Warmongering meets looksmaxxing
11.03.2026 18:36
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Warmongering meets looksmaxxing
βChinamaxxingβ sounds like a slightly improved orientalism. Iβm very optimistic so I applaud the improvement.
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Pictured here looking like the frat boy who got a C- in your Lit 101 class, Mr. Cavanaugh is the guy who got to decide that your NEH grant sucked balls.
If you spend time in the bad place, youβre hearing this claim a lot:
Alberta sends $23B more to Ottawa than it gets back. If we separated, weβd erase the $9B deficit and have a $14B surplus.
It sounds simple. Itβs wrong. Here's why. π§΅
Depressed by people who love war.
Cheryl/Cherlene vibes
New Huawei robot drops
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Not a difficult choice right now. Xi Jinping isnβt threatening to make us their 35th province.
Please remember that the most likely person to be shot with a gun is the gunβs owner or family.
βA person pulling the trigger on a gun is most likely to be shooting themselves, then their family, then commit a felony, then way, way, way down the line, if they're lucky, they hit a bad guy.β
On my first date with my wife, we went to see Zhang Yimouβs Shanghai Triad at a theater in Chicago. (Yes we are that old.) Not sure if itβs my own sentimentality about the date, but to this day I think itβs badly underrated
This is in re the Atlantic article on Mellon?
MMA is a form of healthy debate
This piece, documenting the role of Canadian and other country firms in ICE's supply network was written by a @splawinski.bsky.social, a University of Toronto PhD student. Give her a follow! π§΅
Interesting take by a tenant organizer on the complexities of NYC rent policy.
Effective progressivism would start by embracing complexity. There can both be bad landlords and also systemic barriers.
Donβt use emulation of China to advocate turning universities into vocational centers. China does *not* treat its universities this way. It treats its universities as incubators of national powerβa very different goal from job-training, one that includes blue-sky research and humanities education.
Yep, I can totally do that
Posted about this yesterday.
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That doesnβt feel satisfying: it looks like nothing is happening, out of cowardice. But itβs better to maximize chances of winning over the long term than to strike a heroic pose and get crushed early.
In order to work most effectively as oppositional forces, US universities should decrease their salience by being as bland as possible in public, and making the most of their alumni networks, lobbyists, and industry connections to build quiet defenses. That is what most are doing.
In such an environment, open resistance does not meaningfully pressure the regime; it only increases the salience of crushing that sector first.
The techniques of public protest and open opposition work best in a well-functioning democracy. Currently, the U.S. is an early-stage fascist state that may or may not still be able to mount viable elections.
Resistance movements need a political face. They also need an underground space of action. Putting all oneβs opposition out in the open just enables better targeting.
Strong opposition is happening in the US university sectorβboth from faculty and from most senior leaders. That does not mean it is always highly visible. Nor should it be.
This is an interesting, strong, and wrong take. Thread.
Will China also forbid us from curling? π₯
Best-chosen research subject ever: spend your career making babies laugh
Chinese rear palace dramas are as close as we are going to get to Real Housewives of Beijing
We have no Bongino today πΆ
