Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026static.klipy.comSoccer Player Hits Post, Then HimselfALT: Soccer Player Hits Post, Then Himself 000
Reposted by Matthew McMullenBryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Tonight! You can still sign up. 032
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026More on apple's new AI by force OS. byteiota.com/apple-intell...byteiota.comApple Intelligence macOS 27: The Off Switch Is GoneApple removed the master disable toggle for Apple Intelligence in macOS 27. Your previous opt-out doesn't carry over. Here's what changed and what you can still do. 000
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Seems like Apple’s solution for storing AI data is to use their customers hard drives. 010
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yeah, this sucks. I’ve been turning off this bull shit for years, and now they’re made that impossible. Tahoe is bad enough. Gonna pass on this one. 011
Reposted by Matthew McMullenEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026This may end up being the most consequential story I’ve written, or one of them. “How many AI data centers are actually functional” is the most obvious question of the bubble - and the most important answer to understand what’s going on - yet answering it with any specificity has taken years. 12842235
Reposted by Matthew McMullenMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you. 341250404774
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If we had a functioning government and the mainstream media were as diligent as ProPublica, a substantial portion of congress would probably be revealed to have made similar deals. 000
Reposted by Matthew McMullenUKABS - UK Association of Buddhist Studies @ukabs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Latest issue of Buddhist Studies Review (Vol. 46 Issue 1 2026) is now available: journal.equinoxpub.com/BSR/index #buddhiststudies #buddhistpublicationsjournal.equinoxpub.com Buddhist Studies Review Buddhist Studies Review is published by Equinox on behalf of the UK Association for Buddhist Studies.The journal seeks to publish quality articles on any aspect of Buddhism. 022
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Barbecuing in the rain to honor the ancestors on higan. 020
Reposted by Matthew McMullenJoseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I'm teaching an online class on "Being Human Together in a Time of AI," starting tomorrow (9/20). Registration closes today, 9/19, at 5:00 PM Eastern. Join us to discuss what it means to be human, how we arrived at the AI crisis, and what we can do. For details, email Joseph.Fasano@gmail.com. 0206
Reposted by Matthew McMullenSociety for the Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies @ssycds.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Job alert: The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in either middle period China (Six Dynasties to Yuan) or modern China (late Qing to present). Link in comments.apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 225
Reposted by Matthew McMullenNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 180140426455
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026As an academic in the humanities, my midlife crisis consisted of finding a job. 010
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Finally a sunny day. Seems like complaining about the weather works. 110
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The notion of “AI competency” is absurd. The entire point of the software is to replace human competency with digital automation. It’s like spending millions of dollars on a program to teach babies the proper way to shit in a diaper. 0211
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is the third straight week of rain and we are expecting a typhoon next week. I’m not going to lie, it’s starting to affect my mental health. 280
Reposted by Matthew McMullenJolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Very excited for this talk by a leading ethnographer of contemporary Japanese Buddhism at Penn on Thursday! Population decline, waste, material religion, and more! In-person and online options. 051
Reposted by Matthew McMullenContemporary Japan @cj-jrnl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026#OpenAccess Was it just social pressure? @paul-jokr.bsky.social @gabrielevogt.bsky.social & James Farrer examine how subsidies and community ties shaped restaurants’ #COVID-19 self-restraint in Japan, challenging accounts emphasizing peer pressure. #FoodStudies #自粛 doi.org/10.1080/1869... 023
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Are universities unethical for not hiring much needed faculty and instead paying minimum wages to adjuncts? No, it’s the PhDs who are wrong for getting a PhD! 070
Reposted by Matthew McMullenJane @jane.meangirls.online · 13/09/2026You’d think differently if there were democrats running on the Genocide for Insufferable Dorks platform. 412311
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The policy is even more risky for PhD students because if the past decades tell us anything it’s that dems will do little to reverse it if they regain power. Probably just means test the tax rate. So the chances that you’ll be kicked out of the country or charged a tax to stay is rather high. 0112
Reposted by Matthew McMullenH-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 11/09/2026New job: History of Modern China University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70356 003
