*This is the oddest, most archaic European tool video that I’ve ever seen. “In 2008, Serafín Serrano was the last member of a family saga of turners from the town of Villarluengo (Teruel) who, with a simple tackle and a handful of chisels, dedicated themselves to turning wood to provide the residents of the area […]

*That’s an interesting essay, and it’s been attracting some commentary. https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/ (…) The internet’s 2010s, its boom years, may have been the first glorious harvest that exhausted a one-time bonanza of diversity. The complex web of human interactions that thrived on the internet’s initial technological diversity is now corralled into globe-spanning data-extraction engines making huge […]

PROSSIMI APPUNTAMENTI Bruce Sterling e Jasmina Tesanovic al Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino 2024 con: L’intelligenza artificiale raccontata dalla Fantascienza – Talk Dal ‘Versificatore’, racconto fantascientifico di Primo Levi, una riflessione condivisa sui modi in cui la fantascienza ha narrato l’intelligenza artificiale e l’effettivo impatto di essa sul mondo contemporaneo. 10 maggio, Ore 10:30-11:30 […]

*Turin Book Fair, here we come.

This volume of Levi works includes “The Versificator.” https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storie_naturali_(Primo_Levi) Natural Histories (Primo Levi) (*machine-translated by Google, (appropriately enough)) Natural Stories is a collection of 15 stories by Primo Levi, published by Einaudi in 1966 under the pseudonym Damiano Malabaila. They are scientific and science fiction stories, often humorous, but not only. The book won the […]

*Since robots are over a hundred years old, that’s just part of the heritage, but it’s nevertheless rather a lot.

*Did I actually see that, or was it just some kind of augment? *Also, it’s an IPA. I don’t drink a lot of “India Pale Ale.”