Si può essere amici tra uomini e donne, si chiedevano Harry e Sally. Ma si può essere amici tra adulti, ci chiediamo oggi?
Money quote: "There was once upon a time when friendship did not require elaborate planning. We spoke for hours without checking calendars. Entire evenings disappeared on hostel terraces and tea stalls and long walks taken for absolutely no reason. Friendship in youth thrived on excess time – loose, unstructured, and gloriously wasteful.
However, somewhere between “Let’s catch up soon” and “Sorry, life has been hectic”, adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life."
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-irony/the-quiet-grief-of-adult-friendship/
Money quote: "There was once upon a time when friendship did not require elaborate planning. We spoke for hours without checking calendars. Entire evenings disappeared on hostel terraces and tea stalls and long walks taken for absolutely no reason. Friendship in youth thrived on excess time – loose, unstructured, and gloriously wasteful.
However, somewhere between “Let’s catch up soon” and “Sorry, life has been hectic”, adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life."
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-irony/the-quiet-grief-of-adult-friendship/
Times of India Voices
The quiet grief of adult friendship
A few weeks ago, a friend called me at 01:40 AM. Not texted. Called. For a brief second, my body prepared itself for bad news. Adulthood has conditioned most of us to believe that late-night...
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Oggi purtroppo è mancata una mia amica e una delle migliori giornaliste con cui abbia mai lavorato. È un giorno molto triste.
È morta la giornalista Carola Frediani, tra i maggiori esperti di tecnologia digitale in Italia
Leggi tutto: https://ilpost.link/nUNztpkEuo
È morta la giornalista Carola Frediani, tra i maggiori esperti di tecnologia digitale in Italia
Leggi tutto: https://ilpost.link/nUNztpkEuo
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È morta la giornalista Carola Frediani, tra i maggiori esperti di tecnologia digitale in Italia
È morta la giornalista Carola Frediani, una tra i maggiori esperti di tecnologia digitale e cybersicurezza in Italia, conosciuta soprattutto per la newsletter di successo Guerre di Rete, poi diventata un sito web con diversi collaboratori. Le era stato diagnosticato…
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Un'idea originale: raccogliere un corpus di lettere per raccontare la caduta di Roma
Money quote: "The Fall of Rome in Letters
How the Western Roman provinces lost their voice, and how the East carried on. Told through the letters that stopped being written."
https://romanletters.org
Money quote: "The Fall of Rome in Letters
How the Western Roman provinces lost their voice, and how the East carried on. Told through the letters that stopped being written."
https://romanletters.org
romanletters.org
Roman Letters: Latin and Greek Correspondence, 100-800 AD
Latin and Greek correspondence from the Roman world, 100-800 AD, with modern English translations, source links, and network metadata.
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Nel delirio di novità con l'AI dentro della scorsa I/O 2026 Google ha presentato anche una versione dei Google Docs "live" con la quale parlare per scrivere le cose.
Ora, io che mi definisco uno che scrive per vivere (questo canale si chiama non a caso "Mostly, I Write"), proprio non ci riesco a sostituire la scrittura con il discorso orale come modalità di interazione. Cioè, penso scrivendo, non parlando. Non riesco a dar forma ai pensieri parlando, devo mettermi a scrivere e andare avanti e indietro: quando parlo ho già pensato a cosa voglio dire (più o meno). Sono io che sono sbagliato per questa cosa di Google? Boh. Dentro l'articolo c'è anche il video verticale con la demo che è la cosa più interessante da vedere.
Money quote: "Google Docs already has two AI buttons built in—a chat side panel and a bottom bar. Does it need another window into Gemini?
Frank Tisellano, a Docs product manager, says yes, especially for people who think and speak faster than they type: “We’re trying to remove this bottleneck to prompting and getting your ideas out there.”"
