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I haven't had a read on young people since I left in 2018, but I don't think so. I recently saw a tweet from someone saying "What was SEALDs all about really? Was Abe supposed to be Hitler? Give me a break..." They guy who wrote that tweet went on to assassinate Abe

There are multiple levels to this -- entering on a tourist visa and quickly amending status while the stay becomes an overstay was not only the speediest way to unite a family before Trump II began, it also led to good outcomes in like 99.9% of situations. He was following well established precedent

If I told you that a formerly straight-A student whose dad was detained by ICE at gunpoint, was now food insecure, housing insecure, traumatized, and not doing as well in school? That would make sense to you.

There are ~100K people in ICE detention.

There are ~400K people in pretrial detention.

Been spendin’ most their lives livin’ in the free trade paradise It feels a bit like 1995 listening to Canadian and European leaders

This article is not principally about Japan, but I think reading it might give some insight into what Takaichi is thinking. open.substack.com/pub/chinaart...

This is extremely accurate bsky.app/profile/aish...

Not the same kid
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Objectively speaking Bad Bunny’s show is better than the game rn. #superbowl

People keep replying "bad news" to this, but it's important to understand why Takaichi secured the LDP's largest ever mandate after so many condemned her the first time around.

The LDP has had multiple political camps and historically served as a ticket to access business and bureaucratic networks, rather than a party line. That being said the party has slowly consolidated into a single conservative line since Koizumi onwards

Kamakura Buddhism as Japanese reformation: Hara Katsurō’s modern historiographical project This article re-examines how the ‘new’ Buddhist movements of the Kamakura era (1185–1333) – the opening phase of what we now consider Japan’s ‘medieval’ period – were cast as a counterpart to Germa...

余ノ友人オリオン・クラウタウ先生、近代日本ニ於ケル鎌倉仏教ヲ「宗教改革」トシテ解釈スルヿニ就キ、迚モ興味深キ大論文ヲ公ニセリ。是数篇ヨリ成ル論考ノ端緒ニ過ギズ、今後ノ続編ヲ待望スベシト。嗚呼！実ニ慶賀ノ至リ奉存候！

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[T]he most absurd and preposterous of all [the new projects of 1720 in London], and which showed, more completely than any other, the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, entitled “A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.” Were not the fact stated by scores of credible witnesses, it would be impossible to believe that any person could have been duped by such a project. The man of genius who essayed this bold and successful inroad upon public credulity, merely stated in his prospectus that the required capital was half a million, in five thousand shares of [£100] each, deposit [£2] per share. Each subscriber, paying his deposit, would be entitled to [£100] per annum per share. How this immense profit was to be obtained, he did not condescend to inform them at that time, but promised, that in a month full particulars should be duly announced, and a call made for the remaining [£98] of the subscription.

Thanks to Bruce Winkleton for the kind review! It focused on the narrative analysis in the book, a pet passion and something an earlier version of the manuscript centered, until I pulled it back and refocused on Shugendō’s historical development (albeit via its frequent shaping through narrative).

Fragmentation, Centralization, and Civil War in the Japanese Ultra-Left • Ill Will Harumasa Abe on revolutionary organization and internecine violence in 1960s and ’70s Japan.

Harumasa Abe on the decline of the New Left in Japan, arguing that the United Red Army incident and uchigeba in-fighting embody a "maximal tension" between two dynamics: centralization and fragmentation. illwill.com/uchigeba

Genuinely, I've never thought about that before in my life, and I think I believed in B before ICE started terrorizing Minneapolis, and now I believe in A

I was taking this quiz to learn which Japanese political party I'm close to. It has a bunch of normal stuff, then suddenly asks me this:

Is the purpose of a constitution
A: to limit the power of the state
or
B: to define the foundations and ideals of the state?

I'm sorry to barge in 2 days later, but I bought this book on your recommendation and thought the opening vignette about Louis Kーjathy was really fascinating and strange, and I just Googled him and oh my God

@timshorrock.bsky.social

You can always use "anata" if you want to purposefully insult someone

may his memory be a revolution

I'm trying to imagine who would visit there to be served by the world's highest per capita amputee population. I don't think any fictional dystopia has gone that far

Cure and Rashomon 😆

Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.

Look for the helpers

Perfectly captured the mood of the manga

This is the real issue. We had two different comprehensive immigration bills killed because GOP leaders knew a broken system was better for their poll numbers.

Simple shortcut for this: tenbluelinks.org

There was an anti-AI video urging people to change their pfp to clippy. It doesn't mean anything special to me at least...

We need a Dem who is willing to say "I welcome their hatred." Walz is sadly too nice for that

This is really eye opening into how all Trump's bluster, as upsetting as it is to me, is just toying with a part of the energy sector that's too small already

If you want an unpublished summary of Liao Buddhism, let me know