Got a proposal in for @EthereumDenver #YearOfTheSpork just in time!😅 @SpaceportG: A blockchain n00b, two-brother, tell-all, NFT journey What's a 2-person team like? Pros and cons of working with fam? Will we launch in time before #ETHDenver #EDEN23? youtu.be/678csUnACuI

This Japanese dude complained that Chinese uses a single-character system for every element in the periodic table — yet this is precisely one of the reasons why Chinese students can learn chemistry with remarkably little effort. Chinese employs a highly systematic phono-semantic strategy: the radical indicates the physical category, while the phonetic component hints at the pronunciation. Metal radical 钅 → metals (e.g., 镧 lanthanum, 铍 beryllium). Gas radical 气 → gases (e.g., 氩 argon, 氦 helium). An ordinary Chinese speaker can often guess an element’s basic properties at a glance with minimal memorization. In contrast, Japanese primarily relies on katakana transliterations of international names in scientific contexts, especially for newer elements: oxygen → オキシゲン, hydrogen → ハイドロゲン, sodium → ナトリウム, beryllium → ベリリウム. This leads to longer names (often 4–7 syllables), no built-in clues about whether it’s a metal or gas, and a higher memory load for beginners. Japanese does have intuitive native names for many common elements (酸素 for oxygen, 水素 for hydrogen, etc.), which are widely used in education and daily life. However, formal academic and IUPAC-style contexts lean heavily on katakana, forcing students to constantly switch between the two systems. In short: what Chinese expresses efficiently in a single meaningful character, Japanese often renders with a longer string of syllables that carry no inherent information about the element’s properties. The efficiency and intuitiveness gap is real and immediately noticeable.

BEFORE YOU BOARD YOUR NEXT FLIGHT READ THIS A former airline captain named John Hoyte reached out to me recently. He spent nearly 30 years flying commercial aircraft, developed serious neurological damage, lost his career, and has been trying to get this story properly investigated ever since. He sent me documents spanning two decades. The scale of what is in them is HUGE. What he shared includes parliamentary records, a 320-page published report from the British pilots union, @BBC coverage, House of Lords testimony, and active litigation in multiple countries. This has been heard at the highest levels. It has largely been buried. Most commercial jet aircraft use a system called bleed air. Instead of drawing fresh air from outside, the plane takes compressed air directly from the engines and pumps it into the cabin. That is the air you breathe for the entire flight. When engine seals wear down, oil and hydraulic fluid can leak into that air supply. Those fluids contain organophosphates, the same compounds found in certain pesticides and nerve agents. Inhaling them can cause neurological damage, memory loss, and chronic fatigue. In documented cases, far worse. This design has been in use since the 1950s. The health risk has been documented for just as long. In 2005, @BALPApilots, the British pilots union, published a full conference report on this with the University of New South Wales. The following year, 27 BALPA pilots were tested by University College London. All 27 showed evidence of toxic poisoning and reduced cognitive function. Not some of them. All of them. @BBCPanorama covered it in 2008. The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee heard evidence on it in 2007 and 2008. In February 2007, 40 unrelated passengers on a single XL Airways flight were seriously injured by contaminated cabin air. Their cases went to court. Twenty of them won a US jurisdiction ruling in 2010. A UK coroner recorded a death linked to this in 2015. France has formally recognised aerotoxic syndrome as an occupational disease. In the US, a law professor is suing Boeing for $40 million after a single exposure left him permanently injured. Morgan & Morgan, America's largest personal injury firm, is now actively taking mass cases on behalf of passengers and crew. John himself was one of those 27 pilots tested by UCL. He founded the Aerotoxic Association in 2007 at the Houses of Parliament to support other survivors. He has been fighting for this for nearly 20 years. Almost every commercial jet aircraft except the Boeing 787 Dreamliner uses the bleed air system. The 787 uses a different design that avoids this problem entirely. That safer design has existed for years. That fact alone says everything. BBC has not covered this story since 2020. The UK Civil Aviation Authority continues to say there is no positive evidence of a link. The Aerotoxic Association has been contacted by more than 2,500 people who believe they have been affected. John is looking for mainstream investigative journalists who want to dig deep into this. He is an expert witness with decades of evidence and is willing to answer every question. He has a passenger injured on that 2007 flight, Samantha Sabatino, whose case is in the parliamentary record. This is a genuine story of enormous public interest and it deserves proper investigation. If you are a journalist or researcher and want to speak to John directly, his contact details are in the comments. I will add media coverage links in the comments section. Sources: @AerotoxicAssoc (Aerotoxic Association) @BALPApilots (British Airline Pilots Association) @forthepeople (Morgan & Morgan) gcaqe org (Global Cabin Air Quality Executive) @BBCPanorama covered it in 2008 with a full documentary titled Something in the Air. @heraldtweets @WSJ @FlightGlobal @TheCanaryUK @the_ecologist

