What types of suffering are severe, widespread, and easily preventable? The number of animals suffering on animal farms for a variety of reasons is enormous, and what happens to them should be considered a moral catastrophe. At the same time, most of the little money that people allocate to help animals is given to shelters for cats and dogs.

The carriage is packed at half past six in the morning. Awkward Turkmen students, restless young grandmothers with their grandchildren, languid long-legged maidens who seem to have confused a reserved seat carriage with a fashion catwalk. Opposite, two girlfriends, fellow medical students, are building their temporary nest. One is plump, overly active, covered in student acne. Of the two, she is the bander. The second is a modern duck with lips, loose hair, and generously drawn eyebrows.

It's 2023 and the world is just getting used to ChatGPT. The public discussion fluctuates between “oh yes, superintelligence will come and save everyone!” and “oh no, the supermind will come and kill everyone!” ; but both positions, characteristically, satisfy technology corporations, because both proceed from the fact that superintelligence will eventually come. Italian philosopher of science Matteo Pasquinelli does not share this enthusiasm.

Impression 1 In June Gomel at 8 am it’s already south. That same summer atmosphere when the first heat has subsided for the night, but is about to return again. I run from station to station. Among the shabby images of the station, I catch out of the corner of my ear: - You promised to go to the Northern Military District? Two policemen and a homeless man at the stalls. They are ironic, mocking, in power. He is shabby, dirty and old.

It is believed that cinema is dead, and no one has argued with this thesis for a long time - they only argue about the date of death and who the heirs are. Queer cinema died in its own way, and the reason for the death here is more offensive: not the censorship that it survived, but recognition; the industry has learned to sell it and has forgotten how to take risks with it.

Yegorushka was a misanthrope. As they said, misanthropes do not like people. But Yegorushka didn’t dislike everyone, he just didn’t like the majority. Most are narrow-minded, weak, rude people. Didn't like drunkards. Didn't like careerists. He did not like mothers and patriots. In short, almost everyone. People annoyed him. They irritated me with their empty vanity, constant hypocrisy, instability of mind and superficiality of reasoning. And that’s why he tolerated most of them.

Some crows don't caw. And they are white... 8 o'clock in the evening... February, it's nasty rain and snow outside... I jump into a trolleybus that turns up, chock-full of citizens and their minor offspring... First I stand, then I sit, then I stand again, involuntarily and out of nowhere, from the depths of memory and upbringing, mechanically giving way to some tortured citizen with bags and a grimace smile from sadness and fatigue all over my face...