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One thing that's great about living in #Japan is that it's one of the few countries where the main hard-left party both has some power, and is critical of the pseudo-#fascist, ethno-#nationalist party tha…

The Japanese Communist Party’s Feud with Beijing: Will the Global Left Take Note? | New Bloom Magazine
On July 1st, 2021, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated its hundredth anniversary, and duly received congratulatory messages from political leaders and parties around the world.

I hadn't heard of Bob Vylan before. They're pretty good :D #FreePalestine

A (westerner) #Japan #energy expert mixed up Inner Mongolia, #China with the country of Mongolia in an energy analysis.
Just a mind-numbingly stupid error that rendered the entire analysis wrong. And, as far as I…

#potd Today we played a round of CO₂ in competitive mode and lost in 2050 with 500ppm CO₂. But a fun game anyway, I wonder if the coop mode is in fact easier. http://domm.plix.at/potd/2025-06-28.h…

There are quite a few #AsianAmericans or #AsianCanadians in #Japan.
Sadly, but not entirely unexpectedly, they're, just like their brethren back home, actively disinterested in Asian migrant …

I hear they're finally bringing quote toots!
Thank goodness. I've always enjoyed this method of engaging with and promoting others.
And I also respect those who decide to turn the feature off for themselves. That's valid too.

Only 4 masked people, including myself, on my flights from #LAX to #SFO.
Of note, 100% of maskers were people of color. A common trend I've noticed in #America, POCs wear mask at a higher rate.

Je viens de finir « POC serveur Git HTTP avec exécution de scripts au push »
#Git #SvelteKit

What #libre #IDE (integrated development environment for programming code) would y'all want to coalesce around using, supporting, and developing? Asking especially for coding websites and applications with #PHP,

#BuyCanadian https://social.coop/@CedarTea/115096461167525100

Laggy #CommonplaceBook notes: https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2025/08/commonplace-book-climate-slop-defence.html on climate, slop, defence, and more

Commonplace book entries: climate, slop, defence
Those American candy gift shops, that one usually assumes are some sort of money laundering scheme, are in fact multilevel tax dodges .  Val...

Worker Cooperatives in Game Dev webinar this Wednesday!!!
I'll be moderating a panel with our fantastic speakers from KO_OP, Baby Ghosts, Necrosoft Games, CoLab Collective, and Wild Blue Studios.

I'll go a step further - won't buy #Starbucks coffee ever, as I haven't for at least 5 years now (and even then, when I was forced to during a business meeting)
#Strike #Labor

No Contract, No Coffee Pledge
 Baristas are the most important part of the Starbucks experience. Baristas open the stores every morning and close them every night. They greet customers, make the coffee, clean up the spills, and remember customers’ names and favorite orders. Yet, it’s too hard for baristas to make ends meet. Starbucks baristas deserve to be paid enough to afford the basics like food and rent. That's why they're demanding a fair union contract with the staffing, hours, take-home pay, and on-the-job...

Do any game devs in my network here live and work in Donegal?
I have some other game devs I know looking to connect up with other game devs locally. Give me a shout!
#IrishGameDev #GameDev #IndieDev

@… Your episode 52 on emotions had me wondering if you'd ever done anything on Maturana and Varela's ideas of autopoiesis and (loose) structural coupling. I'd be interested to hear you on that, also because these were ideas outside software actually applied to software via Winograd and Flores' _Understanding Computers and Cognition_. Lots of animal per…

Really sad news from #Myanmar. Ma Wutt Yee Aung sounds like a true hero. We've lost another bright, young leader, someone we should have empowered and elevated, not ignored and allowed an oppresive regime to murder.

Finally got around and beat Inscryption. Fun game I tell ya.

Mon retour d'expérience de #Containerlab #simulation

For a few weeks now, we've had two new stars in our household. The two #rabbits Hoppel and Idefix now inhabit the old chicken coop including the outdoor area. So fluffy!

