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Blogger, Teacher, Father, Immigrant.
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- Gallivants on the Seto Inland Sea art islands.
- French, but teaches English at a Japanese university.
- Raises two wonderful kids that drive him nuts.
- Friend of crows
- Writes things. Tries to be better at it, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
- Hopes the world doesn't end soon. Not too optimistic about that.
- Mostly talks about #Japan, #Education, #Crows and #Climate here.

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Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 β˜€οΈ · 3w
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I have a random question. Some of you may know the answer. Why is it that when I see anime nerds discussing translations of anime/manga they use the term "localization" and not "translation"? Are they just trying to be fancy, or is there a valid reason?

(for context I have several professional translators among my friends and coworkers, not once I heard them use that word - I took translation classes in graduate school, never saw the word being used once either)
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Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 β˜€οΈ · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqwpmlv057lqp8f06s80m7f05pay3phzjav0kpp526qmk6y7q2w7kq4eszna I think because translation is only one part of it. It’s a big part of it, but there’s also other stuff, like adjusting content to be culturally appropriate https://cdn.famichiki....
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Yes, I'm an old fart.

I'm also a teacher of university students, and I see first-hand how replacing paper, pens and books with screens for everything is impacting cognition and learning.

(spoiler alert: the act of learning is as much a physical activity as a mental one, and yes, writing with a pen or holding a book and turning its pages are an important part of the learning process)

https://fortune.com/article/how-did-us-spending-30-billion-dollars-on-laptops-result-in-first-generation-less-cognitively-capable-than-parents/
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It's been way too long without a #CrowUpdate. It's partly because I didn't take any good pictures this past few days, and also because I'm trying to make sense of the situation, but I can't.
The "situation" is the crow war that's been happening. Almost every morning, I'm awaken by large-billed crows cawing around my house and in the park. Basically every morning, there is some trouble. Now, I'm more and more convinced that they're not attacking "my" crows, but ‡️

Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 β˜€οΈ · 5w
99% of people on Earth will get sunlight at the same time this Wednesday https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/8/99-of-people-on-earth-will-get-sunlight-at-the-same-time-this-wednesday I’m part o...
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@nprofile1q... They're including Japan in the 99% (Japan is 1.5% of the world's population). We're in "astronomical dusk" at that moment, that they decided to consider as "daylight" despite it being nighttime...

In other words: it's all lies.