Night parade of Hyottoko odori dance

On the night of the Setsubun Festival, which takes place on February 3rd (or February 2nd in 2025), Hyottoko Odori, a traditional comical masked dance from Hyūga City, Miyazaki Prefecture, is performed in Kyoto’s renowned Gion Shirakawa district.

#japan #kyoto

I am begging you: if you are writing a thread of more than a couple posts, get a blog. I don’t mean this in a mean way. I mean: allow this thought to continue to exist, outside of this platform, in an actually coherent, readable format that sticks around for longer than 20 minutes. You deserve it!

Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed

Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"

Historians: "that's a nazi salute"

Average person: "that's a nazi salute"

The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."

In this game, you are robot (#). Your job is to find kitten. This task is complicated by the existence of various things which are not kitten. Robot must touch items to determine if they are kitten or not. The game ends when robotfindskitten.

man.archlinux.org/man/robotfin...

Human Altitude xkcd.com/3039

Seinfeld: The Congestion Pricing Episode

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford Medicine have devised an influenza vaccine that prompts immunity to ALL four major flu subtypes AND shows potential against bird flu, indicating a significant advancement in flu prevention and a potential increase in vaccine efficacy. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

people really need to remember the printer gun post in times like this.

My annual reminder: if you’re off visiting your parents REMEMBER TO DISCONNECT YOUR PHONE FROM THEIR BLUETOOTH SPEAKER BEFORE BED SO YOU DON’T ACCIDENTALLY PLAY THE SOUND FROM THE PORN TO YOUR WHOLE FAMILY

todays my birthday.

it’s also the day 16 years ago I discovered that a customer for the data center I worked at had racked 3 full cabinets with over $200k of brand new server hardware on top of $80 of canned soda from our customer lounge vending machine to avoid spending $600 on mounting rails

The new oxide.computer is live 🚀

if arguing online changed anything we'd all be running Linux

“Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown”

github.com/microsoft/ma...

OpenAI has a "usage" page where they claim to show how your credits have been spent. Here, you can see my usage:

- December 2024: $0.11
- November 2024: $0.04
- October 2024: $0.66
...

I did the math. I have used $4.41 in credits since creating an account. But OpenAI drained all my $30 credit.

This newsletter is an unnerving manual for conning and getting conned. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...