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The Vanishing Application
A Card Stops, and the Tools Become Visible My credit card was temporarily restricted after the issuer identified a transaction that required verification. It was a routine security precaution, the kind of…
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Writers, Public Personas, and the Communities Around Literature
A Novel That Returned Through an Article An article marking the eightieth anniversary of the birth of Kenji Nakagami (1946 – 1992) brought back my memory of reading Karekinada, translated into English…
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The Business of Crying Wolf
The Alarm Everyone Recognizes The story of the boy who cried wolf has survived for centuries because its lesson is more complicated than a warning against lying. The wolf was real. It…
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Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.