Pearls before swine and all of that.

Residents carry the Earth God palanquin around Shezidao village during the Lantern Festival in Taipei, Taiwan 📸 I-hwa Cheng

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings. This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

Single women plan community home in Osaka to age together Their vision is simple but, in today’s Japan, still radical: if the kind of home they need does not exist, they will create it themselves.

EORZEA CAFE

Advice of the day I wish I had gotten and followed: learn best strategies for talking to someone undergoing delusions so you have some idea of what to say if the situation arises.

I'm always saying this

Whole lot of masochists here to run in the cold

Reading Dragonball for the first time.

'Taiwan Travelogue' longlisted for International Booker Prize 14:07 Yang Shuang-zi's (楊双子) "Taiwan Travelogue" (臺灣漫遊錄) has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize for translated fiction, the award's organizers announced Tuesday (U.K. time). https://focustaiwan.tw/culture/202602250007 […]

I think about this a lot with LLMs and education and also publishing. The hope that by undermining failing or unfair systems, LLMs will destroy the hierarchies and unfairness seems... naive. The result will likely be the opposite. jessicahullman.substack.com/p/zeynep-tuf...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

yay 臺灣漫遊綠

¿Se interesará alguna editorial española por #臺灣漫遊錄 Taiwan Travelogue ahora que la traducción inglesa está nominada al Premio Booker Internacional?

I regret to inform you that the FFXIV manga is *mostly* not good, 3 episodes in. There are moments, though.

The idea that X is a proxy for the public sphere at large is a distortion effect produced by journalists, academics, and politicians themselves. It’s nowhere close to being even the most-used platform in the US—any argument that one needs to “fight for it” is absurd. 5x Bluesky and you’re at X.

the problem with putting flaky salt on chocolate is that if you put it on while warm it dissolves, messing up the texture (and visuals) and losing the burst of flavor. if you wait until it's cold then it falls off too easily.

🎵 That's me in the corner. That's me in the spotlight, suplexing my religion. 🎶

I think this project by @arnicas.bsky.social is one of the most helpful tools I've seen for explaining word embeddings. www.ghostweather.com/files/word2v...

Thought I wanted to replay SEKIRO as my next single player game, but got a few hours in and realized that's not the stress I need in my life right now, so YAKUZA: INFINITE WEALTH is up next instead.

“When Liu, 20, decided to return to skating, she did so with conditions. She’d wear what she wants. Dance to the music she wants. Eat what she wants. Take breaks when she wants…. [Skating] would be the vehicle through which she displayed the real Alysa.” she did it! her! way!!

Trying to extract my favorite songs from the Expedition 33 soundtrack and there's just too many songs

The best thing to come out of Wuthering Heights is the Japanese novel inspired by it: A TRUE NOVEL by Minae Mizumura(本格小説, 水村 美苗). It's incredible and I'm due for a reread.

a funny adjacent behavior I've seen is teachers going to in-class handwriting ostensibly to prevent ai usage, but fortuitously also means a lot of classtime taken up by writing, meaning a lot less work lesson planning i'm tempted but i am not trying to read other people's handwriting.

big gaming 除夕 in our house. finished 3 games: 1) wife and I beat SPLIT FICTION, which had fun moments, but the dialogue was so annoying and atrocious, overall worse experience than IT TAKES TWO 2) rolled credits on EXPEDITION 33, which was incredible 3) beat The Shadow Lord to finish vanilla FFXI

Super Mario 韭菜盒

every year we act like we need to stockpile a week's worth of prepared food at lunar new year since a lot of stuff is closed, but it always turns out that many restaurants are only closed 1-2 days

When my friends found out I was moving to Boston, they were so worried about the racism that no one bothered to mention the goddamn turkeys.

I don't want to do powdered protein for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me so instead I'm eating mountains of soy bean products. Here's smoked tofu skin turned into a chicken salad.

l m a o. I had no idea. youtube.com/shorts/kn8oc...

Latest Linux NVIDIA drivers seem to have fixed my sleep/wakeup issues! It's a Lunar New Year miracle.

Ashamed to say I had forgotten how good the actual line by line writing of LOTR is. Almost done with FELLOWSHIP and it's just so good.

Important read by @ginollopez.bsky.social on an act of union busting by Taidoc—apart from being flagrantly illegal, this is likely to draw more attention to the labor struggle by what is only Taiwan’s third migrant worker union

Friends - I'm going to split my account into two, one for Mandarin-language posts and one for English-language posts. This one will cover English and my new account, @oumoran.bsky.social, will be in Mandarin. Hope you give it a follow. 今後中文貼文會在 @oumoran.bsky.social，希望你會關注～

After six years in this apartment just figured out the TV has an option to switch to English menus

RIP Xiaofu

Advertisment for"Why Trust is Important in Science" lecture sandwiched between posters for four other AI-related events

Post a banger that's not in English. This song got me through 2025: youtu.be/kkUWlcjmOew?...

You may not like it, but chocolate covered coffee beans are the ideal pre-gym snack

#Books from the Taipei book fair 🧵 President Lai Ching-te's 63 picks include the Mandarin edition of @dearclarissa.bsky.social's "Made in Taiwan" cookbook, Wu Ming-yi's new novel "The Three-Legged Crab-Eating Mongoose and the Giant," Yuri comic "The PEENKY Promise": www.upmedia.mg/tw/lifestyle...

Of all the reasons to ask for an extension on an assignment, this is a pretty good one. Canadian figure skater Maddie Schizas posts her email to her prof, asking for an extension. Because she’s competing at the Olympics. Attached the press release for proof of participation.

We're at the stage of spring cleaning where I'm opening the bag of 30ish miscellaneous USB sticks. Pray for me.

Medium has randomly decided to stop emailing me when stories are published from people I'm following, which is the push I needed to delete my account over there. It's kind of incredible how much worse its user experience has gotten over the years.

When you're mean to me this is who you're being mean to

Just got to Act 3 of Clair Obscur and holy crap that transition from 2 to 3 was incredible. There are a bunch of little details I've been annoyed with in this game but the broad strokes (heh heh) are really incredible. Someone should give this game some awards.

NO PARKING

So nice to finally see this in print. A series of interviews with Taiwanese indie bookshop owners, talking about their strategies for survival. I did the translations into English, and learned a lot about the Taiwan book trade. The design of the book is fabulous.

Thinking I should probably split my account into two by language on here, but also think I don't post enough to be worth the bother.

paducah drive-in theater, route 45c, paducah, kentucky, 1979

我很喜歡閱讀FF的故事～