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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am flabbergasted at how many people inside the Bangkok airport have zero idea about the natural disaster right outside.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another car has overstayed the allotted parking time.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Two things about the Lahore airport: The departure board is one of those old school thinks that flips, which is rad. Compared to other South Asian airports, this one is actually pleasant and calm outside.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is Starbucks a morally upright company? No. But, to be fair, is the coffee nice? Also absolutely no.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is a hilarious game show on Pakistani tv where they make kids spin around a bunch of times and then solve math problems.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fun with two factor authentication. I am traveling, so I have a different SIM card. Apple won't let me log in without a code from my phone. Sigh.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Polson suggested the complaints stemmed from jealousy. “Clearly AI makes a productive researcher far more productive,” he wrote in an email to The Post. Lol, bro. No. I am not jealous. I enjoy working on my slow, bespoke, publications.

washingtonpost.com

Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.

An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.

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Vulture @vulture.com · 24/09/2026

Beck’s acclaimed album ‘Sea Change’ was said to have been inspired by a breakup. For his partner of nine years, Leigh Limon, it was the story of how the Church of Scientology took over his life.

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Losing Beck

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gonna be South Asia posting for the next week.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lady at the airport: Sorry, I'm so tired. Me: That's OK, how long have you been here? Lady: 15 years Me: With no breaks! Lady: Hahahahaha. See. I AM tired.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s always funny to run into work colleagues outside of the office. I got a big hug I wasn’t expecting.

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Please don't tell me that the solution to the huge number of applications is having AI assess (AI-generated) applications. And please also don't tell me that AI is "saving us time".

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What an asshole. First of all, George, people hate Peter Thiel for dozens of legitimate reasons not Gaza. Second, if you didn’t want people to know about it, you knew it was a shitty thing to do.

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George Osborne ‘thought Peter Thiel’s Bayeux tapestry visit would be secret’

British Museum chair tells Big Brue festival he thought no one would find out about the private viewing

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It switched to Cantonese? I call BS. I don’t believe a computer can learn Canto. There too much nuance that only a real person can contend with.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It would be helpful if I used the right hashtag. #AASinAsia.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Long shot: is anyone come to #AAAinAsia next week from North America who is willing to bring me dried hominy? I will give you cash and/or moon cakes. Help a New Mexican!

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hong Kong tshirt of the day: Front: I guess this is goodbye Back: Goodbye

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

20 y/o me would be fucking stoked about our life. But maybe a little disappointed in the amount of linen now in my closet.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don’t know who the external reviewer for my grant proposal was (and probably never will) but if you’re here and you see this, thank you! Whoever this reader was really understood what I’m trying to do and gave me some great readings to add to my list.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really sinking feeling that we've lost (without really fighting) the battle to make people say WHAT SORT OF AI they are talking about. Now we just get inane headlines saying "air traffic control are investing in AI" like that's a single technology and our only option is to choose our tribe: yay/boo

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I never thought I’d fondly remember the time when everyone was supposed to build an app.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Prepared for my South Asia trip by wandering around Chungking Mansion looking for a SIM and a currency converter.

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anyone who is interested in Material Culture and the Medical Humanities should definitely come and join our new Collective! medhumsplatform.org/call-for-col... @annafranjam.bsky.social @harrietbarratt.bsky.social @drfijohnstone.bsky.social

medhumsplatform.org

Call for collaborators – launching the Material Medical Humanities Collective | The Platform

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I really need journalists to learn that every time OpenAI or Anthropic or xAI says that their model has broken containment and could destroy humanity that it’s a marketing pitch by companies running out of cash with high overheads and no profitable business model wanting more investment.

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Charlotte Meijer @chrmeijer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"AI flattens the historical record by relying on the most popular sources, eliminating minority voices" www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...

hnn.us

AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine

Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

404media.co

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Did you know the Dalai Lama was once on the cover of Vogue Paris? archive.org/details/dala...

archive.org

Dalai Lama Vogue

Vogue December/January 1992/1993

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I walked out of my graduate school orientation when they said we should get a Twitter account and aim to get 100 followers. They had no idea what we were supposed to do with it other than get followers.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is a well reported and fucked up story. One detail that absolutely tracks though is the funfetti cake. Tacky MFer had the bubble gum ice cream of cakes at his Russian oligarch funded wedding.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026

I also find it hilarious how universities are justifying these expenditures using the language of 'equity.'"If we don't buy these tools for everyone, then only the rich kids will be able to afford them, and that's unfair." But you don't buy books assigned by profs for anyone? Why not subsidize that!

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The English language is beautiful. Sometimes you just need enough people to say three syllables in unison to create poetry.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don’t remember a shared bond. I remember my friends getting a lot of side eye and scary questions about where they were from and a lot of pushback for my not waving an American flag. It sucked.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

After covering layoffs at McClatchy from about 2011-2016-ish for Mediagazer, I was gobsmacked they even had enough journalists to whittle away more. What a fucking tragedy for local news.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Some of the albums released on September 11, 2001: Jay-Z, The Blueprint Bob Dylan, Love and Theft The Microphones, The Glow Pt 2 Mariah Carey, Glitter Beulah, The Coast Is Never Clear The Moldy Peaches, The Moldy Peaches And Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (release canceled by label)

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

More people should watch the Enron documentary

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oddly specific location Hong Kong tshirt of the day.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 10/09/2026

Do not look at the detail of this street layout for too long or you might question the basis of reality itself.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In other wonderful news, I have recovered a very small number of pictures from 2017 in Lauriya Navandgarh, Lauriya Areraj, Kesariya Stupa, Vaishali, and a few other far flung places in Bihar. A lot of pictures and videos are still missing but I am so very happy I found these!

Two ladies performing a Hindu puja at an Aśokan pillar.

Kesariya stupa, with Buddhas in the alcoves.

Vaishali. A group of people in front of a stupa and an Aśokan pillar.

A monk places gold leaf on an ancient stupa.

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