Day 3: card 📷 (@val)
Some sakura 🌸 themed greeting cards at a backstreet stationery shop. Unfortunately they didn’t stock any of those fancy 3D constructable ones where you get a whole tree, or the music light show ones. Still, the Japan levels are turned up to 11 on these 🎚️🇯🇵
People not looking up so much today ☔️
(See yesterday’s pic micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/0…)
A little night walk down by the riverside in my neighbourhood which is called “Palace of Cherry Blossoms” 🌸🏯 Finally the blooming has started.
See all my sakura shots for the day here: www.flickr.com/photos/sa…
Day 2: Flowers 📷 (@davegullett)
A photographer enjoys the blooming cherry blossoms
📷 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 🌸🧱
Gorgeous day at Osaka Station 🌞 😎 🧸⛲️
What are you into? What would you like to GET into? My newsletter this month is on “making” and hobbies. Consider the possibility: maybe you aren’t looking for something to DO, but looking for a community to do something with? Read it here 👇
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 🌸 📸
#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 📸
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! 📸🌸
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) 📚 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. I’ve 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. 📸
Anywho, next week the sakura 🌸 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)