Obsolescenza programmata, ma anche capitalismo turbo. Ad esempio, questo articolo bello critico evidenzia quali sono le dimensioni di un fenomeno che forse non comprendiamo appieno nelle sue proporzioni. Tocca il tema che io seguo da tempo: le cose dovrebbero essere fatte per durare.
Money quote: "As you eye that upgraded tablet, consider that Apple shipped so many new iPads last year that if they were all laid flat and stacked, they would be about as tall as 862 Empire State Buildings"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/opinion/iphone-apple-electronics-technology.html
Money quote: "As you eye that upgraded tablet, consider that Apple shipped so many new iPads last year that if they were all laid flat and stacked, they would be about as tall as 862 Empire State Buildings"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/opinion/iphone-apple-electronics-technology.html
NY Times
Opinion | Your Smartphone Should Be Built to Last
A movement is underway to slow the obsolescence of our electronic gear.
Benvenuta a bordo, Bookdealer - grosse novità per Anobii!
Money quote: "Per questo diamo il benvenuto a bordo ai nostri nuovi amici di Bookdealer e alle 700 librerie indipendenti di tutta Italia che da oggi sono raggiungibili con un click dal nostro sito web (e, più avanti, con un tap dalle nostre app per Android e iOS) e che vi aiuteranno a trovare i libri che volete in modo sostenibile per il comparto editoriale, supportando anche i piccoli editori e le librerie indipendenti."
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/05/11/benvenuta-a-bordo-bookdealer/
Money quote: "Per questo diamo il benvenuto a bordo ai nostri nuovi amici di Bookdealer e alle 700 librerie indipendenti di tutta Italia che da oggi sono raggiungibili con un click dal nostro sito web (e, più avanti, con un tap dalle nostre app per Android e iOS) e che vi aiuteranno a trovare i libri che volete in modo sostenibile per il comparto editoriale, supportando anche i piccoli editori e le librerie indipendenti."
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/05/11/benvenuta-a-bordo-bookdealer/
Anobii Blog
Benvenuta a bordo, Bookdealer - Anobii Blog
Da oggi nella nuova versione del sito di Anobii c'è un'opzione in più: se scoprite un libro che vi piace potete comprarlo con il servizio di e-commerce delle librerie indipendenti
Con Polaroid Go la fotocamera istantanea diventa mignon - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/polaroid-go/
https://www.macitynet.it/polaroid-go/
Macitynet.it
Con Polaroid Go la fotocamera istantanea diventa mignon
Macity è andata (finalmente) a toccare con mano Polaroid Go. in questo articolo trovate le fotogallerie e le prime impressioni
Ricordate quando si LinkedIn raccoglievano voti per i migliori podcast italiani? Siete andati, avete votato e, beh: grazie!
https://vois.fm/blog/i-migliori-podcast-italiani-35-podcast-da-non-perdere/
https://vois.fm/blog/i-migliori-podcast-italiani-35-podcast-da-non-perdere/
VOIS
I migliori 35 podcast italiani da ascoltare subito - VOIS
Ecco la lista completa dei 35 migliori podcast italiani che ti consigliamo di ascoltare. Podcast italiani da non perdere!
Fulminante
Money quote: "Money well spent??
A Short Story for Engineers
You don’t have to be an engineer to appreciate this story."
https://userweb.cs.txstate.edu/~br02/cs1428/ShortStoryForEngineers.htm
Money quote: "Money well spent??
A Short Story for Engineers
You don’t have to be an engineer to appreciate this story."
https://userweb.cs.txstate.edu/~br02/cs1428/ShortStoryForEngineers.htm
I suggerimenti per rendere più presentabile casa vostra in dieci minuti o meno non sono niente di che, ma almeno non è Marie Kondo. E comunque, funzionano.
Money quote: "At Apartment Therapy, we want to show you the way that real people live. So when I show up to shoot a tour, I don’t bring a whole truckload of props with me—usually it’s just me and my camera. Still, over the years I’ve developed a few quick little tricks that I occasionally employ on shoots. They’re all simple things—tiny tweaks to get a home camera-ready—and they’re all things that you can do in ten minutes or less (really!) to make your home perfect for the most important of audiences: you."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-make-your-home-look-10-times-better-in-10-minutes-or-less
Money quote: "At Apartment Therapy, we want to show you the way that real people live. So when I show up to shoot a tour, I don’t bring a whole truckload of props with me—usually it’s just me and my camera. Still, over the years I’ve developed a few quick little tricks that I occasionally employ on shoots. They’re all simple things—tiny tweaks to get a home camera-ready—and they’re all things that you can do in ten minutes or less (really!) to make your home perfect for the most important of audiences: you."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-make-your-home-look-10-times-better-in-10-minutes-or-less
Pocket
How To Make Your Home Look 10 Times Better in 10 Minutes Or Less
Tiny tweaks to get your home camera-ready in no time.
Da bambino che ha sempre sofferto di allergie (e ancora ne soffro), posso dirlo: maledetti urbanisti egoisti. Questa è la scrittura tutta americana di una delle storie per cui gli alberi in città sono maschi e non femmine (cioè impollinano come matti).
Money quote: "Male trees are one of the most significant reasons why allergies have gotten so bad for citydwellers in recent decades. They’re indiscriminate, spewing their gametes in every direction. They can’t help it—it’s what evolution built them for. This is fine in the wild, where female trees trap pollen to fertilize their seeds. But urban forestry is dominated by male trees, so cities are coated in their pollen."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/seasonal-allergies-blame-male-trees
Money quote: "Male trees are one of the most significant reasons why allergies have gotten so bad for citydwellers in recent decades. They’re indiscriminate, spewing their gametes in every direction. They can’t help it—it’s what evolution built them for. This is fine in the wild, where female trees trap pollen to fertilize their seeds. But urban forestry is dominated by male trees, so cities are coated in their pollen."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/seasonal-allergies-blame-male-trees
Atlas Obscura
America's Love of Male Trees Could Be Why You're Sneezing Right Now
One researcher calls it "botanical sexism."
Elaborazione del lutto e scaffalature per libri
Money quote: "When my wife's ovarian cancer started to rapidly progress (at the ripe old age of 30), we decided to buy a house that she'd be comfortable spending her last months/year in. We really lucked out and found an absolutely perfect home. But from the moment we first walked in, my wife immediately wanted to convert giant empty wall in the livingroom into a wall-to-wall floor-to-ceiling bookshelf (mainly because she always wanted to live in a house with a rolling library ladder)."
https://imgur.com/a/rL5Z6Sd
Money quote: "When my wife's ovarian cancer started to rapidly progress (at the ripe old age of 30), we decided to buy a house that she'd be comfortable spending her last months/year in. We really lucked out and found an absolutely perfect home. But from the moment we first walked in, my wife immediately wanted to convert giant empty wall in the livingroom into a wall-to-wall floor-to-ceiling bookshelf (mainly because she always wanted to live in a house with a rolling library ladder)."
https://imgur.com/a/rL5Z6Sd
Imgur
My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her the giant bookshelf she always wanted.
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Sabato come al solito davanti al computer a mettere assieme Mostly Weekly che esce domani. Alla mia newsletter ci si iscrive qui: https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/
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Una storia di Lego, bonsai e pandemia - il mio articolo tutto da leggere per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/una-storia-di-lego-bonsai-e-pandemia/
https://www.macitynet.it/una-storia-di-lego-bonsai-e-pandemia/
macitynet.it
Una storia di Lego, bonsai e pandemia
Internet
Tutti i migliori libri per lo smart working - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/tutti-i-migliori-libri-per-lo-smart-working/
https://www.macitynet.it/tutti-i-migliori-libri-per-lo-smart-working/
Macitynet.it
Tutti i migliori libri per lo smart working
Viviamo un nuovo normale, generato dalla pandemia. Il telelavoro non se ne andrà neanche quando tornerà la normalità. E allora come gestirlo? Per fortuna ci sono alcuni ottimi libri che lo spiegano
Beata solitudo, sola beatitudo, diceva Seneca. In realtà non è vero: si tratta di un fake; la frase originale è del XVI secolo: compare in "Solitudo, sive vita solitaria laudata" una raccolta di poesie del sacerdote olandese Cornelis Musius pubblicata ad Anversa nel 1566. La forma originale è "O beata solitudo, o sola beatitudo". Considerando che New York è stata fondata dagli olandesi, il collegamento nel retro del mio cervello è casuale ma appropriato. Bravo Antonio!