Planning on bringing the teenagers to this one ..
#cryptohagen
SŸndag d. 27. Juli, kl. 13-17 på Cafe Mellemrummet
Kom forbi og sig 'hej' 👋 - og medbring meget gerne godt humŸr 😀
Hvad er vigtigt for dig ?
- IT-privatliv ? - IT-sikkerhed ? - #E2E kryptering ?
Hvis du har brug for hjælp - siger du selvfŸlgelig bare til 👋
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Hvis der ikke er frivillige til Mellemrummet café sidder vi overfor på Café Bevar's (grŸn markise)
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Info: http://cryptohagen.dk/ ( english version)
#Dukop: https://dukop.dk/8149/

Petition to rename the United Kingdom “Pound Store United States”. https://social.coop/@afewbugs/115003927188139242

Overly academic/distanced ethical discussions
Had a weird interaction with @/brainwane@social.coop just now. I misinterpreted one of their posts quoting someone else and I think the combination of that plus an interaction pattern where I'd assume their stance on something and respond critically to that ended up with me getting blocked. I don't have hard feelings exactly, and this post is only partly about this particular person, but I noticed something interesting by the end of the conversation that had been bothering me. They repeatedly criticized me for assuming what their position was, but never actually stated their position. They didn't say: "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, it's actually Y." They just said "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, please don't assume my position!" I get that it's annoying to have people respond to a straw man version of your argument, but when I in response asked some direct questions about what their position was, they gave some non-answers and then blocked me. It's entirely possible it's a coincidence, and they just happened to run out of patience on that iteration, but it makes me take their critique of my interactions a bit less seriously. I suspect that they just didn't want to hear what I was saying, while at the same time they wanted to feel as if they were someone who values public critique and open discussion of tricky issues (if anyone reading this post also followed our interaction and has a different opinion of my behavior, I'd be glad to hear it; it's possible In effectively being an asshole here and it would be useful to hear that if so).
In any case, the fact that at the end of the entire discussion, I'm realizing I still don't actually know their position on whether they think the AI use case in question is worthwhile feels odd. They praised the system on several occasions, albeit noting some drawbacks while doing so. They said that the system was possibly changing their anti-AI stance, but then got mad at me for assuming this meant that they thought this use-case was justified. Maybe they just haven't made up their mind yet but didn't want to say that?
Interestingly, in one of their own blog posts that got linked in the discussion, they discuss a different AI system, and despite listing a bunch of concrete harms, conclude that it's okay to use it. That's fine; I don't think *every* use of AI is wrong on balance, but what bothered me was that their post dismissed a number of real ethical issues by saying essentially "I haven't seen calls for a boycott over this issue, so it's not a reason to stop use." That's an extremely socially conformist version of ethics that doesn't sit well with me. The discussion also ended up linking this post: https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/ which bothered me in a related way. In it, Troy describes classroom teaching techniques for introducing and helping students explore the ethics of AI, and they seem mostly great. They avoid prescribing any particular correct stance, which is important when teaching given the power relationship, and they help students understand the limitations of their perspectives regarding global impacts, which is great. But the overall conclusion of the post is that "nobody is qualified to really judge global impacts, so we should focus on ways to improve outcomes instead of trying to judge them." This bothers me because we actually do have a responsibility to make decisive ethical judgments despite limitations of our perspectives. If we never commit to any ethical judgment against a technology because we think our perspective is too limited to know the true impacts (which I'll concede it invariably is) then we'll have to accept every technology without objection, limiting ourselves to trying to improve their impacts without opposing them. Given who currently controls most of the resources that go into exploration for new technologies, this stance is too permissive. Perhaps if our objection to a technology was absolute and instantly effective, I'd buy the argument that objecting without a deep global view of the long-term risks is dangerous. As things stand, I think that objecting to the development/use of certain technologies in certain contexts is necessary, and although there's a lot of uncertainly, I expect strongly enough that the overall outcomes of objection will be positive that I think it's a good thing to do.
The deeper point here I guess is that this kind of "things are too complicated, let's have a nuanced discussion where we don't come to any conclusions because we see a lot of unknowns along with definite harms" really bothers me.

The absolute scale of the Cologne Cathedral is impossible to convey in pictures. There's not many buildings in the world that have filled me with such awe.

"I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people, Henry. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built up my hatreds over the years, little by little... I can't keep doing this on my own... with these, umm... people."

