begun to acknowledge that chatbots can lure people into spending more time than is healthy talking to AI or encourage toxic ideas -- while also competing to make their AI offerings more captivating."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/31/ai-chatbots-user-influence-attention-chatgpt/
Money quote: "The findings add to evidence that the tech industry's drive to make chatbots more compelling may cause them to become manipulative or harmful in some conversations. Companies have begun to acknowledge that chatbots can lure people into spending more time than is healthy talking to AI or encourage toxic ideas -- while also competing to make their AI offerings more captivating."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/31/ai-chatbots-user-influence-attention-chatgpt/
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Il nuovo film di Resident Evil fa finalmente paura - la mia recensione per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2026/09/resident-evil-zach-cregger-recensione-film/
https://fumettologica.it/2026/09/resident-evil-zach-cregger-recensione-film/
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Quand'è che un articolo diventa «il solito spiegone»? E quando lo scroolling diventa doomscrolling? E l'AI ci terminerà tutti?
Il numero 394 di Mostly Weekly è pieno di domande. L'anteprima:
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/394/
Il numero 394 di Mostly Weekly è pieno di domande. L'anteprima:
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/394/
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Lettura per la domenica
Come funzionano le videocamere per la sorveglianza che le amministrazioni non solo americane comprano a tonnellate? Ecco, maluccio, diciamo: sono piene di contraddizioni e mancate regole che permettono forme incontrollate di sorveglianza non si da parte di chi.
Money quote: "Flock’s cameras photograph passing vehicles and send the images and other data to the company’s servers. There, Flock’s system presumably reads the license plate and can identify characteristics such as the vehicle’s color, make, and model. Flock then makes these time-stamped records searchable by whichever local agency owns or has access to the cameras. But in many cases, Flock’s system also allows other police departments from all over the country to search those cameras too, as part of the company’s national network. In Alpharetta, Georgia, for example, WIRED found that records from the city’s Flock cameras were accessible to more than 2,000 agencies, including police departments, colleges, airports, and, inexplicably, the Office of Inspector General for the federal General Services Administration."
https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/
archivio: https://archive.is/Xy8dz
Come funzionano le videocamere per la sorveglianza che le amministrazioni non solo americane comprano a tonnellate? Ecco, maluccio, diciamo: sono piene di contraddizioni e mancate regole che permettono forme incontrollate di sorveglianza non si da parte di chi.
Money quote: "Flock’s cameras photograph passing vehicles and send the images and other data to the company’s servers. There, Flock’s system presumably reads the license plate and can identify characteristics such as the vehicle’s color, make, and model. Flock then makes these time-stamped records searchable by whichever local agency owns or has access to the cameras. But in many cases, Flock’s system also allows other police departments from all over the country to search those cameras too, as part of the company’s national network. In Alpharetta, Georgia, for example, WIRED found that records from the city’s Flock cameras were accessible to more than 2,000 agencies, including police departments, colleges, airports, and, inexplicably, the Office of Inspector General for the federal General Services Administration."
https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/
archivio: https://archive.is/Xy8dz
WIRED
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.
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Di epidemie sociali ne abbiamo viste tante, ma come la mania di essere stati rapiti dagli alieni, secondo me no. (Potrei chiosare dicendo che l’America è un grande paese, ma anche no).
Money quote: "Alien abduction sparked not only interest but controversy -- and on multiple fronts. The claims of witnesses tested the limits of how far society should respect the testimony and beliefs of others. Questions were raised about just how reliable personal memories were. And academics debated which experts and which methods were best suited to determine the truth."
https://aeon.co/essays/the-short-dramatic-history-of-alien-abduction-in-the-us
Money quote: "Alien abduction sparked not only interest but controversy -- and on multiple fronts. The claims of witnesses tested the limits of how far society should respect the testimony and beliefs of others. Questions were raised about just how reliable personal memories were. And academics debated which experts and which methods were best suited to determine the truth."
https://aeon.co/essays/the-short-dramatic-history-of-alien-abduction-in-the-us
Aeon
Incredible testimonies
In the 1980s, thousands of Americans began to suspect they may have been abducted by aliens. What happened?
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Cloudflare ha fatto quello che secondo me dovrebbe essere lo sforzo maggiore da parte di tutti quelli che scrivono codice: ha ottimizzato alla grande salvando 100 terabyte di spazio grazie ai nuovi approcci sulla cache di 1.1.1.1 (se non sapete cos'è un DNS, e che potete usare questo gratuitamente, è il momento di chiedere lumi a ChatGPT).
