This review, at a popular site for people interested in Japan, could serve as a guide to watching the new documentary about Japanese hostess bars. It's a new genre for me, although I have some background in journalism: https://japanned.hcommons.org/journalism
"When the Singaporean government asked local writers if they would agree to having their work used to train a large language model, it probably did not expect the country’s tiny literary community to react so fiercely."
"It raises questions about how the AI boom is impacting young people and their social development and what the future could hold if teenagers — and society at large — become more emotionally reliant on bots." —Jessica Lucas for @verge
May 5, 1818, birthday of German philosopher Karl #Marx. His thoughts on #economy & #society may be well known, but Marx was actually also interested in #geology & copied some geological drawings for personal use - like the basalt cliffs of Staffa, Scotland ⚒️☭
"#Antisemitism surging, report finds, prompting fear for future of ‘Jewish life’ in West
The US saw a 103% increase in incidents fueled by Gaza war, a global report for 2023 shows, while France stands out with near-quadrupling of cases"
Say what you will about AI, but among the applications I am looking forward to is the scraping and synthesis of every manufacturer's catalogs. Since there are no copyright issues, it will give rise to a massive database for materials, processes, and parts sourcing. This is a typical source document that exists all over the web to be scraped.