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next station is the end of history, please gather your belongings as you exit
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Aura of Success: The First Years of Japan's Privatized National Railways
What does it take to make a railway a "success"?
www.substack-bahn.net
new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: I evaluate Japanese Railways' first years post-privatization and examine the conditions set prior to its launch to guarantee its success. But how does one grade such success -- and can JR be deemed as a success story?
www.substack-bahn.net/p/aura-of-su...
www.substack-bahn.net/p/aura-of-su...
thinking of this classic tweet on thanksgiving day
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
thinking of this classic tweet on thanksgiving day
in my household, we don't put football on for Thanksgiving, we put on NHK World's Japan Railway Journal documentaries
Hiroshima today has better infrastructure than every American city that survived WW2 untouched by bombs. Our post-war planning: somehow worse than nuclear weapons. youtu.be/J9yQiXPT1xs
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
in my household, we don't put football on for Thanksgiving, we put on NHK World's Japan Railway Journal documentaries
how bout dem cowboys?!
Parking spot density various Greater Tokyo locations from Shibuya to Chiba New Town, plus Thai, German, UK and US data.
Which basically says my hometown/borough has the least parking in the world.
Best part of England indeed.
Which basically says my hometown/borough has the least parking in the world.
Best part of England indeed.
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
how bout dem cowboys?!
wishing media outlets would stop using that photo of the man crying out as the Hong Kong highrises burn behind him. it’s a great, haunting photo, but he’s not the arsonist nor a mascot of the fires; he’s someone who may’ve lost his wife in that fire. he didn’t sign up to be the face of this tragedy
November 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
wishing media outlets would stop using that photo of the man crying out as the Hong Kong highrises burn behind him. it’s a great, haunting photo, but he’s not the arsonist nor a mascot of the fires; he’s someone who may’ve lost his wife in that fire. he didn’t sign up to be the face of this tragedy
family friends who are hosting thanksgiving dinner caught the norovirus, so I’m stuck eating steak tonight. I’m willing to shit my guts out for a week for a bite of their legendary sticky rice stuffing, so let me in
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
family friends who are hosting thanksgiving dinner caught the norovirus, so I’m stuck eating steak tonight. I’m willing to shit my guts out for a week for a bite of their legendary sticky rice stuffing, so let me in
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thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
thinking of her today
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The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
all the Korean and Japanese companies are so terminally AI-pilled, even more so than American ones, believe it or not
South Korean conglomerate HD Hyundai sees an opportunity to accelerate America’s shipbuilding revival by deploying artificial intelligence.
AI Opens Faster Path to Trump Shipbuilding Goal, HD Hyundai Says
South Korean conglomerate HD Hyundai sees an opportunity to accelerate America’s shipbuilding revival by deploying artificial intelligence.
bloom.bg
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
all the Korean and Japanese companies are so terminally AI-pilled, even more so than American ones, believe it or not
"At no point during his campaign did he visit a Tottenham or Liverpool bar" very concerning!
My column on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's recent concerning rhetoric: defector.com/can-zohran-m...
Can Zohran Mamdani Keep New Yorkers Safe From Remembering Some Arsenal Guys? | Defector
Zohran Mamdani is weeks away from becoming Mayor of New York City. As someone who does not live in the city but nevertheless has a lot of opinions about what goes on there, I want his administration b...
defector.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"At no point during his campaign did he visit a Tottenham or Liverpool bar" very concerning!
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Wang Fuk Court's contractor allegedly covered all the windows in foamboard x.com/heunggong101...
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Wang Fuk Court's contractor allegedly covered all the windows in foamboard x.com/heunggong101...
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So how does concrete high rises catch on fire? In Hong Kong, traditional scaffolding is made from bamboo scaffolds and covered in nylon mesh. www.cnn.com/style/articl...
