Got very lucky with the weather in Kanazawa.

I first read Tom Stoppard in high school and was truly dazzled. Hard to pick a favorite passage but this might be it. RIP.

Eating dinner in Kanazawa and an evil baby tried to steal my salad.

Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in

local academic types: looking for a Kansai local who can teach Intro to Anthropology spring/fall 2026 term in English here at Ritsumeikan in the College of IR (Kinugasa campus NW Kyoto). flexible on which day of the week. students are very international and eager. enrollment ranges from 20-40.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen. Whitesnake Elton John Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Janelle Monáe Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn

More pretty leaves in Tamagawa and near Waseda.

Happy Thanksgiving, or as I call it Day When It's Officially Okay to Start Eating the Panettone I Bought Two Weeks Ago.

Pretty early morning light and leaves on campus today.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Happy World Linguistics Day from Tokyo!

this is mesmerizing

So apparently the below is not a correct report, but given the state of trust in Big (Theft) Tech these days, it's not surprising this kind of thing is taken seriously. I think I previously explicitly disabled the offending settings for "classic" privacy rather than anti-AI-theft reasons.

Before you opt out, be sure to delete everything in your Promotions folder. As soon as I unchecked the box my inbox/promotions/social tabs disappeared, leaving me with about 350 promotional emails mixed in with my inbox mail. Google clearly wants to make usage more annoying if you opt out.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

Rewatched Parasite for an upcoming class and now I have to make ramdon for dinner (minus the fancy beef).

The 'From a Distant Window' exhibit at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is just wonderful. TOP might be my favorite Tokyo museum, they just always knock it out of the park with their very accessible and well-designed exhibits.

Every now and then it's good to take a moment and remember that however flawed my writing is, it is not...this.

Oof, weird convergence of emails today that are some version of "why haven't you done the thing we asked you to do" when either 1)I've already done the thing or 2)was never asked to do the thing, taking deep breaths and repeating "I am not going insane" several times...

Sunday with my beloved yautja. ❤️

RIP Alice Wong. ❤️

Nooooooooo 😭

R.I.P. Nakadai Tatsuya, one of the giant figures in history of Japanese cinema news.yahoo.co.jp/pickup/6558551

Making this the 🧵 for publicity appearances for POPCORN DISABILITIES. Be sure to bookmark to find out where I'm going to be in promoting the book and the various great people who have allowed me to talk about the movie this month.

Made vegetarian soondubu for dinner, it was good (and also cleared out my sinuses nicely).

Tried out a new hole in the wall place for lunch and WOW this was good, everything super fresh and flavorful. #washoku #teishoku

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

live view from cuomo hq

“whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community…” it is not difficult to just say

Damn this victory speech is making me emotional.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

Hell yes!!!!!!

Shred/chop 1/4 to 1/3 head of cabbage into small pieces (remove hard bits). Add abt. 1 tsp of salt & massage into leaves. Mix in 1 tbsp lime juice, let sit 30 min, drain liquid. Add 1 tbsp ses. seeds, 1/2 tsp ses. oil, 1 1/2 tbsp. chopped peanuts, and another tbsp lime juice, mix.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Teen Vogue has had more guts to dissect and expose the truth when so many veteran media outlets have bent their knees to a criminal despot and his regime and this news is absolutely appalling and unacceptable

Thought I'd watch like 20 minutes of Blair Witch for Halloween but it's so damn good I ended up watching almost the whole thing. One of my best movie theater experiences ever back in the day, surrounded by a crowd who were all f--king *terrified.*

Sadly no time to do anything for Halloween this year so here's a short parade of costumes past.

Post a vampire that's not Dracula.

FFS Tokyo I have revisions to do and lectures to plan why do you keep giving me ways to procrastinate. plan.shochiku.co.jp/horrornifure...

Took the zemisei on a field trip to the Museum of Contemporary Art to see the 日常のコレオ/Choreographies of the Everyday exhibit, which was very cool.

If you have absolutely nothing good to say about A.I. come and sit by me. www.thewrap.com/emma-thompso...

This really nails it

Let's GO, baby!!!

The whole thing is so damn quotable but what really resonated with me is the idea that "our rejection or acceptance of a particular type of horror fiction can be as rarefied or kinky as any other phobia or fetish." Because yes, horror is *personal.*

"... it's how much you would risk to be in its presence." F--king love that, adding GDT to my list of the good 'uns when it comes to art and AI.

Producers of a horror movie about people being attacked by a bear have postponed the premiere, after a series of incidents around the country where people have been attacked by bears. natalie.mu/eiga/news/64...

Have some mid-week harp. www.instagram.com/reel/DQIw2OP...

First time being served by a robot waiter (at Jonathan's, where I haven't eaten in like 15 years).