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Trying to be unique in a largely crowded endeavor like Japanese manga is a very difficult game. Like choosing names for one's creations. So some authors have to resort to using bewildering longer titles if only to stand out, and it gets weirder in very prolific manga subgenres such as a harem romcom.

I faintly remember about Japanese creatives -- and some businessmen -- trying to find naming inspirations from practically anywhere -- a favorite movie, actor, athlete, an odd quote, a catchy phrase in French or Italian (there is heavy use of "atelier"), etc. -- for which to name their next work, not just manga but Japanese product names and trademarks in general; a girl's fashion brand over there which had taken a "Cecil McBee" as its trademark without the knowledge of the actual musician bearing that name (he was informed of it, got surprised, then tried unsuccessfully to sue in court).

why does there have to be immediately an android app ?

Because back then Friendster was the leading social media site in Southeast Asia, and later it got dumped as people went to Facebook, beginning with the games. That the people who grew up with it are now mostly on Android phones.

The social network market seems quite saturated already - unless you have something amazing your competitor can’t add in a week, i don’t see it happening.

There do exist people who are trying to get out of toxic social media networks run by supervillains, and looking for alternatives asides from Mastadon. While it's so tempting to think the guy who bought the domain name and trademarks could do something, I doubt his project could fly given his previous Medium posts.

Oh, sure, they're that confident. All the while their government go to insane lengths to hide their home-grown class struggle, you know, the gap between the haves and have-nots.

Once again, this news makes the man happy.

Ah, I see that the 50-cent army has fucking arrived, too.

a foreign government absolutely can use your data against you

They would like to know which individual have specific skill sets they want. Things such as being able to fly a fighter plane, operate a nuclear plant, or design hypersonic missiles. And they don't even have to touch that individual, just listen and watch, and get the information they need.

They’re winning, and they’re winning big.

I'm not buying it. There still remains an awful wealth gap and hence class conflict only skillfully hidden by state propaganda.

As someone living in a country so close to Mainland China, and having survived a fuckhat named Duterte who called himself a president but was also running a massive meth business while allowing Xi to "invest" and but Triad-wannabes mostly on offshore gambling, we are still being asked to exchange one hegemony with another, a hegemony demanding that their "nine-dash" BS be recognized as "legitimate and unshakeable".

Fuck around and find out. Goddamn idiots should have known what they're getting into. Like their boss having moments of megalomania.

Always a fucking day he comes up with an awful idea.

This is so much giving them credit. They're driven by prestige, patriotism, expectations of being on top by 2049, and the fact that their students and researchers were banished by the anti-immigrant policies and hubris of the Trump regime, as the imperialists have taken themselves to destroy America in piecemeal fashion.

Also, I see that the 50-cent army has arrived in Lemmy.

Eagle Eye is when AI is used to automate control of military assets.

Like the possibility of erasing somebody with a fucking Hellfire missile from a Predator drone... on US soil.

Motherfucker wants to create his own Eagle Eye.

Silicon Valley has become a cancer on the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_View_to_a_Kill

Once again, Putin and his gnomes spreading discord, anything to break the West.

Yeah, water distribution would be weaponized.

Goddamn enshittification.

Butlerian Jihad upon this abomination.

This fucking torment nexus of which where all the goddamn supervillains are converging with almost nobody opposing them violently.

Great news for Tsar Vlad.

"Revolution"? More like devolution.

Just look at some large-format advertisements at the local level, as some print shops have started to use AI slop and thus eliminating the need to hire an experienced illustrator.

Fortunately, some people are already fighting back to oppose the devolution, committing themselves to the Butlerian Jihad.