He ido a tomar café al lugar más bonito del mundo? Es posible. Está a las afueras de Kyoto, en el río Kibune.

📍TACOS 3Hermanos 下北にできた本格タコス屋さん、日本人向けにローカライズせず、本場メキシコの味をそのまま感じられるのが個人的に熱かった🌮

🚨REPORT: AMC theaters will be screening select World Cup games with cinematic audio Games will be broadcast in Spanish

I had the incredible chance to meet Thundercat!✨ We talked about his game music influences and bass playing. It was brief, but truly a wonderful time. I’m nowhere near his level, but meeting him inspired me to become a better bassist.🔥

世界的なベーシスト兼シンガーソングライターである、#Thundercat が東京・大崎のセガ本社へ来訪！ 同じベーシストでもある #大谷智哉 と記念撮影📸 お越しいただきありがとうございました☺️

Peanut Butter Wolf、6月にStones Throw 30周年ツアーで来日🇯🇵 レーベル創設者／ディレクターとして、Madlib、J Dilla、MF DOOM、NxWorriesなど数々のアーティストを世に送り出してきた重要人物。 8年ぶりの来日となる今回は、30周年をテーマにレーベルの歴史を辿る特別な “Video DJ Set” を披露。 JAPAN TOUR: 6/5 OSAKA｜6/6 TOKYO 🎥Stones Throwドキュメンタリー映画 『Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton』

鎮座DOPENESS「JUICY 2023」＠吉祥寺音楽祭。ビギーの「Juicy」ビートの上でやっているのがかっこいいっすね。テレビ神奈川で洋楽チェックしていたので共感度高いです（笑）。

Os caras fazem parecer tão fácil

They told me this thing was a toy. I'm glad I didn't listen... There's an art to pulling samples from completely different records and making them work together that I had almost forgotten, but this machine is helping me remember. It's such a creative high when you make them work together so smoothly that it sounds like they were intended to be put together, but the listener has no idea. Some days the records fall into your lap to make it happen, other days they don't. The samples came together on this one. Let me know what y'all think of this one. Keep going! . . . #akaimpcsample #boombaphiphop #beatmaker #boombap

Rhythm On The Loose · Break Of Dawn - 1991 #Housemusic #Techno #oldskool #rave

We may never know who introduced Takuya Nakamura to UK Jungle music, after moving from Tokyo to Boston to study Jazz theory - but I, for one, am very grateful.

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

CHRONO TRIGGER Orchestra Concert: Melodies Across Time coming to North America New York - Oct 10 Chicago - Oct 14 Los Angeles - Oct 18 eventimliveasia.com/chronotr…

🇯🇵🇩🇪 A German lady moved to Japan and became a farmer. I have to say I'm really impressed because a lot of us Japanese live in cities and can't do anything like this. Thank you for showing us respect.

The magic of lighting by Eric Wang✨

The Hollow Men American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider. By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants. These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition. In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken. Today, we have severed that link. We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses. If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived. This looting starts in the boardroom. We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year. Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor. And for what? Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love. They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders. And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk? We get the Delegation Economy. When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know. This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering. They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake. While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us. If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag. The time for polite governance is over. If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

🇯🇵 Someone tried to walk from Shinjuku Sanchome Station exit C8 to Nishi-Shinjuku Station exit C8. It took him about 28 minutes. Although I grew up in Tokyo, I can’t do this without getting lost. It’s even harder at night as some paths are closed.

My free solo ascent of Taipei 101 in Taiwan is coming up soon - and you can watch it LIVE on @netflix. January 23 @ 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT. Exciting!!