Finished The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra 📚
I’ll need time to process this. Pankaj Mishra’s righteous teardown of Western tradition (racism, slavery, colonialism) puts Gaza and the Shoah in a wider context as he tries to wrestle it away from politicians with narrow agendas. Astounding work.
I am going to this! In fact, there will be a couple of open social Chads there. Come join us!
website design inspo (sound on) y-n10.com
Started reading: The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra 📚
Had this on pre-order and it just dropped. One of my fav authours so I couldn’t wait to start!
AI Energy Score: ranking models so developers can choose based on energy consumption
Currently reading: The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay 📚 #AmReading
It’s bao time at Crystal Mall! 😋
I know it’s just a number, but it’s a pretty BIG number #2k #meditation
(I should be better at this 😅 Especially considering I haven’t been using this app the whole time)
New kit!
Boox Go 10.3
Got this for reading papers which is a focus for 2025.
Oh this is interesting! They built a system to keep track of citizens assemblies:
I must post this from @unseenjapan.com since I lived for 4 years in Nagoya and really enjoyed my time there. I’d also recommend the Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium and the Antarctic survey ship Fuji. Lots of shopping and good food too!
Lovely bright moon behind clouds lit by the setting sun 🌖 ☁️ 🌞
Got a shoutout on one of my fav podcasts: I hit up producer Hans Buetow on Bsky about this ep of Neverpost (section 2) where he tries to figure out how many cameras are in the world. Wild. And not a bad pronunciation of my last name! As you know, I back Neverpost and rate them highly. For other mentions on podcasts also see: Chad on Chapper’s and The time I was outed as the reincarnation of L.
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New table from Coast Contra!! #HipHop #bars 🔥🔥🔥
Started reading: The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager 📚 #amReading #booksky
Wow! Talk about lifelong learning 💪👴🏻👏
Happy Setsubun 👹
It’s that time of year to eat a big sushi roll 🍣 in the 西南西やや西 direction and watch preschool kids be traumatized! 😊
There is no one way to raise bilingual kids. Every family is different, and the context where they learn language can change. Previously I wrote about bilingualism expectations (and plurilingualism) in the context of raising our kids. If you think about bilingualism in terms of time, there are generally two categories: sequential bilingualism and simultaneous bilingualism. In the first case, one learns a first language and then later learns a second language.
So much #FOSDEM FOMO … just look at all those stickers!!
We got the keys! 🔑 For the first time, we have a home of our own. 🏡 A few months ago we found a place and had our offer accepted. Earlier this week we finalized the documents. But now we have the keys to our very own townhouse. After many years of bouncing back and forth between Japan and Canada, and even moving within each country, the family are now settled down and committed to living in Surrey, BC for the foreseeable future.