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/google-docs-live-test-e4473e07?st=ZSgpnS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
archivio: https://archive.is/d75D5
Ora, io che mi definisco uno che scrive per vivere (questo canale si chiama non a caso "Mostly, I Write"), proprio non ci riesco a sostituire la scrittura con il discorso orale come modalità di interazione. Cioè, penso scrivendo, non parlando. Non riesco a dar forma ai pensieri parlando, devo mettermi a scrivere e andare avanti e indietro: quando parlo ho già pensato a cosa voglio dire (più o meno). Sono io che sono sbagliato per questa cosa di Google? Boh. Dentro l'articolo c'è anche il video verticale con la demo che è la cosa più interessante da vedere.
Money quote: "Google Docs already has two AI buttons built in—a chat side panel and a bottom bar. Does it need another window into Gemini?
Frank Tisellano, a Docs product manager, says yes, especially for people who think and speak faster than they type: “We’re trying to remove this bottleneck to prompting and getting your ideas out there.”"
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/google-docs-live-test-e4473e07?st=ZSgpnS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
archivio: https://archive.is/d75D5
The Wall Street Journal
There’s a New Way to Create Google Docs With Your Voice. Watch Me Try It.
An exclusive look at Google’s new speech-powered AI project manager and writing partner
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Ci risiamo: è pronta Mostly Weekly 379. L'AI è andata veramente al comando? Chissà: leggere per sapere
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/379/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/379/
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Letture per la domenica
Un affascinante reportage sul turismo tecnologico in Cina. È così che si vincono gli immaginari e si diventa superpotenze egemoni.
Money quote: "Tech tourism aligns with China’s attempts to actively promote itself as a tech powerhouse.
In April 2025, American YouTuber iShowSpeed visited Shenzhen and rode a flying drone car. While the influencer’s team denied having been paid by the Chinese government, the video drew more than 600,000 views and was praised by Chinese state media for “casting light on real China.”
When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Unitree Robotics in Hangzhou in February, videos of him watching humanoid robots perform kung fu moves went viral on Chinese social media. Leaders from Spain and Vietnam met Chinese tech executives and tried on AI glasses during their visits this year.
In a post on X on May 15, Lex Friedman, who hosts one of the world’s most popular tech podcasts in his own name, said he is visiting China to talk to “engineers at the heart of China’s AI revolution,” and also to do some hitchhiking. "
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-tourism/
Un affascinante reportage sul turismo tecnologico in Cina. È così che si vincono gli immaginari e si diventa superpotenze egemoni.
Money quote: "Tech tourism aligns with China’s attempts to actively promote itself as a tech powerhouse.
In April 2025, American YouTuber iShowSpeed visited Shenzhen and rode a flying drone car. While the influencer’s team denied having been paid by the Chinese government, the video drew more than 600,000 views and was praised by Chinese state media for “casting light on real China.”
When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Unitree Robotics in Hangzhou in February, videos of him watching humanoid robots perform kung fu moves went viral on Chinese social media. Leaders from Spain and Vietnam met Chinese tech executives and tried on AI glasses during their visits this year.
In a post on X on May 15, Lex Friedman, who hosts one of the world’s most popular tech podcasts in his own name, said he is visiting China to talk to “engineers at the heart of China’s AI revolution,” and also to do some hitchhiking. "
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-tourism/
Rest of World
China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism
Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.
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EcoGPT è una risposta plausibile al problema dei datacenter che devastano l'ambiente?
Money quote: "Our planet is dying because of Big AI.
Every day, global AI systems waste...
• 100m+ gallons of water
• 10x as much electricity as all of Greenland
• 7000+ tons of CO2 emissions
EcoGPT is the world's first Regenerative AI"
https://ecogpt.com
Money quote: "Our planet is dying because of Big AI.
Every day, global AI systems waste...
• 100m+ gallons of water
• 10x as much electricity as all of Greenland
• 7000+ tons of CO2 emissions
EcoGPT is the world's first Regenerative AI"
https://ecogpt.com
EcoGPT
EcoGPT - AI Chat
Chat with EcoGPT, a sustainable AI assistant that helps you write, learn, plan, and create while funding verified tree planting.
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