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

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“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

Siamo sicuri che con la realtà virtuale stiamo facendo la cosa giusta? Perché dovremmo anche chiederci quali sono i rischi di uno strumento che interagisce direttamente con la nostra capacità percettiva.

Money quote: ““This is a scene from a movie from the 1940s called Gaslight,” Todd Richmond told the packed room, pointing to a screen showing a man and a woman standing by an old gaslight in a home. “How many people know what gaslighting is? So the term gaslighting comes from when lights used to be gas fueled. And it's a way of driving someone into mental distress by manipulating their environment without telling them and then denying that it's being manipulated. So the classic, the gaslight lamp lighting is that you slowly turn down the lights on your spouse because you're trying to drive your spouse nuts. Your spouse says, ‘Is it getting darker?’ And you say, ‘No, I don't know what you're talking about.’ And if you do that enough over time, you would begin to freak people out.

“So is VR the perfect platform for this? The answer is, yeah, if you're going to use it for that.””

https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/4/7/15205366/vr-danger-close

L'iPad Pro 2017 è ancora più "pro" di prima - il mio articolo per Il Post

http://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2017/06/16/ipad-pro-2017/

Ricordate il fallimento dei televisori 3D? Incapaci di aggiungere profondità all'esperienza già consolidata della televisione e per di più limitativi delle sue funzionalità? Comincio ad avere la sensazione che l'enfasi su VR e AR possa ripetere errori simili.

Quando hanno messo il motore non hanno solo tolto il cavallo alle carrozze; hanno proprio reinventato il trasporto creando l'automobile. Mi sa che pensare a software, device e schede video per fare VR e AR sia la fine e non l'inizio della storia.

Money quote: "Earlier this week, Bethesda Softworks gave fans two big virtual reality announcements: VR versions of beloved RPGs Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. You could argue that these kinds of big, open-world titles are the perfect application for VR — the medium needs games that can keep players entertained for more than a few hours, and people want to feel like they're really living in their favorite world.

I think, however, that you’d be wrong. Because so far, the little I’ve seen of both titles suggests that most of the great parts of present-day open-world games don’t translate well into a headset, and that the perfect VR open world won’t look anything like what we’re used to."

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/16/15814724/fallout-4-skyrim-vr-bethesda-hands-on-e3-2017

Quando pensi che un articolo su come sistematicamente leggere più libri sia una banalità pazzesca che non vale il tempo di nessuno, ecco che nell'ultima riga si redime completamente e alla grande.

Money quote: "One more thing: Stop reading if a book sucks, you don’t need to complete it. Read the next book instead."

https://deanyeong.com/read-more-books/

Abbiamo una opinione piuttosto stereotipata e generale dei Bitcoin, Tant'è vero che chi invece se ne sta occupando, utilizzando valute digitali per le sue transazioni, è in grado di fare ragionamenti più articolati e scelte maggiormente sofisticate.

Money quote: "To make micropayments of one cent, we can’t just use Stripe. Because Stripe’s fees are about 30 cents or higher, a one cent payment to a creator would cost 31 cents and 97% of the money would go to Stripe. So we have developed a micropayments solution on bitcoin. Our solution is like the lightning network, but is not dependent on segwit. We are the first and only group to demonstrate a working routed micropayment on bitcoin today. The marginal cost of a transaction on our network is zero, allowing genuine micropayments of one cent or lower."

https://stories.yours.org/why-were-switching-to-litecoin-d5157e445254

Terapia e depressione. Una storia.

Money quote: "In the days prior to my appointment, I was so ready to acknowledge that I was unwell, feeling lighter for the first time in months, counting down the days until I’d finally have help. But when faced with a clipboard and forms that reduced my suffering to a checklist of symptoms — I feel sad or depressed. I have felt very depressed daily for at least 2 weeks. I have had similar episodes during my lifetime. I feel hopeless and helpless. I have been thinking about suicide — suddenly, I wasn’t so confident"

https://medium.com/@susancheng_72531/therapy-taught-me-not-to-hate-myself-for-hurting-1cc5f1502b4a