Koji
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Lib, laugh, love - the sequel
Progress, positivity, point plotting, piano performance, political parties, panel programmes, particular Pennsylvanian pop princess, public ptransit
Progress, positivity, point plotting, piano performance, political parties, panel programmes, particular Pennsylvanian pop princess, public ptransit
(11/26) 20th-c.-heavy programme from NY Phil. Distracted by how old Jean-Yves Thibaudet was.
Auerbach was the same old formless sound-painting. Khachaturian was fun but few moments of tenderness. Pines of Rome is hard to get wrong.
Cantus arcticus was quite mesmerizing!
Auerbach was the same old formless sound-painting. Khachaturian was fun but few moments of tenderness. Pines of Rome is hard to get wrong.
Cantus arcticus was quite mesmerizing!
December 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
(11/26) 20th-c.-heavy programme from NY Phil. Distracted by how old Jean-Yves Thibaudet was.
Auerbach was the same old formless sound-painting. Khachaturian was fun but few moments of tenderness. Pines of Rome is hard to get wrong.
Cantus arcticus was quite mesmerizing!
Auerbach was the same old formless sound-painting. Khachaturian was fun but few moments of tenderness. Pines of Rome is hard to get wrong.
Cantus arcticus was quite mesmerizing!
(Taken too far at times- with regular phrases, too much giving+taking can sound seasick; sometimes his refusal to do the obvious voicing/phrasing didn’t work.)
Pedalling was light-touch, and he had the ability to create the most breathtaking pianissimi (without sacrificing the layers of voicing).
Pedalling was light-touch, and he had the ability to create the most breathtaking pianissimi (without sacrificing the layers of voicing).
December 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
(Taken too far at times- with regular phrases, too much giving+taking can sound seasick; sometimes his refusal to do the obvious voicing/phrasing didn’t work.)
Pedalling was light-touch, and he had the ability to create the most breathtaking pianissimi (without sacrificing the layers of voicing).
Pedalling was light-touch, and he had the ability to create the most breathtaking pianissimi (without sacrificing the layers of voicing).
(11/12) An eye-opening performance that deployed volume and timing in really unconventional ways. Sorita realized that communicating intensity doesn’t require a consistent fortissimo, that subito pianos can be more surprising than strong accents, that a lot of phrases can work without a strict pulse
December 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
(11/12) An eye-opening performance that deployed volume and timing in really unconventional ways. Sorita realized that communicating intensity doesn’t require a consistent fortissimo, that subito pianos can be more surprising than strong accents, that a lot of phrases can work without a strict pulse
The new Eaton Centre’s street activation is looking to be much better than Nordstrom’s. Now it’s just the parkade that looks like a fortress
November 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The new Eaton Centre’s street activation is looking to be much better than Nordstrom’s. Now it’s just the parkade that looks like a fortress
I'm trying to figure out where this specific version came from. The formatting recalls the creations of Redditor Inzitarie, but their final version is this
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I'm trying to figure out where this specific version came from. The formatting recalls the creations of Redditor Inzitarie, but their final version is this
I don't like her (and indeed I never voted for Abe, though I think I recognize now that he ran the country better than his opponents would have), but a lot of foreign commentary has gone off the rails
October 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I don't like her (and indeed I never voted for Abe, though I think I recognize now that he ran the country better than his opponents would have), but a lot of foreign commentary has gone off the rails
Ughhhh I really want to "tidy up" the London network. Make near-distance lines as metro as possible, thru-running w/tube or Thameslink. Restrict lines to 2 types of services (regional thru-running + stub-end). Overground should be purely circumferential + not duplicate other services
September 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Ughhhh I really want to "tidy up" the London network. Make near-distance lines as metro as possible, thru-running w/tube or Thameslink. Restrict lines to 2 types of services (regional thru-running + stub-end). Overground should be purely circumferential + not duplicate other services
It’s interesting all the ways in which the recent past was ass that we’ve memory-holed
September 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It’s interesting all the ways in which the recent past was ass that we’ve memory-holed
Are there essays on what optimal transit network design is in cities with street grids and a single centre?
Unfortunately the only promising result from Google was this, and it immediately mentioned a different set of parameters
Unfortunately the only promising result from Google was this, and it immediately mentioned a different set of parameters
July 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Are there essays on what optimal transit network design is in cities with street grids and a single centre?
Unfortunately the only promising result from Google was this, and it immediately mentioned a different set of parameters
Unfortunately the only promising result from Google was this, and it immediately mentioned a different set of parameters
Oh THAT's interesting. The two parties whose electeds are gender-balanced? The CDP (11/22) and Sanseito (7/14)
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July 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Oh THAT's interesting. The two parties whose electeds are gender-balanced? The CDP (11/22) and Sanseito (7/14)
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For reasons I lay out in this piece below, I'm always curious about age gradients in vote choice. The full article is paywalled, but this chart suggests that DPFP+Sanseito are youth-skewed, LDP+CDP are old-skewed, Ishin+Reiwa are middle-age-skewed
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July 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
For reasons I lay out in this piece below, I'm always curious about age gradients in vote choice. The full article is paywalled, but this chart suggests that DPFP+Sanseito are youth-skewed, LDP+CDP are old-skewed, Ishin+Reiwa are middle-age-skewed
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I thought this was a nice dunk back then, but the thing about reading political discourse on the Internet is you come to realize that basically all political opinions are irritable mental gestures, that say more about the perceiver’s brain than about the thing being analyzed
June 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I thought this was a nice dunk back then, but the thing about reading political discourse on the Internet is you come to realize that basically all political opinions are irritable mental gestures, that say more about the perceiver’s brain than about the thing being analyzed
As someone who has decided that transit not going to terminals would be my hobby-horse: why
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June 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
As someone who has decided that transit not going to terminals would be my hobby-horse: why
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On the topic of redrawing states, there's an interesting article from @fitnr.bsky.social for redrawing the US:
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1) commuting patterns, 2) cell phone call data (maps more cleanly onto state boundaries than expected!) and 3) a CalState professor's idea from 1970s
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1) commuting patterns, 2) cell phone call data (maps more cleanly onto state boundaries than expected!) and 3) a CalState professor's idea from 1970s
June 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
On the topic of redrawing states, there's an interesting article from @fitnr.bsky.social for redrawing the US:
placesjournal.org/article/what...
