I do indeed think about the Roman Empire every day

A foregate: A door: A sticker: One of the few good graffiti

Just four stills from Mestre. I was changing trains and didn’t have enough time to reach the canals

I will be giving a talk about the state of modern technology at Villa La Brise in Sanremo

I will be hosting a cryptography masterclass at the New Humanity Festival in Florence

The great outdoors: Handmade wayfinding

Chemtrails

There’s a music festival in town right now

A number plaque: The museum I work at: Pretty ornaments

Wayfinding: Welcome: Road signs: Path signs

Italian legislators want to mandate license plates, insurance, and helmets for electric scooters

Nearby river: Road sign: Address plaque

Piazza de Ferrari: The Ancient Port

Here comes what I didn’t show in my Ventimiglia photopost

View: Likesome coral hues: Rolls-Royce looking-glass

The bus ticket: A lone poppy: Woven typography

The European Peace Facility is sending arms to Ukraine—something straight out of 1984

The International Criminal Court has no juries, no oversight, and no freestanding appeals mechanism. It is inefficient, having indicted only 52 people in its twenty years of existence

The United States is not Europe’s ally, and never was

Putting aside the issue of centralisation, cash is quite a good means-of-exchange. Transactions are private by default, work without digital technology