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Stopping flying considerations
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
🔗 Should I stop Flying — Outside Online Appreciate the discussion in this piece. It is something I have thought about for years, and actually one of the reasons I don’t look forward to when I return to Canada where everything is so remote. Imagining a no-fly future — whether due to carbon laws, massively increased expense, or the threat of RPGs (see Ministry for the Future my fav book of 2022 for more on that extreme form of flygskam) — I would rather live some place like Europe or Japan: dense with a good rail system.
Good morning, clear blue sky. ☸️ 📸
Got a Covid booster in one arm, and a flu shot in the other 😵💫
🐡 Fugu skin hot sake 🍶
🌅 Sun has set on the final day of the #IGF2023. I attended 21 sessions, only about 5% of what was on offer. I had many interesting hallway discussions and took 7000 words worth of notes. I still have much follow up, and will write about takeaways. But for now, good night IGF, and thank you! 🙇♂️
Gorgeous day for day 4 of #IGF2023 at the Kyoto International Conference Center. Today we discussed how the nature of the internet has changed and how the IGF can evolve as a multistakeholder forum for the future. This year there are over 8000 participants, the most in the IGF’s 18 year history.
Day 3 of #IGF2023. Starting the morning off with a Tor session. The weather has finally brightened up so we can get a nicer view of the Kyoto International Conference center’s garden. THIS is the Kyoto I want everyone to experience 🥰
Official greetings at the opening ceremony for the #IGF2023 conference. Lots of messaging around keeping a SINGLE internet, and “global digitalization” (getting EVERYONE online)
A few snaps from Day 0 of the #IGF2023
(Descriptions in the alt tags)
Been in #IGF2023 sessions all morning. Doing booths and hallway track in the afternoon. Just had Taro Kono and Maria Ressa walk by.
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
First!
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.