Ryan Richard Overbey

Smith College just posted a 2-year lecturer position in Buddhist Studies: apply.interfolio.com/182632

I wanna read this to see how it compares with Aleister Crowley’s “translation”!

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Preacher and Audience Studies: Reading the Dharmabhāṇakaparivarta and Sukhavihāraparivarta of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtra as Homiletic Manuals ABSTRACT. The study of homiletics, preachers, and their audiences constitutes an important subfield in Christian studies. In Buddhist studies, the study of

My colleague @rhcraig.bsky.social is in the next issue of JAAR with a fascinating comparative study of Early Christian preaching manuals, African-American homiletics, and early Buddhist preaching: academic.oup.com/jaar/article...

A modified “This is Fine” meme, in which the dog in a burning room looks around and smugly says “So I have a book coming out.”

Just learned that the monograph drops in August! sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

A grey gravestone featuring a winged skull, scrollwork borders, and a lengthy incription with roman and italic lettering. The stone leans slightly to the left. Other graves, bare trees, and buildings are visible in the background.

The remains
of Sᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ Cʀᴏsʙʏ A.M.
A Gentleman of virtuous morals,
And highly eſteemed,
Who died
On board yᵉ letter of mark brig Vᴇɴᴜs,
Near port,
July 19ᵗʰ. 1780. Aged 28 Years.
Are here deposited
till the reſtituſion of all things.

“Thy way is in the Sea, thy footsteps are not known”

While not TTRPGs, the complex board games from Wehrlegig (Pax Pamir, John Company, and Molly House) all have really lovely scholarly bibliographies!

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Just subscribed—gotta support awesome writers writing about games!

Ryan Richard Overbey (@overbey@pixelfed.social) Massachusetts poet laureate kicking off the 30th annual Moby-Dick marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Ignoring the news and engaging in the most wholesome shenanigans today: watching the Massachusetts poet laureate kick off the Moby-Dick marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
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Robert H.N. Ho has passed away. His foundation helped the field of Buddhist Studies in the USA survive and thrive during a time of tough headwinds in the academy. Forever grateful for the fellowship that established my position at Skidmore College. www.rhfamilyfoundationglobal.org/media/pdf/ob...

Reddit post in r/AirForce: Plastered all over the Pentagon today A real picture of an AI-generated poster of Pete Hegseth saying "I Want YOU to Use AI"

Fifty different problems in the world just locked into one big uniform piece like a Rubik's cube in my head.

Data Workers’ Inquiry continues its excellent project of amplifying voices of the human labor too often overlooked in debates about genAI. This latest report from Michael Geoffrey Asia is an essential read.

If you follow these constraints it seems likely you have a good chance of not quickly bearing a son. Which means it’s a golden opportunity for your ghee-lubed brother. The only reasonable conclusion is that this Dharmaśāstra was written by a brother with a ghee fetish.

Some basic math: in any given cycle you should only have sex with your wife on 16-4 = 12 / 2 = 6 days per month. There’s I think a roughly 40% chance that one of those six days is a lunar change day, so some months there are only 5 possible days of sex. And we are not even counting sick days!

Reading Olivelle’s translation of the Yājñavalkya Dharmaśāstra, I find myself genuinely curious whether, if these rules were ever taken seriously, the combination of verse 1.68 & verses 1.78-79 mean that the wife having sex with a brother-in-law completely slathered in ghee was nearly inevitable.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

A page from the History of Akbar: MUZAFFAR KHAN FALLS FROM FAVOR At all times, through the rising of the luminary of imperial guidance, in accordance with his noble characteristic the emperor draws the veil of uniqueness over his world-adorning beauty. During these days he made the game of Parcheesi a veil for his spiritual beauty and played it avidly. Mastering the special moves of this game, which contains much wisdom, the emperor kept a group of courtiers in attendance for playing it, and wonderful sessions were held. Although outwardly he appeared to be playing, inwardly he was assessing people and disguising seriousness ina garb of sport and fun. One day Muzaffar Khan, besotted with worldliness and incompetence at the game, which was a measure of competence, had become so intimate with the emperor that he acted rudely. The emperor relieved him of his office and sent him to the Hejaz in order that his corrupted state might improve through unimportance and exile.

Abu’l-Fazl trying real hard to flatter the idiot Mughal emperor Akbar in the _Akbarnama_. No real gamer would ever say Parcheesi “contains much wisdom.”

Cover slide for Elsa Marty’s “Bitcoin is Freedom: Rituals in Bitcoin Maximalism”

Elsa Marty on Bitcoin faith as ritual imagining of freedom and dignity. #aarsbl25

Picture of the video list of Christian influencer Ashley Hetherington, titled “becoming THAT christian girl”

@smhedgecock.bsky.social with a super smart talk on prayer closets as contemporary evangelical gendered practice. #aarsbl25

There’s a certain irony to the fact that in order to make it to the Sheraton for this wonderful talk, I had to leave dirty breakfast dishes in the sink. #aarsbl25

Today’s #aarsbl25 was so good. Buddhism unit panel on teaching Buddhism in a fascist regime, followed by two panels excavating fascist roots and fascist æsthetics in the academic study of religion.

Here’s my super secret #aarsbl25 lifehack. Instead of waiting in long lines to get shitty Dunkin’ Donuts or Starbucks, order a 4-pack of canned cold brew from Treehouse Brewing for pickup in the Prudential Center. Share a can with friends for extra social capital! treehousebrew.com/visiting-pru...

AAR conference by Princeton University Press, with authors listed alphabetically. Two books in the list give their author as “The Buddha”

Wondering if Princeton University Press pays royalties to their author “The Buddha,” writer of the books _How to Lose Yourself_ and _How to Feel_. #aarsbl25

Living... with Scarves YouTube video by Trash Night Video

On the train to #aarsbl25 watching this video to fortify myself for the coming onslaught of tasteful shawls and scarves www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLNW...

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Starting #aarsbl25 off right with curry pan using proper Hokkaidō flour at Komugi, a lovely new Japanese bakery in Union Square bakerycafekomugi.com

Never change, Boston, never change!

Sooooo exciting!!!

The answer is most definitely zero. And if advisors are missing this stuff they are not doing their jobs to maintain the quality and integrity of our guild.

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Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.