I have no idea who the top Japanese YouTuber is right now but Heraiza is the ‘it girl’, the zeitgeist of our Japanese COVID state of emergency moment. Not only is this 17 year old high schooler way smarter and wicked funnier than the tired recycled Japanese ‘tarento’ on YouTube, […]
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Removing the digital record for fun, profit
Paul is on a real tear of great posts, his latest asks: Is this corporate embraced digital news rot? I have been dreading the coming disaster that is digital archiving for years. If you work in publishing you know what I mean. Lots of books have been lost in the […]
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Beware charismatic leaders; they won’t save us
I’m glad Paul Jorgensen is blogging more. Earlier posts (now gone) of the dirty BGP tricks China Telecom was playing alerted me to a huge security problem that no mainstream tech blogger covered and helped me track down the big Google BGP leak that brought down most of the Japanese […]
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Things change
Me in 2017: “I love Daring Fireball and John Gruber is one of the best tech writers out there. But since the election Gruber seems distracted…” Me in 2021: I don’t read Daring Fireball and don’t think John Gruber is a good writer anymore. He forgot how to say no…everything […]
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The Buddha’s face is only seen thrice
There is a Japanese saying: the Buddha’s face is only seen thrice. It can also be roughly translated as: a person can only behave like a Buddha 3 times. It’s a reference to human nature that we humans aren’t always good at being good or following rules, or obeying COVID […]