Aha. My search didn't catch it because WaPo didn't mention the context of the Guyana election. They are sticking to Trump's "cartel of the suns" line, even privileging it with passive voice
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Aha. My search didn't catch it because WaPo didn't mention the context of the Guyana election. They are sticking to Trump's "cartel of the suns" line, even privileging it with passive voice
As far as I can tell, the only US newspaper that commented on this maneuver before the bombing began was the Wall Street Journal's editorial page. www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
Cooking videos got these Gazans a global following. Now, there’s nothing to eat.
To be fair, I'd react that way to hearing that an American private equity firm bought my favorite grocery store, and I'm an American living in America.
Same thing he's on record wanting to do to Palestinians, and I don't think it's a coincidence
Why is the British cover so much better than the American one?? It looks like a different book
The theory here is that it's just an attempt to distract from vaccines, rather than any actual gesture towards alternative medicine www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
A new book on #Shinto and famous #Kokugaku scholar Hirata Atsutane 平田篤胤 (1776-1843) has just been published open access and free for download by the preeminent historian Dr. Ann Walthall! You can check it out here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Pre Modern Japanese Studies mailing list. Another subscriber recommended me Bentley's book "ABC Dictionary of Ancient Japanese Phonograms" which is very concise and well written!
In case anyone is interested, I located some of the relevant passages in Miyake's book and wrote up a post about it on PMJS. I still have unanswered questions about the loss of "coda" sounds.
America had its own Taisho period, 1991-2016
I checked and was surprised to learn that Silla actually had a complex phonogram system with kun'yomi and on'yomi. Bentley doesn't mention this (he relies only on inscriptions). There was a Zainichi scholar 姜斗興 who strongly argued for the origin of Man'yōgana in Idu. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idu_scr...
Well, for instance, the Chinese could have been filtered through various Korean kingdoms which each transformed the phonemes in their own ways... (Bentley, "The origin of man'yōgana" Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 64.1)
Crazy use of a pacifist
At the University of Tokyo, one memorable exercise we did as grad students was reading and analyzing select AAR Presidential Addresses from over the years. Seeing change over time helped us understand the evolving function of the discipline.
We had eight years of Obama and a five-year "racial reckoning" and left-wing magazines still don't know how to interview black people in DC.
"Won't You Pimai Neighbor" is a memorable one for me My favorite line of the series is in "My Own Private Rodeo"
I bought them to climb Mount Fuji after I read the Wirecutter article. They saved my butt. So did the nice lady at REI who had a trick for getting me the right size.
Can't wait for this kind of reporting to come to Los Angeles bsky.app/profile/liby...
Good article. But is the author of this one a Christian Scientist? Just askin
This is kinda awesome and I hope they get it all in their bank account before someone changes their mind
"He walked 8 km to get there. No shoes. Probably hadn't eaten in days... he set down his bags and he put his hands on my face and he kissed me... he left and the IDF opened up with machine gun fire... There were dead Palestinians. He was one of them." A five-year-old child.
Disaster relief volunteers in Japan are helping to entrench a culture of compassion
This is why I'm here on BlueSky. We aren't afraid to say these important truths
@satorukun0530.bsky.social will be delighted to hear that Lafcadio Hearn is being honored in his childhood home!
Not just Florida and Nova Scotia, but also Quebec and Bermuda!
I was unaware of this! As an American I have a high school classmate named Wesley who is here on BlueSky promoting his book about the US military. He worked with many military sources including General Wesley Clark.
I like the fact that instead of becoming a born-again Christian and embracing evangelical patriarchy, he invented his own religion combining Judaism, Christianity and Islam (iirc). It's delightfully Emersonian and at the same time true to his obnoxious character
I like it when Japanese publications randomly try out an L instead of an R to see how it looks. Feeling cute, might rhotacize later
In 1946, an American football game called the "Atomic Bowl" took place in Nagasaki, Japan, in the ruins of perhaps one of the most tragic events in human history. "A new documentary highlights one of the most surreal events of World War II: The 'Atomic Bowl,'" by @erik-english.bsky.social.
They told me that more officials disgusted by the excesses of empire would be dropping out to become brilliant poets. I feel lied to
Oh my goodness. Rest in peace, Andrew. We had so much more to learn from him.
I've just heard the terrible news that my friend - and friend of many here - Andrew West, @babelstone.co.uk, the incomparably brilliant Sinologist and Tangutologist passed away suddenly but peacefully on 10th July. 1/2
NHK article about the same sign five years ago www3.nhk.or.jp/news/special...
