Le bestioline di Hayao Miyazaki: decine e decine di tipologie diverse di cosette e cosine che popolano i suoi film. questa è una guida piuttosto completa.

Money quote: "With so many weird little guys running around Miyazaki’s filmography, it seems time to honor and celebrate them. Not every creature in a Miyazaki movie is a weird little guy. We love Totoros of all sizes and we had a fox-squirrel pet of our own, like Nausicaä’s Teto. But those are individual creatures. A key aspect of Miyazaki’s weird little guys is how numerous they are. They’re a swarm, frequently providing little moments of comic relief as they move coal or swim through the sea. Their designs are quite simple, but their meaning frequently is not."

https://www.vulture.com/article/miyazaki-weird-little-guys.html

VULTURE

A Guide to Miyazaki’s Weird Little Guys

Hayao Miyazaki’s movies, such as “The Boy and the Heron,” are full of strange li’l creatures. Get to know your soot sprites from your kodama from your warawara.

Hobby estivi. Io leggo e scrivo con i miei tempi e le cose che voglio io. Altri costruiscono una Wii grande come un portachiavi. È l'estate, baby.

Money quote: "Last summer, while Wesk was developing the Final Destination OMEGA, he and I discussed creating a Wii micro build even smaller than the GC Nano.

The first build to ever FULLY utilize the OMEGA trim. The smallest functional Wii ever made, barely larger than the outline of the OMEGA trim itself. A literal keychain Wii!"

https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/kawaii.6474/

BitBuilt - Giving Life to Old Consoles

Worklog - Kawaii

A @Wesk and Yveltal collaboration! Last summer, while Wesk was developing the Final Destination OMEGA, he and I discussed creating a Wii micro build even smaller than the GC Nano. The first...

Viviamo tempi interessanti. Questa notizia, di un mese fa, ad esempio, sposa tre livelli diversi e li mette tutti assieme. Chissà quali saranno i risultati, se mai ne vedremo. Comunque, l'educazione e l'AI sono una cosa che in un modo o in un altro succederà per forza.

Money quote: "Computer scientist Andrej Karpathy announced on Tuesday that he was starting an AI-integrated education platform named Eureka Labs, leveraging years of experience at ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Tesla, opens new tab.

Education platforms have taken advantage of the boom in generative artificial intelligence since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 to improve and create digital learning content.

A teacher would design courses on the Eureka Labs platform, but they would be aided by an AI teaching assistant to guide students through the learning material, Karpathy said in a post on X."

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/former-openai-tesla-engineer-andrej-karpathy-starts-ai-education-platform-2024-07-16/

Reuters

Former OpenAI, Tesla engineer Andrej Karpathy starts AI education platform

Computer scientist Andrej Karpathy announced on Tuesday that he was starting an AI-integrated education platform named Eureka Labs, leveraging years of experience at ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Tesla .

Signore e signori, ecco a voi "Landing". Meglio di Pinterest, meglio di Instagram. E molto più camp.

Money quote: "One site capitalizing on both Pinterest's popularity and faults that has exploded with its unfaithful is Landing. Landing’s creators even acknowledge the comparisons to Pinterest on their website, “Many Landing creators are active Pinterest users, and many of the creators on Landing actually discovered Landing through Pinterest!”

It was when I was scrolling through Instagram for more inspiration for my invitation that I came across an ad for Landing, pitching itself as my new “creative escape”. I signed up for the app and a bright, oxidized yellow landing page greeted me as I searched disco on their main page. I was able to collect over a dozen images that I then assembled into my disco invitation."

https://www.bylinebyline.com/articles/landing

Byline

A New Space For Fun On The Internet

When Pinterest gets you down, try Landing.

Atlas, La mia recensione per Fumettologica.

https://fumettologica.it/2024/06/atlas-netflix-recensione-film-jennifer-lopez/

Una raccolta di detti e massime dal mondo del diritto angloamericano. Non sono brocardi, sono adagi legali di quelli che si raccontano al club per soli avvocati o per soli giudici.

