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.

youtu.be/j1CC6aa-5-I?...

Anyhow I may find traces of this discourse between Mes' book on Tsukamoto, Brown's Tokyo Cyberpunk and some volumes of Mechademia. Problem is that I don't know where to find my stuff between all the boxes and ancient hard disks. :(

I can also recollect 4-5 interviews with Tsukamoto where they ask him about Cronemberg and he's too kind to flip the table and start punching. Feels like many theories about Japanese art are very biased by western scholars and the older they are the harder is suppressing them after years.

Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Tetsuo all share the body mutation/rejection theme. My guess is that all gets conflated in a discourse which always references Cronemberg's Videodrome. I've read so many times how is the origin of all cyberpunk that it almost gets boring to pull it in again.

Probably people writing about it were not too familiar with the European industrial scene. The term started circulating around the same time and associated with many anime. Now that I think of it there is a book chapter dedicated to Tetsuo in the book Tokyo Cyberpunk.

Sinningia Leucotricha. Am I right? Pretty sure I have seen it on sale in Belgium. There are no many rules here for sale of plants. And I can find them on Etsy, but never bought plants there tbh.

Isn't there an episode with Juliette Lewis and Brad Pitt where they do a car trip?

Unfortunately windmills are more rare than you might think here in Belgium. Dutch people love them more. They even have online catalogues.

www.molendatabase.nl

One day they'll come to steal your jewels.