From TFA: "Based on federal recycling data, independent national waste management surveys, and firsthand accounts from material sorting facilities, polypropylene recycling isn’t nearly as widespread as How2Recycle’s labeling implies"
Do you know if these are GHF or WCK?
There is a great hallucination now, people using their own incuriosity and biases to produce cultural judgments. Your book is a quiet refutation.
Recently on the bad old site, someone posted that Indonesia had no cultural products and tons of Nazis piled on using stereotypes about Islam or laziness, which led to many Indonesians posting anxious or self loathing things.
I like this writer, who I think has just quit BlueSky indomedieval.medium.com/the-medieval...
I enjoyed the ebook version. I was reminded of what Japanese writers call the "theory that human nature is basically good" (性善説), which is associated with the philosopher Mencius.
People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?” It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents: Sleep when the baby sleeps Cry when the baby cries Publish when the baby publishes
It's for screen readers
I doubt your judgment, Silas.
I think there was an intelligence failure involved. I don't know what Mossad thinks, but ordinary Zionists and Israelis I know believe strongly in an imminent Pahlavi takeover. Israel deployed 700+ domestic agents to decapitate the regime, who were mostly caught in flagrante delicto.
Israel had air dominance... in the western third of Iran, a country with 90 million people. They were limited in targets by their professed regime change mission. Meanwhile, Israel air defenses were unable to stop Iranian bombs from taking out chunks of downtown Tel Aviv. This will cost billions
Israel was hoping the war would be over in a few weeks: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... Iran was prepared for a 2-6 month war: www.iranintl.com/en/202506228... Israel had aimed for swift regime change using allies inside Iran and was caught off guard when this didn't happen
This is simple geopolitics. Israel came to Trump crying for an intervention because they were losing the war they started. Trump accurately intervened and ended the war much earlier than Iran expected. 130 House Dems are saying thank you to Trump for saving Israel.
Their database doesn't have Indonesian films... "Before, Now and Then" deserves a nomination
A friend of mine is the child of emigrés but he himself has no particular opinion on the regime, so he has gone back to visit extended family several times
I saw one of the protests streamed on TikTok. Surprisingly good turnout for PSL, maybe two or three dozen people.
It also seems uninformed to mock Mississippi educational standards when they are outstripping blue states in math. bsky.app/profile/us.t...
I was wondering why Kiarostami's films seem so similar to European postwar film in tone. Then I realized that they're literally postwar, for him. His country had been through hell.
Someone else can talk about the M.M. Knight book, but I wanted to shout out this article which I found super insightful brill.com/view/journal...
As long as Americans aren't aware of Mizuki he's fair game to be plagiarized 🙃 bsky.app/profile/zack...
Other countries will start buying from our suppliers.
Do all the klezmer anarchists speak YIVO Yiddish? Is there some secret semi-native speaker among them?
Interesting note: the Canadian protests changed the theme from "no kings/no crowns" to "no tyrants/no clowns". It seems no one at the Tokyo protest was concerned by the overtone of republicanism, and the protest went off without a hitch
And in fact, Inoue's earliest use of yōkai that I can see refers to a Ouija board. This is the kind of usage that Hearn would have been familiar with, if he had heard the term at all.
The trade routes look like little eels!
June 10, 1775: John Adams proposes to the Continental Congress that the various New England units besieging Boston be reorganized as an army representing all the colonies. He urges that this Continental Army be led by one of their own, Virginia representative George Washington. 1/4
Different problem, but when I was at Kōgakkan I met a grad student studying Genji and asked her what she thought of 宇治十帖. She told me she was only working on a single chapter for her thesis and hadn't read the rest. I hope she got to read it all at some point.
The ancient Chinese text of the Zhuangzi teaches us to reject entrenched values – and treasure the diversity of humanity | Karyn Lai
I have to squint a bit for 40
You can import a kei truck from Japan, but they're banned in some states.
It's the most complete write up of this phenomenon, which should have been published in a peer reviewed journal tbh...
Computers love counting to infinity. It's why in the original version of ChatGPT, you were able to summon a demon by telling it to repeat the names of Redditors counting to infinity www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8...
His Vance side are Scots who became embroiled in the Hatfield-McCoy feud. As mentioned in another thread, he classifies this as "Scots-Irish" because of the Albion's Seed theory, rather than actual connection to Ireland. youtu.be/QoFumQHl7LI?...
