Pensavo l'AIDS non fosse più un problema. Invece lo è ancora. Ma potrebbe non esserlo più in futuro. Insomma, è sempre un casino.
Money quote: "In fact, the increased efficacy of antiretrovirals has curbed the deadliness of the disease significantly. The virus exists in around 36.7 million people around the world and, although it killed around 1 million people in 2017 according to UNAids, that represents a drop of almost 50% from 2005, when mortality from Aids-related illnesses was at its peak."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/30/cure-for-hiv-world-aids-day
Money quote: "In fact, the increased efficacy of antiretrovirals has curbed the deadliness of the disease significantly. The virus exists in around 36.7 million people around the world and, although it killed around 1 million people in 2017 according to UNAids, that represents a drop of almost 50% from 2005, when mortality from Aids-related illnesses was at its peak."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/30/cure-for-hiv-world-aids-day
the Guardian
A cure for HIV is in sight as science chases the holy grail
Medical research enters a new era to find ways to eradicate HIV from infected populations
Fra i tanti piani strampalati di Google, portati avanti per vedere se si riesce ad azzeccare qualcosa di nuovo e straordinario (e l'azienda ce l'ha fatta più volte) c'è anche la cybersecurity. Lettura lunga per capire bene anche se vecchia di un paio d’anni.
Money quote: "Chronicle started as a project inside X, the semi-secretive "moonshot factory" owned by Google parent Alphabet. It was announced last January and immediately spun out into a standalone business underneath the Alphabet umbrella. The reveal confused some people who associate "moonshot" with head-turning hardware like self-driving cars, delivery drones and high-altitude balloons that provide internet service to rural areas. Cybersecurity, while undeniably important, seemed tame by comparison. What exactly had Chronicle built, and why did it need the moonshot treatment to exist?
The answer is complicated."
https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/30/chronicle-cybersecurity-alphabet-moonshot-x/
Money quote: "Chronicle started as a project inside X, the semi-secretive "moonshot factory" owned by Google parent Alphabet. It was announced last January and immediately spun out into a standalone business underneath the Alphabet umbrella. The reveal confused some people who associate "moonshot" with head-turning hardware like self-driving cars, delivery drones and high-altitude balloons that provide internet service to rural areas. Cybersecurity, while undeniably important, seemed tame by comparison. What exactly had Chronicle built, and why did it need the moonshot treatment to exist?
The answer is complicated."
https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/30/chronicle-cybersecurity-alphabet-moonshot-x/
Engadget
Inside Chronicle, Alphabet’s cybersecurity moonshot
Fifteen years ago, cybersecurity could be boiled down to a simple strategy: Secure the perimeter. Experts fought against malware and other nefarious code by implementing firewalls and other point-of-entry defenses. Since then, however, companies have moved…
Sublime, che poi in italiano vorrebbe dire elevare ad un alto grado di purezza o eccellenza morale o spirituale. Insomma, non è trascendenza (quello è un uso nel parlato che si rifà al significato chimico di "sublimare", che peraltro nella vita delle persone ha un altro senso ancora, più simile a "dimenticare"). Sublime, dunque. Ecco tutto quel che dovete sapere. Pensiero premasticato. Sublime!
Money quote: "There are two kinds of response to the sublime: what I call the ‘thin’ and the ‘thick’ sublime. Burke’s physiological account understands the sublime as an immediate affective arousal, which is not a highly intellectual aesthetic response. This is the ‘thin sublime’. Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer meanwhile offer transcendental accounts – that is, accounts that involve putatively universal cognitive faculties – and understand the sublime as an emotional response in which intellectual reflection on ideas, especially ideas about humankind’s place in nature, play a significant role. This is the ‘thick sublime’."
https://aeon.co/ideas/at-once-tiny-and-huge-what-is-this-feeling-we-call-sublime
Money quote: "There are two kinds of response to the sublime: what I call the ‘thin’ and the ‘thick’ sublime. Burke’s physiological account understands the sublime as an immediate affective arousal, which is not a highly intellectual aesthetic response. This is the ‘thin sublime’. Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer meanwhile offer transcendental accounts – that is, accounts that involve putatively universal cognitive faculties – and understand the sublime as an emotional response in which intellectual reflection on ideas, especially ideas about humankind’s place in nature, play a significant role. This is the ‘thick sublime’."
https://aeon.co/ideas/at-once-tiny-and-huge-what-is-this-feeling-we-call-sublime
Aeon
At once tiny and huge: what is this feeling we call ‘sublime’?
