As an Italian the only mystery I would ask a machine to solve is how to cure "cervicale".

I read Joe Lansdale and I was very confused.

It becomes a bit predictable at the 4th tankobon and a bit boring at the 56th.

D'altra parte è un esperto di scommesse.

Best street fighter is korean street fighter.

(Amazed this survived 14 years on YouTube.)

What about cheap vintage alternatives from Europe?

Ah. I can see the fine work of too many Ph.D.s in a room of a startup.

I am almost missing the crabcore era.

I've become a tuliparian because of podcasts.

LeCun, being a real scientist, has always declared that LLM can't do much more than what they already do and AGI can't be real. It's stuff known since 20 years on the science side. You can keep adding layers and computing power. But you are still dragging a dead horse up the hill.

Ah. I remember him falling down the stage on me almost 20 years ago at a Joan of Arc gig in Rome. Good times.

È frustrante vedere come le destre estreme continuino a comunicare e a influenzarsi a chilometri di distanza più o meno alla luce del sole. Non che voglia paragonare 'sta roba all'internazionale nera ma son davvero un'idra dalle mille teste, un vero e proprio asse del banale.

I am thinking of the japanese grand guignol, the first more punk and theatrical visual kei scene, Taguchi Tomorowo being part of it, Teito Monogatari, etcetc. This was mostly unknown to the west at the time.

And legitimately so I would say. At the time we didn't have all the possibilities to cross knowledge as of today. Ishii, Tsukamoto and Rin Taro were probably getting more impulses from the local scene than from western scifi.

I started a bit later with the HK invasion, but I remember Tetsuo to be already talked a lot between cinema buffs. My impression is that it was thrown in the pot of cyberpunk just because of the punk. It's also impressive how old the first analysis of those movie aged.

And maybe Italy should be pulled in. I am pretty confident Tsukamoto was popularised earlier by Fuori Orario and our festivals before getting out there to the rest of the world. Can't find much online though and I was too young at the time to follow what they were saying.

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