Brett Fujioka
@brettfujioka.bsky.social
Re: Fetterman, discourses on Ageism and Ableism shouldn’t happen for people in positions of power. We’re not doing this again. We’re reaching a point in which people with antisocial or narcissistic personality disorders are smolbeans. And you’re a bad person if you say they shouldn’t be politicians.
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Re: Fetterman, discourses on Ageism and Ableism shouldn’t happen for people in positions of power. We’re not doing this again. We’re reaching a point in which people with antisocial or narcissistic personality disorders are smolbeans. And you’re a bad person if you say they shouldn’t be politicians.
It takes a lot of labor to sift through every email, message, and document for an employee. And it’s expensive. I don’t think even the NYTs has those resources.
Okay, I'm about to block this woman, but for people who in *good faith* don't understand this, a work email does not mean your employer is reading your communications, and in newsrooms it *very much* does not mean that for source protection and liability reasons.
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It takes a lot of labor to sift through every email, message, and document for an employee. And it’s expensive. I don’t think even the NYTs has those resources.
I think that everyone here needs to brace themselves for the possibility that the Epstein Docs won’t hurt the GOP or MAGA (at least among their depraved and hypocritical base). There is a “double standard” and Conservatives get away. With a lot.
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I think that everyone here needs to brace themselves for the possibility that the Epstein Docs won’t hurt the GOP or MAGA (at least among their depraved and hypocritical base). There is a “double standard” and Conservatives get away. With a lot.
Libertarians are just conservatives without the balls to admit who they are. And with an unhealthy and sus fixation on age of consent laws.
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Libertarians are just conservatives without the balls to admit who they are. And with an unhealthy and sus fixation on age of consent laws.
This is a very good primer on why Kojeve and not Hegel or Fukuyama are more useful for understanding our contemporary moment, the end of history, and the very, very strange beasts that the latter has nurtured. lithub.com/what-does-it...
What Does It Mean to be Human? (According to Philosopher Alexandre Kojève)
Today, the notion and status of the human have become more and more problematic. We speak about human history as the epoch of the Anthropocene—an epoch that has led to the current global ecological…
lithub.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This is a very good primer on why Kojeve and not Hegel or Fukuyama are more useful for understanding our contemporary moment, the end of history, and the very, very strange beasts that the latter has nurtured. lithub.com/what-does-it...
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I don't think we really need to have any more Platner discourse after this, it's clear he's not going to win and is just in this for his weird revenge tour against his perceived haters from here on out.
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I don't think we really need to have any more Platner discourse after this, it's clear he's not going to win and is just in this for his weird revenge tour against his perceived haters from here on out.
It’s not just Right Wingers who will get mad. But the people with those obnoxious Lawn Signs about Inclusivity who will come baying for Stanford Ed’s blood (ex. Liberal APIAs).
if parents actually knew the true extent or how absolutely cooked education studies is academically, it could trigger a right wing backlash so bad that we’d get a comic book idea of a dictatorial dystopia
One conservative criticism I take seriously is that education PhDs often come up with well-meaning ideas that absolutely melt the brains of kids
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It’s not just Right Wingers who will get mad. But the people with those obnoxious Lawn Signs about Inclusivity who will come baying for Stanford Ed’s blood (ex. Liberal APIAs).
Platner’s electability are his own fault along with the people who endorsed him.
Don’t let anyone gaslight you into knowing otherwise.
Don’t let anyone gaslight you into knowing otherwise.
Let's not nominate this guy.
"When voters are read direct quotes from Platner’s since-deleted Reddit posts, he loses to Collins by double digits."
His campaign itself isn't giving much confidence (Dems are not trying to destroy your life, this are your own posts!).
His campaign itself isn't giving much confidence (Dems are not trying to destroy your life, this are your own posts!).
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Platner’s electability are his own fault along with the people who endorsed him.
Don’t let anyone gaslight you into knowing otherwise.
Don’t let anyone gaslight you into knowing otherwise.
Kitaca Uber Alles
November 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Kitaca Uber Alles
no one on this website wants to admit that Platner wasn’t the ideal “BlueSky” candidate.
It was Brianna Wu circa 2015.
It was Brianna Wu circa 2015.
“primary every democrat” only becomes a serious threat if bsky doesn’t go goo goo babies over platner-esque candidates
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
no one on this website wants to admit that Platner wasn’t the ideal “BlueSky” candidate.
It was Brianna Wu circa 2015.
It was Brianna Wu circa 2015.
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More and more people these days are interacting with LLMs as legal, psychological, and spiritual confidants. The government should not be able to have access to those thoughts willy nilly. My latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | Doctors, Lawyers and Priests Keep Secrets. Why Not Your Chatbot?
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November 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
More and more people these days are interacting with LLMs as legal, psychological, and spiritual confidants. The government should not be able to have access to those thoughts willy nilly. My latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Wonder if that’s why Carolla sold his house to Ohtani
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Wonder if that’s why Carolla sold his house to Ohtani
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Actually, most of the commentary I see from academics deplores AI as one might deplore Hallmark movies (if romcom capex was ~2% of U.S. GDP). It's creating a community of affect, but not making a policy argument that needs to be engaged.
Every debate about AI on here about whether it is good or evil, verboten or not, presumes it can be prevented, and that seems so out of touch I don't even feel like reading to the end of a post, even the rebuttals.
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Actually, most of the commentary I see from academics deplores AI as one might deplore Hallmark movies (if romcom capex was ~2% of U.S. GDP). It's creating a community of affect, but not making a policy argument that needs to be engaged.