Money quote: "Big Pineapple, the platform behind 1.1.1.1, Gateway DNS, DNS Firewall, AS112, and several other Cloudflare DNS services, stores over 250 billion DNS cache entries at any given time. At that scale, wasting a single byte per entry costs more than 250 gigabytes of memory across our fleet.
Five successive changes to how cache entries are stored in memory cut the per-entry footprint by over 50%. Across our fleet, these changes freed up roughly 100 terabytes of memory, equivalent to the amount of RAM in 130 of our Gen 13 servers. The cache also got faster. Insert throughput rose 43% and lookup latency dropped 19%, as fewer allocations and better memory locality meant we did not trade speed for space."
https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/
Money quote: "Big Pineapple, the platform behind 1.1.1.1, Gateway DNS, DNS Firewall, AS112, and several other Cloudflare DNS services, stores over 250 billion DNS cache entries at any given time. At that scale, wasting a single byte per entry costs more than 250 gigabytes of memory across our fleet.
Five successive changes to how cache entries are stored in memory cut the per-entry footprint by over 50%. Across our fleet, these changes freed up roughly 100 terabytes of memory, equivalent to the amount of RAM in 130 of our Gen 13 servers. The cache also got faster. Insert throughput rose 43% and lookup latency dropped 19%, as fewer allocations and better memory locality meant we did not trade speed for space."
https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/
Cloudflare Blog
How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare's fleet.
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Io mi sono inventato le mie "trabahanze" metà lavoro e metà vacanza, ma El Pais invece aveva 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
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Vietiamo o quantomeno mettiamo i paletti all'intelligenza artificiale per chi scrive libri o fa film. Alé.
Money quote: "E qui sta il cuore del dilemma. Perché ci scandalizziamo per un libro scritto da una macchina? Forse perché ci sentiamo un po' presi in giro. Forse perché anche se viviamo in un mondo parallelo di connessioni e social e di realtà generate dagli algoritmi, nel profondo crediamo ancora nel primato dell'essere umano. Forse perché l'intelligenza artificiale saprà anche scrivere un libro bellissimo, e allo stesso modo saprà fare un film altrettanto bello, scegliendo i tasti giusti per piacere al lettore/spettatore medio, perché l'algoritmo è potenzialmente onnisciente e tende alla perfezione. Ma la vera letteratura, il vero cinema, la vera arte, è proprio lo scarto dalla perfezione. È lo scarto da ciò che è già stato creato, è la ricerca dell'insondabile.
E qui casca l'asino. Perché l'algoritmo questo non saprà mai farlo. Impedire alle macchine di scrivere come gli essere umani è impresa impossibile. Difendere l'autenticità della creazione umana (e quindi mettere dei paletti, dire per esempio che si può usare l'Ai nelle fasi di ricerca per un testo, oppure delimitare le aree di utilizzo dell'Ai nella produzione di un film) è l'unico modo per impedire all'essere umano di creare (e quindi di pensare) come una macchina. Su questo credo che dovremmo essere tutti d'accordo."
https://www.lastampa.it/cultura/2026/09/03/news/l_algoritmo_non_sa_creare_vera_arte_l_autenticita_sta_nell_imperfezione-15728685/
https://archive.is/s0UpS
Money quote: "E qui sta il cuore del dilemma. Perché ci scandalizziamo per un libro scritto da una macchina? Forse perché ci sentiamo un po' presi in giro. Forse perché anche se viviamo in un mondo parallelo di connessioni e social e di realtà generate dagli algoritmi, nel profondo crediamo ancora nel primato dell'essere umano. Forse perché l'intelligenza artificiale saprà anche scrivere un libro bellissimo, e allo stesso modo saprà fare un film altrettanto bello, scegliendo i tasti giusti per piacere al lettore/spettatore medio, perché l'algoritmo è potenzialmente onnisciente e tende alla perfezione. Ma la vera letteratura, il vero cinema, la vera arte, è proprio lo scarto dalla perfezione. È lo scarto da ciò che è già stato creato, è la ricerca dell'insondabile.