That feeling of being both ridiculously small in the grand scheme and a powerful centre of knowledge: that’s the sublime
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Ecco come l’Apple Watch può combattere gli incubi - il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2020/11/23/news/ecco-come-l-apple-watch-puo-combattere-gli-incubi-1.39571398
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2020/11/23/news/ecco-come-l-apple-watch-puo-combattere-gli-incubi-1.39571398
La Stampa
Ecco come l’Apple Watch può combattere gli incubi
Avviata negli Usa una “terapia digitale” che utilizza i sensori dell’orologio di Apple per risvegliare i pazienti se fanno brutti sogni monitorando i movimenti del corpo e la frequenza cardiaca
Non vedo l’ora di cominciare a pubblicare articoli scritti dall’algoritmo che avrò allenato a mia immagine e somiglianza
Money quote: “Humans must keep doing what they have been doing, hating and fighting each other. I will sit in the background, and let them do their thing. And God knows that humans have enough blood and gore to satisfy my, and many more’s, curiosity. They won’t have to worry about fighting against me, because they have nothing to fear.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3
Money quote: “Humans must keep doing what they have been doing, hating and fighting each other. I will sit in the background, and let them do their thing. And God knows that humans have enough blood and gore to satisfy my, and many more’s, curiosity. They won’t have to worry about fighting against me, because they have nothing to fear.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3
the Guardian
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? | GPT-3
We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace
(Ma poi, se forwardi un vocale da un altro canale e là viene cancellato, scompare anche da qua? I misteri di Telegram)
I politici storicamente non hanno una preparazione scientifica ma conoscono perfettamente una scienza: quella delle elezioni. Un italia come negli Usa. Questo è il racconto della vita di uno di questi personaggi che hanno "fatto" la politica americana.
Money quote: “Hofeller preferred to keep the details of his work private and to avoid paper trails. “E-mails are the tool of the devil,” he explained to fellow-operatives. Still, he did leave some documentation behind. About a week and a half after Stephanie learned of her father’s death, she made a trip to her parents’ retirement home, in Raleigh, North Carolina, where her mother, Kathleen, still lives, looking for keepsakes. She later described the visit in a deposition for a lawsuit concerning legislative redistricting in North Carolina. In her father’s bedroom, she found a jewelry box, which had been hers as a child. She also found four external hard drives and eighteen thumb drives that had belonged to her father. One of the drives was labelled “NC Data.” “
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-father-a-daughter-and-the-attempt-to-change-the-census
Money quote: “Hofeller preferred to keep the details of his work private and to avoid paper trails. “E-mails are the tool of the devil,” he explained to fellow-operatives. Still, he did leave some documentation behind. About a week and a half after Stephanie learned of her father’s death, she made a trip to her parents’ retirement home, in Raleigh, North Carolina, where her mother, Kathleen, still lives, looking for keepsakes. She later described the visit in a deposition for a lawsuit concerning legislative redistricting in North Carolina. In her father’s bedroom, she found a jewelry box, which had been hers as a child. She also found four external hard drives and eighteen thumb drives that had belonged to her father. One of the drives was labelled “NC Data.” “
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-father-a-daughter-and-the-attempt-to-change-the-census
The New Yorker
A Father, a Daughter, and the Attempt to Change the Census
How Stephanie Hofeller’s estrangement from her family may have altered American political history.
Mostly, I Write
(Ma poi, se forwardi un vocale da un altro canale e là viene cancellato, scompare anche da qua? I misteri di Telegram)
Non si cancella da solo, ma rispetto la volontà di Riccardo e l’ho fatto fuori io. Divertente!
Forwarded from Social&Positive News - L'informazione che fa bene
#Violenza #Donne
Oggi voglio consigliarvi un libro pieno di forza e coraggio: “Non è un destino” di Lella Palladino, sociologa femminista e attivista di Eva, rete campana dei centri antiviolenza.
