Feed: "Made in China Journal" By: Yukun Zeng on Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Morning in Holland

Sproget i medierne, ik... Selv når de prøver at integrere noget fynsk dialekt gør de det galt. Det hedder "tijliere".

The rich are responsible for an outsized share of carbon emissions — the top 10% account for 48%. And the gap is growing. Since 1990, the richest 1% have increased their share of emissions by 13%, while the poorest 50% have seen theirs fall by 3%.

Enhedslisten Sorø plakatophængningsdag

Det bliver et spændende kommunalvalg i Sorø kommune - Enhedslisten står i en måling til at fordobles til 8,6%! Man kan f.eks. stemme på vores kanondygtige spidskandidat Eva Flyvholm eller nr 2 på listen den eminente Rebecca-Broholm Little. Eller hvis man skulle være i det humør evt. på mig...

Près des deux tiers des espèces d’oiseaux au monde voient leur population décliner

The most powerful motivation to make me finish a task that is not particularly urgent and so has been waiting for a long while, is a looming deadline for an urgent and much more important but entirely unrelated task.

Wealth inequality in Europe keeps rising. A main reason is that income from wealth is taxed much lighter than wages, creating a tax system that is highly regressive at the top. This means that billionaires across Europe have lower taxes rates than normal working people.

Det skal åbenbart forbydes at omtale plantebaserede pølser som pølser. Men det danske ord "pølse" er defineret af sin form ikke af et bestemt materiale. At pølser ikke nødvendigvis indeholder kød kan vi se fordi der findes noget der hedder "kødpølse".

Så har jeg set morgennyhederne på tv2. Ikke særlig opmærksomt, medgiver jeg. Men hvordan kan de overhovedet ikke nævne, at et dansk folketingsmedlem er blevet pågrebet af Israel?

Just back from raiding Ireland. Here's the loot:

The professor is back on campus

Er det sprog de talte og skrevi den mexicanske storby Teotihuacan for 2000 år siden endelig blevet identificeret då vi kan begynde dechifreringen? Hvus man spørger mig og Christophe Helmke er svaret ja. Og det har @videnskab.dk gjort. videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...

Økonom og lektor ved CBS Birthe Larsen: »Vi ved, at det påvirker børn negativt hele livet at vokse op i fattigdom, og at de har svært ved at kravle op igennem indkomstlagene. Den her undersøgelse giver et bud på, hvorfor det er så svært«, siger hun. Læs denne artikel!: politiken.dk/del/gUv3kYAE...

Jeg har et hot take: Folk der ikke interesserer sig for drømme, deres egne og deres nærmestes, har et fattigt indre liv.

“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Først smadrer Socialdemokraterne folkeskolen. Ti år senere skyder de skylden for problemerne på lærernes og deres faglighed. Det er definitionen på at pisse på folk og fortælle dem at de lugter.

Jeg har lige hørt i radioavisen at to ud af tre i et parforhold er ramt af jalousi.

"I prefer fantasy to realism" "It's about the Qing dynasty, The Qing dynasty isn't fantasy dad!"

Those reading this as approval of Kirk’s killing are reading words that aren’t there. I don’t want to live in a world of normalized violence. Charlie Kirk spent his life ensuring we all have to live in such a world. We do everything a disservice to elide the reality of that.

Seems they have found their Horst Wessel.

Hvem andre end en ægte åndsbolle kunne være ordfører for åndet oprustning?

In a just world "libtard" would be a slur against libertarians.

Sometimes, just sometimes, you get a peer review you can read over and over just for the dopamine kick. (This is reviewer one, apparently reviewer two turns in their review next week 😬)

Så er der podcast! @videnskab.dk laver for tiden podcasts om mytologi, og jeg medvirker i det seneste afsnit om en Nahuatl version af den mesoamerikanske historie om helte-tvillingerne. videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...

Currently fighting not to let the bureaucracy claim me and maintain my selfimage of a sexy murder poet. This fight is a no-win scenario.

A stupid meme is making the rounds again, claiming the Nahuatl word for avocado, "ahuacatl," means "testicle." FFS, no it, doesn't. Not any more than "nut" or "ball" does. Those are METAPHORICAL USES. Quit othering / ridiculing Indigenous languages. @magnuspharao.bsky.social explained this: 1/

Hvis miljøministeren ikke hurtigt får forbedret vandmiljøet og fiskebestandene drastisk kan han godt stikke Danmarks ny nationalfisk op hvor solen ikke skinner. Så jeg stemmer på gedden.

Small thoughts from Bordeaux: the nonexistence of toilet seats actually makes life simpler and more beautiful.

Potentially unpopular opinion after reading my first Terry Pratchett discworld novel: This is not good fantasy - in fact it is probably not even fantasy. But I liked it, and think I will read some more of them.

Den lokale bondeman har ringet han vil gerne have sin stråmand tilbage... Hvor er det et pinligt dumt fjendebillede arbejderisterne fra holbækegnen baserer hele deres politiske strategi på.

Hundredtusinder af børn bliver gradvist sultet ihjel i Gaza. Den danske regering støtter stadig at vi sender våbendele til denne militære kampagne Og Berlingske Tidende har i den sammenhæng to(!) historier på forsiden af deres netavis, om hvor slemt det er, med protester mod folkemordet.

Ruds Vedby flager færøsk på Ólavsøka/Olaifest.

One man cannot, overnight, change a fact as written in thousands of copies of hundreds of different books across the world's libraries. But under pressure from the politicians or guided by his own depravity, he can rewrite history overnight by altering the output of the LLM he owns.

The only thing worse than making a mistake is making the wrong mistake.

Hvis man laver en social lovgivning, der har til formål at ramme en bestemt gruppe mennesker og bliver nødt til at lave den ene undtagelse efter den anden, fordi den rammer alt for mange andre, så er det en diskriminerende skraldelov og skal skrottes. politiken.dk/danmark/poli...

Norge, Irland, Slovenien, Portugal, Spanien er på listen over europæiske lande der ikke stiltiende accepterer folkemord. Danmark er ikke at finde....

Konservativ islam er kvindeundertrykkende. Det er konservativ kristendom, jødedom og hinduisme også. Ergo er problemet konservatisme, ikke religion.

Revisited an article that I remembered as having left about "half finished" a year ago, only to find out that its at 7500 words and only needs to short concluding sections to be finished... I really need to get my act together and finish things I start...

Et samfund af hjemmeføddinger - kun en hjemmefødding kan elske det.

If I were to make a hypothesis of the sequence leading to writing in Mesoamerica it would be: 1. numbers 1-5 2. numbers 5-20 3. calendar with day names and 20 day periods 4. day name logograms to more logograms 5. logograms to phonetic rebus readings = glottographic writing

Fik billetter til Kneecap i Vega! Yay!

Instead of whining about AI citing non-existent scientific articles, why don't you lazy academics just take up the challenge and actually start writing those missing articles!

What an ancient altar found in Tikal, Guatemala, proves — Andrew Scherer was interviewed by @npr.org about an altar buried near the center of an ancient Maya city that he and a global team of researchers, including Stephen Houston, recently discovered.

The Danish EU Presidency begins today. #Enhedslisten MEP Per Clausen has looked at #Denmark ‘s 6 month programme. He finds a disappointing & unambitious text that promotes business interests, defers to the EU Commission, & aligns with the #farright on #migration. #EU2025DK rosalux.eu/en/2025/engl...