Scary Mr. Olmec Man
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Sociopolitical malcontent. Chinese lit sometimes. 我的名字是一个问号。
I don't think Lizza and Nuzzi are going to get *rich* off of this tbh.
November 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I don't think Lizza and Nuzzi are going to get *rich* off of this tbh.
There's not much you can say about Liu that "a professor who published an anti–PMC book w a university press" doesn't say already.
Catherine Liu is an interesting leftist prof but she uses the word retard as if that's transgressive against language police, & I can't take her seriously now.
Talk to anyone with an intellectually disabled relative & you'll find it's not virtue signalling, it's visceral. Mocking disability? Cold.
Talk to anyone with an intellectually disabled relative & you'll find it's not virtue signalling, it's visceral. Mocking disability? Cold.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
There's not much you can say about Liu that "a professor who published an anti–PMC book w a university press" doesn't say already.
Again, we have created Axël from Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's play "Don't Create the Axël"
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Again, we have created Axël from Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's play "Don't Create the Axël"
"Stealing ebooks is leftism" is a subset of the grand category of things that annoys me the most about contemporary internet discourse: nobody can just do a bad thing, everything they do must be morally justified, in fact, actively good.
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"Stealing ebooks is leftism" is a subset of the grand category of things that annoys me the most about contemporary internet discourse: nobody can just do a bad thing, everything they do must be morally justified, in fact, actively good.
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you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
Should states write their own AI laws, or should David Sacks?
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking
I found this interview with Moishe Indig illuminating, or, at the very least, incredibly fun: mishpacha.com/the-kingmake...
The Kingmaker from Williamsburg - Mishpacha Magazine
“How could you endorse Mamdani?” Tough questions for Satmar askan Rabbi Moishe Indig
mishpacha.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I found this interview with Moishe Indig illuminating, or, at the very least, incredibly fun: mishpacha.com/the-kingmake...
My dad always used to pick up a chocolate turkey from Hinsch's in Bay Ridge...that's the old school shit...
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
My dad always used to pick up a chocolate turkey from Hinsch's in Bay Ridge...that's the old school shit...
Trivia aside, Blossoms Shanghai seems...more Chinese TV than Wong Kar-wai, but it's a compelling enough watch imo
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Trivia aside, Blossoms Shanghai seems...more Chinese TV than Wong Kar-wai, but it's a compelling enough watch imo
Original Mu Xin essay: 真正上海人，就大有讲究，一“牌头”、二“派头”、三“噱头”
Blossoms Shanghai: In Shanghai, business is all about access, style, and theater
My crack at it: If you wanted to become a True Shanghainese, you had to really pay attention to, first, pull, badeu; second, style, phadeu; third, shtick, shiuh
Blossoms Shanghai: In Shanghai, business is all about access, style, and theater
My crack at it: If you wanted to become a True Shanghainese, you had to really pay attention to, first, pull, badeu; second, style, phadeu; third, shtick, shiuh
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Original Mu Xin essay: 真正上海人，就大有讲究，一“牌头”、二“派头”、三“噱头”
Blossoms Shanghai: In Shanghai, business is all about access, style, and theater
My crack at it: If you wanted to become a True Shanghainese, you had to really pay attention to, first, pull, badeu; second, style, phadeu; third, shtick, shiuh
Blossoms Shanghai: In Shanghai, business is all about access, style, and theater
My crack at it: If you wanted to become a True Shanghainese, you had to really pay attention to, first, pull, badeu; second, style, phadeu; third, shtick, shiuh
Some in-the-weeds stuff about Blossoms Shanghai: I was commissioned to translate the Mu Xin essay the suiting scene in the first episode basically cribs from verbatim. It's extremely hard to translate all the specialty foreign fabrics. Blossoms gets around this by...cutting it out most of them, lol.
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Some in-the-weeds stuff about Blossoms Shanghai: I was commissioned to translate the Mu Xin essay the suiting scene in the first episode basically cribs from verbatim. It's extremely hard to translate all the specialty foreign fabrics. Blossoms gets around this by...cutting it out most of them, lol.
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The Gaza protests not only “provoked intense political conflict.” Liberal and Dem leaders are still calling them antisemites for caring about liberal principles like human rights and international law…and they expect these same kids to come defend liberal democracy!
