Paolo Borgonovo: Varie di oggi, Martedì 24 Ottobre 2017

Doing the whole "waste a scammer's time" thing can come off as a little self-serving. In this instance, both parties learned a little more about the kindness of strangers from each other.

LESS TIM O'REILLY, MORE DAVID OREILLY

Why Is Anyone Listening To Tim O'Reilly?

3 diggs theoutline.com Technology

In a new book, Silicon Valley's favorite publisher praises the establishment while refusing to engage with its critics.

INVESTING WE DIGG ǀ SPONSORED

Your Money Is Probably Pretty Lazy

11 diggs stashinvest.com Sponsored

Is all your money just sitting in a savings account? Or even worse, a checking account? Big mistake. It’s time to get your money off the sidelines. You only need $5 to start investing with Stash — an app millions of new investors use — and they'll give you $5 just for signing up, so there's literally no reason to not start investing today.

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1991

US Preparing To Put Nuclear Bombers Back On 24-Hour Alert

2 diggs defenseone.com Warfare

If the order comes, the B-52s will return to a ready-to-fly posture not seen since the Cold War.

COUNT YOUR FINGERS BEFORE AND AFTER USE

What's Scarier Than A Hacked-Together Electric Pumpkin Carver?

4 diggs youtube.com Curious

If this seems like a silly invention, just wait until they add a laser sight to it. Really.

Apple Pay goes live in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and United Arab Emirates

appleinsider.com

Microsoft drops suit over U.S. secrecy rules after DOJ limits use of gag orders by prosecutors

geekwire.com

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds two security projects to its open source stable

TechCrunch

Microsoft to drop lawsuit after U.S. government revises data request rules

reuters.com

GAINZ NEUTRAL

Protein Powder Is For Everyone

4 diggs gq.com Health

And it will make you look like the best version of yourself—whether that's "The Rock, flexing" or "Gosling in a henley".

TYPHOON 21, 53.6% TURNOUT

Typhoon Lan Lashed Tokyo On The Weekend, But Didn't Put A Dent In Election Turnout

3 diggs qz.com News

Super Typhoon Lan, a Category-4 equivalent hurricane, wreaked havoc across Japan's main island over the weekend, just as people went to the polls to vote in parliamentary elections.

THIS IS METAL

This Wonderful Short About Electrodeposition Makes Us See A Totally Different Side Of Everyday Metals

18 diggs vimeo.com Short Film

The beautiful metal structures that occur during the process of electrodeposition was captured under a microscope.

NOTE: DON'T THROW OUT MY BASEBALL CARDS

The Art Of Swedish Death Cleaning, And Other Lessons From Cleaning Out My Mother's House

8 diggs melmagazine.com Personal Essay

You could die at any minute, which sucks. But what sucks more is how right after you die, your family and friends are going to show up at your house and stare, slack-jawed, at all your dumb stuff.

NO MORE MUSHROOM RUSH ROOM?

A New World Record Means 'Super Mario Bros.' Speedrunners Are Running Out Of Options

8 diggs kotaku.com Gaming

The game has a new world record of 4:56.528. It's a big milestone in an important game, but it also signals the possible beginning of the end for the race to beat "Super Mario Bros." as quickly as possible.

'HE JUST TURNED INTO A MONSTER'

Surviving R Kelly

14 diggs rollingstone.com Long Reads

Kitti Jones left her home and career for a relationship with the R&B idol. That's when she says the abuse began. Now she's speaking out.

SCORPION KING

This Was The Best Soccer Goal Of The Year, According To FIFA

13 diggs digg.com Sports

If you didn't see Olivier Giroud's Puskás-winning goal when it happened last year, it's a real beauty. If you've already seen it, it still holds up.

MAPLE JORDAN FROM WAY DOWNTOWN

The Buzzer Beater Three-Pointer That Broke The Hearts Of An Entire Arena

22 diggs digg.com Sports

Not only did Carmelo Anthony think he won the game when he hit a beautiful three with 4.7 seconds left, an entire arena's worth of OKC fans did too. Then Andrew Wiggins banked in a long range three of his own.

