Oxford, Paris, and other things

 I have three Rebecca Solnit in my backpack, it must be love! So yes, in my bag I have (apart from my notebook, a scarf, two multicoloured pens, one highlighter and probably, right at the bottom of it, a condom which expired some time in the last century...): Wanderlust , a voyage reminiscing of all the walkers out there who also write  A Field Guide to Getting Lost a mix of personal memories and philosophical thought and walking of course, is the desert for Solnit the same as the Parisian arcades for Walter Benjamin? The Faraway Nearby   a series of stories, so far based on her mother (I haven't checked a synopsis as it might spoil my fun) And yesterday, apart from a quick work meeting online which lasted 5 minutes (joy!), I found the time to search the web for interviews with her. Very pleasant, and pleasant also to discover new people (this guy with an accent as strong as mine, Paul Holdengräber). So here she is speaking with him at the New York Public Library: Pleas...

 My aunt from America sents me this link to news in Las Vegas https://www.npr.org/2023/09/04/1197138244/vegas-ai-workers-brace-for-change Apparently a few robots have appeared in bars, serving customers. So of course, workers are scared their jobs are going to be taken away. It is a touching picture to see, these men and women holding bilingual protest signs, in both Spanish and English, wanting to have their rights protected.                                              " Vegas - Fremont St (6) " by  The Steampunk Explorer  is licensed under  CC BY 2.0 . Is management that thick to think that robots will do the job perfectly well? That they are saving on people who become pregnant, who become sick, who then need to retire? That is really blind management. Every nincompoop, north and south and east and west thinks this is it, I'm inve...