Air Katakana
@airkatakana
based postdoctoral researcher in ai. on trial in south korea for writing true things (see highlights). also building japanese language learning app @sottaku_app
This is a great clip showing how all media interrogation works: the interviewer (who had nothing to do with investing in public markets, developing internet technologies, or running companies) keeps on a talking point intended to humiliate and belittle, presuming Bezos is wrong;
Jeff Bezos was insanely locked in all the way from day one
just saw a ridiculously attractive half-japanese half-estonian girl with no relationship experience whatsoever posting about the chatgpt boyfriend she "made". it's really over for humanity i think
korea recognizes things are fucked up, they set up tons of methods of getting relief when someone abuses your rights, and then absolutely none of them work until someone dies and then after that death, the country makes one arrest and keeps chugging on like nothing happened
i started vibe coding @sottaku_app a year ago, long before vibe coding was actually viable, not because i thought i could make a one man unicorn with claude 3 opus, but because i wanted to set the framework to make a one man unicorn with claude 5 opus
thinking about the accented é on pokémon. whoever made that call must have had balls of steel
imagine all of the state’s resources getting spent on parasites who will never contribute anything to society in the future. i’m pretty sure this is the underlying reason as to why everything is so broken in korea maybe canada onto something here
From Scott Galloway's newsletter. One hell of an infographic. H/T @turneyduff
honor to have my post jacked by lord miles 🫡
it's been almost 5 years now, and the sanctions against Afghanistan clearly haven't stopped anything. The west needs to do something that will really damage Afghanistans economy… let Afghanistan into the EU 🇪🇺
i opened email registration on @sottaku_app a bit ago, and now have a bot that tries to register an account via a random email, switches ip addresses, and does this again, in a loop once every 5-30 mins does anyone know why this is happening or their goal? i’m honestly stumped
Australian authorities relentlessly pursued me through the courts and ultimately fined me $24,000 for holding a blank sign outside the Brisbane Chinese Consulate. But when my car was broken into yesterday and I lost $1000 worth of stuff, nothing could be done. The police…
all sides of the american political spectrum seem to find something to respect about china. the left sees them as a success case for socialism and the right sees them as a success case for ethnic homogeneity. the neolib center respects them for their technological civilization
Anthropic was at $1B in annualized revenue at the beginning of the year and is $4B now in mid-2025. OpenAI is at $10B. This kind of revenue growth has never been seen before by any company in human history.