kottke.orgKen Burns’ Criterion Closet Picks include Seven Samurai, a Fellini box set, and Wim Wenders’ Pina. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTUZ7bX0SE
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Manan Ahmed Asif’s book is an ode to a city knowable but not known. https://scroll.in/article/1078248/disrupted-city-a-rich-and-multilayered-narration-of-lahores-long-history?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=public
My review of Rollo Romig's book on the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru in 2017 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-kill/
RIP Bapsi Sidhwa -- the great novelist of Partition and of women in Pakistan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHLCYQui1-A
OHP Podcast | Bapsi Sidhwa | Literature
A conversation with Amal Hussain on my new book *Disrupted City* for New Books Network. Please give it a listen! https://newbooksnetwork.com/disrupted-city
Excerpt from a interesting forthcoming book "The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism: Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the ‘Third Reich’," by Baijayanti Roy
https://thewire.in/history/pandit-bhatta-from-scholarship-holder-to-nazi-publicist
https://thewire.in/history/pandit-bhatta-from-scholarship-holder-to-nazi-publicist
JOB: The Department of Anthropology at Columbia University invites applications for an open-rank faculty position (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor) in the sociocultural anthropology of Asia.
https://academic.careers.columbia.edu/#!/149131?keywords=149131&sortKey=keywordScore
https://academic.careers.columbia.edu/#!/149131?keywords=149131&sortKey=keywordScore
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)"It is not the case that “AI gathers data from the Web and learns from it.” The reality is that AI companies gather data and then optimize models to reproduce representations of that data for profit."
"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation — that any time we spend can and should be freed up for the sake of having even more time for other activities or pursuits — which can also be automated."
https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai/
Read the whole thing!
Carwil Bjork-JamesAs it's syllabus writing season again, here's my informed take on why students should *not* use large language models for social science writing.
I took the time to try prompt engineering in response to my own assignments, and it led nowhere good.
ZoteroAnnouncing Zotero 7, the biggest update in Zotero’s 18-year history
