In the 1970s & 80s, anthropologists working in small-scale, non-industrial societies fastidiously noted down what people were doing throughout the day. I’ve been exploring the data & am struck by one of the most popular activities: doing nothing. [thread]

The thing about decentralization is that it isn't. Ever. Because network effects and externalities. So every attempt to "get it right this time" is just another wave of plausible deniability for the centralization that is there. Staaahp. Just stop it.

新国立競技場を建てた時、伐採された樹木の代わりに「緑」としてこのスペースを作りました。これは「公園」と指定されています。こんなごまかしを神宮外苑にもするらしいです。#神宮外苑の樹木伐採に反対です #神宮外苑の樹木伐採に反対します

OK, tried out a new unit in my intro to philosophy class, and it is my new favorite unit: "Are Grades Bullshit?" I have never seen intro students more intensely engaged, more edge-of-their-seat, and more mind-blown. Thread:

THREAD. I was invited to give a lecture at Oxford last week about police and prisons in the United States. After my talk, a student from Europe asked me if there was any hope to avoid fascism in the U.S. given the state of U.S. police and corporate media. A few thoughts.

Hey PostNord Sverige your SSL certificate has expired for ebutik.postnord.se (expired on the 13th and I guess nobody noticed?). Trying to pay to post a letter but don't fancy paying through an insecure site

Apparently, you can now do a Masters in Mansplaining.

have been working on translating, subtitling, dubbing and adding additional info to this series for the last few weeks. It is an incredibly difficult and time consuming task and the series is quite long.

When do you study multiple languages at the same time, how do you compartmentalize each language so don't mix them up? Do you have any technique to separate vocabulary for each language?

The Story of Bagua Zhang Ep. 04 - Cheng Tinghua In this episode we look at Dong Haichuan's second most senior disciple, Cheng Tinghua. youtube.com/watch?v=eAYIPI… #baguazhang #Bagua #pakuachang #pakua #chinesemartialarts #martialarts #kungfu #beijing

1/ I've been avoiding meetings for a decade now. Here's a simple list with loads of good, actual reasons to not have a meeting:

It's been interesting to see Japanese companies increasing using Kickstarter to market globally. This one is from Kamakura Shirt. Many Japanese products are perfect for Kickstarter due to the interesting/authentic backstories and lots of unique features. kickstarter.com/projects/maker…

I'm preparing to change jobs this month so I went to pray at Kanda Myojin shrine near Akihabara. It specialises in IT protection 🤭 Omomori + protective sticker for your devices!

Noted.

欧米のようなノーマスク環境による「解放感」は嬉しいことかもしれませんが、この方針を決めた経営者は欧米の死亡者データをチェックしているのでしょうか？欧米の人々はコロナが終わったかのように行動していますが、死亡者は発生し続けています。 /1 nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO…

This is the kind of thing I’m referring to when I say the minimum bar for service in Japan is so much higher than in Europe

Going through who I follow on Twitter to see who's on Mastodon

A message from us and the Writers Guild of America East 👇 Full text is available in the thread below.

It’s March 1st. It's been 6 days since we sent our letter to management. We’ve received 0 response and it’s 30 days until the end of the 1st quarter with 0 meetings with management scheduled and 0 dollars spent of our $100k DEIA budget.