Amos
@amos.io
Aussie living in southern Japan. I review audio gear and teach Japanese kids how to beat me up in Aikido. Old school enough that emoji are still weird to me.
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Truly smart devices would choose not to connect to the internet.
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Truly smart devices would choose not to connect to the internet.
My friend created fake news decades before the term existed.
20 years this year since I got to get a few stabs into The Australian via Media Watch.
Delicious times.
www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...
Delicious times.
www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
My friend created fake news decades before the term existed.
Murderous bears have saved us from the seemingly endless anti-foreigner sentiment. Japanese culture is more afraid of death.
Bear attacks and sightings have continued in Japan, with a woman found dead in a rice field in Akita Prefecture after a suspected bear attack while a bear made its way into an Aeon shopping mall in the prefecture.
Bears attacks and sightings continue in northern Japan
A woman was found dead in a rice field of a suspected bear attack in Akita Prefecture on Sunday while a bear made its way into an Aeon shopping mall in the prefecture.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Murderous bears have saved us from the seemingly endless anti-foreigner sentiment. Japanese culture is more afraid of death.
Reminds me of when I lived in Tokyo. I always caught trains. Didn’t realise how huge greater Tokyo is until someone offered to drive me somewhere and it took hours. Even with 110 km/h train services it takes a couple of hours to transverse.
One of my absolutely favorite things about Korea is the public transit. There are buses, trains, and subways running across most the country and it's relatively easy to get anywhere without a car. There's still work to be done to make it 100% disability friendly but it is so much better than the US.
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Reminds me of when I lived in Tokyo. I always caught trains. Didn’t realise how huge greater Tokyo is until someone offered to drive me somewhere and it took hours. Even with 110 km/h train services it takes a couple of hours to transverse.
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One of the beautiful things about social media is that sometimes when you scream into the void, after a pause, a voice or two may answer back “fuck, me too” and you feel a little less alone in the world
September 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
One of the beautiful things about social media is that sometimes when you scream into the void, after a pause, a voice or two may answer back “fuck, me too” and you feel a little less alone in the world
So some obscure Chinese company decided to make a Bluetooth DAC/headphone/IEM amp with old, tiny Nixie tubes. They bought all the remaining stock they could find and this was the result.
youtu.be/K6z0-b2Hk-Y
youtu.be/K6z0-b2Hk-Y
Neon Nixie tube portable DAC/amp MUSE M6 Double Review
YouTube video by Currawong
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November 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
So some obscure Chinese company decided to make a Bluetooth DAC/headphone/IEM amp with old, tiny Nixie tubes. They bought all the remaining stock they could find and this was the result.
youtu.be/K6z0-b2Hk-Y
youtu.be/K6z0-b2Hk-Y
How about a nice pair of headphones than you can plug into a computer even and enjoy music, without requiring any fancy audiophile equipment? youtu.be/sJLCB_Sincc
Meze 105 AER Headphones and Boom Mic/gaming headset review
YouTube video by Currawong
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July 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
How about a nice pair of headphones than you can plug into a computer even and enjoy music, without requiring any fancy audiophile equipment? youtu.be/sJLCB_Sincc
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On the tourist side it always looks this impressive. However, it isn’t so great on the other side.
The only immigration reality TV show I’d watch is if you take all the authors of those “Japanese wisdom” books, have them live together in a Saitama share house and watch them adjust to their new entry level jobs at large Japanese corporations in Tokyo.
May 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
On the tourist side it always looks this impressive. However, it isn’t so great on the other side.
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I vinyl wrapped my Mac Studio^W^WPerforma 40000.
May 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I vinyl wrapped my Mac Studio^W^WPerforma 40000.
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1991: fighting with five siblings for use of a single landline
2025: we all refuse to answer our cell phones
2025: we all refuse to answer our cell phones
April 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
1991: fighting with five siblings for use of a single landline
2025: we all refuse to answer our cell phones
2025: we all refuse to answer our cell phones
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
“This is your brain on drugs.”
Trudy broke her arm three weeks ago, had it operated on this week. This strip was drawn on heavy painkillers!
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February 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“This is your brain on drugs.”
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This is not how you do security through transparency.
January 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is not how you do security through transparency.
As a non-American, it’s painfully ironic to see people on the “right” rant about the “elites” secretly plotting to whatever, then have a man with the name of a kind of scent come out and blatantly do the very things they claim, but in the name of their politics.
January 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
As a non-American, it’s painfully ironic to see people on the “right” rant about the “elites” secretly plotting to whatever, then have a man with the name of a kind of scent come out and blatantly do the very things they claim, but in the name of their politics.
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Aww @pfrazee.com got me a Christmas present
January 14, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Aww @pfrazee.com got me a Christmas present
The idea of forbidden clothes is just mad.
In the 60s the mods wore mini skirts and white boots and white stockings. In the city the public toilets were full of teens changing into the forbidden clothes to go dancing.
Because I went through that I don't censor others' taste in clothes.
Because I went through that I don't censor others' taste in clothes.
January 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The idea of forbidden clothes is just mad.
Apparently there was an earthquake in Kyushu soon after I got home tonight. I didn’t feel it at all. I only noticed it because I started browsing Reddit just after and someone had posted about it.
January 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Apparently there was an earthquake in Kyushu soon after I got home tonight. I didn’t feel it at all. I only noticed it because I started browsing Reddit just after and someone had posted about it.
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Is there a way I can switch AI off on absolutely everything? Browsers, phones, whatever, all of it. It's hard enough to get to the truth with most powerful humans constantly spinning shit, I don't also need robots collating all the nonsense and making up their own variety on top. It's just garbage.
January 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Is there a way I can switch AI off on absolutely everything? Browsers, phones, whatever, all of it. It's hard enough to get to the truth with most powerful humans constantly spinning shit, I don't also need robots collating all the nonsense and making up their own variety on top. It's just garbage.
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The H5N1 subtype has been around since 1996, occasionally jumping to mammals, including humans. As with other strains, there is a risk of a pandemic outbreak, but that is uncertain.
What is certain is that if that happens, some do not want you to protect yourselves: the McCullough Foundation.
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What is certain is that if that happens, some do not want you to protect yourselves: the McCullough Foundation.
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December 30, 2024 at 9:08 AM
The H5N1 subtype has been around since 1996, occasionally jumping to mammals, including humans. As with other strains, there is a risk of a pandemic outbreak, but that is uncertain.
What is certain is that if that happens, some do not want you to protect yourselves: the McCullough Foundation.
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What is certain is that if that happens, some do not want you to protect yourselves: the McCullough Foundation.
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Sensoji today, through the lens of a blackened and hollowed out gingko. I never noticed the tree before, as it is off to the side in a smoking area, but now I’ll never see these grounds the same again, because once you see one fire-damaged tree at Sensoji, you see them all. And they are EVERYWHERE.
December 11, 2024 at 5:13 AM
Sensoji today, through the lens of a blackened and hollowed out gingko. I never noticed the tree before, as it is off to the side in a smoking area, but now I’ll never see these grounds the same again, because once you see one fire-damaged tree at Sensoji, you see them all. And they are EVERYWHERE.
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If you're going to post screenshots from Twitter it should exclusively be stuff like this instead of stuff that makes people mad
December 2, 2024 at 4:46 AM
If you're going to post screenshots from Twitter it should exclusively be stuff like this instead of stuff that makes people mad
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The only thing uniting all Aussies? Gambling ads. Happy Birthday, Australia! 🎂
November 25, 2024 at 8:32 AM
The only thing uniting all Aussies? Gambling ads. Happy Birthday, Australia! 🎂