making unfortunate arguments when American leftists project their racial politics onto the rest of the world. as early as Du Bois.

In Sweden, online hate and anti-immigrant extremism are driving women out of public life | Martin Gelin www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

the em dash is not used a lot, because it's very difficult to type (Shift + Option + hyphen on Mac, Alt + 0151 on Windows. it's 5 keys, to this day I have never typed em dash once on my keyboard). hyphens (used in the OP) and en dashes are commonly used by humans.

can't begin to describe how ignorant, harmful, and demeaning this is. on brand with their politics.

that China & Russia abstained in the security council voting tells you how far their anti-imperialist posing will go

I don't know if it's my algorithm or it's the algorithm in general, I feel there's more sinofantasy than sinophobia types of content on X now. every time I log in there's some Yilin-style bs and people in the RTs will say "you can never have this in the west".

This is absolutely disgusting. Larry Summers discussed wanting to fuck a former Harvard student who was Chinese with Epstein. He nick named her "peril" a reference to the racist "yellow peril." Larry Summers needs to resign. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party

Besides the obvious Nazi comparisons, this far more closely resembles the looting of personal property of Turks and Greeks on the wrong side of their postwar border, and of Hindus and Muslims on the wrong side of the Partition, and of Jews expelled as revenge for the loss of the 1st Arab-Israeli War

Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.

'I’m no expert but I know what it means to be dehumanized, rendered disposable, and oppressed,' Alice wrote of the imperative to be in solidarity with Palestine. 'I know that all people deserve freedom. I know that genocide is a mass disabling event and a form of eugenics.'

I will spend the rest of my life thinking and writing and talking about Alice, but my voice isn't what's needed right now. Her own words are, so here are some of them.

the US at least played one "positive" role in this... in the early 2010s, the US embassy's monitoring and publicizing of Beijing air quality created a legitimacy crisis of some kind and made PM2.5 a household term in China. ironic enough, this project ended in 2025 due to funding cut.

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

Note, the far right guys aren’t going ‘we can vote Labour now they’re speaking our language’, they’re going ‘look, these idiots are smoothing the way for the extremist parties we have very openly said we’ve going to vote for for several years now.’

also the fact that the people featured here all have uncontroversially essential and morally well regarded occupations: emergency medicine doctor, engineerer helping enhance the country's defense capabilities, multiple sclerosis charity. understandable editorial choice. but. if it comes to this...

many liberal dissidents in China are pro Israel as well. BUT also many critical of authoritarianism are pro Palestine. meanwhile there are also pro-regime nationalists who are very supportive of Israel... me and Yao Lin did a podcast on this landscape for 从河至海, but...

coming from a semi-rural township, I still remember my own etiquette moment. during my uni years, and one of the first times I was in a café like place, a well-intentioned person told me for the first time that the tea spoon is not drinking coffee but for stirring. at 20 I probably felt

funny to come across "etiquette influencer" type of content on Instagram today in the 2020s. I'm reminded of how in the 1990s China, there were many books teaching "western meal etiquette" (西餐礼仪). it was not only aspirational class anxiety, but also national aspiration about "getting integrated

I am so so sorry that Alice Wong has left. I didn’t know her well, but I knew her for a long time and had many convos - and her words, her advocacy, and her humor meant so much for so many. And in classic Alice fashion she generously left us all a note. Safe travels, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. 一路走好

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

that's my rainy-and-dark-at-3-pm-November comfort food

Personal note: London has been home for a very, very long time, but as of today, I am also officially a Brit - that is to say, a British citizen. I feel relieved and I feel grateful - but not, perhaps, in the forelock-tugging way GB News/Starmer expect a new immigrant to be.

i am once again thinking about my favorite ever excerpt from our yiddish textbook

gosh why is every LinkedIn post feels AI written

apropos of nothing I'm thinking about different structures of the naming system... I think in most cultures/systems, you choose from a pre-existing naming poll: George, Freya, Kavita, Fatima etc. In the sinophone system, however, you construct each name one-by-one. you can choose any characters and

here in the north it's the time of the year again when it's mandatory to say: why is it so dark it's only 3pm 😞

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

intuitively, I think one can find the biggest number of China experts in China.

When folks like him talk about winning the tech war against China, it apparently means seeing who can build a more terrifying surveillance state

Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n

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Modern Languages students at the University of Nottingham have started a petition to save languages degrees. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

My former employer, the University of Nottingham, has axed its undergrad music and languages programs—but don't worry, there are still five separate degrees you can get in AI. This is what happens when you corporatize education. What a joke.

"Technology is the active human interface with the material world". I often think about this. but especially the cotton flower... like, computers and phones are cool. but, our ancestors who looked at a fluffy cotton flower and decided: you know what I'm going to turn this into a dress??

by the way, I've written a couple of things on the "western civilization is killed by suicidal empathy" line of reactionary thought. start with the Three Body Problem fans. madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/t...

clarifying essay on why Latin American decolonial theory may not be that helpful for analysing problems in Africa (and, I would say, Asia as well) read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

#NewPubAlert Happy to share a new piece coauthored with Dr Nicole Talmacs @nicoletalmacs.bsky.social and Dr Yun Pan, discussing anti-feminist currents in China organised under the #jiaoqi banner and its dynamics with #TradwifeAesthetics and #ChineseNationalism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

International Relations Lecturer at Beijing Foreign Studies University (Keele University Collaborative Programme) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI923/i...

the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from

🔉We have kicked off todays event with our new Working Group @cawpbisa.bsky.social! 🎊Todays event gives an opportunity to learn the aims of the group as well as introduction to the convener team @nataliejester.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social @chenchenzhang.net and Leah de Haan.

This is today! Come say hi! If you've not yet registered, we can probably sort out a link for you

Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."

there's something special and endearing about the retro-esque aesthetics in Mamdani's videos no? whoever came up with that is a genius.

The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.