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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing)

@ericderoulet.bsky.social

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Interdisciplinary PhD candidate. Hopefully not a permanent condition. I research migration, international higher edu., Qing/modern Chinese/Taiwanese intellectual history, and more. Keeper of cats. https://ericderoulet.scholar.st/ 無論什麼時代都在心裡喊叫。

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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · Jun 29

I have a little book review out in @asiancha.bsky.social on Taiwan in Dynamic Transition by Ryan Dunch and Ashley Esarey (eds.), mainly on how the anthology treats Taiwan as a country worth understanding in its own right and not merely as a subject of great powers conflict.

[REVIEW] “Taiwan’s Political Evolution and the Study of Comparative Politics as seen in 𝑇𝑎𝑖𝑤𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐷𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” by Eric D. de Roulet

📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ryan Dunch and Ashley Esarey (editors), Taiwan in Dynamic Transition: Nation Building and Democratization,…

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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 27m

And according to ProPublica:

Inside the State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel

Leaked cables and emails show how the agency’s top officers dismissed internal evidence of Israelis misusing American-made bombs and worked around the clock to rush more out while the Gaza death toll ...

www.propublica.org

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 36m

I think when tenured humanists publish things they should work with university comms to write press releases and send them out.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2h

Again, it is worth keeping in mind when comparing the rate of discoveries that public funding for medicine and the sciences is orders of magnitude larger than for the humanities. We work slow in part because we work on a shoestring.

A pie-chart of federal research funding, using 2023 figures. The funding slices for the NIH (83%) and NSF (17%) are so large that the slices for the NEH and NEA round to 0%.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2h

I suppose if the question here is 'why don't these fields produce new discoveries at the same rate as the sciences' the answer is a pretty obvious, 'because they're not funded like the sciences.'

We could do a lot of archaeology with, say, a few billion dollars a year!

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 3d

Not only will AI grading be the end of teaching because of the labor dynamics Marc covers, but it kicks off a process of what I call "self-alienation" where the teachers gradually remove themselves from the essential human experiences of their own work.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 3d

I try not to be needlessly confrontational or cruel, but if someone tells me they're outsourcing the work of grading student writing to AI, I tell them they should either stop or quit their job because they shouldn't be doing it. It's malpractice and not good for their own long term happiness either

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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 3d

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.

He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 5d

𝑇𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 unfurls a nightmarish vision of lovers dissolving into a single body. When it opened in China on 19 September, the film was reshaped: not only were its sex scenes excised, but an AI face-swapping sleight turned a same-sex wedding into a heterosexual union.

www.facebook.com/AsianCha.Jou...

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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 5d

Gotta love it, always, when it's leaked to the press that the authorities are super mad about leaks to the press

Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 5d

One of my favorite comedic forms, as seen in @zeteo.com

zeteo.com/p/trump-hegs...

Excerpt from the linked article:

So far, the effort to intimidate leakers is not going well. Inside the government, staffers and leakers have responded to the crackdown with defiance, three Defense Department staffers and two other sources familiar with the situation tell Zeteo. Put another way, those staffers and sources were immediately compelled to leak their thoughts and other details to a media outlet.

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a revealing thing because it *is* what many want in terms of the relationship to immigrants

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 6d

"peace through strength"
- the current US of defense or war or whatever it is now, Oct 5th, 2025, apparently.

I can hardly tell whether some of these people really read literature and identify with the villains or they've merely absorbed context-free catchphrases through cultural osmosis.

Pete Hegseth may have spilled the beans on the upcoming National Defense Strategy

Did the Secretary of War just reveal his strategic priorities between the homeland, China, and Russia in a Fox News interview at a football field?

www.pekingnology.com

Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 7d

Quite a thoughtful piece by Aaron Stoller commenting on the erosion of academic freedom (guess where) and how protections are especially lacking for staff with academic roles, such as uni librarians.

Academic Staff Need Academic Freedom, Too (opinion)

Colleges cannot continue to operate as if all staff work is identical, Aaron Stoller writes.

www.insidehighered.com

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 8d

@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses the nature of totalitarianism as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay... kinda feels timely...

www.speculativeinsight.com

Purple background, white text, which says ... the imperial system is propped up by ideological frames that rationalise and valorise the wants of the core while dehumanizing those living on the periphery. Such rationales are recorded by and embodied in Tzajos in the novella One Message Remains... "Lives Under Empire: Imperial Subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 8d

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 8d

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 8d

🔥 ICYMI (including a thread of recent Ming-Qing literature-related blog posts)

Rereading the Stone (Podcast) @rereadingstone.bsky.social · 9d

🎙️ episode drop🎙️ Chapter 43 part 1

This chapter admits of dualities? So here in part 1 we cover the first half (gold 金), which involves some extensive bickering over money (including an eyebrow-raising subscription scheme to raise funds for Xifeng’s birthday…)

www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...

the whole gang, from the 1980s classic TV rendition of Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢/ 石頭記

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 8d

“Laurie Eckman, 84, said she and her husband Richard Eckman, also 84 and a Vietnam war veteran, were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground.”

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 8d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 8d

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

www.pewresearch.org

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 9d

A wonderful companion resource site created by our research librarians Matthew Hayes and Adhitya Dhanapal, on the Immigration Act of 1965 and its legacies
sites.duke.edu/aadssymposium/

Duke AADS Symposium

sites.duke.edu

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 9d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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