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12.13 | talking china in new york
If you know anyone in New York that might want to get involved with China-focused events, please let me know about them!
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12.6 | a belated roast of the british museum
“How strange,’ said Ramy. ‘To love the stuff and the language, but to hate the country.’ ‘Not as odd as you’d think,’ said Victoire. ‘There are people, after all, and then there are things.” – R.F. Kuang, 'Babel or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the
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11.29 | the season for cognitive dissonance
This year especially, it felt so hard to do the mental gymnastics that wouldn’t link the celebration and colonization together, especially with you know what happening in you know where.
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11.22 | the sudden end to this chapter in my life
I've had about two weeks now for the news of the very unexpected demise of my job to really soak into my consciousness and, while I still think the whole situation really sucks, I've been pleasantly surprised by how much mental space it's freed up.
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10.8 | how does the world work anyway?
Smils' How the World Really Works reminds me of how a lot of smart dudes somehow always end up overestimating their ability to weigh into things they are not so immediately knowledgeable on.
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09.29 | pirates of the climate collapse
Last month, I briefly mentioned a factoid that’d I’d come across about how the “golden age of piracy” largely happened because a drop in sunspot activity lowered the amount of radiation getting to the earth, which then led to a lull in hurricanes.
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09.20 | i guess i don't need to regress anymore
A very popular theme in manhwa storylines is the "regression"-style plot, where you "regress" to a point in time just before the trajectory of your life went wrong. Only, what if your life hasn't gone that wrong?
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08.24 | re-approaching normal?
This summer was the first summer that actually felt back to normal for me, and part of it was that I finally booked a travel itinerary that reflected how I like to travel: a lot.
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03.31 | hey, hey look over here
Last week I finally finished another attempt at a vlog, pushed it out to Youtube, and then immediately felt embarrassed that I'd made it at all and chose not to tell anyone about it.
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12.30 | and then it was december
2022 is now basically over, but that's not quite what got me interested in finally sending out a new newsletter. Actually, funnily enough, it was this...
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08.26 | san ba in august
The gendered insult "san ba (38)" was first recorded 1000 years ago. I turn it in a couple hours.
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05.30 | malaise in may
The month of May felt to me like I both constantly needed to use up those lesser power moves and was constantly defensively blocking. Every kick punch and jump I managed to get in was only just enough to fill up one bar before it got depleted again.