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| title: "AI Makes Me Sad" | ||||
| description: Sad tooting about AI. | ||||
| date: 2025-09-05T13:56:40-07:00 | ||||
| draft: true | ||||
| tags: | ||||
|     - AI | ||||
|     - Tech | ||||
| --- | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| [My own toot](https://mastodon.social/@erynofwales/115153168015169009) from a | ||||
| few days on Mastodon: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| > I don't know what to do with how much I dislike AI and its relentless creep | ||||
| > into my industry. The more I see of it, the more inevitable it seems, and the | ||||
| > more alienated I feel from the software engineering industry. | ||||
| > | ||||
| > It could very well push me out of the industry, not because it steals my job, | ||||
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| title: "Hamonshū" | ||||
| date: 2025-09-18 | ||||
| tags: | ||||
|     - Art | ||||
|     - Web Design | ||||
|     - Design | ||||
|     - japan | ||||
| --- | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Eric Meyer's [website](https://meyerweb.com) has a hand-drawn ink motif that I | ||||
| really dig. It's based heavily on drawings from the Hamonshū, a set of books | ||||
| produced by Yūzan Mōri. This work was new to me, and I enjoyed flipping through | ||||
| it on the Internet Archive, embedded below. | ||||
| 
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| <figure class="figure figure--small"> | ||||
|     <iframe | ||||
|         src="https://archive.org/embed/hamonshuyv1mori" | ||||
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| title: "I'm a Student Again" | ||||
| description: I started taking Japanese classes at CCSF. | ||||
| slug: student-again | ||||
| date: 2025-09-02 | ||||
| resources: | ||||
|     - name: textbooks | ||||
|       src: textbooks.jpg | ||||
|       title: My textbooks | ||||
|       params: | ||||
|         alt: > | ||||
|             Three textbooks fanned out on a dark wood desktop. From left to | ||||
|             right: Japanese for Busy People Book 1, Genki Book 1 Workbook, and | ||||
|             Genki Book 1 Textbook. | ||||
| tags: | ||||
|     - Life | ||||
|     - School | ||||
|     - japanese | ||||
|     - CCSF | ||||
| --- | ||||
| 
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| {{< figures/image name=textbooks >}} | ||||
| 
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| I've been fortunate to take two trips to Japan over the last couple years. | ||||
| Leading up to those trips, I picked up learning Japanese, attempting to build | ||||
| some basic language skills for getting around. At first, I used [Duolingo][dja] | ||||
| but recently switched to [Migaku][mja]. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| When I returned from our most recent trip, I decided to find a class so I can | ||||
| practice speaking skills. [Community College of San Francisco][ccsf] has an | ||||
| excellent program called "[Free City][fc]" that grants free tuition to residents | ||||
| of the city. It also has [Japanese program][ccsfja]. So I enrolled in their | ||||
| online Japanese 1A (Intro to Japanese) and in-person Japanese 10A (Beginning | ||||
| Conversational Japanese) courses. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The scheduling constraints are more complex this time around. Juggling the | ||||
| responsibilities of work, childcare, volunteer work, and other hobbies is a | ||||
| challenge. It makes me appreciate the freedom I had in my late teens and | ||||
| early-twenties. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to learning in a more structured way again, | ||||
| and also getting a chance to practice speaking with real people rather than | ||||
| talking to the AI bots in my phone. | ||||
| 
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| [dja]: https://www.duolingo.com/course/ja/en/Learn-Japanese | ||||
| [mja]: https://migaku.com/learn-japanese | ||||
| [ccsf]: https://www.ccsf.edu | ||||
| [ccsfja]: https://www.ccsf.edu/degrees-certificates/japanese | ||||
| [fc]: https://www.ccsf.edu/free-city | ||||
							
								
								
									
										
