iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"twitter literally became what tumblr used to accuse something awful of being" I gasp raggedly on my deathbed. the year is 2068. nobody has any idea what the fuck I'm talking about

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

The article below with a rainbow tab on the side which initiates a chat bot
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Virginia Data Center Ran
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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Honestly, that could make an interesting study: how mutated does a character need to be for someone to stop and say "maybe this isn't great"

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's amazing how generative AI users can churn out a poster with these kanji and be like, "yeah, this is fine."

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This kind of guy is at least 95% of the reason I pivoted out of historical linguistics.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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The CryptKeifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The combination of the Jozenji Street Jazz Festival with Osaki Hachimangu's main yearly festival makes for a weekend with impeccable vibes here in Sendai.

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Nagoya Univ is ending admissions to its undergrad program for, specifically, privately-funded international students. (But they can still apply to the international program, and govt-funded students can still come). What problem is this supposed to be solving?? www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/admissions/n...

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名古屋大学受験生応援サイト | NU START GUID

名古屋大学の入学情報全般を取り扱った公式サイトです。

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

After a few years in the making, a review article I co-wrote with colleagues at Tokyo College finally sees the light of day at Social Sciences & Humanities Open. (and it's open access!) doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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boyzantium (samoyedcore) ("deathcore doggy @deathco.re · 02/07/2023

hey "nice" manbun haha it fuckin sucks you hipster asshole [he turns around and reveals he is a samurai from the tokugawa shogunate] oh fuck

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

On today's episode of 日本平和だな, someone in Tottori prefecture keeps abandoning comically large amounts of bread (and raw chicken??) in strange places. youtu.be/8dvTXgO85hc?...

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「食パン」投棄問題に新展開　大山より半月ほど前には道の駅でも…罪に問われない可能性ある？

YouTube video by ちゃんねるテレポート山陰

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Years of process to restrict private vehicles from a major city's most popular pedestrian space, the sun cannot become a red giant soon enough

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A perfect conceit for the 20s: the world's biggest bookstore has become a destroyer of books

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Lapras bus in Sendai brings me joy every time I see it.

A small, circulator bus with Lapras livery. This photo was taken in traffic while sitting in a much more boring, non-Lapras bus.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 12/08/2026

I've said it before and I will keep saying it. Watching the show, the movies, or reading the books puts money in her pocket. Even if you pirate them, you're contributing to the popularity of the franchise. JKR is an objectively awful person who actively harms others. Don't be an accomplice.

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I also just realized the title is ふつつかな悪女ではございますが, some o-jousama scholar I am 💃

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Literally currently watching Sonic 2 because of this information.

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I don't in any way follow the live-action Sonic movies, but I feel like someone should have TOLD me that Keanu Reeves is the voice of Shadow the Hedgehog.

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

All the anime fukunagashi I saw at the Sendai Tanabata Festival: 1) ふつつかな悪女ですが 2) Konosuba (celebrating the tenth anniv. of airing) 3) Re:zero (for the upcoming 4th season) 4) Apothecary anime (for the upcoming 3rd season) 5) 1 million volleyball boys anime (because Haikyuu!! takes place in

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稲葉剛 @inabatsuyoshi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

永住外国人の「生活保護」回避狙った政府　許可要件の厳格化案を発表：朝日新聞 digital.asahi.com/articles/ASV... 低賃金の「労働力」は欲しいが、その人たちが低年金の高齢者になる前に追い出してしまおうという政府。この国は排外主義に突き進んでいます。 8月6日 10:47まで全文お読みいただけます

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永住外国人の「生活保護」回避狙った政府　許可要件の厳格化案を発表：朝日新聞

出入国在留管理庁は4日、外国人の永住許可ガイドラインの改定案を発表した。日本人世帯の平均を上回る年収水準や、その年収で厚生年金に30年加入していた場合の年金受給見込み額を求めることなどが柱だ。異例の…

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

those rolling stacks you'll find in any big state school library

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Honestly, if you can find the love hotels that are also trying to serve as business hotels, even better. I stayed at one with some friends when we went to an academic conference, and it was awesome -- great room service, great amenities, and I didn't have to talk to anyone.

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Emily Maple @suika.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The Japanese government is making everyone's lives worse except for the one group that truly needs to be Detained And Deported: tourists who go on those fake-ass "Mario Kart" rides in the middle of the city.

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just minding my business walking with my family to the aquarium when

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Check out this thread about some recent research by brilliant Berkeley students on how listeners attribute social identities to synthesized voices! Full paper: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

degruyterbrill.com

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Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its third edition!!!✨🎀 📩 Send us your abstract by August 15 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨ Share widely!

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Call for Papers: Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2026

A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Sick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs.

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

You've heard of ザ and ジ, but may I interest you in definite article 地?

A photo of a magazine article titled 湯守　とっておきの旅. In the top right article reads the text 地・温泉 with the English translation "THE ONSEN."

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

結論から言うねそれ、実は**めっちゃ興味深い**

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I am unreasonably excited about this book purchase.

A photo of the academic book A History of Goblins by Matt King, sitting on OP's coffee table.

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Chelsea Szendi Schieder @chelseaszendi.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Occupation des universités, manifestations contre les bases militaires américaines d’où partaient les avions bombardant le Vietnam ; lutte contre la construction de l’aéroport de Narita sur une zone agricole ; naissance du mouvement de libération des femmes… Tokyo 68!

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Tohoku and Kanto are apparently trading 震度６ earthquakes back and forth, 日本沈没かな

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

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The True Source of Value
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What you see are the eggs
What produces them is the factory itself
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Shareholder Value = 3 eggs
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Eggs do not lay eggs
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Increase = 71
It was the goose that created value
74 - 3 = 71
Goose value
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

So many cyclist deaths begin with a stationary driver blocking the bike lane. The disconnect between cyclists, who see this as a life-threatening reckless action, and drivers, who see this is a minor parking infraction, is what often leads to discord.

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

SO FOR THE FUTURE (LITERALLY) WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING AI POSTERS OR FLYERS FOR THE PUB.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

WE UNDERSTAND BANDS CAN BE SKINT BUT RELYING ON SOME EARTH KILLING APP FROM SOME PAEDO ISLAND BILLIONAIRE IS NOT THE WAY. WE GOT BY WITHOUT IT AND WE'LL GET BY AGAIN.

IF YOU'RE STUCK WE'LL HELP. (YES IT HAS BEEN USED HERE BEFORE BUT CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE END OF IT.)

THANKS, HUMANS.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I wish there was some centralized location where academics could name-and-shame other academics who publish (or try to publish) papers with AI-hallucinated citations, because I am at my fuuuucking limit.

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Jo Gatford @jmgatford.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Murderbot just gets it. (From Platform Decay by @marthawells.com)

An excerpt from Platform Decay (Murderbot book 8) by Martha Wells:

“(Emotion check: apparently there is an easier way to do things, but I wouldn’t know. I like to do it the hard way, and take as much physical and emotional damage as possible.”

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CJ @virmalised.us · 07/06/2026

This guy is a colleague of mine and I can confirm that the "hard sciences" faculty at my university seem set on killing the best part of the job, which is learning

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