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My new old lens is halfway here! A trip across town, with a stopover in Kagawa Prefecture on the way.
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中野サンプラザについての朗報！！「同区はこれまで活用に慎重だったが、方針転換する。」
先月、あの意見交換会に参加していて本当に良かった！
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOCC269S90W5A820C2000000/
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Movie Review (some spoilers): The Devil Wears Prada 2 Review
I don’t envy the challenge of making a sequel to an iconic generation-defining movie 20 years later. Two decades have passed, and it’s not just that the actors are older and smartphones are everywhere. We’re in a different world today, and the reality of radical wealth centralization around a few billionaires with no taste has started to encroach even on the elite world of fashion that the original movie portrayed.
At its core, the original movie was about _work_. Miranda is at the pinnacle of wealth, society, and power through her _work_. Work is what she does. It’s her entire life. And she _loves_ it. Andrea is young and wealthy and privileged, but she’s also highly educated and extremely talented and hopes, dreams, aspires for validation through her _work_. For young aspiring members of the future PMC class, it was exhilarating. Sure, you didn’t have much, but the future! Power, wealth, recognition, and the _thrill_ and _excitement_ of success were just around the corner. And how would you get there? Work!!
Today, things are different. All the money in society is concentrated in the hands of a bakers dozen of billionaires. And they don’t give two fucks about style, taste, beauty, humanity, morality, or human labor. They don’t give a fuck about work. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. How hard you strive. How tough you hustle. Because there’s no path from where you are to the top. Period.
The reason—the only reason—The Devil Wears Prada 2 succeeds is because it acknowledges this. In 2006 the top of the top of the top was Miranda, but in 2026 even she is forced to grovel and beg to billionaires who care about nothing. Emily Blunt makes the reality explicit, dating men she finds despicable (‘patrons,’ she calls them) because, in 2026, this is the only kind of ‘work’ that can give someone access to true wealth and power.
At one point a billionaire suggests they just fire everyone and replace the magazine with AI slop.
It’s important to recognize this is, technically, a work of fiction and not a documentary.
4/5 stars. Or, 3/5 because it’s still a sequel.
#moviereview #movies #capitalism #labor #hollywood #thedevilwearsprada2
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Photos from Shinjuku last weekend:
- Magnolia (白木蓮)
- Quince (木瓜)
- Cherry (桜)
- Dusk:-) -
Photos from Shinjuku last weekend:
- Magnolia (白木蓮)
- Quince (木瓜)
- Cherry (桜)
- Dusk:-) -
Photos from Shinjuku last weekend:
- Magnolia (白木蓮)
- Quince (木瓜)
- Cherry (桜)
- Dusk:-) -
Photos from Shinjuku last weekend:
- Magnolia (白木蓮)
- Quince (木瓜)
- Cherry (桜)
- Dusk:-) -
Photos from Shinjuku last weekend:
- Magnolia (白木蓮)
- Quince (木瓜)
- Cherry (桜)
- Dusk:-) -
My favorite cutlery is the Napoli series from Yamazaki Tableware. Simple bold shapes with a slight ‘1990s contemporary’ vibe.
I got my first set of two knives, two forks, and two spoons sometime in the late 2000s at a Fran Fran in the third floor basement of the old Mitsukoshi. That shop is long gone, replaced by BICQLO in 2012 and now just Bic Camera/Uniqlo.
They served me well, and so I was delighted to find that I could order more to fill out the set in 2021 when I moved into an apartment just large enough for a four-person dinner party.
This week I expanded the set again. Each piece is 2-3x what I paid in 2021, but I really do love the design.
https://shop.yamazakitableware.jp/?mode=cate&cbid=1815691&csid=8
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Nandina season! Love seeing these all over the city.
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Nandina season! Love seeing these all over the city.
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One thing I’ve never quite understood is the reluctance of certain doctors to provide medical imaging to patients in a digital format.
As someone with interests in photography, programming, data, and my own health, I find the RAW-like DICOM image file format fascinating. So, even if it comes on a CD-R and costs 2500 JPY, I always try to get my own medial imagery whenever possible. (These are also extremely helpful to have in advance if an issue recurs and you need to show the progression to a new clinic.)
I’ve had good luck getting endoscopy, X-ray, and MRI data over the years, but the doctor at the colonoscopy clinic today was a hard no. They’ll only provide the photos they took of the inside of my own body to another doctor, not to me, myself, the subject in question.
(They did provide a printout of a few key moments for my reference. Why this is available when the actual image data is not remains a mystery to me.)
#opendata #DICOM #digitalrights #patientrights #medicalimaging #japan
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One thing I’ve never quite understood is the reluctance of certain doctors to provide medical imaging to patients in a digital format.
As someone with interests in photography, programming, data, and my own health, I find the RAW-like DICOM image file format fascinating. So, even if it comes on a CD-R and costs 2500 JPY, I always try to get my own medial imagery whenever possible. (These are also extremely helpful to have in advance if an issue recurs and you need to show the progression to a new clinic.)
I’ve had good luck getting endoscopy, X-ray, and MRI data over the years, but the doctor at the colonoscopy clinic today was a hard no. They’ll only provide the photos they took of the inside of my own body to another doctor, not to me, myself, the subject in question.
