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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 20h

might be missing a song or two, but this is most of what they played open.spotify.com/playlist/2Bg...

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2026-09-30 Minyo Crusaders

list of songs that they played, not in order

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 22h

Remembering the other baseball moment for the Chicago Pope

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 01/10/2026

i guess i'm making plots tomorrow night

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 01/10/2026

yeah this was amazing. best world music festival show I've been to. totally worth getting a new babysitter for Minyo Crusaders are mad geniuses

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 30/09/2026

It would be nice if people could distinguish between risks of frontier models and LLMs vs risks of machine learning in general. Not because one is less serious than the other but because they’re different. Whatever you do concerning OpenAI, Anthropic etc, the latter risks are unaffected

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 30/09/2026

Take a journey with me to find out how Chuck Berry and Yumi Matsutoya are our great transportation songwriters www.satoruinoue.com/p/cars-and-t...

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Cars and trucks and songs that go

Chuck Berry and Yuming, the great transportation songwriters

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 29/09/2026

*Drivers* should be mad that so many of the vehicles on these highways are carrying 1 person each. Thats why there’s so much traffic

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 29/09/2026

A recent development is that 1yo has figured out how to make this shape with both hands and loves to do it. And 4yo is completely failing to imitate it

A right hand, with the middle finger pressing on the tip of the index finger that is slightly bent back, forming a loop

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 28/09/2026

Polombia is great, and very Chicago

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The restaurant that runs these stands at the Cell also has a stall in the food court at Ogilvie next to Great Steak

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 28/09/2026

Remembering the last time I was in Japan (June 2025), when it felt like rice shortage took up the majority of TV news

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 28/09/2026

btw, this is why poke is not sushi. It's just a different dish (if someone thinks anything called "sushi" is automatically better than something that isn't, that's a separate issue)

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 28/09/2026

From OLIVE (1979). She takes a walk in the rain after a fight, comes home to find another woman's red shoes This is a song she wrote for another band in 1975, in a great pop arrangement by Haruomi Hosono "Cold Rain" by Yumi Matsutoya open.spotify.com/track/7FJR56...

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冷たい雨

Yumi Matsutoya · OLIVE · Song · 1979

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 27/09/2026

play this song w/ this video Chicago can do city pop

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 27/09/2026

I warmed up pork in adobo, but the thing that made it great this time was the roasted tomatillo salsa Put tomatillo in toaster oven for 20-30 minutes, mash salt, garlic, dried chile powder & mix everything. So easy and so good

A brown stewing liquid with pieces of meat and a wooden spoon, in a black Dutch oven

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 27/09/2026

How much time it takes for express buses to go through their North DuSable Lake Shore Drive segments, depending on the hour of the day (3 posts with Mon-Thu, Fri, weekend plots, respectively)

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 26/09/2026

Don’t mind me, I’m just writing in my notebook about transportation songs at Ragamala. Post coming next week

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 26/09/2026

From daycare: “(4yo)’s favorite geometric shape is the decagon” seems like a secret test of how insufferable your kid is going to be

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Philip Montoro @pmontoro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The World Music Festival begins tonight with Ragamala, a free 14-hour marathon of Indian classical music at the Cultural Center. Have you ever seen anybody play a morsing? Or a surbahar? I had to look those up! Bring snacks or even a sleeping bag. It's a great time! www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 25/09/2026

Ryūsenkei '80 (1978) is a slow burn of an album, my favorites are the last 2 tracks Extremely mellow one. She gets on a Ferris wheel by herself after a heartbreak—another mode of conveyance (?) "Ferris Wheel" by Yumi Matsutoya open.spotify.com/track/7B0d6I...

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かんらん車

Yumi Matsutoya · 流線形 '80 · Song · 1978

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 24/09/2026

haven't even read the blog post lol I had some of this lined up for my own purposes & just wanted to figure it out quickly. Should be easier to generalize this now that I'm more familiar with what's happening

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 24/09/2026

This is from last 30 days of Mansueto Institute's dataset (6/27-7/27...might mean it's not being updated rn) Weekdays, by hour of entry into DLSD. Plotting percentiles because of outliers & because it's based on ~5 min interval pings, so not very precise, but you get a rough idea

4 plots for 2 routes (146, 147) in 2 directions (northbound, southbound), showing how long buses took to traverse DuSable Lake Shore Drive (DLSD), by time of day, from 6 to 22, based on the time of entry into DLSD. Each plot shows the median and interquartile ranges (range between 25th & 75th percentiles).

Route 146 Northbound is roughly 8 minutes median, aside from hours 16 to 18, when the median is around 10 minutes, and the 75th percentile jumps up to 16 minutes for hours 17 and 18.

Route 146 Southbound is roughly 9 minutes median. There is a small bump at hour 8 to 10 minutes, and a more sustained bump from hours 14 to 17, where the median is 11-12 minutes, and 75th percentile goes up to 16 minutes at hour 17.

Route 147 Northbound is roughly 12 minutes median, and the median bumps up to around 14 minutes at hours 10, 13, and 16 to 18. 75th percentile goes up to 18 minutes at hours 17 and 18.

Route 147 Southbound is roughly 12 minutes median, except from hours 14 to 17, when it is around 14 minutes. 75th percentile is around 18 minutes from hours 15 to 17.

4 plots for 2 routes (146, 147) in 2 directions (northbound, southbound), showing how fast buses traveled on DuSable Lake Shore Drive (DLSD), by time of day, from 6 to 22, based on the time of entry into DLSD. Each plot shows the median and interquartile ranges (range between 25th & 75th percentiles).

Route 146 Northbound is roughly 24 mph median, aside from hours 16 to 18, when the median is around 18 mph, and the 25th percentile goes down to 12 mph for hours 17 and 18.

