nope, these two stories next to each other in the #Harvard Crimson are absolutely not related in any way whatsoever

Surprising not surprising that Nikkei leads with “radical Muslim leftist” instead of “doctor advocating healthcare reform,” which is what Al-Sayed is most famous for. His policies are already a given among Japan’s “radical Shinto rightist” PM.

日経電子版@nikkei.com · 8h ago

イスラム系急進左派が民主党の候補に　中間選挙の激戦区ミシガン州で www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO... イスラエルへの軍事支援停止や国民皆保険といった異色の政策を訴え、穏健派の候補を破りました。 11月の上院選で当選すればイスラム系初の上院議員となります。 #ニュース

*not an onion headline* Trinity University‘s new logo accidentally celebrates their most famous alumni: the Butthole Surfers.

San Antonio Express-News@expressnews.com · 5d ago

Trinity University spent nearly a year developing its new sunburst logo. Alumni needed only hours to demand the tower back.

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

New job: History of Early Modern East Asia (c. 1400-1850) Brown University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70189

Retrospective on the central figures of the Shōjo #Manga Boom in the 1970s (all the childhood favs 😍😍😍) at the National Art Center (Tokyo, October 28, 2026–February 8, 2027) The fact that this isn’t happening over the summer during peak tourist season is CRIMINAL.

【公式】少女漫画・インフィニティ　萩尾望都×山岸凉子×大和和紀 三人展｜国立新美術館（六本木）

少女漫画界のレジェンドである萩尾望都・山岸凉子・大和和紀の画業をたどる展覧会。カラーイラストや原画、貴重な資料を通して、少女漫画の地平を切り拓いた三人の奥深い表現世界に迫ります。

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Since the advent of computers, society has fantasized about conversing with machines. On our blog, read an excerpt from *Divination Engines* by Xiaochang Li, which shows how that dream both fueled the demand for data and set the stage for today’s generative AI. buff.ly/quG1Eg7

Read an Excerpt from “Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture” by Xiaochang Li – The Chicago Blog

Smart and timely features from our books and authors

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I’m so moved that this story about Auckland’s Nowhere, a Chinese-language bookstore with Cantonese books, banned books, and others, features our book Decolonizing Chinese History www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/a-library-bo...

Asahi article on a current exhibit at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum that focuses on the Southeast Asian students who studied in the city as part of Japanese occupation policy. My great-grandfather was the head of the dormitory (興南寮) that housed them. digital.asahi.com/articles/ASV...

「まじめで紳士」焼け野原で出会った留学生ら　背景に日本の占領政策：朝日新聞

戦時中の広島に、東南アジア諸国から来日して被爆した「南方特別留学生」がいた。日本人との交流や、背景にあった日本の占領政策を伝える企画展が、広島市の平和記念資料館で開かれている。　同館が外国人被爆者に…

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The Greenhouse #envhum book talks start up again this month! Episode 199: Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social on Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2026), Monday 24 August 2026, 4pm Central European / 10am Eastern. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

New job: Early Modern/Modern Chinese History (field open) University of Massachusetts - Boston jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70181

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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Bowdoin College’s Environmental Studies Program invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment in environmental humanities at the Assistant Professor level, beginning July 1, 20...

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A few years back, #GoogleEarth was vital in tracking the spread of concentration camps for #Uyghurs throughout #Xinjiang. This tool wouldn’t just be used to create atrocities but also to *erase* them.

Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky

Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.

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From prestigious imports to pantomime dames, Chinese tea terms in English reveal a history of admiration, adaptation, and distortion.

The Chinese Tea That Became a British Joke — and Those That Didn’t

From prestigious imports to pantomime dames, Chinese tea terms in English reveal a history of admiration, adaptation, and distortion.

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happy to see that the review essay written by @maqianyu.bsky.social and myself for LARB has been published. It discusses two important recent books about Chinese Muslims (Hui) by @rianthum.bsky.social and Hale Eroglu.Thanks go out to @bspivey.bsky.social @jwassers.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yckc5bbd

The Fate of China’s Muslims | Los Angeles Review of Books

Two recent books track the history of China’s Muslim minority during a period of suspicion and suppression.

