Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu's collection of African speculative fiction short stories now available on Amazon amazon.com/Make-Space-Mas…

🎨Today, The King unveiled a new portrait by Jonathan Yeo at Buckingham Palace. The painting - commissioned by The Draper’s Company - is the first official portrait to be completed since His Majesty’s Coronation. It will hang in Draper’s Hall in London.

We received a full English translation. We can't find the translator's name. We asked the agent who translated it. They say: AI. We say: we don't work with AI. This is a battle we're fighting 🌹🌹🌹

Festival letterari, premi e fiere del libro 2024: il calendario fino all’inverno buff.ly/4dF71Ab #editoria #storie

Our streets and homes go dark again.

Due to severe energy imbalance and Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, at least seven Ukrainian regions and Kyiv City are introducing partial blackouts for tonight.

Russia keeps trying to drag us into the pitch-black abyss it is…

China’s bid to return lunar samples from the far side of the Moon will have long-term strategic and geopolitical implications. buff.ly/4dAPdX4

To my Georgian friends.

We, in Belarus, lost our battle for change in 2020. The regime has been taking revenge since then. Belarus turned into a huge concentration camp.

Please, remember that the stakes of your current fight are too high. Stay strong. My heart is with you❤️

Diagnosi del paziente Italia. Colonialismo rimosso e sindrome da libro Cuore - La Stampa lastampa.it/tuttolibri/202… La Stampa

“E fu questo che avrebbe continuato a vivere a intervalli man mano più distanti – per anni a venire. Avrebbe continuato a ripescare dettagli che le erano sfuggiti e che non cessavano di farla trasalire”

Alice Munro, Quello che si ricorda (trad. di Susanna Basso) Einaudi editore

The author Alice Munro has died at 92. “Few contemporary writers are more admired, and with good reason,” James Wood wrote, when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 2013. nyer.cm/g3T3GPx

Europe, can you hear us?

We here in Tbilisi are rooting for our European future.

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Munro (1931–2024). In memory of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Fiction interview from our archive.

theparisreview.org/interviews/179…

Alice Munro, Nobel winner and titan of the short story, dies aged 92 theguardian.com/books/article/…

I'm reposting this cartoon and deleting the previous version, because the hashtag I used was attracting a swarm of AI spam and bots.

'I, Robot' by Isaac Asimov, USSR, 1964.

“Si può fare un parallelismo tra le proteste a #Tblisi e quelle di #Euromaidan del 2014 per quanto riguarda il livello di repressione da parte della polizia e la grossissima mobilitazione popolare”, dice Marilisa Lorusso corrispondente OBC Transeuropa dalla #Georgia

Orcas sink yet another yacht.

theguardian.com/world/article/…

Il documento di chiusura del ciclo di incontri 'Le conseguenze dell'AI' organizzato dal collettivo #Nina (Né intelligente né artificiale), al quale ho preso parte anch'io
nina.watch/i-venti-passi-…

Al 'nuovo' lavoro mi hanno detto che sono contenti di me e mi è venuto in mente di quando la mia vecchia capa mi disse (solo perché pensava di ferirmi) che poteva affidarmi solo le attività che avrebbe affidato a una stagista. Nessuno merita di lavorare in un ambiente tossico