JUST A HEADS UP

Honolulu Bans Texting While Crossing The Street

5 diggs jalopnik.com Law

Starting Wednesday, texting while walking across a street in Honolulu is illegal, thanks to a new law that allows police to fine pedestrians up to $35 for checking their phone, while crossing an intersection in the Hawaiian city and surrounding county.

RIGHT ON MATE

Aussie With A Great Attitude Helps A Guy Steal His Truck

11 diggs youtube.com Wholesome

Jimbo was inside a shop when he spotted someone sitting in his truck in the parking lot. Upon further investigation, he learned it was a kid named Ryan who's just trying to figure out how to put the thing in gear. So he helped him out.

IT'S NOT

Meet The People Who Believe The Fluoride In Your Water Is Poisoning You

6 diggs mic.com Health

It turns out there's much more drama in the fluoride "truther" community than we thought — and at least one anti-fluoride expert is unhappy with the direction the movement is headed.

SKIN IN THE GAME

Porn Companies Might Soon Pivot To Non-Adult Content

3 diggs vice.com TV

Could the adult industry give birth to the next Netflix or Hulu?

NOW YOU SEE ME, NOW YOU REMOVE ME

Adobe's New Video Editing Tool Looks Incredible (And A Bit Unsettling)

21 diggs digg.com Design

In the near future, it's going to be basically impossible to believe what you see, when anyone can easily do things like removing people from a video clip.

DRESSING UP AS A DRUNK BOOR

Japan's Infamous Halloween Trains

8 diggs kotaku.com World

Halloween Trains were a way for ex-pats — even those coming from countries that do not celebrate Halloween — to have any excuse to get together, get drunk, and cause a ruckus.

SHUFFLING THINGS UP

Did The Death Of The iPod Kill The Album?

9 diggs noisey.vice.com Music

In 2014 we lost the iPod classic and the way we listen to music changed forever.

STRANGER STILL

Is The New Season Of 'Stranger Things' Good? Here's What The Reviews Say

15 diggs digg.com Digg Review Roundup

The second installment of "Stranger Things" is probably the biggest Netflix release of the year — does it strike the right balance of nostalgia and spookiness, or has it hit a sophomore slump? Here's what critics are saying.

BLOOD SPORT

Why The Athletic Wants To Pillage Newspapers

1 digg nytimes.com Sports

"We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them."

SOMEHOW A REAL THING

An Oral History Of 'David S Pumpkins'

14 diggs vulture.com TV

"I don’t know why we assumed Tom Hanks would know how to break-dance."

FROM THE DIGG STORE

The Best Flashlight For Emergencies

4 diggs store.digg.com Digg Store

Why? Because this flashlight is also a (solar-powered!) radio and portable battery combo.

ARMS FACE TO FACE

The Necessity Of Questioning The Military

13 diggs theatlantic.com Politics

Honoring the sacrifice of servicemembers requires understanding why they were put at risk, and demanding that those who did so hold themselves to account.

TAKE NOTES

Stress Is Making You Micromanage, Which Is Making Everything Worse

16 diggs fastcompany.com Human Nature

Ask yourself these four questions to break the vicious cycle.

EQUAL PARTS IMPRESSIVE AND HORRIFYING

A Supercut Of Air Berlin Planes Struggling To Land Against Heavy Crosswinds

11 diggs digg.com Aviation

Pilots for the now-bankrupt airline had a scary hard time landing at Cristiano Ronaldo Airport on the island of Madeira.

SOFTWARE TAKE THE WHEEL

Driverless Cars Made Me Nervous. Then I Tried One.

12 diggs nytimes.com Cars

On my fourth day in a semi-driverless car, I finally felt comfortable enough to let it stop itself. Before then, I’d allowed the car to steer around gentle turns, with my hands still on the wheel, and to adjust speed in traffic. By Day 4, I was ready to make a leap into the future.

ON THE PLUS SIDE

What If The iPhone 8 Plus Is Better Than The iPhone X?

