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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal @asiancha.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Gabriel Corsetti on Zev Handel's 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎 (University of Washington Press): "... an accessible and informative book that thoroughly debunks these and other misconceptions about the nature of Chinese writing." chajournal.com/2026/06/14/c... 。。

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Tom Mazanec @tommazanec.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Chinese History (published by @universitypress.cambridge.org) on the topic of "The History of Chinese Food Culture" with my former advisee Wandi Wang. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 1/

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Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊: Volume 10 - History of Chinese Food Culture | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 - Volume 10 - History of Chinese Food Culture

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Your brain was never designed to doomscroll this much.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Our friend Fea's Short-legged Toad is a relatively rare toad who grows to nearly four inches long and has short, stout legs! They spend most of their time hiding in riverside burrows but like to come out during rainy nights! (photo by Ian Dugdale)

A very wide, brown toad half burrowed into mud and leaves! They have a very wide mouth! They have mostly smooth skin but have large spikes above their eyes, the largest of which look like tiny horns!

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 17/06/2026

This story is horrifying & exactly the kind of shit so many of us have been trying to get people to seriously consider BEFORE it gets more widespread & de facto accepted across the academy. Like, there's a real possibility for this to be met with an administrative shrug, and that cannot come to pass

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

'A seven-person independent commission — nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate — would manage the fund and use its voting shares “to block decisions that hurt the American people and to push for policies that help them”' Let's imagine... 1/ floridapolitics.com/archives/802...

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Bernie Sanders unveils plan to give the public direct ownership of AI companies

‘The public has got to have a significant seat at the table to make sure that terrible things do not happen to ordinary people, and that in fact, AI benefits ordinary people, not hurts them.’

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Our friend the Gollum Toad lives in the Endau-Rompin National Park at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula! Their call is a low, raspy, coughing sound similar to the description of Gollum's voice in the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings! (photo by John Sullivan)

A rough-skinned brown toad with a creamy white belly! They have a think white stripe running from the tip of their nose and down their back, and some wide dark brown stripes on their legs! They have large, warty bumps on the side of their belly and a row of warty bumps down their side!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Our friend the Binchuan Horned Toad lives on Mount Jizu in northern Yunnan, China! They are a member of family Megophryidae, also known as Goose Frogs! (photo by David M. Hillis)

A brown toad sitting on a bright green leaf! They have somewhat rough looking skin covered in lots of tiny bumps and also have a few larger bumps down their sides! Their face is darker than their back, and there is a thin black line separating their face from their back!

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Empowerment is not emancipation & if AI does any empowering, it’s of the already powerful elite who are shifting our economy to accommodate the digital forms of arbitration and decision-making that these tools were devised to perform. Academics who shill for it are complicit.

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Esprit de l'escalier @jeofree.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Life imitates (what we thought was) wildly exaggerated satire From the prescient genius of @tomtomorrow.bsky.social

This Modern World cartoon about how eventually one rich guy owned more than everyone else on the planet combined and with the world in ruins pundits defend him against any meek proposals that maybe he should be taxed a little.

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Our friend the Common Spadefoot lives in a huge area extending from Central Europe to Western Asia! They are also known as the Garlic Toad, because when they are scared they excrete a chemical that smells like garlic! (photo by Christoph Moning)

A mostly smooth-skinned toad sitting among small plants with purple flowers! The toad has a somewhat satisfied look on their face!

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Renfield Admits Count Dracula Can Be "Kind Of A Lot"

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

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With Measles Roaring Back, the Search for a Treatment is On

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/06/2026

To all the people glumly stating you can’t go after Elon Musk because he’s rich: you have been trained into holding this false belief. There is absolutely no physical or natural law stating that really rich men cannot be punished. The only barrier is cowardice.

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

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Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Maine Senate poll Graham Platner 51% Susan Collins 49% Janet Mills 52% Susan Collins 48% 242750075.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na2.net/hubfs/242750...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Go ahead, White House Correspondents Association. Invite this guy to your dinner next month. The one honoring the press and the First Amendment. See how far that gets you.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The good news: You are still allowed to bring your middle fingers.

