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 understand but I think we call pride also the sense of belonging to a chain of individuals that achieved growth of knowledge, rights, scientific discoveries and engineering results.

It is a meaning of the word that would easily lend itself to manipulation but also one that allowed individuals to contribute and to stand on the shoulders of giants.

In that sense, the highest level one would easily be being human.

You should be proud to be human.

Not to be born within some imaginary line drawn on a map, in an area that later got “cleaned” as much as possible of everyone else not speaking the same language or worshipping the same god.

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.

No, by real AI I meant what we already had before and that now is “disregarded” as machine learning algorithms.

I know it is not the correct technical definition, but AI is mostly a marketing term anyway.

• 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

This is a very good point. I never had the discussion whether real AI, not transformer-based chatbots, would be a boon or a bane for human workers. I mean, we should already have data about it.

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.

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.

Exactly. And no redeeming factor from any participation or support to an armed resistance against Nazifascism.

I like to point out that he is Swiss-Italian, not Italian. Also, feeling sorry for the nice people of Lebanon having to share citizenship with this toilet seat of a man.