Money quote: "That emptiness is what New York felt like this spring, not simply because the streets were so empty, but because the current crisis revealed an underlying truth that, in the isolation of cities, no matter how densely packed, one often experiences the reverse of what Serling noted: the evidence of people, but no real community. Our empty streets spoke of an existential loneliness that is a shadowy but ever-present aspect of contemporary urban life."
https://psyche.co/ideas/struths-unpeopled-photos-evoke-the-loneliness-of-urban-life
Money quote: "That emptiness is what New York felt like this spring, not simply because the streets were so empty, but because the current crisis revealed an underlying truth that, in the isolation of cities, no matter how densely packed, one often experiences the reverse of what Serling noted: the evidence of people, but no real community. Our empty streets spoke of an existential loneliness that is a shadowy but ever-present aspect of contemporary urban life."
https://psyche.co/ideas/struths-unpeopled-photos-evoke-the-loneliness-of-urban-life
Psyche
Struth’s unpeopled photos evoke the loneliness of urban life
Thomas Struth’s empty streets speak of an existential loneliness that is a shadowy but ever-present aspect of urban life
Altro che Information Age: siamo invece entrati nell'era della reputazione. E non è una bella cosa.
Money quote: "We are experiencing a fundamental paradigm shift in our relationship to knowledge. From the ‘information age’, we are moving towards the ‘reputation age’, in which information will have value only if it is already filtered, evaluated and commented upon by others. Seen in this light, reputation has become a central pillar of collective intelligence today. It is the gatekeeper to knowledge, and the keys to the gate are held by others. The way in which the authority of knowledge is now constructed makes us reliant on what are the inevitably biased judgments of other people, most of whom we do not know."
https://aeon.co/ideas/say-goodbye-to-the-information-age-its-all-about-reputation-now
Money quote: "We are experiencing a fundamental paradigm shift in our relationship to knowledge. From the ‘information age’, we are moving towards the ‘reputation age’, in which information will have value only if it is already filtered, evaluated and commented upon by others. Seen in this light, reputation has become a central pillar of collective intelligence today. It is the gatekeeper to knowledge, and the keys to the gate are held by others. The way in which the authority of knowledge is now constructed makes us reliant on what are the inevitably biased judgments of other people, most of whom we do not know."
https://aeon.co/ideas/say-goodbye-to-the-information-age-its-all-about-reputation-now
Aeon
Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now
In the reputation age, we should rank the quality of information not by its the content but by the agenda of its source
Sappiamo che il Giappone invecchia e che sviluppa la robotica "carina" in chiave "assistenzialista" (per gli anziani bloccati a letto). Quanto segue perquanto datato ne è un esempio evidente.
Money quote: "Developed by Ory, a startup that specializes in robotics for disabled people, the OriHime-D is a 120 cm (4-foot) tall robot that can be operated remotely from a paralyzed person’s home. Even if the operator only has control of their eyes, they can command OriHime-D to move, look around, speak with people, and handle objects."
https://soranews24.com/2018/11/29/cafe-opens-in-tokyo-staffed-by-robots-controlled-by-paralyzed-people/
Money quote: "Developed by Ory, a startup that specializes in robotics for disabled people, the OriHime-D is a 120 cm (4-foot) tall robot that can be operated remotely from a paralyzed person’s home. Even if the operator only has control of their eyes, they can command OriHime-D to move, look around, speak with people, and handle objects."
https://soranews24.com/2018/11/29/cafe-opens-in-tokyo-staffed-by-robots-controlled-by-paralyzed-people/
SoraNews24 -Japan News-
Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people
Dawn is an inspirational marriage of technology and humanity.
Microsoft tempo addietro fece una rivoluzione nei colloqui di lavoro: quando hanno cominciato a chiedere se sanno fare cose che effettivamente i candidati dovranno fare
Money quote: "Microsoft in 2016 started working on the "Alternative Interview Framework," a new way of conducting how it does interviews in its developer division to reduce bias and do a better job of testing candidates for the skills they'd actually need on the job."
https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/microsoft-new-developer-interview-process-2018-12
Money quote: "Microsoft in 2016 started working on the "Alternative Interview Framework," a new way of conducting how it does interviews in its developer division to reduce bias and do a better job of testing candidates for the skills they'd actually need on the job."
https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/microsoft-new-developer-interview-process-2018-12
Business Insider
Microsoft totally changed how it does interviews in its developer division to make sure candidates have the actual skills to do…
Microsoft's new PM interview process is more inclusive, the company says, while also meaning that you need to have less esoteric technical knowledge.
Com’è fatto e come va il nuovo iMac di Apple: la prova in anteprima - la mia recensione per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/prove/2021/05/18/news/com-e-fatto-e-come-va-il-nuovo-imac-di-apple-la-prova-in-anteprima-1.40286220
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/prove/2021/05/18/news/com-e-fatto-e-come-va-il-nuovo-imac-di-apple-la-prova-in-anteprima-1.40286220
La Stampa
Com’è fatto e come va il nuovo iMac di Apple: la prova in anteprima
Abbiamo testato il computer tutto in uno di Cupertino, appena ridisegnato e dotato di processore M1. Leggero e potente, è disponibile in sette colori
L'industria della seduzione. Che poi è come dire: il mondo che si muove attorno al bisogno carnale del maschio. Ma che senso ha? Beh, nella nuova era del # metoo diventa più interessante esplorare il ragionamento di chi vende la seduzione come un prodotto: la nuova bibita (costosa) per i maschi assetati.