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

1. fuck these two they own this scumbag forever 2. there's so much money to make the guy the nominee, this is the second day I've gotten a glossy extra large mailer for a candidate who in theory should have this done and dusted

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

well I'm sure *this* latest news is the last bad thing that will come out about the rape enthusiastic serial liar SS tattoo-having failson cheat.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

If Biden had passed out at a meeting and pitched over to 45 degrees like this he'd have been forced to resign the presidency

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

this is literally how the Marxism classes in China work

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/06/2026

holy shit, listen to Trump sleep mumbling here. Guy was out.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 03/06/2026

The dumb-tech revolution is happening. 99% of the CEO class still huffing the AI hype glue off a cliff, but anyone reading the room knows no one wants an AI surveillance fridge and there’s a huge opening right now for offline products that just fucking work (bonus points for chunky physical buttons)

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

In short, read up on utopian thinking, reject the idea of inevitability, reject the notion that the utopias of the rich are utopias for all of us, & reject generative AI.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

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Christopher Nugent @cmbnugent.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This is not only true, it only permits only one conclusion: the surviving member of Milli Vanilli must be made president of Columbia University

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Serendipitous discoveries in the archives and stacks aren’t possible if you shut them down “The document – a scrap of parchment inserted into an account of the Ramsey Abbey manor of Warboys in Huntingdonshire…”

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Our friend the Omei Horned Toad lives in western China, especially in areas around Mount Emei from which they get their name! They grow to nearly three inches long and have long, skinny tadpoles that grow to nearly two inches long! (photo by chilianxianren)

A smooth-skinned brown toad with a creamy white belly and a small white stripe from their eye to their shoulder! They have a somewhat pointy nose and a very pointy crest above their eye!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Our friend Vestergaard's Forest Toad lives in the West Usambara Mountains in northeastern Tanzania! They grow to less than an inch long and are viviparous, meaning they produce live baby toadlets instead of producing eggs! (photo by Lorenzo Vinciguerra)

A brown toad with a somewhat heavy body and long, skinny legs! They have slightly rough textured skin! They have a lighter brown patch on their face and small light brown spots all over their sides! They have long, skinny fingers and toes with rounded pads on the ends!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Our friend the Spotted Asian Tree Toad lives in western Sabah in Malaysia! They are the only species in genus Sabahphrynus! They are also known as the Sabah Earless Toad because they do not have eardrums or middle ear structures! (photo by Jeremy Loh)

A tiny, slender, green and brown toad in a somewhat classic camouflage pattern, sitting in the middle of a large brown leaf! They have long, slender legs! Their skin texture is somewhat rough and covered with lots of tiny bumps! Some of the bumps in the brown patches are reddish in color!

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our friend the Western Narrow-mouthed Toad is also known as the Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad! They live throughout much of the south-central United States! They are known to form beneficial relationships with tarantulas, sharing their burrow and eating annoying ants! (photo by Reid Hardin)

A smooth skinned, plump, moist frog with a somewhat long and rounded nose, sitting on a wet piece of wood!

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It's good that universities are making six-figure payouts to people who got fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk, but now the universities need to do some new firing, of administrators who carried out those illegal actions. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

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Fired for Criticizing Charlie Kirk, They’re Now Getting Big Payouts

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I don’t usually say watch videos but the payoff is worth it.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 25/05/2026

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

213. The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

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Christopher Nugent @cmbnugent.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Needless to say, the second experiment has profoundly negative implications for education.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

if only there were a way to discover if the sources you cite contained the information you assume they contain

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23/05/2026

Like, if you believe that LLMs are a powerful technology that could be useful, that’s a big reason to be ferociously critical of the Big AI companies! Just like loving the internet is a good reason to hate Meta/Facebook. Why the hell would you root for big evil companies making the worst version?

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

From the full story linked in comments: "The beavers have also allowed the city to scrap expensive plans to dig a reservoir and levee. 'We said the beavers can do it for a fraction of the cost, certainly more sustainably,' McCormack says."

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

this is really good news

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Republican voters in Kentucky who presumably spent much of 2024 banging on about Epstein just ejected from Congress their own Republican congressman, who helped get the Epstein files out, in order to please the close friend of Epstein, Donald Trump.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 19/05/2026

I think all of us who managed to write a book without using AI should get to kill one robot

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/05/2026

Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent. Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.

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