Just finished Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman 📚
(off the cuff review posted on Goodreads)
The new Nintendo mural is complete in the Hankyu underground passage between Karasuma and Kawaramachi stations! I popped down early before there were many commuters to take some photos. Symbol of Kyoto! 🎮📸
The UN’s #IGF2023 is about to kick off on Sunday. Over 7200 people will be attending here in Kyoto. Already I feel like a ton of people have arrived, but it is hard to delineate them from the regular tourists 😅 Still though, getting excited!
Opening with a quote from Invisible Cities and celebrating reading to muse on atomization and social capital? This was a nice little read
Been waiting for the internet repairman for 2 days, recalling those times on the road with spotty to no internet connection. O! Where art thou device-to-device sync!? ⛈️👰
#LoFiSoftware
Goodnight Kyoto
Finished The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow 📚
If you want to catch up on 20 years of Cory Doctorow’s advocacy for a better society in just a few hours — or get someone ELSE caught up — this is just excellent!
Sharing my Mastodon and Bluesky links with the accompanying 🐘 and 🦋 emoji I realize the “Elephant & Butterfly” would make for a cozy pub
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Monday, October 2, 2023
Hello there! 👋 Thought I would give a quick self introduction. I am a 🇨🇦 in 🇯🇵 interested in tech and society, Buddhism, travel, and more. You can get to know me more here: micro.chadkohalyk.com/about-me/ I have a large collection of posts at my main site (https://chadkohalyk.com), most recently: Why Kyoto is the way it is The Santiago Boys LoFi software and inverting our relationship to The Cloud Driving Fukushima: The 3/11 nuclear disaster 12 years later That might give you an idea of my interests.