Baryon Posadas

Still jetlagged and awake two hours too early to catch a 7:30 am flight back to HK from Montreal.

Slushy morning in Montreal.

I forgot how cramped and crowded Montreal's airport can get, such that it feels boiling inside even when it's -6C outside.

I just got asked by a student whether they need to watch the animations in my Japanese animation class.

Today I learned that the Japanese holiday 敬老の日 (respect for the aged day) falls exactly on my birthday in 2026.

Made dak jjim (Korean braised chicken) for dinner.

In a manner akin to when my brain would instinctively switch to Japanese whenever I needed to speak in French when I was living in Montreal, for some reason, whenever I hear the phrase 唔好意思 (mh hou yi si) in Cantonese, my brain wants to interpret it as the French "moi ici."

Drunk (with power).

‘Flexibility needed’ to keep AI degrees relevant as demand soars Rapid growth in number of students studying AI courses reflects its cultural prominence but experts warn content could lack rigour and quickly become outdated

Speaks to the ill-advised decision of my university to set up a new program on such a narrow focus as AI art ("machine creativity") specifically when you could easily have had more flexibility with a broader technology media and culture type program and not be so tied to passing academic fads.

Maybe I should submit a tech support ticket about this? Probably won't do anything, but if I get annoying enough semester after semester, who knows?

Besides the obvious inclusivity problems this presents, it makes it hard to align students' Chinese legal names in my records with the informal English names they use, needlessly complicating memorization and record keeping.

A persistent annoyance I have with the implementation of Canvas in my university is that it appears that they have the option/functionality to have custom preferred names disabled.

Exhausted from chasing the robot vacuum around the apartment.

It would appear that there is something interesting happening outside the window.

Conspiracy to steal my spot on the couch.

Contents | Science Fiction Film & Television 16, 1-2 This article covers the ontologico-theoretical groundwork of Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Solaris, articulating the meanings behind the assignment of specific states of being. Following – and ultimately, upending – the philosophical questions of Martin ...

The "Oversights" special issue of SFFTV is currently open access!
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Might have to make some adjustments to that one as it was originally designed for about a dozen students at most and I can't rule out the possibility that it goes up to 20-30 counting the co-listed undergrad section.

This is the Japanese animation class. That said, even my postgrad film/media theory seminar looks like it might be larger than expected (although I imagine that will have some churn during the add/drop period).

Yup. Japanese animation.

Take a look at the first trailer for the Anime "THE GHOST IN THE SHELL" confirmed for July 2026

Moko-chan directing at Studio Science SARU.

Oh dear.

Quacking Like A Genre What is SF? Idk, vibes.

I promised ducks, quacking: well! @chloroformtea.bsky.social (not a duck) provides Thursday's essay on knowing genre when you see it.

"We need a more expansive approach to any attempt at definition today. The genre can and plainly does sit alongside other genres which operate on different axes."

Am I the only one who finds it mildly funny that the browser tab for my university's staff administrative intranet is labeled "HOTLINKS for STAFF"?

Wondering whether I should do a last minute switch out of Blood: the Last Vampire for Jin-roh: the Wolf Brigade for my week on live-action vs. animated postwar historical allegories and the origins of anime as a cultural formation?

"Cyborg 009" NEW ANIME "Cyborg 009 Nemesis" Officially Announced!

More details will be revealed at a late date!

Shotaro Ishinomori's classic Sci-Fi Action Manga is celebrating its 61th Anniversary.

Image © Akita Shoten, Shotaro Ishinomori, Ishimori Pro (Anime Title Visual)

"Land of the Lustrous - Houseki no Kuni" by Haruko Ichikawa won the prestigious Seiun Sci-Fi Literature Award in the Manga Category!

The series has already won the 45th Japanese SF Award earlier this year.

Provisional syllabi for my Spring 2026 teaching, an undergrad course on Japanese animation and a postgrad seminar on film and media theory:

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This pan-cooked satay recipe is certainly unorthodox, but somehow, it mostly works.

First trailer for "Patlabor EZY" new anime series directed by Yutaka Izubuchi at JC Staff studio (feat. Akemi Takada & Kenji Kawai).
8 episodes, also coming as 3 feature films starting in May.
ezy.patlabor.tokyo

Naptime.