Money quotE: "I call it “The Last Resort Rule.” It was taught to me by a great teacher at Columbia Law School named Jerome Michael, who taught a course in appellate advocacy. At the last moment in the last class of the course, when he had taught us everything he knew, he said: “These are my final words on advocacy. If you have the facts on your side, hammer the facts. If you have the law on your side, hammer the law. If you have neither the facts nor the law, hammer the table.”"

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/04/legal-adage/

Le sanzioni del 2019 hanno messo Huawei in una posizione molto scomoda, apparentemente. Ma le aziende, sono resilienti, si ingegnano, non si fanno prendere dalla depressione e dall'apatia. E adesso, con il suo sistema operativo alternativo ad Android, l'azienda cinese sta occupando uno spazio enorme che presto vedremo arrivare (tipo boomerang causato dalle sanzioni) anche da noi.

Money quote: "By collaborating with app developers to create HarmonyOS-specific applications and fostering a new generation of programmers skilled in its platform, Huawei is positioning itself as an important player in the operating system landscape. The company has been collaborating with domestic universities since 2021 to train coders in its system.

The development could have an outsized effect in further spurring China's tech industry. Huawei estimated that the creation of apps for HarmonyOS will generate at least 3 million jobs. There are currently just over 380,000 HarmonyOS-certified developers. Huawei pledged to train 100,000 developers a month through online videos and other means."

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Caixin/Huawei-s-HarmonyOS-Next-is-set-to-rival-iOS-and-Android-in-China

Nikkei Asia

Huawei's HarmonyOS Next is set to rival iOS and Android in China

Chinese tech giant unveiled new operating system in January

Due mesi fa Microsoft si preparava a sconfiggere la concorrenza (Apple) con i nuovi chip Qualcomm sui quali far girare Windows. Dove sono finiti? Che risultati hanno raggiunto? Un mistero chiamato Vaporware?

Money quote: "After years of failed promises from Qualcomm, Microsoft believes the upcoming Snapdragon X Elite processors will finally offer the performance it has been looking for to push Windows on Arm much more aggressively. Microsoft is now betting big on Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon X Elite processors, which will ship in a variety of Windows laptops this year and Microsoft’s latest consumer-focused Surface hardware.

Microsoft is so confident in these new Qualcomm chips that it’s planning a number of demos that will show how these processors will be faster than an M3 MacBook Air for CPU tasks, AI acceleration, and even app emulation. Microsoft claims, in internal documents seen by The Verge, that these new Windows AI PCs will have “faster app emulation than Rosetta 2” — the application compatibility layer that Apple uses on its Apple Silicon Macs to translate apps compiled for 64-bit Intel processors to Apple’s own processors."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24116587/microsoft-macbook-air-surface-arm-qualcomm-snapdragon-x-elite

The Verge

Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple

Microsoft is gearing up for next-gen AI PCs.

Sappiamo che Russia e Cina ovviamente fanno azioni di disinformazione. Ma che la Cina ci investisse così tanto e con così scarsi risultati è molto interessante. E spaventoso.

Money quote: ""Spamouflage is like throwing spaghetti at the wall, and they are throwing a lot of spaghetti," says Jack Stubbs, chief information officer at Graphika, a social media analysis company that was among the first to identify the Spamouflage campaign. "The volume and scale of this thing is huge. They're putting out multiple videos and cartoons every day, amplified across different platforms at a global scale. The vast majority of it, for the time being, appears to be something that doesn't stick, but that doesn't mean it won't stick in the future."

Since at least 2017, Spamouflage has been ceaselessly spewing out content designed to disrupt major global events, including topics as diverse as the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, the US presidential elections, and Israel and Gaza."

https://www.wired.com/story/china-bad-at-disinformation/

WIRED

Why China Is So Bad at Disinformation

China’s state-sponsored disinformation campaign has been running at a massive scale for seven years—but no one is looking at it.

Visto che ne parliamo proprio qui su Telegram: è davvero così brutto come lo racconta quest'articolo? A me non pare, però boh, magari sbaglio.

Money quote: “Telegram is social media for organised criminals,” says Haywood Talcove, chief executive of LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ government division, who has been tracking new means of fraud targeting US government systems that he says have gone “viral” on the platform among some hacker communities. “It’s virtually the wild west out there.”

https://www.ft.com/content/c70ef7d6-230a-4404-b854-2e75fe0f2e0a