Lily & Madeleine
Pachinko Games
I’m scared my bitterness, written all over my face
Takes over everything
I ran through Tokyo hoping to find the place
Where only I could be, but I never found it
Japan Sightings: Wars
Of Monsters and Men
Wars
Cold, but you glow
Like the streets of Tokyo
It’s alright, we can stay
Lost here forever
Sinking stones, we don’t know
What lies on the riverbed
So we fall, no control
No, this can’t be over yet
How many people have you misunderstood today?
According to the World Clock there are 7.7 billion people (humans) alive in the world today.
How many of them have you misunderstood today? We have many mechanisms for failing to achieve consensus.
- We receive different information
- We interpret the same information differently
- We commit new information to long-term storage at different rates, and in different ways
- Everyone’s long term storage is different
- We would make different estimates about the future, even if we started from the same information base
I misunderstand even the people closest to me on a daily basis. Even when my wife and I receive significant amounts of the same information every day, the above factors interfere with our ability to achieve consensus on the meaning of much of that.
How many people have I misunderstood today? About 7.7 billion.
Japan Sightings: Lost in Japan
Lost in Japan, by Shawn Mendes, Zedd
Ghosn rearrested for alleged aggravated breach of trust – Nikkei Asian Review
This farce is descending rapidly, even by the low standards of Japan’s legal system. The court just ruled his detention could not be extended. Apparently the prosecutors found a way around it. Hopefully, this is a sign they are very desperate to get Ghosn to incriminate himself, because their case is otherwise too weak to justify prosecution on the basis of the available evidence.
TOKYO — Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn has been rearrested for alleged aggravated breach of trust, Tokyo prosecutors announced on Friday morning
— Read on asia.nikkei.com/Business/Nissan-s-Ghosn-crisis/Ghosn-rearrested-for-alleged-aggravated-breach-of-trust
‘Underground’ May Be the U.S. Military’s Next Warfighting Domain – Defense One
We must not allow a mineshaft gap?
Tunnels and subterranean infrastructure demand high-level attention, training, and technology, the military’s intelligence chief says.
— Read on www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/06/underground-may-be-us-militarys-next-warfighting-domain/149296/
Doctor, you’ve been a beacon of light to me
You’re living proof
That ideology is a poor substitute
For kindness and decency
And that at the end of the day
It is our actions
And not our beliefs that define
Who we are.
What we are.
- Star Trek Deep Space Nine, S07E23
Elimination of the Guinea Worm
Finally, a US President attempting to achieve something positive for the world, and actually succeeding.
Thanks to efforts from the Carter Center, the Guinea Worm may have been eliminated.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/nasty-3ft-long-parasitic-worms-are-on-the-cusp-of-being-wiped-from-the-planet/
Novel Approach to Fusion Power
If I understood the news correctly, this potential new development depends on using semi-conductors with super-conductivity. Fusion has a long history of being Brazil: 30 years away, always has been always will. If this development pans out, which we may know in as soon as 3 years, we would be 15-30 years away from viable fusion energy.
Please note that nuclear fusion is not a fantasy. Fusion reactions have been sustained on Earth for decades. What we haven’t been able to do yet is to extract more energy than needed to contain the reactions. This may change. Big MAYBE, but something worth watching.
https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-newly-formed-company-launch-novel-approach-fusion-power-0309
Miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant
