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Konrad Lawson
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Historian of modern East Asia he/him; Lecturer at University of St Andrews; From Stavanger, Norway
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland. 林蜀道 https://muninn.net
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Lots of updates to this page dedicated to the old “Chinese Literature” journal thousands of English translations. Over 200 issues online 1950s-80s. Added “Search”, “Explore” and table with pinyin/hanzi versions of some the authors. froginawell.net/chinese-lite... #china #literature
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Afternoon walk by Deil's Caldron near Comrie. #scotland
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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With some LLM and OCR help, I've extracted the tables of contents for over 200 issues of the old PRC journal "Chinese Literature" and put together a website to search and explore them (still proof-reading and formatting it): froginawell.net/chinese-lite... #china #literature
November 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Afternoon walk along Cramond Beach #scotland
November 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I added a section to our Frog in a Well Primary Source guide to Korean History with some links to open access copies of volumes with Japanese statistics from colonial Korea - froginawell.net/frog/sources...
October 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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From William Sewell's Wheelbarrow Lane on wartime air raid warning system in Chengdu, Sichaun:
"The great distance they had come and the excellent warning system the Chinese managed to maintain meant that there was ample time in which to prepare. A first alarm, accompanied by waving yellow flags, indicated that the planes had left Hankou, heading west towards Yichang. The second, some hours later, with red flags, meant that they had passed Chongqing, and about twenty minutes after that the black flag urgently warned that they were upon us."
October 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Four issues of China Pictorial found on eBay just arrived with 34 more issues on their way (misc issues ‘57-60,’65-69,’76-80). Almost all are issues not already in this digital collection but can’t promise when I’ll find time to scan and post to archive.org: www.bannedthought.net/China/Magazi...
4 issues of China pictorial 1976-80
October 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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A UFO 🛸 spotting in Trondheim, Norway 1934. Among the treasures of A Shoebox of Norwegian Letters:
huginn.net/shoebox/new/...
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Some (out of copyright?) downloadable Japanese dictionaries of (very) different sorts from postwar at NDL:
最新時事新語辞典 1949 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1126434/...
最新国際問題辞典 1948 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1444664
ポケットスケッチ事典 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1338675
図解新事典 1949 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1169556
新聞雑誌語辞典 1948 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1126422
September 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Reporting back on this: did a test with a set of (hastily taken, in poor light) photographs of book pages, then ran them on both the ndlkotenocr-lite vs Google Document AI. Example result attached here, plus check of the first three lines. Also: had to modify the ndl code to respect exif rotation.
September 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Nice! 龙飞莫遏 apparently! :)
September 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Sunday afternoon walk in Chatelherault Country Park. #scotland
August 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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There are now three modes to timeline review tool (mostly for students new to modern China/Japan history): Flashcards (flip through until all correct); Test mode (asks 10 questions, but also records time taken); Sort game, sort the order of events and time recorded. froginawell.net/games/flash/
August 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Sunday afternoon walk around Doune via the castle, Kilmadock burial ground, and Moray Estates. #scotland
August 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Nice afternoon walk near Abbey St Bathans #scotland
August 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Though it doesn’t include the word, can’t resist sharing my favorite poster in this category. The original just says use less [toilet] paper but someone reached much further down the list of dictionary entries to pick this one out.
支持环保 节约用纸 Protect Environment Saving Bumf
July 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Ted is right here. This is a typical translation for 文明 (civilized) and is likely very well represented in training data from the widespread “be civilized” propaganda/public service messages everywhere 文明宣传. Two examples from my own photos, alas neither directly translate
July 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Saturday afternoon walk from Dale til Hommersåk via Lihalsen. #norway
July 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Sunday afternoon walk along Hafrsfjord from Kråkebakkana in Joa to Løneset in Grannes with a swim along the way. #norway
July 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Afternoon walk on Kvitsøy. #norway
July 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Sunday afternoon coastal walk from Sandnes to Gausel and then rental scooter back to Stavanger.
July 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Afternoon walk on Rennesøy: Dalestemmen to Rennesøyhornet to Dale #norway
July 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Evening walk in the neighborhood, along Hafrsfjord #norway
July 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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U of York commissions a report from Public First on the positive impact of international students in the UK: www.publicfirst.co.uk/calculating-...
"International students “raise living standards in every constituency in the country,” according to new research from Public First. While previous analysis has demonstrated the aggregate economic benefit to the UK of international student fees and spending, the new research examines how the existing local population is affected in terms of GDP per head. Public First concludes that every UK resident is £355 a year better off as a result of international students – and for working adults, on a full time equivalent basis this rises to £466. The analysis also looks at how the effects are spread across the country, and the political make-up of the constituencies which benefit most – 80 out of the top 100 seats are currently held by Labour, including six by cabinet ministers."
July 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I like this passage from "Program or be Programmed" by Douglass Rushkoff. It is not just about literal profit: this happens when posts by users on any social network become primarily a feed of bullet points from one's CV (or that of allies), without engagement with people.
Our digital networks are biased toward social connections—toward contact. Any effort to redefine or hijack those connections for profit end up compromising the integrity of the network itself, and compromising the real promise of contact. People are able to sense when a social network is really serving some other purpose. Seemingly permanent monopolies on our online social activity lose their constituencies more quickly than they earn them.
June 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM