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L’ECONOMIA DEL POST-LAVORO Finora abbiamo assistito alla rivoluzione di internet e dei computer ma in generale l’automazione è stata relegata per lo più nei processi di produzione nelle fabbriche; ora lo sviluppo dell’intelligenza artificiale generativa sta creando un’iper-abbondanza di lavoro cognitivo e la cosiddetta sostituzione del lavoro umano riguarda compiti fisici e intellettuali indifferentemente. Siamo infatti già in grado non solo di automatizzare i lavori della produzione, ma anche quelli …

Albert Einstein? Paul Arthur Schilpp? Marilyn Ferguson? Apocryphal? Picture of chairs in a lecture hall from Unsplash Question for Quote Investigator: An overly rigid approach to education is counter-productive because it extinguishes natural inquisitiveness. This viewpoint has been expressed as follows: It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. The famous physicist Albert Einstein has received credit for this remark, but I have never seen a solid citation, and …

A print from my generative series Astronomic Comics has been chosen to be in the Austin People’s Gallery! It is on display at City Hall until April of next year! I am honored have my work shown at a prestigious event like this. You can read more about The People’s Gallery here.

Here’s all the writing about beer and pubs that grabbed our attention in the past week, from splitting the G to the GBG. First, some news: if the disappearance of various big beer festivals in the past year seemed significant, then the return of the Campaign for Real Ale’s Great British Beer Festival must also mean something. It’ll be back in 2025 but not at Olympia in London, where it’s …

If you think of the politics of rural America, you probably think of it in terms of conservativism. A mixture of rugged individualistic politics, cynicism about government and conservative political leanings. There's a lot of truth to this. In 2016, 62 percent of the US rural electorate voted for Trump. This reflected the way that Trump's political movement had become the outlet for general

Ari Levy at CNBC has a great article covering the battle between WordPress and Silver Lake / WP Engine: Why WordPress [co-]founder Matt Mullenweg has gone ‘nuclear’ against tech investing giant Silver Lake.

Valerie Antwi, Emma McDonald and Christopher York in Foreverland, Southwark Playhouse Photo: Charlie Lyne If medical science made it possible to live forever, frozen at the age you have the procedure, would you do it? The ability to stay young and live way beyond what is normal is the premise...

“Time for Peace” (זמן לשלום), Lyrics: Amnon Abutbul, Yair Dalal, Fathi Kasem; Melody: Amnon Abutbul. Performing Shlomit Aharon and Yevgeni Shapovalov. This year I had the rare event that the new Jewish year coincides with my birthday, and “time for peace” expresses my wishes for both these occasions. Click here for the previous post on exciting mathematical irrationality news.

Merge Grant is a micro-grant initiative designed to give ambitious builders resources as they pursue compelling projects. It is run by Merge Club members—called Mergers—who review applications, conduct interviews, and make grant decisions. They take no equity, ownership, or future right to invest. You get perks and an invite to join the Merge Club. The awesome people at On Deck back the Merge Grant initiative. › Apply for a Grant …

Music From "Mo' Better Blues" is a collaborative album by Branford Marsalis Quartet and Terence Blanchard. It was released in 1990 through Columbia/CBS Records as a soundtrack to Spike Lee's 1990 film Mo' Better Blues. Recording sessions took place at RCA Studios and Sound On Sound in New York. Production was handled by Bill Lee, Delfeayo Marsalis, Raymond Jones and DJ Premier, with Spike Lee serving as executive producer. It …

My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring the week at Daring Fireball. WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. Ship complex features like SSO and SCIM (pronounced skim) provisioning in minutes instead of months. Today, some of the fastest growing startups are already powered by WorkOS, including Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow. For SaaS apps that …

Genre: DeathCountry: U.S.A.Year: 20241. Stelae Of Vultures2. Chapter For Not Being Hung Upside Down On A Stake In The Underworld And Made To Eat Feces By The Four Apes3. To Strike With Secret Fang4. Naqada II Enter The Golden Age5. The Pentagrammathion Of Nephren-Ka6. Overlords Of The Black Earth7. Under The Curse Of The One God8. Doctrine Of Last Things9. True Gods Of The Desert 10. The Underworld Awaits Us …

I'm so happy to say that I'm the co-host of a podcast produced by Industrial Light & Magic. We call it "Lighter Darker."Our name comes from the 1997 artwork made by ILM art director Benton Jew of a cover of a fictional comic book called "Attack of the Nitpickers", where scary, undead people (clients) hover behind a digital artist (who is handcuffed to his desk) and the poor artist is …

New Model Army Thunder And ConsolationGet It At DiscogsNMA proved that they were well worth waiting for. Thunder and Consolation begins grandly, keeping the keyboards from "White Coats" on "I Love the World," an anthem filled with bittersweet irony and sarcasm. Self-produced, the album never falters, and the single "Stupid Questions" made an impression on American college and modern-rock radio, especially when working visas were granted to the band and …

This paper (Influence of a Large Language Model on Diagnostic Reasoning: A Randomized Clinical Vignette Study by Goh et al.) on ‘diagnostic reasoning’ hasn’t had enough attention. The authors fully expected Doctors plus GenAI to win. But GPT 4 on its own beat Doctors hands down.One of the authors made the point that the surprise was that the results broke that oft quoted trope that “AI will not take your …