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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 16h

- In "Unico and the Island of Magic" (ユニコ　魔法の島へ) when Toby turns everyone into walking blocks and Kuruku is flying around with glowing lasers shooting from his fingers cackling. - Baba Yaga's hut in the Ivan Bilibin illustrated version where Vasilisa is holding the skull with the glowing eyes.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Possibly my least fav AI "enthusiast" is the speculative fiction writer or futurist who has created a brand of riding the next wave and who reflexively engages with AI so they can look like they're hip to the cool, so to speak.

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is exactly the point. And, with guardrails in place would I read AI in student work? No. Because if I wanted to read robot writing, I’d do that. If I’m reading a student paper I want all of the student’s work, even the silly bits and the wonky grammar.

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Give me more of this and less of Lower Decks, please thank you.

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tarot is definitely more reliable than AI. It doesn’t predict the future, doesn’t plagiarize or guess, and you have to know how to talk to your deck in order to understand it.

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

POD publishers (possibly fake?) have totally flooded used/antiquarian/OOP book offerings on Amazon Japan and Abe Books and it appears it’s nigh impossible to find a real copy of any books I’m looking for. I’ve never seen anything like this before… 😬

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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 26/09/2026

#worldkidlitmonth Miyuki Miyabe (1960- ) began her career as a mystery writer; she won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Prize for her debut novel. Most of her work is still in the mystery genre, where she broke new ground for women with the publication of her 1992 novel, All She Was Worth.

A color photograph of Miyuki Miyabe speaking earnestly. She has bobbed hair and is wearing stylish yellow glasses and a striped purple sweater over a collared shirt.

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

YES and if I can’t be in Vermont then I shall decorate with gourds as if I totally am😌 Coincidentally it’s almost Sukkot which is an extremely gourd-friendly holiday as well✨ www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What is the point of trying so hard to maintain your academic freedom if you’re going to abandon the entire educational enterprise, sacrifice the undergrads to the tech companies, and then light your reputation on fire?

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Harvard Humanities Faculty Push Back on Deming’s Call for AI Use in Writing Courses | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be inte...

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And now I can't find the notes I was accumulating for a certain thing I wanted to write. It's fitting that it should be thunderstorming right now. Matches my mood😐

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The 100 articles thing inspired institutions to cut our access (including my own and also my alumni access, which was my back up, and with austerity measure in place now, neither are coming back any time soon). So now I will get 10 articles a month? This doesn’t work for research. Ugh.

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How Drexel can even call themselves a university after running the Academy of Natural Sciences so far into the red they insist they have to close it to the public!? It’s a 200 year old institution. It doesn’t need to be profitable, it needs to be sustained and accessible.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it may ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I think they should do Halloween Horror Afternoons for folks who want to contend with smaller crowds and be in bed at a reasonable hour. If that means less high-impact mazes, fine. Give me the MURDER, SHE WROTE maze where you are surprised by guest star killers and pause for tea halfway through.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There is no such thing as an AI "creator". Just sloppers.

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Cool, now can they take it out of Word? 😒 I want Clippy back!

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

When I was in college I was hired as bilingual staff at a Japanese cafe (Cornellians iykyk). The owner formerly worked at Nobu and taught me how to make sushi, onigiri, etc. He used to let us make stuff with the leftover rice at closing. I miss his avocado rolls. He had the best pickled ginger.

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Jeremy Dauber @jeremydauber.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

And we're off with MOVIE NO. 48 in our chronological tour through the American movies of the 1980s; it's late May of 1980, and audiences were welcome to stay, for a while, at the hotel of their nightmares and spend a few hours in the company of Nicholson and Duvall....it is, of course, THE SHINING!

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

81 years ago today, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. This was 3 days after the first atomic attack on Hiroshima.

Nagasaki, bomber's eye view: Close-up view of the head of the mushroom cloud at the Nagasaki explosion, as seen from either the bomber or the observation plane.

Nagasaki, distant ground view: Photo of the Nagasaki cloud taken ~15 minutes after the atomic bomb detonation, by Hiromichi Matsuda, stationed at Koyagi-jima Island, some 5 miles / 8 km away.

Nagasaki, before and after, aerial views.

Nagasaki, ground view, some weeks after the attack.

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Oh yay (/sarcasm) in addition to the rats visiting the veranda, we now have cockroaches resurgent in the closet/bathroom🙄 I’m tired of invaders. There isn’t even anything to eat where they’re visiting, so? My neighbor across the way leaves his trash everywhere! Why not bother him😐

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京都民俗学会 @kyotominzoku.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

【書籍紹介】【会員情報】島村恭則『恐怖の民俗学』（SBクリエイティブ）私たちはどうして怖い話が好きなのか、恐怖に魅力を感じるのか。妖怪、幽霊、都市伝説、ネット怪談などへの恐怖の「正体」を民俗学の視点から探る。 950円＋税、本日刊行。 www.sbcr.jp/product/4815...

