Graham Oliver

Residents carry the Earth God palanquin around Shezidao village during the Lantern Festival in Taipei, Taiwan

📸 I-hwa Cheng

It is kind of interesting how much less important Piccolo seems in the manga than in my memory of the anime.

Starting the Cell saga now, which I've only previously encountered through Wiki summaries and short clips on YouTube. When I was a kid, it seemed like every single DBZ episode on Toonami was Goku vs Frieza, Goku training in the afterlife, and Piccolo training Gohan.

Sorry I didn't mean the action was unclear, I more meant how silly the action paired with the onomatopoeias was~

Everyone else doesn't know just how wrong we can be!

I love that a key plot point in the Frieza saga is that characters who have telekinesis, space ships, and can destroy whole planets can't carry the seven Dragonballs while flying.

You can't read manga fights literally panel by panel, instead you have to let them wash over you like an impressionist painting.

Otherwise it would just be silly.

Yeah we watched, my wife's high school classmate ran it

I might have seen her!

UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings.

This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

Single women plan community home in Osaka to age together | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis Their vision came together over tea, desserts and an array of colorful sticky notes.

Single women plan community home in Osaka to age together
Their vision is simple but, in today’s Japan, still radical: if the kind of home they need does not exist, they will create it themselves.

EORZEA CAFE

Had no idea one of the early plotlines involves fighting a Nazi-like group for the Dragonballs

Advice of the day I wish I had gotten and followed: learn best strategies for talking to someone undergoing delusions so you have some idea of what to say if the situation arises.

I'm always saying this

For me it's context. Declare isn't colloquial on its own either, but my grandma saying "I do declare it's going to be a hot one" or "I reckon we should head on back" are both colloquial dialogue to me?

Culture

Whole lot of masochists here to run in the cold

Reading Dragonball for the first time.

'Taiwan Travelogue' longlisted for International Booker Prize
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Yang Shuang-zi's (楊双子) "Taiwan Travelogue" (臺灣漫遊錄) has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize for translated fiction, the award's organizers announced Tuesday (U.K. time).
https://focustaiwan.tw/culture/202602250007 […]

LLMs break our ability to conclude when there is proof of effort. We make high schoolers write essays and do math assignments not because we care about essay or because we don’t know the problem set answers, but because the effort trains them in a certain way. We read customized cover letters as an important signal of interest, because it has traditionally been hard to make a good one, and you could only do it for so many jobs you applied for. Gatekeeping is inevitable, and when the old mechanisms stop working, other measures will step in, like relying on the prestige of the candidate’s institution or their connections to decide who to hire, or what papers to cite or publish.

I think about this a lot with LLMs and education and also publishing. The hope that by undermining failing or unfair systems, LLMs will destroy the hierarchies and unfairness seems... naive. The result will likely be the opposite. jessicahullman.substack.com/p/zeynep-tuf...

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

yay 臺灣漫遊綠

¿Se interesará alguna editorial española por #臺灣漫遊錄 Taiwan Travelogue ahora que la traducción inglesa está nominada al Premio Booker Internacional?

I regret to inform you that the FFXIV manga is *mostly* not good, 3 episodes in.

There are moments, though.

The idea that X is a proxy for the public sphere at large is a distortion effect produced by journalists, academics, and politicians themselves. It’s nowhere close to being even the most-used platform in the US—any argument that one needs to “fight for it” is absurd. 5x Bluesky and you’re at X.

therefore you should put the salt on your hand and lick it just before biting the chocolate, same as a tequila shot. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

the problem with putting flaky salt on chocolate is that if you put it on while warm it dissolves, messing up the texture (and visuals) and losing the burst of flavor. if you wait until it's cold then it falls off too easily.

obvs give all the money to counties/townships and have each of them build their own militaries

Very agnostic but also very hopeful the afterlife involves a library with information like this.