Retour d'expérience de mes posts LinkedIn et mes canaux d'acquisition de mission Freelance
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-08-24_1441/zen/
Au menu :
- Bien que ces messages LinkedIn aient généré 78 réactions, 23 reposts et 7163 impressions cumulées, ils ne m'on…

Thread about the two Palestinians invited to speak at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont, who were instead detained at SFO with their visas arbitrarily canceled:
https://social.coop/@raph/114674710005408478

One thing I liked about #Greenpeace was that they always made an effort to include social factors in their reports or research, and not have it just be about #climate or #environment.
Yet, in this rep…

J'ai découvert la méthode officielle de #SvelteKit pour accéder aux variables d'environnement
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-06-24_0022/
Cela fonctionne parfaitement b…

Gamescom

Read an article that, overall was fantastic, but referred to the language of #Bangladesh as "Bangladeshi" and that annoyed me to no end.

Chilling with #bubblino and friends at @… post #makefest brunch

Köln old town

it annoys me when news headlines refer to a government agency as taking a horrific action when it is clearly the work of the unconstitutional attackers of that agency, like saying the "EPA" is shredding environmental protections, but without an institutional opposition that is willing to defend these agencies and hire the ousted administrators to speak on behalf of the "real" agency, i don't see why i should care anymore.

My Art Direction advice?
White = Warm off white
Black = Dark grey with a hint of warm tones.
👌

J'ai découvert #Vercel Chat SDK
#TIL

Hey 2D artists (based in Ireland preferred)! JOB ALERT! 📣 Especially those who do cozy cartoony or pixel art.
I have some game dev friends here in Galway from Psychic Software (Just released Necromancer's Tale) that are looking for an artist to team up for their next game.
Send your portfolio over to psychicsoftware@gmail.com

See the man without a head? Using an AI image is a way of broadcasting that you are careless

Let the post Gamescom sickness begin!

Another artist JOB ALERT! 📣 This time for a Game Artist Generalist. (must be based in Ireland).
My friends at Biscuit Factory Games are looking for someone who can do a bit of concept work & 3D test-models to try & validate an art direction too.
Send portfolio to community@biscuitfactorygames.com

J'ai découvert #SecNumCloud de l'#ANSSI
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-06-21_1516/

Advocacy works, if done right. Find out how investigations by WorkerRights Consortium led to a joint effort along the supply chain to eliminate gender-based violence in Indonesia’s garment factories – more in my feature with TriplePundit.
https://www.triplepundi…

Going to #NoKings Saturday? Try to recruit the newly radicalizing to defunding the police, to defending all in our communities facing displacement—immigrant, queer, unhoused, unable to pay rent—in short, to fighting local fascisms, so we can better fight national fascism, at ICE centers

Merci beaucoup @… (et @… ) pour ton article "Un logiciel libre est un produit et un projet"
Je l'ai trouvé excellent ! Je pense avoir bien compris le message que tu as essayé de faire passer et je suis en accord avec tes…

For Father's Day I march with my child in solidarity, love, and grief for all the fathers left in Palestine and for all who've been slaughtered and for all who've had their children massacred or maimed by Israel.
#Galway #Ireland

#Jacobin is really the king of commissioning older western white #leftists to write about the global south. This piece does no original reporting, has no Indonesian voices, and makes blanket statements.
It's not bad, but I can think of dozens of Indonesians who could have written a far better pi…

Indonesia’s Rulers Are Whitewashing the Crimes of Suharto
In the 1960s, the Indonesian dictator Suharto was responsible for one of the twentieth century’s bloodiest political massacres. Under the rule of Prabowo, the country’s government is suppressing the memory of Suharto’s crimes while vilifying the Left.

Ooooh, free and open source Substance Designer alternative... Material Maker! I'll have to check this out in more detail at a later date. #FOSS

Reminder if you live in the US and have Internet, you probably need to call your provider every year to stop your monthly costs from tripling, and be actually ready to switch if you are lucky enough to have any competition.

#jaidecouvert ContainerLab qui permet de simuler des infra réseaux
#TIL

What happens when stakeholders along the #supplychain join forces to eliminate #gender-based violence? Find out how investigations by WorkerRights and empowering #women

Je viens de donner 30 € pour une seconde saison de l'émission "Argent Magique"
https://www.ulule.com/argentmagique/

ARGENT MAGIQUE
Argent Magique, c’est quoi ?Une série qui décortique les discours économiques et la manière dont ils sont mis en scène dans les médias. 

