Chris Salzberg

Thank you for this one, Chris!

My first Global Voices post in 14 years! #SaveTheBentenWarehouses #函館どつくレンガ倉庫 #弁天倉庫

It reached mid-30s in Tokyo and 28° in Sapporo today, but over here in Hakodate it peaked at a cool 24°. This time of year I'm so thankful we got out of Kanto. (Ask me again in January though 😅)

Even if you truly believe that this stuff is amazing and life changing because you are the most credulous person alive, the revenues are absolute dogshit, have always been absolute dogshit, and are only dwarfed by how dogshit they are by how expensive this stuff is to run. A joke of an industry.

I understand everyone has a lot on their social catastrophe plates, I do too. But the colonial evisceration of Tibet is proceeding apace and it deserves more attention

Stock and awe: Donald Trump’s appearance at the FCCJ 32 years ago proved prophetic www.fccj.or.jp/number-1-shi...

As far as I recall, yes.

Note I last tested this over a month ago, things may have changed a bit since then.

Commits · tagomoris/ruby The Ruby Programming Language. Contribute to tagomoris/ruby development by creating an account on GitHub.

It is a subclass of Module provided by the language. There may be a keyword or other API sugar in the future to help with conventions but the core is the Namespace class.

You can test by compiling from the WIP branch: github.com/tagomoris/ru...

@fxn.bsky.social it is expected

@tagomoris.bsky.social is working on a branch that will soon be merged behind a flag. I've tested it locally and the basic idea works, the main tricky implementation issue being that common gems loaded in separate namespaces will duplicate memory.

It's official, the next RubyKaigi will be in Hakodate!

RubyKaigi 2026 will be in Hakodate, Hokkaido between 22-24 April #rubykaigi

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

bsky.app/profile/shio...

I was just in Kanazawa a couple weeks ago for the first time, was really great.

New research paper argues that the onslaught in Gaza has killed more reporters than the US Civil War, World Wars 1 and 2, the Korean War, the Vietnam war, the Yugoslav Wars, the Afghanistan War and the Ukraine War COMBINED. (h/t Jonathan Cook). watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

Vote for the best of the internet I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

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*$40bn

*$10bn up front, $30bn "by end of year" and they lose $10bn off the top if they can't convert to for profit, which is in my opinion is impossible. gonna need it with 500m weekly active users! Hey why do they never give monthly active? Is it because the conversion stinks?

Gunkanjima

First concrete buildings in Japan

It really looks like a warship

軍艦島なう

Highly recommend this place, coffee is great and the building is fascinating, formerly a bank.

Morning Latte @ Lima Cafe, Kobe limacoffee.jp

Cappuccino & notepad @ Devada Coffee & Records, Kyoto

However the AI bubble bursts, we are now witnessing one of the most consequential moments in tech industry history - the consequences of ceding the future to the most narrow-minded and short-sighted management consultants alive. A captured tech media is waking up, but not as fast as the public.

Oat milk hot chocolate @ Hotel Pacific, Kanazawa

We've selected our Program Committee for #RailsConf 2025! 😍

Introducing: Adrianna Chang! Adrianna is a Senior Engineer on the Rails Infrastructure team at Shopify.

She will be working with the rest of our Committee members to review CFPs and more! 💫

Welcome John!