Glad it’s not a liter and just a litre.
12.03.2026 03:55
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Glad it’s not a liter and just a litre.
And could get us out of it.
The line that I’d quote is:
“Faculty with tenure should summon the same level of courage as an all-but-dissertation lecturer or untenured assistant professor to fight against attacks on academic freedom.”
We are definitely crossing over into the “ find out” section of the “fuck around and find out” chart.
Indiana resisted this madness for decades but eventually caved to the big time lobby.
When people ask me why Americans would elect someone like trump, I explain to them the concept of daylight saving time and it all makes sense.
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Why “AI writing”? Why not “AI gym class” or “AI cooking”?
Henceforth, any politician who asks “how will we pay for it” shall be placed in stocks and pelted with rotten fruit.
I remember thinking 20 some years ago during the Bush administration that it could never get dumber than this. I was wrong.
I haven’t followed the Maine primary very closely, but from what I have read/heard from people supporting him the issue seems to be less of excuses for him than skepticism of the Democratic Party establishment. They think it’s a hit job in support of the party-favored geriatric candidate.
Check out this interview by Kit Brooks with Akiko Walley and me on the nature of replicas and the Shōsōin. journals.publishing.umich.edu/ars/article/...
Every democrat should be campaigning on this issue.
The latest Mac OS also sucks. Windows and Mac users are finally united in their hatred of their computers.
Excited to attend a conference in North America while continuing to avoid entering the US.
Children should never be killed.
Leaving the US is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life. Never going back.
INBOX: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dropped a 90s sitcom-themed video endorsement of @bradlander.bsky.social, specifically calling out AIPAC's influence:
“An enjoyable enough read about the era, the writers and (of course) the townsmen themselves.” — Tony’s Reading List on THE TEXTUAL TOWNSMAN buff.ly/XiDqCRQ #BookReview #JapaneseLiterature #HistoryBooks #JLit
Why not send Koizumi to Yonaguni Island? By 2030 he will have served in every government post and need a new job title.
I try to explain this point to my students using sports analogies: the purpose of tennis practice is not that a racket gets swung X times a day. The purpose is to improve your tennis game. They nod in agreement, then have ChatGPT write their essays.
So WHERE in the world can you still do a fully funded PhD in Japan Studies?....
...oh yeah, right here! 👇
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Some interesting points here. Glad to see the author dismiss the religious difference” argument and focus on the political moment. I’d add that the anxiety about depopulation in Japan makes people more inclined to see the practical benefits of AI and less likely to see it as a threat to their jobs.
And democrats would have won the election.
To add more detail, applicants should specialize in theology or the study of Christianity. This is a tenured or tenure-track position.
One of the many cool journal covers of the Japanese Alpine Club, this one from issue 2, 1914
I've signed a contract with Princeton University Press for my next book! Tentatively "Ascendance: Mountain Climbing and Spirituality in Modern Japan," I'll look at the passage of mountaineering from England to Japan in the early 20th c, esp. on various modern spiritualities that emerged through it.
To grasp the magnitude of this plan, Auschwitz II-Birkenau was built to hold 97000 people.
