Guan Yang
@guan.dk
ontology recapitulates philology
fax: +1 9173001256
fax: +1 9173001256
Reposted by Guan Yang
Great NYRB piece on the great auk: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Sense of an Endling | Tim Flannery
In the early nineteenth century, the idea of species extinction was an alien concept. That changed after an expedition to Iceland in search of the last of the great auks.
www.nybooks.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Great NYRB piece on the great auk: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Penguins in Greenland: they used to exist!
Great auk - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 25, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Penguins in Greenland: they used to exist!
Reposted by Guan Yang
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm
via hearts530
via hearts530
January 25, 2026 at 6:38 PM
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm
via hearts530
via hearts530
One funny thing about LLM chat bots is that if you don’t ground them with search/RAG and only rely on training, they hallucinate a lot more, but the quality of the training data is probably much higher quality (including books and papers) than the web slop they retrieve based on the prompt.
January 25, 2026 at 3:55 PM
One funny thing about LLM chat bots is that if you don’t ground them with search/RAG and only rely on training, they hallucinate a lot more, but the quality of the training data is probably much higher quality (including books and papers) than the web slop they retrieve based on the prompt.
Hangeul, Chinese characters or both? Long battle over Gwanghwamun's nameboard
Hangeul, Chinese characters or both? Long battle over Gwanghwamun's nameboard - The Korea Times
Should the signboard of Gwanghwamun, the historic main gate of Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul, be written in Chinese characters or in Hangeul, the Korea...
www.koreatimes.co.kr
January 25, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Hangeul, Chinese characters or both? Long battle over Gwanghwamun's nameboard
January 24, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Stunning
January 21, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Stunning
Government of Greenland advises households to have food, water and other supplies for 5 days, in new pamphlet.
Naalakkersuisut udsender råd til husholdninger om kriseforberedelse
naalakkersuisut.gl/Nyheder/2026...
naalakkersuisut.gl/Nyheder/2026...
January 21, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Government of Greenland advises households to have food, water and other supplies for 5 days, in new pamphlet.
Reposted by Guan Yang
Hello. I would like to remind everyone, but especially Adrian Vermeule, that England beat France to legislative regicide and the genocide of an observant Catholic peasantry by about 150 years, and yet noone talks about this except in Ireland.
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/the-trial-... Oh, Adrian. Everybody knows you never go full de Maistre.
The “Trial” and Martyrdom of Louis XVI
An Essay In Memoriam
thenewdigest.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Hello. I would like to remind everyone, but especially Adrian Vermeule, that England beat France to legislative regicide and the genocide of an observant Catholic peasantry by about 150 years, and yet noone talks about this except in Ireland.
There’s no way they are willing to give a Democratic president the same powers they are giving Trump.
just gonna say it out loud: allowing the Trump admin to restaff all the independent agencies through the shadow docket and then *not* overturning Humphrey's Executor does a better job of what SCOTUS actually wants than overturning HE
January 21, 2026 at 4:26 PM
There’s no way they are willing to give a Democratic president the same powers they are giving Trump.
Naalakkersuisut udsender råd til husholdninger om kriseforberedelse
naalakkersuisut.gl/Nyheder/2026...
naalakkersuisut.gl/Nyheder/2026...
January 21, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Naalakkersuisut udsender råd til husholdninger om kriseforberedelse
naalakkersuisut.gl/Nyheder/2026...
naalakkersuisut.gl/Nyheder/2026...
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
“It is the first of August.”
“It is the first of August.”
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
"That's an amazing fact; it's even more amazing when you realize that the Social Security System invest all its money in, you guessed it, U.S. government bonds."
"That's an amazing fact; it's even more amazing when you realize that the Social Security System invest all its money in, you guessed it, U.S. government bonds."
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
"Create a custom function called TabExpansion2."
(I cannot *wait* to see how this one turns out...)
"Create a custom function called TabExpansion2."
(I cannot *wait* to see how this one turns out...)
January 21, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
“It is the first of August.”
“It is the first of August.”
Det er helt åbenlyst en trussel.
Det er godt nok en vild tolkning når medierne viderebringer, at USA ikke vil bruge magt for at få Grønland.
I den næste sætning sagde den orange kæmpebaby jo præcis det modsatte.
Det kaldes at true. Og den trussel bliver kun forstærket i det her vanvids-rant af en tale. 🤯
I den næste sætning sagde den orange kæmpebaby jo præcis det modsatte.
Det kaldes at true. Og den trussel bliver kun forstærket i det her vanvids-rant af en tale. 🤯
January 21, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Det er helt åbenlyst en trussel.
Reposted by Guan Yang
Trump: "There are no windmills in China."
China:
China:
January 21, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Trump: "There are no windmills in China."
China:
China:
🫡
how advanced is your nation's sinophobia? very? extremely? you are like baby, we are inventing sinophobia the likes of which cannot be dreamt of
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
The Chinese restaurants surrounding our most sensitive military bases
The Daily Mail can reveal a bizarre anomaly in the distribution of Chinese restaurants across the country.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 1:57 PM
🫡
That’s the way to do it, sell first and then announce.
SWEDEN PENSION PROVIDER ALECTA HAS DIVESTED MOST OF ITS U.S. TREASURIES, BUSINESS DAILY DI REPORTS, CITING THE COMPANY
January 21, 2026 at 11:35 AM
That’s the way to do it, sell first and then announce.
“To name reality” = 正名?
In an era of great power rivalry, Canada is choosing to be principled and pragmatic. To name reality, to act together, and to build what we claim to believe in.
January 21, 2026 at 4:11 AM
“To name reality” = 正名?
“Du passé faisons table rase" —Mark Carney, probably
Mark Carney: "Nostalgia is not a strategy. But we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just."
January 20, 2026 at 9:54 PM
“Du passé faisons table rase" —Mark Carney, probably
Reposted by Guan Yang
[The king's advisers] to receive condign punishment, as subverters of the good laws of the realm and maintainers and inventors of heretics.
- the 24 demands of the Pilgrimage of Grace , 1536
- the 24 demands of the Pilgrimage of Grace , 1536
Tillis: "To be clear -- I'm not critical of the president. I'm critical of the bad advice he's getting on Greenland."
January 20, 2026 at 1:45 PM
[The king's advisers] to receive condign punishment, as subverters of the good laws of the realm and maintainers and inventors of heretics.
- the 24 demands of the Pilgrimage of Grace , 1536
- the 24 demands of the Pilgrimage of Grace , 1536
Because there’s been discussion of a US compact of free association with Greenland, I looked up US financial assistance to the current freely associated states. The Marshall Islands, slightly less populous than Greenland, is getting $2.3 billion over a 20-year period.
www.congress.gov
January 20, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Because there’s been discussion of a US compact of free association with Greenland, I looked up US financial assistance to the current freely associated states. The Marshall Islands, slightly less populous than Greenland, is getting $2.3 billion over a 20-year period.