Uno script per dominarli tutti (sort of)

Money quote: "When I first started at my current job, I was using my personal laptop. Being a stickler for the separation between work-time and non-work-time, I would routinely open GitLab, ClickUp, Slack, Localhost, MAMP and VS Code in the morning and promptly close all those windows come 6 o'clock. I did this manually every day for weeks.

Eventually, I decided to write something that I can run once so that everything I needed open will open quickly."

https://dev.to/dmahely/one-bash-command-to-start-the-day-2fni

Una di quelle lunghe storie alle quali sono parecchio affezionato…

⁠https://antoniodini.com/storie/orologi/anonimo-millemetri-1.html

La seconda parte della storia di ieri sera

⁠https://antoniodini.com/storie/orologi/anonimo-millemetri-2.html

La storia di quei pezzettini di plastica che in Italia praticamente non esistono ma che in America vengono usati per chiudere il sacchetto del pane: li produce una sola ditta

Money quote: "Floyd Paxton, Kwik Lok’s founder, was a second-generation manufacturing engineer who began his career working alongside his father, Hale, producing nail machines during World War II. Prior to the post-war plastics boom, both Paxton and his father produced, among other things, the nails used to close wooden boxes of fruit. In other words, package sealing was in Paxton’s blood."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bread-tabs-clips-paxton

Dicono tutti: Kodachrome era una figata. Ma i ricordi sono vaghi, e riferiti alle ultime versioni. Il vero Kodachrome, quello cantato da Paul Simon, sta solo negli anni quaranta in Florida. Altro che.

Gran belle foto.

Money quote: "The 1940s weren’t all shades of brown, ravaged by war, shaped by fear and filmed in black and white. In Florida, USA, there were holidays in the glorious colors of Kodachrome."

https://flashbak.com/1940s-florida-in-kodachrome-412315/

Addio ClubHouse, hai preso troppo da me, e io ti lascio - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2021/02/17/news/addio-clubhouse-hai-preso-troppo-da-me-e-io-ti-lascio-1.39910341

Ho altri progetti smanettoni da portare avanti e mi bastano per una vita e mezzo. Nel caso qualcuno voglia arredare la propria casa, c'è questo tizio che ha fatto un quadro e-Ink dinamico con. la prima pagina del New York Times cartaceo che si aggiorna ogni mattina (chissà se ci vuole l'abbonamento)

Money quote: "Most screens create the opposite of calm, but e-ink screens, having no backlight and a slow refresh rate, induce a sense of calm. And, because of their limited power usage, the battery on e-ink screens can easily last an entire year.

This is why e-ink screens are uniquely suited for displaying wall art. Unlike paper, the screen allows for the display of dynamic content (making it possible to display the ever-changing front page of The Times), while the absence of a backlight makes it less distracting than an LCD screen."

https://alexanderklopping.medium.com/an-updated-daily-front-page-of-the-new-york-times-as-artwork-on-your-wall-3b28c3261478

il suo ispiratore

https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b407822494

Il fantasy Made in Cividale del Friuli - il mio articolo per Anobii

https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/02/16/il-fantasy-made-in-cividale-del-friuli/

Costruire l'intelligenza innaturale. Pezzone definitivo di 1843, la rivista mensile dell'Economist

Money quote: "The conference at which Hassabis spoke was called the Singularity Summit. “The Singularity” refers to the most likely consequence of the advent of AGI, according to futurists. Because AGI will process information at high speed, it will become very smart very quickly. Rapid cycles of self-improvement will lead to an explosion of machine intelligence, leaving humans choking on silicon dust. Since this future is constructed entirely on a scaffolding of untested presumptions, it is a matter of almost religious belief whether one considers the Singularity to be Utopia or hell.
Judging by the titles of talks, the attendees at the conference tended towards the messianic: “The Mind and How to Build One”; “AI against Aging”; “Replacing Our Bodies”; “Modifying the Boundary between Life and Death”. Hassabis’s speech, by contrast, appeared underwhelming: “A Systems Neuroscience Approach to Building AGI”."