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

all alone in silence at the dome, Hiroshima Day 黙然とひとりドームにヒロシマ忌 -Shigemoto Yasuhiko (重本泰彦). Perhaps the most iconic anti-nuclear symbol of our times, the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall was built in 1915 and was immortalized on August 6th 1945.

Old photo showing construction of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall.

Old photo showing the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (now known as the Atomic Bomb Dome).

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A watch frozen forever at 8:15am, the moment an atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on Monday August 6th 1945. #Hiroshima #August6th #HiroshimaPeaceMemorialMuseum #広島 #HiroshimaDay

A watch frozen at 8:15am, the moment the atomic bomb detonated above Hiroshima, preserved at the Hiroshima Peace Museum.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Against all odds, with an HHS that has defunded mRNA research programs, the FDA just approved the first mRNA flu vaccine

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 02/08/2026

Somehow AI has evolved into both a sinister and dispiriting art tool and an unreliable (and possibly vindictively wielded) bludgeon against (possible) creators. Win-win, I guess.

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永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara @hiromunagahara.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

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...

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「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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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If only I could get through this enormous pile of grading and get back to my writing🫩 This semester feels endless….

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I just subscribed to this block list, and I really appreciate the public service provided here

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産経ニュース @sankei.com · 02/06/2024

ホラー作家の田辺青蛙（せいあ）さんが、全国の小学生から聞いた怖い話にイラストを添えて紹介。子供が語るような文体でつづられた不可思議な体験が、リアルさをもって迫ってきます。一方で、小学生ならではの、とぼけた設定がどこか懐かしくもあります。

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＜児童書＞『全国小学生おばけ手帖　とぼけた幽霊編』田辺青蛙原案、岩田すず作

『全国小学生おばけ手帖　とぼけた幽霊編』田辺青蛙原案、岩田すず作（静山社・１３７５円）

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Edward the Movie Buff 🎞🎬🎥📽 @midgetmoxie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I wonder if pivoting to including more "personal reaction" type essays in assignments would encourage students to use less AI... But in the past students have just generated answers from a chatbot for questions as simple as "which was your favorite story this semester" so then again I'm not sure.

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I haven’t got words for the rage this fills me with. Stealing our intellectual wealth and burning it like they’re characters in Fahrenheit 451🥴

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Today in "Don't Trust The Telecom Companies": I let AU/KDDI bundle my gas bill into my phone bill about 8 years ago because they gave an 8% discount to do so. Now they're telling me I have to ask Tokyo Gas to reinstate billing because I'm switching to a different plan...

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I’m so so honored to have my poem, “Let My Right Hand Forget” in Calul Journal’s first anniversary folio🥹❤️ As usual, Rachel Neve-Midbar’s selections are absolutely gorgeous!! This is such a special lit mag☺️ The full issue here: open.substack.com/pub/calul/p/...

Let My Right Hand Forget
For my students who study WWII history

Today my student asked me how to ask a question
If our elders will not tell us what happened, how
Do we seek that knowledge they hold in deep dark
Places of their memories, how do we avoid shock
At their trauma. Is comfort even possible, if I am
Not clever enough to remember all that has never been
Explained to me? Earnestly, my student asks
About the dark places. Earnestly, I think: there is
No forgetting, only the search for knowledge.

— Samantha Landau

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🐍🥵DOGS DAYS & EELS😋⛱️ The hairdryer heat, the constant whir of insects, the lack of shade...everything at this time of year feels exhausting. The dog days of summer are here. today too, heat and tomorrow, more heat? house in the trees けふもけふも翌もあついか薮の家 -Kobayashi Issa.

Lotus flowers bloom at To-ji (the pagoda rises in the background).

An iced matcha latte with ubatama (red bean paste is mixed with dark sugar, rolled into balls and covered with agar jelly).

Crepe myrtle blooms on Sannenzaka close to Yasaka Pagoda.

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We're so excited by the love for Jimothy the special raccoon and want to celebrate him and what he represents - tenacity and difference - with a special sub call. Give us your PROSE POEMS up to 300 words. Guidelines here: trashcatlit.com/call-for-pro... Call opens 1st September 🦝 #submissioncalls

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Call for Prose Poems

Jimothy, the Seattle trash cat with short spine syndrome, has taken the internet by storm. We obviously love how adorable he is with his squished-up body and cheeky scamper, but also how incredibly…

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

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