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-* 2024  [101/103]                                                     :@blog:
+* 2024  [102/104]                                                     :@blog:
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@@ -123,6 +123,35 @@ It's small annoyance, but it shows the general direction.
 Microsoft GitHub is still not near the biggest sin an Open Source can commit when it comes to cooperation (that crown still goes to using Discord), but it's far from being "Open".
 
 **
+** DONE GenAI dealers and self awareness
+CLOSED: [2024-12-02 Mon 14:49]
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: gen-ai-awerness
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :Abstract Dia browse is a new browser, but it's promoted as something else
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :Listening Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
+:END:
+
+I watched a very long promo movie for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25g53PC5QQ][an AI browser.]]
+At first I was afraid on what kind of new nightmares are they planning, but luckily it's nothing like that.
+Yes, it's close to useless and takes too much energy, but nothing for me to be worried about.
+
+What  coughed my eye however was how they made the movie.
+It's full of soft lighting, kind chat, drawing on paper.
+It's a nice, comfy, warm scene.
+It's everything the product is not.
+Remember when oil companies bought ads to show them as the nice guys?
+Now the most vile of technology is pretending to be this nice, older fella.
+
+While creating the final straw in the tech bubble, they are pretending to use a /real/ video tape.
+And while I get it (I also wouln't like to be connected to any of GenAI), it's fake.
+It's as a fake as the grain we see in the movie.
+It leaves me wondering, how much of this is good advertising, and how much is self-awareness.
+The are the bad guys, but do they know it?
+The third chapter of the movie tells how GenAI are still useless, so maybe they are starting to see the bigger context?
+
+
+Guess it's time to start blocking not only AI Bots, but also AI browsers.
+
 ** DONE Useless things you may want to know: on the origin of "vi"
 CLOSED: [2024-11-25 Mon 23:44]
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 My reviews of fun things!
 
 
-* Books  [14/14]                                                   :@reviews:
+* Books  [14/15]                                                   :@reviews:
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@@ -864,6 +864,9 @@ I have a type it seems.
 It's fantastical in it's nature, but the story is humanist.
 A true marvel you owe yourself to experience.
 
+
+** TODO Monday Begins on Saturday (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1965)
+
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@@ -2417,7 +2420,7 @@ Fill her up, please.
 It's very good as a TV show nevertheless.
 
 
-* Anime and manga  [0/0]                                           :@reviews:
+* Anime and manga  [6/6]                                           :@reviews:
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@@ -2890,13 +2893,103 @@ There's some eye candy here.
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 It's not there are no mechs here.
 They are, in very small doses.
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+#+end_image
 
 [fn:wiki] Source: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces#Peacekeeping][Wikipedia]]
 [fn:osh] How many directors have achiever greatness on a few occasions?
 Oshii certainly did!
 
 
+** DONE Armitage III (1995)
+CLOSED: [2024-12-01 Sun 23:43]
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: armitage-iii-oav
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract My review of the anime
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :rating 3.75
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :image reviews/covers/armitage-iii-oav.png
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :reviewSection '("Anime OAV series")
+:END:
+
+There was a time when anime was /the/ place to get cyberpunk-like stories.
+Titles like /Akira/ or /Ghost in the Shell/ are still the standard, which which we measure new movies.
+In most cases, that's a very disappointing comparison.
+Have we peaked in the 90s?
+
+But among those giants, a lot of title dissapeared from our shared consciousness.
+What once was known to anyone in the SF and/or anime community, is now completely forgotten.
+This is a review of such title.
+
+
+/Armitage III/ is a 4 part OAV series from 1995.
+Damn, that's close to 30 years!
+In it, we are transferred to the not-too-distant future.
+Mankind has colonized Mars and humanoid robots became a commodity.
+Ross Sylibus is a detective from Earth transferred to Mars after an accident where a robot left him crippled and forced to use cybernetic leg.
+He is assigned new partner - Naomi Armitage.
+At the same time, a series of dead robot is discovered.
+We learn that they were all a part of a new series of androids - The Thirds.
+They are not known to the public, but it is reviled that in contrast to all previous generations, they are capable of bearing children.
+
+The story here is, sadly, very basic.
+There is a reason to why /Armitage III/ is a forgotten classic.
+Upon my first rewatch of the series since my teen years, I left a bit dissapointed.
+We've got robot woman, who can be impregnated by human males.
+How much story possibilities does it give?
+How many questions does it raise?
+Apparently, zero.
+They give birth to humans, end of story.
+This is a philosophical anime.
+
+#+attr_shortcode: :file armitage-iii-oav-1.jpg
+#+attr_shortcode: :class centered
+#+attr_shortcode: :class alt A woman with a bullet hole in her forehead
+#+attr_shortcode: :source https://animenostalgia.tumblr.com/post/651897636160487424
+#+begin_image
+I love that 90s aestesteric.
+Someone spent hours on those bullet holes.
+#+end_image
+
+https://animenostalgia.tumblr.com/post/651897636160487424
+https://animenostalgia.tumblr.com/post/651897636160487424
+But it not that, then what?
+Well, it's deeply personal.
+It should not come as surprise, but Naomi Armitage is a Third (it's in the title!), and all she wants is to a human.
+She doesn't understand her place in the world.
+Humanity seem to /hate/ robots, but it was the same humanity who create them.
+For her, the story is finding her human side.
+For Ross it's about dropping all prejudice against androids.
+He starts as someone who would wear a "no robots allowed" t-shirt, but when he gets to know Naomi, all his believes are put to a test.
+
+/Armitage III/ and everything in it is just a pretense for their story.
+If we look at it like that, it's really nice.
+There is no pretense to ask questions about nature of humanity.
+It's much more starigt forward, and is done really well.
+There is /some/ depth - humans treat android as property.
+They are sexualized, but they are more sexual creatures.
+They walk half naked, but it's all for the joy of humans.
+The first robots who are closer human, who can bear children, is hunted and have to live in hiding.
+But that all plays second part.
+
+
+#+attr_shortcode: :file armitage-iii-oav-2.jpg
+#+attr_shortcode: :class centered
+#+attr_shortcode: :class alt A woman taking out of her holster. She is wearing a heavy coat which is waving to the back revealing her red underwear.
+#+attr_shortcode: :source https://pinnedupink.com/blogs/flashbacks/armitage-iii-martian-cyberpunk-review
+#+begin_image
+I said it's over-sexualized
+#+end_image
+
+Even the ending, where we learn why Thirds were developed, is only a reason for more Ross/Naomi scenes.
+
+All in all, /Armitage III/ is a very well made classic.
+I love the character design, I like the music.
+They action scenes are nicely done, there is no time to be bored.
+All my gripes come from comparisons with /Ghost in the Shell/, but those comparisons are not needed.
+
+As it stand, I wholeheartedly recommend /Armitage III/ to anyone exploring the golden age of anime.
+Just don't come in expecting one of the greats.
+
+
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