Effetti collaterali del vaccino per il morbillo.

Money quote:

"Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.

But something else happened.

Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half."

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/05/07/404963436/scientists-crack-a-50-year-old-mystery-about-the-measles-vaccine

Nella sua ultima rubrica il giornalista americano Walt Mossberg (una specie di istituzione nel settore del giornalismo tecnologico "new") apre la via a una riflessione che cerca di far capire in qualche direzione andrà la tecnologia nel futuro. Una direzione completamente diversa da quella degli ultimi anni, perché il computer sta scomparendo dalla nostra vista per diventare realmente pervasivo, con tutto quello che comporta in termini di interfacce e servizi.

Money quote: "But just because you’re not seeing amazing new consumer tech products on Amazon, in the app stores, or at the Apple Store or Best Buy, that doesn’t mean the tech revolution is stuck or stopped. In fact, it’s just pausing to conquer some major new territory. And, if it succeeds, the results could be as big or bigger than the first consumer PCs were in the 1970s, or even the web in the 1990s and smartphones in the first decade of this century"

https://www.recode.net/2017/5/25/15689094/mossberg-final-column

Il sospetto che si un deficiente sta diventando una certezza.

Money quote: "“Administration officials leak to the media hoping it will eventually become true and that coverage will sway Trump. White House officials sometimes don’t trust one another and spread rumors. They call other aides and advisers to see what he is saying about them. And officials are contradicted by other officials -- and even Trump, who tests different strategies aloud to different people. He sometimes agrees with whoever is in the room with him. He likes to please and can dial dozens of friends in a weekend"

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/01/playbook-josh-dawsey-donald-trump-decisions-239015

Lungo pippone sulle magnifiche e progressive sorti di Windows S. Non c'è emozione, solo calcolo utilitaristico. Non sono così ottimista sul futuro di questo approccio. Vince chi è più spietato, non basta la visione.

Money quote: "Windows 10 S will play an important role in Microsoft trying to reach that scale, Belfiore said. Because it's going into schools, which Microsoft sees as a growth market, it could get a lot of young, app-savvy customers using Windows. And because Windows 10 S only lets users download apps from the Windows Store, developers who want to reach those students might be convinced to start making apps for it."

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-windows-cvp-joe-belfiore-google-apple-windows-store-2017-5?IR=T

Buffo fenomeno. Quello per cui i difensori della novità del nostro tempo (il lavoro da casa, spinto e abilitato dalla tecnologia informatica) devono difendersi da una montante ondata di persone che invece vogliono che il loro lavoro abbia un posto.

La domanda è se il lavoro sia anche un posto oppure no.

Money quote: "Edit: *Sigh*. People. People people people. “Work from home” does not mean “100% full time work from home and never in the office”. It can range from “emergency” WFH, to part time WFH, to full time. Companies should offer these options."

http://www.midnightdba.com/Jen/2017/05/employers-let-people-work-home/

Vita e vecchiaia del gangster Ralph DeMasi. Articolo spettacolare.

Money quote:

"His quiet life in Salisbury seemed to suit him. He had family living nearby. He had those three refrigerator shelves. And to help him remember all that he had done and seen, he had a framed newspaper article on his night stand: “Tips For Improving Your Memory.”

“Make lists. … Put frequently used items in the same place each time. … Repeat information. … Make associations. … Exercise your mind. …”

But some things cannot be forgotten."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/31/us/a-mobster-a-family-and-the-crime-that-wont-let-them-go.html

Innovare vuol dire gentrificare?

Money quote: "The geographic focus was intentional. The area is stacked with university, medical, and corporate assets—including Penn, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Drexel, and Comcast, to name a few. If you’ve spent any time in this part of Philly over the past several years, you’ve watched it grow into an entrepreneurial hotspot brimming with young professionals, researchers, and startup leaders who want to be where the action is. Dense with restaurants, retail, and transit, the area radiates energy, and Philadelphians are starting to feel its effects.

But in this innovation hub, as in many others around the country, there lurks a tension between the desire for economic growth and the suspicion that the rewards may only go to a well-heeled few. Indeed, it is the same tension that is pulling at the nation, creating what feels like a bottomless rift over what’s causing our economic disparities—including the role of technology and innovation—and what ought to be done to bridge the divides. This tension drives the gentrification question, every time."

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/06/does-innovation-equal-gentrification/529839/

Cinque uomini (per tacer del cameraman) che si sono fatti esplodere una bomba atomica sulle loro teste (ok, in quota, ma sempre sulle loro teste). Folli.

Money quote: "On July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers and one photographer stood together on a patch of ground about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. They'd marked the spot "Ground Zero. Population 5" on a hand-lettered sign hammered into the soft ground right next to them."

http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/07/16/156851175/five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-exploding-nuclear-bomb

Unboxing iPad Pro 10,5”: Macity mette le mani sul nuovo mostro da 512GB più accessori, fotogalleria - il mio articolo su Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/unpacking-macity-del-ipad-pro-10-5/

E arriva anche l'unboxing dell'iPad Pro 10.5. Sto testando tutte le sue funzionalità per cercare di capire se davvero c'è una differenza sostanziale o è solo una modesta evoluzione del precedente iPad Pro 9.7

https://business.facebook.com/Macitynet.it/videos/1380109162026973/

Un gigantesco lemmario online del Greco classico. Io ho già dato, ma se serve...

https://dcthree.github.io/ancient-greek-lexica/

Ancora nessuno ha capito perché, ma a quanto pare i millennials se mangiano e fanno esercizio come i baby boomers diventano comunque più grassi. Boh.

