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thejapantimes, to Japan
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A foreign resident of Japan unwittingly lived under a fake identity for six months until it came to light that he had been mixed up with an uncannily similar stranger. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/04/japan/society/id-mistake-similar-strangers/

thejapantimes, to Japan
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Police are looking for a suspect, believed to be a Chinese national, who spray-painted the word “toilet” on a stone pillar at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo over the weekend after urinating on it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/03/japan/society/yasukuni-shrine-vandalism/ #japan #society #china #yasukunishrine #wwii #chinajapanrelations #history

br00t4c, to Futurology
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thejapantimes, to worldwithoutus
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As South Asia bakes under a blistering heat wave, life-or-death decisions arrive with the midday sun. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/01/asia-pacific/society/south-asia-life-death-heat-wave/

thejapantimes, to Japan
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A group based in China used OpenAI's models to influence public opinion on treated water released from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the artificial intelligence research company says. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/31/japan/society/openai-report-fukushima/

br00t4c, to ai
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br00t4c, to Catroventos
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UK house prices in surprise rise in May

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw55v1e1ppzo

br00t4c, to Catroventos
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Viola Davis, Tina Knowles and Others Rally to Support Black Woman Claiming She's 'Ugly' in Viral Video

https://www.theroot.com/viola-davis-tina-knowles-niecy-nash-betts-support-bla-1851509393

thejapantimes, to Japan
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The government will launch a My Number card feature for the Apple Wallet on the iPhone in the spring next year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/30/japan/society/my-number-ios/

thejapantimes, to worldwithoutus
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Entrepreneur Lee Hee-tae is pushing forward for South Korea's adult content industry, arguing that it boosts the economy and curbs spycam crimes, despite strong conservative backlash and legal hurdles. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/30/asia-pacific/society/entrepreneur-south-korea-porn/

nhoizey, to photography French
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“Frozen nudity” by Emile Horizon

🔗 https://www.flickr.com/photos/55604440@N02/53734012593/

> The axiom nudity = money, is very sick and I’m afraid this will have consequence with the time on many levels of our culture. And obviously, internet with this logic of censoring/making pay will ruin something in Arts, when free porn will remain out of control and available everywhere. It means that anyone will have more chance to meet nudity in raw porn stuff,…

⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2024/05/21/frozen-nudity/

indubitablyodin, to anarchism
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Techno-Feudalism Feasts Upon Us All

What if the Marxists made a mistake? What if the inevitable transition point for Capitalism isn't socialism but feudalism?

https://odinhalvorson.com/techno-feudalism-feasts-upon-us-all/

mrcompletely,
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@indubitablyodin well said. Belief in inevitable change to a future perfected state is just religious thinking under a different name. It's irrational and enervating.

In order to understand the transformation of societies from one stable state to another through a chaotic transition I would look to complexity theory and in particular the idea of fitness landscapes and the "phase change" transitions between local minima.

The implications of neofeudalist thought are very dark -

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@indubitablyodin - feudalism itself turns out to be a flawed, kind of bullshit folk history concept anyway, but in its own terms, feudalism requires an external threat for the lords and their armies to protect the peasants from in exchange for fealty and work. In the neofeudalist model that threat is climate refugees. Without climate refugee "barbarian hordes" their model makes no sense. So they're actually incentivized towards climate driven social collapse. What a bunch of dicks.

thejapantimes, to Japan
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Japan's education ministry will fully exempt teachers at elementary, junior high and senior high schools from repaying scholarship loans they took out during their graduate studies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/29/japan/society/teachers-scholarship-loans/

thejapantimes, to Japan
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A team consisting of scientists, visually impaired researchers and braille experts in Japan have translated a book on physics into the tactile writing system for visually impaired readers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/29/japan/society/physics-book-braille/

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