Took the leap and actually started paying a nutritional biologist (translating an Italian term) and lost 10 kgs without noticing.

All while keeping training at least 3 days a week and maintaining strength gains and sometimes even getting better.

I also started a book club focused on sci-fi and non-fiction about technology and digital rights, to force myself to start reading again, since I noticed a sharp degradation of my ability to express myself and to analyze discourse.

Finally, I am learning French as my fifth language.

I would love to say I am doing great for being 40+, but mental health and zero social life affect me more than I would like to admit.

You never wrote “without additional clarification”, as far as I can read in the parent comments to this one.

Installing from other app stores. Installing, but not from the Play Store. Installing from not-Google-controlled stores.

It’s installing. Context can be given using this wonderful semantic device called “subordinate clauses”.

I am sorry I am not Finnish, but yes, you should.

Helsinki is the gift I give myself every year FIR my birthday, this one was my Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy one, so I made it special with a local guide showing me Kaurismäki movie locations, bronze age burial mounds and Seurasaari.

A bear-safe venison storing shack, typical from the North of Finland, moved and rebuilt in an open-air museum in Helsinki

I want to do that if there is a deal in which part of what I spend is reinvested in hiring workers at humane rates.

Or, even better, in sharing ownership with the workers.

The “bodega romanticism” is something I see as a huge societal issue, also because I can imagine a lot of “bodegas” actually dreaming to achieve the same kind of success of Big Tech.

• Blade Runner
• Any Mad Max movie
• Alien
• Aliens
• Alien 3
• Any Disney Classic up until The Lion King
• Idiocracy
• Akira
• Ghost in the Shell
• The Matrix
• The Original Star Wars Trilogy
• The Original Indy Trilogy

Is it only in Italy that they are called Chinese Shadows?

ChatControl would be going after all messages of all users by default. And CSAM is the excuse.

Oh Hummelgaard will feel not too lonely anymore.

Were you really waiting for me to name Silicon Valley? The most educational TV series ever made in this day and age, fun like very few others and quotable to hell and back.

The Cowboy Bebop live action was offensive to anyone who loves anything about the anime. The anime itself is still criminally short.

ChatControl is pushed with the excuse of CSAM. If that was a true concern of the proponents, we would have a push towards stronger and faster enforcement of the DMA and in particular of X. Instead, nothing.

And there is our main argument against ChatControl.

Please specify “in the UK”. Not everyone knows what ITV is and would remain puzzled.

I have him all over my recommendations, but he uses too many fast attack and decay envelopes, that are very disturbing for me. But that is only personal preference.

In my spasmodic search for non-AI ambient channels I finally docked on the calm spaceport manned by Martin Stürtzer and his cat Neptune

https://youtube.com/@martinstuertzer

One seahorse emoji a day.

I am Italian, and in high school I had a friend who was REALLY into Indiana Jones movies and games. He kept saying he was going to be an archaeologist and we all scoffed at him.

Fast forward 20 years later, and he is not only an archaeologist but one of the best Latin epigraphists.

Some years ago, I was visiting an ancient Roman villa close to Naples and sent him the photo of a random marble epigraph, and he told me that that guy named there was the son-in-law of another epigraph he sent me promptly a picture of, but also that since I was so much into Stoicism, I would be interested in the bust that is 180 degrees behind me, picturing the neighbor of Seneca in Baia or something like that.