MattyYixin
@mattyixin.bsky.social
Museum Educator • Studies in Religion, History, Asia, and Video Games • MA Religion @UNE + M Asian and Pacific Studies @ANU
Here for Northeast Asia, Shinto, Shamanism, and Manchu/Tungusic Studies, Portuguese and Japanese Empires
Here for Northeast Asia, Shinto, Shamanism, and Manchu/Tungusic Studies, Portuguese and Japanese Empires
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There's this fundamental mismatch in what AI people seem to think research is. As if you have a kernel of an idea and one needs the right re-combination of tokens to have some kind of insight.
Research should be surprising, thought-provoking, (re-)discovering new literatures and subcommunities.
Research should be surprising, thought-provoking, (re-)discovering new literatures and subcommunities.
May 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
There's this fundamental mismatch in what AI people seem to think research is. As if you have a kernel of an idea and one needs the right re-combination of tokens to have some kind of insight.
Research should be surprising, thought-provoking, (re-)discovering new literatures and subcommunities.
Research should be surprising, thought-provoking, (re-)discovering new literatures and subcommunities.
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Forthcoming in 2025.
March 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Forthcoming in 2025.
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Video games often reflect and recreate power imbalances of the past. @tlecaque.bsky.social explores how this happens in Fallout 4. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/01/27/f...
Fallout 4 and the Erasure of the Native in (Post-Apocalyptic) New England
By Thomas Lecaque Boston, emerging from the radioactive mist. Broken towers and elevated highways—a world without the Big Dig—with scattered communities of survivors clinging on to relics of a long…
ageofrevolutions.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Video games often reflect and recreate power imbalances of the past. @tlecaque.bsky.social explores how this happens in Fallout 4. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/01/27/f...
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Overview of the network of Japanese military telegraph lines across the Korean and Liaodong peninsulas as of June 1904, some four months into the Russo-Japanese War
November 23, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Overview of the network of Japanese military telegraph lines across the Korean and Liaodong peninsulas as of June 1904, some four months into the Russo-Japanese War
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I'm getting followers in the fields of religious studies and/or media studies. So...
Are you interested in Digital Religion?
There's a list of resources here: giuliaevolvi.com/digital-reli...
Also, if you're studying Digital Religion and we never met, please comment and self-promote!
Are you interested in Digital Religion?
There's a list of resources here: giuliaevolvi.com/digital-reli...
Also, if you're studying Digital Religion and we never met, please comment and self-promote!
Digital Religion Reading List
Are you interested in the field of Digital Religion studies? Here some resources I put together A tablet and a smartphone with religious images Excel List I looked one day at my Zotero and I notice…
giuliaevolvi.com
November 12, 2024 at 5:17 PM
I'm getting followers in the fields of religious studies and/or media studies. So...
Are you interested in Digital Religion?
There's a list of resources here: giuliaevolvi.com/digital-reli...
Also, if you're studying Digital Religion and we never met, please comment and self-promote!
Are you interested in Digital Religion?
There's a list of resources here: giuliaevolvi.com/digital-reli...
Also, if you're studying Digital Religion and we never met, please comment and self-promote!
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How decolonization looks in real life:
From 2025, all Mongolian government bodies will transition to the use of Mongol script alongside the current cyrillic, which has been "introduced" (read:imposed) in 1940s.
E.g. below is a recent letter from the Minister of Education to the Cabinet Secretary.
From 2025, all Mongolian government bodies will transition to the use of Mongol script alongside the current cyrillic, which has been "introduced" (read:imposed) in 1940s.
E.g. below is a recent letter from the Minister of Education to the Cabinet Secretary.
November 20, 2024 at 9:08 AM
How decolonization looks in real life:
From 2025, all Mongolian government bodies will transition to the use of Mongol script alongside the current cyrillic, which has been "introduced" (read:imposed) in 1940s.
E.g. below is a recent letter from the Minister of Education to the Cabinet Secretary.
From 2025, all Mongolian government bodies will transition to the use of Mongol script alongside the current cyrillic, which has been "introduced" (read:imposed) in 1940s.
E.g. below is a recent letter from the Minister of Education to the Cabinet Secretary.
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Hi newcomers, specifically those who deal with Asian history.
Welcome to Bluesky, the only app that’s named after The Internal Kök Tengri.
What a homage for the ancient nomads of the Eurasian Steppe.
Welcome to Bluesky, the only app that’s named after The Internal Kök Tengri.
What a homage for the ancient nomads of the Eurasian Steppe.
November 9, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Hi newcomers, specifically those who deal with Asian history.
Welcome to Bluesky, the only app that’s named after The Internal Kök Tengri.
What a homage for the ancient nomads of the Eurasian Steppe.
Welcome to Bluesky, the only app that’s named after The Internal Kök Tengri.
What a homage for the ancient nomads of the Eurasian Steppe.
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2020 protest petition of Inner Mongolia's Baarin right banner's Bayantal sum school teachers against the replacement of Mongolian-medium education with Chinese, signed in "duguilan" (circle) form, traditionally used to obscure the leadership of the protest.
January 7, 2024 at 4:36 AM
2020 protest petition of Inner Mongolia's Baarin right banner's Bayantal sum school teachers against the replacement of Mongolian-medium education with Chinese, signed in "duguilan" (circle) form, traditionally used to obscure the leadership of the protest.
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*Favorite* mercantilist imperial poster.
South Manchuria Railway Co. w/ a Mongol woman holding a lamb.
South Manchuria Railway Co. w/ a Mongol woman holding a lamb.
December 22, 2023 at 10:57 AM
*Favorite* mercantilist imperial poster.
South Manchuria Railway Co. w/ a Mongol woman holding a lamb.
South Manchuria Railway Co. w/ a Mongol woman holding a lamb.