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Friday, September 20

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Daily News Stuff 20 September 2024

Addicted To Stress Edition

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Not At All Tech News

In the vtuber world, Pina Pengin (formerly of Sony's Prism Project, now with the independent Prima Project) returned to streaming today after several weeks absence when she was flooded out of her home twice in a month.

And Amelia Watson of Hololive English announced her not-a-graduation after four years with the company.  Her last stream will be September 30.

But she will still be affiliated with Hololive and both the company's website and the CEO's own tweets hint that we may see her again.



Stress Video of the Day




Disclaimer: Unless I have to work late.  If I have to work late, which I usually do...

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Thursday, September 19

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Daily News Stuff 19 September 2024

Dorayaki Derangement Edition

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  • Nintendo and the Pokemon Company are officially suing Palworld creator Pocketpair.  (WCCFTech)

    At issue is the idea of catching and training weird animals, that Nintendo asserts it stole fair and square.

    Japanese patent law is a bit weird and unlike western patents, so whether they have a case is uncertain.  One major problem is that Pocketpair now has a billion dollars to fund its defense.


  • Speaking of western patents Congress has decided that now is the perfect time to fuck everything up.  (Ars Technica)

    The Supreme Court has already thrown out entire categories of patent.  You can't patent something that is already commonplace "but on a computer", and you can't patent people's genes.

    The proposed bill is supported by the larger pharmaceutical companies and opposed by literally everyone else.

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Disclaimer: Well, more chaos than usual anyway.

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Wednesday, September 18

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Daily News Stuff 18 September 2024

Paging Dr Bleat Edition

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  • Well, that happened.


  • OpenAI's new AI called o1 is the same garbage but more expensive.  (The Verge)

    It still makes shit up, because it's a language model (a bad one) and not a fact model.  It is somewhat improved in making excuses for its lies, but that's about it.
    "What worries me more is that in the future, when we ask AI to solve complex problems, like curing cancer or improving solar batteries, it might internalize these goals so strongly that it becomes willing to break its guardrails to achieve them," Hobbhahn told me.
    No, really?


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Totally Unconnected to Anything Music Video of the Day




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Tuesday, September 17

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Daily News Stuff 17 September 2024

Duck Duck Bang Edition

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Disclaimer: I think I am, therefore I am, I think.

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Monday, September 16

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Daily News Stuff 16 September 2024

Well Fuck Edition

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Disclaimer: I am vexed and ratty.

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Sunday, September 15

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Daily News Stuff 15 September 2024

With Frickin' Laser Beams Edition

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Disclaimer: Which would be particularly inconvenient if you're the one taking the photo.

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Saturday, September 14

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Daily News Stuff 14 September 2024

Mermaids R Us Edition

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Pixy Is Watching

Quality Assurance in Another World continues to shine.

Yes, it's another "trapped in a VR game" isekai - and we all saw how that would work in real life with ENReco* - but it once you swallow that pill (and it is at least a variation on the regular capsule) the story is handled with more intelligence and empathy than most such.

It's listed on MAL as 13 episodes, which means there's no way in hell it will reach the end of the story. 

I was thinking it was paced like a 24/26 episode run, but a quick comparison with the manga covers shows that episode 8 of the anime takes us no further than volume 3 of the manga - out of 13.  So we probably need three seasons just to catch up.




* ENReco - ENigmatic Recollection - is a Hololive production where all 19 of the Hololive EN girls are roleplaying as amnesiac versions of themselves transported to be heroes in another world.

They were all booted from the game server by technical glitches twice in the first thirty minutes.



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Friday, September 13

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Daily News Stuff 13 September 2024

Big Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom Edition

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Mu Mu Music Video of the Day



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Thursday, September 12

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Daily News Stuff 12 September 2024

Freeze Dried Spam In A Bottle Edition

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Disclaimer: There's a thing in the thing.

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Wednesday, September 11

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Daily News Stuff 11 September 2024

Splrrrrg Edition

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Disclaimer: Blrrrrrrrgh.

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