Michael Röllinghoff
@roellinghoff.bsky.social
Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, and Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto. Postdoc at UTokyo. 👨🏻🏫
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The water line to my building’s toilets is shut off “until further notice”… 😬
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The water line to my building’s toilets is shut off “until further notice”… 😬
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The open secret that Thomas King is not Indigenous at all is finally verified, and honestly it's a relief. Having him just confess this instead of going out kicking and screaming like so many before him causes a LOT less harm to Indigenous communities.
It still sucks though.
It still sucks though.
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The open secret that Thomas King is not Indigenous at all is finally verified, and honestly it's a relief. Having him just confess this instead of going out kicking and screaming like so many before him causes a LOT less harm to Indigenous communities.
It still sucks though.
It still sucks though.
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I wrote a book about US media’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. It's available for pre-order. It’s a data-driven and, I hope, thorough account of how center-left media sold the American public on mass death in Gaza.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
How to Sell a Genocide - Pluto Press
A gripping exposé of how the corporate media fuelled genocide in Gaza
www.plutobooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I wrote a book about US media’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. It's available for pre-order. It’s a data-driven and, I hope, thorough account of how center-left media sold the American public on mass death in Gaza.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
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I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
I accidentally took the kids to the (brilliant and gorgeous!) Hong Kong anime, Another World. I had to take them out after beheadings, backs whipped raw, bodies thrown into fires, etc.
The 9 year old was shook.
The 6 year old: “Really? I was okay with it…”
The 9 year old was shook.
The 6 year old: “Really? I was okay with it…”
a little girl is smiling in front of a burning house with the words hmmmm written on the bottom
Alt: a little girl is smiling in front of a burning house with the words hmmmm written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I accidentally took the kids to the (brilliant and gorgeous!) Hong Kong anime, Another World. I had to take them out after beheadings, backs whipped raw, bodies thrown into fires, etc.
The 9 year old was shook.
The 6 year old: “Really? I was okay with it…”
The 9 year old was shook.
The 6 year old: “Really? I was okay with it…”
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Question for scholars:
I have three citations in a row. Two are from a compendium from 1885, and one (the middle one) is from a source collection from 1981. I've discovered ALL of the sources I quote are included in the 1885 book. Do I switch them all over, or cite based on where I found them?
I have three citations in a row. Two are from a compendium from 1885, and one (the middle one) is from a source collection from 1981. I've discovered ALL of the sources I quote are included in the 1885 book. Do I switch them all over, or cite based on where I found them?
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Question for scholars:
I have three citations in a row. Two are from a compendium from 1885, and one (the middle one) is from a source collection from 1981. I've discovered ALL of the sources I quote are included in the 1885 book. Do I switch them all over, or cite based on where I found them?
I have three citations in a row. Two are from a compendium from 1885, and one (the middle one) is from a source collection from 1981. I've discovered ALL of the sources I quote are included in the 1885 book. Do I switch them all over, or cite based on where I found them?
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Okazaki Katsuyo's graph of Marx's pre-capitalist economic formations
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Okazaki Katsuyo's graph of Marx's pre-capitalist economic formations
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True that. and the sweet little town where it was filmed just might get you some pie.
Hot take: the Pacific Northwest isn't famous for coffee because of Starbucks. It's famous for coffee because of Twin Peaks.
a man in a trench coat and tie is drinking a cup of coffee .
ALT: a man in a trench coat and tie is drinking a cup of coffee .
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
True that. and the sweet little town where it was filmed just might get you some pie.
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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
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the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism
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こちら聴講しました。鯨は観音様の眷属的な動物だったとは知らなかった。地元宮城の鯨塚のお話などもありすごく面白かったです。ロッツ先生が講演の中で紹介していた「The Gods of the Sea 」、東北地方の鯨信仰(恵比寿崇拝)に関する論述もあるそうでとても読んでみたい。日本語訳版はなさそうなので自力で翻訳するしかないのかな😂
amzn.asia/d/bpKGL4g
amzn.asia/d/bpKGL4g
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
こちら聴講しました。鯨は観音様の眷属的な動物だったとは知らなかった。地元宮城の鯨塚のお話などもありすごく面白かったです。ロッツ先生が講演の中で紹介していた「The Gods of the Sea 」、東北地方の鯨信仰(恵比寿崇拝)に関する論述もあるそうでとても読んでみたい。日本語訳版はなさそうなので自力で翻訳するしかないのかな😂
amzn.asia/d/bpKGL4g
amzn.asia/d/bpKGL4g
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Block this account.
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Block this account.
Hot take: the Pacific Northwest isn't famous for coffee because of Starbucks. It's famous for coffee because of Twin Peaks.
a man in a trench coat and tie is drinking a cup of coffee .
ALT: a man in a trench coat and tie is drinking a cup of coffee .
