Javier Cha

This is the price of Son's 1v1 miss vs. City.

Expressions Ooooooozing, blud.

HKU Careers The University of Hong Kong (HKU) offers an intellectually-stimulating and culturally-rich academic environment, with attractive remuneration packages.

AI+Arts tenured/tenure-track position at HKU jobs.hku.hk/cw/en/job/53...

Predicting public opinion, preserving historical texts: New NUS centre marries humanities with AI A new NUS centre is combining AI with humanities to predict public opinion, preserve historical texts, and tackle complex social issues. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Straits Times did a nice piece on our centre (@cssh-nus.bsky.social), which will be officially launched this coming Wednesday, with @mmvty.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. Looking forward!
www.straitstimes.com/singapore/pa...

Tottenham relegation, here we go!

😱

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

It's nice to know that the Canadian government can re-discover the value of higher education. Perhaps less nice to note that it perceives the value as that of a prop for a PM's visit to another country.

See you in Daejeon.

Hurrah! A paper and workshop I submitted, and also a poster I'm named on but didn't submit, have been accepted!

Now applying for funding to afford the travel!

📢 DH2026 review results are out!
Long papers: 164/264 (61%)
Short papers: 275/387 (71%)
Posters: 101/131 (76%)
Workshops: 18/19 (95%)
Mini-conferences: 12/13 (92%)
Check your email or ConfTool for your decision.
See you in Daejeon 🇰🇷 July 27–31!
#DH2026 #ADHO

#DH2026 proposal has been accepted. Our "Playing Heaven" team will host a mini-conference on AI and intellectual history with Neo-Confucianism as our case study. CFP and more details to follow.

Obviously I disagree strenuously with the conclusion of Einstein’s founder— that the purpose of higher education is for horses to learn to pull carriages—but props to @mjgault.bsky.social for a genuinely thoughtful piece and for being On It.

Thank you for attending Dr. Don Baker’s retirement lecture held on January 30. Marking his 40-year milestone with UBC Asian Studies, he discussed the lives of three brothers – a renowned philosopher, a pioneer biologist, and a Catholic Martyr in Chosŏn Korea.

asia.ubc.ca/news/2025-26...

AltaVista (1999)

By the time they graduate, students need to learn to use AI actively and skeptically.

But intellectual independence has never been something you achieve alone. It means actively using an infrastructure of critical sources, and in the case of AI, disciplines still have to *build* the needed evals. +

Yup. The reality is that we're not far away from an agentic system proposing entirely new historiographical directions, but we will work on this quietly and present the findings in closed spaces with audience members driven primarily by intellectual curiosity.

I've been exploring something similar, but I no longer share my preliminary findings on social media because of a small number of academics who are more interested in dogpiling than exploring new research possibilities.

Really valuable piece. It opens up a set of questions about the potential effects of AI on science that I have not seen widely discussed. And without pretending to determine whether those effects will be net-good or net-bad, it explains why metascientific *judgment* may become more important.

Eingang der Universität Wien, Bild bei sonnigem Wetter, Baum im Vordergrund

Programmheft der DHd2026 „Not only text not only data“, Kaffeebecher mit Aufdruck „DHd Wien 2026“

Los geht’s mit der DHd2026 hier an der Universität Wien @univie.ac.at
Wir nehmen euch mit und zeigen euch, was hier los ist.

#DHd2026 #digitalhumanities #vienna

The fairy tale of Eberechi Eze:
- turns down Tottenham
- joins boyhood club
- first career hat-trick at NLD home game
- 5-time! 5-time! 5-time! Spinaroonie celebration at NLD away game
- proceeds to troll Spurs online

Microsoft team creates ‘revolutionary’ data-storage system that lasts for millennia Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage costs.

Microsoft team creates 'revolutionary' data storage system that lasts millennia | Discussion

Lies, deception, and emotional manipulation: another day in academia.

Journal of Cultural Analytics Enters New Chapter with CDH, Joins Open Journals Collective Journal of Cultural Analytics Enters New Chapter with CDH, Joins Open Journals Collective

CDH announces new role as publisher of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social! New website launches with expanded vision for cultural analytics scholarship, supported by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program. JCA also joins @ojcollective.bsky.social. More on editorial team and new features below.

I do get a lot of: "You grew up in Brazil, right?"

Me nem nesa.

In Hong Kong, we always roll to the right. Uh oh!!

Did you see what happened on my LinkedIn? RAG is apparently jargon, and I'm obviously Sam Altman's corporate shill. I didn't ask them where they stand on the political spectrum, but I have my suspicions.

Definitely need to snore to feel absolutely refreshed. 😁