aohsu
@aohsusometimesy.bsky.social
Medieval Chinese Buddhology. Textiness of texts: scriptures, canons, citations, anthologies. He/him/his.
Is the cyber in cybertruck the same as the cyber in cybersex
November 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Is the cyber in cybertruck the same as the cyber in cybersex
One detail from _Raja the Gullible_ I hope is autobiographical is Raja’s description of how he played matchbox cars as a little boy: the different models of car were “families” that hosted one another over for tea.
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
One detail from _Raja the Gullible_ I hope is autobiographical is Raja’s description of how he played matchbox cars as a little boy: the different models of car were “families” that hosted one another over for tea.
Paywalls aren’t for keeping you out. They’re for penning the toxicity in!
I love paywalls now.
November 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Paywalls aren’t for keeping you out. They’re for penning the toxicity in!
Is there a throughline? “Empire”? “Eurasiafrica”?
Nguyen, _The Committed_ (2021); Kuang, _Babel_ (2022); McMahan _The Making of Buddhist Modernism_ (2008). Finished Alameddine, _True True Story_ (2025) and Wilken, _First Thousand Years_ (2012) earlier this week!
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Is there a throughline? “Empire”? “Eurasiafrica”?
the more i read political science, the less i am convinced it is a "science." what are you guys even doing
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
the more i read political science, the less i am convinced it is a "science." what are you guys even doing
of the ~10 or so heads of state that have degrees in political science, there's Biden, AMLO, and Modi.
(also, this page is out of date)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
(also, this page is out of date)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of heads of government by higher education - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
of the ~10 or so heads of state that have degrees in political science, there's Biden, AMLO, and Modi.
(also, this page is out of date)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
(also, this page is out of date)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
the word they were looking for is gyoza
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
the word they were looking for is gyoza
what are migraines like? is it like leaf-blowers outside?
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
what are migraines like? is it like leaf-blowers outside?
Who remembers Animal Collective? Fleet Foxes? Wolf Parade? Grizzly Bear? I don't think I listened to any of them, when I had the chance. And now they are gone forever, all we talk about is Trump this, Trump that.
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Who remembers Animal Collective? Fleet Foxes? Wolf Parade? Grizzly Bear? I don't think I listened to any of them, when I had the chance. And now they are gone forever, all we talk about is Trump this, Trump that.
I wonder if Richard Rorty ever achieved his country
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I wonder if Richard Rorty ever achieved his country
About an hour into the audiobook and I have to say it’s delightful that the British voice actors have to perform what the Chinese-American says they should have to say, in pretendsies Victorian Britain
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
About an hour into the audiobook and I have to say it’s delightful that the British voice actors have to perform what the Chinese-American says they should have to say, in pretendsies Victorian Britain
But how do we know that "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, PUNISHIBLE BY DEATH" refers to the behavior of the Democrats? Perhaps he is "performing" a "speech act," "doing a sedition" by screaming "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR." In this essay, I argue that Donald J. Trump is asking us the people to execute him.
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
But how do we know that "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, PUNISHIBLE BY DEATH" refers to the behavior of the Democrats? Perhaps he is "performing" a "speech act," "doing a sedition" by screaming "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR." In this essay, I argue that Donald J. Trump is asking us the people to execute him.
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So, I won a National Book Award.
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
So, I won a National Book Award.
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Somehow I spoke to more anthropologists for my silly little podcast than Yuval Harari did for his bestselling book
Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Somehow I spoke to more anthropologists for my silly little podcast than Yuval Harari did for his bestselling book
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Looks like the kind of hibiscus known as the Rose of Sharon in the US. According to this, in Japan it symbolizes the fleeting nature of beauty. www.seattlejapanesegarden.org/new-blog-1/2...
Botanical Name – Hibiscus syriacus Common Name – rose of Sharon — Seattle Japanese Garden
Hibiscus syriacus is a large, hardy, multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with showy hibiscus-shaped flowers. Native to China and India, despite its botanical name, this shrub has been cultivated for hundre...
www.seattlejapanesegarden.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Looks like the kind of hibiscus known as the Rose of Sharon in the US. According to this, in Japan it symbolizes the fleeting nature of beauty. www.seattlejapanesegarden.org/new-blog-1/2...
Imagine my delight and surprise when I learned on NPR commute this morning that this book Won the Big Prize! “I just finished reading that last night!”
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Imagine my delight and surprise when I learned on NPR commute this morning that this book Won the Big Prize! “I just finished reading that last night!”
I finished Wilken’s _First Thousand Years_ (2012) history of Christianity with Elverskog’s much shorter history of Buddhism (2020) and environment at the back of my mind. Two kinds of “(medium-)big history” of religion. Former I kept getting lost with doctrinal disputes and wanting …
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I finished Wilken’s _First Thousand Years_ (2012) history of Christianity with Elverskog’s much shorter history of Buddhism (2020) and environment at the back of my mind. Two kinds of “(medium-)big history” of religion. Former I kept getting lost with doctrinal disputes and wanting …
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#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Kind of disturbing how many people selected actual novels. Ya know, “fiction novels”
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Kind of disturbing how many people selected actual novels. Ya know, “fiction novels”
If you think there are malign and powerful forces out there trying to trick Christians into believing Christ is begotten from but not coequal to God the Father… you might be an Arian aggrandizer
What's up with the hatred of Arius? Is there more to this Arian aggrandizement than meets the eye?
a woman with red hair is wearing a gold dress with a white ruffled collar
ALT: a woman with red hair is wearing a gold dress with a white ruffled collar
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November 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
If you think there are malign and powerful forces out there trying to trick Christians into believing Christ is begotten from but not coequal to God the Father… you might be an Arian aggrandizer
But if you did... every time someone id'ed themselves as a "Christian"... it'd be funny
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
But if you did... every time someone id'ed themselves as a "Christian"... it'd be funny
didn't realize "ancient heresies are still around" was a thing 😅
www.catholicculture.org/culture/libr...
www.catholicculture.org/culture/libr...
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
didn't realize "ancient heresies are still around" was a thing 😅
www.catholicculture.org/culture/libr...
www.catholicculture.org/culture/libr...
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Check out this fascinating article about the work my Princeton Religion colleague, Garry Sparks, is coordinating focused on the Maya manuscript collection at Firestone Library.
Indigenous Scholars Unlock Princeton’s Remarkable Maya Manuscript Collection and its Crucial Research Potential
Héctor Rolando Xol Choc, one of few scholars capable of reading the native Mayan language Q’eqchi’, has discovered something among Princeton University Library’s (PUL) collection of Mesoamerican manus...
initiative.humanities.princeton.edu
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Check out this fascinating article about the work my Princeton Religion colleague, Garry Sparks, is coordinating focused on the Maya manuscript collection at Firestone Library.
a student of mine keeps advertising the thesis of their final paper on ethics in "AI" as "just because we can... doesn't mean we should" and I think the next time they say that to me I'm going to ask if they know that's a Jeff Goldblum line from Jurassic Park
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
a student of mine keeps advertising the thesis of their final paper on ethics in "AI" as "just because we can... doesn't mean we should" and I think the next time they say that to me I'm going to ask if they know that's a Jeff Goldblum line from Jurassic Park