𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Gabriel Corsetti on Zev Handel's 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎 (University of Washington Press): "... an accessible and informative book that thoroughly debunks these and other misconceptions about the nature of Chinese writing." chajournal.com/2026/06/14/c... 。。

I co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Chinese History (published by @universitypress.cambridge.org) on the topic of "The History of Chinese Food Culture" with my former advisee Wandi Wang. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 1/

Your brain was never designed to doomscroll this much.

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our friend Fea's Short-legged Toad is a relatively rare toad who grows to nearly four inches long and has short, stout legs! They spend most of their time hiding in riverside burrows but like to come out during rainy nights! (photo by Ian Dugdale)

If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

This story is horrifying & exactly the kind of shit so many of us have been trying to get people to seriously consider BEFORE it gets more widespread & de facto accepted across the academy. Like, there's a real possibility for this to be met with an administrative shrug, and that cannot come to pass

'A seven-person independent commission — nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate — would manage the fund and use its voting shares “to block decisions that hurt the American people and to push for policies that help them”' Let's imagine... 1/ floridapolitics.com/archives/802...

Our friend the Gollum Toad lives in the Endau-Rompin National Park at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula! Their call is a low, raspy, coughing sound similar to the description of Gollum's voice in the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings! (photo by John Sullivan)

Our friend the Binchuan Horned Toad lives on Mount Jizu in northern Yunnan, China! They are a member of family Megophryidae, also known as Goose Frogs! (photo by David M. Hillis)

Empowerment is not emancipation & if AI does any empowering, it’s of the already powerful elite who are shifting our economy to accommodate the digital forms of arbitration and decision-making that these tools were devised to perform. Academics who shill for it are complicit.

Life imitates (what we thought was) wildly exaggerated satire From the prescient genius of @tomtomorrow.bsky.social

Our friend the Common Spadefoot lives in a huge area extending from Central Europe to Western Asia! They are also known as the Garlic Toad, because when they are scared they excrete a chemical that smells like garlic! (photo by Christoph Moning)

Renfield Admits Count Dracula Can Be "Kind Of A Lot"

WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

To all the people glumly stating you can’t go after Elon Musk because he’s rich: you have been trained into holding this false belief. There is absolutely no physical or natural law stating that really rich men cannot be punished. The only barrier is cowardice.

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

Maine Senate poll Graham Platner 51% Susan Collins 49% Janet Mills 52% Susan Collins 48% 242750075.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na2.net/hubfs/242750...

Go ahead, White House Correspondents Association. Invite this guy to your dinner next month. The one honoring the press and the First Amendment. See how far that gets you.

The good news: You are still allowed to bring your middle fingers.

1. fuck these two they own this scumbag forever 2. there's so much money to make the guy the nominee, this is the second day I've gotten a glossy extra large mailer for a candidate who in theory should have this done and dusted

well I'm sure *this* latest news is the last bad thing that will come out about the rape enthusiastic serial liar SS tattoo-having failson cheat.

If Biden had passed out at a meeting and pitched over to 45 degrees like this he'd have been forced to resign the presidency

this is literally how the Marxism classes in China work

holy shit, listen to Trump sleep mumbling here. Guy was out.

The dumb-tech revolution is happening. 99% of the CEO class still huffing the AI hype glue off a cliff, but anyone reading the room knows no one wants an AI surveillance fridge and there’s a huge opening right now for offline products that just fucking work (bonus points for chunky physical buttons)

In short, read up on utopian thinking, reject the idea of inevitability, reject the notion that the utopias of the rich are utopias for all of us, & reject generative AI.

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

This is not only true, it only permits only one conclusion: the surviving member of Milli Vanilli must be made president of Columbia University

Serendipitous discoveries in the archives and stacks aren’t possible if you shut them down “The document – a scrap of parchment inserted into an account of the Ramsey Abbey manor of Warboys in Huntingdonshire…”

Our friend the Omei Horned Toad lives in western China, especially in areas around Mount Emei from which they get their name! They grow to nearly three inches long and have long, skinny tadpoles that grow to nearly two inches long! (photo by chilianxianren)

Our friend Vestergaard's Forest Toad lives in the West Usambara Mountains in northeastern Tanzania! They grow to less than an inch long and are viviparous, meaning they produce live baby toadlets instead of producing eggs! (photo by Lorenzo Vinciguerra)

Our friend the Spotted Asian Tree Toad lives in western Sabah in Malaysia! They are the only species in genus Sabahphrynus! They are also known as the Sabah Earless Toad because they do not have eardrums or middle ear structures! (photo by Jeremy Loh)

Our friend the Western Narrow-mouthed Toad is also known as the Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad! They live throughout much of the south-central United States! They are known to form beneficial relationships with tarantulas, sharing their burrow and eating annoying ants! (photo by Reid Hardin)

It's good that universities are making six-figure payouts to people who got fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk, but now the universities need to do some new firing, of administrators who carried out those illegal actions. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

I don’t usually say watch videos but the payoff is worth it.

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

Needless to say, the second experiment has profoundly negative implications for education.

if only there were a way to discover if the sources you cite contained the information you assume they contain

Like, if you believe that LLMs are a powerful technology that could be useful, that’s a big reason to be ferociously critical of the Big AI companies! Just like loving the internet is a good reason to hate Meta/Facebook. Why the hell would you root for big evil companies making the worst version?

From the full story linked in comments: "The beavers have also allowed the city to scrap expensive plans to dig a reservoir and levee. 'We said the beavers can do it for a fraction of the cost, certainly more sustainably,' McCormack says."

this is really good news

Republican voters in Kentucky who presumably spent much of 2024 banging on about Epstein just ejected from Congress their own Republican congressman, who helped get the Epstein files out, in order to please the close friend of Epstein, Donald Trump.

I think all of us who managed to write a book without using AI should get to kill one robot

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent. Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.