8-ish Top Anime of 2023

https://countzeroor.com/2024/01/10/8-ish-top-anime-of-2023/

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Yesterday I posted something about how I used to do New Years day posts where I posted one picture from each month as a year in review kind of thing. I said I was still thinking of doing one for 2023.

I just went through my Flickr trying to decide which pics to use for the post…

…and it turns out that most months don’t have anything worth highlighting. It was a nice quiet year but photographically? There are long stretches of time where there’s nothing special to look back on. There are lots of guitar pictures and lots of cat pictures and not a whole lot else.

Oh well. Let’s try to make 2024 a little more visually interesting, m’kay?

Maybe I am just old and uninteresting now. Not that I was ever very interesting to begin with.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/01/09/skipping-a-year/

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For my final summary of 2023, let's rank all the movies and video games, both old and new, that I reviewed during the year. I'll also be picking my single favourite and least favourite in a handful of categories. https://youtu.be/rH_eCE6cnLM

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Thrilled to have my song Tourmaline included on the new sampler "The Passed Year - 2023" from Passed Recordings, this time as official artist on the roster.

Download today for free!

https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-passed-year-2023

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Entering this reflective time of year, we wanted to take a look back at all we’ve achieved, and say thank you to you all for helping make it possible.

Here’s a thread looking at Newsmast’s first year, in review:

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Ten works of art that improved my life in 2023, in no particular order:
Reservation Dogs
François J. Bonnet & Stephen O’Malley - Cylene II
Jon Fosse - Septology
Cat Power Sings Dylan
James McBride - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Replacements - Tim reissue
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - Jerusalem
Chris Abrahams, Oren Ambarchi, & Robbie Avenaim - Placelessness
State Ballet of Georgia at Detroit Opera House
Allman Brothers Band - Live from A&R Studios

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This year began with one professional streak continuing, in the form of my covering CES in person for the 25th time in a row, followed by another ending: USA Today dropped my column after 11 years. And now it’s ending with my having written for multiple new clients, two more than once.

So I’ll call 2023 a story of growth, even if I’m a little irked at myself for slacking off on pitching some of these new outlets more often. It was also a story of growth at my most frequent outlet, PCMag, where I was able to share such interesting new experiences with readers as seeing a rocket launch up close for the first time since 2018, sampling Starlink broadband from a chair in the sky, and taking the helm of a battery-electric hydrofoil.

Among all the posts I wrote for various clients, these ones stand out for me:

• I used my perch at Fast Company to tee off on Twitter’s lapsed transparency reporting, one of many cases of blatant hypocrisy in Elon Musk’s incompetent stewardship of the social platform he has since renamed X and I have since quit supporting with new free writing.
• In my first piece for AARP, I drew upon the insight of information-security experts I’ve know for years to suggest that the threat models of most people don’t require paying for anti-virus software.
• After more than 15 years of reading Greater Greater Washington, I wrote something for that site beyond a comment: a post explaining why military flyovers keep taking people by surprise. For several months after, the District’s AlertDC system seemed to do a better job of notifying people of impending free airshows associated with Arlington Cemetery burials, and I’d like to think my story had something to do with that.
• A friend’s temporary stint editing at the New Republic led to my breaking down a judge’s reactionary ruling over alleged social-media censorship by the Biden administration; the piece aged vastly better than Judge Terry A. Doughty’s incoherent injunction, since reeled back under appeal and now awaiting the Supreme Court’s scrutiny.
• An extended test of the experience of running Windows on a Qualcomm processor inside a borrowed Lenovo ThinkPad x13s yielded a feature at PCMag reporting compatibility and performance issues arising from the interactions of software with that computer’s Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 chip that I hadn’t seen covered elsewhere.
• After years of pointing out the uselessness of 8K TVs for the vast majority of home viewers, I told PCMag readers about the emptiness of Samsung’s pitch for that format at the IFA trade show in Berlin–and about the Consumer Technology Association’s shriveling shipment forecasts for 8K TVs.
• Most of my Fast Company stories involve some extended reporting time, but I turned around a piece unpacking Facebook’s history of bad-faith behavior towards the media in a few days. It seems that being mad at a company can be a motivating factor for me.
• In a piece for the telecom trade pub Light Reading, I shared how even wireless-industry executives are already showing signs of weariness over early hype over “6G.”

Once again, speaking at conferences took me to some new parts of the world–but this time, they included a continent and an entire hemisphere I’d never visited before. My trip to Brazil for the new Rio de Janeiro edition of Web Summit was my favorite, treating me to the fascinating sight of constellations different from the ones I’ve known my entire life. (I’m saying that even after picking up a mild case of covid there that never felt worse than a cold and was gone within days–further proof that vaccines work–that I did not transmit to anybody at home.) It was also a treat to visit Croatia in September for Infobip’s Shift developer conference and see the country that one set of great-grandparents had left 110 years earlier.

And as ever, one of the best parts of every trip was landing at National or Dulles and then coming home.

(You can see a map of those flights after the jump.)

I created the map below at the Great Circle Mapper site, following the instructions Tiffany Funk first shared in 2016 at the One Mile At A Time blog. The predominant shade of blue represents flights on United and codeshare flights on Brussels Airlines and Swiss, while other colors, some of which may be impossible to differentiate, represent American and Turkish Airlines (various shades of red), Copa and Croatia Airlines (other hues of blue), Gol (orange), Icelandair (dark blue), and Southwest (yet another shade of blue).

Map generated by the Great Circle Mapper – copyright © Karl L. Swartz.

https://robpegoraro.com/2023/12/20/2023-in-review-changes-in-latitudes/

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Happy New Year! Click to check out my 2023 Year In Review In Photos.

https://www.rickberk.com/gallery/2023-year-in-review/

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2023 was a year with ups and downs.
Good things and also disappointments, but that's life.
I'm happy to have finally published my comic Seaborn in physical format (self-published), it's always a dream coming true to see my comics printed 🥰
Thank you guys for always supporting my art!

I participated in an artistic project where I taught art/crafts classes at an NGO and it was an experience that I will never forget, it opened my eyes to something I didn't know about (I won't give many details about it but it was an experience of a lifetime).

The social and sentimental part is something that still needs to be improved, who knows, maybe it will improve next year, unfortunately this is a part that doesn't just depend on one person but on others too, so it's complicated.

I head towards 2024 with the determination that it will be a better year and I will achieve those things that were missing.
We need to be positive, don't we?

Let’s go all out! Happy 2024!!!!!🍾

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