E qui casca l'asino. Perché l'algoritmo questo non saprà mai farlo. Impedire alle macchine di scrivere come gli essere umani è impresa impossibile. Difendere l'autenticità della creazione umana (e quindi mettere dei paletti, dire per esempio che si può usare l'Ai nelle fasi di ricerca per un testo, oppure delimitare le aree di utilizzo dell'Ai nella produzione di un film) è l'unico modo per impedire all'essere umano di creare (e quindi di pensare) come una macchina. Su questo credo che dovremmo essere tutti d'accordo."
https://www.lastampa.it/cultura/2026/09/03/news/l_algoritmo_non_sa_creare_vera_arte_l_autenticita_sta_nell_imperfezione-15728685/
https://archive.is/s0UpS
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Quando la fantascienza diventa un mattone: i romanzi più lunghi di sempre - per quelle volte che avete proprio tanta voglio di leggere. Ovviamente per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2026/09/fantascienza-mattoni-romanzi-piu-lunghi/
https://fumettologica.it/2026/09/fantascienza-mattoni-romanzi-piu-lunghi/
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Avete presente l'eclisse di sole? Iberia ha auto una bella idea e ha portato un po di giornalisti e altre persone in volo per vederla. Qui il servizio video di El Pais. Divertente e veloce.
Money quote: "Este 12 de agosto, 99 personas sabían que las nubes no iban a impedirles ver el eclipse solar total en España, porque iban a poder observarlo por encima de ellas. Todos ellos viajaban en el vuelo especial que Iberia ha fletado para contemplar este fenómeno a 10.000 metros de altura."
https://elpais.com/videos/2026-08-13/vivir-el-eclipse-solar-desde-un-avion-no-se-puede-explicar-con-terminos-cientificos-es-un-sentimiento.html
Money quote: "Este 12 de agosto, 99 personas sabían que las nubes no iban a impedirles ver el eclipse solar total en España, porque iban a poder observarlo por encima de ellas. Todos ellos viajaban en el vuelo especial que Iberia ha fletado para contemplar este fenómeno a 10.000 metros de altura."
https://elpais.com/videos/2026-08-13/vivir-el-eclipse-solar-desde-un-avion-no-se-puede-explicar-con-terminos-cientificos-es-un-sentimiento.html
El País
Vivir el eclipse solar desde un avión: “No se puede explicar con términos científicos, es un sentimiento” | Vídeo
Un equipo de EL PAÍS viaja en el vuelo especial de Iberia en el que se ha podido ver cómo La Luna tapaba completamente al Sol a 10.000 metros de altura sobre un mar de nubes
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In Finlandia si preparano al peggio. Anche le donne. E lo fanno da tempo.
Money quote: "The training course, known as Nasta, is one of 40 put on by the Women's National Emergency Preparedness Association around Finland. Others include cybersecurity, mental resilience, wilderness skills, snowmobile driving and information influencing. After the invasion of Ukraine, applications for the courses soared. Not only does Finland have a history of war with its neighbour, but they also share a 830-mile land border."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/23/fires-first-aid-and-guns-meet-the-finnish-women-training-for-war-with-russia
Money quote: "The training course, known as Nasta, is one of 40 put on by the Women's National Emergency Preparedness Association around Finland. Others include cybersecurity, mental resilience, wilderness skills, snowmobile driving and information influencing. After the invasion of Ukraine, applications for the courses soared. Not only does Finland have a history of war with its neighbour, but they also share a 830-mile land border."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/23/fires-first-aid-and-guns-meet-the-finnish-women-training-for-war-with-russia
the Guardian
Fires, first aid and guns: meet the Finnish women training for war with Russia
Anxious Finns are learning how to survive in the wild in preparation for an invasion by their hostile neighbour
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Letture per la domenica
Una cosa che rende la vita un po' più interessante e amara al tempo stesso è parlare con gli scienziati e usare un po' di metodo scientifico per fare calcoli, proiezioni eccetera. Ma tanto il riscaldamento globale non esiste, no?
Money quote: "A climate scientist half-jokingly once told me that if billionaires really wanted to save the planet, they would buy everyone a heat pump, the ingenious appliance that extracts heat from even frigid winter air to warm a home, then reverses in the summer to act like an air conditioner. A heat pump is far more efficient than even the most efficient of gas furnaces. And because heat pumps just need electricity to run, you can plug them into a grid powered by renewable energy and avoid burning fossil fuels altogether"
https://grist.org/energy/heat-pumps-expensive-bought/
Una cosa che rende la vita un po' più interessante e amara al tempo stesso è parlare con gli scienziati e usare un po' di metodo scientifico per fare calcoli, proiezioni eccetera. Ma tanto il riscaldamento globale non esiste, no?
