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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.
HKG/YYZ/MNL Katılım Haziran 2017
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"Systematically dismantling" has to be one of those phrases that's a tell of LLM output right now. I've lost track of how many times I've encountered it in so so many pretentious geopolitics tweets.
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@writerofscratch It renders fine for me (Win 11, built in PDF reader in browser).
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Does the Japanese text fail to render in the pdf of this academic article for you guys too, or is it a problem on my end?
link: jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jappm/…
how it renders for me:
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@TheGrouchHK @przidnt1 I find the Yale system for marking tones, with its use of diacritics similar to pinyin, so much more intuitive and visually readable than Jyutping.
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@przidnt1 And I didn't put the tones either..
Nei⁵hou² mfkers, nei⁵dei⁶ jau⁵mou⁵ giu³ ngo⁵ aa³?
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For Cantonese, the romanization system used by the HK government for official place names is the one I've never been able to make sense of. Not Yale, not Jyutping, but a secret third thing.
Mathias@bucephalus424
The Wade-Giles system and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
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apropos of nothing important it’s ridiculous that there are now three major on screen representations of academia (after the hunt, vladimir, rooster) and it’s all just the same sex scandal/students too woke plot. makes me actually miss “the chair” for addressing other issues
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This prompted a thought: given how GenAI tends to rely on the secondary literature more than parsing the texts themselves to produce its summaries of works and explanations of concepts, to what extent might it reproduce and reinforce frequent misreadings and misapprehensions?
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Similar to Butler on performativity, Mulvey on the male gaze, Haraway on the cyborgs, or ideas like death of the author, Said's Orientalism is another one of those works that articulated foundational concepts that people constantly cite but often don't actually read.
کیوان@kayvanseyedin
You clearly didn’t read the book or understand its argument. The point was never about the Orientalist’s intellectual caliber but the production of a very particular knowledge about “the Orient.” Go read some of Browne’s works and you’ll see that Edward Said was spot on.
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But definitely dont ask why the United States has a military base 15,000km away from its territory, on a coral island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, that was illegally cleansed of all of its native inhabitants to make way for the installation
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
Iran just fired two missies at a target 4000 kilometers away. London is 4400 kilometers from Tehran. Tell me Iran is not a threat to the world. (Paris, Rome, Vienna and Berlin are closer…)
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With all the discourse about Paul Thomas Anderson going around. I just realized that, to date, I've never actually seen anything in his filmography in full. I guess none of them have ever really looked interesting enough to me to bother. Too American for me, maybe?
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Probably just indicative of the fact that the most common place i encounter LLM written text is in either social media posts or student writing. I imagine LLM fiction voice would be more apparent to me if I frequently read fanfic or self-published fiction.
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Interestingly, reading through some of the examples of LLM generated text being referenced in the wake of this situation, I'm finding that I seemingly recognize the GPT writing voice more readily when used in non-fiction than in fiction.
Lincoln Michel@TheLincoln
Welp. I've been expecting a scandal like this sooner rather than later nytimes.com/2026/03/19/boo…
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Welp. I've been expecting a scandal like this sooner rather than later
nytimes.com/2026/03/19/boo…
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@fredleept @HistorianZhang Something that helped in the grad seminar I first read it was being prepared by going over Capital Vol.1 and some of Lacan's seminars first so we had a clearer sense of some of the language D&G were borrowing and some of the concepts they were critiquing.
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@HistorianZhang Similar experience. First read it grad school. It was largely incomprehensible, and I was supposed to be a specialist in "theory."
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Call me stupid but this is some of the most incomprehensible text known to man
frases paula oficial ☭@zggystrdust
first in my bloodline to read this book
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Reminds me of the time when the neighborhoods just outside of the University of Toronto were still lined with various copy shops all printing out various course packs (most of which questionable in their copyright adherence) during the closing weeks of August.
David Madden@davidjmadden
Extremely depressed to live in a world where this is apparently newsworthy
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With all the hilarity surrounding Asian American culture in the past month (see Hatchling, among other things), I've had a chance to re-share my 2022 essay, "American American Psycho," first published in @curaffairs, many times.
So here it is again! (link to full essay below)
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@TheGrouchHK I once found a restaurant on Foodpanda called "Satay King" but there was no satay in their menu, just an assorted mish-mash of other Southeast Asian cuisines.
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WTF pardon moi ?
I search for Indian, they give me a Thai restaurant.
I click on the menu, they feature Hainan chicken.
HK restaurants are a joke.
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@HistorianZhang Apparently, Canvas also has a built-in live chat tool. I haven't tried it yet, but I wonder if it will be more usable than a simultaneous Zoom session with chat?
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@baryontensor Actually tried with zoom in class with chat enabled, not the same
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The most student engagement I ever got was teaching my 400 person lecture on zoom during Covid. Treat it like a twitch stream and talk to chat and the students actually respond and have interesting things to say. They're too shy in person to do it
Joyce Carol Oates@JoyceCarolOates
Excellent questions from the class—(“An Introduction to Joyce Carol Oates”)—but I had forgotten how immersive Zoom can be. It seems to drain us in ways not typical of classroom teaching—perhaps a neurological strain in focusing on a screen. Is this so? Neuroscientists?
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