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Thomas Sturm

tsturm@famichiki.jp

<p>Programmer, photographer and writer. Now go outside and look at the sky.</p>

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    Just gave up a domain from an old project that I kept around for 20 years without ever really doing much with it. I *know* that I will never do anything with it ever again. But I still hesitated to turn off Auto-Renew. Letting go of old unused domains is like burying an old dream.

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    Grand Front Osaka

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    If your cybersecurity team tells you that the software &quot;escaped&quot; during testing, it&#39;s time to fire your cybersecurity team.

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    &quot;Our AI hacked another company&quot; is like saying &quot;My gun shot another person&quot;.

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    Google shutting down their cancer research so they can focus on making their other services worse is quite the strategic move.

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    While in Tokyo I had a few hours to myself and visited the Extinct Media Museum. What a cool place! It&#39;s a tiny museum filled to capacity with cameras, audio players, cell phones and computers. What&#39;s really great is that you can grab all of the objects and handle them - most are not operable, but it&#39;s amazing to get the sense memory of holding an old flip phone or a 1980s camera. (1/2) https://extinct-media-museum.blog.jp/otemachi/

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    Throwing Shade.

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    Oh wow - I missed this, but a week ago the BlenderNation site was using a still of my Tropical Sunset Loop as header image for the site. You can see it here in the header gallery: https://www.blendernation.com/headers/tropical-sunset-loop/ Thanks @BartV@mastodon.social

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    At the current pricing and expected rate increases, the only jobs AI can reliably replace while being cost effective will be C-level executives.

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    Just saw a TV interview with a local company here in Osaka that does wall murals as art projects and also for promotional purposes. Their website lists hundreds of cool murals in the Osaka area: https://www.wallshare-inc.com/works/allworks

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    Osaka Sky

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    @noondlyt@hellions.cloud Give them a good solid hug and a kiss on the cheek.

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    Whenever I hear that some idiot was burning through thousands of dollars with AI instead of just doing their fucking job themselves and managers encouraged this situation for months without a shred of oversight, it makes me despair. What a waste. https://techstartups.com/2026/05/28/company-accidentally-spent-500-million-on-claude-ai-in-one-month-after-forgetting-usage-limits/

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    The Jewelry - an apparently now closed/abandoned museum and event space in Osaka’s harbor.

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    Ohh... lunchtime thunder from over the hills. Looks like we are going to get a banger of a thunderstorm in the next half hour. #Minoo #Osaka

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    The Republicans want $220 million for &amp;quot;White House hardening&amp;quot;. We should have never built it out of tofu. Big mistake.

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    Japan Times telling it like they see it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/05/13/world/risk-of-iran-war-restart/?utm_medium=social&amp;amp;utm_source=mastodon

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    @peter This will 100% end in tears. As someone that went through the web boom/bust of 1999-2001 and the banking bust of 2008-9, I see the signs. What a giant fuckup.

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    @gknauss Yeah, the same question has occurred to me. There seem to be a lot of people in this industry that hate what the job is all about.

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    Great memories of an early Atari ST game classic: https://atari-st-tribute.blogspot.com/2026/04/defender-of-the-crown.html?m=1

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    @ai6yr That is a very long time. I believe it was late at night, so it probably took longer than usual to get all the right people with the right knowledge to show up to evacuate the passengers. It’s always the same story. “We know how to do it, but Bob has the keys and he’s out today…”

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    Survey at work asks what AI tools one might be using and how much time I am saving per week. But there is no option to say I don’t use AI. It’s like in a sci-fi movie, when a crew member realizes they are the only one left that is not infected by the zombie plague.

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    Yeah, OK. This is pretty awesome. https://youtu.be/7fyufPkXLbs

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    Happy 45th Birthday to the Sinclair ZX81! Release Date: March 5, 1981

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    Apparently San Francisco turns off their business license renewal website when they all go home at night. In 2026. In freaking San Francisco.