Chi crede nelle teorie del complotto ha una testa particolare. Perché ci sono tante intelligenze, e uno non è mica che deve avercele tutte. Però alcune capacità analitiche sarebbe meglio che le avesse.

Money quote: "I want to argue for something which is controversial, although I believe that it is also intuitive and commonsensical. My claim is this: Oliver believes what he does because that is the kind of thinker he is or, to put it more bluntly, because there is something wrong with how he thinks. The problem with conspiracy theorists is not, as the US legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues, that they have little relevant information. The key to what they end up believing is how they interpret and respond to the vast quantities of relevant information at their disposal. I want to suggest that this is fundamentally a question of the way they are. Oliver isn’t mad (or at least, he needn’t be). Nevertheless, his beliefs about 9/11 are the result of the peculiarities of his intellectual constitution – in a word, of his intellectual character."

https://aeon.co/essays/the-intellectual-character-of-conspiracy-theorists

Salesforce accelera sulla cybersecurity e investe su Tanium - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/salesforce-accelera-sulla-cybersecurity-e-investe-su-tanium/

Auto a guida autonoma, Volvo si allea con Waymo - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/auto-a-guida-autonoma-volvo-si-allea-con-waymo/

La grande lista dei film indipendenti. Ma veramente indipendenti (un paio posso dire che sono anche davvero belli: ne ho visti pochi però. E voi?)

Money quote: "With this in mind, compiling a list of the best—or maybe let’s say the most interesting—American independent films since 2000 is a fool’s errand. I don’t mind looking foolish (I wrote a book about Showgirls, for god’s sake) but know that there were some ground rules here, only a couple of which were broken. (See if you can spot them!) No movies produced or distributed by major studios or mini-majors, which led to the decision to leave out A24 (meaning no Lady Bird, or The Witch, or Spring Breakers, or Hereditary, or you name it); no foreign titles, since financing structures abroad are even more difficult to categorize (which means that authentically shoestring masterpieces like Ben Wheatley’s Down Terrace didn’t qualify); no obvious “calling card” movies (even though some of these filmmakers got snapped up by studios pretty fast); and no need to include certain films that Ringer readers probably already know and love. (Sean Fennessey pushed for the inclusion of a certain Nicolas Winding Refn thriller starring Ryan Gosling whose title rhymes with “dive” but I exercised my one Canadian-freelancer veto, since that movie sucks.)"

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/10/18/17990106/the-30-best-truly-independent-films-of-the-21st-century

Apple è la regina del neumorfismo - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/apple-e-la-regina-del-neumorfismo/

La nuova generazione di controller avanzati Thurstmaster in attesa di Flight Simulator 2020 - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/la-nuova-generazione-di-controller-avanzati-thurstmaster-in-attesa-di-flight-simulator-2020/

Qual è il futuro di Windows sui computer di Apple? - il mio lungo e interessante articolo per Macity ("interessante" se siete flippati di virtualizzazione ed emulazione)
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https://www.macitynet.it/qual-e-il-futuro-di-windows-sui-computer-di-apple/

Una lista definitiva, per chi vuole auto-aiutarsi, dei libri che rendono più produttivi. Commentata da chi di produttività se ne intende (oggettivamente).

Money quote: "Deciding to “be more productive” is one of those goals that sounds really good — because who doesn’t want to get more done in fewer hours or waste less time on social media? — but is actually hard to do well. That’s because productivity is such a slippery concept, with a different meaning for every person, depending on what they ultimately want to accomplish. And what helps one person stay on track might be the productivity tool that successfully guides another.

So for this reading list on the best productivity books and books on time management, I reached out to a broad range of experts from academia, business, journalism, and tech."

http://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-productivity-books.html

iOS 14 dona un cuore nuovo ai vecchi iPhone - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2020/06/29/news/ios-14-dona-un-cuore-nuovo-ai-vecchi-iphone-1.39021248?refresh_ce

Nei momenti di tristezza, per elaborare un lutto (un'assenza, una separazione, una dipartita) in Giappone un signore ha costruito una piccola cabina telefonica con un telefono di quelli vecchi, che non è connesso a niente. Messaggi nel vento, insomma: vocali verso dev/null. È un posto dove andare a piangere e parlare in solitudine con chi non c'è più.

L'idea è stata di Itaru Sasaki, che aveva perso un cugino. Poi il terremoto/maremoto/incidente nucleare del 2011 hanno devastato anche l'are di Otsuchi, dove vive l'uomo, e lui ha dato l'accesso alla cabina del telefono ai suoi vicini. Pian piano la voce si è sparsa e oggi c'è gente che va in Giappone e si ritaglia un paio di giorni solo per poter fare una telefonata a qualcuno che non c'è più.