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The Washington Post’s new editorial stance: trillion dollar executive compensation packages while tripling the price of tens of millions of Americans’ health insurance premiums is A-Ok, but proposing free childcare and public transit is class warfare.
Dropping the mask, indeed.
Dropping the mask, indeed.
This is references “class warfare” and “Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani” and only gets more bananas from there. The new editorial page is… really something. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Zohran Mamdani drops the mask
The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The Washington Post’s new editorial stance: trillion dollar executive compensation packages while tripling the price of tens of millions of Americans’ health insurance premiums is A-Ok, but proposing free childcare and public transit is class warfare.
Dropping the mask, indeed.
Dropping the mask, indeed.
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Amazing initiative & proud of you. We already are, and I have been with the community for years now annually🫶
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Amazing initiative & proud of you. We already are, and I have been with the community for years now annually🫶
1984 is funny when you realize that Orwell responded to Burnham’s Managerial Revolution. So it’s very funny to see someone—anyone—getting deranged enough to label the Private Managerial Class as Authoritarians.
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
1984 is funny when you realize that Orwell responded to Burnham’s Managerial Revolution. So it’s very funny to see someone—anyone—getting deranged enough to label the Private Managerial Class as Authoritarians.
Have you ever gone through a hard time and your significant other is there to remind you of why you love and need her? Not even Wonder Woman can pull that off.
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Have you ever gone through a hard time and your significant other is there to remind you of why you love and need her? Not even Wonder Woman can pull that off.
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I'm pleased to announce that I've joined the new editorial board for Tokyo Review. I will be reaching out to promising new writers soon, as well as contribute my own research and opinions on a regular basis.
Times are changing and so is Tokyo Review. We are excited to announce a fresh new team of editors!
It’s been a while
When Tokyo Review was founded eight years ago, its founders had two goals. The first was to elevate the standard of analysis on Japan-related issues for an English-speaking audience. That goal remains...
www.tokyoreview.net
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I'm pleased to announce that I've joined the new editorial board for Tokyo Review. I will be reaching out to promising new writers soon, as well as contribute my own research and opinions on a regular basis.
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How does a fringe, anti-vaccine party come to influence national politics? In this insightful article, Romeo Marcantuoni and Robert A. Fahey examine Sanseitō, a Japanese political party founded during the pandemic.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Japan #Politics #ConspiracyTheories #APJJF
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Japan #Politics #ConspiracyTheories #APJJF
Fighting the Cabal from the Diet: Sanseitō and the Role of Conspiracy as Political Ideology | Asia-Pacific Journal | Cambridge Core
Fighting the Cabal from the Diet: Sanseitō and the Role of Conspiracy as Political Ideology - Volume 23
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November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
How does a fringe, anti-vaccine party come to influence national politics? In this insightful article, Romeo Marcantuoni and Robert A. Fahey examine Sanseitō, a Japanese political party founded during the pandemic.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Japan #Politics #ConspiracyTheories #APJJF
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Japan #Politics #ConspiracyTheories #APJJF
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A bittersweet announcement this morning: Rob Fahey and I have handed off editorship of Tokyo Review to a new editing team. We had, frankly, become negligent of a project that needed to thrive, so we've passed it on to four new editors who we're very confident are going to take good care of it:
Times are changing and so is Tokyo Review. We are excited to announce a fresh new team of editors!
It’s been a while
When Tokyo Review was founded eight years ago, its founders had two goals. The first was to elevate the standard of analysis on Japan-related issues for an English-speaking audience. That goal remains...
www.tokyoreview.net
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A bittersweet announcement this morning: Rob Fahey and I have handed off editorship of Tokyo Review to a new editing team. We had, frankly, become negligent of a project that needed to thrive, so we've passed it on to four new editors who we're very confident are going to take good care of it:
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I wrote a shorter, slightly punchier version of my recent research article about Sanseitō as my first contribution to the new Tokyo Review. It should be vastly more accessible, and hopefully sets the tone of what else I plan to do in the future of TR www.tokyoreview.net/2025/11/what...
Sanseitō and its far-right conspiracy ideology
In July 2025, Sanseitō (a.k.a. The Party of DIY !!) became the first far-right political party in postwar history to establish a stable presence in both Houses of the National Diet. With the party’s f...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I wrote a shorter, slightly punchier version of my recent research article about Sanseitō as my first contribution to the new Tokyo Review. It should be vastly more accessible, and hopefully sets the tone of what else I plan to do in the future of TR www.tokyoreview.net/2025/11/what...
Listen, if people could easily detect what’s popular, unpopular, and want others collectively and individually want then marketers and therapists would be out of a job.
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Listen, if people could easily detect what’s popular, unpopular, and want others collectively and individually want then marketers and therapists would be out of a job.
Ok. I got around to the Jay Caspian Kang article that everyone on here dunked on. There are parts that I think that are factually wrong (at least if Kang willfully didn’t update his priors on Platner’s parents). Others are worth ruminating on. Especially the bits on the rhetoric of Neoliberalism.
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Ok. I got around to the Jay Caspian Kang article that everyone on here dunked on. There are parts that I think that are factually wrong (at least if Kang willfully didn’t update his priors on Platner’s parents). Others are worth ruminating on. Especially the bits on the rhetoric of Neoliberalism.
Vibes are ambient.
And ambience is architectural and structural.
And ambience is architectural and structural.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Vibes are ambient.
And ambience is architectural and structural.
And ambience is architectural and structural.