Money quote: "Unsurprisingly for an industry that promises men ‘mastery’ with women, seduction has attracted a good deal of feminist commentary and criticism. Websites such as Jezebel publish articles challenging its underlying assumptions and raising concerns about the propensity of its teachings to promote sexual harassment, coercion and violence. Prominent seduction trainers are subject to campaigns seeking to restrict the availability of their products and services, and to limit their ability to travel internationally to teach.
Feminists and others have good reasons for attacking the industry. Yet much existing commentary tends to parcel it off as anomalous – a subcultural oddity that, already contained, can be easily eliminated. In this way, those who participate in this sphere are framed as readily recognisable and uniquely deplorable – an ‘army of sleazebags, saddos and weirdos’, in the words of Hadley Freeman at The Guardian."
https://aeon.co/essays/pickuptm-turns-romance-into-a-commodity-for-male-consumption
Money quote: "Unsurprisingly for an industry that promises men ‘mastery’ with women, seduction has attracted a good deal of feminist commentary and criticism. Websites such as Jezebel publish articles challenging its underlying assumptions and raising concerns about the propensity of its teachings to promote sexual harassment, coercion and violence. Prominent seduction trainers are subject to campaigns seeking to restrict the availability of their products and services, and to limit their ability to travel internationally to teach.
Feminists and others have good reasons for attacking the industry. Yet much existing commentary tends to parcel it off as anomalous – a subcultural oddity that, already contained, can be easily eliminated. In this way, those who participate in this sphere are framed as readily recognisable and uniquely deplorable – an ‘army of sleazebags, saddos and weirdos’, in the words of Hadley Freeman at The Guardian."
https://aeon.co/essays/pickuptm-turns-romance-into-a-commodity-for-male-consumption
Aeon
Pickup™ turns romance into a commodity for male consumption | Aeon Essays
The pickup industry mates market logic with the arts of seduction – turning human intimacy into hard labour
Anobii, il social dei libri, rilancia con nuovo sito e nuove app - Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/anobii-social-dei-libri/
https://www.macitynet.it/anobii-social-dei-libri/
macitynet.it
Anobii, il social dei libri, rilancia con nuovo sito e nuove app
È online la nuova versione di Anobii, il portale della community italiana dei lettori con 2.5 milioni di persone e decine di milioni di libri
La stessa storia la potevano scrivere pari pari venti o trent'anni fa, sostituendo allo schermo dello smartphone quello del televisore. Solo che il televisore lo usiamo molto meno, e addirittura oggi lo stiamo nostalgicamente rivalutando come forma di intrattenimento costruttivo.
Money quote: "More than three-quarters of all Americans own a smartphone. In 2018 those 253 million Americans spent $1,380 and 1,460 hours on their smartphone and other mobile devices. That’s 91 waking days; cumulatively, that adds up to 370 billion waking American hours and $349 billion.
In 2019, here’s what we could do instead."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/opinion/smartphones-screen-time.html
Ps: poi tutto ovviamente si traduce nella solita minchiata sull'econometria dell'attenzione. Sapete come la penso: l'attenzione non è una commodity trattaibile come una entità economica, è invece la parte della nostra vita psichica che ci definisce come individui. Altrimenti si commette un grande errore. Senza contare che il covid si è portato via tutto.
Money quote: "More than three-quarters of all Americans own a smartphone. In 2018 those 253 million Americans spent $1,380 and 1,460 hours on their smartphone and other mobile devices. That’s 91 waking days; cumulatively, that adds up to 370 billion waking American hours and $349 billion.
In 2019, here’s what we could do instead."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/opinion/smartphones-screen-time.html
Ps: poi tutto ovviamente si traduce nella solita minchiata sull'econometria dell'attenzione. Sapete come la penso: l'attenzione non è una commodity trattaibile come una entità economica, è invece la parte della nostra vita psichica che ci definisce come individui. Altrimenti si commette un grande errore. Senza contare che il covid si è portato via tutto.
NY Times
Opinion | In Search of Lost Screen Time (Published 2019)
Imagine what we could do with our money, and hours, if we set our phones aside for a year.