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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Mar 31

Stay strong Greenland! 🇬🇱

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Mar 9

'The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.'

—Elon Musk 2025

'The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.'

—Hannah Arendt 1951

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Feb 23

The haunting landscapes of New Zealand surrealist painter Brent Wong (born 1945)

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Feb 15

A photograph by Félix Thiollier (c. 1899)—quite possibly my favourite photograph of all time

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Feb 14

Painting by London-based self-taught artist Neil Carroll

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Dec 29

Schwarzwald (Black Forest)

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Dec 28

Freiburg

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Dec 18

In my personal interpretation of Asimov's Foundation, the aesthetic resembles something like this:

[Trade Union Congress Building, London, designed by David Aberdeen, 1948-56]

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Dec 7

A bit of poetry today at the book fair #piùlibripiùliberi

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Dec 3

Hyperbolic dystopias in the paintings of Michael Kerbow

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Dec 1

Mike Pangrazio's matte painting for Jabba's palace ('Return of the Jedi', 1983)

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Nov 16

One of my favourite scenes in recent film history

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Dec 1

I hope that the algorithm can be improved, making it capable of distinguishing acceptable nudity from ambiguous nudity, intervening only in the latter case. The distinction should not be based on the amount of lewdness in an image but on the amount of violence

Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Dec 1

I know, but that is a big problem...

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Dec 1

Let's see...

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Dec 1

How is it possible to classify the depiction of an allegory, clearly contextualized within early 20th-century aesthetics, as adult content merely because a nipple is barely, I repeat, barely visible?

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Federico Italiano @federicoitaliano.bsky.social · Dec 1

Dear @bsky.app... Please, let me understand. How is it possible to consider this illustration as adult content? Just because it shows the partially unclothed body of a woman?