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Google Goes Nuclear: $15B AI Infrastructure Bet
Google just announced a roughly $15 billion AI infrastructure investment in Finland, alongside a 22-year agreement for up to half the output of a nuclear power plant. It’s another sign that the AI race is becoming an infrastructure and energy race. Models matter, but so do chips, data centers, cooling, electrical grids, and enormous amounts…
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I recorded this from Plac Wolnica in Kraków — a place with a history that is basically Krak for my brain.
The square was once part of the market of Kazimierz, then a separate city founded by King Casimir the Great in 1335. Its name comes from forum liberum — “free market” or “free trade.” The interesting part: once a week, on Saturdays, meat could be sold here outside the established butcher stalls. Non-guild butchers were…
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Sanskrit योग (yoga): meaning, yoke cognates, and Matthew 11:30
The Sanskrit word yoga (योग) means yoking (Monier-Williams, 1899, p. 856). The same root is shared by modern English ‘yoke’ from Old English geoc (Pokorny, 1959, p. 508), as well as dialectal Polish igo and Ukrainian іго (iho) ‘yoke’ (Derksen, 2008, p. 209). A word derived from this root does not appear in the Lemko…
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Rusynator.com launch in Košice: write in Rusyn in minutes
Ahoy Carpatho-Rusyns everywhere — this Thursday, I’ll be presenting Rusynator.com, the first AI translator into Rusyn for Slovakia, and showing how it can help you start writing in Rusyn within minutes — even if the only foreign language you had in high school was Spanish. The same technology also works for our language in Poland.…
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Lemko Translator App Shipped (Payments Live)
Mon, Feb 23, 2026 — quick dispatch. After a multi-year grind, the Lemko translator app is shipped and payments are live end-to-end. International Mother Language Day just passed, which hit with perfect timing. It’s a reminder that language tech isn’t only about “big languages” — low-resource and heritage languages deserve serious tooling too. Next step:…
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Demo: LLM AI Lemko & Rusyn Translators
It’s Friday, February 20, 2026, and I’m publishing a quick demo of what I’ve been building: an AI (LLM)-powered translator that translates from English (and other regional languages) into Lemko, plus a Rusyn translator for Slovakia. Tomorrow (Feb 21) is International Mother Language Day, so for the demo I translate the first paragraph of the…
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Sacred deer and Great Torii Gate: Itsukushima, Japan
Behind me you can see the gate that people would sail in and one of the sacred #deer below. You’re not allowed to feed the deer food and they will try to steal it and they will try to steal your souvenirs or eat them. And they are wild deer though. They are not domesticated.…
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Atom Bomb Ground Zero in Hiroshima, Japan
We’re here at ground zero in Hiroshima, by the Atomic Bomb Dome. The atomic bomb exploded about 600 meters above this area. Around 70,000 people were killed instantly, and by the end of 1945 the death toll had roughly doubled. This building was completed in 1915, about 30 years before the bombing, and was designed…
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1200 years of samādhi at Okunoin Cemetery, Mount Koya
Good afternoon from Japan’s largest cemetery, where over 200,000 souls repose. Also here is Kūkai who is believed to have been in a state of deep meditation called #samadhi since the year 835. That’s 1,200 years ago. #Okunoin #Japan
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Dhritarashtra at the Chumon Gate in Koyasan, Japan
The Chumon Gate in Koyasan, Japan is a very sacred place that was founded in ~815. They just rebuilt this gate 10 years ago for the 1200th anniversary of this place. So this place is older than Poland. Behind me, I think, is Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the Buddhist guardian king of the East. His name is interesting.…
