Baryon Posadas
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Baryon Posadas
@baryon.bsky.social
· Jul 29
My copy of Techno-orientalism 2.0, which includes my essay on the animated adaptations of the novels of Project Itoh, arrived today.
West Kowloon HSR station.
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
West Kowloon HSR station.
For some reason I cannot discern, the cats always get very interested in what I'm up to every time I attach my glucose monitors.
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
For some reason I cannot discern, the cats always get very interested in what I'm up to every time I attach my glucose monitors.
Too early in the morning to be wandering around Nathan Road.
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Too early in the morning to be wandering around Nathan Road.
Sometimes I wonder whether I unconsciously agree to take on more academic service work precisely so I have an excuse to put off my own writing.
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Sometimes I wonder whether I unconsciously agree to take on more academic service work precisely so I have an excuse to put off my own writing.
Snuck inside my closet again.
November 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Snuck inside my closet again.
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New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close
#FanStudies
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close
#FanStudies
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
This cutting-edge collection explores the histories, aesthetics, and cultural work of fan video across a wide variety of manifestations and genres.
Editors Louisa Ellen Stein and Samantha Close have a...
www.routledge.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close
#FanStudies
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close
#FanStudies
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Callisto the cat has decided that my mouse cursor is her new obsession.
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Callisto the cat has decided that my mouse cursor is her new obsession.
I keep repeatedly (three times now in the last week) receiving this one email from a prospective postgraduate student inquiring about the possibility of working with me. Except the topic is so wildly out of area. On top of that, it's addressed to an altogether different person.
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I keep repeatedly (three times now in the last week) receiving this one email from a prospective postgraduate student inquiring about the possibility of working with me. Except the topic is so wildly out of area. On top of that, it's addressed to an altogether different person.
This talk of 50-year mortgages in the US is vaguely reminiscent of 1980s bubble economy era Japan with its then infamous multi-generational mortgages. At the same time, the pervading cultural discourse remains one that echoes the later lost decades era.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This talk of 50-year mortgages in the US is vaguely reminiscent of 1980s bubble economy era Japan with its then infamous multi-generational mortgages. At the same time, the pervading cultural discourse remains one that echoes the later lost decades era.
The cats are being nosy neighbors.
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The cats are being nosy neighbors.
Today's feline shenanigans.
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today's feline shenanigans.
19% drop in international student registrations to the US. I wonder how this is impacting public university finances?
www.nytimes.com/video/upshot...
www.nytimes.com/video/upshot...
Video: We Charted the Decline in International Students to the U.S.
The Upshot reporter Aatish Bhatia walks through a chart he created showing the decline, by country, of international students arriving to the United States this year.
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
19% drop in international student registrations to the US. I wonder how this is impacting public university finances?
www.nytimes.com/video/upshot...
www.nytimes.com/video/upshot...
You can tell things are getting busier when my meals switch from braises and soups to stir-fries and rice bowl slop. Yesterday was oyakodon. Today is Pad krapow.
November 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
You can tell things are getting busier when my meals switch from braises and soups to stir-fries and rice bowl slop. Yesterday was oyakodon. Today is Pad krapow.
Accidentally walked in on a cat conspiracy.
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Accidentally walked in on a cat conspiracy.
You can tell that LLMs have been trained on some wildly orientalist writing because so much of the AI written assignments I get randomly talk about "mono no aware" despite the fact that it has literally never come up once in my discussions of Japanese science fiction.
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
You can tell that LLMs have been trained on some wildly orientalist writing because so much of the AI written assignments I get randomly talk about "mono no aware" despite the fact that it has literally never come up once in my discussions of Japanese science fiction.
This NYC mayoral auntie discourse seems especially weird in the context of a multicultural NYC where a practice of referring to all older relatives as uncle/auntie is probably more common than the media discourse appears to make it out to be.
October 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This NYC mayoral auntie discourse seems especially weird in the context of a multicultural NYC where a practice of referring to all older relatives as uncle/auntie is probably more common than the media discourse appears to make it out to be.
Once you start recognizing the genAI writing voice and cadence, it becomes impossible to un-see it. Best description I can think of is it sounds like a TED talk script or a sales pitch. It's pervasive too, not just in student writing but in pretentious social media commentary.
October 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Once you start recognizing the genAI writing voice and cadence, it becomes impossible to un-see it. Best description I can think of is it sounds like a TED talk script or a sales pitch. It's pervasive too, not just in student writing but in pretentious social media commentary.
Class prep supervisors.
October 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Class prep supervisors.
Do university administrators get kickbacks from GenAI companies or something? Or is this weird uncritical embrace of not just the technology but also the official rhetoric just the usual university administrator groupthink?
October 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Do university administrators get kickbacks from GenAI companies or something? Or is this weird uncritical embrace of not just the technology but also the official rhetoric just the usual university administrator groupthink?
Maybe a hot take: I wonder if the frequency at which LLM-induced hallucinated citations appear in published scholarship without getting caught in editorial processes is not unrelated to certain citational practices that I (perhaps unfairly) tend to see more in social sciences.
October 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Maybe a hot take: I wonder if the frequency at which LLM-induced hallucinated citations appear in published scholarship without getting caught in editorial processes is not unrelated to certain citational practices that I (perhaps unfairly) tend to see more in social sciences.
I don't know why I hadn't made the connection before today that the Obayashi Nobuhiko who directed the 1983 film adaptation of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is the same Obayashi who directed the 1977 surreal horror-comedy House.
October 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I don't know why I hadn't made the connection before today that the Obayashi Nobuhiko who directed the 1983 film adaptation of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is the same Obayashi who directed the 1977 surreal horror-comedy House.
Long-haired cats with partly white fur who like to get inside clothes drawers and lots of black pants are not a good combination.
October 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Long-haired cats with partly white fur who like to get inside clothes drawers and lots of black pants are not a good combination.
Every few years or so, the University of Toronto's student paper does an article that mines the academic discipline cases that go up to the tribunal stage from UofT, all of which are anonymized and published online. thevarsity.ca/2025/10/19/u...
October 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Every few years or so, the University of Toronto's student paper does an article that mines the academic discipline cases that go up to the tribunal stage from UofT, all of which are anonymized and published online. thevarsity.ca/2025/10/19/u...