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Translator, writer. How to get used to Japanese (Additional topics: Murakami, New Orleans, Chicago, beer, writing, translation, basketball). Based in Osaka. http://linktree.com/howtojapanese

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The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

07.08.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8525    πŸ” 2239    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 91
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Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on.

It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.

06.08.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 11264    πŸ” 3216    πŸ’¬ 236    πŸ“Œ 179

Cuomo is a dumbass. Why would you take or make this phone call?

06.08.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

really hard to overstate the psychic wound losing to obama did to conservatives like hassett. they really thought romney was a lock

06.08.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 6521    πŸ” 905    πŸ’¬ 246    πŸ“Œ 76

I think it's pretty standard. I remember visiting a friend who was in a snowboarding accident during limited hours, same when he had his metal fittings later taken out. And after the birth of a child, dads only get an hour a day to visit.

06.08.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AI isn't magic. AI is land, real estate, and energy.

06.08.2025 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 416    πŸ” 186    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 4

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

05.08.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 10449    πŸ” 3326    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 166

August 6th. 8:15 am. A moment to wish for peace.

05.08.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

05.08.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 22418    πŸ” 5831    πŸ’¬ 723    πŸ“Œ 352

Once again, I am reminding my fellow JP>EN translators to stop translating 許さγͺい as "I'll never forgive X".

It's not just bad, it's wrong. And it hurts my soul to see it float its horrible way into localizations I love.

05.08.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Playing Sagat in Street Fighter like it's 1995.

05.08.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This needs to be a rallying cry: "How much does it cost for fascism?"

05.08.2025 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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IGN lays off 8 staff, 12% of union
aftermath.site/ign-layoffs-zi...

04.08.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 189    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 10
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Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

04.08.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3235    πŸ” 1649    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 174
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Exclusive: Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.

Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data

I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key

I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed.

www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...

31.07.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2638    πŸ” 1809    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 255

I'm curious to hear if anyone has done any long, long, LONG term planning for their digital content. It doesn't seem like there's any way to future proof self-hosted online writing (or maybe any online writing) other than the various online archivers, and even then I guess it's never forever?

03.08.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, I think coding is kind of a different story from translation.

02.08.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty impressed with the explanations. They're clean, concise, and well structured with useful icons and code examples.

02.08.2025 05:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm pretty opposed to AI use in translation, but getting it to teach me some stuff about WordPress has been kind of eye-opening. I've always been a "need to see it in practice"/"need to see someone's process" in order to understand, which is tough to do with Google searches alone.

02.08.2025 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was really lucky that eagle-eyed Redditor spotted that. Replaced curly apostrophes with straight apostrophes in ONE LOCATION, and then the PHP update worked without any issues.

Today I tried querying ChatGPT and it diagnosed the problem from the error message and explained it to me in 2 seconds.

02.08.2025 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Last week I had a Wordpress error that was resulting in How to Japanese not loading when I updated the PHP. Strangely it didn't crash my personal site. Posted around on Reddit, and someone noticed that in one error message I was getting, there was an issue with curly vs straight apostrophes.

02.08.2025 05:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dropbox sure makes it complicated to change region/billing on a plan.

02.08.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, Trump.

01.08.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

31.07.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 30545    πŸ” 7619    πŸ’¬ 760    πŸ“Œ 430

Already seeing Dems say they should run on local, kitchen-table issues in 2026, and I don’t understand how this miserable excuse for a political party expects voters to react as if there’s a national political crisis if they themselves aren’t willing to talk about a national political crisis

31.07.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 5323    πŸ” 903    πŸ’¬ 363    πŸ“Œ 116

Someone uninfluence me about Octopath Traveler.

01.08.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

#monsterhubterstories3 following recent events, i have made an addendum to this post :

31.07.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 440    πŸ” 175    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Twitter has poisoned our entire society into fascism and the worst part is that ELON MUSK WAS LITERALLY TRYING TO BACK OUT OF BUYING IT AND DEMOCRATS COULDN’T LIFT A FINGER TO BLOCK THE SALE

31.07.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 374    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 22

Did you know?

If you do two quick honks right as a light changes from yellow to red, you can run a red light in Japan.

31.07.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Police don't keep keep us safe. No matter how much money, power, and resources we throw at them, the fact remains that police cannot and will not ever deliver safety.

30.07.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

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