1) commuting patterns, 2) cell phone call data (maps more cleanly onto state boundaries than expected!) and 3) a CalState professor's idea from 1970s
placesjournal.org/article/what...
1) commuting patterns, 2) cell phone call data (maps more cleanly onto state boundaries than expected!) and 3) a CalState professor's idea from 1970s
This is an extremely academic-brained string of sentences.
June 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This is an extremely academic-brained string of sentences.
Did *not* expect settlement patterns in the Nile delta to look like this
May 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Did *not* expect settlement patterns in the Nile delta to look like this
Speaking of tools measuring population density + transit coverage with uniform colour schemes, this is also cool as hell. I actually once started doing exactly this with the cities I'm familiar with, and I'm glad that smarter people than I did the whole set
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May 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Speaking of tools measuring population density + transit coverage with uniform colour schemes, this is also cool as hell. I actually once started doing exactly this with the cities I'm familiar with, and I'm glad that smarter people than I did the whole set
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Very fun to compare densities to settlement patterns on Google Maps - like the "beef-marbling" pattern in the exurbs of Tokyo, or the consistent tiny spots in the German countryside
May 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Very fun to compare densities to settlement patterns on Google Maps - like the "beef-marbling" pattern in the exurbs of Tokyo, or the consistent tiny spots in the German countryside
May 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Dear Toronto City Council, please recalibrate this dog’s water pressure at Berczy Park so that this stream can make it into the bowl properly.
(Having seen the stuff you stuff you spend your time on, I'd say this is 40th percentile of importance)
(Having seen the stuff you stuff you spend your time on, I'd say this is 40th percentile of importance)
May 28, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Dear Toronto City Council, please recalibrate this dog’s water pressure at Berczy Park so that this stream can make it into the bowl properly.
(Having seen the stuff you stuff you spend your time on, I'd say this is 40th percentile of importance)
(Having seen the stuff you stuff you spend your time on, I'd say this is 40th percentile of importance)
Making this a "Toronto ideas" thread:
my hot take is that, over the long term, we can give the streetcars on Queen+Dundas+College dedicated lanes by shifting them onto one side of the street, then making the other side a drive+loading lane in one direction (see Ste-Catherine for example of latter)
my hot take is that, over the long term, we can give the streetcars on Queen+Dundas+College dedicated lanes by shifting them onto one side of the street, then making the other side a drive+loading lane in one direction (see Ste-Catherine for example of latter)
May 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Making this a "Toronto ideas" thread:
my hot take is that, over the long term, we can give the streetcars on Queen+Dundas+College dedicated lanes by shifting them onto one side of the street, then making the other side a drive+loading lane in one direction (see Ste-Catherine for example of latter)
my hot take is that, over the long term, we can give the streetcars on Queen+Dundas+College dedicated lanes by shifting them onto one side of the street, then making the other side a drive+loading lane in one direction (see Ste-Catherine for example of latter)
May 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Mentally debating to what extent I felt the lack of green space in Tokyo.
The stats definitely attest to few green spaces. From the sky, green and blue definitely look scarce. But on a map, there are regular flecks of green (but they are small).
The stats definitely attest to few green spaces. From the sky, green and blue definitely look scarce. But on a map, there are regular flecks of green (but they are small).
May 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Mentally debating to what extent I felt the lack of green space in Tokyo.
The stats definitely attest to few green spaces. From the sky, green and blue definitely look scarce. But on a map, there are regular flecks of green (but they are small).
The stats definitely attest to few green spaces. From the sky, green and blue definitely look scarce. But on a map, there are regular flecks of green (but they are small).
May 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
There's a fun sudoku quality to assembling a Canadian cabinet.
Here's my attempt to shrink Cabinet to 30 (+PM)
-w/better balance on geography, gender, and tenure
-w/sufficient Francophone, ethnic minorities, and Indigenous reps
-keeping people Carney recruited into politics
+map of seats
Here's my attempt to shrink Cabinet to 30 (+PM)
-w/better balance on geography, gender, and tenure
-w/sufficient Francophone, ethnic minorities, and Indigenous reps
-keeping people Carney recruited into politics
+map of seats
May 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
There's a fun sudoku quality to assembling a Canadian cabinet.
Here's my attempt to shrink Cabinet to 30 (+PM)
-w/better balance on geography, gender, and tenure
-w/sufficient Francophone, ethnic minorities, and Indigenous reps
-keeping people Carney recruited into politics
+map of seats
Here's my attempt to shrink Cabinet to 30 (+PM)
-w/better balance on geography, gender, and tenure
-w/sufficient Francophone, ethnic minorities, and Indigenous reps
-keeping people Carney recruited into politics
+map of seats