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The Gaza protests not only “provoked intense political conflict.” Liberal and Dem leaders are still calling them antisemites for caring about liberal principles like human rights and international law…and they expect these same kids to come defend liberal democracy!
Really wish the English subtitles for Blossoms indicated when they are speaking Mandarin and when they are speaking Shanghainese!
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Really wish the English subtitles for Blossoms indicated when they are speaking Mandarin and when they are speaking Shanghainese!
Sry that makes perfect sense to me, ecologically speaking the Pacific Northwest could easily support a large hominid, but you want me to believe there's one stomping about above the tree line? Please be serious.
i can not be the only person wondering about the five percent gap between bigfoot and the yeti
i mean is this where u draw the line
i mean is this where u draw the line
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Sry that makes perfect sense to me, ecologically speaking the Pacific Northwest could easily support a large hominid, but you want me to believe there's one stomping about above the tree line? Please be serious.
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It’s very funny how Anglo center left parties are the parties of stuck up technocratic elites when they never actually consult subject matter experts, rather law school professors and consultants
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It’s very funny how Anglo center left parties are the parties of stuck up technocratic elites when they never actually consult subject matter experts, rather law school professors and consultants
Probably all jobs are like this, but academia is great at having a million little annoying tasks that get between you and the substantive work you need to do
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Probably all jobs are like this, but academia is great at having a million little annoying tasks that get between you and the substantive work you need to do
One of the things I really despise about Eric Adams is that he's one of those people who constantly runs his mouth about working hard and is in fact extremely lazy
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
One of the things I really despise about Eric Adams is that he's one of those people who constantly runs his mouth about working hard and is in fact extremely lazy
Bari Weiss believes this is a "charismatic" guy who is "where the vast majority of Americans are"
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Bari Weiss believes this is a "charismatic" guy who is "where the vast majority of Americans are"
Sometimes feels like Hegseth is heading toward a fragging
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Sometimes feels like Hegseth is heading toward a fragging
I find it darkly comic when people get very mad about Zohran's nuanced statement on the protests outside Park East and then suddenly become very sensitive to nuance when talking about what exactly Nefesh b'Nefesh does with re: West Bank settlements.
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I find it darkly comic when people get very mad about Zohran's nuanced statement on the protests outside Park East and then suddenly become very sensitive to nuance when talking about what exactly Nefesh b'Nefesh does with re: West Bank settlements.
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Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every American should have this in their wallet:
Bari Weiss's raison d'être is to be the person under 50 who pretends that Alan Dershowitz is relevant or whatever else those alter kockers want to hear, that's the whole scam
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Bari Weiss's raison d'être is to be the person under 50 who pretends that Alan Dershowitz is relevant or whatever else those alter kockers want to hear, that's the whole scam
Ben Smith always seems genuinely confused anyone believes in journalistic ethics
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Ben Smith always seems genuinely confused anyone believes in journalistic ethics
You know, I've never watched the Panthers' adorable miniature QB before! Look at him go!
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
You know, I've never watched the Panthers' adorable miniature QB before! Look at him go!
I'm constantly on sellout watch w Zohran but I do enjoy how he drives the most insane posters on the internet out of their minds
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I'm constantly on sellout watch w Zohran but I do enjoy how he drives the most insane posters on the internet out of their minds
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Sometimes you do find historically accurate info about Japan online. This ancient art of Dutch-catching is called dejima-jutsu and it has applications in business, health, personal relationships, and politics.
![Painting of the artificial island of Dejima off Nagasaki, the only official port where foreigners, but only the Dutch, could trade with Japan during the country's isolationist period known as Sakoku that lasted from the early 17th century to the mid 19th century.
The joke caption above says: "The japanese [sic] built an artificial island, knowing these are the natural habitat of the dutch [sic]. Soon afterwards, a flock of dutch [sic] merchants settled there, allowing the japanese [sic] to easily harvest western goods."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3a2vqx5jnnywl7jeap5d6xab/bafkreiansivpallmscizksaxalcivlmuarwgvp4ia7aftdwdiqflven7du@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Sometimes you do find historically accurate info about Japan online. This ancient art of Dutch-catching is called dejima-jutsu and it has applications in business, health, personal relationships, and politics.