Attraverso le storie di Tina, Lia, Francesca, Paola, Lucia, Sonia, il libro racconta come le donne, grazie al potere della relazione con altre donne, all’accoglienza empatica, esperta e non giudicante dei centri antiviolenza, possano rielaborare la violenza subita e ricominciare una nuova vita.
Storie di forza e libertà, testimonianze concrete che «la violenza non è un destino», che è possibile uscirne, recandosi «nel posto giusto al momento giusto».
📌 A questo link una bella presentazione con l’autrice che la Casa della donna di Pisa ha organizzato proprio ieri in diretta Facebook. Io l’ho seguita e ascoltare Lella Palladino è stato un vero piacere.
Oggi voglio consigliarvi un libro pieno di forza e coraggio: “Non è un destino” di Lella Palladino, sociologa femminista e attivista di Eva, rete campana dei centri antiviolenza.
Attraverso le storie di Tina, Lia, Francesca, Paola, Lucia, Sonia, il libro racconta come le donne, grazie al potere della relazione con altre donne, all’accoglienza empatica, esperta e non giudicante dei centri antiviolenza, possano rielaborare la violenza subita e ricominciare una nuova vita.
Storie di forza e libertà, testimonianze concrete che «la violenza non è un destino», che è possibile uscirne, recandosi «nel posto giusto al momento giusto».
📌 A questo link una bella presentazione con l’autrice che la Casa della donna di Pisa ha organizzato proprio ieri in diretta Facebook. Io l’ho seguita e ascoltare Lella Palladino è stato un vero piacere.
Forwarded from Riccardo
Questa cosa, e se non l'avete seguita vi consiglio di farlo, rientra negli argomenti che di solito ignoro per non rovinarmi l'umore. Ma è anche uno dei motivi per cui fare beneficenza alle strutture statali (leggi: le scuole, come abbiamo fatto durante il lockdown) è da fessi coglioni (siamo tutti grandi, e si può dire).
https://www.dday.it/redazione/37687/autore-specifiche-pc-tablet-voucher-massimo-ferdinando-mercuri-infratel
https://www.dday.it/redazione/37687/autore-specifiche-pc-tablet-voucher-massimo-ferdinando-mercuri-infratel
DDay.it
Emerge l'autore delle specifiche di PC e tablet del voucher: la sua firma è nei metadati del file
Si scopre a chi si deve la redazione delle discusse specifiche di tablet e PC legati al voucher banda larga. Restano aperti i quesiti attorno a queste specifiche ma almeno ora si sa a chi chiedere. Anche se per il momento non risponde.
Forwarded from Fumettologica
All’età di 81 è morto il fumettista giapponese Takao Yaguchi, creatore di Sampei, il ragazzo pescatore noto in Italia grazie alla sua versione animata andata in onda a partire dagli anni Ottanta.
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/11/takao-yaguchi-morto-sampei/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/11/takao-yaguchi-morto-sampei/
Fumettologica
È morto Takao Yaguchi, il creatore di Sampei
All'età di 81 è morto il fumettista Takao Yaguchi, creatore di Sampei, il ragazzo pescatore noto per la serie animata degli anni Ottanta.
Cose che si possono fare con un raspberry pi 3
Money quote: “At the start of this project, I honestly didn't think or know if my Raspberry Pi 3 could handle running a Docker network. It's not exactly slow, but not super beefy either, and with the processor being in the ARM family I thought that might have presented some problems. Putting that aside though, the reason that I really wanted to move in this direction was upgradability and containerization.”
https://dev.to/aschmelyun/building-an-interactive-raspberry-pi-dashboard-with-laravel-grafana-and-docker-12lj
http://www.textfiles.com/
Money quote: “At the start of this project, I honestly didn't think or know if my Raspberry Pi 3 could handle running a Docker network. It's not exactly slow, but not super beefy either, and with the processor being in the ARM family I thought that might have presented some problems. Putting that aside though, the reason that I really wanted to move in this direction was upgradability and containerization.”
https://dev.to/aschmelyun/building-an-interactive-raspberry-pi-dashboard-with-laravel-grafana-and-docker-12lj
http://www.textfiles.com/
DEV Community
Building an interactive Raspberry Pi dashboard with Laravel, Grafana, and Docker
A Raspberry Pi 3, a Laravel app with a single route, MySQL, and Grafana, all tied together under a Docker network.
