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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 25d

See also: Bitcoin miners

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Jan 3

🧪Bitcoin miners sometimes earn more from the Texas government than from mining Bitcoin.

But of course, it's only "woke" when the government funds climate initiatives.

Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave

To ease load on aging grid, state program offers energy credits to bitcoin miners to curtail their power consumption.

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Aug 25

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The Desert Was Dying… Then Beavers Arrived

YouTube video by Innovative Techs

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Jun 2

Now that money laundering via crypto is legal, it turns out we don't need elongated head sculptures to remind us of our existential crisis after all.

🧪 #EconSky

Art Market Collapse?

YouTube video by Patrick Boyle

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · May 21

Word is, the same Chinese sweatshops churning out LV bags also make their counterfeits — and the replicas are actually better made.

🧪 #EconSky

Chinese Manufacturers Are Exposing Luxury Brands | DOCO MiNi

YouTube video by DOCO Documentaries

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Mar 13

Gotta love how Hermès didn’t even try to make their condo-priced bags less dull.

🧪 #EconSky

Screenshot of Google Shopping results for Hermès Birkin bag.

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Mar 9

Worth noting: My dad’s parents were illiterate serfs. He was the top student in his "primary school"—one grade, one teacher with barely any education.

Easy for a eugenicist to look at this data point and say, "See? Even their brightest is this dumb. They’re meant to be peasants forever."

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How Eugenics Shaped Statistics

Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Mar 8

My dad scored ~70 on a primary school IQ test. He later ranked in the top 30 out of 1M in one of the hardest Gaokao exams and has been a VP at multiple Fortune 500 companies.

Whenever people say IQ tests are fair and objective, I just tell them this story.

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I Took an IQ Test to Find Out What it Actually Measures

YouTube video by Veritasium

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Mar 4

👩🏻‍🔬🧪 #Civ7

First Look: Ada Lovelace | Civilization VII

YouTube video by Sid Meier's Civilization

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Mar 3

A "world-renowned" designer with a website that looks like a 9th grader’s first CSS project.

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Mar 2

American factories shut down when Black workers unionized and demanded equal treatment.

Makes you wonder if those high-paying factory jobs only existed because they depended on exploiting minorities.

🧪 #EconSky

Yet in a bitter twist of fate, just as Memphis blacks achieved a measure of justice in the workplace, the largest employers closed their doors in search of cheaper labor elsewhere, in the process shredding the stable working class and increasing the number of the working poor. When Firestone and International Harvester left town in the 1980s, white workers blamed black activists--didn't the unions drive these plants out?--and dismissed the devastation that deindustrialization wrought on black community and family life.

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Mar 1

Americans who brag about their high-paying unionized factory jobs pre-globalization conveniently ignore how those white-led unions shut Black workers out—forcing them into low-wage jobs, sweating in 100-degree heat without even electric fans.

🧪 #EconSky

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Feb 27

Next up: oil dealer explains why spills are actually good for marine life. 🧪

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Feb 25

Some heart-warming data: Decades of civil rights reforms significantly reduced the poverty rate of Black Americans.

🧪 #EconSky

Poverty Rate for Black Individuals: 1959-2021

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Feb 22

Economists know it, but politicians rarely say it—globalization massively reduced global inequality.

🧪 #EconSky

Global income distribution in 1800, 1975, and 2015

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Feb 20

Bf's company is producing a cartoon about the Aztecs, with all the dialogue in Spanish.

Bf: The Aztecs didn't speak Spanish. It was the Spanish colonizers who massacred them that did.

🧪 #langsky

The least believable part in the Exodus story

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Feb 12

Luxury brands sell $57 sweatshop bags for $2,800, yet Temu and Amazon get all the hate for selling cheap clothes.

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Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bag

In recent months, Italian authorities raided Dior subcontractor workshops where people were working around the clock, they said.

www.businessinsider.com

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Feb 8

Weebs in academia🧪🦠

🔗 doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11081912

#anime #aot

The Challenge of Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance in Carbapenem-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria: "Attack on Titan"

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Feb 8

He contributed nothing to blockchain technology—just a convicted fraudster.

SEC.gov | Michael Jerry Saylor, Sanjeev Kumar Bansal and Mark Steven LynchLock

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Feb 7

One of Forbes' judges is Cathie Wood—best known for saying she started an investment fund to "fulfill the will of God" and for being the worst fund manager of the past decade.

🧪 #EconSky

Forbes Has a Fraud Problem!

YouTube video by Patrick Boyle

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Feb 7

Michael Saylor has a history of securities fraud and tax fraud. Now, he’s running an open (and technically legal) Ponzi scheme.

MicroStrategy's "Infinite Money Glitch" Explained

YouTube video by Wall Street Millennial

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Feb 7

Forbes just hit a new low—promoting someone running an open Ponzi scheme.

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Forbes hyping up Elizabeth Holmes, SBF, Adam Neumann, and Michael Saylor.

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Feb 6

My research found that people don’t pick the shortest or clearest hashtag—they just copy whatever format is trending.

🧪 #linguistics

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Feb 5

🧪My favorite plagiarism case will always be when my solution, posted in a GitHub issue comment, got copy-pasted into multiple Stack Overflow answers—without a shred of attribution.

Django 3.2 The app label is not a valid Python identifier. · Issue #17801 · FortAwesome/Font-Awesome

Describe the bug Error when using runserver in Django 3.2 Works with Django 3.1.8 To Reproduce pip install Django==3.2 pip install fontawesome-free==5.15.3 Add 'fontawesome-free' to your installed ...

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Feb 4

More like a lack of regulation. A capitalist economy actually benefits more when the average person buys fewer clothes and invests in clean energy stocks instead.

Solow–Swan model - Wikipedia

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Ming F Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · Feb 4

Neri Oxman (yes, the Wikipedia plagiarist from MIT Media Lab) had her students build a giant, useless silk pavilion to "explore relationships between digital and biological construction." oxman.com/projects/silk-pavilion-i

I chose the wrong career.
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