Alexandra
@malecsandram.bsky.social
PhD • Trans-Cultural Video Game Production: Migrant Developers in Japan
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Alexandra
@malecsandram.bsky.social
· Oct 24
Because there is no industry body that will aggregate the total number of foreign employees in the Japanese video games industry I have to do it myself. And that's how I spent my day calculating percentages and totals. Just curious, is anyone interested in the numbers?
it's been a few months since my last varoufakis bashing. I would like to remind everyone that last year in a coversation with zizek he was convinced Harris would have been such a disaster and maybe it's better trump won
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn-r...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn-r...
Authoritarianism Is Here
YouTube video by LegalEagle
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
it's been a few months since my last varoufakis bashing. I would like to remind everyone that last year in a coversation with zizek he was convinced Harris would have been such a disaster and maybe it's better trump won
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn-r...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn-r...
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お金がほしいんじゃなくて「住むな」と言ってる。
正確には「働け。だが住むな」。
搾取と排斥が見事にドッキングしているのである。
正確には「働け。だが住むな」。
搾取と排斥が見事にドッキングしているのである。
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
お金がほしいんじゃなくて「住むな」と言ってる。
正確には「働け。だが住むな」。
搾取と排斥が見事にドッキングしているのである。
正確には「働け。だが住むな」。
搾取と排斥が見事にドッキングしているのである。
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
A while ago I went to Nanba for to do some fieldwork only to realize that most of the district is a super potato, a bunch of maid cafes, a bunch of card trading shops and the most hyper real gacha machines in existence
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
A while ago I went to Nanba for to do some fieldwork only to realize that most of the district is a super potato, a bunch of maid cafes, a bunch of card trading shops and the most hyper real gacha machines in existence
you've heard of "this is more of a comment than a question" but have you ever encountered its twin:
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
you've heard of "this is more of a comment than a question" but have you ever encountered its twin:
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The private equity presidency is deeply unpopular, who'd have thought
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The private equity presidency is deeply unpopular, who'd have thought
a couple of years back when the bathroom debate was reaching its climax and I was feeling like I was looking my mind it was Matt Walsh that pulled me out of it in a bullshit anti abortion video disguised as concern for people born with "birth defects". the birth defect in question? Down syndrome
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
a couple of years back when the bathroom debate was reaching its climax and I was feeling like I was looking my mind it was Matt Walsh that pulled me out of it in a bullshit anti abortion video disguised as concern for people born with "birth defects". the birth defect in question? Down syndrome
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Temu Trump is wel raak.
Dit was uiteraard te verwachten van Temu Trump
WTF?
October 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Temu Trump is wel raak.
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L’une des particularités du gouvernement de la Première ministre japonaise Sanae Takaichi va être de présenter des réformes comme des avancées alors qu’elles seront in fine des reculs ou des freins à des avancées réelles. On ne va pas tarder à en avoir des illustrations flagrantes.
October 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
L’une des particularités du gouvernement de la Première ministre japonaise Sanae Takaichi va être de présenter des réformes comme des avancées alors qu’elles seront in fine des reculs ou des freins à des avancées réelles. On ne va pas tarder à en avoir des illustrations flagrantes.
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Fixed it for you 😇
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Fixed it for you 😇
Because there is no industry body that will aggregate the total number of foreign employees in the Japanese video games industry I have to do it myself. And that's how I spent my day calculating percentages and totals. Just curious, is anyone interested in the numbers?
October 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Because there is no industry body that will aggregate the total number of foreign employees in the Japanese video games industry I have to do it myself. And that's how I spent my day calculating percentages and totals. Just curious, is anyone interested in the numbers?
Do we call this the Sanseito Ripple Effect?
I made the mistake to read the comments. It is fascinating how Trumpist discourse has permeated this society so well despite low English literacy. I guess the idea was always dormant like a cancer ever since Meiji.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAT...
I made the mistake to read the comments. It is fascinating how Trumpist discourse has permeated this society so well despite low English literacy. I guess the idea was always dormant like a cancer ever since Meiji.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAT...
政府が外国人訪日ビザ値上げ検討か 出国税3倍の欧米並みも 高校無償化財源にする案【知ってもっと】【グッド！モーニング】(2025年10月20日)
YouTube video by ANNnewsCH
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Do we call this the Sanseito Ripple Effect?
I made the mistake to read the comments. It is fascinating how Trumpist discourse has permeated this society so well despite low English literacy. I guess the idea was always dormant like a cancer ever since Meiji.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAT...
I made the mistake to read the comments. It is fascinating how Trumpist discourse has permeated this society so well despite low English literacy. I guess the idea was always dormant like a cancer ever since Meiji.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAT...
if the trump admin doesn't want this shared I feel a moral duty to share it
October 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
if the trump admin doesn't want this shared I feel a moral duty to share it
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Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.
(Published July)
(Published July)
“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.
(Published July)
(Published July)
「GAFAMのような巨大プラットフォームに支配され、知らず知らずのうちに自らの思考を明け渡し、知らず知らずのうちに搾取される。「移民が来るリスク」や「伝統的な日本が壊れるリスク」よりも、私やあなたが＂AI小作人＂になるリスクのほうがよほど大きいのです」
news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/909...
news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/909...
【モーリー・ロバートソンの考察】自民党総裁選で誰も指摘しなかった、多くの日本人が＂AI小作人＂になるというリスク（週プレNEWS） - Yahoo!ニュース
『週刊プレイボーイ』で「挑発的ニッポン革命計画」を連載中の国際ジャーナリスト、モーリー・ロバートソンが、円安の恒常化によって日本社会の「二極化」が固定化される可能性、そして多くの人々が本当に気をつけ
news.yahoo.co.jp
October 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
「GAFAMのような巨大プラットフォームに支配され、知らず知らずのうちに自らの思考を明け渡し、知らず知らずのうちに搾取される。「移民が来るリスク」や「伝統的な日本が壊れるリスク」よりも、私やあなたが＂AI小作人＂になるリスクのほうがよほど大きいのです」
news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/909...
news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/909...
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質の悪い読者がつくと著者が堕落するように、質の悪い支持者がつくと政党も堕落するものなのかもしれない。
October 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
質の悪い読者がつくと著者が堕落するように、質の悪い支持者がつくと政党も堕落するものなのかもしれない。
It's always a humbling experience to re-read papers from your first year of university. Glad to be able to say that even back then you could already see the potential buried beneath the chaos.
October 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It's always a humbling experience to re-read papers from your first year of university. Glad to be able to say that even back then you could already see the potential buried beneath the chaos.
Only chaos on the horizon for Japan. Welcome to the second decade of the 21st century
Big upheaval in Japanese politics. Today (Japan time), after a ninety minute meeting between Saitō, head of Komeito, and Takaichi, the LDP politician who recently won her party’s presidency, Saitō announced an end to their parties’ 26-year-long coalition agreement.
October 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Only chaos on the horizon for Japan. Welcome to the second decade of the 21st century
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I can’t adequately express how mystified and nauseated I am by the conversation about Trump receiving a Nobel Peace Prize that corporate media is now leading. But as a journalist, attorney, historian and Trump presidential biographer I’m now obligated to make the case *against* in full.
Here it is:
Here it is:
Media and MAGA Calls for Trump to Catch a Nobel Peace Prize Rather Than An ICC War Crimes Indictment Are Obscene
The second-biggest threat to global peace after Putin has earned a cell for war crimes—not a humanitarian award. That his grotesque and scammy appeal for a Nobel Peace Prize is working is terrifying.
sethabramson.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I can’t adequately express how mystified and nauseated I am by the conversation about Trump receiving a Nobel Peace Prize that corporate media is now leading. But as a journalist, attorney, historian and Trump presidential biographer I’m now obligated to make the case *against* in full.
Here it is:
Here it is:
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前にも同じようなことを書いたけれど、ノーベル平和賞はむしろトランプに抵抗している人たちに与えるべき。米国に限らず、世界の各地でトランプ的なもの、強権主義に抵抗している人たちに与えてほしい。
October 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
前にも同じようなことを書いたけれど、ノーベル平和賞はむしろトランプに抵抗している人たちに与えるべき。米国に限らず、世界の各地でトランプ的なもの、強権主義に抵抗している人たちに与えてほしい。
It's finally that time of the year when inside is cozy, outside it's crisp, the smell of coffee is deeper, the sunlight is colder and the sound of music flows like butter.
October 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
It's finally that time of the year when inside is cozy, outside it's crisp, the smell of coffee is deeper, the sunlight is colder and the sound of music flows like butter.
PSA for Japanese games scholars researching Dojin games: Read YAMADA/HICHIBE. His is the largest and most comprehensive sociological research on what Dojin games and Dojin culture is from the mouth of the Dojin creators themselves.
October 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
PSA for Japanese games scholars researching Dojin games: Read YAMADA/HICHIBE. His is the largest and most comprehensive sociological research on what Dojin games and Dojin culture is from the mouth of the Dojin creators themselves.
When the election results came in last year, Kimmel couldn't go through his intro without tearing up and without his voice breaking. And that's when I realized that if this bully of a man cries about it, the situation is really bad. Hope he makes a YT channel
“Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t doing politics right.”
—Ezra Klein
—Ezra Klein
this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe
September 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
When the election results came in last year, Kimmel couldn't go through his intro without tearing up and without his voice breaking. And that's when I realized that if this bully of a man cries about it, the situation is really bad. Hope he makes a YT channel
The worst type of email is the one that announces application results and asks you to check the attached document for the results but the sender forgot to attach any documents.
September 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The worst type of email is the one that announces application results and asks you to check the attached document for the results but the sender forgot to attach any documents.
Although this sounds like an amazing postdoc project had I had any Chinese language ability, how does one categorize China as part of the "Global South"?! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Creativity, Authenticity, and Cultural Mediation: Ethnography of China-Africa Fashion Trade and Cons
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) currently has a vacant Postdoc position as part of the ERC-funded research project Fashioning Power through South-South Interaction: Re-thinking Creat...
werkenbij.uva.nl
September 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Although this sounds like an amazing postdoc project had I had any Chinese language ability, how does one categorize China as part of the "Global South"?! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...