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Hot take: the Pacific Northwest isn't famous for coffee because of Starbucks. It's famous for coffee because of Twin Peaks.
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Shameful and outrageous
Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
Former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk interrogated for hours in Canada
Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Shameful and outrageous
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I have not wanted to believe this for the 30 min since announced. Alice Wong was at the top of a very short list of ppl who truly made the world a better place; a fierce oracle who inspired, rallied, personally supported in dark moments +spoke up for so many of us in the disabled community.
💔 RIP
💔 RIP
I’m heartsick to hear that the incomparable Alice Wong has passed. Her loss will be felt keenly, by many, and for a long time. She is a force, a generous leader and storyteller, and an oracle for disabled futures. Much love to Alice and to all our crip kin and comrades. ❤️🩹
November 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I have not wanted to believe this for the 30 min since announced. Alice Wong was at the top of a very short list of ppl who truly made the world a better place; a fierce oracle who inspired, rallied, personally supported in dark moments +spoke up for so many of us in the disabled community.
💔 RIP
💔 RIP
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Groundbreaking British Museum show set to challenge samurai myths
Groundbreaking British Museum show set to challenge samurai myths
Exclusive: Exhibition will reveal complex reality, featuring women and artistic creations, beyond armour-clad warriors
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Groundbreaking British Museum show set to challenge samurai myths
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Canada announces new incentives for international recruitment of master’s and PhD students
monitor.icef.com/2025/11/cana...
monitor.icef.com/2025/11/cana...
Canada announces new incentives for international recruitment of master’s and PhD students
On the heels of this week's announcement of a significant reduction in Canada's foreign enrolment cap, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has issued additional guidance for students
monitor.icef.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Canada announces new incentives for international recruitment of master’s and PhD students
monitor.icef.com/2025/11/cana...
monitor.icef.com/2025/11/cana...
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“The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still…. there's almost nothing left to orient you here, or identify the neighbourhoods that once held tens of thousands of people”.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war
With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM
“The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still…. there's almost nothing left to orient you here, or identify the neighbourhoods that once held tens of thousands of people”.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Memories of German colonialism in Cameroon: „Initiative Perspektivwechsel“ präsentiert neuen Comic über Kampf der Nso‘ zur Rückkehr von Ngonnso‘ und Kulturaktivistin @sylvienjobati.bsky.social.
@djaten.bsky.social @mehler.bsky.social @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social @kulturspk.bsky.social
@djaten.bsky.social @mehler.bsky.social @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social @kulturspk.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Memories of German colonialism in Cameroon: „Initiative Perspektivwechsel“ präsentiert neuen Comic über Kampf der Nso‘ zur Rückkehr von Ngonnso‘ und Kulturaktivistin @sylvienjobati.bsky.social.
@djaten.bsky.social @mehler.bsky.social @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social @kulturspk.bsky.social
@djaten.bsky.social @mehler.bsky.social @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social @kulturspk.bsky.social
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This will be out soon and I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say it is the most important contribution to the history of the Zainichi Korean community in Japan so far. Fantastic work. #japan #korea
Just submitted my final page proofs. Forthcoming in March 2026.
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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🥂Eine freudige Nachricht! Unser Sammelband zum kolonialen Erbe der Stadt Hamburg ist nun auch als Open Access erhältlich und kann unter nachfolgender Adresse kostenlos heruntergeladen werden. 🥂
Wir hoffen, dass dies zur Debatte beiträgt
www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535018...
Wir hoffen, dass dies zur Debatte beiträgt
www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535018...
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🥂Eine freudige Nachricht! Unser Sammelband zum kolonialen Erbe der Stadt Hamburg ist nun auch als Open Access erhältlich und kann unter nachfolgender Adresse kostenlos heruntergeladen werden. 🥂
Wir hoffen, dass dies zur Debatte beiträgt
www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535018...
Wir hoffen, dass dies zur Debatte beiträgt
www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535018...
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I wonder if anyone on here can help? Attached is a section from a 1706 volume, with shorthand annotations that look like Brachygraphy to me. The assumption has to be that they represent the biblical passages in the nearby text, but I can't make the shorthand agree with the texts being referenced.
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I wonder if anyone on here can help? Attached is a section from a 1706 volume, with shorthand annotations that look like Brachygraphy to me. The assumption has to be that they represent the biblical passages in the nearby text, but I can't make the shorthand agree with the texts being referenced.
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This is horrible news. This program is a huge success, identifies brilliant scholars and gives them a transitional landing place that can help them land a tenure track job in the system. It’s a win for students, their programs, and all the schools in the system. Why end it?
A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This is horrible news. This program is a huge success, identifies brilliant scholars and gives them a transitional landing place that can help them land a tenure track job in the system. It’s a win for students, their programs, and all the schools in the system. Why end it?
Oh, hi there.
November 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Oh, hi there.