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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 2h

"Just one more question... you have a wine opener that looks like an ice pick, and is damaged from recent heavy use, and yet every bottle in your cellar is a twist-off. What were you opening with it?"

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 2h

One of my biggest concerns whenever I come back to the US from HK is the possibility that I might get sick and then need to have contact with the US health care system. It's so awful.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 13h

Just watched Universal Language. Amazing. I miss Winnipeg. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/univ...

Universal Language movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert

“Universal Language” is delightfully absurdist, with little moments in each story that both make sense yet defy expectations.

www.rogerebert.com

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 16h

Yes, it's a serious question. I really don't get why any national academy would elect him as a member, let alone a foreign member. I went to their website to see if I could find other businessmen who had been honored but the website was too slow and unresponsive to accomplish anything.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 16h

Invoking Isaac Newton was ridiculous. Newton was a very bizarre and in many ways awful human being, but he was in fact a scientist. Musk is just some rando rich bro with no scientific accomplishments of his own that they chose to honor.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 16h

Why is Musk a member a member of the Royal Society in the first place? How did that happen? Isn't it a scholarly society? Have they elected other businessmen?

Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 1d

"I think it is naive, frankly, to say that we should get rid of him because he’s a bad person," the new UK Royal Society president says of Elon Musk's membership.

The society would have expelled Isaac Newton if it made judgments on character & behaviour, Paul Nurse says.

www.ft.com/content/088b...

Elon Musk should keep UK Royal Society membership, says president

Paul Nurse tells FT that national science academy should avoid ‘making judgments’ about ‘character’ of fellows

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 1d

While in #Taiwan, we visited the Laomei Green Reef 老梅綠石槽. Full gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Taiwan... #photography

Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 1d

"I think it is naive, frankly, to say that we should get rid of him because he’s a bad person," the new UK Royal Society president says of Elon Musk's membership.

The society would have expelled Isaac Newton if it made judgments on character & behaviour, Paul Nurse says.

www.ft.com/content/088b...

Elon Musk should keep UK Royal Society membership, says president

Paul Nurse tells FT that national science academy should avoid ‘making judgments’ about ‘character’ of fellows

www.ft.com

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 3d

On 27 January, MIT's new Stone Center will host a symposium (hybrid) on Why Wealth Inequality Matters. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/why-w...

Why Wealth Inequality Matters: A Symposium - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Join us for a series of interdisciplinary discussions on wealth inequality – its origins and political philosophy, its national and global contexts, and its connections…

shapingwork.mit.edu

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 3d

Alas I'm shorter than most....

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 3d

Taobao recommendations FTW

Taobao recommendation for a badge "Get in loser we're seizing the means of production"

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 3d

I've been in at least one taxi that will need to reduce the number of mobile phones on the dash by 75% to comply.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 4d

It was pretty busy, actually, but i was waiting for breaks in the crowd

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 4d

Yongkang Street in Taipei at night, a few weeks ago. Just processing pictures now. Full gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Taiwan...

An intersection in the area near Yongkang Street in Taipei

Shops near Yongkang Street in Taipei, at night

An alley near Yongkang Street in Taipei, at night

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

Sounds like a crisis but it could also be an opportunity!

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

We should take this discussion to LinkedIn. Could probably become thought leaders there.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

You mean a xiao hua, that is a laughing language?

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

Richard Rohmer predicted all this! Don't know if anyone will get the reference, though...

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

Every single line of that article was nuts. Sooner or later one of these peptide parties is going to end with 30 tech bros in an ICU with sepsis or poisoning.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

I'm sorry, but it's a man in a fedora worn at a rakish angle, about to go through a door.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 8d

Reminds me that for the last few papers we have had accepted by major Chinese history journals, we had to send them PDF of everything we cited so they could check for themselves that we had represented everything properly.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 8d

Howard Pawley?!!?!? Any Ed Schreyer references?!?!?!

a man with a beard says " now that 's a name i 've not heard in a long time .

ALT: a man with a beard says " now that 's a name i 've not heard in a long time .

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 8d

I need to see this. Years ago I watched My Winnipeg and Cowards Bend the Knee and Saddest Music in the World, and my dad, who had grown up in Transcona and Winnipeg, thought Madden really captured the city well.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 10d

We've lost on solar, wind, and battery... we need to hold the line somewhere! According to my calculations, if we don't act, within five years the mainland will have mozzarella sticks five times as tasty as anything we can produce, and dipping sauces at least ten times zestier.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 10d

The United States needs to commit the resources required to maintain our dominance in marinara sauce science and fried mozzarella sticks science.

NYT Wirecutter @nytwirecutter.bsky.social · 10d

Grocery shelves are now replete with a staggering number of promising marinara sauces. We taste-tested 41 brand-concealed jars and found several standouts. See them here: nyti.ms/4924dxv

NYT Wirecutter @nytwirecutter.bsky.social · 10d

Grocery shelves are now replete with a staggering number of promising marinara sauces. We taste-tested 41 brand-concealed jars and found several standouts. See them here: nyti.ms/4924dxv