Reposted by Matthew McMullenH-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 11/09/2026New job: Assistant Professor of Art History Wesleyan University (Connecticut, USA) jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70357 001
Reposted by Matthew McMullenH-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 11/09/2026New job: Professor of Japanese (Assistant/Associate/Full) Furman University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70358 002
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Fellow academics, this is what they (admin) took from us. I bet there were some amazing faculty parties at this house. 010
Reposted by Matthew McMullenEd Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights. 150108031819
Reposted by Matthew McMullenContemporary Japan @cj-jrnl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026When the party ends: Ahead of #Okinawa 's Sept 13 election, read Xiaoyu Wang’s analysis of occupied desire, colonial complicity & illusory recognition in Ōshiro Tatsuhiro’s “The Cocktail Party” — through a lens on Okinawa’s complex ties with the mainland & US #大城立裕 #カクテルパーティー doi.org/10.1080/1869... 001
Reposted by Matthew McMullenJapan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Online registration is now open for Japan Past & Present’s symposium, "Rural Medieval: Tabihikitsuke & Sixteenth-century Japan," to be held at UCLA with virtual streaming from October 2–3, 2026. japanpastandpresent.org/en/jpp-event... 11813
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I hope in Season 5 Reacher goes after the SOBs who added commercials to prime videos. 000
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“They’re brash and messy on social media and dress like a cultural studies faculty meeting at Brown.” 000
Reposted by Matthew McMullenPau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Open access book _Modern Japanese Literary Studies_ (University of Michigan Press, 2026) Edited by Seth Jacobowitz and Jonathan E. Abelfulcrum.orgModern Japanese Literary Studies<P><I>Modern Japanese Literary Studies</I> brings together a broad range of interdisciplinary and institutional perspectives on the state of the field and presses for overdue recognition that Japanese... 12113
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Taught my first 100 % analog class last term. I even brought an analog clock to keep time. By far the funniest class I have had in a long time. 020
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026static.klipy.comMinority Report LookingAlt: Scene from Minority Report 000
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“Road congestion ahead due to water submersion” was a first from Navi. I finally feel like I’m living on an island. 100
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This would be the equivalent of 243 yen per liter in Japan. When it got close to 200, Takaichi was handing out fuel subsidies like they were Halloween candy. 1304
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026She was designing weapons for the US military while her husband was the head of the Philippines during Japanese occupation. I feel like there’s a really good biopic in this story. 273
Reposted by Matthew McMullenNicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Seeing as this is going around, I figure it's actually worth commenting on as a trans Catholic theologian. 🧵 33210
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Seems that Disney Plus in Japan finally has access to Espn. After years of battling with VPNs, this is like an early Christmas present. 240
Reposted by Matthew McMullenElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Rough Draft vs Final Draft 253116683307
Reposted by Matthew McMullenH-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 03/09/2026New job: Postdoctoral Fellowships at the European University Institute European University Institute jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70289 022
Reposted by Matthew McMullenLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 03/09/2026“Taking from students the analytical tools to recognize the often invisible or unarticulated ways that religion influences their lives is tantamount to rendering them unable to recognize the forces that are working across societies around the world” www.liberalcurrents.com/religion-hum...liberalcurrents.comReligion, Humanities, and the Public GoodThe right wing's assault on Religion and Humanities programs is an assault on our ability to understand the world, from Hindutva abroad to Christian Nationalism at home. 28327
Reposted by Matthew McMullenJJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026reposting with alt text 001
Reposted by Matthew McMullenBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026Human beings are *too valuable* to be priced. We have an entire, *sui generis* way of balancing the conflicting interests of human rights. 21/ 1361
Reposted by Matthew McMullenBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026The fact that your mother is your mother "belongs" to both you and her, as well as your grandparents, your father, your siblings and your kids. 15/ 1311
Reposted by Matthew McMullenContemporary Japan @cj-jrnl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Meet CJ's Managing Editor Isaac Gagne at the #EAJS2026 @eajs.eu roundtable 'International Journal Publishing in Japan', alongside @mcmullen.bsky.social, Edward Boyle, Ellen Van Goethem, and Sebastian Maslow @ssjj-jrnl.bsky.social to discuss publishing opportunities 📅Sun 30 August, 14-15:30, Rm 4.11 042
Reposted by Matthew McMullenlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Top-tip: if anyone wants to give you the kind of "mentorship" that you being unionised would prevent, get a new mentor fast. 14613124