Currently going the reverse right now. Turin (where I live) to London. Can confirm you experience. 😮‍💨

Tried to book trains to Torino from London. No problem booking, but impossible to pay nearly £1000 for two people round trip. We are flying and we really don't want to. The subsidies should be paid to rail not air travel.

Charles Csuri's "Sine Curve Man" (1967)

This post on the use of lines in generative art (blog.veitheller.de/Generative_a...) reminded me of Charles Csuri's "Sine Curve Man" (1967). Recently saw it printed in Turin on plexiglass. It's spectacular.

III. Luisanney, cinque anni, in carcere | Linda Birke Alle sei del mattino, Chicago sembra paralizzata dal ghiaccio. Dan spinge forte sui pedali, indossa un passamontagna e due paia di guanti. Ha un’ora di tempo per raggiungere tre venditori ambulanti a ...

An outsider's view of the ongoing fight in #Chicago:

"Se le città sotto assedio sono diventate la scenografia perfetta della resistenza all’autoritarismo, nella provincia del Midwest ... la vita continua sui binari sonnolenti di una quotidianità indiscussa."

www.doppiozero.com/iii-luisanne...

"Karateka" Atari 7800 (1988) (c) Board Game Geek

'Deep within the Karateka cartridge on the #Atari 7800, the programmer mixed in one human-readable message with the computer code: "Mommy and Me Are One." It never appears on screen. It is only visible to those looking at the code contained within.'

~ schmud.de/posts/2020-1...

Far superior. Thanks for suggesting this fine documentation.

HTTP Status Dogs HTTP Status Dogs. Hypertext Transfer Protocol Response status codes. And dogs.

Not sure if this clarifies or confuses me on HTTP codes. Therefore, probably the best instruction manual for this technology.

httpstatusdogs.com

they're not drone strikes, they're vibe bombings

The Great Convergence and Its Discontents The world is unrecognisable. The people responsible are the ones you least expected. And you may ask yourself, "how did we get here?"

"The result is an emerging aspirational class who have everything except the thing they actually want: the ability to [...] bomb a foreign country. Turchin identifies these people as counter-elites —[who] have hit the limits of capital's affordances." ~ newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/the-g...

the html review 05 the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web

The 2026 issue of the HTML Review, “an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web”. [thehtml.review]

For last few years, an Italian production studio has been conducting hundreds of interviews with video game people.

vgpplay.com/home

You need to sign up to view it - and it's in Italian - but it's well worth it. I'll highlight some of their amazing gets on occasion.

Workers organizing is the strongest check against systemic tech abuse that impacts everyone. A related story from Keyna: www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

May Day everyday! #labor

Other dog needs to learn where the goods are.

The Cost Of Convenience In The Age Of AI Spam filters have been keeping our inboxes protected for decades. Now they’re losing to AI spam.

Yorba and yours truly in Forbes today. Working hard to try to make this darn internet thing a little better.

www.forbes.com/sites/garydr...

one important similarity between text generation and human cognition is that both seem to barely work.

Taste of 2025 Some of my highlights from last year - books, movies, exhibitions, travel, and more.

As usual my Taste of 2025 arrives fashionably late. And as usual, it's full of interesting cultural and personal moments. Check it out here: schmud.de/books/taste-...

#contemporaryart #industrial #buddhism

State of Clutter Report | Yorba 48% of data deletion requests go unresolved. Find out what all the "convenient" accounts are really costing you and how to save your time and money.

Yorba's State of Clutter 2025 is here! Exercising #privacy rights should be simple. Instead:

💌 Email unsubscribe? 84% success, takes seconds
♾️ Deleting your account? 48% success rate, might take weeks

There's more juicy info on the gap between our rights in theory and practice: stateofclutter.org

It brings me no pleasure to quote your own documentation.

"If your monthly usage is below $1, we will round your usage up to $1 for that month."

I qualify but was charged amounts like $1.22, etc....

The approach to billing is a real trust-breaker.

support.bunny.net/hc/en-us/art...

Protip - @bunny.net advertises pay-for-use but quietly enforces a mandatory minimum fee for active zones that even violate their own “round up to $1” policy.

Many corps, small and large - like Hetzner, AWS, and GCP - actually bill based on real usage, even when it’s under $1.

Data via The Chicago Council Council on Global Affairs.

“Federalism is sacred… unless it’s violated in the most violent means. Then the federal government can do whatever it wants.”

First Monday @ 30 | First Monday

After 30 years, First Monday is ceasing publication. Its existence is a tribute to openness and the web we want. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

First Monday @ 30 | First Monday

After 30 years, First Monday is ceasing publication. Its existence is a tribute to openness and the web we want. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Joseon Appointed by HIH Yi Seok, HIH Andrew Lee is leading Joseon forward with his mandate to empower the common people with equality and opportunity and unionize the common people of the world to strengthen...

"The world's first cyber nation recognized by a UN member state." (Antigua and Barbuda) www.joseon.com/l/en-US/

a woman has just given birth to a computer. a doctor wearing glasses with a white lower face mask is holding it up, power cord/plug on the ruffled up blanket. the mother is reaching for her computer baby. it's a big baby. text: computer modeling - lots of games - electronic tar baby birth of the computer is it the first of a new generation?

personal computing, magazine, cover (1977) archive.org/details/Pers...

The Strong is honored to announce the acquisition of the Curt Vendel Atari Collection. Curt was a pioneer in video game preservation. The collection contains retail material, schematics, documentation, prototypes, and more.

www.museumofplay.org/press-releas...

Cold War Italian poster.

Cold War Italian poster

Cold War Italian poster

Cold War Italian poster

Italian Communists, specifically Bruno Magno, made great posters - via the Ettore Fico Museum

Little Village Mauser Workers Reach Deal fter seven months on the picket line, Teamsters from Local 705 at Mauser Packaging Solutions’ Millard plant in Little Village reached an agreement to end the strike on January 21.  Workers began strik...

After months on the picket line in Little Village, Teamsters at the Mauser plant have reached an agreement, union leaders told @southsideweekly.bsky.social on Friday. The strike began over unsafe conditions, low pay, and job security. Full story ✍️ José Abonce
southsideweekly.com/little-villa...

Size of Life From an amoeba to a blue whale

The size of life is quite beautiful. neal.fun/size-of-life/

Land of Lisp

First time seeing a Lisp sticker at a dive bar, behind the bartender. Johnny’s in Manhattan is the place to be.

It's a great place to do Christmas shopping. I just printed a seed catalogue from 1951 from the Internet Archive.

Pretty obscure gift, but it will make sense for the recipient.