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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 21/12/2025

Are you using an in-car unit (or plugged into a car, aka Android Auto) or just the mobile phone?

Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 17/12/2025

Dumbest rule ever at Mizuho bank- if you don't have your cash card no amount of IDs that confirm you are the owner of an account will let you transfer money at the bank

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 14/12/2025

If you think I'm exaggerating, this has been in prod for at least two months

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 14/12/2025

Proof that no one does QA any more now that everything is about AI

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 13/12/2025

Why is it that old white men find joy in being the only people EVER in an onsen to submerge their head/hair.

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 10/12/2025

I have to admit I'm a bit bearish on the social media ban. As much as I understand social media is harmful, a ban pushes motivated users to alternatives that might be even less safe. I much prefer the European approach of a social media curfew, to put guardrails rather than outright bans.

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 07/12/2025

Tell me you live in Tokyo without telling me you live in Tokyo

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 22/11/2025

lol if you actually read the fine print it actually says that Google does NOT use your data for AI models without permission

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 22/11/2025

God forbid to get access to WiFi please scan your iris

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 22/11/2025

Remember the days when signing up for free WiFi at the airport or the nearest business involved signing away your first born child

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 22/11/2025

I find that asking my AI agent to be a bit snarky (using Personal Context) actually really reminds me when to use it and when not to

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 06/11/2025

I don't know if we're supposed to be proud or sad about this 😂

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 05/11/2025

Well Upper East Side and to a lesser extent Upper West Side is where all the money is, and that's where the votes for Cuomo concentrated, despite most of the rest of the boro voting for Mamdani. Also the Tribeca area is probably decently wealthy too?

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 05/11/2025

Super proud of the work that went into building this. I learned so much about how to integrate AI thoughtfully and make it truly helpful and delightful. Can't wait to see how you use Gemini on your next Google Maps journey. www.theverge.com/news/813588/...

theverge.com

Google Maps taps Gemini AI to transform into an ‘all-knowing copilot’

“Hey Google, where am I?”

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 05/11/2025

This is a fascinating map

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 03/11/2025

So it turns out Halloween is the day grocery stores in Japan take the universal cue to change their in-store jingles to be Christmas themed and all I can say is TOO SOON

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 10/10/2025

Just because you can does not mean you should

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 06/10/2025

I wonder how many transactions are lost with this one -- the default Enter keypress on my Visa OTP input form... opens a dialog to cancel the entire transaction 🤦

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 04/10/2025

My most antisocial behavior is to return car share vehicles with driver seat configurations that make it impossible for the subsequent driver not to wonder what kind of misshapen person could have possibly driven the car before.

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 01/10/2025

It's a bold strategy, Cotton.

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 27/09/2025

Always reminded never to be totally surprised at how good the Pixel captures imagery, even tricky things like fireworks

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 27/09/2025

I can't think of anything quite more American than thinking of new places to put cup holders

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 25/09/2025

No ma'am, 88F, 31C is not normal for end of September

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 24/09/2025

American grocery store experience: corn, corn, corn Japanese grocery store experience: what is corn

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 23/09/2025

Nature doesn't operate on a timetable.

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 13/09/2025

I have a hilarious situation with USPS where the package originates from Indiana headed to Maine but they seem to keep trying to deliver it back to some place in Indiana (maybe the origin?), which I suspect is due to how the address was written on the back? Anyhow, two weeks and counting...

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 11/09/2025

You're giving Google too much credit with that one Ivan 🤣

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 11/09/2025

Since when are unskippable YouTube ads 1 minute long

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 11/09/2025

I spend almost as much time thinking about new things as I do trying to make sure everyone knows what we're currently doing. I wish I didn't have to do so much of the latter. But maybe that's Big Corp Problems.

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 10/09/2025

I certainly did not agree on most things with the man, but I firmly believe no one should be killed for what they say or believe.

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 10/09/2025

What a payday for Oracle folks but these are just projections no?

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 10/09/2025

I might eat my words, but $KLAR at $40 seems a bit overpriced www.rioleo.org/klarna.html

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 08/09/2025

Guess which large metropolitan city does not have a single place that will fill up a nylon balloon with helium unless you buy the balloon from the store. Guess.

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 05/09/2025

Holy crap this email looks like phishing / spam if there ever was one

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 01/09/2025

Remind me never ever to rent a CX-90 ever again. It drives and sounds like a tank, wobbles like a whale, guzzles gas like a Hummer, has the turn radius of a hippo.

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 04/08/2025

I was reminded randomly of one of my first forays of the internet, which was at the easyInternetCafe in Times Square (this must have been circa 2001). I would meet up with a friend and we'd spend a bit of time on Neopets...

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 26/07/2025

Farewell my dear Natsuge. Thank you for the awesome memories.

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 22/07/2025

Fun fact: the new chairman married into the Tamiya family name, a process fairly common in large Japanese companies called mukoyōshi

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 22/07/2025

I've never felt more like a robot not in control of my own destiny than at Shinagawa station at 8:38 in the morning

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 21/07/2025

There's a restaurant in Shibuya staffed entirely by robots and I never knew I could simultaneously be smitten and horrified

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Rio Akasaka @rio.akasaka.org · 21/07/2025

One thing I struggled with while in India was just the overpowering sense of fragrance everywhere from inside the taxi to inside the office. I'm surprised it didn't give migraines to everyone else.

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