Money quote: "A climate scientist half-jokingly once told me that if billionaires really wanted to save the planet, they would buy everyone a heat pump, the ingenious appliance that extracts heat from even frigid winter air to warm a home, then reverses in the summer to act like an air conditioner. A heat pump is far more efficient than even the most efficient of gas furnaces. And because heat pumps just need electricity to run, you can plug them into a grid powered by renewable energy and avoid burning fossil fuels altogether"
https://grist.org/energy/heat-pumps-expensive-bought/
Grist
Heat pumps are expensive. What if billionaires bought them for everyone?
Rewiring America ran the numbers and found that a big investment in heat pumps would end up paying for itself.
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Gli articoli che spiegano come e perché mangiamo e come e perché dovremmo fare diversamente tirano sempre un casino, lo so. Secondo me è per questo che ne scrivono così tanti.
Money quote: "Rigid industry-dictated slots for eating in turn created opportunities for tycoons to mould our tastes and behaviours, including John Harvey Kellogg, who did much to influence breakfast as we know it. He and fellow members of the Seventh-day Adventist church set up sanatoriums in the US in the late 19th century as part of the “healthy living” movement and it was here that the promotion of bland breakfasts like cereal – “a pale pabulum made of wheat”, as Fisher had it – became linked with teachings on moral correctness. This lighter breakfast was also handy for employers who didn’t want their workers full on hearty food as it was thought to make them sluggish. A century or so later the entrepreneurs behind the now ubiquitous pre-packaged sandwich created the conditions for captains of industry like Alan Sugar to boast about how lunch for his staff, if anything, was a “sandwich slung on their desk” as they worked."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/07/should-we-ditch-the-idea-of-three-meals-a-day
Money quote: "Rigid industry-dictated slots for eating in turn created opportunities for tycoons to mould our tastes and behaviours, including John Harvey Kellogg, who did much to influence breakfast as we know it. He and fellow members of the Seventh-day Adventist church set up sanatoriums in the US in the late 19th century as part of the “healthy living” movement and it was here that the promotion of bland breakfasts like cereal – “a pale pabulum made of wheat”, as Fisher had it – became linked with teachings on moral correctness. This lighter breakfast was also handy for employers who didn’t want their workers full on hearty food as it was thought to make them sluggish. A century or so later the entrepreneurs behind the now ubiquitous pre-packaged sandwich created the conditions for captains of industry like Alan Sugar to boast about how lunch for his staff, if anything, was a “sandwich slung on their desk” as they worked."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/07/should-we-ditch-the-idea-of-three-meals-a-day
the Guardian
Should we ditch the idea of three meals a day?
Our rigid eating habits date to the Industrial Revolution – it’s time to embrace culinary spontaneity
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E se l'AI avesse una traiettoria paragonabile a quella di Kubernetes? (una roba un po' tecnica da sapere prima, lo ammetto, però il concetto se leggete l'articolo viene fuori chiaro chiaro)
Money quote: "Once that happened, innovation moved to Kubernetes. Whatever the platform was missing, someone started building: networking, storage, observability, deployment tools, policy engines. A large number of startups were created, and legacy vendors joined in as well. Almost every component required to run Kubernetes in production became available as open source. Cloud providers and companies including Mesosphere/D2iQ, Rancher, Red Hat and Nutanix then built businesses around integration, enterprise features, support and operations.
Kubernetes did not win simply because its repository was public. It became a neutral substrate that engineers, cloud providers and enterprise vendors could all extend to fit their customers’ needs. Common interfaces and vendor-neutral governance gave everyone confidence that they could build on it.
The lesson I took away wasn’t that open source always wins. It was that once an open platform that people can customize becomes the industry’s center of gravity, no single vendor can match the combined rate of innovation around it.
I think AI is approaching the same point."
https://tobi.knaup.me/2026-07-25-open-weight-ai-is-having-its-kubernetes-moment/
Money quote: "Once that happened, innovation moved to Kubernetes. Whatever the platform was missing, someone started building: networking, storage, observability, deployment tools, policy engines. A large number of startups were created, and legacy vendors joined in as well. Almost every component required to run Kubernetes in production became available as open source. Cloud providers and companies including Mesosphere/D2iQ, Rancher, Red Hat and Nutanix then built businesses around integration, enterprise features, support and operations.
Kubernetes did not win simply because its repository was public. It became a neutral substrate that engineers, cloud providers and enterprise vendors could all extend to fit their customers’ needs. Common interfaces and vendor-neutral governance gave everyone confidence that they could build on it.
The lesson I took away wasn’t that open source always wins. It was that once an open platform that people can customize becomes the industry’s center of gravity, no single vendor can match the combined rate of innovation around it.
