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@shaduck007.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 5:47 AM
HK my Mody st optician friends reopened their shop after 4 years closure got same site. began 1990 same location, 2020 dismal, many small retail shuttered.
Shanghai friends had China dream, now depressed
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author of Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom & Warnings for the 21st Century. They dig into Orwell’s defense of truth over ideology, his crusade against euphemism, his experience with propaganda & persecution in Spain, & why 1984 & Animal Farm only capture part of his project.
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
#Orwellian to describe everything from campus dust-ups to authoritarian crackdowns. But what did George Orwell actually stand for, what did he get wrong, & what can we learn from him about our age of surveillance capitalism & distraction?

@LauraBeers, historian @AmericanUniversity;
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1952 usa is not 2025 usa
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wsj newsletter
November 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
i don't understand how the bottom 50% have any assets if former Republican presidential candidate Romney said is true 47% owed no federal income tax in a given year.
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
bing ai: improved- For twenty years, my friend lived a life of struggle as a migrant in Shanghai, never far from the streets. But during the pandemic, his son turned hardship into hope, graduating with a master’s degree on scholarship in automotive computerization.
November 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
did i live in #totalitarian china? I had freedom & liberty AKA rights! living in Wuhan, Shanghai & even Beijing! not so in sF bayArea. I was ABSOLUTELY freer in china 1995-21. violent discrimination in sf bay area
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
usa lost out
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