On the keycard at this hotel far from #Japan, someone seems to have included #Okinawan (unless I am mistaken) as one of the many languages. Interesting - and cool - choice!

If you're in or around Galway tomorrow, check this out!
From the game director of award-winning Monument Valley 3.
Join Game Director and Designer Jennifer Estaris in an interactive session developed as part of the Citizens Assemble Game Jam.
https://w…

On m'a partagé l'expression que je trouve intéressante « Vérité partagée »
#Organisation

Another data point - flights to/from #Japan and the #UnitedStates #US are the cheapest I've seen since, basically, the border reopened to tourism back in 2022.

Cannot even find where i read it but because i first read about an alleged breach of data from the Israeli government held by the Iranian government (on Mossad agents, recordings from secret cameras installed by Netanyahu to get compromising info on potential rivals, and much more, apparently all from a 2024 hack or leak) i have not been able to shake the twisted thought that the war Israel has now started against Iran is the new worst ever fallout for bad information security.

Hell yeah! I'm really going to try and make it out to this event Games Transformed in London next month.
#GamesTransformed

On m'a partagé l'expression amusante « C'est Š nous de ne pas le faire ! »
#ProjectManagement

The team and I at @… are very excited to announce we're one of the teams for the IndieDev 2025 fund working on our game 'Valley of the Lost Abbey'.
Looking forward to sharing our dev progress over the next few months.

IndieDev 2025: 8 Teams Announced for Second Year of Games Prototype Fund | Ardán

Je viens de découvrir l'excellente série d'articles "Nouvelles de l'IA" de @…
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-06-22_1502/

Just got invited to a #media briefing about #energy #climate in #SoutheastAsia featuring 3 white guys based in North …

There's an NGO in #Indonesia that has been happy to speak with me about #Japan or #WorldBank funding for #coal or

Le concept de "Brouillard de la guerre" de Clausewitz m'a donnée l'idée du concept « Brouillard organisationnel ».
#Management

I'm heading to London for Games Transformed: Smash the Fash event.
I'll be on a panel titled "What Can the Left Learn From Struggles in the Games Industry?" & speaking on our @gwuireland.bsky.social union organising with game workers in Ireland.
It's this weekend! Tickets here: https://www.

Apparently you can't add photos to a #Google doc when accessing as a guest. You have to be signed in, which means you need a Google account.
They're slowly trying to make it impossible to use google #docs without an account.

Comment perdre deux heures bêtement avec #Requests #python et sa fonction Content-Type multipart :
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-07-17_15

After two days offline, coming back online and seeing the news about the targeted assassination of the #AlJazeera journalists by #Israel was a tough, painful return to reality.
So many crimes, no accountability.

Here are the names of the journalists Israel killed in Gaza
Israel has killed nearly 270 journalists and media workers since it launched its war on Gaza.

Ahhhh! Our #BattleOfTarot prototype demo we're building for Gamescom is coming along so nicely!
Absolutely killer programming work by the one and only @…
and fantastic writing by our narrative designer Len Cunningham as well (

LenCunningham.com
Storytelling for Games

Free Palestine
#gamestransformed2025

Since #January, it's essentially been a constant "we're focused on breaking news in the #US so not interested in #global stories" from editors.

J'ai lu le très bon billet d' @… sur #Kloset, moteur de stockage de backup de #Plakar

Great piece on how one settler-colonial state #China, supports another settled-colonial state, #Israel, in quietly helping fund the displacement of #Palestinians.
Shouldn't be a surprise except to tank…

Demand the release of peaceful Irish protestors
#Ireland

Email the Egyptian Embassy to demand the release of peaceful protestors
Peaceful protesters from Ireland have been detailed in Egypt, on their way to demand that Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid, of food, of water, of medical supplies is ended. Please email the Egyptian Embassy in Dublin calling for their immediate release?

