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ALT Comment in reply to a professional comedian on Twitter “What's with people like you, and calling things jokes? Do you actually know what a joke is? Are you aware that they are generally required to be funny or clever?”
ALT Yukio Akamine wears a brown double-breasted Ulster coat with an orange paisley scarf
ALT Yukio Akamine wears a brown checked tweed, raglan sleeve topcoat with slash pockets. He pairs it with a brown scarf, white tattersall dress shirt, brown flannel suit, and orange wool tie
ALT Yukio Akamine stands with bespoke tailor Antonio Liverano. Liverano is wearing a three-piece grey pupptooth, single-breasted suit with a light blue checked shirt and solid blue silk tie. Akamine wears a blue flannel, single-breasted suit with white-and-blue striped shirt and black paisley tie
ALT Yukio Akamine wears a brown checked, single-breasted tweed with a rust-colored crewneck sweater, white dress shirt, and charcoal wool trousers.
ALT New Verified check copy popup on Twitter that now says “this account is verified because it’s subscribed to Twitter Blue or is a legacy verified account”.
ALT Screenshot of a quote “Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” from Timothy Snyder’s book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century”
ALT Screenshot of Washington Post article about the AI image generation startup Midjourney’s self-censorship “But the year-old company, run out of San Francisco with only a small collection of advisers and engineers, also has unchecked authority to determine how those powers are used. It allows, for example, users to generate images of President Biden, Vladimir Putin of Russia and other world leaders — but not China’s president, Xi Jinping. “We just want to minimize drama,” the company’s founder and CEO, David Holz, said last year in a post on the chat service Discord. “Political satire in china is pretty not-okay,” he added, and “the ability for people in China to use this tech is more important than your ability to generate satire.”
ALT Screencap portion of a chart and text from Dr. Jetelina’s newsletter that says “Firearms are the leading cause of death for American children There have been a total of 130 mass shootings this year— more than the number of calendar days. Before Nashville, 33 incidents of gunfire have occurred at schools resulting in 8 deaths in 2023. (In 2022, there were 177 events resulting in 57 deaths.) Altogether, firearm injuries (at and away from school) are the leading cause of death among children in the U.S. It surpassed motor vehicle crashes in 2020 for the first time. We are failing our children.” The chart shows motor vehicle crashes going down over time and firearm deaths up.
ALT Screenshot of Twitter with a big red box on the left with text that says "You have visited Twitter 3 times today." and a link to my Mastodon instance.