Major US and Japanese animation studios including HBO Max and Amazon unknowingly hired North Korean IT workers, a joint government report has found.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251024-us-japanese-firms-unwittingly-hi…
Army base used for WWII Japanese internment now nation's largest ICE detention center (USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/23/texas-army-base-japanese-internment-ice-detention/85767850007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p57#a250823p57
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Japanese Breakfast:
🎵 Paprika
#JapaneseBreakfast
https://michellezauner.bandcamp.com/track/paprika
https://open.spotify.com/track/3zyqphgXvgHe436IMKeey3
Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble was released in Japan 25 years ago today (August 23, 2000). One of the coolest, most unique Game Boy Color games to come out-- it's a real blast. Here's my copy, and also a Japanese ad for it.
#Kirby #GameBoyColor
macaques: Japanese macaques (1976)
Dominance interactions among a group of adult female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata fuscata), observed during a non-mating season in 1976. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction.
This network has 62 nodes and 1187 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://networks.s…
Oracle will pay for and oversee the construction of three of the new Stargate data centers, and OpenAI will then purchase computing power from Oracle (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/technology/openai-data-centers-united-state…
Reuters launches its Arabic website, the company's third dedicated language platform after English and Japanese, and says it will provide 100 stories daily (Reuters)
https://reutersagency.com/media-centre/reuters-launches-a…
So @… reminded me of something I kind of love. The Japanese "30-hour system". Used in nightlife, broadcasting, and transport, the time extends the day past midnight to keep late-night events grouped with the same calendar day. So a club open from 11PM to 1AM might list its hours as 23:00–25:00.
We should all adopt this!
Sadly Wikipedia does n…
«The fascist thugs making it necessary to do this are invading our cities under the pretense of helping us. Which of course they’re not. But we also once rounded up Americans of Japanese descent “for their own protection.” So much of our planet is still trying to recover from [US] American “help.”»
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-whistle-for-help/