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La folle, straordinaria storia di un pianoforte

Money quote: “According to a 1955 article in Time, work on the piano began around 1800, in Turin. Rumor has it that harpsichord maker Sebastian Marchisio used wood from Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem—unlikely, perhaps, but not necessarily impossible, as the Romans may have brought pieces of the sacked temple back to Italy. It’s believed that they were used in churches, and that Marchisio salvaged the wood for his piano after an earthquake struck one of those churches.”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lost-wwii-piano

Atlas Obscura

Sold: An Ornate Piano Found on a World War II Battlefield

It traveled three continents, survived desert warfare, and accidentally ended up with a man who'd been looking for it all along.

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Prevedibili effetti del coronavirus

Money quote: “For the past three weeks, Justin LaBoy, 28, a former professional basketball player and a social media personality, and Justin Dior Combs, an entrepreneur and P. Diddy’s 26-year-old son, have been hosting virtual pop-up strip clubs on Instagram Live”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/style/justin-laboy-instagram-strip-clubs-live.html

NY Times

Inside the Strip Clubs of Instagram

Going digital may be better for dancers.

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Il fondatore di Sonos: "Apple è chiusa? Dovreste vedere Spotify" - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/il-fondatore-di-sonos-apple-e-chiusa-dovreste-vedere-spotify/

Macitynet.it

Il fondatore di Sonos: "Apple è chiusa? Dovreste vedere Spotify" - Macitynet.it

Entra i campo John MacFarlane che risponde alla critiche del miliardario e ceo Daniel Ek secondo il quale l'ecosistema di Apple è chiuso: "Una notevole ironia"

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Alla fine, cos’è la scienza? E il metodo scientifico?

Money quote: “Karl Popper poked huge holes in the standard view (Logical Positivism or Logical Empiricism), persuasively arguing that scientific theories can never be proven, and the best we can hope for is to falsify a scientific theory³. Platt argued that scientists should apply the “method of multiple hypotheses,” wherein they come up with as many alternative explanations as possible, and set out to test them against each other⁴.”

https://towardsdatascience.com/i-dont-believe-in-electrons-8f1b59adc1ec

Medium

I Don’t Believe in Electrons

…and don’t get me started on ‘consensus’ science

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Newsletter Mostly Weekly lanciata! Ci si iscrive qui: https://tinyletter.com/MostlyIWrite

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Oggi domenica di relax, leggendo e aspettando gli impegni di lunedì. Ma a quanto pare il mio condominio ha altri progetti...

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Lucille, la chitarra di B.B. King, non aveva il tremolo perché era lui, B.B. King, il tremolo

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Non mi è mai piaciuto Eric Schmidt. Sono convinto che sia stato lui l'anima nera dietro a Larry Page e Sergei Brin che ha trasformato Google da super motore di ricerca cool in una macchina per schedare il pianeta (e in super avversario di Apple a cui ha "rubato" tutto quel che poteva rubare, sulla falsariga di Bill Gates con Microsoft venti anni prima). E dopo la sua uscita dall'azienda è andato a fare il super-esperto per i militari americani. Un duca nero il cui peso potrebbe essere estremamente negativo

Money quote: "Last April, Mr. Schmidt announced he planned to leave Google’s board. He had helped create an A.I. center backed by the Pentagon in 2018 and had also become co-chair of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, a new group advising Congress on developing A.I. for defense.
A month after leaving Google, Mr. Schmidt invested in Rebellion Defense, a software start-up founded by former Defense Department employees that analyzes video gathered via drone. His venture firm later put more money into the company, and Mr. Schmidt joined its board."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/technology/eric-schmidt-pentagon-google.html

NY Times

‘I Could Solve Most of Your Problems’: Eric Schmidt’s Pentagon Offensive (Published 2020)

The former Google C.E.O. has reinvented himself as the prime liaison between Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex.

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Forwarded from MacchiaChannel

Ecco, prove alla mano, come funziona la censura su WeChat, l’app di messaggistica più usata in Cina, gestita - e quasi imposta - direttamente dal governo. L’articolo spiega anche come chi la usa in Occidente non sia sottoposto alla stessa censura, ma aiuti il governo cinese ad affinare le tecniche per individuare i messaggi scomodi.

Link: https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/wechat-surveillance-explained/ 🇬🇧

The Citizen Lab

WeChat Surveillance Explained

This document provides a summary of the Citizen Lab's WeChat surveillance research findings, as well as questions and answers from the resesearch team.

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Uno degli effetti della quarantena e del bisogno di videoconferenze di massa, è l'ufficio assistenza dei vecchi nonni e genitori all'uso delle nuove diavolerie. È una vita dura a tutte le latitudini

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ef5dRyvQ1Y

YouTube

Helping mom start a ZOOM meeting - Hebrew with english subtitles

Due to a lot of requests im proud to present "Helping mom start a ZOOM meeting" with english subtitles.
dont forget to respect and love your perents allways! But its OK to cry sometimes:)

wiriting acting & editing : Yonatan Gruber
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Forwarded from Fumettologica

Rifatevi gli occhi:

https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/05/esteban-maroto-zodiaco/

Fumettologica

Lo zodiaco illustrato da Esteban Maroto

Esteban Maroto, noto per le sue storie fantasy e dell'orrore, realizzò negli anni '70 una serie di illustrazioni raffigurati i segni dello zodiaco.

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