Above & Below
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| Platform |  | Pricing | Only paid issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 137 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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Invisible Dependencies
What KDDI’s email breach reveals about shared infrastructure, digital stagnation, and why AI isn’t the real story.
The factual background in this article comes from the sources listed at the end. Any technical analysis, interpretation, or...
The chatbot did not create the tangle
Bandai Channel’s 46,812 cancelled accounts are a reminder that AI lowers the skill floor, but brittle corporate systems create the blast radius.
A story is circling about a 15-year-old kid in Saitama allegedly used ChatGPT to help write a...
The Japanese Tattoo Is Finally Stepping Into the Light
Manami Okazaki’s latest book launch wasn’t just a celebration of tattooing. It was a reminder that some of Japan’s most interesting culture still thrives beyond outdated narratives.
A good friend of mine and IMO the most boundary pushing J...
June 27th @ Naka Meguro Taproom: Wings of Pain
A spicy collaboration between a Kyoto hot saucery, a Shizuoka craft brewery, and Tokyo metal band
The Facts:
The Bear Was in the Cage. The Bureaucracy Was Not.
Taka Town’s GPS-collared bear is not a wildlife management plan. It is Japan Inc. doing what it does best: documenting the problem, misfiling the problem, and calling the paperwork progress.
A story ran yesterday about how the town of Taka...
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