your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

I just listened to a Radiolab episode from Sept 26, 2025 ("Voice") in which Alice was featured and spoke so powerfully about what it means to lose your voice and yet retain a clear grasp on your own and everyone else's humanity rest in power and strength of being heard radiolab.org/podcast/voice

I appreciated Alice's insights here and on Twitter. I'll miss her presence.

As Tokyo welcomes the Deaflympics — a century-old celebration of Deaf culture and sport — Japan is starting to listen to calls for improved inclusivity.

“Come join me, Michael”

A bit like the dream camera in Until the End of the World "They wandered in and out of lost worlds. Feelings and figures emerged from a forgotten past. Their dreams became black holes of isolation... They suffered, finally; from a complete loss of reality."

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

Fall is almost over #photography

For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨

Tech giants keep touting a system they built to label AI-generated content. But it only works if everyone uses it. So I checked. They're not using it. 🎁 wapo.st/4qokjaC

I've read thirty or so pages of this book and I think it's essential reading for anyone trying to understand current trends in Japanese politics.

Vance's comments have been (Liberal) govt policy in Canada since Nov 2024 under Trudeau. His govt slashed immigration, foreign students, funding for resettlement. Carney continued JT's nativism, further slashing student numbers. Housing crisis is blamed on "immigrants," not housing policy failure.

Stata Center at MIT (2019) #photography

"Brian", lol

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Not my field but looks like an interesting new book. Just won a prize, too.

Fall convocation, UVic. Older son is getting his BFA.

The day pipeline security followed me — and what I learned later about Canada’s spy agency: thenarwhal.ca/csis-resourc...

As the CDN prime minister designates select projects like Coastal GasLink and LNG Canada in the "national interest," the companies behind them continue to form deep ties with Canada's spy agency and other federal law enforcement. Here's a look at why this matters. thenarwhal.ca/csis-resourc...

Oh no- the Fed Stat System is damaged! We can't release employment and inflation numbers... Cc. @ditzkoff.bsky.social

This journey begins with inclusivity and participation, engaging stakeholders across regions and countries to understand unique challenges and aspirations.

My wife works in a customer for a large-ish tech company, the interface between customers and more technical engineers. The engineers are rude to her (Asian, woman), and ignore pleas from management to be nicer etc. These engineers are also for that reason prevented from interacting with customers.

City of Vancouver continues to use the horrendously misleading comparison of property taxes for the "median single family home" as their headline number despite that only 14.6% of homes are single family (per CMHC, & I believe that includes laneways), averaging $2.8M.

Pretty amazing that Dylan is making some of the best music of his career in his 80s. This bootleg sound quality is also just perfection: youtu.be/kyMLs9zl0z4?...

NYC has everything

NYC Times Square (Oct 2025) #photography

Through the Nichiren sect the 'hemorrhoid god' reached a large audience (he remained popular until the development of modern medicines). In Kyōto 'Shūzan Jiun Reijin' found a home at Enjō-ji (圓成寺), a temple founded in 1630 by Nichinin (日任), 21st abbot of Honman-ji (本満寺).

Images from films starring one of the towering figures of Japanese cinema, Tatsuya Nakadai - RIP Yojimbo (1961) High and Low (1963) The Face of Another (1966) Kill! (1968)

I wrote a shorter, slightly punchier version of my recent research article about Sanseitō as my first contribution to the new Tokyo Review. It should be vastly more accessible, and hopefully sets the tone of what else I plan to do in the future of TR www.tokyoreview.net/2025/11/what...

It’s a shame that GTA VI has been delayed but I’m excited by Rockstar’s promise that the extra time will allow them to give all the pedestrians in the game “a rich inner life” and “the capacity to actually experience pain”

Plaques commemorating African American soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands.

"Toronto the Good" #photography

This was an interesting article to translate. Next year the Fire Horse comes round again. (Spoiler: the author doesn't expect a similar phenomenon in 2026.) www.nippon.com/en/japan-top...

The dim dankness as the days go short makes me think I'm living on an alien planet.

Interesting sponsored content from Meta in Canada

With two sons who are conscription age, I have deep misgivings. The CF is coming off of a decade or more of deeply broken leadership, where essentially the entire CF leadership has been forced to resign or even prosecuted for conspiring to enable sexual assault. Does the CF have the capacity here?

Groundbreaking British Museum show set to challenge samurai myths

This is my primary complaint. I do study this stuff, at the graduate level at a fancy CS program. Sam Altman and Elon Musk and their ilk have poisoned the well for one of the most important advances in maths and computer science in many years. Like Monsanto took DNA modification & exploited it.

天一金紙店 #art #photo #photography #shop #nightphotography #dream #Tainan #EastCoastKin ©️skinskin

Tagging @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy who likes these thingies

Set in Taiwan, YI YI (2000) follows the lives of the Jian family from the alternating perspectives of the 3 main family members: father N.J., teen daughter Ting-Ting, & young son Yang-Yang. YI YI celebrates its 25th anniversary with a new 4K restoration! Opens 11/14 at UPT: siff.info/yiyi25th-bs

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Mong Tong's Taiwan Mystery II features a montage of unusual architecture and occult phenomena from around the country. It was released along with an art book featuring photos and imagery from many of these sites. The music is also really great; dreamy instrumental psychrock. youtu.be/kwHcZaPLl58?...

Toronto

He should call it And Another Thing

My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings

Learned that my son’s gr 10 careers class has been showing O’Leary and Shark Tank videos to “learn how to pitch a startup.” I quite like the teacher and don’t want to cause a fuss, but I just can’t get over willingly introducing students to this utter and total moronic jerk.