Money quote: "They found a very surprising correlation: A given person, in 2006, eating the same amount of calories, taking in the same quantities of macronutrients like protein and fat, and exercising the same amount as a person of the same age did in 1988 would have a BMI that was about 2.3 points higher. In other words, people today are about 10 percent heavier than people were in the 1980s, even if they follow the exact same diet and exercise plans."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-was-easier-to-be-skinny-in-the-1980s/407974/

Dopo 9 anni e 18 numeri, Luca Enoch ha messo la parola fine a Lilith, "un lavoro di respiro, passione e intelligenza che ricorderemo a lungo", scrive Antonio Dini:

http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/06/lilith-bonelli-conclusione/

Video unboxing iPad Pro 10,5”: c’è un nuovo mostro in redazione - Ed ecco il mio video pubblicato direttamente su Macity (con qualche problema tecnico di accompagnamento)

https://www.macitynet.it/video-dellunpacking-ipad-pro-10-5/

Backchannel lascia definitivamente Medium e diventa una costola di Wired (Conde Nast).

Money quote: "Starting June 21, we will begin publishing Backchannel as a weekly digital magazine on wired.com. As players in a news cycle that’s rapidly approaching light speed, we believe our work will stand out more as a weekly event — an occasion — than as yet more fodder for the daily churn. And now we’ll be hosted on Wired’s site, rather than on Medium. We will still be editorially independent, of course, and our staff is unchanged"

https://backchannel.com/backchannel-is-moving-to-wired-dcb693c26ac0

Ecco il “Personal kanban” con i suggerimenti per ridurre il multitasking. Perché fa male al cervello.

Money quote: "James Benson, a former urban planner based in Seattle who authored Personal Kanban: Mapping Work — Navigating Life, tells Quartz that industrial Kanban was a way for Toyota to avoid overproducing. He has adapted the system to reduce overhead of the emotional sort—the “too many tasks on my mind” feeling that’s the biggest downside of our mostly doomed attempts to multitask"

https://qz.com/985821/personal-kanban-a-life-changing-time-management-system-that-explodes-the-myth-of-multitasking/

Le spettacolari onde che sembrano muoversi ma restano sempre allo stesso posto

Money quote: "Cinematographer Armand Dijcks had been experimenting with animating splashes of water when he first encountered Collins’s photographs. He wondered if he could show the waves “in motion, but staying in place at the same time,” he says."

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cinemagraph-waves

Non siate quelli che "so-tutto-io". Siate quelli che vogliono sapere tutto. Eterni cercatori

Money quote:

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” -Epictetus, Discourses, Book II, ch. 17

http://lifehacker.com/you-cannot-learn-what-you-think-you-already-know-1796095391

Se lo stato spia, che legtittimità ha? Ci protegge? Ci aggredisce? Senza dimenticare che, nel mondo tecnologico, cambia dinamica delle relazioni, il senso delle informazioni. E poi: dovremmo difendere la nostra privacy a prescindere? E le aziende di tecnologia che realizzano prodotti a prova di controllo statale, sono "brave" o sono "pericolose" e anti patriottiche?

Intanto, i router di Apple (le AirPort e Time Capsule) risultano essere gli unici che resistono alle manomissioni a distanza del governo americano.

Money quote: "Grazie al dump dei documenti ottenuti da WikiLeaks, si apprende che la CIA aveva a disposizione firmware modificati per dispositivi di Asus, Belkin, Buffalo, Dell, DLink, Linksys, Motorola, Netgear, Senao e US Robotics; il firmware modificato era stato realizzato dallo Stanford Research Institute, partner chiave nello sviluppo dello strumento sfruttato dalla CIA. La CIA aveva chiesto un modo per entrare anche nei router AirPort di Apple ma sembra che gli sforzi siano stati vanificati per via di tecnologie di cifratura e la presenza di vario hardware personalizzato che ha impedito lo sviluppo di strumenti in grado di attaccare la famiglia di prodotti AirPort."

https://www.macitynet.it/router-airport-non-elencati-nel-vault-7-dalla-cia/

La fine di Theresa May, secondo il Guardian

Money quote: “hat tomb in the sky will be forever Theresa May’s monument. Grenfell marks the spot and her visit marks the moment the last vestiges of her career were finally rubbed out. She made it her own yesterday by that fateful “visit” to a handful of senior fire officers, guarding her from any contaminating contact with the bereaved and newly homeless. Dead to emotion or empathy, she sealed her fate.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/16/theresa-may-scared-grenfell-survivors-finished-austerity-cameron-osborne