I would like to warn young Japan studies scholars to be aware that there are many a Japanese scholar who use identity politics to claim authority over a subject and shut down an intellectual conversation. The passport does not make you an expert. Hard work and rigorous analytical skills do.

HAMM-3R HAMM-3R is a SHORT and FREE experimental videogame about how our equipment influences the ways we understand the world and act within it.

Play HAMM-3R! 🚀
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An experimental game about tools and technologies made with @amidos2006.bsky.social, @demigiant.com and other friends at the @indigitalgames.bsky.social! 🔨

No matter how many inaccuracies my PhD will have it will never be as inaccurate as Fukuyama in 1992

LDP continuing the long tradition of saying they don't want foreigners while accepting more each year. Introduced by Abe, perfected by Takaichi

THE FIRST 3 YEARS PROJECT

Inspired by first3yearsproject.com

In my class on games as cultural industries, 60 students created a white paper on the first years as a games worker. Good practices, production processes, and labour issues.

Please share!

tinyurl.com/first3yearstcm

Hi! I have a new, quirky article out on how games use and represent the dead, but also on deadpool games, & the strange case of the #Fantamorto (an Italian fantasy sport).

>> gamestudies.org/2601/article... <<

🚨WARNING🚨: it might contain traces of @ckunzelman.bsky.social and @maurovanetti.itch.io

losing my mind over arabic being phonetically as close as German to English

România va cartografia, în parteneriat cu SUA, zăcămintele de minerale rare din țara noastră România dispune de zăcăminte de aproximativ 60 de minerale critice, trei dintre ele fiind declarate proiecte strategice de Comisia Europeană.

Suveraniștii au dreptate, suntem o colonie, o colonie a Americii cărora vor sa ne vândă
www.veridica.ro/stiri/romani...

I can confirm. a guy working at the supermarket in this cheese wasteland of country gave me a piece of gouda and I never forgot him.

as I'm going through the interviews I've been taking in the past two years with video game recruiters, I was reminded why I dislike them. I am wondering if we're ever going to address the fascism embedded in MBA's that teach people to say without blinking that "as you get older your value decreases"

really funny but just to play the devil’s advocate, why did they use human actors? We have AI. Did they generate the ad idea with claude? We need to know these things. I was told we’d be completely replaced why are they pandering to humans with this?

funny you thing someone who came up with this has the biological capacity of feeling shame whatsoever

now and again I open instagram and wonder, ce boala psihica o avea dana Budeanu...?

they're going to crash, or they're going to crash us into a wall

【衆議院選挙】高市早苗首相「為替変動にびくともしない日本つくる」　国内投資を強化 - 日本経済新聞 高市早苗首相（自民党総裁）は29日、強い経済をつくるために国内投資を増やしていくと説明した。「為替変動にびくともしない日本をつくる」と強調した。政権が掲げる「責任ある積極財政」のもと、成長が期待できる産業への投資を加速する考えを改めて示

www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
「為替変動にびくともしない日本つくる」って、そんなことができるなら、選挙なんてやっている場合ではなく、まずそんな日本を作ってほしい。

Underneath the name Charlie Hebdo is a pile of bloodied dead bodies representing US citizens killed by ICE. The pile of bodies are collected in one corner to represent the stars of the US flag and the streaks of blood caused by them being dragged across the ground form the red and white stripes. In the foreground an armed skinhead officer with an ICE vest is dragging his latest victim with multiple gunshots to join the pile. The world is watching in horror.

Wow.

The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.

when you say "separating" you mean to "differentiate" or like literally to separate them? sorry in this political landscape I need clarifications

now this year's events make sense

Diversity and Inclusion in Japan: Issues in Business and Higher Education Alcantara, Shinohara, and their contributors evaluate the current state of diversity and inclusion (D&I) within business and higher education in Japan, and the importance of D&I to the growth of Japan...

Last was “Diversity and Inclusion in Japan,” edited by Lailani Alcantara and Yoshiki Shinohara. This is a great collection of papers and essays on the state and dimension of diversity and inclusion efforts in Japan. Highly recommend

Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (9/9)

強くなくてもいいから住みやすい国にしてほしい

They'll be having me for 40 more years I think that's long enough hahahaha. that;s more than what I've lived so far.

I had the exact same idea!!

A.I.
The hot take:
anyone will tell you it's useful for everything *except* for their field of expertise.

I know.
I've done it. I'm not an expert in T.P.S. Reports.
Is it worth the crash we all will suffer when the bubble pops? nope.
OK, now that I've farmed the hate, please check my games.

#writingstudies #genai+writing #cdnwrds #teamrhetoric

Stupid or a cry for help? Maybe both

移民と社会：「排外主義は怖い」　外国人規制強化、コンビニ大手首脳が抱く危機感 | 毎日新聞 高市早苗政権が進める外国人政策の厳格化を巡り、コンビニエンスストア大手の首脳らから発言が相次いでいる。店舗で働く外国人従業員は2025年、セブン―イレブン・ジャパン、ローソン、ファミリーマートの3社で初めて計11万人に達し、各社ともに欠かせない存在となっている。

良記事が無料。人権より商売、という世相だが、人権をないものにし続けるといずれ商売にも響くという当たり前すぎる話。今になって、自分の財布が痛み始めてようやく騒ぎ出すおじいさんたちにはため息しか出ないが
mainichi.jp/articles/202...

“By accepting that AI “sees” for us, we are presented with the world whose epistemological positions have been predefined by corporate elites in pursuit of market dominance. Sure, the user is free to create so-called art with the so-called tool, but only within the confines of a pre-digested world.”

A skill I hate I have is my ability to read business Japanese and government reports, which came at the expense of my ability to read literature.

Maybe the app thinks I need to be drinking to achieve this in one day