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/deepmind-and-google-the-battle-to-control-artificial-intelligence

A me questa cosa che le persone normali che si vogliono vaccinare non riescono (in Lombardia è la follia) mentre si fanno campagne pubblicitarie pubbliche per convincere chi non vuole a vaccinarsi, mi manda fuori di testa. Scusate lo sfogo, va bene tutto, ma vivere in una società punitiva basata su diseguaglianza congenite e che si preoccupa di chi palesemente rema contro mi sembra semplicemente folle. Dal punto di vista comunicativo, un autogol completo, a meno che l’implicito non sia “visto che i vaccini li stiamo facendo?”. Che sarebbe anche peggio

https://twitter.com/antoniodini/status/1362438969473064961?s=20

Me lo chiedo da tempo: premesso che la frontiera dell’innovazione si è spostata (Elon Musk, Cina, Arabia Saudita) perché i nostri giornali cantano solo le lodi di NASA e ESA? Siamo noi i cattivi del fumetto e neanche ce ne rendiamo conto, come in questo caso?

Il marcio sotto la città. Dall'intestino di Parigi ottocentesca è nata l'ossessione per il sotterraneo che ancora ci portiamo dietro. Altro che Sussi e Biribissi. Qui siamo alla preistoria. Il ventre della matrigna.

Money quote: "The first person to photograph the underground of Paris was a gallant and theatrical man with a blaze of red hair, known as Nadar. Once described by Charles Baudelaire as “the most amazing example of vitality,” Nadar was among the most visible and electric personalities in mid-nineteenth-century Paris. He was a showman, a dandy, a ringleader of the bohemian art world, but he was known especially as the city’s preeminent photographer. Working out of a palatial studio in the center of the city, Nadar was a pioneer of the medium, as well as a great innovator. In 1861, Nadar invented a battery-operated light, one of the first artificial lights in the history of photography. To show off the power of his “magic lantern,” as he called it, he set out to take photographs in the darkest and most obscure spaces he could find: the sewers and catacombs beneath the city. Over the course of several months, he took hundreds of photographs in subterranean darkness, each requiring an exposure of eighteen minutes. The images were a revelation. Parisians had long known about the cat’s cradle of tunnels, crypts, and aqueducts beneath their streets, but they had always been abstract spaces, whispered about, but seldom seen. For the first time, Nadar brought the underworld into full view, opening Paris’s relationship to its subterranean landscape: a connection that, over time, grew stranger, more obsessive, and more intimate than that of perhaps any city in the world."

https://longreads.com/2019/03/13/a-three-day-expedition-to-walk-across-paris-entirely-underground/

La libertà di essere se stessi è la fine di ogni paura.
👉 https://bit.ly/3aw3juh

È arrivato il momento di ripensare il nostro rapporto con la tecnologia quotidiana, soprattutto quella personale/portatile/mobile. Ma non in questo modo.

Money quote: "Moment’s popularity reflects a growing consciousness around “digital wellness”, the name given to lifestyle practices that encourage healthy device use. Wellness trends reflect the anxieties of the era in which they arise; this one is about time being stolen from us. If being on the phone 24/7, or having tech-savvy kids, was once a signifier of productivity and affluence, now device addiction signifies a loss of control.

Many digital wellness books, programs and apps encourage commonsense behavioral changes – say, leaving your phone outside your room when you go to sleep – aimed to help people regain control of their time in a digital economy designed to drip-feed information and dopamine in return for our data and attention."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/13/digital-wellness-phone-addiction-tech

ThinkPad X1 Nano, recensione dell'anti-MacBook Air M1 - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/thinkpad-x1-nano-recensione-dellanti-macbook-air-m1/

C’è stata un’epoca in cui gli Expo hanno preso forma e sono diventati uno strumento per il progresso. Alcuni anni fa, in occasione del secondo Expo di Milano, ho cercato di raccontarne la storia e le motivazioni. Questo è un breve saggio dell’epoca, ma ho pubblicato anche due ebook ora fuori commercio che presto rimetterò online qui sul mio sito

Ma a questo racconto sono particolarmente affezionato perché contiene al suo interno una piccola e insospettabile storia d’amore…

https://antoniodini.com/storie/articoli/expo-posto-innovazione

Un po' di belle foto del Café de Flore

Money quote: "After the war Juliette Gréco, Ernest Hemingway, Trumane Capote, later Roman Polonski, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Belmondo and Yves Saint Laurent all were regulars. Juliette Gréco has said, “In Flore people are less ugly than anywhere else”."

https://flashbak.com/photographs-of-the-famous-cafe-de-flore-in-paris-409903/

I migliori libri sul marketing: comunicazione per i prodotti e servizi nell'era digitale - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/migliori-libri-marketing/