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Jim Beam,
the country’s largest maker of bourbon,
has announced a one-year pause in production at its flagship facility in Clermont, Ky.,
a stunning move that underlines the immense challenges facing the American whiskey industry after more than two decades of rapid growth.
The decision by the brand, owned by the Japanese conglomerate 🔸Suntory Holdings,
is the latest in a series of production cuts, layoffs and financial crises across the wine, beer and spirits s…

Jim Beam Halts Production at Flagship Distillery as Whiskey and Bourbon Markets Struggle
The bourbon giant is closing its flagship distilling operation for all of 2026.

Japanese chipmaker Rapidus plans to start building a second plant in Hokkaido in fiscal 2027, aiming to make advanced 1.4nm chips as early as 2029 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconductors…

Japan's Rapidus to build cutting-edge 1.4-nm chip plant in race with TSMC
Construction to begin in fiscal 2027, production to start as early as 2029

«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/

FYI: @…
https://bsky.app/profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3m3vnlqah522u

@… draw for me a photo of a robot bird made of computer and machine parts. It should look very futuristic and somewhat scarry.

Mah\={a}n\={a}ma: A Unique Testbed for Literary Entity Discovery and Linking
Sujoy Sarkar, Gourav Sarkar, Manoj Balaji Jagadeeshan, Jivnesh Sandhan, Amrith Krishna, Pawan Goyal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19844

Mahānāma: A Unique Testbed for Literary Entity Discovery and Linking
High lexical variation, ambiguous references, and long-range dependencies make entity resolution in literary texts particularly challenging. We present Mahānāma, the first large-scale dataset for end-to-end Entity Discovery and Linking (EDL) in Sanskrit, a morphologically rich and under-resourced language. Derived from the Mahābhārata, the world's longest epic, the dataset comprises over 109K named entity mentions mapped to 5.5K unique entities, and is aligned with an English knowledge base…

These Japanese paper / box cutters are kinda awesome.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LVBHRBN?ref=c

I subscribe to a newsletter from a site that give tips on free plug-ins for music makers. Primarily vst plugs. The name comes from people having their music studio in the bedroom as fabric absorbes sound. But this newsletter did not look good when I opened my phone this morning

Warum wurde eine Piratenflagge aus der japanischen Anime-Serie "One Piece" zu einem Symbol für die Protestbewegungen der Generation Z auf der ganzen Welt?
https://www.dw.com/de/was-die-one-piece-pi

Was die "One Piece"-Piratenflagge für die Gen Z bedeutet
Warum wurde eine Piratenflagge aus der japanischen Anime-Serie "One Piece" zu einem Symbol für die Protestbewegungen der Generation Z auf der ganzen Welt?

Sources: SoftBank plans to invest up to $3B to remodel an EV plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that will produce equipment for OpenAI's forthcoming US data centers (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/softbank-invest-…

SoftBank to Invest Up to $3 Billion in Factory for OpenAI Data Centers
SoftBank plans to invest up to $3 billion to remodel an electric vehicle plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that will produce equipment for OpenAI’s forthcoming data centers, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. The Japanese conglomerate, one of the largest investors in OpenAI, will use ...