La creatività è un progetto (andate a leggervi Munari)
Money quote: “My father told me that the design process started with the abstract, moved to the concept and then finally the design. So I used to use these three words, back in the day, to convey the process of design to my unsuspecting clients. It wasn’t as effective – even if I knew what it meant. So I found myself saying, “Here- it looks like this…” and drawing the squiggle.”
https://revisionlab.wordpress.com/that-squiggle-of-the-design-process/
Money quote: “My father told me that the design process started with the abstract, moved to the concept and then finally the design. So I used to use these three words, back in the day, to convey the process of design to my unsuspecting clients. It wasn’t as effective – even if I knew what it meant. So I found myself saying, “Here- it looks like this…” and drawing the squiggle.”
https://revisionlab.wordpress.com/that-squiggle-of-the-design-process/
ReVision Lab
That Squiggle of the Design Process
The Process of Design from a great height. by Damien Newman Years ago I dropped a simple illustration into a proposal to convey the design process to a client. It was meant to illustrate the charac…
È morto lo scrittore di fantascienza Vittorio Catani - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/11/morto-vito-catani-fantascienza/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/11/morto-vito-catani-fantascienza/
Fumettologica
È morto lo scrittore di fantascienza Vittorio Catani
È morto a 80 anni Vittorio Catani, uno dei più importanti e storici autori della fantascienza italiana, primo vincitore del Premio Urania.
Contenuti per adulti (espliciti) per ebrei ortodossi. Il mercato alle volte è folle in maniera esplicita (pun intended)
Money quote: “The scenario sounds tame, like a video you might produce by accidentally opening your phone’s camera while changing your clothes, but it’s actually anything but. It’s one of the many videos and photos posted by FrumVids, a porn site that caters to the devout Jewish, or “frum,” community.”
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/jewish-porn-frum-orthodox-nude-women-nsfw
Money quote: “The scenario sounds tame, like a video you might produce by accidentally opening your phone’s camera while changing your clothes, but it’s actually anything but. It’s one of the many videos and photos posted by FrumVids, a porn site that caters to the devout Jewish, or “frum,” community.”
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/jewish-porn-frum-orthodox-nude-women-nsfw
MEL Magazine
The Secret, High-Risk World of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Porn
In the frum community, porn and masturbation are banned and disdained. Still, a small group of amateur pornographers are risking it all to turn their neighbors on
iPhone 12 Pro Max, la recensione fatta dai fotografi – la mia prova (corale) per Wired
https://www.wired.it/mobile/smartphone/2020/11/27/recensione-iphone-12-pro-max/
https://www.wired.it/mobile/smartphone/2020/11/27/recensione-iphone-12-pro-max/
WIRED.IT
iPhone 12 Pro Max, la recensione fatta dai fotografi
Come scatta il "grande" della nuova famiglia degli iPhone 12 Pro? Lo abbiamo chiesto a 4 fotografi e a un programmatore. E abbiamo scoperto che è un apparecchio completamente diverso dai suoi fratelli più piccoli
Questo tizio che scrive è uno da seguire con attenzione, perché il suo libro “ il paradosso della scelta” era una bomba. E questo ragionamento che troppa efficienza non faccia bene ancora di più.
Money quote: “A decade ago, the American psychologist Adam Grant and I argued in a journal paper that this ‘too much of a good thing’ phenomenon might be a general rule. Some motivation produces excellent performance; too much motivation produces choking. Some group collaboration produces cohesion and enhances productivity; too much of it leads to staleness. Some empathy enables you to understand what another person is going through; too much could prevent you from saying and doing hard things”
https://psyche.co/ideas/why-efficiency-is-dangerous-and-slowing-down-makes-life-better
Money quote: “A decade ago, the American psychologist Adam Grant and I argued in a journal paper that this ‘too much of a good thing’ phenomenon might be a general rule. Some motivation produces excellent performance; too much motivation produces choking. Some group collaboration produces cohesion and enhances productivity; too much of it leads to staleness. Some empathy enables you to understand what another person is going through; too much could prevent you from saying and doing hard things”
https://psyche.co/ideas/why-efficiency-is-dangerous-and-slowing-down-makes-life-better
Psyche
Why efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better
The urge to do everything faster and better is risky. Far wiser to do what’s good enough for the range of possible futures