Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Slightly annoying that there's no way to disable the Canvas inbox so that communications are routed properly to my actual email address rather than via another proprietary messaging system. 000
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The "Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia" nomenclature for the next F1 race makes it sound like one of those overseas university campuses, e.g., NYU Abu Dhabi, Duke Kunshan, University of Nottingham Ningbo. Bahrain GP Malaysia. 000
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Why do I keep agreeing to do things that I know I will complain about agreeing to do in two about months' time once the work actually has to get done? 010
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I need to stop buying products that have "No MSG" on the label. Why are you advertising that your product has no flavor? 121
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Real sign of widespread software enshittification that finding something that should be as straightforward as a pdf reader with pen annotation functions has become an exercise in finding out what workflow breaking quirk you'll encounter. 120
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Wrote four journal peer reviews (and one re-review following revision and resubmission) in two days. How was everyone's weekend? 010
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Stumbled upon a study (funded by the mango industry) suggesting that eating mangoes daily may have beneficial effects for improving insulin sensitivity. Possibly dubious, but I'll latch on to any excuse to let me eat mangoes despite the high sugar content. 110
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Whoever is teaching prospective PhD students to mass send generic AI-generated emails to potential supervisors without any real consideration of programmatic fit or suitability really needs to stop now. 030
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It boggles my mind that to this day, classic Outlook still does not have a unified inbox while new Outlook still fails to add some of the most basic IMAP email accounts. Of course, they broke something in OAuth so now none of my third-party email clients can sync with Office365. 000
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It kind of amuses me that there is a (Robert) Altman the filmmaker and a (Rick) Altman the film scholar, so I have to do a momentary double-take to verify who is being referred to when the name comes up in film studies scholarly writing. 001
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I sometimes find myself getting needlessly obsessed with the length of a single paragraph on the page, finding an urge to add sentences that are not strictly necessary just to make it appear more in symmetry with the other paragraphs around it. 000
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Daily American food recall news are a conspiracy to starve me of my standard staples. 021
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Petty, I realize, but I can't help but feel some mild satisfaction when the work of people I personally dislike get less than glowing academic book reviews. 0342
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I don't think I'll ever get used to how people misuse the word "aesthetic" these days. 010
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Beyond just student writing now, I'm starting to see an increase in instances of what I strongly suspect to be AI generated journal manuscript submissions from the peer reviewer and editorial side of things. 000
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I guess 北京大学 and 北海道大学 just have the same shorthand 北大? That could easily get confusing. Then again, I remember that the existence of both UT (Texas) and UofT (Toronto), among other examples, can also confuse some people, so not solely a Hanzi/Kanji problem. 000
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026For some reason, every now and then I will struggle to remember the correct names of the Hong Kong MTR lines, but instead of referring to them by their designated colors, my brain would default to mentally referring to the corresponding line in Tokyo with the same color. 100
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Also co-teaching a course on science fiction cinema this coming fall semester. Offhand, the film list for this one still feels a bit too Anglocentric for me, but it might have to do for now. 1. Invention for Destruction 2. War of the Worlds 3. Nineteen Eighty-Four 4. Gattaca 100
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I think I have my film list more or less set for the updates to this course, barring any last minute impulsive changes of my mind. First off, around topics of authenticity, performance, and sexuality. 1. Sans Soleil 2. Memoirs of a Geisha 3. The Pillow Book 4. M. Butterfly 110
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026They're making a TV series that's basically The Bear, plus "Thing, Japan" in the form of ramen fetishism? 110
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It's kind of alarming how frequently and flagrantly the Google AI summary box on top invents whole texts with fake titles and fake authors when you try to search for scholarly essays by vaguely remembered description. 000
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The morning welcome party outside the bathroom door. 020
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Dreamt up this beautiful multiple nested clauses Fredric Jameson quote that would have been the perfect epigraph for the book manuscript. Then I woke up. No AI hallucinations here, just artisanal human-made ones. 010
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 09/08/2026For a course on the images of Asia in (non-Asian) cinema, should I go with Assayas' Boarding Gate or Michael Mann's Blackhat for a unit on post-cinematic affect and aesthetics, transnational networks, and the infrastructures of globalization? Or both? 100
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 09/08/202636.8 degrees today. Highest ever recorded temperature in Hong Kong apparently? 100
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026After the terrible opening two episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds this season, I'm just thoroughly unmotivated to bother watching the rest of the season. To be honest, I'm not even sure why I bothered watching this far after how bad the last season turned out. 000
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Callisto's new thing is stealing her sister's spot. Her modus operandi is to plop on top of Io and roll around until she gets annoyed and sleeps somewhere else. 120
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Oh joy AAS and SCMS overlap again next year. This seems to keep happening year after year. 010
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Most of my day today was spent tracking down and attempting to verify the existence of a bunch of translations into Japanese of proto-SF writing from the Meiji period, all so I can write two sentences with two supporting endnotes. Fun times. 130
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I've been trying to find a copy of this obscure local English dub of Macross that partially aired in the 1980s in the Philippines, before the American Robotech dub was released there. 111
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Increasingly finding that much of my writing time is occupied by adding all manner of rambling digressions in the endnotes that can't be put in the main body text without disrupting the logical sequence of sentences/paragraphs. 110
Reposted by Baryon PosadasPublishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 27/07/2026★ Political theorist Kohei Saito argues in this penetrating treatise that Karl Marx’s Capital has never been more relevant than in the era of global warming. This brims with power and urgency. @AstraHouseBooks buff.ly/yEFFzwi 0147
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The two sleeping piles of fur have merged into one. 010
Reposted by Baryon PosadasBrian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Photos from the book launch for Capital from Zero by Kohei Saito at Argo Bookshop in Montreal last night. A great discussion and event! 0241
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Folks, if your email inquiring about potential PhD supervision is quite obviously AI generated, there's more than a good chance that I will ignore your message. 030
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I was trying to find bibliographic info on something I once cited before only to realize that my first book has vaguely trans flag colors (the shade of blue might be a touch too dark though?) 010
Reposted by Baryon PosadasCoop @riderstrike.bsky.social · 19/07/2026A few years back, I wrote about the Mamoru Oshii-shaped connection between Urusei Yatsura and Tachigui for @discotekmedia.bsky.social’s newsletter… And it’s just emerged from your inbox and onto the MediaOCD blog as part of my new column—Beside Myshelf! More to come! mediaocd.com/beside-myshe...mediaocd.comBeside Myshelf: An Amazing Life Born from Sure Death - MediaOCD.comWhat does Lum have to do with a bunch of dine-and-dashers? The secret's in the Mamoru Oshii sauce. 12916
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Sky smeared with the colors of the Ontario wildfires aside, what struck me about these pictures of Minneapolis was how oddly wide and empty I now find the streets. It seems my sense of what urban scale looks and feels like has now reset since moving from there to HK 3 years ago. 000
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Sometimes, the color of the broth on these noodles come out just right. 030
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026A comment in a course evaluation asks for a list of weekly films/animations on the canvas site instead of just being mentioned at the end of the lectures, which completely confused me. Did they not realize all through the semester that there's a syllabus with this information? 110
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Every time I get blocked while writing, it turns out that it is invariably because I've gotten too precious about a random sentence/paragraph that doesn't really fit and the solution is to just delete it and move on. Always the case, yet I seem to need to relearn this each time. 030