Route 146 Southbound is roughly 20 mph median. There is a small dip at hour 8 to 19 mph, and a more sustained dip from hours 14 to 17, where the median is around 16 mph, and 25th percentile goes down to 12 minutes at hour 17.

Route 147 Northbound is roughly 29 mph median, and the median dips down to 25-26 mph at hours 10, 13, and 16 to 18. 25th percentile goes down to 18 mph at hours 17 and 18.

Route 147 Southbound is roughly 28 mph median, except from hours 14 to 17, when it is around 24 mph. 25th percentile is 19 mph from hours 15 to 17.

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Bike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In addition to sponsoring our 9th anniversary party, Angela’s family has also donated wine to the event from her wine of the month club membership. Angela signed up for the club after completing a triathlon in the area near the winery 💔

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 23/09/2026

Between this (friend’s sister, though I didn’t know her personally)

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 23/09/2026

The "bike bus" idea is simple: Once a week, a group of kids and parents bike to school together. It's an idea being embraced in neighborhoods around Chicago as a way to socialize and push back against car-centric culture, parents say.

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Instead of driving to school, more kids are taking the 'bike bus'

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 23/09/2026

my favorite Hungarian band has a live album out "Romaniada (In Residence At Müpa)" by Söndörgő www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2mP...

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Romaniada (In Residence At Müpa)

YouTube video by Söndörgő - Topic

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 23/09/2026

"I judge a X restaurant by its Y" is a low-key bad idea (that I've had in the past) The point isn't to rank places. The point is to have a good time. Just get what each place does best or what you're in the mood for—if you're at a good place, your server can guide you

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 21/09/2026

had a dream where I was running a marathon race with a train segment

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 20/09/2026

Umeda/Osaka? or is that like 7 train stations?

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 20/09/2026

This is about pedestrianization and not bikes, but it's one of my favorite parts of Jan Gehl's "Life Between Buildings". Copenhagen wasn't always Copenhagen either

When the main street in Copenhagen was converted to a pedestrian street in 1962 as the first such scheme in Scandinavia, many critics predicted that the street would be deserted because "city activity just doesn't belong to the northern European tradition." Today this major pedestrian street, plus a number of other pedestrian streets later added to the system, are filled to capacity with people walking, sitting, playing music, drawing, and talking together. It is evident that the initial fears were unfounded and that city life in Copenhagen had been so limited because there was previously no physical possibility for its existence.

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 20/09/2026

just saw the phrase "Chicken in the Time of Cyclospora"

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 19/09/2026

after thinking about this a bit more, their 1st 2 albums are the places to start (Yellow Magic Orchestra, Solid State Survivor). If you like them you can listen to everything else, some of which is pretty out there

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 19/09/2026

Just me and the boys most of this weekend. Ideally we’d go to the neighborhood park, but the weather isn’t cooperating…

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 19/09/2026

He said he wanted to listen to music. I thought for sure it was going to be “Gangnam Style”. Instead he wanted “Trans-Europe Express” by Kraftwerk 😂

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 19/09/2026

4yo: “Oppa gundam style”

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 18/09/2026

could be my favorite key change ever, at the end of intro "Yes - No" by Off Course www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBVR...

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Yes - No

YouTube video by Off Course - Topic

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 18/09/2026

In HS, we had an English homework to write an essay on a poem about pigs, and 2 kids who were in a band both used the phrase "connoisseur of fine swine" in their essays. The teacher was like "I don't know if you cheated off of each other but this is good so I'm gonna let it go"

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Swine-dark sea ... Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the lonian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 18/09/2026

daycare did a multicultural day event, and one kid was wearing a Bears jersey. I mean, yeah, Chicago is a country with its own culture

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 18/09/2026

made a playlist that gets updated as I go through Yumi Arai/Matsutoya's discography open.spotify.com/playlist/6cC...

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Yuming

Favorite songs by Yumi Arai/Matsutoya, as I go through her discography in chronological order

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 18/09/2026

Benisuzume (1978) is her 1st album after marriage (& name change) This one sounds a lot like Sergio Mendes but w/ a fake Spanish chorus Btw, crime here is having an affair, punishment is feeling bad they can't be together "Crime and Punishment" by Yumi Matsutoya open.spotify.com/track/4XhxJz...

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罪と罰

Yumi Matsutoya · 紅雀 · Song · 1978

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 17/09/2026

4th album is the last in her maiden name & her 1st #1 album. Title track is a song where she's in the passenger seat. 14th moon refers to the night before full moon "The 14th Moon" by Yumi Arai (1976) www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_H...

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The 14th Moon / Jyuyon Banme No Tsuki

YouTube video by Yumi Matsutoya - Topic

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 16/09/2026

1yo has started saying "carsh" for cars. me: oh this is like Swedish, making consonants after r retroflex en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish...

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Swedish phonology - Wikipedia

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 15/09/2026

btw, if you wanted a city pop Christmas song, Shinkansen ads had you covered too. A whole series of ads circa 1990—a pretty remarkable cultural artifact of bubble era Japan youtu.be/vqocw6y1z6I?...

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JR東海 Xmas Express CM 1988年～1992年 & 2000年

YouTube video by Hatchjpn

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Satoru Inoue @satoruinoue.com · 14/09/2026

3rd album, COBALT HOUR (1975), opens with the title track, which is I think her first song about driving. btw, all the backing bands have been Haruomi Hosono & his friends, and this one is heading toward Yellow Magic Orchestra territory. "COBALT HOUR" by Yumi Arai open.spotify.com/track/0DGvE0...

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COBALT HOUR

Yumi Arai · COBALT HOUR · Song · 1975

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