Hong Kong’s mesmerizing ‘cocoon’ buildings | CNN
For more than 20 years, Peter Steinhauer has photographed an urban phenomenon unique to Hong Kong.
www.cnn.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
So how does concrete high rises catch on fire? In Hong Kong, traditional scaffolding is made from bamboo scaffolds and covered in nylon mesh. www.cnn.com/style/articl...
a recurring theme of 20th century East Asia history is the once-shared belief that Manchuria was where the future was and its downstream effects to all countries the region touched once that future was foreclosed (China/Japan/both Koreas/Mongolia?)
For decades, China's only electrified suburban railway was a 300km-system in Fushun, an industrial city of a little over a million in Liaoning province. I wrote a little about it: kaptrice.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Fushun Electric Railway - China's First Electric Railway
China is not a country well-known for legacy suburban railways. Although lately several dozen new-build lines have appeared, and several mai...
kaptrice.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
a recurring theme of 20th century East Asia history is the once-shared belief that Manchuria was where the future was and its downstream effects to all countries the region touched once that future was foreclosed (China/Japan/both Koreas/Mongolia?)
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- jean-francois lyotard, for much of the 80s and 90s
starting to think we might be living in a moment where narratives just keep collapsing under the mania and hysteria. not great!
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
- jean-francois lyotard, for much of the 80s and 90s
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food takes are what got jean valjean into trouble
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
food takes are what got jean valjean into trouble
perhaps sacrilegious take but I would like to see a 2020s retelling of Scorsese's AFTER HOURS with a big budget and a new young director
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
perhaps sacrilegious take but I would like to see a 2020s retelling of Scorsese's AFTER HOURS with a big budget and a new young director
a similar series of events played out to usher in Platform Screen Doors in Seoul Metro -- but $80m may be a far higher litigation price, proportionally, MTA has to pay vs what Seoul Metro paid in 2005
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
a similar series of events played out to usher in Platform Screen Doors in Seoul Metro -- but $80m may be a far higher litigation price, proportionally, MTA has to pay vs what Seoul Metro paid in 2005
Al Gore, 2000, when the state was too close to call:
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Al Gore, 2000, when the state was too close to call:
I get things are hard at Rad Power Bikes rn, but like you gotta have a better PR statement than "trust our word over the federal regulators and also there's no recourse for affected customers to take" press.radpowerbikes.com/258269-rad-p...
Rad Power Bikes' Response to CPSC Safety Statement
Rad Power Bikes firmly stands behind our batteries and our reputation as leaders in the ebike industry, and strongly disagrees with the CPSC's characterization of certain Rad batteries as defective or...
press.radpowerbikes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I get things are hard at Rad Power Bikes rn, but like you gotta have a better PR statement than "trust our word over the federal regulators and also there's no recourse for affected customers to take" press.radpowerbikes.com/258269-rad-p...
oh COME ON
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
oh COME ON
but that's not Taylorism either...(and who is saying this?)
“Capitalism forces you to wake up at 7am against your body’s natural rhythms” no that’s Taylorism and if you don’t like living in a society that coordinates effort to ensure a better outcome for all then I don’t think you’ll love the alternatives
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
but that's not Taylorism either...(and who is saying this?)
you can just skip the turkey and get KFC on thanksgiving. that’s what most Koreans I knew growing up did. I didn’t have a carved-and-served turkey on thanksgiving until college
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
you can just skip the turkey and get KFC on thanksgiving. that’s what most Koreans I knew growing up did. I didn’t have a carved-and-served turkey on thanksgiving until college
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Arsenal are really good and will walk the league this year, but that tactical setup was naïve and unconscionable.
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Arsenal are really good and will walk the league this year, but that tactical setup was naïve and unconscionable.
this is going to be the start of so many montage tiktoks and reels smh
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
this is going to be the start of so many montage tiktoks and reels smh
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very jealous I didn't come up with this beautiful IG account dedicated to photographing open-air modernist stairwells across South Korea and Japan -- and be a wordplay on gyedan ("stairs" in Korean) and dandadan my fav anime atm
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
very jealous I didn't come up with this beautiful IG account dedicated to photographing open-air modernist stairwells across South Korea and Japan -- and be a wordplay on gyedan ("stairs" in Korean) and dandadan my fav anime atm