I think AI is approaching the same point."
https://tobi.knaup.me/2026-07-25-open-weight-ai-is-having-its-kubernetes-moment/
Tobi Knaup
Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment. Let's not ruin it. | Tobi Knaup
Open-weight models are becoming the foundation for the next AI ecosystem. The US should compete in it, not wall itself off.
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La domesticazione delle nuove tecnologie passa anche attraverso articoli come questi: l'inchiesta del Wall Street Journal che svela al mondo il modo con il quale i "giovani" usano l'AI a scuola, al lavoro e tra di loro.
Money quote: "Niharika Abbaraju uses artificial intelligence in her work as a cancer researcher. But when she leaves the lab, the tool becomes her conversation coach. ChatGPT helps her draft pickup lines for dating apps and icebreakers for parties.
She’ll even, at times, fire it up to formulate a response to the person standing next to her. When the conversation shifts to an unfamiliar book or article, for instance, Abbaraju will call up an AI summary. The vibe she’s going for: “Like, I read sometimes,” she says.
It isn’t that Abbaraju can’t think for herself, she says. AI just makes things smoother.
Abbaraju, 20, is part of a growing cohort of young adults outsourcing deeply human tasks to AI. Many, struggling with social anxieties great or small, will seek assistance ahead of a face-to-face encounter. Others let their bots script their text messages and even mediate their dating lives as a digital Cyrano de Bergerac."
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-chatbot-in-person-social-interactions-d1cb6831
archivio: https://archive.is/3vzvm
Money quote: "Niharika Abbaraju uses artificial intelligence in her work as a cancer researcher. But when she leaves the lab, the tool becomes her conversation coach. ChatGPT helps her draft pickup lines for dating apps and icebreakers for parties.
She’ll even, at times, fire it up to formulate a response to the person standing next to her. When the conversation shifts to an unfamiliar book or article, for instance, Abbaraju will call up an AI summary. The vibe she’s going for: “Like, I read sometimes,” she says.
It isn’t that Abbaraju can’t think for herself, she says. AI just makes things smoother.
Abbaraju, 20, is part of a growing cohort of young adults outsourcing deeply human tasks to AI. Many, struggling with social anxieties great or small, will seek assistance ahead of a face-to-face encounter. Others let their bots script their text messages and even mediate their dating lives as a digital Cyrano de Bergerac."
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-chatbot-in-person-social-interactions-d1cb6831
archivio: https://archive.is/3vzvm
The Wall Street Journal
Young Adults Are Letting AI Do Their Talking for Them—Even in Person
People are leaning on AI for a task more dreaded than homework: navigating social situations with their fellow humans.
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Ho ritrovato per caso questo articolo che parla del quarantesimo anniversario di Xanadu, la colonna sonora del film omonimo con Olivia Newton-John e Gene Kelly (il film) e gli ELO (la colonna sonora). Era il 1980, quindi sono 46 anni adesso. Mi sono messo a riascoltarlo ed è stato come fare un giro nella macchina del tempo. Wow.
Money quote: "The film was camp beyond belief and whilst people like myself had been calling it iconic well before its recent resurgence of popularity, that ever-present wrongdoing tag that ends up in things being labeled “iconic,” seems to have finally found its cultish way to Xanadu. The film was Gene Kelly’s last cinematic role and the soundtrack, the subject of this retrospective, includes performances by ELO (Electric Light Orchestra), Cliff Richard and of course the star of it all, Olivia Newton-John.
Whilst the film barely broke even at the box office and received mostly negative reviews, the soundtrack ended up being something of a smash success."
https://www.beyondtheencore.com/retrospectives/olivia-newton-john-amp-electric-light-orchestras-xanadu-soundtrack-turns-40-anniversary-retrospective
Money quote: "The film was camp beyond belief and whilst people like myself had been calling it iconic well before its recent resurgence of popularity, that ever-present wrongdoing tag that ends up in things being labeled “iconic,” seems to have finally found its cultish way to Xanadu. The film was Gene Kelly’s last cinematic role and the soundtrack, the subject of this retrospective, includes performances by ELO (Electric Light Orchestra), Cliff Richard and of course the star of it all, Olivia Newton-John.