(They did provide a printout of a few key moments for my reference. Why this is available when the actual image data is not remains a mystery to me.)
#opendata #DICOM #digitalrights #patientrights #medicalimaging #japan
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The National Center for Global Health and Medicine, one of the premier hospitals in Tokyo, has started requiring every single patient to sign an agreement to accept foreign-language interpretation fees.
Every. Single. Patient.
Regardless of whether you ever have or ever will need foreign-language interpretation. Regardless of whether you even speak any language other than Japanese.
And this is the only service fee they do this for. They don’t, for example, make you agree to a colonoscopy fee schedule when you get a vaccine, or make you agree to the price of a pacemaker when you get basic bloodwork.
It’s hard not to see this as part of the society-wide trend of problematizing the existence of foreigners in Japan. The point isn’t to inform the tiny minority of patients who need interpretation about a new fee. The point is to inform the vast majority of patients who _don’t_ need interpretation services about the ‘problem’ of foreigner-language speakers who do.
(Needless to say, if you do need interpretation services there’s almost certainly already an app on your phone that will be faster, cheaper, more convenient, and likely more accurate than calling some poor bilingual kid working a minimum-wage phone support job.)
#japan #antiforeignsentiment #日本人ファースト #foreignerinjapan #外国人 #外国人差別 #国立国際医療センター #NCGM
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Driving in Portugal a couple of weeks ago was the first time I had really experienced frequent roundabouts...
...and wow are they addicting!! So many times where you can just fly on through what would have been a slow stop-and-go at a stop sign or a several minute wait at a light.
I really hope Japan picks them up!
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Talking with some Americans who retired to Portugal, I was struck by the push-pull dynamic in their decision to move. Push: healthcare costs and the US political situation. Pull: Life in a cozy walkable small-town urban environment where you'll run into your neighbors at the market, at a restaurant, in the town square, or when you join one the many community groups and activities.
I find the 'pull' aspect particularly interesting, because it's a form of small-town life that's very hard to achieve in the US. While you can still find it in a few cities and college towns (both of which may be cost prohibitive), with interstates, suburbs, and big-box stores, the thousands of small town centers that used to have communities like this have been mostly hollowed out.
#urbanism #walkability #portugal #retireabroad #retirement #smalltownlife
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Did a quick review of the music video for Zara Larsson's 'Midnight Sun (Live).' Check it out!
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Fernab vom Rest der Welt hatten die Moriori eine fast paradiesische Form des Zusammenlebens gefunden, erzählen unsere Kolumnisten. Dann kam, was nicht kommen durfte.#anonsys.net/search?tag= #Hemmer #Meßner #Geschichte #Kolumne #Kultur
Kleine Geschichte vom perfekten Pazifismus, der am Menschen scheiterte -
Fernab vom Rest der Welt hatten die Moriori eine fast paradiesische Form des Zusammenlebens gefunden, erzählen unsere Kolumnisten. Dann kam, was nicht kommen durfte.#anonsys.net/search?tag= #Hemmer #Meßner #Geschichte #Kolumne #Kultur
Kleine Geschichte vom perfekten Pazifismus, der am Menschen scheiterte -
Fernab vom Rest der Welt hatten die Moriori eine fast paradiesische Form des Zusammenlebens gefunden, erzählen unsere Kolumnisten. Dann kam, was nicht kommen durfte.#anonsys.net/search?tag= #Hemmer #Meßner #Geschichte #Kolumne #Kultur
Kleine Geschichte vom perfekten Pazifismus, der am Menschen scheiterte -
Ab geht’s, raus in die Sonne! Und Abends dann ins Grobe Versteck oder ins Theater? Perfekt. 😉
📖 Carsten Schmitt liest am Samstagabend im Groben Versteck Phantastische Geschichten. Verstörende und betörende Phantasien eines Reisenden.
🗡️ Außerdem gibt es Samstag- sowie Sonntagabend weitere Vorstellungen von “Mord im Orientexpress”, aufgeführt im Bürgerhaus vom Dudweiler Statt-Theater.
Viel Spaß bei diesem schönen Abendprogramm am Wochenende. Und davor? Ab in den Stadtpark, oder mal ein Eis essen? Wer möchte kann auch anschwenken, klar. Und wenn du weitere Freizeittipps hast, die im DudoPlaner noch fehlen, weist du ja, was du zu tun hast. 😉
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Mord im Orientexpress – neue Produktion des Dudweiler Statt-Theaters
(Pressemitteilung) Hercule Poirot, der berühmte belgische Detektiv, fährt auf der Rückreise von einem seiner Fälle mit dem legendären Orientexpress von Istanbul n …
🔗 Weiterlesen: https://www.dudweiler-blog.de/2026/01/21/mord-im-orientexpress-neue-produktion-des-dudweiler-statt-theaters/
#Kultur #Pressemitteilung #AgathaChristie #Dudweiler #DudweilerStattTheaterEV #MordImOrientexpress #StattTheater #Theater
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Here's a yucca before and after picture for fibre extraction.
First shot is public domain courtesy Moriori¹, but is identical to the plant I harvested my leaves from.
Second is today after finishing the process.
Fun fact: Sisal is a species related to yucca, grown specifically for its fibres, and was heavily used for rope-making!
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yucca_filamentosa.jpg