Oh look, it’s the 人民大贿堂

I wonder if they do land acknowledgments in Istanbul.

You ever notice how all of this started after they abolished the imperial civil service exams

and more and more they’re saying, it’s kind of an old-fashioned word, they don’t, they weren’t saying it but now they are, dementia. You’ve never seen it, the way they’re saying it, dee-MENN-sha.

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

small poem. i've been playing a lot of "name the 500 biggest urban areas in the US" type games lately to keep my mind busy when i'm fretful

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Jerome A. Cohen, the eminent scholar of Chinese law. Our condolences to his family and all those who loved him. He authored many books, most recently the memoir, "Eastward, Westward: A Life in Law." (1/2)

gardening

dudes rock

Another great big-picture, long-term overview of journalism in China comes in this episode of the Gateway to Global China podcast, featuring @yangyangcheng.bsky.social in conversation with Luqiu Luwei and @fangkc.bsky.social.

I guess that makes this the new season premiere. open.substack.com/pub/thechina...

Coal of Fire includes The Book of Ruth in full, as well as short selections from Job, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and a couple of psalms. I like to run my mouth off about ancient Hebrew & sacred translation. This is the very beginning of trying to write my way toward the kinds of translations I dream about.

Some ~personal news:~ My first chapbook with Pastitch Press is coming in November! “Coal of Fire” includes translations from the Hebrew Bible, as well as poems and two essays exploring translation, identity, and the sacred. I’m so excited and proud of this little book.

Literary Chinese for a foggy morning, courtesy of Xin Qiji 辛棄疾 (1140-1207): 何人半夜推山去？ 四面浮雲猜是汝。 Someone came in the night and stole our mountain away. Drifting clouds surround me. (Was it you?)

bedtime

charlie kirk had a dense jugular bone, many are saying the densest ever frankly

What movie do you consider perfect?

tiktok 'loyalty' character dance trend-ass future

Happy Feast of Opinion to all who celebrate

Literary Chinese for Discourse: 從今莫講賢愚話， 得道多助失道寡。 賢，也在他； 愚，也在他。 Cease your talk of ‘worthy men,’ And go light on the ‘idiots,’ too — “Who finds the Way finds help along his way; Who strays will find his friends are few.” Worthy’s a word for someone else, And idiot’s not up to you.

Now is the time to contact your employers and rally to protect vulnerable colleagues. The administration is demanding that any valid H1-B visa holders outside the U.S. (or their employers) pay $100,000 for them to reenter the country, as of Sunday. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

You get hyped by the font on the death warrant By the grain of the wood in the electric chair The accent of the undertaker By the architecture of police stations

if its an MoE model does it count as a polycule

I started covering this story in July. He was arrested by the trump administration at a facility that was walking distance from where I was sitting when I first learned of him and his situation. One week from today is my final day on staff at Rolling Stone. I hope this now marks the end of this…

There is a digital exhibit that is excellent, but nothing really beats seeing these remarkable books in person. dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...

Anyone in the Princeton area owes it to themselves to stop in and see Martin Heijdra’s marvelous new exhibit on the history of global bookmaking in Firestone library!

"Are Mods Cops," the greatest thread in the history of forums, killed in a moderator-involved shooting after 12,239 pages of heated debate

For Americans who want a play-by-play of what an authoritarian transition looks like in the 2020s, I strongly recommend catching up on what’s been happening in national security-era Hong Kong. One of the first shots fired in the ongoing crackdown was cancelling a comedy show for “insulting police.”

Studio 60 was extremely funny, but not in any of the ways it intended to be. The first episode has our heroes healing the nation with Gilbert and Sullivan pastiche, and in your heart you already know what the scansion was like.

What’s Brutus so mad about, like Marc Antony called him an honorable man???

rediscovered today: eight and a half years of frog-boil

L + ratio + Heaven has revoked its Mandate

From last week's Kyunghyang Sinmun Top caption: “After the bus has left…” Text on the bus: “Detention & Plunder” Trump: “You’ll just stay, right? You’ll be right back?? Ally…”

Classical Chinese for Councils of Eunuchs:

Classical Chinese for Portents: 天既訖我殷命，假人元龜，無敢知吉...今我民罔不欲喪，曰『天曷不降威，大命胡不至』？ Heaven has revoked its Mandate. No diviner dares read good omens in the plastrons...There is not one commoner who doesn't long for your ruin. They say "Why doesn't Heaven send down its might? Why hasn't its Mandate come?"

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

We used to call it 'Occidental despotism,' until the politically correct bleeding-hearts made us change the name of the department to 'European and Western Studies'

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS B ii 1, an Astronomical Tract. It is an Irish translation of medieval Latin texts. The astronomical tract is based on a medieval Latin version of a work by Messahalah, a Jew of Alexandria who wrote in Arabic c. 815.

Sze is a poet with a lot of acclaim — he's won the National Book Award, was a Guggenheim fellow and was a finalist for the Pulitzer. He aims to promote interest in translated poetry in his new role.

'Hacks' star Hannah Einbinder closes out her speech after winning her first Emmy "I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine"

Two things: First, and notably, he says his wife was cleared by US Customs and Immigration pre-check in Ireland and then arrested upon arrival in Chicago. People were questioning whether this would be a safe way to avoid detainment and, guess not.

“I don’t know if it happened. If it did, I didn’t do it.” Most of the people who follow me will enjoy 'Confessions of a Second Story Man: Junior Kripplebauer and the K&A Gang' by Allan Hornblum, who's quoted in the obit.

These people were the ones that got out. There are still countless people still imprisoned

Just put an egg in a tomato and you will be amazed

how racist was hp lovecraft? well,

our long national decline began when we started turning a blind eye to “milenniums” and “corpuses” if you really think about it, and I have

this mf said lemmas instead of lemmata

“Confucius was terrorized by the bouncers. ‘Wuhu!’ he exclaimed. ‘How America’s virtue has declined! If even this may be called a ‘gentleman’s club,’ what might *not* be called a ‘gentleman’s club?’”

I think this might be a record

letting meaning wash past me and attending only to tone, like a dog or a journalist at The Atlantic