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rmarcantuoni.bsky.social
Ph.D. candidate at Waseda University and part-time lecturer. Researching the politics of emotion, parties, and conspiracy beliefs with a focus on Japan. Contact me at [email protected]
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In their defense, the way the game presents text is directly modeled on twitter so it’s entirely on brand. Messaging bungled it, but also I don’t think people have much faith in the new owners

I think there's a bright future ahead for anyone who can popularize a translation of Giddens' "double hermeneutics," often abbreviated as "double-h," into Japanese not as "ダブルH" but as "WH"

I can finally post @austinwalker.bsky.social ‘s incredible Anakin/Toxic fancam from @morecivilized.bsky.social

Okay screw it I'm doing it.

I am THIS close to making the mistake of figuring out how to make Beamer presentations in LaTeX so I never have to worry about inconsistencies ever again

Does anyone have any good resources/books even to help lecturers design better PPT slides? I get by, of course, but I want to think through it a bit more carefully.

I heard this crazy thing about The Last Samurai on a podcast but I can’t verify it (who has access to DVD featuretres these days anyway?) certainly of interest to @davidleheny.bsky.social

I recently did an interview of @robfahey.net on our ongoing research on conspiracy beliefs for a Waseda podcast. You can check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XN4... or here www.waseda.jp/top/en/news/...

Read it on Kindle so I'm missing out on these fantastic covers

Surely I’m not the only person who thinks this is aesthetically speaking the equivalent of your crystal aunt posting weird angel pictures on Facebook.

If you are in Tokyo, you might be also interested in this event (まだ未定だが、参加するかも)💡

The other website is pretty much done

The US 2020 Elections - @sjungkunz.bsky.social, @robfahey.net & Airo Hino investigate the dynamics of political violence justification & its connection with populist attitudes & conspiracy beliefs: https://buff.ly/3ZidmeI @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs #polsky

A very interesting podcast episode about Unlocking the Rise of Conspiracy Movements in Japan:

必読。該当映画公開の是非だけではなくて、「ドキュメンタリー」の方法と目的とは何か、について考えるために。 note.com/bigriverfilm...

I recently did an interview of @robfahey.net on our ongoing research on conspiracy beliefs for a Waseda podcast. You can check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XN4... or here www.waseda.jp/top/en/news/...

Starting from 20th February, the National Diet Library will allow photocopies of physical sources to be delivered as a PDF rather than by post This is thanks to a new provision in the 2021 revision to the Copyright Act www.ndl.go.jp/jp/news/fy20...

I've been lax in plugging the Waseda podcast, but I particularly enjoyed this discussion with Prof. Liu-Farrer about migration in Asia. We talk about the artificial ideas of "skilled" migration, and how labour flows in Asia impact both sending and receiving nations: www.waseda.jp/top/en/news/...

Bit worrying that the reaction from the number one news podcast in Japan to the Gaza “take-over” news was rendered in the most positive way possible for Trump.

Please repost, friends in Japan! Dr. Anna Wozny (PhD, University of Michigan) will speak at Waseda University's Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies next Thursday (February 13) at 4 p.m. on "The 'Marriage-Hunting' Market and Gendered Governance in Japan." All are welcome. Thanks for reposting!

It’s certainly been both surprising and extremely on brand for the end of the Abe era (or in Sakaiya Shiro’s term the neo 55 system) to basically be a transition to boring multipartyism (for now)

Hung out with Hasan Piker today youtu.be/CMT0uoR4azI?...

If you were under the impression that Japanese media is broadly representative of expert opinion and mainstream science with regards to climate change, I regret to inform you that is changing extremely rapidly. Just an outlier but: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTjV...

The joke below operates on the logic that the present conditions of life are incapable of sustaining a "Home Alone" scenario. But I would like to clarify that the truth is in fact the opposite: the present mode of life is best understood as a perpetual "Home Alone" scenario. Allow me to explain.

Trump's conspiracy cabinet is about to take over the deep state

Whatever one’s gripes with the JCP, their newspaper plays a crucial role in the way Japanese democracy actually functions. But it is a function that is laundered through subsequent reporting. This is particularly an issue because subscription rates are plummeting

conspiracy sells

bluesky induces what i might call "stress thinking," which is a phenomenon that happens when someone writes something so out of pocket and wild that it is stressful to think about. wizard mind warfare shit.