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| title: "Two Neat Websites From Miriam" | ||||
| date: 2025-09-23T10:16:55-07:00 | ||||
| tags: | ||||
|     - Pottery | ||||
|     - Web Design | ||||
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| 
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| A couple neat websites I learned about from [Miriam](https://www.miriamsuzanne.com): | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| * [Learn Pottery](https://learnpottery.com) offers online pottery lessons. Makes | ||||
| me want to pick up throwing again. | ||||
| * [Utopia.fyi](https://utopia.fyi) helps you develop font size and spacing scales | ||||
| for responsive web design. I read about it in OddBird's recent blog post about | ||||
| [Designing for User Font-size and Zoom][ob]. | ||||
| 
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| [ob]: https://www.oddbird.net/2025/07/22/size-preferences/ | ||||
							
								
								
									
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| title: "Notes on 2025W38" | ||||
| slug: weeknotes-2025w38 | ||||
| date: 2025-09-21 | ||||
| categories: weeknotes | ||||
| tags: | ||||
|   - Weeknotes | ||||
|   - Trans | ||||
|   - japan | ||||
|   - japan-tokyo | ||||
|   - Trains | ||||
|   - Yamanote | ||||
|   - uspol | ||||
|   - Travel | ||||
|   - Unions | ||||
| --- | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| I'm pretty behind on weeknotes again. | ||||
| 
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| ----- | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| It has been a truly awful few weeks for trans people in the US. I am worried for | ||||
| myself and for every other trans person navigating the daily terror of the | ||||
| political climate here. You are loved and valid, no matter what they say. | ||||
| :heart: | ||||
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| 
 | ||||
| Someone [compiled all the station ditties](https://yamanot.es) along the | ||||
| Yamanote line in Tōkyō. Via [Jonathan Wight][wight], though the link is now | ||||
| dead. | ||||
| 
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| --- | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| [Jimmy Kimmel was removed from the air][kimmel] by a combination of ABC, Disney, | ||||
| and Nexstar over comments he made about Charlie Kirk. His comments were mild at | ||||
| best, and his removal portends bad things for freedom of speech and a free press | ||||
| in the US. | ||||
| 
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| --- | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The US seems poised to pass a country-wide [bathroom ban][bathrooms] for trans | ||||
| people. It would deny trans people the right to use the toilets matching their | ||||
| gender, and _also_ deny them access to toilets matching their birth sex, | ||||
| effectively preventing trans people from using the bathroom in any public space. | ||||
| If this passes, I don't think I will be able to travel to the UK for any reason | ||||
| for the forseeable future. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Sol Elias draws a comparison to the current [moral panic][panic] around trans | ||||
| rights and the "crack baby" era of the 1980s and 1990s. | ||||
| 
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| --- | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The team behind the Diablo franchise at Blizzard has [unionized][diablo]. | ||||
| Congrats to them! | ||||
| 
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| [wight]: https://mastodon.social/@schwa/115125526450662142 | ||||
| [kimmel]: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115112175537370858 | ||||
| [bathrooms]: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bathroom-ban/ | ||||
| [panic]: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/freak-generations-the-moral-panic-playbook-from-crack-babies-to-trans-kids/ | ||||
| [diablo]: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115112175537370858 | ||||
							
								
								
									
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| title: "Bow River Valley" | ||||
| date: 2025-09-07T12:06:49-07:00 | ||||
| tags: | ||||
|     - Travel | ||||
|     - Alberta | ||||
|     - Canada | ||||
|     - Banff | ||||
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| 
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| The [Bow River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_River) runs down from the | ||||
| Rockies, feeding Banff, Canmore, and Calgary. In this photo, the valley runs | ||||
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| title: "Drink Coca-Cola" | ||||
| date: 2025-09-10T18:26:15-07:00 | ||||
| tags: | ||||
|     - Urban | ||||
|     - Advertising | ||||
|     - San Francisco | ||||
|     - Coca-Cola | ||||
| --- | ||||
| 
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| I was standing on a neighborhood street corner recently and spotted this sign | ||||
| hiding behind a parked car across the street. When the car moved, I snapped this | ||||
| photo. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| It's kind of a curious thing, isn't it? It's an advertisement for Coke on a | ||||
| low traffic residential corner that seems to have been there for a long time. | ||||
| (It looks old.) It got me wondering what that corner was like 50 or 100 years | ||||
| ago. Clearly the owner of the building has maintained it too: the paint has been | ||||
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