https://www-fantascienza-com.translate.goog/31311/la-fantascienza-di-primo-levi-dal-versificatore-a-chat-gpt English translation: (…) The Versifier by Bruce Sterling Mufant’s interest in P. Levi’s Versificatore converges with the artistic project of Bruce Sterling , an American science fiction writer, founder of the cyberpunk movement, as well as artistic director of Share Festival, the Turin festival of technological art. Over the last two years, Sterling has […]

*How could that not be good? https://www.creativeboom.com/news/barbican-announces-in-other-worlds-the-first-uk-solo-exhibition-by-liam-young/

The terms of art are good: stringing, blobs, layer shift, bad extrusion, elephant foot. https://youtube.com/shorts/2js2i6fXBtM?si=YqTc42L1DYeBS0CF

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Dear supporters, Last week, a chill down the digital rights community’s spine – and it wasn’t because of the unexpected snow in Brussels. The European Commission’s Digital Omnibus proposals finally landed – and they were as appalling as expected. The proposals massively threaten EU’s core digital protections, especially targeting the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive and […]

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*What a very strange verbal coincidence that a device like this should be built by someone named “Hacker.” Google translation from German website: The iron box, decorated with the figures of Fortuna and Lucretia, features sliding lids and an intermediate shelf and contains fourteen small tools. On one side are three rasps, a pincer, a […]

Some kind of conceptual breakthrough here. That’s a funny in-joke for her knife-collector demographic, but it’s also an intensely surreal Youtube short-video. https://youtube.com/shorts/4nNqbQogpCc?si=TqbliqvFEHg9JCS5

*Impressive social video skills here. That’s like a comical silent movie that’s intensely focussed on the innermost working of folding-knives. https://youtube.com/shorts/-m2zVyOJU_s?si=VS4wOEfNk9kfwWLY