The global recognition of Shigeru Mizuki and the absolute blind spot the US has for him is confounding and frustrating. Italy - Holds an entire Mizuki-themed film festival and art exhibition US - Has an exhibition on Asian comics with a section on war and yokai manga that never mentions MIzuki
That actually explains a lot -- British party leadership is basically chosen in a single election rather than primaries, and from her skeets she seems to have no idea how the American system is different
The 12th century Ghaznavid minaret of Masud III in Ghazni, modern southeastern Afghanistan.
And beyond yͤ island that be of Women there be anuther, that is cleped yͤ Island of Estrangeres; wherby the people that live yͤre know not one anuthere, and being alle of divers coloures; and yͤ olde ladies þͭ there dwell have no Fewelle for the Wyntoure
The Constitution absolutely is the problem. The "problem" they identified was too much democracy, and their solution was an executive branch far more powerful than most modern democracies. If the Constitution had been built to prevent this situation we wouldn't be in this situation.
This map all of the projects built by the New Deal is really remarkable. Astounding how much was built in such a short time. Clicking on each dot brings up a project -- and there are so many of them, and so varied. livingnewdeal.org/map/
Worthless article. There have been huge improvements in some parts of the country. bsky.app/profile/us.t...
@babelstone.co.uk I am very curious how a random Japanese farmer in 1868 was able to make his invented script resemble Tangut so closely... www.reddit.com/r/linguistic...
I'm not sure how I never heard of 天学教会 before...
Garfield was autopsied and technically, it is not conclusive that his physicians killed him. Some experts have concluded that his death was unavoidable. www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S000...
As Israel blocks aid, Gaza’s mothers watch their children starve
"Mind Game" movie by Masaaki Yuasa & Studio 4°C is back on Youtube for free in 191 countries until July 9 (with 20 languages in subtitles). >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Ir...
May 6, 1925: Manuel García y Rodríguez, a Spanish painter of sun-dappled landscapes who found inspiration in his home city of Seville, dies there at 61.
I think it could be doable for us, if our faculty are prepared to hold daily all-hands meetings where the outcome of the meeting is already decided but they have to spend three hours reading it out loud anyway.
Cheaper by the dozen.
78% of microplastics are from car tires e360.yale.edu/features/tir...
a page from Tsuge Yoshiharu's Nejishiki (1968), and a still from the film adaptation directed by Ishii Teruo in 1988
The "execution of those airmen" refers to the capture and execution of three of the Doolittle Raiders... by the army of Japan, of course, not by any Japanese Americans. www.executedtoday.com/2010/10/15/1...
The booklet was published this month but I can't guarantee it has many details... The amount of text varies a lot between museums www.sankokan.jp/publication_...
"Ascension of Christ" (1957) by Balinese artist I Wayan Turun, and "The Nazarene" (1993) by Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour. Have a blessed Easter.
Similar spontaneous rumors had arisen in September and March, leading to the arrest of one enslaved person. boston1775.blogspot.com/2016/04/fear...
Because of the severe criticism of the perpetrator, the Tōkyūjutsu organization was forced to take down its website entirely and I don't know if it is still operating. There was an article about this in Japanese but it seems to have been scrubbed.
The perpetrator was the chairman of the group that teaches Tōkyūjutsu, a type of fortune telling developed by Edo period elites, which my advisor has published about.
Revere’s first stop after leaving Warren’s is at a friend’s house, whom he asks to go to the Old North Church and briefly place two lanterns in the steeple, to let Patriot lookouts in Charlestown know the redcoats are going out by water, in case he has trouble leaving town.
Thanks to this account, I learned about Lord Dunmore's War for the first time and I am now obsessed. Looking forward to the coming days as well!
For just shy of 700 days, I’ve loved the opportunity to spotlight some of Colonial America’s thriving public life, and highlight the vibrancy & richness of it that, because it came before independence, I don’t think most Americans ever get exposed to. Among my favorite moments:
A lost cause, I'm afraid bsky.app/profile/aver...
It will probably be published in the booklet for this exhibit. The provenance is almost certainly prewar China as most items in the museum were purchased then by Nakayama Shōzen. www.sankokan.jp/news_and_inf...
Besides your find, there's the epitaph to Xiāo Páolǔ 萧袍鲁 in which a Large Script text is surrounded by dharanis in Chinese and Sanskrit, and some other Large Script inscriptions, while I'm not aware of any Buddhist references at all in Small Script. But I'm not a specialist, just wrote a term paper!
Has it been noted that Buddhist terminology is used only in the large script?