Andrea Ortolani

During Diet member Suzuki Muneo’s previous 3 visits to Russia since 2022, Japan’s embassy in Moscow kept their distance. However, this time the embassy staff accompanied Suzuki to provide translation, giving the impression of official govt endorsement. hokkaido-np.co.jp/article/130858…

Mercoledì 6/5 saremo a Torino per questa bella iniziativa della Camera penale locale sulla legalità. Sarà un piacere e un onore cercare di far capire agli studenti delle superiori l'importanza e la delicatezza di un tema cruciale come quello degli innocenti in manette in Italia.

Tucker Carlson Denies Ever Hearing Of This Tucker Carlson Fellow buff.ly/osozxQm

If the Chinese government covered up the cause of a plane crash, why would it not have covered up the cause of pandemic that killed roughly a hundred times as many people?

The @Wikipedia entry "COVID-19 lab leak theory" uses the term "conspiracy theory" around 20 times. (42 if you count sourcing.) ~50% of the entry is written by just 4 anonymous editors. One of them is a known far-left adversarial editor (TarnishedPath). The most politically consequential scientific theory of our lifetimes is being discredited as a conspiracy theory by four unknown actors. This determines not mere "history" but what AI systems consider to be ground truth. Even more importantly, it's shaping the worldview of AI models that train on its data.

@Mason_573 @MartinJPJP Agreed, it looks excessive and I smdh too, but I suppose some of that is done having in mind strong winds or typhoons that could endanger the tree itself besides people or cars passing by

@MartinJPJP I really want to know why they do this here. It’s so fucking ugly it would almost be better to just cut the whole tree down.

Greenery Day

@MartinJPJP Constitution Day

Inflation is completely out of control, you can’t even take 3 kids to a Detroit Tigers game anymore without spending an arm and a leg! Crazy!

@fedfanelli The greatest theme park then

Went to Costco. Loads of customers, maily families with kids. I guess for people in Japan it’s like visiting a theme park where the theme is peak capitalism 😂

@Karai_Dan I did the door 3-4 years ago. Same story! Opening the washing machine was a bit intimidating but after all the most complicated thing is moving it

@ortospace Not as complicated but I had a sliding door with a soft close mechanism that stopped working last year. Repair guy wanted 3万 just to look at it, no guarantee he could fix it and if he could, it would cost extra. Bought the part myself for 5000 yen and fixed it in 10 mins.

Washing machine stopped taking in water. Called the manufacturer and several repair shops, same answer from all: too old, we won't touch it. One tip though: maybe it's the water inlet valve. Found it on Rakuten, watched tutorials, replaced it. Now it's working again 🎖️

One repair shop wanted ¥35,000 just to come and inspect the machine, even in case nothing could be done. The replacement part cost me under ¥4,000, I found it here rakuten.co.jp/partscomstore/

🧵 THREAD 1/ Online age verification is the hill to die on. Not a fight you can sit out. Not a battle you can skip. Not a policy you can afford to ignore while you focus on something else. This is it. This is the line. This is the infrastructure that enables every other piece of the digital control grid. If we lose this fight, we lose everything.

Major Security Breakthrough In Star Wars Universe With Invention Of Door That Does Not Open If You Just Shoot The Control Panel buff.ly/W2H4TX1

fun socks with black tie. what's even the point of having a country anymore?

the death of free speech: the U.K. arrests 12,000 people per year for online posts, or roughly 33 people a day. thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

@Colin_P_A_Jones That would have been not just a fake, but a criminal Italian restaurant (have you really seen that thing? I think I saw natto spaghetti somewhere but natto tortellini is another level of perversion)

@ortospace Natto tortellini, that sort of thing?

Who amongst us professors has <not> been pressured by a more senior professor to go to a sex club? 🙄

truly one of the most amazing developments in trans-Atlantic tech policy over the past 20 years is the way that Europe set out to regulate US tech giants into the ground, but only made them more dominant as a result. This Economist headline really says it.