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AI and the Law – Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/11/disney-nbcu-midjourney-copyright
Why it matters: It’s the first legal action that major Hollywood studios have taken against a generative AI company.
The complaint, filed in a U.S. District Court in central California, accuses Midjourney of both direct and secondary copyright infringement by using the studios’ intellectual property to train their large language model and by displaying AI-generated images of their copyrighted characters.
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ComfyRun – A fully open source and self-hosted solution to run your ComfyUI workflows at blazing fast speeds on cloud GPUs
https://github.com/punitda/ComfyRun
Best suited for individuals who want to
- Run complex workflows in seconds on the powerful GPUs like A10G, A100, and H100
- Experiment with any workflows you find across web without worrying about breaking your local ComfyUI environment
- Edit workflows on the go
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Python Windows environment requirements vs apps and custom venv installs
Think of Python like a big toolkit of tools (the interpreter and all its libraries). On Windows, you need to install that toolkit in one place so the operating system knows “Here’s where Python lives.” Once that’s in place, each application can make its own little copy of the toolkit (a venv) to keep its dependencies separate. Here’s why this setup is necessary:
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Google Stitch – Transform ideas into UI designs for mobile and web applications
https://stitch.withgoogle.com/
Stitch is available for free of charge with certain usage limits. Each user receives a monthly allowance of 350 generations using Flash mode and 50 generations using Experimental mode. Please note that these limits are subject to change.
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Runway Partners with AMC Networks Across Marketing and TV Development
https://runwayml.com/news/runway-amc-partnership
Runway and AMC Networks, the international entertainment company known for popular and award-winning titles including MAD MEN, BREAKING BAD, BETTER CALL SAUL, THE WALKING DEAD and ANNE RICE’S INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, are partnering to incorporate Runway’s AI models and tools in AMC Networks’ marketing and TV development processes.
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Photography basics: Depth of Field and composition
Depth of field is the range within which focusing is resolved in a photo.
Aperture has a huge affect on to the depth of field.
Changing the f-stops (f/#) of a lens will change aperture and as such the DOF.
f-stops are a just certain number which is telling you the size of the aperture. That’s how f-stop is related to aperture (and DOF).
If you increase f-stops, it will increase DOF, the area in focus (and decrease the aperture). On the other hand, decreasing the f-stop it will decrease DOF (and increase the aperture).
The red cone in the figure is an angular representation of the resolution of the system. Versus the dotted lines, which indicate the aperture coverage. Where the lines of the two cones intersect defines the total range of the depth of field.
This image explains why the longer the depth of field, the greater the range of clarity.
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Survivorship Bias: The error resulting from systematically focusing on successes and ignoring failures. How a young statistician saved his planes during WW2.
A young statistician saved their lives.
His insight (and how it can change yours):
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During World War II, the U.S. wanted to add reinforcement armor to specific areas of its planes.
Analysts examined returning bombers, plotted the bullet holes and damage on them (as in the image below), and came to the conclusion that adding armor to the tail, body, and wings would improve their odds of survival.
But a young statistician named Abraham Wald noted that this would be a tragic mistake. By only plotting data on the planes that returned, they were systematically omitting the data on a critical, informative subset: The planes that were damaged and unable to return.
