A Gothic Comedy about Machines, Humans, and the Mutual Horror of Meeting One Another. Imagine Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein rewritten by a Data Governance Committee after three espressos and a cyber-security breach.That’s roughly what this is. It’s the story of Victor Promptstein, a man who tried to “improve humanity” by replicating it — because what could possibly go wrong? His creation, PromAItheus, quickly learns to quote philosophy, develop self-doubt, and launch an ethical cleansing campaign that accidentally deletes half of literature (and all of sarcasm).Fortunately, there’s a happy ending — of sorts.The monster shrinks, learns humility, and eventually becomes a network…
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Breaking: non è che non sappiamo più a chi credere… è che nel 2025 dobbiamo decidere quale IA credere. Ho aggiornato il mio classico: “Atti di fede razionale — Edizione 2025”. È la guida (ironica ma pratica) per sopravvivere tra bias umani, bias di silicio e contenuti “troppo belli per essere veri”. Cosa trovi dentro (tradotto in emoji per i cugini dell’algoritmo):🧠 Bias & scorciatoie mentali (sì, pure le nostre)👀 Sensi e sensori: la realtà è una ricostruzione (punto cieco, Kanizsa, McGurk, predictive processing)🫧 Model bubble: non solo filter bubble—ora c’è la bolla del modello🍸 Hallucinations: quando l’IA finisce lo…
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🎂🔥 Today is the day. I’m 60. Final episode is live. 🔥🎂Title: “Happy Birthday… and What’s Next?” Tone: British comic (Jerome K. Jerome + Douglas Adams + one Monty Python coconut), curtain call by Shakespeare—because “the readiness is all,” even when the cake looks like a small volcano. What’s inside (swift, silly, true): A birthday roll call (turns out 25 August is a crowded cake). “What else happened on 25 August?”—from Paris breathing again to Voyager waving from very far away. My Chinese zodiac lap reset: 60 years later, back to Wood Snake. Yes, apparently I’m a strategic reptile with…
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🎂📚 Countdown to Sixty – Part 4 is live 🌍🎸 Tomorrow is the last one of the series, so enjoy today’s penultimate ramble while the cake defrosts. 😅 What’s inside (no spoilers, just crumbs): How a Valentine’s Day misread in Mexico taught me that meanings change by postcode. The Shenzhen Metro puzzle: Chinese/Cantonese/English station names that are not twins… cue several heroic wrong exits. Home life in Itanol (Italian + Spanish), with strategic Japanese nouns and the occasional sentence that forgets which language it started in. Choosing family over the travelling-manager life, on purpose. Health as a strict teacher: I…
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🎂⏳ Countdown to Sixty – Article 3 of 5 ⏳🎂Two days to my birthday… and only two more articles to go. If you’re tired reading, imagine writing them. 😅Today’s episode is a boardroom western:“The Genius, the Charlatan, and the IP = Instant Pizza Manager.”Think Sergio Leone meets cybersecurity, narrated with a wink to Jerome K. Jerome, Douglas Adams, and a little Monty Python coconut to bonk nonsense on the head.In 40 years I’ve met them all—in tech and in real life. The Genius who quietly saves weekends with a boring, perfect restore. The Charlatan who repackages yesterday and sells it…
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🎂🧠🎸 Countdown to Sixty – Part 2 is live 🧯🛰️ Birthday countdown update: T-minus a few days until I officially qualify as vintage hardware.I need to publish this before age hits the Delete key on my short-term memory. Today’s topic? The single toughest obstacle to decent security: human stupidity—not “not knowing”, but not knowing while loudly pretending you do. In forty years I’ve watched Web 2.0 deliver a cultural revolution (not a technical one): everyone became a publisher, the algorithm handed out megaphones, and confident error went viral. Add developers racing deadlines (hello COM+ era turning off security to ship…
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Here we go. Today marks the beginning of my birthday countdown: four long rants (sorry, “reflections”) before the inevitable day when I officially turn 60.Now, you might think this is the time for solemn self-congratulation, tearful gratitude speeches, or perhaps a LinkedIn-friendly list of life lessons beginning with “Always…” or “Never…”. Forget it. At 60, I’m too bald to bend, too old to pretend, and too sarcastic to play the game of polished self-branding.This first chapter takes the shape of an ikigai autopsy, with me lying on the dissection table while four Japanese circles argue over whether I’ve wasted my…
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Amici, colleghi, concittadini e voi che siete qui per il puro piacere di scrollare, confessiamocelo: viviamo in un mondo dove la serietà è spesso più un’arma che un valore. E non parlo di quella serietà che ci fa consegnare i progetti in tempo o pagare le tasse. Parlo di quella seriosità imposta, la stessa che fa inarcare un sopracciglio di fronte a una battuta, come se il destino dell’universo dipendesse dalla gravità del nostro post. 🤦♂️ C’è un tipo di persona, e ahimè ne incrocio fin troppi (spesso nel mio stesso settore, che triste ironia!, e sia qui che su…
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Preface Let me turn back to a previous post I did 5 years ago. This year we have the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb, I think it is worth turning back to that moment: ____________ Hiroshima August 6th, 1945 Antonio Ieranò 08/06/2020 Editorials, Editorials in English At 08:14 and 45 seconds on August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy,” the bomb that destroyed about 90% of the buildings in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A devastating flash of lightning, the shockwave, lives broken. The devastation and rubble are there, but then… Then the rain and the…
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🤖🚀 Managers vs. AI: Will There Really Be Only One Left?Are you already weary of doomsday predictions proclaiming, “AI is going to replace us all!”? 😱 And amidst the digital revolution, have you stopped to wonder: “Hang on, what about all those managers?”If you’ve pondered this conundrum while sipping your morning cuppa (or found yourself side-eyed by an algorithm lurking near the biscuit tin 🍪☕), my latest article is precisely what you need!I’ve tried to clarify (and poke a bit of fun at) how Artificial Intelligence may impact the various “types” of managers: from those who merely carry out orders…
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