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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩
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Taiwan-based anthropologist.
人類學家與台灣新住民。
https://kerim.one

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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · Feb 23
Here is thread about my current professional activities (teaching, writing, etc.) which I will pin to my profile to give people a better sense of who I am and what I do. You can find more about me at kerim.one
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Landing page for P. Kerim Friedman.
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Good idea!
johanhulaimi 22h Let's bring back "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" But all the contestants are billionaires so it's more of a threat.
November 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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From a scientific study of chimp intelligence.

Have these scientists ever actually talked to people?

"What humans have is something I would call social rationality,” Engelmann claims. “We can discuss and comment on each other’s thinking and in that process make each other even more rational."
The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence
Chimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds.
arstechnica.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:37 AM
kerim.one
The movie Demolition Man had a perfect parody of ChatGPT in 1993!
joy joy feelings
YouTube video by QuoteClip
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November 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
kerim.one
"Between 2007 and 2025, New York City’s GDP grew at an average annual rate of 5.1 percent, while city revenues grew at just 4.1 percent."

www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mam...
Line chart showing two colored lines trending upward from 2008 to 2025. The chart title reads "New York City annual revenue and GDP growth" with subtitle "2008-2025 (2008 = 100)". The vertical axis ranges from 100 to 250, while the horizontal axis marks years 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2025. A blue line labeled "GDP" starts at 100 in 2008 and rises to approximately 255 by 2025, showing steady growth with a slight plateau around 2019-2020. A green line labeled "Revenue" also begins near 100 in 2008, dips slightly below before rising to approximately 195 by 2025, consistently tracking below the GDP line. The chart has a light beige background with gray horizontal gridlines. In the bottom left corner appears a diamond-shaped logo with "Phenomenal World" text. Attribution text at bottom reads: "Source: New York City Comptroller; BEA" followed by "Research & Analysis: Andrew Perry" and "Graphic: Yusuf Imaad Khan". (ALT Text by Claude AI)
November 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask:

What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔
www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...
There are three broad hypotheses about the sources of the very substantial disparities that this conference’s papers document and have been documented before with respect to the presence of women in high-end scientific professions. One is what I would call the—I’ll explain each of these in a few moments and comment on how important I think they are—the first is what I call the high-powered job hypothesis. The second is what I would call different availability of aptitude at the high end, and the third is what I would call different socialization and patterns of discrimination in a search. And in my own view, their importance probably ranks in exactly the order that I just described. Another way to put the point is to say, what fraction of young women in their mid-twenties make a decision that they don’t want to have a job that they think about eighty hours a week. What fraction of young men make a decision that they’re unwilling to have a job that they think about eighty hours a week, and to observe what the difference is. And that has got to be a large part of what is observed.
November 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Spilling the identity of Deep Throat to your camp friend is top-tier personal lore

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Culeman-Beckman, now 19, says Jacob revealed Deep Throat's identity to him when they were both at a day camp in Bridgehampton, L.l., in 1988. They were 8 at the time. Using the information - and piles of research - Culeman-Beckman wrote a high-school paper about Deep Throat's identity this year. The paper formed the basis for a Hartford Courant article yesterday. Culeman-Beckman recalled: "We entered into a very precocious discussion of politics. Somehow the conversation degenerated to talk about Watergate and in a burst of braggadocio, he said that Deep Throat was Mark Felt.
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
kerim.one
I just wrote to my Member of Congress urging them to co-sponsor H.Res.876, the new resolution that would formally recognize Israel's genocide in Gaza and push the US to fulfill its legal duty to prevent and punish genocide.

Will you join me and send a letter too?
Tell Congress: Recognize and Punish Israel's Genocide in Gaza
Ask your Representative to co-sponsor the new resolution that would formally recognize Israel's genocide in Gaza and push the US to fulfill its legal duty to prevent and punish genocide.
punishgenocide.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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sarahkendzior.bsky.social
I’m back.
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
Johnny Cash giving a one finger salute Me
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
It’s embarrassing that anyone actually believed the rich people would actually leave their nice elite enclaves in highly-developed states
ips-dc.org Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 5d
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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A great initiative from my favorite search engine.
kagi.com Kagi HQ @kagi.com · 4d
Today, we're launching SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search.

