"This is the Voice of Moderation. I wouldn't go so far as to say we've actually SEIZED the radio station . . . "
by liberal japonicus Lots of things in this Rest of Politics interview with Kristrún Frostadóttir to comment on. The first thing that struck me was her accent. She went to grammar school in the UK and her graduate work in the US and her accent is 95% USaian. About at the 40 minute mark, Campbell … Read more
by liberal japonicus Apologies for the radio silence, been watching lots of discussion about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. I limit myself to full length youtube videos, and I avoid shorts like the plague, but here is your invitation to post anything related that you think might be interesting.
by liberal japonicus I was discussing this article with some other people here in Japan, and I thought it might interesting for the great umatched wash here. It’s a substack article entitled The Digital Shadow: Why Half of Japan’s Youth Are Living Double Lives Online and I think it betrays a Western thinking about identity. … Read more
by liberal japonicus Well, what are you waiting for?
by liberal japonicus The Grauniad has two interesting articles that form something like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The first is about an attempt to thicken Arctic ice. Seems plausible until the section about autonomous underwater drones. Paired with that is this piece about all of the far-out geo-engineering plans that have been mooted … Read more
by liberal japonicus
An openish thread that starts off with me observing that the Japanese national broadcaster NHK played Civil War on July 4th. If you are unaware of the movie, the trailer is below the fold. I’m sure it was just a coincidence. Observations of all flavors welcome!
by liberal japonicus
Well, the King of the North gave his policy speech, which you can hear here. One of the big through-lines in the speech was devolution, and there was an idea to make a ‘No 10 North’, which had me think about CamelCase and how it might be related. Below the fold, come on down!
by liberal japonicus This, via LGM, might get the discussive juices flowing. I get Loomis’ frustration at the general (mis)understanding of the name Luddite, I feel the same way about anarchist, and, on a shorter time scale, I guess it is the way wj feels about the term Republican, though that’s cactus, mate. Grafs, for … Read more
by liberal japonicus Given the way the world is, this counts as a feel-good story for me. Meta’s controversial program that spied on its employees’ computers has backfired spectacularly. Though its chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth assured that the data it collected would be “tightly controlled,” the company is now pausing the tracking program after … Read more
by liberal japonicus I heard there was some stuff happening in the UK. Here’s a thread for you to explain it to everyone.