A quanto pare c'è un vaccino di tipo tradizionale, Novavax, che è il migliore di tutti incluse le varianti di COVID. Ma nessuno ne parla.
Money quote: "At the end of January, reports that yet another COVID-19 vaccine had succeeded in its clinical trials—this one offering about 70 percent protection—were front-page news in the United States, and occasioned push alerts on millions of phones. But when the Maryland-based biotech firm Novavax announced its latest stunning trial results last week, and an efficacy rate of more than 90 percent even against coronavirus variants, the response from the same media outlets was muted in comparison. The difference, of course, was the timing: With three vaccines already authorized for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the nation is “awash in other shots” already, as the The New York Times put it."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/06/novavax-now-best-covid-19-vaccine/619276/
Money quote: "At the end of January, reports that yet another COVID-19 vaccine had succeeded in its clinical trials—this one offering about 70 percent protection—were front-page news in the United States, and occasioned push alerts on millions of phones. But when the Maryland-based biotech firm Novavax announced its latest stunning trial results last week, and an efficacy rate of more than 90 percent even against coronavirus variants, the response from the same media outlets was muted in comparison. The difference, of course, was the timing: With three vaccines already authorized for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the nation is “awash in other shots” already, as the The New York Times put it."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/06/novavax-now-best-covid-19-vaccine/619276/
The Atlantic
The mRNA Vaccines Are Extraordinary, but Novavax Is Even Better
Persistent hype around mRNA vaccine technology is now distracting us from other ways to end the pandemic.
Eccola! L’ultima puntata della prima stagione di Tilde. Quella in cui spieghiamo ben benino come abbiamo fatto a far condurre per la prima volta un podcast a una intelligenza artificiale, consigliamo qualche libro per l’estate e salutiamo tutti. Buon ascolto.
https://tilde.show/podcast-18/
https://tilde.show/podcast-18/
Un tizio ha un'idea, la realizza e guadagna un botto di soldi. La solita storia.
Money quote: "Fast forward 7 years later, minus 6 days. I saw some people sharing screenshots of their iPhones after discovering that iOS 14 now allows you to add custom icons to your home screen using the Siri Shortcuts app. This was the first time you can really customize iOS, and it was catching on.
This is something people have been doing for years on jailbroken iOS and Android devices, except this time, you can do it natively on iOS."
https://tr.af/6
Money quote: "Fast forward 7 years later, minus 6 days. I saw some people sharing screenshots of their iPhones after discovering that iOS 14 now allows you to add custom icons to your home screen using the Siri Shortcuts app. This was the first time you can really customize iOS, and it was catching on.
This is something people have been doing for years on jailbroken iOS and Android devices, except this time, you can do it natively on iOS."
https://tr.af/6
Cosa succederebbe ad Apple, se dovesse aprire l'App store agli "estranei" - la mia analisi per Wired
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2021/06/25/apple-app-store-side-loading-app-scenari/
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2021/06/25/apple-app-store-side-loading-app-scenari/
WIRED.IT
Cosa succederebbe ad Apple, se dovesse aprire l'App store agli "estranei"
I cinque scenari per iPhone e iPad se il colosso di Cupertino fosse costretto ad accogliere app store alternativi, come vogliono le autorità di Stati Uniti ed Europa
Altri 99 piccoli consigli non richiesti di Kevin Kelly. Semplicemente geniale
Money quote: "In all things — except love — start with the exit strategy. Prepare for the ending. Almost anything is easier to get into than out of."
https://kk.org/thetechnium/99-additional-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/
Money quote: "In all things — except love — start with the exit strategy. Prepare for the ending. Almost anything is easier to get into than out of."
https://kk.org/thetechnium/99-additional-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/
The Technium
99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice
UPDATE Several years ago on my 68th birthday I wrote up 68 bits of advice for my adult children, and posted them here. The bits were extremely popular, and they were widely shared by others. I was encouraged to write … Continue reading →
Non so se dopo aver letto questo articolo finiremo tutti in galera per terrorismo o cose del genere. Comunque questi tizi fanno armi al confine tra Pakistan e Afghanistan. (Se un giorno posterò foto su Instagram da quell'area, sappiate che sono prigioniero e non posso dirlo)
Money quote: "As of this year, 2019, Darra is the last main tribal arms market and manufacturing town that remains in the Pak-Afghan FATA region (Federally-Administered Tribal Region – FATA pronounced Faa-Thaa locally), the last vestige of old-world freedom in the area. Over the last few years, the other manufacturing hubs and markets in towns like Landi Kotal, just a few minutes’ drive from Torkham border on the Khyber Pass, have finally died out leaving a handful of shops and a couple of gunsmiths who repair the large number of firearms still found across the region. Peshawar’s massive arms bazaars have also disappeared leaving a few licensed manufacturers in a small industrial estate on its outskirts and a few licensed dealers scattered throughout the city."
