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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Otaki Eiichi is in the list of ‘Showa 100—50 Beautiful Japanese’ in the Nov, 2026 issue of Bungeishunshu.

Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Ngo nam jinggoi maai do gei bun Iida Maki ge “Kanton’go no Sekai”, haaci jyudou m zi me hai Kanton’go ge Jatbunjan zau sung bei keoi.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Saw アーバンクラシック on a signboard and thought ‘avant classical’. Turned out it’s ‘urban classic’.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

The 2026 summer concert of Suginami Children’s Choir has a wonderfully diverse program.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Also made some of @jwz's cards. For my sanity's sake.

A stack of red cards based on @jwz's "Do not talk to me about "AI"" design

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12/07/2026

I was sunning by the pool when the boxes arrived. And here in my hand is my life’s work: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.” Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat—pre-order today! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Gil Duran holding physical copy of Nerd Reich book

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Someone says Suntory's Craft Boss ‘Hong Kong-style milk tea’ tastes like ultra-mild milk tea poured into an unwashed coffee cup. Spot on. Also, if you read the fine print you'll see it's actually Yuenyeung (coffee + milk tea), which many people mix up with HK-style milk tea […]

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Chindogu found in Shenzhen. Put your phone on the upper left corner of the table and pedal to charge. The thing is you have to pedal really hard as if you are on an exercise bike.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

Hong Kong is not China, so what is it? One way to look at it is Qing Dynasty + Britain (I think the credit goes to Jia Zhangke and Ah Cheng). Well, here's a quaint punctuation mark on HK taxi: the colon dash (:—), ‘a mark that indicates a list, the contents […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

I’m at SGC Hall Ariake in 江東区, 東京. But I’m not going in.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

merurido.jp/item.php?pdid=ODR7466 Jimmy Mashiko did it again! The title says Southeast Asia but it's really Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

#TIL 710+229-8‎ = 931: 納豆 + ニンニク + はぁー = 臭い

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

I despise LLM as much as the next guy, but this is funny and contains quite a bit of truth.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Debussy on Wagner: ‘Having been an impassioned visitor to Bayreuth for several years, I began to doubt the Wagnerian formula—or, rather, it seemed to me it fitted only the particular genius of that composer, who was a great collector of clichés that he summed up in a formula which seemed unusual […]

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

Magic Leap hired Neal Stephenson, Apple hired Jimmy Iovine, now OpenAI is going to hire Rick Rubin. Tech companies seem to take the phrase ‘acquired taste’ literally and believe taste can be acquired. They fail to understand that it can only be acquired with time, not money. That's why LLM is […]

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

If you're interested in participating in the chorus of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (‘Ode to Joy’) this April in Tokyo, here's a chance: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd… We're looking for 5 sopranos, 2 tenors, and 3 basses. You […]

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

books.bunshun.jp/ud/book/num/978416… 「教師をしながら一人親で息子を育て、欲しがる雑誌は全て定期購読し、ラジオを与えて「大滝詠一」の礎を築いた母。新婚時代、ラジオ局が激安で放出した大量の中古レコードを「全部買えば」と鼓舞した妻……ふたりの女性の格好良さにも痺れ、朝ドラのような展開に心が熱くなるノンフィクション！」 What I wouldn't give for an asadora about Otaki/Niagara! Maybe this book is a start?

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『幸せな結末大滝詠一ができるまで』萩原健太 | 単行本 - 文藝春秋

30年以上封印されていた音声、初の書籍化死後公開を約束に、三日三晩著者に語り尽くした91年のインタビューをもとに描く、POPの頂点を極めた大滝詠一の知られざる素顔。『幸せな結末大滝詠一ができるまで』萩原健太

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

I guess I’m far from the only one to have mistaken Shang Shang Typhoon for an Okinawan band. None of the members is from Okinawa—a fact I actually learnt from this very book.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

手のひらを太陽に！（いずみたく）

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

This toilet in some of Japanese trains brings together the genius and absurdity in terms of affordance in one design: The door doesn’t have a lock because it doesn’t need one. On the other hand, who can hold the handle while taking a leak?

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

Is it really rocket science to make the label in Apple Music for Mac/iOS clickable, now that it is in Apple Music Classical?

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/11/2025

Cover Reveal! “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026. How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it. Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Book Cover for The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by Gil Duran. Red background with white and black text, and a tech circuit background.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

Finally, there’s link to the record label in Apple Music Classical. Why it isn’t available in Apple Music is beyond me, and while being able to browse all of Biddulph’s releases is a godsend, you can’t copy the link. Also, ‘Universal Music’ isn’t helpful at […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

「申し訳ございません。現代小説はあまり読まないので。」

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

Kudos for adding Cantonese, Disk Union. diskunion.net/pdf/kaitori/2025/2025… Funny that Indie = 近年盤 (p. 14–15)

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

What was Hu Jintao promoting? Just read the chapters about Google and China in @stevenlevy’s In the Plex. Those things all happened under Hu’s reign.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

It has finally come. Six-year-old while watching NHK news: Why can't we rewind it like we do on YouTube? (We almost always watch YouTube on the big TV and rarely watch live YouTube videos.)

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

#TIL That song in Curb Your Enthusiasm is ‘Three Little Maids from School Are We’ from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.

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