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Mike Edwards
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Technologist and interactive designer, USian but living in Korea, erstwhile ed tech game researcher and developer, 🌹

Formerly:
- research faculty at Parsons
- […]

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If someone from #japan can confirm this: I'm in Tokyo for the weekend, and I've just tuned into what appears to be a TV broadcast of a 24-hour endurance #minecraft session. It's legit amazing.
Players on a live TV broadcast, including a player named Tanaka, are collectively building structures from real life in Minecraft on Japanese television. I am enraptured.
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Yesterday was the Suneung, Korea's notorious college-entrance exam, where the whole country almost literally holds its breath. Seriously. Flights are rescheduled, stock-market hours change, just so students can take the test on time and in absolute quiet.

Fortunately, this is the 2nd year of […]
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November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Any prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich, but getting a conviction is something else entirely

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/trump-sandwich-guy-verdict.html

#sandwichguy #sandwich #uspol #protest
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Cool article on the history of the Kinect and hacking it, which was really in the air in NYC in that era, plus how different that time was compared to today

https://www.theverge.com/tech/812803/hacking-kinect-history

#hardware #games #hacking #ai #opensource
How a bunch of hackers freed the Kinect from the Xbox
A brief history with an unlikely legacy.
www.theverge.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Greetings from South Korea, where the time is just the time and no one spent the weekend fiddling with their clocks, but now I gotta deal with folks back in the US and whatever weird time-warp trip they're on now

#korea #southkorea #DaylightSavings
November 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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infosec has a lot to learn about understanding failure conditions and accurate, understandable error messages from roadies
November 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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@riverselkie i want to run away...but like in ghibli movie. like i take a block of cheese a loaf of bread and some apples and wander through the flower-specked mountains wrapped up in a shawl and i happen to wander into a moving castle and fall in love with a cute wizard @samalsoblogs me (deep in the woods, dragging dufflebag of Kraft Singles™ and hopelessly lost): where's totoro
November 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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So, the big AI corps aren't getting loans for their data centers, they're getting private equity to fund them, paying them rent, and those PE firms are then turning around and selling bonds backed by that rent.

I mean, what could possibly go wrong? […]

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Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this
November 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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My kid's elementary class created the school's award-winning pumpkin this year, decorating it to look like Derpy and Sussie from K-Pop Demon Hunters. It's kind of amazing what they did on their own

#halloween #pumpkin #korea #southkorea #kpop #kpop_demon_hunters
Painted blue pumpkin decorated to look like the tiger and magpie from K-Pop Demon Hunters
November 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Looks like Wilders had a bad day, which means pretty much everyone else on Earth had a better one

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwvy4w875vo

#politics #fascists #netherlands
Dutch centrist liberals under Jetten head for shock election win, exit poll says
Rob Jetten's D66 party celebrates, two years after his party languished in fifth place in the last vote.
www.bbc.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Folks. I'm going to suggest that the interim United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is... not very bright.
Signal chat: Ok, I was just wondering for planning purposes, but that's fine. I thought you said I was welcome to reach out to you about what other outlets are reporting. 15m Why do you report on what other outlets are reporting? If I was you, I'd develop sources myself and out compete all of them! 12m Well, I guess I'm a bit confused. You got in touch with me yesterday and told me I was welcome to reach out to you with questions. You obviously know better than anyone what's going on in this case. What was the purpose of reaching out to me, if not to open a line of communication? Was it just to insult my reporting? 4m No it was for you to correct it, which you refused to do. You don't report fairly. 3m I am more than happy to correct it, but you still haven't told me what's incorrect! What precisely is wrong with the tweet? Signal chat: By the way everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know. 32m I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. You don't get to say that in retrospect. 24 min Yes I do. Off record. 23m I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story? 7m It's obvious the whole convo is off record. There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story. 6m
October 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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this is the dumbest shit i have ever read
October 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Polarisation? No, fuck that. I'm still at the same mainstream Swedish democratic socialist political position I was as 30 years ago. What you mean is that there are unashamed Nazis now. That's not a shared responsibility.
October 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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[Food]

If you're flying from Korea through Incheon airport, don't miss out on the delicious taste of KFC's own...

#food #korea #southkorea #humor
A sign for a KFC menu item translated from Korean as "randomly served chicken parts"
October 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Despite a lot of turmoil, and maybe because of it, ZA/UM staff in the UK have formed a union

#games #gamedev #labor #union
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/after-layoffs-cancellations-and-controversy-zaum-uk-staff-unionise-as-the-workers-alliance
After layoffs, cancellations, and controversy, ZA/UM UK staff unionise as the Workers' Alliance
"I think the workers at ZA/UM all agree that we have something unique at the studio that we want to preserve for years to come." Marketing manager Poppy Ingham handles social and communications for the studio behind politics-laden RPG Disco Elysium. Today, though, she's speaking on behalf of the ZA/UM Workers' Alliance – a new union set up to represent a subset of UK-based employees at the company. Read more
www.gamesindustry.biz
October 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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If these results hold up, and there is no guarantee that they will, they set the starting point for Homo sapiens back from 300kya to 800kya — half a million years earlier!

#archeology #paleontology #evolution #science

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx01ve5151o
September 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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It'll be interesting to see how these go. There've been a lot of indictments, and trials are starting, like the bribery one here for South Korea's ex-first lady. Hopefully, accountability is on the way. My compatriots back in the US know what happens when it doesn't arrive in time

#southkorea […]
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September 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States

#climatechange #climatecrisis #maps #globalwarming

https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America for centuries.
projects.propublica.org
September 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Electrical workers in harnesses assembling a transmission tower, September, Korea

#korea #southkorea #infrastructure #photography
Three electrical workers with safety gear and harnesses on top of a bright white electrical transmission tower against a blue sky
September 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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By the way, these are what pass for big trucks in Korea. Hyundai Porters and Kia Bongos are everywhere. Highly customizable, small, and basically unkillable, they work in the narrow, busy, often treacherously steep neighborhood roads here and in the countryside. Some […]

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An extended cab blue Hyundai Porter at a construction site A white Kia Bongo with a shallow bed The bed of a Kia Bongo An electric light commercial vehicle, rough the same size as a Porter or Bongo, with a refrigeration unit
September 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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It's been a minute since I've seen the term "ubiquitous computing", but maybe it's worth bringing it back, framed in terms of colonization, as in this great 2012 paper from Dourish and Mainwaring:

https://www.dourish.com/publications/2012/ubicomp2012-colonial.pdf

Key quote: "In fact, projects […]
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September 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Many of the urban trails around Seoul have a range of flowers that bloom throughout the warmer months. We're probably in the last part of it before the brown and gray season ahead. Here's a red spider lily

#bloomscrolling #silentsunday #nature #naturephotography #korea #southkorea
A set of red spider lily flowers against the shadows of the afternoon
September 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Many sidewalks in Korea are built with bricks, which makes maintenance underneath them for utilities, etc. easier than have to jackhammer away concrete. Also, they get these neat rivers of moss in the cracks

#Mosstodon #silentsunday #nature #naturephotography #korea #southkorea
Moss growing in a zigzagging crack between sidewalk bricks
September 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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[Joro spider, large but friendly and pest eating]

One of many joro spiders out this month

#bloomscrolling #silentsunday #nature #naturephotography #macrophotography
A large joro spider in its web among the leaves
September 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Ant on a white hosta flower

#bloomscrolling #silentsunday #nature #naturephotography #macrophotography
Ant on a white hosta flower
September 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM