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Mark Tingay @mudvolcanoguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

⚒️🧪 The Wandan mud volcano in southern Taiwan had a minor eruption starting around 3am today at vents near the mud volcano temple. It last erupted in July 2026 and has had numerous small eruptions in the last few years. Video courtesy of my friend 張寶惠, the temple caretaker.

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The little orb I installed above my bookshelf to glow whenever someone remembers to #namethetranslator is incandescent this morning.

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David Stroup @davidstroup.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Did you see the story about the group who’ve been having a very intensive and slowly moving (like, a page or two at a time) book club on Finnegan’s Wake for years? Feels like a similar scenario. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...

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‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake

The group in Venice, California, started the difficult James Joyce book in 1995. They reached its final page in October

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You have to run a book club around the same book with a rotating group of strangers in the park every year until the oceans boil. Ideally slim enough to finish in a season and talk about as a whole. Which book would you tire of most slowly?

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I really hope @bitdizzy.bsky.social makes their “cognition is a disease” water spritzer bottle, windowsill garden in my bleak little office will not be complete without it 🙏

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 30/06/2026

We are saddened to learn that lifetime AAS member Victor H. Mair has passed away. Professor Mair was a mainstay at our Annual Conferences and co-author of the Key Issues in Asian Studies title "Traditional China in Asian and World History." AAS sends condolences to his family and colleagues.

A white-haired man browsing books at a University of California Press booth in a busy indoor book fair.

Three men engaged in conversation at a conference or trade show with booths and informational displays in the background.

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strawberry garfield @bbburgerrr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

i can’t stop watching this vid of dan deacon doing the anthem before the orioles game yesterday it just gets better and better and all the crowd shots are golden

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

No one is “replacing” teachers with AI. People are redistributing money to tech companies for AI and replacing permanent salaried workers with contingent, poorly paid ones whose labor is to patch together the system that is being broken by AI.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

brad lander primary chuck schumer

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

For academics & scholars who've uploaded papers to Academia, this message I received this morning should be of major concern. I'll delete my account, but I assume damage is done & they've already scraped everything of mine. Should stand as a warning about sharing one's work on commercial websites

Screen grab from website Academia.edu, with message "An AI created a podcast of your paper," the label "Private to you," and a button to listen to the podcast

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Happy to share the schedule for our upcoming workshop on #revenge in #China next week at KU Leuven. Looking forward to working with so many great scholars of Chinese #philosophy, literature, law, and history. Gonna be a great time with #伍子胥, #謝小娥, #公羊學, and much more! #sinology

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ceej @ceej.online · 01/10/2024

We're so lucky that all states are rational actors

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

See the problem with genAI "translations" of literature is that they will rob us of the frisson that comes with encountering a perfect beautiful metaphor in the wild. Anyway, please read this. defector.com/toward-a-the...

Why do this crap? I think that I would be embarrassed. I think that after I'd gassed up cryptocurrency and NFTs in the New York Times and told New York Times readers that the Bing search engine was trying to steal me away from my wife, I would have asked my editor if maybe I could cover the Broadway beat for a while instead of continuing to smirk at the world while pouring fire ants down the front of my shorts for a living. So: Why do it? But also: How?

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I used to assign an argumentative essay straight out the gate in my lit survey course. Last year I changed that first assignment to a lengthy paraphrase of an argument that turned on a close reading of a single sentence. Asking them to turn around and challenge their own paraphrase is brilliant.

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This gyre is looking awfully wide

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22/06/2025

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Firing a scattergun into the air to signal to my most beautiful uncle that bud light lime has been restocked at the liquor store. Two return shots mean he heard me, three means he is in distress

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 20/06/2025

I admit that I didn’t have “the only government to show concern over AI is the Vatican” on my 2025 bingo card.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Tell me how well a machine can interpret historical sources for you, and I’ll tell you how mechanical your interpretation of historical sources already is.

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Recently stumbled across a syllabus I saved for a “Literature of the Vietnam War” class I took as an undergrad. Folks, we read a novel every week for ten consecutive weeks. Plus supplementary articles! And it was definitely a “go write a paper class.” This was in 2007! Not exactly ages and ages ago.

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De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Just published! 📚 “A General Survey of Song-Poetry (Sanqu) of Yuan China (1260–1368)” by Yishan Zhao and translated by Rui Zhou: a general overview of sanqu as well as a foundation for future research. See more: brill.com/display/titl... #Sanqu #ChinesePoetry #NewBook

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Yes. To let students buy and *keep* their course materials.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

If you make me president of your university, I will find millions in cost savings by force-quitting shady EdTech contracts, & I will spend it all by giving faculty an annual budget to buy course books for their students.

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

#musicrecfriday: Cash Bently’s Cash Corridos II. Frank Ocean meets Elliot Smith meets Corridos Tumbados (trap ballads from NW Mexico, although Cash Bently is from an El Salvadorian community in Virginia). soundcloud.com/cashbently/t...

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Tu Cara

Listen to Tu Cara by Cash Bently #np on #SoundCloud

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 24/04/2025

Literary Chinese for Concision, Example 1: 七步八叉，真擅萬身之才 "Truly he wields the talent of ten thousand men, [not unlike Cao Zhi, who composed a poem in the time it took him to walk] seven paces, [or Wen Tingyun, for whom writing a poem required only the time necessary to] fold [his] arms eight [times]."

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Also caught the reopening of the Shanghai Antique Books Store 上海古籍书店. Really impressive relaunch. It is essentially a new bookstore and they now have *everything*. Cool to be squeezing past people in the aisles of a bookstore that is floor to ceiling texts on premodern China.

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People browsing books in the Shanghai Antique Books bookstore.

Three young people in traditional Chinese clothing done in the style of dress from the Tang dynasty. Women in the foreground is browsing a facsimile edition of the Yongle Dadian 永乐大典.

A Ming Dynasty print of a collection of commentaries on Du Fu’s poetry collection.

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

In Shanghai for a little talk at Fudan University and got recommended this dictionary by several grad students working on premodern texts that takes you directly to the physical page in the relevant reference work. Incredible tool! www.kaom.net/book_xungu.php

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A great read. One of the critiques, which holds true beyond the Early China subfield, is that US/Euro scholars are not reading enough of the often groundbreaking work of their China-based peers. The fatal error in the reviewed works per Smith is partly a result of scholars reading in a bubble.

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Some variation on 肠断 (“innards split”) has been the word of choice for emotional agony in Chinese texts for over 2000 years.

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Premodern China nerds: do you have a favorite lesser-known reference work or dictionary you find yourself using all the time? Or even one you enjoy browsing to refresh your memory or discover new connections?

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 07/04/2024

New Stories from a Burning House post, on the Qianlong Emperor's cats, who probably didn't exist but were still very good. If you've shared this image, you are required to read the post; I don't make the rules. www.burninghou.se/p/the-empero...

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The Emperor's So-Called Cats and the Manjurist Bat-Signal

Live, from the intersection of Too Many Books and Not Enough Cats.

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

If you’re winding up at AAS and still have room in your luggage, Prologue Bookshop on High Street just down from the convention center has a great selection, including lots of translated fiction. #AAS

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James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Learning a lot about working the night shift in the Hanlin Academy from @siegeweather.bsky.social #AAS2025

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Went clothes shopping today and the woman unlocking dressing rooms had to be in her mid 70s. Frail, hands shaking, too much makeup. Tried to make small talk because she seemed terribly lonely. Made me so sad and so angry. Monstrous society we live in that works the elderly to their dying day.

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Lovely confirmation that characters from the Zhuangzi continue to walk the earth

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I think no person alive more fully embodied what it means to live the life of the mind for me than David Lynch. Thank you for teaching me how to catch the big fish. RIP

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

OK, but Lee is an extreme outlier in this regard. His is a sad story indeed, because the game lost one of the greatest players ever in his prime. But the vast majority of pros adjusted to the initial shock of Alphago and now quite happily use it as a tool for improving their play.

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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Bad day to launch my new literary magazine dedicated to the exegesis of the Zhuangzi, Decivilization.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Looking for a holiday gift for an art lover? Here's why you might consider my new Van Gogh book: -Written for a general audience -Gorgeous reproductions of Van Gogh works -Offers completely new insights into this iconic artist -Support an inveterate Bluesky poster! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Van Gogh and the End of Nature

A groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Gogh’s profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world to...

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