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Martin van der Linden
@martinvdlinden.bsky.social
PhD student in the study of religion, Linnaeus University, Sweden | Shinto, aesthetics of religion, digital religion, intermediality, and popular culture lnu.se/en/staff/martin.vanderlinden/
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Reading @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social latest paper in preparation and anticipation of her PhD thesis! Online Shinto studies lets gooooo!

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

The meme of the dad and son from American Chopper arguing. Text: American Chopper memes are compelling rhetorical devices that could be taught in schools! They are impenetrable walls of text serving only as exceedingly dry in-jokes for the recherché subcultures already familiar with their subjects! They brilliantly employ American Chopper as a low-brow "carrier wave " to entice people to read about ideas they otherwise wouldn't! THEY HAVE NONE OF THE BREVITY AND ENERGY OF GOOD MEMES, AND THEY SUBSTITUTE FAUX-ACADEMIC LOGORRHEA FOR WIT! THIS IS THE ONLY MEME FORMAT THAT ACKNOWLEDGES THE EXISTENCE OF COMPETING INFORMATION, AND AS SUCH IT IS THE ONLY FORMAT SUITED TO THE COMPLEXITY OF OUR WORLD!
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We're science fiction writers. Of course we write stories about the consequences of technological innovations, and no one ever comprehends the story is about the consequences and not the technologyWe're science fiction writers. Of course we write stories about the consequences of technological innovations, and no one ever comprehends the story is about the consequences and not the technology

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Well this is grim

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt
and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED
this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
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A important thread!

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Yes we have work to do on climate crisis & sustainable lifestyles, but do we really need orientalist takes on the "feudal" "ancient city" of Edo? Research on Japan's successes (and its many failings) in environmental sustainability was done by Totman decades ago. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

What the Japanese Edo period can teach us about today
What the Japanese Edo period can teach us about today

How a recycled garment made from tattered rags symbolises the ingenuity of what could have been one of the world's first large-scale ecological civilisations.

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MVmartinvdlinden.bsky.social

Time for some summer reading!

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MVmartinvdlinden.bsky.social

A bit short, but here is a updated webpage to my doctoral project "Shaping Shinto: A Multimethod Study in the Digital Aesthetics of Religion":

Doctoral project: Shaping Shinto: A Multimethod Study in the Digital Aesthetics of Religion
Doctoral project: Shaping Shinto: A Multimethod Study in the Digital Aesthetics of Religion

This project examines how information about the religion Shinto is aesthetically disseminated online. Focusing on YouTube and using a multi-method approach, the project seeks to understand which aesth...

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KUkaitlynugoretz.bsky.social

Welcome back to #ToriiTuesday#torii with personality series with two torii that are WORLD TRAVELERS! ⛩️🧳 In 2013, a familiar vermillion wooden beam mysteriously washed up on the Oregon coast...1/ 🧵 Photo by Judson Randall

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New year, new me, same old thesis, same old desk. But you know what! We got bookshelves now! After 1.5 years of waiting! I can finally put my personal books on their own shelf above my desk!

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SKshaenon.bsky.social

So I'm on this list, which is bananas. And right off the bat I notice Ai Yazawa and Kyoko Okazaki, two pioneering shojo manga artists whose careers have been cut short by severe health problems. Please, please, instead of messing around with AI trash, buy these artists' books and support them.

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#Webcomics Hey kids! Here's a fun game! They just dropped a list of All the artists that Midjourney admits to having scraped to train its A.I. engine. Are YOU on it? (We are) Do you have a good lawyer? (We do) (storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

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Martin van der Linden
@martinvdlinden.bsky.social
PhD student in the study of religion, Linnaeus University, Sweden | Shinto, aesthetics of religion, digital religion, intermediality, and popular culture lnu.se/en/staff/martin.vanderlinden/
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