Abhishek
@abhishek47.bsky.social
Has eclectic tastes, mostly a lurker on here
Respect for the Aged Day falls on the third Monday of every September in Japan. Each year, the government gives a gift to everyone who turns 100. In 2025, there were 99,763 people aged 100 or older, with 52,310 turning 100 that year.
Respect for the Aged Day: Its Origins and Celebration in Japan - Unseen Japan
What is Respect for the Aged Day? An overview of Japan's national holiday, including its origins and related cultural myths.
unseen-japan.com
🚀 Zed v1.17 is out! Zed now previews CSV, TSV, PSV, and SSV files as interactive tables. You can sort and resize columns, then filter rows by selected values. Thanks HalavicH!
When I posted this, I thought it was funny, but... They initially designed it with a human-like arm swing, but swinging the arms too much caused overheating, couldn't complete the 400m race. Given this constraint, they let the robot gradually learn a new running style on its own.
Sung Kim@sungkim.bsky.social · 2w agoThe robots have shown us the way. If you want to run fast, run like this.
We've arrived on Bluesky! We hope you will follow along as we share inspiring, motivational and exciting content about the achievements and individuals that have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Stay tuned.
coming in atuin v18.20 🐢✨ autocomplete, from your shell history with support for standard shell completions!
That Suica card sitting in your drawer probably still works. JR East says a Suica only expires after 10 straight years with no use at all. Tap it once anywhere, even at a convenience store, and the 10-year clock restarts from zero.
How Long Does a Japan Subway Card Last, Anyway? - Unseen Japan
Got a Suica or Pasmo card sitting in a desk drawer for your next visit to Japan? Here's how long you have until it deactivates for good.
unseen-japan.com
With the new year upcoming, spent some time putting together an AI usage policy to think through how it's used in research and learning: three-sundial-55c.notion.site/AI-Usage-Pol...
AI Usage Policy | Notion
TLDR: this is a continually evolving doc and will have to be revisited. Please consider this my best understanding of how to think about AI usage as of Aug. 5 2026.
three-sundial-55c.notion.site
Gouldian finch Black-faced is by far the most common, making up about 70% to 80% of the wild population. Red-faced variant is next at roughly 20% to 30%, while the orange/yellow-faced variant is extremely rare in nature.
VC rounds now asking how many companies your chatbot has hacked and declining if it's less than 3
Buckwheat is naturally gluten-free, so soba seems like a safe choice. But most soba in Japan is a blend of buckwheat and wheat flour. Unless it's labeled 100% buckwheat (十割そば, juwari soba), it likely contains gluten.
Traveling Gluten-Free in Japan: What You Need to Know
Traveling to Japan while also wrestling with a gluten allergy? It's tricky but it can be done. Here's what you need to know.
unseen-japan.com
NEW: Hokkaido University spent a century collecting 1,000+ Ainu ancestral remains for research that assumed the Ainu were "inferior." Ainu families had to sue to get them back. Only now, before its 150th anniversary, has it apologized.
Hokkaido University Apologizes for a Century of Ainu Remains Research
After many years of calling its actions "extremely regrettable," Hokkaido University has finally apologized for how it handled Ainu remains.
unseen-japan.com
What we are seeing is an attempt to turn away from the idea of basic research entirely, that all that's left is engineering and implementation. But we still need moonshots and risk taking and industry is not always set up well for that
This is a robot failing to grasp a ball. Almost every robot lab produces clips like this daily… and almost all of them get thrown away. This is the most abundant but underused resource in robot learning. We’re collecting all of it now as “OopsieData”, please join us at oopsie-data.com! (1/13)
When abuse engulfed novelist Yu Miri, her own editor at Weekly Gendai stepped in. "I can't turn a blind eye to discrimination," he wrote, defending a Zainichi Korean resident's right to speak about Japanese politics.
Award-Winning Author Yu Miri Harassed Online After Criticizing Japanese Government
Yu Miri is one of Japan's most celebrated authors. Yet some feel that, due to her background, she has no right to criticize the country.
unseen-japan.com
This is worth reading, as it sheds important light on why public hearings for city planning decisions have always been a flawed, unrepresentative approach. “…a politically overrepresented proportion of the Canadian citizenry benefit immensely from housing scarcity.” Via @thewalrus.ca
How Canada’s Richest Residents Block Affordable Housing | The Walrus
In Calgary, the wealthy have a virtual stranglehold over meetings where key decisions are made
thewalrus.ca
👋🏾 I have joined @bsky.app as VP of Engineering! I’ve been admiring this team’s work for years, and I’m thrilled to be joining them to build the future of the open social web.
Rust 1.97.0 has been released! 🌈 ✨ 🦀 Some of the highlights are new symbol mangling, a new Cargo setting for Rust warnings, linker output, and new integer methods: bit_width, {lowest,highest}_one, isolate_{lowest,highest}_one. Check out the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/07/09/R...
Announcing Rust 1.97.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
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I guess I’ve slowly come to terms with the fact that people do not feel that using a platform whose algorithm is controlled by a virulent white supremacist is in any way risky or a problem.
Senkyaku Banrai, an artificial Edo town-style attraction near Tokyo’s Toyosu Fish Market, opened in February 2024. The building sports an onsen, but there’s no natural source of hot spring water here: they truck it in daily from Hakone and Yugawara.
Senkyaku Banrai: Why This Tokyo Tourist Trap Has So Few Foreign Tourists - Unseen Japan
More foreign tourists will visit Japan this year than ever. But you won't see many of them at this spot near Toyosu.
unseen-japan.com
U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia says ICE Acting Director David Venturella confirmed that Lorenzo was not the person officers were looking for. A father left home that morning expecting another day of work. Instead, he never came home.
It took a while but the effects of unstable government funding on research are showing up. Smaller PhD cohorts. Faculty spending more time in industry or scaling down their plans. Faculty leaving to other countries. Another unforced disaster.
Personnel news: @toni.bsky.team is dropping the “interim” from his title and will serve as our permanent CEO!
Toni Schneider@toni.bsky.team · 2mo agoStaying in the game I'm four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it's time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I'm... https://toni.org/2026/07/10/staying-in-the-game/
The power team behind the music for Arcane and the League of Legends universe
How the soundtracks for Arcane and League of Legends are made
Musicians and game developers work closely to make the world of League of Legends sound so incredible.
abc.net.au
A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
We are pleased to welcome Wild to the RIL: the Rust Foundation's home for projects that power critical infrastructure. Wild is a linker with the goal of being very fast for iterative development & is supported financially by AWS. Read the announcement: rustfoundation.org/media/welcom...
Welcoming Wild to the Rust Innovation Lab
The Rust Innovation Lab (RIL), housed under the Rust Foundation, is pleased to announce the arrival of its newest board-approved project, Wild: a very fast linker for Linux, with other operating…
rustfoundation.org
Spray deodorant isn’t inherently risky unless the canister is the same color as your shaving cream
Absolutely AMAZING talk by Noémie Jaquier (KTH) on geometric biases for learning robotics at ICRA. Loved it ❤️ 1/3
Some young people in Japan say they’re not removing their masks. Members of this mask generation, who came of age during the pandemic, feel more comfortable hiding their faces. In fact, one survey found 56.8% still wear masks regularly.
Mask Generation: The Unusual Reason Japan's Young Continue to Mask Up - Unseen Japan
Many people in their 20s in Japan continue to mask up. However, some say they're not doing it for health reasons.
unseen-japan.com