https://silahreport.com/2019/08/23/the-last-gunsmiths-of-the-khyber-pass
Money quote: "As of this year, 2019, Darra is the last main tribal arms market and manufacturing town that remains in the Pak-Afghan FATA region (Federally-Administered Tribal Region – FATA pronounced Faa-Thaa locally), the last vestige of old-world freedom in the area. Over the last few years, the other manufacturing hubs and markets in towns like Landi Kotal, just a few minutes’ drive from Torkham border on the Khyber Pass, have finally died out leaving a handful of shops and a couple of gunsmiths who repair the large number of firearms still found across the region. Peshawar’s massive arms bazaars have also disappeared leaving a few licensed manufacturers in a small industrial estate on its outskirts and a few licensed dealers scattered throughout the city."
https://silahreport.com/2019/08/23/the-last-gunsmiths-of-the-khyber-pass
Per adesso viviamo questo sogno tecnocratico tutto italiano in cui, magicamente, se tutti i nostri figli sapessero programmare, le aziende diventerebbero digitali e l'attrito provocato dalla burocrazia scomparirebbe. Semplificazione figlia dell'ignoranza di cosa sia la tecnologia.
Questa che segue è sì una storia di successo, ma su come si è riusciti creativamente a togliere attrito dall'interno di una azienda già totalmente digitale. Pensa te.
Money quote: "The major key to this was changing the role and goals of the infrastructure team. We rebranded it as Engineering Capabilities (Eng Cap), and their goal was to actually build tools to enable teams to do the sorts of things that the infrastructure team used to be responsible for. This way, as time goes on, the Eng Cap team becomes less and less responsible for manual work and transitions towards yet another development team with their own systems."
How developers can be their own operations department - Stack Overflow Blog
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/24/how-developers-can-be-their-own-operations-department/
Questa che segue è sì una storia di successo, ma su come si è riusciti creativamente a togliere attrito dall'interno di una azienda già totalmente digitale. Pensa te.
Money quote: "The major key to this was changing the role and goals of the infrastructure team. We rebranded it as Engineering Capabilities (Eng Cap), and their goal was to actually build tools to enable teams to do the sorts of things that the infrastructure team used to be responsible for. This way, as time goes on, the Eng Cap team becomes less and less responsible for manual work and transitions towards yet another development team with their own systems."
How developers can be their own operations department - Stack Overflow Blog
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/24/how-developers-can-be-their-own-operations-department/
Stack Overflow Blog
How developers can be their own operations department
Many companies run parallel development and operations organizations. But what if you just ran one team that did both?
Visitare il primo Apple store di sempre in realtà virtuale. Grazie a un video promozionale voluto da Steve Jobs abbiamo tutto l'ambiente che è stavo digitalizzato da Apple e trasformato in un museo virtuale. Quanti ricordi...
Money quote: "The augmented reality model below represents a painstaking reconstruction of that original store, from the number and color of Macs on each table to the third-party software titles on the shelves. Artwork on the walls and window displays are true to the era. The model is designed to be as accurate as possible within the parameters of available information."
https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/19/20-years-apple-retail-stores-tysons-corner-augmented-reality/
Money quote: "The augmented reality model below represents a painstaking reconstruction of that original store, from the number and color of Macs on each table to the third-party software titles on the shelves. Artwork on the walls and window displays are true to the era. The model is designed to be as accurate as possible within the parameters of available information."
https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/19/20-years-apple-retail-stores-tysons-corner-augmented-reality/
9to5Mac
Revisit the world's first Apple Store with augmented reality - 9to5Mac
On May 19, 2001, Apple opened its first two retail stores in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California. Now you...
Un articolo agghiacciante, non a caso di un giornale americano, che trasforma l'archeologia nel mediterraneo in un caso di suprematismo bianco e di nostalgia del colonialismo. Un regalo alla macchina culturale degli immaginari cinesi enorme e gratuito.
