Invented in Japan in 1999, i-mode is a remarkable technology for connecting mobile devices to a wide range of web services.

It’s well-known in Japan that this invention, not the iPhone, was the first to enable games, email, emojis, and selfies on mobile devices.

I believe that the Japanese girls of the early 2000s who created this culture are the greatest hackers who shaped the smartphone era.

Super Galapagos - Matt Alt’s Pure Invention https://blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/super-galapagos

Imagine a court hearing being filled with Super Mario sound effects, laughter, and commentary like a sports broadcast.

That’s exactly what news programs that use music, sound effects, and commentators who are little more than gawkers are doing.

That’s not reporting; it’s merely a show that looks like it, a desecration of reality.

That’s why I prefer the old-fashioned form of media news, using text and images.

Of course, this also involves arbitrary intentions and editing, but the problems are far less severe than with video.

Websites in Thailand have turned black and white to mourn King Bhumibol’s death

What I’m particularly concerned about lately is the growing share of online forums that don’t even publish their content on the web.

The most famous example of this type of forum is probably Discord.

As those of you on Lemmy know, many people chose Discord as an alternative after Reddit’s deterioration.

Hasn’t this problem already escalated to the point where access to content isn’t guaranteed not only to some bots but even to individuals without accounts?

Shouldn’t those who love the web be extremely wary of online communities that don’t even try to be based on the web?

That’s what I think.

If search engines truly only show the “existence” of forums, then the open web is truly over.

This is a security issue, not a content issue.

There is nothing wrong with universities posting pornography.

This is evident from the fact that Japanese universities research traditional pornographic art from that country.

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  • Tildes Reddit Alternative.
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• Web Magazine
  • Kartina Magazine and Knowable Magazine A humanities web magazine.
  • UKRANT.NL “Independent news platform for academic Groningen” Also available in Dutch.
  • La Brújula Verde A Archaeology web magazine. Also available in Spanish.

If you’re looking for RSS feeds, I recommend the website RSS Parot.

Sleaze: “Mon Papa” by Kenichi Enomoto, Teiichi Futamura (1931)
Depressing: “Inverted Type” by Sympathy Nervous (1980)

Nobuyuki Onogi: Libble Rabble (1983, AC)
Tim Follin: Puzznic (1990, Amiga)
Koichi Sugiyama: Tetris 2 + BomBliss (1991, FC)

Yes, Sakura is also a girl’s name.

Japan: 花 (Hana, Flower), 菫 (Sumire, violet), 蓮 (Ren, lotus), 蘭 (Ran, Orchid), 柊 (Hiiragi).

Thanks.

Thanks.

While I’m not in favor of boycotting culture, I do feel like boycotting products and services that incorporate it.

So I try to buy boycotted cultural products secondhand whenever possible.

This way, I can legally obtain culture, but it prevents American companies from making any additional profits. (Naturally, I avoid using Amazon[.]com when making these purchases.)

The problem then arises when an American artist performs in the country where I live.

Naturally, experiential entertainment cannot be recorded, meaning it cannot be purchased secondhand. This issue determines whether a boycott is feasible based on how individual artists respond to corruption in the United States.

Separately, I also try to avoid cultural dependency on social media platforms such as YouTube and x[.]com by prioritizing domestic alternatives (such as Nico Nico Douga and mixi2).

In Japanese, the English phrase “12 years old” is written as ‘12歳’ or “12才”.

Both “歳” and ‘才’ are read as “sai,” and “歳” is the standard form.

As an exception, since children in elementary education typically learn the character “歳” before “才,” it is sometimes common to write ages as “12才” during the period after learning ‘才’ but before learning “歳.”

reference:

「年齢」を「年令」、「○歳」を「○才」と書くことがありますが、正式にはどうなのでしょうか？｜漢字文化資料館 (Article in Japanese)

相合傘, means two people sharing one umbrella.

相合傘 has a strong romantic implication, stemming in part from a play on words. The first two characters are pronounced あい (ai), the same as the word 愛 (ai, “love”), and thus the connotation is that both people under the umbrella are in love.

相合傘 - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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As a Japanese native, the only foreign language I studied at school was basically English.

However, as part of my ancient Japanese language education, I studied classical Chinese literature written in Chinese characters, from which hiragana and other Japanese characters are derived, so ancient Chinese might also be included in the list of foreign languages ​​I learned.

「マンガ肉」

This is what you would call “Manga Meat” in English, an iconic piece of meat on the bone that often appears in anime, manga, games, and other works in Japanese subculture.

I would love to bite into this hearty meat like the cartoon characters someday.

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Yes. I am a feminist, though I am skeptical.

Some feminists argue(Article in Japanese) that the gender equality brought about by feminism also liberates men from the suffering unique to them.

I take a similar stance, believing that the ‘gender equality’ brought about by male feminism, which seeks happiness for men, also liberates women from the suffering unique to them. In some ways, I am a reactionary feminist.

Previously, I was a male feminist with old-fashioned thinking, striving to eliminate only women’s suffering, not men’s.

However, I changed my mind after the Japanese government, where I live, adopted a policy of allocating “female admission quotas” at prestigious universities, including national universities, as part of its affirmative action program, modeled on America’s racial admission quotas.

Even back when I supported traditional feminism, I was critical of the current state of university education in Japan, where there are public women’s universities but no public men’s universities. I also believe that expanding these quotas to general universities would violate the Constitution, which proclaims gender equality. I cannot trust traditional Japanese feminism, which supports the unconstitutional status quo, and that is why I have become the skeptical feminist I mentioned earlier.