A little night walk down by the riverside in my neighbourhood which is called “Palace of Cherry Blossoms” ๐ธ๐ฏ Finally the blooming has started.
See all my sakura shots for the day here: www.flickr.com/photos/sa…
2024
Day 2: Flowers ๐ท (@davegullett)
A photographer enjoys the blooming cherry blossoms
๐ท Day01 : toy (@pcora)
Cherry blossoms will be blooming over the next couple of weeks, so I am going to see if I can somehow maintain a parallel theme as this photo challenge progresses. Today I popped down to the Lego store to capture some toy cherry blossoms ๐ธ๐งฑ
Gorgeous day at Osaka Station ๐ ๐ ๐งธโฒ๏ธ
What are you into? What would you like to GET into? My newsletter this month is on โmakingโ and hobbies. Consider the possibility: maybe you arenโt looking for something to DO, but looking for a community to do something with? Read it here ๐
Kyoto is CRAZY with tourists right now. We went to visit the family grave since we missed out last weekend. Cloudy, but got a couple of nice photos of cherry blossoms ๐ธ ๐ธ
#EverydayKyoto #Kyoto #Japan #sakura
Spent all day in the Wakayama mountains at a very eclectic Buddhist temple that will open soon. More photos but here are a few random shots. The main statue of 1000 Hands Kannon-sama is being shipped from China, and there is an opening ceremony by a Malaysian Zen master in the coming weeks.
This was another great ep following the one with Simon Willison about finding the boundaries of LLMs oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/…
#podcast #machineLearning #LLM #adversarialML
Bluesky, blue building ๐ธ
No edits. Taken from the north side of Osaka Castle park.
Gorgeous spring day. Hung around Umeda enjoying the warm. There are still no cherry blossoms outside yet due to the cold, but the Hilton has a bunch of trees growing on display in the lobby that are fully bloomed! ๐ธ๐ธ
Today I found out about Rev. Joanne Yuasa who this year started working as a chaplain at Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Base Kingston, where I went to graduate school. She is the first Buddhist chaplain in the Canadian Forces! Wow!
Finished Governable Spaces by Nathan Schneider (@ntnsndr@social.coop) ๐ A positive read with a bunch of interesting branches to explore next. You can see some short chapter overviews: www.goodreads.com/review/sh…
Appreciated this discussion about operations research and the “universal science” of advertising. Surviving adtech like I have, I was really nodding my head along with the discussion about how ad agencies play both sides of the transaction
Really itching to go out on a photowalk. Iโve been on the backstreets at night but need to capture more. This rando snap I took since I liked the mix of stopping and going in one moment. ๐ธ
Anywho, next week the sakura ๐ธ will bloom so I will definitely be taking lotsa shots
This is fun to play with
RIP Vernor Vinge
Haunting #longread on Irish remembrance & forgetting against the background of extremely low corp tax rates, 80+ datacenters (with 40 more approved!) using a fifth of electric output causing
Appreciated this accessible piece on the antitrust case against Amazon. (TLDR; jacking Marketplace fees to subsidize other parts of the business)
Really enjoyed this interview of renowned scholar of Japanese history Thomas Conlan by the always excellent @becedo.bsky.social on his fascinating account of the Ouchi family. I am definitely picking up this book
newbooksnetwork.com/kings-in-…
#japan #history #podcast
Handy comparison of Free and OpenSource Photo Libraries
https://meichthys.github.io/foss_photo_libraries/
#photography #FOSS
Getting a boba at this neighborhood Taiwanese and Vietnamese cafe๐ง
Lovely day to explore the backstreets of Nakazaki, home to many tiny coffee shops and art galleries #osaka #coffee โ๏ธ
Currently reading: Governable Spaces by Nathan Schneider ๐
I would really like browsers to track the โReferrerโ for new tabs. For example, if you click on a link in an email, from a social media post, or Discord/Slack/Signal/Messages/etc please store a link back. Especially useful in the age of the cozy web, where I have a number of small social networks.
Started Northern Ireland: The Fragile Peace by Feargal Cochrane ๐
Takoyaki right from the traditional source ๐ธ
Started listening to Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) by China Miรฉville ๐
Want to learn how to make digital music with visual programming? Or do you just want your mind blown for 10 straight minutes? Either way, we got you ๐คฏ๐ถ๐ธ๐๐ฆ https://youtu.be/DNBKdU6XrLY?si=B0AQToJ2PLAQpCZZ
internet.exchangepoint.tech/internet-…
Mallory Knodel (@mallory@techpolicy.social) points out that 2024 is a big year for Internet governance. One of the challenges that I witnessed at IGF in Kyoto last year was the multilateralism v. multistakeholderism fight. Mallory writes:
States are currently empoweredโ see: regulation, โdigital public infrastructureโ, and AI for sustainable development; while the technical community has no clearly articulated affirmative and practical vision for the future of the open and interoperable internet.
Technology is politics.
We have been considering moving away from DnD as we wrap up our current campaign. Started reading this as one of the candidates The Wildsea: RPG by Felix Isaacs ๐#ttrpg