Il vero pericolo è il revisionismo culturale americano e la cancel culture che straborda in Europa. Non dimentichiamo che i principi centro di studio della classicità mediterranea sono tutti negli USA.
Money quote: " Why do we pay so much more attention in the West to Egyptian archaeology than to Chinese archaeology — even though each is important to our understanding of human history? Egypt strikes a chord partly because of a kind of romanticism that is a legacy of colonialism: Stories of Western archaeologists competing to find tombs in the 19th century riveted Western Europeans, and today’s news coverage is a product of that imperialist tradition (even though the team that discovered Aten was Egyptian). And the focus on discoveries in the Mediterranean world reflects a persistent bias situating the United States as a lineal descendant, via Europe, of Mediterranean civilizations. Links among ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome — and Egypt’s appearance in the Christian Bible — allowed ancient Egypt to be appropriated and incorporated into European heritage and therefore into the story of American identity."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/11/chinese-archaeology-egyptian-bias-sanxingdui/
Il vero pericolo è il revisionismo culturale americano e la cancel culture che straborda in Europa. Non dimentichiamo che i principi centro di studio della classicità mediterranea sono tutti negli USA.
Money quote: " Why do we pay so much more attention in the West to Egyptian archaeology than to Chinese archaeology — even though each is important to our understanding of human history? Egypt strikes a chord partly because of a kind of romanticism that is a legacy of colonialism: Stories of Western archaeologists competing to find tombs in the 19th century riveted Western Europeans, and today’s news coverage is a product of that imperialist tradition (even though the team that discovered Aten was Egyptian). And the focus on discoveries in the Mediterranean world reflects a persistent bias situating the United States as a lineal descendant, via Europe, of Mediterranean civilizations. Links among ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome — and Egypt’s appearance in the Christian Bible — allowed ancient Egypt to be appropriated and incorporated into European heritage and therefore into the story of American identity."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/11/chinese-archaeology-egyptian-bias-sanxingdui/
Washington Post
Perspective | It’s a golden age for Chinese archaeology — and the West is ignoring it
The lavish coverage of Egyptian discoveries relative to equally impressive Chinese finds reveals cultural bias.
Sto preparando il numero di domenica di Mostly Weekly. Ci sarà un mio articolo sul riciclaggio del codice open source fatto da Github e OpenAI, tanto per cominciare. Ed è un bel problema, secondo me…
https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/
https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/
Mostly Here
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La difficoltà di esistere. English version
Money quote: "At the time, I was tired of everything English — drizzle, bread sauce, repressed emotions. I was sick of the Old World — a bitter, damp former empire where everyone knows their place and still doffs their hat to an old lady on a throne. I didn’t care that America was crass and fake and gross. I wanted people to yell rather than passively-aggressively mumble. I was always drawn to people shouting about how they feel. British people rarely tell you how they actually feel; they tend to say the absolute opposite and hope that maybe in a few months you’ll figure out what they meant. Sometimes this English reluctance to emote is based on good intentions. My uncle had an actual stroke at my brother’s wedding but didn’t tell anyone, he didn’t want to cause a scene."
https://thebolditalic.com/my-british-accent-doesnt-work-anymore-ee7d16cb400c
Money quote: "At the time, I was tired of everything English — drizzle, bread sauce, repressed emotions. I was sick of the Old World — a bitter, damp former empire where everyone knows their place and still doffs their hat to an old lady on a throne. I didn’t care that America was crass and fake and gross. I wanted people to yell rather than passively-aggressively mumble. I was always drawn to people shouting about how they feel. British people rarely tell you how they actually feel; they tend to say the absolute opposite and hope that maybe in a few months you’ll figure out what they meant. Sometimes this English reluctance to emote is based on good intentions. My uncle had an actual stroke at my brother’s wedding but didn’t tell anyone, he didn’t want to cause a scene."
https://thebolditalic.com/my-british-accent-doesnt-work-anymore-ee7d16cb400c
Medium
My British Accent Doesn’t Work Anymore
Becoming an American asshole — my own personal Brexit
Sta partendo questa bambola comunicativa, che attraverso i mass media come se fosse una specie di scintilla elettrica, perché fa gioco a un po' di parti diverse. L'idea è una cosa, il fatto che sia un messaggio, cioè una scatolina o contenitore mediale, un'altra. Ricordate, il mezzo è il messasggio? Anche il messaggio se lo considerate un oggetto a prescindere da quel che contiene è un mezzo, e serve ad altro.
