Notices by マリオ (Mario Menti) (mario@neko.cat)

#Spring

#SundayRun 😜
#Running #ランニング

#Caturday evening 🐈
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@johnhood maybe I’ll take a look 😊

'm not much of a gamer and hardly ever listen to game soundtracks, but TEKE::TEKE's soundtrack to Assassin's Creed Shadows - Kage no Iro is great.

https://youtu.be/hOh6G39Yuqg?si=sRc5Hihj-k6xy_yh

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Suzumeno Tears / すずめのティアーズ (30) Pedro (26) カネコアヤノ (21) モーモールルギャバン (21) Orchards (20). #myweekcounted 510 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

🌞day 😼
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Interesting piece on Yuki Tejima's journey towards literary translation.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/03/29/books/mizuki-tsujimura-yuki-tejima/

This article made me re-watch Princess Mononoke もののけ姫 tonight, and I'm grateful for the reminder 😊
#もののけ姫 #PrincessMononoke

Princess Mononoke: Why Studio Ghibli Can't Be Recreated With AI
https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/princess-mononoke-rerelease-studio-ghibli-ai-1235111396/

Happy Mother's Day

I didn't realise The Makioka Sisters was such a hefty book.
#TheMakiokaSisters #細雪 #JunichiroTanazaki #谷崎潤一郎 #ReadingWithCats #CatsOfMastodon

I've seen some people arguing that AI companies shouldn't be held responsible for copyright infringements by their users, saying that this would be like car manufacturers being held responsible for people breaking the speed limit in their cars.

But I cant help thinking that this is a fake analogy - a more accurate one (IMO) would be that AI companies are selling cars that have been built using car parts from stolen cars. And everyone would agree who should be held to account for that.

"In 2014, the all-party parliamentary group on modern languages estimated that the UK’s untapped linguistic potential was worth £48bn. It’s £8bn more than Reeves added to the tax bill last year, and if anything it has grown, since Brexit has re-oriented “global Britain” towards customers beyond Europe. Ask any native English speaker who trades internationally: if you’re buying, English will do, but if you’re selling, better to speak the client’s tongue."

Swahili? Mandarin? The UK is increasingly multilingual – yet our politicians won’t talk about it | Laura Spinney | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/27/swahili-mandarin-uk-increasingly-multilingual

I'm pretty confident that there is nothing more effective at stopping you from "living in the moment" than wearing AI glasses. 🤦

Appropriate sakura 桜 outside the Japanese language school this evening 🌸

@alanb Guttered in Ginza? Shit-faced in Shibuya?

@ettaB_1 わからないけど、無力感を感じているとき、ユーモアが助けになると思うよ。

This is the best thing I've seen in a while.

Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan/

Of all today's topical jokes, "new phone, houthis?" definitely wins.

Sometimes I have to briefly stop working because she insists on a cuddle 😹
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