Electronic dictionary sales keep falling in Japan amid declining birthrates and widespread use of smartphone apps. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/13/companies/electronic-dictionary-sales-fall/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #sony #sharp #computers #tech #phones #apps #casiocomputer
Do you know when the next lunar umbral eclipse is?
The Pico MZ-80K running program 9 from Celestial #BASIC does!
#Punk, hardcore, and traditional #skinhead culture have deep Black roots, from #reggae and #ska shaping early alternative movements with the influence of #Black punk pioneers like Bad Brains and Death. Here's the often untold history of how Black musicians and communities influenced punk’s rebellious spirit and working class skinhead culture. It's important to spread knowledge to fight against racist co-optation and misinformation.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sfkTjGsZh7U&si=x8UeNRO4_nrSF7Kg
#blackmonthhistory #sharp
(2019)Negro terror
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jRdOIeymU34&si=kyXbOnIPPu38I0qd
#antifa #sharp #blackmonthmatters #punk #subculture #memphis
You can't teach a nazi
You can't educate a nazi
You can smash a nazi
Omar Higgings
Labor unions of Hitachi and other major Japanese electronics companies demanded a monthly pay scale hike of a record ¥17,000 in their spring labor talks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/02/13/japan-electronics-union-wage-hike/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #hitachi #sharp #wages #shunto
"Pourquoi l’IA générative consomme-t-elle tant d’énergie ?
https://theconversation.com/pourquoi-lia-generative-consomme-t-elle-tant-denergie-247406
Retrouvez toute notre veille sur l'IA sur https://curation.framamia.org
#Framasoft" #impacts_environnementaux_ia #chatgpt #sharp
The first release of my Pico MZ-80A emulator has escaped!
Just looking at how straightforward it would be to extend the Pico MZ-80K to emulate the MZ-80A as well.
Shouldn't be too difficult, and it could potentially run CP/M.
I've a feeling I'm just about to fall down a rabbit hole that I swore I wouldn't ...
Newly minted - Pico #MZ80K release 1.2.4 - bugfixes and initial support for the Japanese character ROM.
Runs on a #RaspberryPi Pico mounted on a Pimoroni VGA Demo Base, #RC2014 Pi Pico VGA terminal card or on the self-contained RC2014 RP2040 VGA terminal card.
More details:
@muzej I have exactly the same setup and several other #Sharp #Pocket #Computers in my collection and these little machines are wonderful!
They were often used by sales people, engineers and insurance agents when being "out in the field".
I've once written a small text adventure game for the PC 1403 / PC 1248 models, "Pocket Quest" which you can find here:
Arched – Berlin • Hacksche Höfe … #alternatiffotograf #andreaslbergphotography #art #artist #beautifulcity #beautifuldestinations #Berlin #blackandwhite #bw #bwphotography #deutschlandreise #dynamic #fineartzone #fotografie #germany #photography #schwarzweiss #sharp #silentsunday #street #streetphotography #travelgermany https://www.andreas-l-berg.com/blog/arched/
Mobile phone carrier KDDI will build an artificial intelligence center on the site of Sharp's halted liquid crystal display panel plant in the city of Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, the electronics maker says. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/12/10/companies/kddi-sharp-ai-center/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #ai #datacenters #kddi #sharp #phones
#Larry #Ellison,
who briefly became the world's second-wealthiest person last week when his net worth surpassed #Jeff #Bezos' for a short time, 
outlined a scenario where AI models would analyze footage from security cameras, police body cams, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dash cams.
"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said,
describing what he sees as the benefits from automated oversight from AI and automated alerts for when crime takes place.
"We're going to have supervision," he continued.
"...if there's a problem, AI will report the problem and report it to the appropriate person."
Ellison's vision bears more than a passing resemblance to the cautionary world portrayed in #George #Orwell's prescient novel 1984.
In Orwell's fiction, the totalitarian government of Oceania uses ubiquitous "telescreens" to monitor citizens constantly,
creating a society where privacy no longer exists and independent thought becomes nearly impossible.
But Orwell's famous phrase
"Big Brother is watching you"
would take on new meaning in Ellison's tech-driven scenario, where AI systems, rather than human watchers, would serve as the ever-vigilant eyes of authority.
Once considered a sci-fi trope, automated systems are already becoming a reality:
Similar automated CCTV surveillance systems have already been trialed in #London Underground and at the 2024 #Olympics.
#China has been using automated systems (including AI) to surveil its citizens for years.
In 2022, Reuters reported that Chinese firms had developed AI software to sort data collected on residents using a network of surveillance cameras deployed across cities
-- and rural areas as part of China's "#sharp #eyes" campaign from 2015 to 2020.
This "one person, one file" technology reportedly organizes collected data on individual Chinese citizens,
leading to what The Economic Times called a "road to digital totalitarianism."
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