Edward Lipsett
@elipsett.bsky.social
American immigrant to Japan, now living in the Kumamoto hinterlands. I run Kurodahan Press, ran a commercial translation company here for decades, love dogs and almost everything else alive, and am now slowly decaying in my cave.
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Learn the secret 🤫 of Japan’s work-life balance. New edition coming with foreword by Jeff Bezos #Ikigai
June 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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There are many posts explaining how much tax or SocSec legal and illegal immigrants have paid into the system.
How about interviewing families of deported people and setting up a register of how much each person has paid and now lost?
Make each of them a person who has contributed, not a criminal.
How about interviewing families of deported people and setting up a register of how much each person has paid and now lost?
Make each of them a person who has contributed, not a criminal.
June 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
There are many posts explaining how much tax or SocSec legal and illegal immigrants have paid into the system.
How about interviewing families of deported people and setting up a register of how much each person has paid and now lost?
Make each of them a person who has contributed, not a criminal.
How about interviewing families of deported people and setting up a register of how much each person has paid and now lost?
Make each of them a person who has contributed, not a criminal.
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Pseudo-etymology of the day:
hiragana 日族神字 'divine characters of the sun race' 🤡
(From a book published in 1942, just in case you're wondering ...)
hiragana 日族神字 'divine characters of the sun race' 🤡
(From a book published in 1942, just in case you're wondering ...)
June 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Pseudo-etymology of the day:
hiragana 日族神字 'divine characters of the sun race' 🤡
(From a book published in 1942, just in case you're wondering ...)
hiragana 日族神字 'divine characters of the sun race' 🤡
(From a book published in 1942, just in case you're wondering ...)
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“The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence.”
June 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence.”
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Guys, I just want to say that on Friday I renewed my library card and took out a bunch of books that are not worthy, or serious, or educational. They're just stories, and they have already fundamentally made my mental health better.
Thank God for the story tellers.
Thank God for the story tellers.
May 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Guys, I just want to say that on Friday I renewed my library card and took out a bunch of books that are not worthy, or serious, or educational. They're just stories, and they have already fundamentally made my mental health better.
Thank God for the story tellers.
Thank God for the story tellers.
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Translators: any job where you “edit” a machine translation is also a fake job 💜
Because it was a fake job 👍 hope that helps
www.wsj.com/articles/the...
www.wsj.com/articles/the...
April 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Translators: any job where you “edit” a machine translation is also a fake job 💜
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It’s always weird realising that people will pay more for a blank Moleskine notebook than for a novel.
April 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
It’s always weird realising that people will pay more for a blank Moleskine notebook than for a novel.
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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“Many of these men fancied themselves to be a cut above the [women] programmers who came before, and they often perceived COBOL as inferior and unattractive, in part because it did not require abstruse knowledge of underlying computer hardware or a computer science qualification.”
Built to Last
Don’t blame COBOL. Blame austerity.
logicmag.io
March 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“Many of these men fancied themselves to be a cut above the [women] programmers who came before, and they often perceived COBOL as inferior and unattractive, in part because it did not require abstruse knowledge of underlying computer hardware or a computer science qualification.”
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This piece by Yukiko Duke, who co-translated Kenzaburo Oe, Haruki Murakami and Yu Miri among others with her mother, deeply moved me. "It was the best kind of family business." swedishbookreview.org/joy-translat...
‘The Joy of Translating is Gone’ | Swedish Book Review
by Yukiko Duke, translated by Ian Giles
swedishbookreview.org
March 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This piece by Yukiko Duke, who co-translated Kenzaburo Oe, Haruki Murakami and Yu Miri among others with her mother, deeply moved me. "It was the best kind of family business." swedishbookreview.org/joy-translat...
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Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
February 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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Meanwhile in Russia: decorated state TV host Vladimir Solovyov wondered with great anticipation when Russia’s “boy and girl,” Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, will finally get confirmed to their positions.
youtu.be/DWE3Y2FI7EE
youtu.be/DWE3Y2FI7EE
Vladimir Solovyov can't wait for Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel to get confirmed
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
youtu.be
January 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Meanwhile in Russia: decorated state TV host Vladimir Solovyov wondered with great anticipation when Russia’s “boy and girl,” Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, will finally get confirmed to their positions.
youtu.be/DWE3Y2FI7EE
youtu.be/DWE3Y2FI7EE
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Read.