Money quote: "People should have to work less for a living. Having to work less at what one needs to do, and more at what one wants to do, is good for material and spiritual well-being. Reducing working time - the time one has to work to keep ‘body and soul alive’ - is thus a valuable ethical objective."
https://theconversation.com/the-ethics-of-the-4-day-work-week-its-not-just-about-the-hours-124418
Money quote: "People should have to work less for a living. Having to work less at what one needs to do, and more at what one wants to do, is good for material and spiritual well-being. Reducing working time - the time one has to work to keep ‘body and soul alive’ - is thus a valuable ethical objective."
https://theconversation.com/the-ethics-of-the-4-day-work-week-its-not-just-about-the-hours-124418
The Conversation
The ethics of the 4 day work week. It’s not just about the hours
There's much to be said for the campaign to reduce weekly working hours. But the ethics are more complex than often assumed.
I migliori libri per conoscere tutti i big del tech - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-per-conoscere-tutti-i-big-del-tech/
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-per-conoscere-tutti-i-big-del-tech/
macitynet.it
I migliori libri per conoscere tutti i big del tech
ebook, Libri
Cosa succederebbe se Internet svanisse dall'oggi al domani? Un disastro, inutile dirlo.
Money quote: "“Most businesses don’t plan on an apocalypse lasting more than 30 days,” says Bret Piatt, CEO of cybersecurity firm Jungle Disk. “If the whole internet vanished, I would withdraw a big enough chunk of money to buy a year’s worth of rice, beans, desalination tablets, and fresh drinking water.”"
https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/web/a29629151/global-internet-outage
Money quote: "“Most businesses don’t plan on an apocalypse lasting more than 30 days,” says Bret Piatt, CEO of cybersecurity firm Jungle Disk. “If the whole internet vanished, I would withdraw a big enough chunk of money to buy a year’s worth of rice, beans, desalination tablets, and fresh drinking water.”"
https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/web/a29629151/global-internet-outage
Popular Mechanics
What Would Happen If the Internet Went Down ... Forever?
A thought experiment.
La storia della rapa nata alle pendici dell'Himalaya che ha conquistato il pianeta (e perché la biodiversità è fondamentale alla sopravvivenza del tutto)
Money quote: "Earlier this month, Molecular Biology and Evolution published findings from an unprecedented study of B. rapa that pulled together genetic sequencing, environmental modeling, and the largest number of wild, feral, and cultivated samples ever collected. The team’s results are important for more than knowing the genealogy of your next stir-fry: The paper is a significant step forward in understanding how one of the planet’s most important agricultural species might weather climate change."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/brassica-rapa-vegetable-domestication
Money quote: "Earlier this month, Molecular Biology and Evolution published findings from an unprecedented study of B. rapa that pulled together genetic sequencing, environmental modeling, and the largest number of wild, feral, and cultivated samples ever collected. The team’s results are important for more than knowing the genealogy of your next stir-fry: The paper is a significant step forward in understanding how one of the planet’s most important agricultural species might weather climate change."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/brassica-rapa-vegetable-domestication
Atlas Obscura
The Deep Roots of the Vegetable That ‘Took Over the World’
A study digs up the origin of the single species that gives us turnips, bok choy, broccoli rabe, and more.
Ecco a cosa serve la realtà aumentata e la stampa 3D. Partire dalle fotografie per ricreare opere perdute di artisti quasi dimenticati.
Money quote: "The destruction, in 1927, of a number of plaster and mixed-media sculptures by the Futurist artist Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) was a tragic loss for avant-garde art. Of the many ground-breaking sculptures he created between c.1913 and 1915, only a handful remain in existence today. Now, using a combination of vintage photographic material and cutting-edge 3D printing techniques, digital artists Matt Smith and Anders Rådén have recreated four of Boccioni’s destroyed works: a volumetric study of a human face titled Empty and Full Abstracts of a Head, and three of the artist’s iconic striding figures. This ground-breaking display enables modern audiences to ‘see’ these lost masterpieces for the very first time."