16 diggs theverge.com

I'm someone who buys a new iPhone every year, for my sins, and while you'd think that would put me in the category of people who'd be holding out for the X, I actually bought an iPhone 8 Plus last month instead.

DIGG GIVEAWAYS

MVMT Is Giving Away A Free Trip To Hawaii Filmed By A Kickass Videographer

7 diggs mvmtwatches.com Digg Giveaways

One lucky winner and a friend will have the chance to travel to Oahu, Hawaii for a 5 day 4 night all-expenses-paid excursion. Everything from your flights, lodging, activities, food, and drink will be included. The trip will be hosted by @sam_kolder, the acclaimed filmmaker and adventure seeker.

THERE AND BACK AGAIN

Newfound Wormhole Allows Information To Escape Black Holes

15 diggs quantamagazine.org Science

Physicists theorize that a new “traversable” kind of wormhole could resolve a baffling paradox and rescue information that falls into black holes.

TO YOUR CREDIT

Behave Yourself — Big Brother Is Watching

15 diggs wired.co.uk Long Reads

The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness — or otherwise — of its 1.3 billion residents

THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD

On Safari In Trump's America

4 diggs theatlantic.com Politics

The country's elites are desperate to figure out what they got wrong in 2016. But can they handle the truth?

WAIT FOR IT, WAIT FOR IT

Goalkeeper Learns The Hard Way Why You Don't Celebrate A Missed Penalty Kick Too Soon

39 diggs digg.com Sports

This sequence of events seems almost perfectly constructed to be a parable about the virtues of not counting your chickens before they've hatched.

MOVING ON

These Staten Islanders Lost Their Neighborhood To Sandy — And They're Not Taking It Back

5 diggs popsci.com Long Reads

Usually, these kinds of changes follow a pattern. Natural disaster strikes, the government identifies vulnerable areas, and attempts to persuade residents to leave. The reverse happened here. The residents of Oakwood Beach wanted to make sure that no family would ever again have to endure what they went through.

COMING OUT OF MY CAGE... DOIN' JUST FINE

This Jack Russell Puppy Is A Master Of Escape

3 diggs digg.com Dogs

Why use the door when this seems like so much fun?

ROUND AND ROUND WE GO

We Could Watch GoPro Model Train Footage All Day

21 diggs youtube.com Toys

The perfect combination of how it feels to watch the sights pass by through a train window and the novelty of garages and backyards seeming huge.

MODERN LOVE

Single, Unemployed And Suddenly Myself

9 diggs nytimes.com Personal Essay

After hooking up with a much younger man, a woman realizes she has been looking for love all wrong.

CHUG LYFE

Watch A Master Drone Operator Fly His Drone Underneath A Moving Train

36 diggs digg.com Drones

Professional drone racer Paul Nurkkala spent some time doing zig zags over the train, but towards the end of the vid he literally flies under a train car and emerges unscathed.

BUILD UP, NOT OUT

This Three-Story Tiny House Fits In The Footprint Of A Parking Space

22 diggs fastcompany.com Architecture

With a floor for working, another for sleeping, and a greenhouse on the top, the Tikku house is designed to replace a city's parking spots with living space.

REAL ESTATE FOR THE LAID-TO-REST

Hong Kong Has No Space For The Dead

12 diggs motherboard.vice.com Cities

"Where will the bodies go?"

GOOD QUESTION

Was I Wrong To Refuse To Spend $15,000 On A Bridesmaid Dress, And Other Great Advice Column Questions

10 diggs digg.com Good Question

A roundup of the most interesting, thought-provoking and surprising questions that our favorite columnists addressed in recent days.

LIVING THE LOW LIFE

The Family That Built An Empire Of Pain

23 diggs newyorker.com Long Reads

The Sackler dynasty's ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars — and millions of addicts.

STRAIGHT OUT OF 'THE HANDMAID'S TALE'

What To Know About The Trump Administration's Efforts To Prevent A Teen Immigrant From Getting An Abortion

6 diggs digg.com Gender

"Jane Doe" is fifteen weeks pregnant and counting. The Department of Health and Human Services is fighting a legal battle to stop her from terminating her pregnancy.