- My mom is Japanese. I am not hafu, I’m double.
- I am married to my kindergarten classmate.
- I once sold tacos from a pushcart in Yokohama.
- I published a weekly newsletter for a couple of years
- I have lived in Tokyo, Finland, the Bay Area and now NYC.
What I’m Reading
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Index by Parallel starts from a straightforward conviction: if agents are going to read on behalf of people, then the web needs infrastructure that makes those readings legible to the sources that made them possible. The missing layer is not only search quality. It is public accounting. Who contributed? How much? To which outcome? With what confidence? And what value should flow back?
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The rise and fall of an AI-driven ‘local news outlet’ in South Florida →
Sham news sites are increasingly common in Florida and across the country, a dangerous development for American democracy.
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Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search →
This guide is for website owners looking for official best practices from Google Search on how to succeed in generative AI features in Google Search (such as AI Overviews and AI Mode).
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OpenClaw is Amazing, but… Don't Install It. →
Traditional software separates code from data — you can't execute a spreadsheet cell as a program. LLMs destroy this boundary. System prompts, user messages, retrieved documents, tool outputs — everything becomes a single token stream in a mixed context window. The model processes instructions and data the same way, because to an LLM, they are the same thing.
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A Comparative Analysis of News Aggregation Platforms →
This analysis compares the largest news aggregation platforms and provides a lightweight framework for deciding which platforms align with audience strategies at different news organizations.
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i12c pulls NYC event data fresh three times daily. Here's how it works and where we look.
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Independent Journalism Atlas →
Directory of independent journalists broken down by platform, topic, and association.
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Teaching a small AI model to work for me →
I took a small, free AI model from Google called Gemma 4 (2 billion parameters) and trained it on examples of my project maintenance work: managing servers, writing scripts, debugging code, and handling infrastructure tasks.
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My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup 9th August 2025 →
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An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In. →
Fortune’s Nick Lichtenberg has cranked out more than 600 stories using the technology; ‘this won’t be seen as some people’s idea of journalism’
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I’ve spent the past three weeks wandering around the San Francisco Bay Area, talking to people who are in the guts of the AI boom. Founders, engineers, investors, semiconductor veterans, defense technologists, policymakers.
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The Displacement of Cognitive Labor and What Comes After →
Capitalism operates on the basis of prices aggregating information to coordinate production and consumption. When the cost of producing many goods and services approaches zero, that price mechanism stops functioning for those goods.
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Deadheads vote on their favorite versions
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Then, on February 5th, two major AI labs released new models on the same day: GPT-5.3 Codex from OpenAI, and Opus 4.6 from Anthropic. And something clicked. Not like a light switch… more like the moment you realize the water has been rising around you and is now at your chest.
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The News Atom is a structured, semantic unit that shows how this knowledge could be codified. It treats sentences not as raw text but as verifiable, interoperable, retrievable and reusable units. It is the smallest unit of storage and transport of a news story.
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