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Really chipper lineup of trending stories at the Crimson rn

Oh yes, the ancient Japanese principle of ✨mottainai✨ “This resonates with the Japanese concept of mottainai, essentially an appeal to thrift and mindful consumption of limited resources, which we understand to come from tenets of both Buddhism and Shinto.”

To Save Japan’s Heritage Homes, People Are Shipping Them Across the World (Gift Article)

Millions of abandoned kominkas are scattered across Japan. Now, teams of enthusiasts are dismantling and rebuilding them overseas.

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If anything, what will likely happen is the other way round. Not those inside the Great Firewall bumping into what’s true, but those outside bumping into CCP misinformation, and that misinformation becoming what’s ‘true’

How Chinese AI Chatbots Censor Themselves

Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge political questions or deliver inaccurate answers.

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There are over 50 issues of the 1940-1945 Chinese language journal 婦女雜誌 on Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. This was a pro-Japanese propaganda magazine produced in Beiping during the Japanese occupation. archive.org/search?query...

Climate change is making eastern Inner #Mongolia wetter, reversing some of the land degradation along the Gobi that I discuss in #territorialnatures It is also accelerating and intensifying industrial agriculture: hybridizing native breeds, raising cattle numbers, consolidating herds onto feedlots

How Climate Change and Tariffs Help China Raise More Cattle (Gift Article)

As increased rain makes grasslands and cornfields possible in areas that once were deserts, the world’s largest beef importer is becoming more self-reliant by expanding domestic herds.

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Glad to announce that the Cornell University department of Asian Studies is hiring -- the position is a three-year visiting assistantship in contemporary Taiwanese humanities: asianstudies.cornell.edu/visiting-ass.... 2/2, assistant professor salary and benefits, many disciplines welcomed!

Sharing again today since the discourse is about AI companies guillotining books (the horror!). Read the first article to find the real villains...

Maria Antoniak@mariaa.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me... We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet. 1/n

Unsurprising that all these cuts being made to #Harvard —from the Office of Student Services to the Writing Center to now the Dudley Co-op—are happening with input from McKinsey, a firm made up of The Second Worst People I knew in college there

Mary Lewis@profmarylewis.bsky.social · 7d ago

First it was the writing center, now Dudley House. This was the place where people like married veterans & other students who had reasons to live off campus found community at Harvard. I refuse to believe this was extremely costly. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Absolutely chilling that this is happening to a colleague in our field, a specialist of Cambodian Buddhism, who has served on committees for @asianstudies.org

Sam Levin@samtlevin.bsky.social · last wk.

A Minnesota religious studies professor is facing six years in prison, with the DOJ saying he is part of an "antifa" conspiracy against ICE Erik Davis speaks out about his prosecution, largely based on a handful of his comments in Signal chats. He's not accused of any violence “It’s petty revenge"

“AI has become a blunt instrument in the enterprise to impose precisely this form of sanctioned ignorance about America’s past...Taken together, [Trump’s & Musk’s] plans amount to a one-two punch, history in the hands of the corporate state.” My latest on AI & history: www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...

Trump and Musk both want to control America's history

The frenemies' strange obsession with historical "accuracy" has disturbing connections to big AI

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BTS announces they will not submit their music for the 2027 GRAMMY awards, following the Recording Academy’s addition of an Asian-focused category: “I hope music itself can be heard and loved rather than being distinguished by region or language.”

New job: Assistant Professor, Modern Korean History Northeastern University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70166

who needs a writing center when u can use AI and just DOGE staff. lest we forget also closing the basements ie womens center, LGBTQ office, multicultural office etc. but i guess they stood up to trump for…federal money

Ordinary Notes@hystericalblkns.bsky.social · last wk.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026... Disgusting. Disgraceful.

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Bowdoin is hiring an Assistant Professor in Chinese language, literature, and culture. Deadline is October 1. Open area of specialization, 2-2 load, including one or two courses in Chinese each year. Must have native or near-native fluency in Mandarin and training in Chinese language pedagogy.

Assistant Professor of Asian Studies

Bowdoin College’s Asian Studies Program invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment in Chinese language, literature and culture at the Assistant Professor level, beginning Ju...

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