Money quote: "Otsuchi can be reached from Tokyo by high-speed train. Take the train to the Otsuchi (Otsucki) station. It can also be accessed by a car ride which is about 7 hours by taking the Tohoku expressway. The phone booth is just outside the city, north of Dai Chiwari 11, but not as far north as Dai Chiwari 12. It's the land side of the railway line. Use the published coordinates if you have GPS."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/wind-telephone

Progetto Gutenberg, perché sarà sotto sequestro per sempre - grande articolo del mio amico Raffaele Angius per Wired

https://www.wired.it/internet/web/2020/06/30/progetto-gutenberg-sequestro/

Con l'estate arriva la stagione dei lunghi viaggi in treno e in macchina. Questa potrebbe essere la soluzione definitiva per grandi e per piccini: orinatoi portatili

Money quote: "What exactly is a Travel John? It’s essentially a plastic funnel attached to a paper bag that’s filled with crystals. You press the funnel to your body to urinate into the bag, the crystals absorb the liquid, turning into a gel that contains the liquid and smell. Then you can throw the bag right into the trash. The Travel John also comes in a Travel Jane variety (complete with its own as-offensive-as-you-can-imagine pink box). But there’s no actual difference between the John and Jane products beyond the packaging. The funnel is designed to be unisex, and from reading reviews across the web, it seems to work as advertised."

https://www.fastcompany.com/90518559/meet-the-summers-sleeper-hit-product-a-bag-you-pee-into

Sensori su abbonamento, la nuova strategia di Sony - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/sensori-su-abbonamento-la-nuova-strategia-di-sony/

Italtel spinge sul cloud, partnership strategica con Aws - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/cloud/italtel-spinge-sul-cloud-partnership-strategica-con-aws/

Noi abbiamo una normativa ottocentesca, con tanto di registri professionali, patenti e brevetti, e poi il sistema piuttosto laborioso di trascrizione e registrazione delle proprietà immobiliari. Negli Usa il real estate sta venendo disrupted, come dicono quelli che parlano mezzo inglese e mezzo italiano.

Il punto è che la tecnologia digitale sta alterando le dinamiche e stiamo andando rapidamente verso una serie di servizi che rendono il bene casa una cosa completamente diversa, un po' come è successo con il carsharing, per intendersi, ma applicato alle compravendite, non alle vacanze.

Money quote: "In the US, we’ve seen the rise of what real-estate insiders call “iBuyers.” These companies include the real-estate tech giant Zillow and the brokerage Redfin, as well as lesser-known startups Opendoor, Knock, and Offerpad. First, they use algorithms (and other technologies) to assign value to homes. Prospective sellers in a few select markets (namely cities with lots of uniform, newish housing stock such as Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Phoenix) can visit the websites or apps of these companies, enter in a few details of their homes, and get an all-cash offer and close in days. The companies then re-list these homes for sale on the open market, hoping to turn a profit.

But don’t call them “flippers”: The homes the iBuyers purchase directly from consumers typically are not distressed or in needing of hefty renovations. The goal of these companies to make the process of selling a home so easy and worry-free for consumers—you don’t need to hire an agent, schedule showings and open houses, or finagle over price—that consumers will take a slightly lower price than they could get on the open market. Then, the iBuyers re-list them for slightly more—a slim margin of gain, but at increasingly higher volumes of sales."

https://qz.com/1383672/you-might-find-your-next-home-on-amazon/

Huawei fuori dalle reti di Tlc europee? Costerebbe 40 miliardi di Pil - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/5g/huawei-fuori-dalle-reti-di-tlc-europee-costerebbe-40-miliardi-di-pil/

Coronavirus, in calo le fake news ma non abbastanza - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/coronavirus-in-calo-le-fake-news-ma-non-abbastanza/

La storia di quei ragazzi che fecero Unix. E la particolare giocosità di uno di essi.

Money quote: "Thompson had passed some of his time after the demise of Multics writing a computer game called Space Travel, which simulated all the major bodies in the solar system along with a spaceship that could fly around them. Written for the GE-645, Space Travel was clunky to play—and expensive: roughly US $75 a game for the CPU time. Hunting around, Thompson came across a dusty PDP-7, a minicomputer built by Digital Equipment Corp. that some of his Bell Labs colleagues had purchased earlier for a circuit-analysis project. Thompson rewrote Space Travel to run on it.

And with that little programming exercise, a second door cracked ajar. It was to swing wide open during the summer of 1969 when Thompson’s wife, Bonnie, spent a month visiting his parents to show off their newborn son. Thompson took advantage of his temporary bachelor existence to write a good chunk of what would become the Unix operating system for the discarded PDP‑7. The name Unix stems from a joke one of Thompson’s colleagues made: Because the new operating system supported only one user (Thompson), he saw it as an emasculated version of Multics and dubbed it “Un-multiplexed Information and Computing Service,” or Unics. The name later morphed into Unix."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix

Più efficienza e ricavi: chi utilizza l’intelligenza artificiale “stacca” i concorrenti - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/piu-efficienza-e-ricavi-chi-utilizza-lintelligenza-artificiale-stacca-i-concorrenti/

La nuova sfida delle banche: ecco rischi e opportunità dei token - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/finance/la-nuova-sfida-delle-banche-ecco-rischi-e-opportunita-dei-token/