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love yall, been a lot of fun, hopefully in 10 years we're all sitting around a big table laughing and eating indian food and talking about how shitty the 2020s were.
June 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
love yall, been a lot of fun, hopefully in 10 years we're all sitting around a big table laughing and eating indian food and talking about how shitty the 2020s were.
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I feel like I have to say this constantly, but Science is not Nature.
Nature is the world. Science is our half-assed, eternally flawed effort to understand that world through a glass darkly.
Nature is the world. Science is our half-assed, eternally flawed effort to understand that world through a glass darkly.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
You absolutely can lie via data & math & everything about how you present data is an argument for how to interpret/understand it
Everything we know is founded on best guesses & analogies
All technoscience is enmeshed with human values
You absolutely can lie via data & math & everything about how you present data is an argument for how to interpret/understand it
Everything we know is founded on best guesses & analogies
All technoscience is enmeshed with human values
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
In general, it takes about 1000 years to form 1cm of new soil.
In general, it takes about 1000 years to form 1cm of new soil.
June 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I feel like I have to say this constantly, but Science is not Nature.
Nature is the world. Science is our half-assed, eternally flawed effort to understand that world through a glass darkly.
Nature is the world. Science is our half-assed, eternally flawed effort to understand that world through a glass darkly.
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September 1, 1939, W.H. Auden poets.org/poem/septemb...
June 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
September 1, 1939, W.H. Auden poets.org/poem/septemb...
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i don’t think some americans understand the degree people outside their borders have to watch US domestic politics because of how US decisions can have significant consequences for us.
i hope we can reach a place where we don’t have to worry about that, in the way americans never do about us.
i hope we can reach a place where we don’t have to worry about that, in the way americans never do about us.
i wish we could be as ignorant of the united states as americans are about the rest of the world. hopefully one day 🙏
June 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
i don’t think some americans understand the degree people outside their borders have to watch US domestic politics because of how US decisions can have significant consequences for us.
i hope we can reach a place where we don’t have to worry about that, in the way americans never do about us.
i hope we can reach a place where we don’t have to worry about that, in the way americans never do about us.
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For decades the War Remains Museum in Ho Chi Minh City has shown only exhibits on US imperialism and atrocities. A new exhibit would have showcased the US-Vietnamese reconciliation process. But Trump shut down USAID and the US Institute of Peace, which created it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/w...
April 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
For decades the War Remains Museum in Ho Chi Minh City has shown only exhibits on US imperialism and atrocities. A new exhibit would have showcased the US-Vietnamese reconciliation process. But Trump shut down USAID and the US Institute of Peace, which created it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/w...
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I am an internationalist. I believe in creating a world where people across this planet can live in peace, dignity, and prosperity whoever they happen to be. I think this world will be substantially more difficult to bring about if the United States is controlled by capital and the right.
April 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I am an internationalist. I believe in creating a world where people across this planet can live in peace, dignity, and prosperity whoever they happen to be. I think this world will be substantially more difficult to bring about if the United States is controlled by capital and the right.
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How academics imagine their lives would look like if they decide to work in tech
April 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
How academics imagine their lives would look like if they decide to work in tech
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In this short Life
that only lasts an hour
merely
How much —how
little —is
within our
power
-Emily Dickinson
#everynightapoem
in memoriam 成露茜 Lucie Cheng (1939-2010). It has been 15 years.
Thinking of my aunt on her birthday, and everyday
that only lasts an hour
merely
How much —how
little —is
within our
power
-Emily Dickinson
#everynightapoem
in memoriam 成露茜 Lucie Cheng (1939-2010). It has been 15 years.
Thinking of my aunt on her birthday, and everyday
February 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
In this short Life
that only lasts an hour
merely
How much —how
little —is
within our
power
-Emily Dickinson
#everynightapoem
in memoriam 成露茜 Lucie Cheng (1939-2010). It has been 15 years.
Thinking of my aunt on her birthday, and everyday
that only lasts an hour
merely
How much —how
little —is
within our
power
-Emily Dickinson
#everynightapoem
in memoriam 成露茜 Lucie Cheng (1939-2010). It has been 15 years.
Thinking of my aunt on her birthday, and everyday
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"Maybe thinking about what makes Xi and Putin happier is easier than considering what brings joy to American politicians that root for child labor and offshore opaque prison sentences."
it's darkly funny to even say the US has its own agency to run itself down to the ground.
it's darkly funny to even say the US has its own agency to run itself down to the ground.
I blogged about "Oh China is probably so happy about America being on fire" and why that's not very useful ko-fi.com/post/Im-Sick...
I'm Sick of Deflections About China
BeanPaste published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
"Maybe thinking about what makes Xi and Putin happier is easier than considering what brings joy to American politicians that root for child labor and offshore opaque prison sentences."
it's darkly funny to even say the US has its own agency to run itself down to the ground.
it's darkly funny to even say the US has its own agency to run itself down to the ground.