worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
🧵1/x Lots of blunt and contradictory conclusions by (de)generative AI on extent of #DEI in #AsianStudies projects that had received funding from #NEH
1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
Incidentally, 'Professor' Jiang holds no degree higher than a BA in English literature, and teaches humanities at a not-well-regarded international school in Beijing: www.reddit.com/r/Internatio...
Thankfully I don't really see him on this site, but he's clearly become a bit of a gateway drug to conspiratorial thinking, considering the number of Holocaust deniers whom we've had to ban in that AskHistorians thread.
Remember, 'Professor' Jiang Xueqin, who 'correctly' predicted the 2024 Iran airstrikes and Trump's election via psychohistory? Well, I'd already noticed his Holocaust denial, but TIL he's a general conspiracist who thinks a Jesuit-Jewish-Masonic cabal runs the world.
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I've been listening to an audiobook about airships (zeppelins, dirigibles, or blimps, depending on locale), and how they NEVER really worked, but governments had invested so much in them that they were determined to MAKE them work, wasting fortunes & years & lives
This post is not about airships
Today marks 1 year since the first Ask Me Anything (AMA) for AskHistorians in our push to very actively recruit guests, and where are we now? Today is the 90th AMA in that effort, helping us cross the thresholds of 35k upvotes, 8k comments, and 15k link shares in that year (and ~10m views)!
Is AIPAC money in politics bad? Yes. But the Christian Right's money, power, and influence is far bigger, and they just can't wait to get Armageddon going
Because we put... incels in charge of the Pentagon???
Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we...
...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us
I woke up thinking of all the times older/established men in the industry have said or done problematic things, & I've been reassured they didn't mean it like that or it's been misinterpreted. "It's just how they are, Annie, you're overreacting". -
"Trying to compete with Reform not only feels inauthentic... but a betrayal of what Labour is supposed to represent. We must address the concerns and fears of voters, not play on them."
Damning stuff from Sadiq Khan
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“As a final message to our warriors, the Ivy League faculty lounges may loathe you, the so-called elite of academia may mock your patriotism and disdain your sacrifice, but never forget that we the War Department have your back.”
First of all -- fuck you, Pete. None of this is happening in the faculty lounges of your fever dreams.
Second, I've taught military personnel in our PhD programs and if you think slamming the door to Harvard and Princeton in their faces is "having their back" you're even dumber than you sound.
Funniest part is that is actually a photo of Foggy Bottom station.
A Starfleet ship with an overhead book fires phasers across the port wing of a Klingon ship. A second Starfleet ship moves to join the standoff from behind.
USS Hong Kong fires a Warning Shot at a Klingon D5E cruiser near Acamar, summer 2262.
The D5E was a workhorse of the early cold war period, alongside the equally venerable D4E and F cruisers.
Which is a marked difference from Korea and China where the Japanese supplanted local rulers – but not so much from Taiwan which was also a colonial territory under the Qing.
To be fair (???) it genuinely is not uncommon for parts of Southeast Asia to regard Japanese occupation as having been a better time than European colonialism, especially among more marginal groups under the old regime that were able to manoeuvre into better spots under Japan.
Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).
A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks.
"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."
Between takes on set Peter Cushing painted wargaming figures.
He'd invite female costars to join him if they were new, looked lonely or being perved on by others on set.
"Scream Queen" Ingrid Pitt proudly showed me the little figures they painted together once. Kept them all her life #nerdlings
The Atlantic’s in-house historian, Jake Lundberg, is answering questions about the history of print media in the United States, his career as a historian, and the relationship between media, politics, and culture. Ask him anything today on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
A game of Mapster challenging the user to draw the borders of Canada as accurately as possible. I made a squiggly drawing of a maple leaf and somehow got full points for it.
I think I have officially won at Mapster.
To be fair this very skeet is the first I've heard of it. And I admit I was slightly surprised but that's because I realised I've been blending Pedro Pascal and Javier Bardem in my head. I have no idea why besides 'actors with Spanish names who are in a lot of Anglophone films'.
It's why they don't typically actually quote him at length. They just paraphrase & go, "He said this today... he meant this."
I used to be a video lecture transcriber & this is how'd one would absolutely on purpose make speakers I didn't like "read" as stupid as possible.
Side note: my hottest take (TM) is that the rise of New Atheism is really just Reformation 2: We're Coming For Protestantism This Time. It proclaims a return to an imagined, idealised, and original cosmology from the Goode Olde Days, but its conception of religion is essentially Protestant.
Which is to say that I think we ('we' in the sense of the Anglophone West) were already a few steps removed from *other* societies' histories a good deal before both the rise of secularism as a societal value, and the decline of individual religiosity.
The fact is, you can't really use a Protestant worldview to understand Greek polytheism, you can barely use it to understand Islam, and it completely breaks once you try and figure out what China or Japan have been doing for the last three millennia.
As a scholar of Asian history, I'd argue the 'problem', such as it is, goes a bit deeper, in that the concept of religion as a discrete arena of human activity as opposed to an inseparable part of human activity is one that comes out of a distinctly post-Reformation Christian worldview.
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