First publicly release footage of Hayao Miyazaki’s newest anime movie is accompanied by reveal of U.S. theater release date. The marketing in Japan for Studio Ghibli’s latest anime, The Boy and the Heron (also known as How Do You Live?), was unprecedented, not just for anime movies, but for the film industry as a whole.…

Now one might ask themselves, who-what-now? What’s this graph and photonics thing. But honestly check it out. This is not a Nvidia product, no-way man! It is an Intel research project looking at speeding up very niche style application. It’s not in production, it’s not ready for prime time. But it is just as ground-breaking…

https://blog.dshr.org/2023/08/video-game-history.html I’ve read a number of David’s blog entries on various topics, some related to Silicon valley and entrepreneurship and some on digital archiving. But as always David’s got great sources of info and can gather the facts and write on them authoritatively. I had NO idea video games as an industry was @$85B USD…

An original journey through various thoughts and feels on the web that was and future so bright we have to prompt Wix AI. Yesterday I had the privilege of attending an online presentation by Olia Lialina via Reclaim Hosting – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1cKASjX85w. Olia Lialina is among the best-known participants in the 1990s net.art scene – an…

The EETimes – Cost of Compute: Billion-Dollar Chatbots Now when it comes A.I. it’s all well and good to be neutral and proscribe caution, and say there’s lots of good and bad on “both sides”. But let’s also consider physically, de facto the tangible artifacts of this pursuit. This is why I love EETimes (Engineers…

https://kfitz.info/eleventy/ Folks are really trying to optimize the way they do writing to the web these days. Not least of which are the growing number of static website generators. Today just now @kftiz was outlining a new workflow for her blog using the Eleventy static site generator and hosting via Reclaim Hosting (instead of Github).…

May not always say it or brag about it buy I never have spent a penny of my own money on Spotify.com. However, I know full well that I am now the product of Spotify.com. But I don’t care ‘cuz one thing I’ve learned once I finally got off my butt and started LISTENING to…

At one time back around 1996 or so, browsers were being updated an released at such a torrid pace. You had to practically download and update 2x per month to get all the features. Not least of which were all the multimedia plug-ins to get the latest viewers for all the multimedia being produced. I…

“Ultimately, to figure out what we really need to worry about, we need better AI literacy among the general public and especially policy-makers.  We need better transparency on how these large AI systems work, how they are trained, and how they are evaluated.  We need independent evaluation, rather than relying on the unreproducible, “just trust……

Despite the popular adage about everything on the internet being there forever, every day pages of information and sometimes entire websites are lost to the sands of time. With the imminent shutdown of the DPReview website, nearly 25 years of reviews and specifications of cameras and related content are at risk of vanishing. Also lost……