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BREAKING: Sanae Takaichi becomes Japan’s first female leader, a historic event made possible by a coalition between the LDP and the Japan Innovation Party. 👉 ebx.sh/IsDzAl

【速報】自民、維新と連立協議入りへ　高市氏が首相に選出される公算大
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Have you ever been lost in a video game level, wandering empty halls, until you know you're going the right way because you finally run into enemies? Because you don't know what to do without conflict? Well some people live their real lives that way

Takaichi wins! Who wins and who loses from her shocking upset

I’m nearing the limits of my endurance, but I took a first crack at thinking about the winners and losers from Takaichi’s surprising upset Saturday. Much more to come.

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The true believer Takaichi Sanae makes her pitch

The profile I wrote of Takaichi last year: open.substack.com/pub/observin...

"i just use it to generate ideas"

Sorry for the spam, but we are offering this postdoctoral position to work on dis/misinformation in a great environment and a beautiful city. Don't miss the deadline!

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”, released as a single 34 yrs ago today

“No one had any psychic foresight .. that the song would go on to do what it did,” said Grohl. “We just fuckin’ rocked it in a little rehearsal space that was like a barn. .. We just thought it was another cool song for the record.”

What we have learned from Google Docs is that word processors were functionally complete for 99% of users by 1995. The only useful feature added since then is collaborative editing.

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

When they shutoff the LLMs some people's emails are gonna be like "me client, me want deliverable, you make good, you incorporate brand strategy"

Coming up fast! I’ll be there playing live visuals on the 12th of Sept along with Alfonsofonso, and psyched to share this lineup with a number of other livecoders I admire! 💗

At this point, this meme is literally true.

¡Buenos días!

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

werner: does it tell you you're here at San Vincente, close to Sunset Boulevard: interviewer: yeah, it's basically like a Google map werner: but what does pokemon do at this corner here? interviewer: you might be able to catch some. It's all completely virtual. It's very simple, but it's also an overlay of physically based information that now exists on top of the real world. Werner: when two persons in search of a Pokemon clash at the corner of Sunset in San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder? interviewer: they do fight, virtually werner: physically, do they fight? interviewer: the people or the.... werner: yes, there must be real people if it's a real encounter with someone else

Werner Herzog considering Pokemon Go from an interview in 2016

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation. After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

I think many people dramatically underestimated how difficult it was for the US to restrain Israel and believed that we were in a worst-case scenario already.

Cierra el Café Central, meca del jazz en Madrid Los propietarios del negocio de la plaza del Ángel se ven abocados a poner fin a 43 años de historia y 35 trabajadores perderán su empleo el próximo 12 de octubre

La cantidad de negocios madrileños de solera acabados porque no son dueños de los locales. Moraleja: si quieres que tu negocio perdure, primero compra el local (a precio prohibitivo).

Cierra el Café Central, meca del jazz en Madrid
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This is what happens when you "debate" fascists and give them access to your platform.

They make money. It's their business plan. YOUR ATTENTION is the core of the fascists' business plan.

Deprive them of your monetizable attention and let them starve.

Loop or die! #TorrePacheco ✊

우리는 하나

Sala de la exposición "Paolo Veronese (1528-1588)" en el Museo del Prado

Sala de la exposición "Tan lejos, tan cerca. Guadalupe de México en España"

Este sábado 12 de julio en #ElPradodeNoche podrán visitarse gratuitamente las exposiciones “Paolo Veronese (1528-1588)” y “Tan lejos, tan cerca. Guadalupe de México en España” de 20:30 a 23:30. ¡Os esperamos el sábado por la noche en el Museo del Prado! www.museodelprado.es/recurso/el-p... #cultura

#OTD in 1853 Commodore Perry arrived in Japan. Exploring the Library of Congress collections, you can discover a treasure trove of digital resources on this period, including this 19th century work. www.loc.gov/resource/asi...

Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

Learn the secret 🤫 of Japan’s work-life balance. New edition coming with foreword by Jeff Bezos #Ikigai