As a teacher in a school that has been quite aggressively pushing AI down our curriculum, I have to close an eye in regard to it when it comes to a simple factor of education as a work environment: bureaucracy. Gemini has so far been a lifesaver in checking the accuracy of forms, producing standardized and highly-readable versions of tests and texts, assessment grids and all of the menial shit that is required for us to produce (and which detracts a substantial amount of time from the core of the job, which would be working with the kids).

My reading goal for now is being able to go through Lord of the Rings once again with a newborn daughter on my hands, ahahahahah. I think this will be a year when quantity is going to count less.

Pynchon. Surreal, paranoid, extremely zany and hazy. Start with Inherent Vice or Lot 49.

Half-Life had quite the array of big-beat inspired pieces.

An unusual error that I happily stumbled upon was in the Italian translation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time when I was a kid. At some point, an adult has had enough of the protagonist and exclaims “Bloody hell”, or something like that. Which was translated with outright blasphemy in Italian, for some unknown reason. Maybe the translator wasn’t having it, either. Successive editions, for obvious reasons, have toned the exclamation down.

Silksong booth but it’s just a switch 2 playing an endless loop of a video of a brigade of clowns laughing at the camera

Pynchon. I know you got a last one in you, Tommy…

What icon set are you using?

Realistically speaking, Napoli. While Inter has the better team, they are still in three races to the title (UCL, Serie A, Coppa Italia), while Napoli only has to worry about the last 5 games. Conte is going to wring up his players in the usual way he does.

S-silk… S-silk…

In Italy I guess the big one is Subito.it

It wasn’t that dry to the touch, actually! I was out on an excursion for a mycology class and one of the teachers identified it. Apparently it’s a native species around here

Shivers [Impossible]: Success.

Italian here. Luckily it seems like the place I live now has been barely touched by Boris, but my wife’s parents are stuck at home with flooded streets and whatnot. Hope it’s not going to be as bad as last year.

I’m the groom!