Chris Pearce
@kobehonyaku.com
Japanese-to-English technical/industrial translator
日英 技術・産業 翻訳者
日英 技術・産業 翻訳者
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February 16, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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SF is such a cooked place. The Mission used to be home to a massive Latine diaspora. And now it's filled with people who speak like this.
Token Anxiety
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
February 16, 2026 at 1:30 AM
SF is such a cooked place. The Mission used to be home to a massive Latine diaspora. And now it's filled with people who speak like this.
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RIP to an Oregon legend
Enchanted Forest founder Roger Tofte, 96, died Friday of natural causes, some 54½ years after he opened the iconic roadside amusement park.
https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2026/02/founder-of-iconic-oregon-roadside-amusement-park-dies-at-96.html
https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2026/02/founder-of-iconic-oregon-roadside-amusement-park-dies-at-96.html
February 14, 2026 at 7:31 PM
RIP to an Oregon legend
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if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
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Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped
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What does the person in the mirror want? Why do they copy me? If I smash the mirror, have I committed murder?
Researchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV
February 11, 2026 at 9:21 AM
What does the person in the mirror want? Why do they copy me? If I smash the mirror, have I committed murder?
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Propaganda about 'AI' and the new age word calculators have supposedly ushered in, has fed the delusions of the LinkedIn brained. This coalition of dunces pretends IT operations are easy. Actual sysadmins and engineers have lost countless hours cleaning up these fools' messes
February 11, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Propaganda about 'AI' and the new age word calculators have supposedly ushered in, has fed the delusions of the LinkedIn brained. This coalition of dunces pretends IT operations are easy. Actual sysadmins and engineers have lost countless hours cleaning up these fools' messes
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An extra-long Japan Daily Briefing pulling together some of the most revealing data points from post-election coverage and highlighting the changes the LDP’s landslide has already triggered. Open to all readers as we try to make sense of what happened. open.substack.com/pub/observin...
Aftermath | Japan Daily Briefing
Japan and the world reacts to Takaichi's victory
open.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:15 AM
An extra-long Japan Daily Briefing pulling together some of the most revealing data points from post-election coverage and highlighting the changes the LDP’s landslide has already triggered. Open to all readers as we try to make sense of what happened. open.substack.com/pub/observin...
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I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud
February 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud
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So tired from random people out in the world just popping off and running their mouths. It’s exhausting.
February 9, 2026 at 12:12 AM
So tired from random people out in the world just popping off and running their mouths. It’s exhausting.
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A fine example of how executives aren’t where they are because they’re competent, clever, or useful. The job exists to give mediocre rich people something to pretend to do.
OK so now the former CEO of Tumblr is running the Washington Post. Tumblr. A company whose history is a textbook case study in corporate value destruction.
February 8, 2026 at 10:05 AM
A fine example of how executives aren’t where they are because they’re competent, clever, or useful. The job exists to give mediocre rich people something to pretend to do.
So pretty before all the fish poop in it.
If you have ever doubted that water really *is* blue, here's a photo of a meltwater pond on a glacier in Greenland. The water is pure, and the white background makes the colour obvious. You need a lot of clean water to see it, but the true colour of water is an incredibly striking brilliant blue.
February 7, 2026 at 3:17 AM
So pretty before all the fish poop in it.
Just a reminder that I offer 100% human translations.
February 6, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Just a reminder that I offer 100% human translations.
Nice to learn that riding my bike gives me more joy than all the money in the world gives the world's richest nazi.
February 5, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Nice to learn that riding my bike gives me more joy than all the money in the world gives the world's richest nazi.
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I’ve always argued that that the desire to be a billionaire is a sign of malfunction. The desire to hoard more resources than you can consume in a single lifetime is a sign that something is broken in someone’s wiring.
February 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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🧵Yes, they did destroy the US on purpose; they're gunning for the world.
The Broligarchs' objective is return the globe to warlordism: they want to control territories & exploit their resources (incl ppl) like Khans of old.
That's what Thiel means by "return to tribalism" in his email to Epstein.
The Broligarchs' objective is return the globe to warlordism: they want to control territories & exploit their resources (incl ppl) like Khans of old.
That's what Thiel means by "return to tribalism" in his email to Epstein.
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
February 3, 2026 at 1:14 PM
🧵Yes, they did destroy the US on purpose; they're gunning for the world.
The Broligarchs' objective is return the globe to warlordism: they want to control territories & exploit their resources (incl ppl) like Khans of old.
That's what Thiel means by "return to tribalism" in his email to Epstein.
The Broligarchs' objective is return the globe to warlordism: they want to control territories & exploit their resources (incl ppl) like Khans of old.
That's what Thiel means by "return to tribalism" in his email to Epstein.
This reminds me of the Fallout show constantly beating us over the head with a de-aged Kyle MacLachlan. This shit doesn't look good.
Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. https://bit.ly/4rmRhrK
February 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM
This reminds me of the Fallout show constantly beating us over the head with a de-aged Kyle MacLachlan. This shit doesn't look good.
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Years of covering the business have taught me that “investors” and executives are thick skulled, irrational, impulsive children.
I cannot emphasize enough how comprehensive their stupidity is, but their cultlike devotion to regurgitative AI really helps get the point across.
I cannot emphasize enough how comprehensive their stupidity is, but their cultlike devotion to regurgitative AI really helps get the point across.
I regret to inform everyone that the smartest money people out there are, overwhelmingly, dumb as a rock
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
Google's new AI 'world model' has seemingly spooked videogame investors, but it's hard to know what it will actually lead to
Can auto-generated "worlds" really be exciting?
www.pcgamer.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Years of covering the business have taught me that “investors” and executives are thick skulled, irrational, impulsive children.
I cannot emphasize enough how comprehensive their stupidity is, but their cultlike devotion to regurgitative AI really helps get the point across.
I cannot emphasize enough how comprehensive their stupidity is, but their cultlike devotion to regurgitative AI really helps get the point across.
Now that I'm almost 50, my skin is finally starting to look like that of an actor in their 30s who plays a teenager in highschool on American TV.
February 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Now that I'm almost 50, my skin is finally starting to look like that of an actor in their 30s who plays a teenager in highschool on American TV.
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Modern tech is inhospitable to the kind of stubborn bullshit-despising hackers that for generations used that laziness and spite to get shit done.
May 19, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Modern tech is inhospitable to the kind of stubborn bullshit-despising hackers that for generations used that laziness and spite to get shit done.
Cops pulled me over for having gas.
January 30, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Cops pulled me over for having gas.
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i am so tired of these genital obsessed freaks wasting public dollars to fund these stupid laws so they can inspect the genitals of children. these people are freaks. they don't belong in polite society. is this all you do all day? a government salary to inspect genitals? fucking weirdo freaks.
Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.
January 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
i am so tired of these genital obsessed freaks wasting public dollars to fund these stupid laws so they can inspect the genitals of children. these people are freaks. they don't belong in polite society. is this all you do all day? a government salary to inspect genitals? fucking weirdo freaks.
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“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance”
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
January 29, 2026 at 6:09 AM
“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance”
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i feel like this instagram reel gets truer every day
January 28, 2026 at 6:33 AM
i feel like this instagram reel gets truer every day