Made in China - new respect

 

For last 30 years, since my return from Japan, I have been fascinated in how much pride and attention Japanese put in everything they do. 

This is especially visible how they wrap items sold and gifts.

Today, before opening these linen, I had to take a photo and give my appreciation to this Atlinia “Made in China” item. 

These days, we buy almost everything made in China which is a totally separate topic on how American industry committed suicide.

However, this is the first Chinese item that was presented in a way I love and how I will remember it.

temple

Tonight, I was writing a chapter for my new book, and I thought I would share it.

On Saturday mornings, I often found myself at a nearby Buddhist temple, Fukusen-ji 福泉寺, at dawn. The temple sat on a bluff overlooking the bay on the East side of Okinawa Island. The building sat slightly away from the coastal road, with a steep stairway leading up the bluff. 

Introducing AIKO assistant native macOs app

For years, have been trying to build AIKO (AI-child in Japanese) because I have always dreamed of a personalized AI that represents my favorite historical figures, scientists, and philosophers in a room with me.

I also needed to manage a collection of over 5,984 notes and blog posts.

Over the years, I tried iterations of various solutions, from command-line rule-based systems to Skype, then Telegram-based chats. They say, "Writing is re-writing".

These days, with Large Language Models, customized chats, note aggregation, and summarization, nightly automation has become doable.

I did not want to use someone else's solution, as I need to know that I designed my personal assistant with safety and privacy in mind.

I started by creating "skill agent" scripts in the chat window, then decided to organize all of that in a pleasant macOS application.

In this post, I proudly present a new AIKOassistant.ai native macOS app.

For now, I will continue using many scripts I already have, but I also believe personal AI deserves a better front end than the command line alone. 

AIKOassistant.ai is my answer to that.

OpenClaw

VirusTotal reports hundreds of actively malicious OpenClaw skills, describing the marketplace as a malware delivery channel and warning that without active sandboxing the blast radius is “basically your entire system”.

I am not trying to say, be aware, but I also appreciate progress OpenClaw brought to the community.

Kakato geri