It was my pleasure to read and review! For anyone looking for a tl:dr summary, commit to the book, it's worth it.

A photo of an exhibit booth with posters and handouts for JapanLab games like the Censor's Desk and Ready, Set, Yokohama.

If you're at #AAS2026, come see us at the JapanLab booth in the exhibit hall this weekend! We make free educational games for Japanese studies and have resources if you want to teach with our games or even make your own!

Methodology Seminar: Historian's Workshop
Seminar: International History
Seminar: Museums, Monuments, and Memory
Eventually:
Seminar: Colonialism in East Asia
Seminar: Gender and Sexuality in East Asia

Academic history colleagues, list all the courses you teach:
Intro: Premodern, Early Modern, and Modern Histories of East Asia
Colonial Power in East Asia
Gender and Sexuality in East Asia
Tokyo: Rise of a Megacity
Japan: From Samurai to Superpower
Virtual Heritage and Video Games
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Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.

Thank you!

Where are the good bagels??

Check out our games here! www.utjapanlab.com/teachers

The JapanLab booth in the exhibit hall that features posters, bookmarks, and flyers and will be staffed from 10-3 Friday/Saturday and 10-12 on Sunday.

Good morning #aas2025! Come see the JapanLab at UT Austin at exhibit hall booth #107! The booth will be staffed from 10-3 Friday/Saturday and from 10-12 on Sunday. Come learn about our games for teaching Japanese studies classes and the undergraduate intern model we used to develop them!

Yes!

I am!

Thank you!

Hello, can I be added to the starter pack? I'm a historian of modern Japan working at Knox College. Thanks!

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Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking Obsidian is the private and flexible note‑taking app that adapts to the way you think.

I've been using Obsidian for my notes lately, it might be what you're looking for. It can be very smart but it can also be very basic. It uses markdown so there isn't even a formatting bar in the vanilla version (but you can get one through plugins). I think there's spell check. obsidian.md

I saw the trailer this morning and thought, "maybe the internet is not where I want to be today."

Frederick Douglass quote from 1857: Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power conceded nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.

Anyway, good morning from this evergreen quote from a guy we teach the kids is a great American hero

I feel like one or two days every couple of months I need a shirt that reads, "I am very cranky today for reasons that aren't fully rational and I'm trying very hard not to make it your problem, please don't test me."

A lot of people are posting and rightfully mocking bad takes from the other site on how AI will make all entertainment individualized, and it just makes me think how the most joyful conversation I had this week was a surprise "wait you watch Star Trek too??" one I stumbled into at the library.

Block and move on. Block and move on. Block on a whim, Block weird replies. We are not here to "win" the internet, we are here to read cool posts from experts and artists we would never ordinarily be able to interact with, and occasionally promote our own cool stuff to like-minded weirdos.