Riccardo Mori

Writer. Translator (+ Mac/iOS app localisation). Enthusiast photographer. Humanist. Author of @minigrooves & @Crosslines.

Mastodon:

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

My two ebooks of short stories: Minigrooves Vol. 1 and 2. Available for iOS and Kindle. $1.99. Info & purchase: https://t.co/xcVUmk5KBp

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

Last broadcast for now.

You can find me here:
1. Mastodon - https://t.co/QoFjJ1UInt
2. Bluesky - https://t.co/Stsz1WpKYQ

To get in touch via email, check https://t.co/hys5MZeyhf (Section: Contact & RSS feeds in the top navigation menu).

Take care and leave this place.

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

@moia Understandable! Please consider Mastodon as an alternative. I'd love to keep following you there. Cheers!

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

New, on Morrick.​me — Recreating Delicious Library: https://t.co/mvfpo2mbbC

[DING Yu | 丁宇 @felixding_]

New blog post: Recreating Delicious Library in 2025?

https://t.co/xZxidrHyxR

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

@CityLightsBooks Terrific photo! I love seeing photos of artists taken in their studios, at work.

[Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison]

It's impossible to understand Silicon Valley without grasping "hyperstition"

Hyperstition describes self-fulfilling prophecies that come true through their hype and spread. Sci-fi that becomes real through mass belief.

It is the goal of most Silicon valley start-ups to hype an imagined future system or product until it becomes a reality.

Bitcoin and AI are seen as successful examples of hyperstition. Failed examples appear when a hyped future-product fails to become a reality or to live up to the hype, these include Theranos, WeWork and Juicero.

Although the theory was coined by British academics Nick Land and Mark Fisher of the CCRU - Hypersitition has deeper roots in Californian New Age culture - in beliefs like 'manifestation' in which people believe they can manifest wealth or health or world peace just by the power of thinking about it.

We could redefine it as 'magical thinking that becomes real'. Achieving AI superintelligence and the colonisation of Mars are examples of hyperstitious beliefs today, this is why defenders of these endeavours become so emotional if you questions whether these things will ever be possible.

You, by being skeptical, are ruining the accumulated flow of hype and belief that will force the dream to become real through the magic of hyperstition.

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

If that wasn't clear by my scarce presence here in recent times, I'm not really active anymore here.
I'm not deleting this account, for archival and reference reasons, and you can still contact me here.
Find me on Mastodon (link in bio), or Bluesky https://t.co/CXJdmPgnJz

[Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison]

Where do ideas come from?
Paul H interviewing David Lynch.
Wonderful.

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

@AshleyMPomeroy Great read. I was missing photography-related posts in your blog! By the way, another film SLR with an aperture dial on the top plate is the Nikon F401-X.

Cheers, and a happy 2025!

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

@MadelaineLucieH As far as I'm concerned, you'll still be talented, fascinating, and intelligent 60 years from now. Here's to a great 2025, by the way. Cheers! 🥂

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

New, on Morrick​.me — Time to move on from bootable backups, whether you like it or not: https://t.co/8Rwt9MA5M8

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

@MrNobre If I have learnt something from the Canadians I know, their identity is so strong that Canada being annexed to the US is simply an impossibility.

That this matter is being taken seriously, even by a few people, is also bewildering to me.

[kenfager.bsky.social @kenfagerdotcom]

The owner of this site is mad that he can’t buy our adoration.

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

New, on Morrick.​me — Switching to Android? - First follow-up: https://t.co/fiE148sJz4

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

This is a cool bundle. I cherry-picked the apps I wanted, and went for App Tamer and CleanShot X. Check it out and see if some of these apps might be useful to you.

https://t.co/bduAuic2gu

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

@Sam_Ohanaware Yeah, a reader suggested the Zenfone 10 as a relatively compact Android phone. I was indeed eyeing products from Asus and OnePlus before discovering Nothing.

Great to hear you're not regretting the switch!

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

New, on Morrick.​me — Switching to Android? : https://t.co/y5cScYZoms

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

@dvsjr And I respect your point of view. Two things, though:

1. This phone 'just works' too. The experience has been great so far.

2. As I said in my article, it's not a zero-sum game. I always carry two devices with me, iPhone and Android. They're simply switching roles.

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

@sudheer_jp I'm very sorry you had that issue. And you're right. They should consider it a manufacturing defect and offer to fix the issue even out of warranty, especially when it's something like this, which is probably bound to reappear due to its design flaw, like the butterfly keyboard.

[Riccardo Mori @morrick]

@MrFresh See you on the other place ;-)