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Earlier this week Tristan published his top YouTube channels: thume.ca/2026/11/01/youtube-… Which looked excellent so clearly I had to turn it into TristanTube: karpathy.ai/tristan-tube/ 47K super nerdy videos +TV mode for laid back watching. (One-shotted with Claude Code in 3 minutes)

🚨BREAKING🚨: Japan’s Former Defense Minister Says Alien or Non-Human Visitation Must Be Taken Seriously as a Viable Hypothesis for UFO Sightings Over the Country’s Nuclear Facilities. Yasukazu Hamada, who led Japan's historic defense overhaul in 2022, now chairs a parliamentary group investigating unidentified aerial phenomena. So one of the most important Defense Ministers in recent history decided to dedicate his retirement to UFOs. He told me that non-human intelligence is "one strong hypothesis" that may explain the rampant UFO sightings in his country. His concern is national security: Japan cannot afford to leave unknown objects unidentified. One of the incidents he discusses specifically is at the Genkai nuclear plant in 2025. Three unexplained lights reportedly circled one of Japan's nuclear power plants for two hours. On July 26, 2025, guards and a police officer at Genkai, on the southern island of Kyushu, watched lights travel in broad loops before approaching within roughly 150 feet of two reactors. Authorities initially called them drones, later described them simply as lights, and ultimately suggested aircrafts were the best conventional explanation. After Congressmen in the Diet investigated, most remained very unsatisfied with these shifting explanations. Hamada warned that critical facilities could be under surveillance by technology Japan simply cannot identify. The Pentagon itself has identified Japanese skies as a UFO hotspot. It flagged the corridor from western Japan toward China in a 2023 assessment drawing on reports dating back to 1996. Teruo Minobe, a sitting Japanese congressman who currently leads the parliamentary UFO group, told me pilots have often kept silent because reporting unfamiliar objects could damage their standing. He wants those reports investigated formally. Former congressman Yoshiharu Asakawa (@asakawayosiharu) is a major driving force for UFO disclosure in Japan having generously set up all these interviews. He is known as the “UFO Congressman” there. He believes Washington still shapes what Japan can reveal about UFOs. He helped establish the parliamentary group and says Japan's defense ministry gave narrowly worded answers when he asked about unidentified objects above military bases. He also told me Hamada called him immediately after President Donald Trump's remarks about releasing UFO information, pushing for a new meeting. Asakawa believes the former defense minister knows more than he can disclose. A former member of Japan's parliament may carry physical evidence of an encounter. Atsushi Hayasaka says he saw a silver light jump across the sky, then woke paralyzed in a parked car hearing footsteps approaching. A wound later appeared behind his ear; a subsequent X-ray, he says, revealed a small square shadow. His wife, Chiaki, also reports a childhood sighting. Full conversation live now. youtu.be/U3bNSUiCvPg

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