Science Fiction, Empire, Japan.
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29 Jul 2025
My copy of Techno-orientalism 2.0, which includes my essay on the animated adaptations of the novels of Project Itoh, arrived today.
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Jun 13
The funniest reveal in here is it took the brainlords at Abundance *five years* to read *100 books* and they seem to genuinely think that’s an impressive achievement and not an indictment of the slimness of their knowledge base about literally anything
Jun 12
An accompanying historical document bemoans public participation in politics, claims that elites drove all the advances of the Progressive Era, and views the rebellion against elites as a problem comparable to cities on fire.
prospect.org/2026/06/12/new-…
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Jun 12
Impossible to finish folding your laundry when one cat sits on your clothes and the other sits in the closet.
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Jun 12
One thing that drove me nuts before I left academia was the million initiatives launched at my unis that were just poorly-conceived pet projects of ladder climbing admins who could care less how disruptive/counter-productive they were as long as they (the admins) got their bag.
Jun 11
Someone needs to write about bullshit jobs in academia that has over-bureaucratized core university functions like research and teaching to the extent that we now have to pause research and teaching to catch up with new bureaucracies every few months
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Jun 12
Increasingly getting annoyed by app or website UI elements that just disappear on you while scrolling, especially when the method to bring them back up is to scroll extra hard.
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Jun 11
people were writing some really stupid stuff about “cyberspace” in the 90s, how it was destined to free us all from the hierarchical social structures and so on, but i don’t think any of it compares to how stupid current AI discourse is
Jun 11
From @WSJOpinion: Will the Pope owe an apology to AI? Slaves were self-evidently human, yet the church got it wrong. All the more reason for humility now, writes Cameron Berg.
on.wsj.com/4xskAx6
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Jun 11
Side note to this: The term "moe" was sufficiently mainstream by the early 2000s that it's basically core to Azuma Hiroki's concept of database consumption in 『動物化するポストモダン』(2001) and gets dropped without much explanation in 『電車男』(2005).
The r/retroanime sub is a timecapsule so called "retro anime fans" who dont know that the late 70s, 80s bishoujo boom lead to the current day moe asthetics
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Jun 11
It was most certainly circulating in more niche contexts much earlier. In other words, the term arguably came about largely in reference to what is now considered retro 1990s anime aesthetics, not so-called "modern" anime.
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"The Ghost in the Shell" TV ANIME Official Ending Theme Reveal
'Blue' by MILLENNIUM PARADE feat. Saya Gray & Daniel Caesar
Anime Starts July 7, 2026
Animation Studio: Science Saru
Based on the Sci-fi Action Manga by Shirow Masamune
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also, until everyone has access to academic *works* - i.e., until articles stop being locked away in databases and journals that most people can't access - the discussion about accessibility of academic *style* is nonsensical and moot
the way that you translate academic research to “people” is by making public higher ed free, not by writing pop science articles
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the way that you translate academic research to “people” is by making public higher ed free, not by writing pop science articles
Academics write for each other, not for people.
Steven Pinker has spent over four decades doing the opposite, and thinks current academic writing is "enormous wasted effort."
"There's an awful lot of brilliant work, really smart people in academia. Why are they doing it? Just to entertain each other? Taxpayers pay for it. It should be accessible. Why should I have to read a paragraph five or six times?
It gets under my skin when academics devote so much brainpower into the scholarship and then just blow off the essential task of letting the world know what you've done."
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Jun 7
If the claim is that bad scholarship in some fields has eroded faith in those fields & in higher ed, why not study fields that award most BAs: business & health (33% of all BAs). Relatively speaking: few major in the humanities. When is the biz major analysis coming?
Jun 5
Will read report on state of scholarship commissioned by Vanderbilt's Diermeier who insists university must return to its "primary purpose of knowledge creation." Didn't believe him but Vandy's SEC baseball stunk this year. If football fails then maybe? higheredstatementofprinciple…
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Reading an epub file looks like you’re scrolling a Wikipedia page while reading a tastefully scanned PDF makes you feel like Gandalf in the Minas Tirith archives
Jun 8
can the ppl who pirate textbooks & academic articles please start using this new piece of cutting edge late 2000s technology called the "epub" file
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Increasingly tempted to write something about this mobilization of the signifier "Kowloon" in so much Japanese media. Kowloon's Gate, Kowloon Generic Romance, Kowloon's Curse, etc. Of particular note is the seeming conflation of the Kowloon walled city with Kowloon as a whole.
Jun 9
After many years of development, the Kowloon's Gate English patch is now available.
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My department (Media Studies, University of Amsterdam) is hiring lecturers... great early-career job in a collegial and highly international environment. Can answer questions (but DMs don't work so email or reply) ⬇️⬇️
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Technology has robbed us of our best ominous sounds: an old phone left off the hook, and a record player that’s reached the end and is still spinning. I don’t even want to talk about TV static.
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In line with my usual skepticism about the whole live-action remake thing, I'm not sure what this would offer that isn't just a retread of the manga and animated film, but who knows, maybe Koreeda will do something more creative or interesting with the form?
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To be honest, I haven't really found recent Koreedas that formally interesting, but if it was the Koreeda of the 1990s who was still playing with the aesthetics of the documentary form, that might be a different story.
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A lot of the conclusions here would ring true for anyone who has had to read a dozen or so AI generated student papers in a row, especially the homogeneity and non-specificity of arguments.
Jun 8
From op-eds in newspapers to NeurIPS position papers, AI is increasingly shaping long-form public discourse. Its arguments seem plausible, but beneath surface fluency, we find argument collapse: different LLMs converge to the same main & supporting arguments and structure.
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Jun 7
Suddenly all the people who cared about human rights when Russia and Qatar hosted the world cup and suddenly quiet. .. No fancy documentary from the BBC on immigrants rights. No expose on Crime in inner cities (as we saw in South Africa)
Just silence.
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