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Nick Admussen
@nadmussen.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Chinese literature at Cornell, poet, translator. My current project is "On Stricture: Chinese Poetry and American Culture." More (incl links to open-access research) at nickadmussen.com.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7h
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · 14h
Yan Lianke may not be a Nobel laureate (yet!!) but he's the hedgehog of my heart 🦔 🦔

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...
Notes from a Hedgehog by Yan Lianke
October 7, 2025 – “Since turning sixty, I’ve thought about death every single day.”
www.theparisreview.org
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 1d
Or: give in. "Golden" is great for responding to Reviewer #2.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 1d
Agreed, b/c also our rich foods are much more haunted now. I want to read what happens after someone eats a Buttery Smashed Jack at like 11:45 PM.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 1d
Heard this song played live behind a sandwich shop in Danby, it's been running through my head ever since: sarahnoell.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont...

"In my dreams I'm sleeping
on a train to Brooklyn
miss my stop on purpose
join you at the circus
I want to have your baby
haven't called you lately..."
I Don't Worry, by Sarah Noell
from the album Good Dog
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 5d
This comic strip by Rivi Handler-Spitz v. much captures the situation and feelings of a lot of Chinese students in the U.S. right now, and ends in a hope I share, that the rest of us will value their contributions and fight for their right to be educated. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Visa Chaos: A Graphic Narrative (opinion)
A graphic narrative written and drawn by Rivi Handler-Spitz.
www.insidehighered.com
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 9d
Last week our AAUP chapter wrote to our president in response to their repression of speech on campus. The student suspensions from the past two years set the stage for straight up censorship of today
GUEST ROOM | AAUP Letter to Kotlikoff on "Fighting Antisemitism"
The executive committee of the American Association of University Professors Cornell Chapter writes to President Kotlikoff in response to his office's recent statement, "Fighting Antisemitism and Prot...
www.cornellsun.com
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 9d
Really need to emphasize that the faculty Senate committee reviewed the case, determined he should not be punished, and the admin unilaterally overrode that decision. De-democratization of the university inevitably leads to erosion of academic freedom
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 9d
In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views
Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
www.thenation.com
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 12d
"Here," the writing teacher said. "Try reading this story by Ling Ma instead of thinking about law school right now." www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
Office Hours
A short story
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 13d
Yeah, that's delicate. One dark pattern I've encountered is sending my evidence to a committee --> committee forwards the email to the student --> student fixes or deletes the citations and wants to move forward as if nothing happened. So I wouldn't send _all_ your evidence.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 13d
I'd appreciate it if it was my advisee. Sometimes faculty are less up-to-date on new technology, and they are rightly partial to + trusting of their own advisees.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 13d
Yes. In my experience, hallucinations stand as incontrovertible evidence all the way up the org chart at most institutions. If you have connections to the student's advisor, reach out to them first, but in my book ringing the bell on this stuff is and should be seen as service to the field.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 14d
If the makers of Tylenol bought enough Trumpcoin, they’d be telling us that it prevents autism.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 17d
4b. These are owners trusting other owners, grifters believing they’re on the same side of the grift.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 17d
4a. It is shockingly trusting for a British prince to have illegal sex in a place that could be wired for video and sound; it’s shockingly credulous for Ezra Klein to praise Charlie Kirk; it’s surprisingly self-destructive that American business took a “wait and see” attitude towards tariffs.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 17d
4. The party of Epstein is not limited, though, to Epstein’s actual friends and clients. It runs on a feeling of intimacy created by elite ownership and extends far past Epstein’s social circles. Solidarity with and by very rich people helped Epstein survive for so long.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 17d
3. The Epstein party is in and of the very rich. His lying, posturing, manipulation, and the thinness of his grift are common in-group values and the rewards of successful grifting are seen as evidence of special excellence. Wexner, Dubin, Prince Andrew, Clinton, Trump, they all LIKED this guy.
A fawning page from Epstein's birthday book in which AI researcher Marvin Minsky pastes a chart of deliberative processes under "Jeffrey E." in big letters at the top. Below he writes, "There are six billion intellects on Earth, but this is the quickest one I've met (aside from Issac Asimov)." Epstein gave money to Minsky's labs and invited him to the island several times.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 17d
2b. Rubio, Romney, Vance, and many other Republicans may hate Trump, but they make up a key part of the Epstein Party because they consent to be owned. Perhaps they think it will be temporary. Maybe they’re afraid. But their willingness to eat shit and smile makes them Epstein Party members.
Mitt Romney's 2016 meeting with Donald Trump, right around the time he accepted Trump's endorsement for Utah Senate and stepped back from his previous criticisms. Romney looks humiliated; Trump is grinning.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 17d
2. The Epstein Party specializes in converting that which can’t normally be bought or owned into something that can. One of Epstein’s friends from his younger days said “I think Jeffrey liked to corrupt people.” (www.motherjones.com/politics/202...)
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 17d
1. Ownership, to the Epstein Party, is domination and raw power; it explicitly includes the ownership of people, and can be enforced by money, fear, social pressure, or force. The more you own, the better you are: in the Party, ownership made Epstein seem cool and smart, which he wasn’t.
A breathless profile from New York Magazine, 2002, that features sentences like "While Epstein got an intellectual kick out of engaging African finance ministers in theoretical chitchat about economic development, the real payoff for him was observing Clinton in his métier..."
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KaterFritz 🐔 🤔 🥚 @konkretbitte.bsky.social · 18d
🎨 Huang Yongyu (1992)
Vier stilisierte blaue Reiher mit langen Hälsen und gelben Augen blicken nach rechts; rechts chinesische Kalligrafie und rote Siegel.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20d
Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:
Suzanne Swierc Let me be clear: if you think Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person, we can't be friends. His death is a tragedy, and I can and do feel for his wife and children. I believe in the Resurrection, and while it's difficult, I can and do pray for his soul. Charlie Kirk's death is a reflection of the violence, fear, and hatred he sowed. It does not excuse his death, AND it's a sad truth. The shooting is a tragedy, and I can and do feel for a college campus experiencing an active shooter situation. The deaths of Melissa and Mark Hortman, the children shot and killed in Minneapolis last month, and the children shot in Colorado today are all tragedies that also deserve your attention. Charlie Kirk excused the deaths of children in the name of the second amendment.
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Dake Kang @dakekang.bsky.social · 21d
1/THREAD: @AP has published our investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state. We obtained multiple, massive leaks of internal and classified Chinese government and corporate documents running into the tens of thousands:
apnews.com/article/chin...
Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show
U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.
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Derrick Austin @paradiselaust.bsky.social · Nov 25
Islands by Muriel Rukeyser
Islands by Muriel Rukeyser Islands O for God's sake they are connected underneath They look at each other across the glittering sea some keep a low profile Some are cliffs The bathers think islands are separate like them
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