
Joshua Springfield
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Joshua Springfield
@JSpringfield89
Photographer. Views entirely my own.





JR Group will raise prices for the Japan Rail Pass from October 1, 2026, but only for passes purchased through overseas sales agents. The last major Japan Rail Pass price update was in October 2023. Prices on the official Japan Rail Pass online reservation service will remain unchanged for a limited time, preserving a cheaper booking option for travelers who purchase directly online and handle their own reserved-seat bookings. Adult JR Pass price increases (overseas agent sales) Ordinary Car 🔹 7-days: ¥50,000 → ¥53,000 (+¥3,000) 🔹 14-days: ¥80,000 → ¥84,000 (+¥4,000) 🔹 21-days: ¥100,000 → ¥105,000 (+¥5,000) Green Car 🟢 7-days: ¥70,000 → ¥74,000 (+¥4,000) 🟢 14-days: ¥110,000 → ¥116,000 (+¥6,000) 🟢 21-days: ¥140,000 → ¥147,000 (+¥7,000)









🇺🇸🇮🇷🇧🇭 'Hahaha, OH SHIT OH FUCK' An American sailor records the Iranian strike in Bahrain.


Kyoto considers higher bus fares for visitors, up to double those for locals: Kyoto is considering hiking public bus fares for visitors to up to double those for locals from fiscal 2027 as parts of the western Japanese city… japantoday.com/category/natio… #japannews #japantoday



A blog post just wiped $30 billion off IBM in a single afternoon. Not a product launch. Not an earnings miss. Not a competitor undercutting on price. A five-minute blog post explaining that Claude can read COBOL. IBM dropped 13%. Worst single-day loss since October 2000. Twenty-five years of stock resilience ended by one AI company publishing a capability update. Here’s what happened: 95% of ATM transactions in America run on COBOL. Hundreds of billions of lines power banking, airlines, and government systems. The developers who built them retired decades ago. The knowledge left with them. Finding engineers who can even read COBOL gets harder every quarter. IBM’s moat was never the technology. It was the fact that nobody else could understand it. Entire consulting empires existed because the code was too old, too tangled, and too critical to touch. Companies paid IBM billions because the alternative was catastrophic system failure. Then Anthropic published a blog post saying Claude Code can map dependencies across thousands of lines of COBOL, document workflows, identify migration risks, and translate legacy logic into modern languages. Modernization in quarters instead of years. The market heard: the priesthood just lost its monopoly on the sacred language. And this isn’t the first time. Last week Anthropic announced Claude Code Security for vulnerability scanning. CrowdStrike dropped. Okta dropped. Cloudflare dropped. One company is serially destroying legacy moats with blog posts. Now here’s where it gets surreal. This same company, on the same day, also published evidence that three Chinese AI labs ran 24,000 fake accounts and 16 million exchanges to steal Claude’s capabilities. DeepSeek used it to build censorship tools. MiniMax pivoted within 24 hours when a new model dropped, redirecting half its traffic to steal the latest version. And yesterday, the Pentagon summoned this same company’s CEO for what officials called a “sh*t-or-get-off-the-pot meeting,” threatening to blacklist them like Huawei for refusing to let the military use Claude without safety restrictions. Three stories. One company. Twenty-four hours. The company destroying legacy moats faster than the market can reprice them is simultaneously being threatened by its own government and looted by foreign competitors. Anthropic is valued at $380 billion. Its CEO says a 12-month delay in AI would make him bankrupt. The Pentagon wants to designate it a supply chain risk. Chinese labs are running industrial espionage against it. And it just proved it can vaporize $30 billion in market cap with a Monday morning blog post. Whatever you think about AI disruption, IBM’s stock just settled the argument. Full institutional analysis on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…





Nottingham Forest Football Club can confirm that Sean Dyche has been relieved of his duties as head coach. We would like to thank Sean and his staff for their efforts during their time at the Club and we wish them the best of luck for the future. We will be making no further comment at this time.


A lucky customer revealed on Reddit that their prebuilt PC, listed as 32GB, actually came with 48GB of RAM.



🚨🌕| Players entering the end of their contract, like Joel King (25) and Jordan Courtney-Perkins (23), could be allowed to leave Sydney FC to balance out the ledger. [@davidweiner9]



Double header to bring in the new year! Tomorrow both our men and women take on Brisbane Roar, back to back. 7pm and 9.45pm respectively.





