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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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Science Fiction, Empire, Japan.
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@gonglei89 @przidnt1 @kai_incognito49 The Hong Kong scenes with Gigi lounging around in her expat mansion on the peak were amusing to the local audience here.
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@gonglei89 @przidnt1 @kai_incognito49 I enjoyed it, and especially liked how it captured how Mafty were a guerilla force that had to be constantly in hiding. Part of me wishes it were a longer series so the character interactions among Hathaway's crew could be better developed.
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Just watched Hathaway 2 @przidnt1 @baryontensor @kai_incognito49 AND IT WAS SO GOATED 5 years waiting for this motherfucker to drop totally fucking worth it 😭😤
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I wonder if this isn't a more implicit symptom of the kind of game-ic realism in serialized work that Azuma Hiroki writes about, with plots basically following the default narrative trajectory of ttrpg parties who start out as random murder-hobos turning into epic-lecel heroes.
Just Ken@YoungerPope
The Expanse, Fast and Furious, Mission Impossible all posit that at a certain point you prestige out of standard criminality into a sort of robber knighthood where you have so much ability you have a responsibility to use your powers ethically
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Opinion | Everyone knows teaching evaluations don't work. So why do we still have them? chroni.cl/4wJaho3
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I probably shouldn't be, but it still does surprise me that this isn't even always treated as a form of academic misconduct by the authors' home institutions.
Andrew White 🐦⬛@andrewwhite01
hallucinated references will land you a 1-year ban from arxiv now. wow
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Imagine back in the heyday of online essay mills, if the push had been to teach students to use essay mills ethically and to develop essay mill strategies. Or if we had accepted that essay mills were okay for grammar and organization but taught Ss to make the essays their own.
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(Putting this here as a signpost to make sure my brain doesn't get drawn into other random interpretative side quests as I try to finish writing this conference paper.)
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Thinking about the anime series Japan Sinks 2020, its treatment of crisis and disaster as a prolonged "chronic" condition instead of a singular event, and how the temporal marker in its title accidently turns it into something almost like a premediation of the (post-) pandemic.
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Asian American literature is at a crossroads. Rachel Khong’s new short story collection demonstrates where it should—and shouldn’t—go next. Corinne Leong reviews “My Dear You.”
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it must feel so good to take something people love and enshittify it
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If youre not cross referencing and checking every AI "source" synthesized or wuotes extracted by AI, then youre 100% citing fabricated evidence and inaccurate syntheses. Quotes taken out of context, attributed to wrong source, and summaries that miss the point entirely. 1/2
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@cszabla In light of all these events, what happens when their overseas Ningbo campus ends up supplanting the home institution?
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a full third of academics at nottingham sent letters saying their jobs are at risk
21group@21percentgroup
Looks like governance failure, misuse of funds & breach of fiduciary duties at Nottingham University "University’s administration sent letters to 2700 staff, notifying them their role was at risk of redundancy" This is 30% of entire headcount 😲 theguardian.com/education/2026…
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the labour party is possibly going to have the virtual collapse of the welsh university system on its hands soon (after cardiff already devastated by cuts), but watch them still not care
21group@21percentgroup
Liquidity red flags at Aberystwyth, Bangor & UWTSD — all < 37 days That’s how long Universities can keep going if income drops Maybe it’s finally dawning on Bridget Phillipson. If it unravels on your watch, you get the blame Welsh Labour missed it nation.cymru/news/liquidity…
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正直言うと、今の時代に攻殻機動隊を「原作通り」にアニメ化するとか神経を疑う
逆に言えば、右派ポピュリズムが高まってる時代だから原作の強硬なテーマも受け入れられるだろうとSARUは考えたかもしれん
だが、「日本にもCIA・モサド・FSBみたいな攻勢の情報組織が必要だ」なんて話に俺は賛同しない
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原作準拠の攻殻機動隊。原作の政治性を知ってる人なら同じように予想してるかもしれないけど、高市政権が進めてる国家情報局にとって絶好のプロパガンダになりそうで怖い。
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@VK_HM @sspringnotes While not canonically confirmed, as far as I know, it really does make sense given the Kobali's own assimilative processes of reproduction via re-animation.
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@sspringnotes Yeah. Kind of looks like the Borg Queen (absent the cybernetics) which make some think that the Queen might be originally Kobali.
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@HistorianZhang My experience with it so far suggests that it does better with longer material and can struggle somewhat with mixed content material. It also seems to tend towards more false negatives to minimize false positives.
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Is Pangram able to distinguish between texts that are fully AI-generated and texts that are written in another language and then machine translated? Or do both of these get classified as AI generated work?
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@fredleept @chang_koo Drawing from it's Spanish colonial legacy, the Philippines also uses this language of mestizos and chinos locally to refer to mixed people.
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@chang_koo Interesting, so maybe "wasian" is US mestizaje at work. "Mestizo" was reserved for white-indigenous mixes in Spanish colonial castas system. Mestizo, in other words, had "white" in it (cf. Chino, Mulato, etc), albeit less explicitly than "wasian" does.
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What are the closest analogues to this WAsian business elsewhere—Eurasian or Anglo-Indian?
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