https://www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/boccioni-recreating-the-lost-sculptures
Money quote: "The destruction, in 1927, of a number of plaster and mixed-media sculptures by the Futurist artist Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) was a tragic loss for avant-garde art. Of the many ground-breaking sculptures he created between c.1913 and 1915, only a handful remain in existence today. Now, using a combination of vintage photographic material and cutting-edge 3D printing techniques, digital artists Matt Smith and Anders Rådén have recreated four of Boccioni’s destroyed works: a volumetric study of a human face titled Empty and Full Abstracts of a Head, and three of the artist’s iconic striding figures. This ground-breaking display enables modern audiences to ‘see’ these lost masterpieces for the very first time."
https://www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/boccioni-recreating-the-lost-sculptures
Questo discorso risuona profondamente anche con me: mi manca il web fatto in un certo modo. Non si tratta di nascondere la complessità, ma di farne a meno quando in realtà non serve. Tuttavia siccome l'obiettivo è la monetizzazione selvaggia...
Money quote: "Although many websites like Vane's exist on the clearnet, it's getting increasinly harder to find them through the commercial smog thrown up by Google. You have to look really hard for them now, and the best way to find them is through links from similar small websites--that you won't be able to find easily by a Google search, either. Duckduckgo is less commercialized, so you'll have a better chance there. But, even there, it's difficult to find the websites of people who create them just for the joy of it, people we used to call computer hobbyists. Since somehow you found my Miscellaneous Stuff blog, I'm guessing you likely understand what I'm talking about."
http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/miss-old-internet.html
Money quote: "Although many websites like Vane's exist on the clearnet, it's getting increasinly harder to find them through the commercial smog thrown up by Google. You have to look really hard for them now, and the best way to find them is through links from similar small websites--that you won't be able to find easily by a Google search, either. Duckduckgo is less commercialized, so you'll have a better chance there. But, even there, it's difficult to find the websites of people who create them just for the joy of it, people we used to call computer hobbyists. Since somehow you found my Miscellaneous Stuff blog, I'm guessing you likely understand what I'm talking about."
http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/miss-old-internet.html
Un po' di foto del 4 di luglio, negli Usa
Money quote: "The long 4th of July weekend can be a time to see family and friends, enjoy a day off, and celebrate with a barbecue and some fireworks.
But for many Americans, celebrating a country that has done so much harm since its inception can feel complicated and even painful. "I don't feel connected to the 4th of July," said photographer Star Montana. "I never understood it as a child in school. Our teachers would try to say it was our founding fathers’ time and our independence, but I would cry every time I would read they killed another Indigenous tribe through Manifest Destiny.""
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/piapeterson/july-4th-celebration-photos
Money quote: "The long 4th of July weekend can be a time to see family and friends, enjoy a day off, and celebrate with a barbecue and some fireworks.
But for many Americans, celebrating a country that has done so much harm since its inception can feel complicated and even painful. "I don't feel connected to the 4th of July," said photographer Star Montana. "I never understood it as a child in school. Our teachers would try to say it was our founding fathers’ time and our independence, but I would cry every time I would read they killed another Indigenous tribe through Manifest Destiny.""
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/piapeterson/july-4th-celebration-photos
BuzzFeed News
How Americans Around The Country Celebrated Independence Day
“As corny as it may sound, there was a sense of togetherness in the air. ‘We’re back, baby!’”
“Black Widow” è tre film in uno - la mia recensione di Black Widow
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/07/black-widow-recensione-film-marvel/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/07/black-widow-recensione-film-marvel/
Fumettologica
"Black Widow" è tre film in uno
Recensione di Black Widow, nuovo film Marvel che racconta il passato della Vedova Nera, ancora una volta interpretata da Scarlett Johansson.
I vostri loop personali. Perché no.
Money quote: "I wrote a Python script that lets you loop .mp3 files seamlessly, forever, based on a loop point determined automatically. This means that you can now listen to your favorite video game music on repeat, forever, sounding just like it does in the game! You can download the script here"
Money quote 2: "I love to listen to video game music - especially in the background while doing other things."
https://nolannicholson.com/looper.html
Money quote: "I wrote a Python script that lets you loop .mp3 files seamlessly, forever, based on a loop point determined automatically. This means that you can now listen to your favorite video game music on repeat, forever, sounding just like it does in the game! You can download the script here"
Money quote 2: "I love to listen to video game music - especially in the background while doing other things."
https://nolannicholson.com/looper.html