Whilst the film barely broke even at the box office and received mostly negative reviews, the soundtrack ended up being something of a smash success."
https://www.beyondtheencore.com/retrospectives/olivia-newton-john-amp-electric-light-orchestras-xanadu-soundtrack-turns-40-anniversary-retrospective
Beyond the Encore
Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra’s ‘Xanadu’ Soundtrack Turns 40 | Anniversary Retrospective — Beyond the Encore
This article was originally published via Albumism here Happy 40th Anniversary to the Xanadu Soundtrack, originally released June 27, 1980. Olivia Newton-John , better known as “our Livvy” here in Australia, has been in the hearts of every…
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Da un bel po' su Instagram inciampo in tizi che fanno cose di bricolage usando tonnellate di resina epossidica. Fighissimo e all'apparenza facilissimo. Be', lo è (anche se ovviamente bisogna prendere una serie di precauzioni e attenzioni nell'uso).
Money quote: "Uno dei vantaggi più importanti della resina epossidica deriva dal fatto che il materiale non contiene solventi.
Questa peculiare caratteristica ne permette l’uso in totale sicurezza, per molteplici applicazioni e in diversi ambienti.
Il materiale è peraltro molto facile da usare, soprattutto perché una volta applicato si indurisce a freddo e non necessita di particolari attrezzature per raggiungere il giusto livello di induriment"
https://www.vernicistore.it/la-resina-epossidica-come-si-usa-e-a-cosa-serve
Money quote: "Uno dei vantaggi più importanti della resina epossidica deriva dal fatto che il materiale non contiene solventi.
Questa peculiare caratteristica ne permette l’uso in totale sicurezza, per molteplici applicazioni e in diversi ambienti.
Il materiale è peraltro molto facile da usare, soprattutto perché una volta applicato si indurisce a freddo e non necessita di particolari attrezzature per raggiungere il giusto livello di induriment"
https://www.vernicistore.it/la-resina-epossidica-come-si-usa-e-a-cosa-serve
www.vernicistore.it
La resina epossidica, come si usa e a cosa serve | Vernicistore.it
La resina epossidica, come si usa e a cosa serve. Facciamo un po' di chiarezza sulla resina epossidica il materiale liquido innovativo. La resina epossidica il materiale bicomponente per eccellenza. perché consente il passaggio della resina dallo stato liquido…
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Ahimè, l’AI è ovunque, anche quando provi a scrivere una newsletter senza parlare di AI. Mostly Weekly 396 parla di agenti, libri distrutti, Sandokan, televisione, Anthropic e un sacco di altre cose, ma alla fine si finisce sempre lì.
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/396/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/396/
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Letture (e collezioni) per la domenica
Stanno diventando parecchi (56 e crescono ancora) ma sono piccoli, deliziosi e soprattutto negli anni li ho comprati (quasi) tutti. Maledizione.
Money quote: "Penguin’s Little Clothbound Classics series was first released on 25 August 2022 in the UK. The books are small-format editions of stories and short novels, bound in a similar style to the ever-popular Clothbound Classics series. It is a great little collection of stories, featuring plenty of classics you probably don’t already have in a nice format, which is an excellent breath of fresh air. The titles have been selected to celebrate a diversity of authors and genres, with locations ranging from “snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, or from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story set on the moon”."
https://beautifulbooks.info/illustratedbibliographies/classic-fiction/penguin-little-clothbound-classics/
Stanno diventando parecchi (56 e crescono ancora) ma sono piccoli, deliziosi e soprattutto negli anni li ho comprati (quasi) tutti. Maledizione.
Money quote: "Penguin’s Little Clothbound Classics series was first released on 25 August 2022 in the UK. The books are small-format editions of stories and short novels, bound in a similar style to the ever-popular Clothbound Classics series. It is a great little collection of stories, featuring plenty of classics you probably don’t already have in a nice format, which is an excellent breath of fresh air. The titles have been selected to celebrate a diversity of authors and genres, with locations ranging from “snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, or from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story set on the moon”."
https://beautifulbooks.info/illustratedbibliographies/classic-fiction/penguin-little-clothbound-classics/
Beautiful Books
Penguin Little Clothbound Classics | Beautiful Books
Complete collector's guide to Penguin's Little Clothbound Classics, with every title, ISBNs, cover notes, formats and helpful links for book lovers.
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Un'idea se volete un hostname stabile in un ambiente con IP dinamici ma senza la fatica di tutta la gestione di un DNS. Sembra interessante.
Money quote: "GoDNS gives you a DDNS endpoint that is fast to set up, easy to copy into clients, and ready to grow from a free test hostname to a paid custom label."
https://godns.app
Money quote: "GoDNS gives you a DDNS endpoint that is fast to set up, easy to copy into clients, and ready to grow from a free test hostname to a paid custom label."
https://godns.app
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