Read banned books.
Reading banned books is defiance.
Buy.
Buy banned books.
Buying banned books is protest.
Share.
Share banned books.
Sharing banned books is solidarity.
Celebrate.
Celebrate banned books.
Celebrating banned books is freedom.
#booksky
Read banned books.
Reading banned books is defiance.
Buy.
Buy banned books.
Buying banned books is protest.
Share.
Share banned books.
Sharing banned books is solidarity.
Celebrate.
Celebrate banned books.
Celebrating banned books is freedom.
#booksky
January 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Read.
Read banned books.
Reading banned books is defiance.
Buy.
Buy banned books.
Buying banned books is protest.
Share.
Share banned books.
Sharing banned books is solidarity.
Celebrate.
Celebrate banned books.
Celebrating banned books is freedom.
#booksky
Read banned books.
Reading banned books is defiance.
Buy.
Buy banned books.
Buying banned books is protest.
Share.
Share banned books.
Sharing banned books is solidarity.
Celebrate.
Celebrate banned books.
Celebrating banned books is freedom.
#booksky
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The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on!
Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com
Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com
ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back
theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.
reproductiverightsdotgov.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on!
Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com
Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com
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I’m mad. These old people should be playing chess in the park and not reliving trauma
Many Japanese Americans are recoiling from Trump's immigration crackdown. “This brings back all kinds of memories, even tears,” said one 91-year-old Berkeley resident. “You don’t think I’d remember much, but it’s amazing how much I do.” www.kqed.org/news/1202191... via @kqednews.bsky.social
Bay Area Japanese Americans Draw on WWII Trauma to Resist Deportation Threats | KQED
President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite deportations has rekindled trauma for Japanese Americans who were relocated and imprisoned during World War II...
www.kqed.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I’m mad. These old people should be playing chess in the park and not reliving trauma
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Peter Kornicki 2025 Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan @ doi.org/10.1017/9781... (available for free until 12 Feb! 🙏)
Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan
doi.org
January 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Peter Kornicki 2025 Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan @ doi.org/10.1017/9781... (available for free until 12 Feb! 🙏)
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I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI
January 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The "Free Our Feeds" campaign aims to protect social media from billionaire control by establishing a public-interest foundation. The initiative aims to ensure that the AT Protocol, the underlying technology of Bluesky, remains open and accessible to all.
'Free Our Feeds' campaign aims to billionaire-proof Bluesky’s tech | TechCrunch
The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create an open social media ecosystem that can’t be controlled by a single company ...
techcrunch.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The "Free Our Feeds" campaign aims to protect social media from billionaire control by establishing a public-interest foundation. The initiative aims to ensure that the AT Protocol, the underlying technology of Bluesky, remains open and accessible to all.
Well, that was fun. All of a sudden our phones start screaming and we have enough time to get ready, then the earthquake hits. Shindo 4 for maybe 10, 15 seconds.
Epicenter is down near Miyazaki city, looks like.
Epicenter is down near Miyazaki city, looks like.
January 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Well, that was fun. All of a sudden our phones start screaming and we have enough time to get ready, then the earthquake hits. Shindo 4 for maybe 10, 15 seconds.
Epicenter is down near Miyazaki city, looks like.
Epicenter is down near Miyazaki city, looks like.
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The second is the installation Book from the Sky by the multimedia Chinese artist Xu Bing. It's an entire traditional-binding book made up of nonsense characters.
www.xubing.com/en/work/deta...
www.xubing.com/en/work/deta...
XU BING - ARTWORK - Book from the Sky
Medium: Mixed media installation/ hand-printed books and scrolls printed from blocks inscribed with ''false'' characters
www.xubing.com
December 30, 2024 at 6:31 PM
The second is the installation Book from the Sky by the multimedia Chinese artist Xu Bing. It's an entire traditional-binding book made up of nonsense characters.
www.xubing.com/en/work/deta...
www.xubing.com/en/work/deta...