My next upskilling goal... shader coding.
#GameDev

Since the #democratic nominee in #NewYork is of #Indian heritage, I can't wait to see all the pride & #media fas…

J'ai testé des services de inbox placement
#TIL #EmailDeliverability

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

First article of mine published in TanahAir.net, and the first one in Indonesian in several months!
Pengaruh pertumbuhan LNG Cina pada rencana energi Asia Tenggara
https://tanahair.net/id/pengaruh-pertumbuhan-lng-cina-pada-rencana-energi-asia-te…

Pengaruh pertumbuhan LNG Cina pada rencana energi Asia Tenggara - tanahair.net
Lonjakan kontrak gas alam cair jangka panjang dari Cina menopang produksi regional dan memperpanjang ketergantungan bahan bakar fosil. oleh: Nithin Coca* Pada tahun 2021, volume impor gas alam cair Cina melampaui semua negara lain. Setelah turun ke posisi kedua pada tahun 2022, negara ini merebut kembali posisi teratas pada tahun 2023 dan bertahan di sana

Quelle est mon utilisation d'OpenRouter.ia ?
#OpenRoute #LLM

Hey Irish banks hows it goin?

I bet I'm the only person in #Japan who learned about what #OnePiece is not from anyone here, but from following news about #Indonesia and that symbol being used as a sign of protest against

Prabowo’s Indonesia draws opposition via cartoon pirates | Lowy Institute
Pop culture resistance can become a powerful form of resistance – especially when authorities overreact.

Pour le moment, je n'ai pas d'avis sur l'intérêt des services d'email warming
#EmailDeliverability

It still breaks my brain sometimes that in Krita I can simply lasso select multiple layers and transform them at the same time.
My years in Photoshop trained my brain to always think of this as impossible.

J'utilise les LLMs comme des amis experts et jamais comme des écrivains fantômes !
#LLM

Heading to London... and I'm am going to melt.

Estimation de l'empreinte carbone de mon usage des IA génératives de textes
#Carbon

Is carbon capture and sequestration #CCS backed by #Japan the golden ticket for #SoutheastAsia’s #climate goals? Skeptic…

La palette #Wikipedia "Apprentissage automatique et exploration de données" me donne une vue d'ensemble du sujet.
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-06-15_0943/

Consider this - "only 10.6 per cent of #India’s population speaks #English"
Yet so many major #Indian media outlets only publish in English, especially the ones doing investigative of longform journali…

Hey... you (ᵘˢᶦⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵉ ᴳᵉⁿᵉʳᵃᵗᶦᵛᵉ ᴬᴵ). Write the damn email yourself. Take the notes for the meeting yourself. It's not that hard. Also, stop fooling yourself, you're not THAT busy.
'Tech giants’ carbon emissions up 150% with AI growth'
https://www.

Tech giants’ carbon emissions up 150% with AI growth
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) reported operational emissions of four technology companies increased by average 150%.

Je viens de découvrir la fonction "inspect.cleandoc" de la librairie standard de #Python.
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-06-13_1437/

It was a little strange talking with some of the #Australia focused climate/energy groups for this @… story.
They really wanted to focus on #Japan, and not

China is challenging Japan's LNG dominance. What does that mean for Japanese buyers?
Japanese companies have long held the leading position in the buying and trading of one of the world's key energy sources, but that era of hegemony has come to an end.

Married this lovely person 15 years ago! What a wonderful journey it's been. And now we have a little buddy to join us.
Went for a date at Campbell's Tavern for pizza and music.

J'ai découvert la chaine YouTube Plantophage
#YouTube #Jardinage

This #oil & #gas financing/production analysis is interesting in many ways.
▶️ #China is actually ranked fourth, but not mentioned anywhere in the report.
▶️

Diving into Godot for some personal projects, and getting my 3D pipeline sorted out and man... the Blender to Godot pipeline is so nice. Just being able to straight up save .blend files complete with modifiers and the like and have it work so seamlessly in Godot is just... (chef's kiss)
#Godot #GameDev

So it begins! #Gamescom #IrishGameDev #GameDev #IndieDev

Studio Rúcach @… in collaboration with CREW are excited to announce a two-part masterclass exploring co-operative models for game dev.
Part 1: Navigating Co-Op Mode (Online)
Hear from co-ops creating equitable workplaces in the games industry.