Join our collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms:

blog.kagi.com/slopstop
Kagi logo with 'Join SlopStop!' text beside an illustration of Kagi's dog mascot wielding a net to catch floating robot faces representing AI-generated slop content
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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In honor of Tatsuya Nakadai, a clip from Harakiri:
Harakiri (1962) - Duel HD
YouTube video by Awareness Bureau
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November 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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riotgrlerin.bsky.social
chuck schumer would be the stupid guy in zombie movies that gets bitten and tries to hide it from the rest of the group.
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
kerim.one
I'm beginning to suspect that my elected state representatives might not have my best interests at heart?
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Dean Fuleihan, who Mamdani has picked as first deputy mayor, held the same role under de Blasio and was the one who wrangled the money out of Albany that made universal pre-K possible gothamist.com/news/mayor-e...
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani picks Bill de Blasio veteran for top deputy
He named Dean Fuleihan as first deputy and Elle Bisgaard-Church as chief of staff.
gothamist.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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In the latest issue of Triptych: Adam Tooze on China's electrostate and the desire to "integrate the far flung territories of the Chinese nation state." As well as how "China’s green energy projects are fully part of an extractivist system of development."

triptych.oxus.net/kerims-tript...
A map of China with outlined provincial boundaries in light blue-green. Four major regions are highlighted in purple and labeled as energy production areas: Xingjiang in the northwest, Erdos Basin in the north-central region, Shanxi in the north, and Mongolia East along the northern border, with Southwest Base in the southwest. The remaining areas in light blue-green are labeled as energy consumption areas. Three types of arrows indicate energy infrastructure and flow: thin outlined arrows labeled "To be built, Potential import channel," thick solid blue arrows labeled "Run, building import channels," and thick solid red arrows labeled "Energy flow." The red energy flow arrows point from the purple production regions toward the eastern consumption areas. Text annotations specify coal production amounts: "Annual 3 million tons of coal" near Xingjiang, "Annual 3.3 million tons of coal" near Mongolia East, "Annual 9.2 million tons of coal" near Erdos Basin, "Annual 4 million tons of coal" near Southwest Base, and "Annual 7 million tons of coal" pointing toward the eastern region. A small inset map appears in the lower right corner. The caption reads "Fig. 2. Energy flow in China." (ALT Text by Claude AI)
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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I am starting an Immigration and Education starter pack. DM me or comment below if you would like me to add you! go.bsky.app/4pkTW9j
October 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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timothyburke.bsky.social
Schumer said the Dems will "keep fighting". Keep fighting their own voters? Keep fighting off effectiveness? Keep fighting being held accountable for anything? As far as I can tell the Democratic leadership is good at one thing only now, which is sending fundraising messages to my phone.
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
kerim.one
Get it quick!
lnachman32.bsky.social Lev Nachman @lnachman32.bsky.social · 7d
Amazon Kindle currently has my new book availalbe for FREE as an e-book online right now! Buy it now for $0.00 before they change it back!

Link: shorturl.at/uPZC3
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
I think about this post every day 🧪
Screenshot of a Tweet pointing out that academic spam is actually in its own way kind of encouraging.
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Google DeepMind’s Weather Lab uses AI to track tropical storms and is remarkably good.
Google’s new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season
Meanwhile, the US Global Forecasting System continues to get worse.
arstechnica.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Check out @jordynhaime.bsky.social on "Taiwan's Israel Charm Offensive" in the latest issue of her newsletter.

"Now let’s turn to what has been absent from Taiwan’s messaging: any acknowledgement of the accusations of starvation and genocide of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government."
Taiwan's Israel Charm Offensive
Taiwan's appeal to AIPAC is disappointing, but comes as no surprise
jordynhaime.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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markharris.bsky.social
This is a stunning political realignment--Mamdani lost Jews, Catholics, and Protestants but won by sweeping "Other" and "None."

As a Jewish voter in the 33% I hope my neighbors (literally) in the 63%, who were flooded with dishonest mailers, social media, and texts, will now keep an open mind.
A CNN demographic analysis: Protestant (21%): Cuomo 49, Mamdani 42 Jewish (15%): Cuomo 63, Mamdani 33 Catholic (27%): Cuomo 53, Mamdani 33, Sliwa 10 Other (14%): Mamdani 70, Cuomo 25 None (24%): Mamdani 75, Cuomo 21
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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derek.bike
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
11. Importantly, the city is and has always been a much less controllable space for the far right than the countryside. It is less in thrall to traditional hierarchies and better able to mobilise: the sheer number of people provides a counterweight to oligarchic power.
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM