"«Love Hotel!» is a collection of photographs of the facades of Japanese Love Hotels, taken in 2023 during a road trip between Tokyo and Shikoku Island."

#japan #photography #loveHotel #travel

🍜 Love Hotel http://francoisprost.com/portfolio-item/love-hotel/

"American data collection is done for profit, and Chinese data collection is done for control. Pick your poison."

#tikTok #internet 

🍜 RedNote's Surge Shows the Hypocrisy Tearing the Internet Apart https://www.theindex.media/rednotes-surge-shows-the-hypocrisy-tearing-the-internet-apart/

"Norwegians aren't more environmentally-minded than people elsewhere, she reckons. "I don't think a green mindset has much to do with it. It has to do with strong policies, and people gradually understanding that driving an electric car is possible.""

#ev #norway #cars

🍜 Norway on track to be first to go all-electric https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg52543v6rmo

"Between January 4 and January 5, customers can stream all Apple Originals with no subscription required."

#streaming #free #appleTV

🍜 Apple TV+ announces free streaming weekend for its catalog of originals - 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/30/apple-tv-stream-for-free-weekend/

"Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, a broker of peace in the Middle East in his time, and a tireless advocate for global health and human rights, has died, it was announced Sunday."

#jimmyCarter #RIP

🍜 Jimmy Carter, longest-lived US president, dies aged 100 / Jimmy Carter / The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/29/jimmy-carter-dead-longest-lived-us-president?CMP=Share\_iOSApp\_Other

"I try to refrain from big-headedness. I don’t need gongs and honours. I only take them for my kids, for the way I abandoned them over the years, rushing off to war."

#mcCullin #photojournalism

🍜 Don McCullin: 'I think the rebels will lose control in Syria and it will fall apart' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/22/don-mccullin-rebels-syria-ukraine-war-photographer/

"We're a small team of one developer and one designer, so it can take months to launch big features. It's risky to invest months of our time on features without any feedback from users. Even worse, months of radio-silence can leave customers (that is you!) feeling ignored."

#halide

🍜 The Road to Halide Mark III https://www.lux.camera/the-road-to-halide-mark-3/

"Spoiler alert: AI answers are still wrong far too often for you to rely on. But, armed with the research Perplexity used to come up with those answers, you can work out the real answers. "

#perplexity #search #ai

🍜 Perplexity, not Google, is now the best search engine • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/opinion\_column\_perplexity\_vs\_google/

"According to TBS News Dig, Japan sees over 20,000 bath-related deaths every year. In 2011, 3.7 times more people died in their baths in Japan than died in traffic accidents."

#japan #oldData? #heatShock #bath

🍜 Warnings Over “Heat Shock” After Japanese Actress’s Tragic Death https://unseen-japan.com/nakayama-miho-heat-shock/

"Fifty percent of species could be lost by 2080 if humans do not curb greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation"

#climate #extinction #science

🍜 If Humans Die Out, Octopuses Already Have the Chops to Build the Next Civilization, Scientist Claims https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a63184424/octopus-civilization/

"Culture shock is a constructive thing. It’s the growing pains of a broadening perspective. To me, there are two kinds of travel: There’s escape travel, and there’s reality travel. I want to go home a little bit different, a little less afraid, a little more thankful, a little better citizen of the planet."

#rickSteves #travel

🍜 ‘The Interview’: Rick Steves Refuses to Get Cynical About the World - The New York Times https://archive.ph/3NtXk

"Taken together, the donations and other celebratory gestures showcase an industry kissing the ring of an incoming president in hopes of something in return, says Margaret O'Mara, a Silicon Valley historian at the University of Washington."

#trump #usa #puke #disgusting

🍜 Bezos, Zuckerberg and Altman donate to Trump's inauguration fund : NPR https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5227874/trump-bezos-zuckerberg-amazon-facebook-open-ai-meta-inauguration-fund

"As Big Tech continues to deliver empty promises instead of solutions to social ills—while dodging taxes, quashing regulations and fueling a yawning pay inequality gap—the public will continue to grow disenchanted with the industry."

#bigTech #broTech #equality

🍜 Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros / WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/tyranny-tech-bros-silicon-valley-activism/

"It’s hard not to think about that inevitable moment when your children stop looking at you with fascination. When their eyes no longer light up just because you’re there. At"

#parenting #love

🍜 Alex's Blog https://blog.ambrzykowski.com/

"Nokia's factory setting ringtone -- the 1902 Gran Vals by Francisco Tárrega -- was so ubiquitous in the 1990s and 2000s that birds learned to sing it."

#nokia #ringtone #cellphone

🍜 Lord of the ringtones: Nokia celebrates pop-culture status by opening design archive https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/08/nokia-mobile-finnish-brand-ringtones