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Easter 2024

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          Happy Easter! The purpose of this text and this humble drawing is to wish happy Easter to the people I care about. To do this, I wanted to start by telling you something that happened a few weeks ago involving one of the video games I watch, Counter Strike. Counter Strike is a great work of art. From time to time, the game's owner, Valve, holds drawing contests. The designs that win these contests are added to the game and Valve pays the artists for their royalties. It turns out that copyrights exist to protect legitimate authors, they do not protect drawings made by artificial intelligence, nor drawings that have already entered the public domain, nor do they protect people who sell other people's drawings saying they are theirs. Valve takes care to avoid drawings produced with artificial intelligence or stolen drawings, known as plagiarism. With this it specialized in finding cheaters. The Counter Strike world championship is taking pl...

2024 Judo Grand Slam Tashkent

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           Some thoughts on this weekend's events.   This weekend, my intention was to primarily write about the 1st stage of the Ceara Championship. However, my plans took an unexpected turn as there was no broadcast of the event. Thus, instead of detailing the competition itself, I will share insights into the financial challenges surrounding it.       Regrettably, our federation's calendar is only released at the beginning of the year. Consequently, there was minimal time between the announcement of the competition date and the event itself. Ideally, we envisioned organizing a convoy of multiple buses, gathering participants from various academies across the region, starting from Juazeiro do Norte and making stops along the route. Unfortunately, this plan never materialized. Even with ample time, executing such an endeavor would have been challenging.            Securing a bus...