Kaz
@amkaz.bsky.social
在日アメリカ人・文系出身ITエンジニア Immigrant/humanities grad in tech
Formerly: WV, Boston (BSc), Hokkaido (JET), Kobe (MA). Currently: Tokyo. 🗼
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Formerly: WV, Boston (BSc), Hokkaido (JET), Kobe (MA). Currently: Tokyo. 🗼
🏳️🌈🍜🎧🍻
Oh so they're literally insane huh
¥300,000 (≈$2,000) for PR application, and ¥100,000 (≈$650) for every single PR renewal news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/2e8...
¥300,000 (≈$2,000) for PR application, and ¥100,000 (≈$650) for every single PR renewal news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/2e8...
在留手数料「上限30万円」検討 政府、帰化要件も厳格化へ（時事通信） - Yahoo!ニュース
政府は27日、外国人の在留手続きの手数料を欧米並みに引き上げる方向で検討に入った。
永住許可の手数料（現行1万円）を「上限30万円」に引き上げる案を自民党に示した。具体的な額は政令で定める。日
news.yahoo.co.jp
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Oh so they're literally insane huh
¥300,000 (≈$2,000) for PR application, and ¥100,000 (≈$650) for every single PR renewal news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/2e8...
¥300,000 (≈$2,000) for PR application, and ¥100,000 (≈$650) for every single PR renewal news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/2e8...
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It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
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"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
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Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
I've been SAYING—the algorithmic internet is NOT. REAL.
You are giving yourself brain damage by trying to make sense of the world via these platforms
You are giving yourself brain damage by trying to make sense of the world via these platforms
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I've been SAYING—the algorithmic internet is NOT. REAL.
You are giving yourself brain damage by trying to make sense of the world via these platforms
You are giving yourself brain damage by trying to make sense of the world via these platforms
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i’m too stoned for this level of ventriloquy
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
i’m too stoned for this level of ventriloquy
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since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
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Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?
Until the Democratic party takes a stand against this class of political operators things will continue to get worse. Before all else the vast money in politics has to be reigned in.
The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Until the Democratic party takes a stand against this class of political operators things will continue to get worse. Before all else the vast money in politics has to be reigned in.
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all his fans are waiting for him to threaten denaturalization and he's just like: oh boy! the mayor! talking to me!
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
all his fans are waiting for him to threaten denaturalization and he's just like: oh boy! the mayor! talking to me!
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I do honestly think trump is senile enough that the mayor of New York is sort of instinctively an impressive person to him that he wants to please, despite being the fucking president
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I do honestly think trump is senile enough that the mayor of New York is sort of instinctively an impressive person to him that he wants to please, despite being the fucking president
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TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den?
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den?
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
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nostalgia is a scam invented by big new to sell more old
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
nostalgia is a scam invented by big new to sell more old
Hey so being a freak towards your students doesn't have to rise to the level of criminality for you to be unfit for the job
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Hey so being a freak towards your students doesn't have to rise to the level of criminality for you to be unfit for the job
I don't know who I need to threaten to get an answer for this but riddle me this! Riddle me this!!!!
November 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I don't know who I need to threaten to get an answer for this but riddle me this! Riddle me this!!!!
I think about this all the time—every "weird Japan" social problem is just a few years ahead of the curve
Actually almost everything that's been happening in developed West was basically pioneered by Japan, like remember when hikkikomori were some weird Japanese thing instead of a totally recognizable domestic phenomenon
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I think about this all the time—every "weird Japan" social problem is just a few years ahead of the curve
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the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.
Like I wouldn't have been able to stifle a "woah!" even if I had advanced warning
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Like I wouldn't have been able to stifle a "woah!" even if I had advanced warning
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Israel is engaged in genocide, it is a genocide materially assisted by the US, and AIPAC is the biggest lobby pushing for that material assistance to continue.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Israel is engaged in genocide, it is a genocide materially assisted by the US, and AIPAC is the biggest lobby pushing for that material assistance to continue.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
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I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
Seems worth pointing out that, in Japan, there's an overwhelming expectation that companies provide extensive OJT to build up their pipeline of talent internally.
Unwillingness to train workers in the US is significant, and "we can't find mechanics for high-paying jobs" just sounds like an excuse.
Unwillingness to train workers in the US is significant, and "we can't find mechanics for high-paying jobs" just sounds like an excuse.
a huge reason the auto industry cannot hire all the mechanics they need is lack of access to the technical education anyone needs to become an automotive technician! cost of this education & failure by corporations to train workers - also a huge factor.
November 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Seems worth pointing out that, in Japan, there's an overwhelming expectation that companies provide extensive OJT to build up their pipeline of talent internally.
Unwillingness to train workers in the US is significant, and "we can't find mechanics for high-paying jobs" just sounds like an excuse.
Unwillingness to train workers in the US is significant, and "we can't find mechanics for high-paying jobs" just sounds like an excuse.
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
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