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Apr 20
Fun fact: LINE is a Korean owned and operated company
Fun fact: the read receipt (既読) started as a LINE-specific Japanese feature.
It fueled dating anxiety so much that techniques like "reading without triggering 既読" spread online.
Tech shaped the culture, and the culture reshaped the tech.
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Apr 19
Protip: never trust a genetics article with left handed helix
popularmechanics.com/science…
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Mar 26
This seems misunderstood overseas. The referendum wasn’t about our identity. That had already changed. What we voted on was whether a new flag to reflect it was worth a costly process to change it. Change lost but only because the British empire is so irrelevant here already.
Mar 24
New Zealanders vote to retain the current flag over the proposed design in the nation's flag referendum. More than 2 million people vote in the referendum.
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Mar 26
The public debate at the time wasn’t on which flag was a better reflection of our identity. The debate was whether we should be wasting millions of dollars voting on it at all. The cost of changing our symbolism would have been even more.
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Mar 26
There was no discussion on our British heritage at all. It felt like a missed opportunity to discuss monarchism or a republic but this is also irrelevant to our daily existence. Queen Elizabeth was elderly then so it may have been avoided out of respect for her as an individual.
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Mar 19
I find it more curious when we say loanwords correctly. Most people say “tsunami” and “lasagna” in the correct Japanese or Italian. We don’t have these sounds in English but we all know them.
Mar 19
I don't get why English speakers struggle so much with the "tsu" sound. It's literally the same as in the word "sports". It's not like they pronounce it "spors" like how they say "soonami"
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I prefer the long form:
“Disclaimer: the work was outsourced to a third party with a reputation for unreliable and poor quality results. These have been vetted but may still have irregularities that have not been identified. Use them at your own risk of loss or liability.”
Jan 5
We need a shorthand way of saying:
"An AI did the work, but I vouch for the result"
Saying "I did it" feels slightly sketchy, but saying "Claude did it" feels like avoiding responsibility
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22 Jul 2025
Data cleaning is probably the most transferable skill you can learn in this day and age. Anyone not training their team to do it is doing them a disservice. Researchers need experience with large complex messy data. This is one of the few things academics do well.
18 Jul 2025
Academia must be the only industry where extremely high-skilled PhD students spend much of their time doing low value work (like data cleaning). A 1st year management consultant outsources this immediately. Imagine the productivity gains if PhDs could focus on thinking
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21 Jun 2025
People like this are why home economics should still be taught in schools
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20 Jun 2025
I think the more valuable question is:
What’s a lesson poor kids hear at dinner that wealthy kids never get?
I think there’s a lot these people take for granted or are ignorant of.
20 Jun 2025
What’s a lesson wealthy kids hear at dinner that poor kids never get?
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Tom Kelly ケリー・トム 🏳️🌈 retweeted
28 Jan 2025
Colleague is trying out the new Chinese AI. Claims it’s awesome you can ask it anything.
Oh really? Ask it “what happened on 4th June 1989?”
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7 May 2025
My prediction for who will win the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir is … Chinese manufacturing companies.
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10 Apr 2025
If you don’t like it, then leave, they said. Fuck this.
9 Apr 2025
Some Japanese banks have begun blocking withdrawals from accounts held by foreigners whose period of stay has expired, the Financial Services Agency said, amid a rise in the exploitation of such accounts by fraudsters.
english.kyodonews.net/news/2…
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5 Apr 2025
So economic dependence, peaceful coexistence, free trade and a shift to a service economy is good in Europe. These people are just incapable of acknowledging that Clinton and Obama did the same in North America.
5 Apr 2025
Interdependence is not all bad. However, 4 decades of hollowing out the middle class is too far. Time to reset.
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28 Mar 2025
It’s telling that the first thing the AI-powered “artists” did with GPT-o1 wasn’t to innovate or adapt. It was to make a cheap knock-off of a very particular director of a specific animation studio from a country fiercely protective of copyright. It’s not inspiration, it’s theft.
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28 Mar 2025
It’s not even subtle. Ghibli isn’t an art style or genre, it’s the name of an animation studio. Especially brazen to do it with a studio that built a reputation upon hand-drawn animation that’s already practically extinguished by CGI.
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21 Mar 2025
We laugh but this rudimentary writing technology is far more durable than any information storage we currently use. Flash drives barely last a few years, hard disks a few decades. Even paper is easily damaged by water or fire if not stored carefully or transcribed regularly.
19 Mar 2025
*Receives wrong copper*
*Angrily chisels note for 6 hours*
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