Better comparison: Gross National Income (GNI) per capita before and after the Brexit vote 📊 Made with data from data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY... 🧪 #EconSky

Ming F. Wan@minniewannie.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Some real data, not fake numbers from a right-wing shill: Ireland’s GDP per capita used to be just over half of the UK’s. Now it’s more than twice as high. (Yes, GDP isn’t the whole story—but this stark contrast couldn’t have happened without Brexit.) 🧪 #EconSky

Yes, there’s something that bothers me about the movie even more than that unbalanced centrifuge 🧪📚💙📽️ #LangSky

Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary and the soft, squishy science of language

A deep dive into xenolinguistics, pragmatics, the cooperative principle, and Noam Chomsky!

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Hihi!!! I made a thing!!! (Thank you sm Feora for sharing this!!!!)

Paladin Feora 🌕🛡🌑@paladinfeora.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For all the #bg3 #Wyll fans out there, you should check out this mod from my friend Magnetuning! Massive overhaul to his quest line, designed to give him more agency as well as give you more dialogue choices. I did some testing for this mod, hope you enjoy! www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3...

Just wanna thank @anarazel.de for (sort of) saving the world, and Veritasium for the excellent explanation of the LZ77 algorithm 🧪

Veritasium@veritasium.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew - Our latest video out now on YouTube! youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ

astarion and his daughters #bg3

Presented my PageRank slide that I thought was hilarious. Sparse chuckles. Peer review is brutal 🧪 www.cs.toronto.edu/~ming/unsupe...

Pretty sure these hyper-elaborate skincare routines are scams (and bad for the environment). Also: telling women they need to spend this much time and money on skincare is bad for their career growth and for feminism. 🧪👩🏻‍🔬

Liv Tyler Does Her 25-Step Beauty and Self-Care Routine | Beauty Secrets | Vogue

YouTube video by Vogue

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AI doing the important work — automating scammers out of their Academese fortresses 🧪

The (Overdue) Collapse of Corporate Consulting

YouTube video by The Invisible Game

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Ming F. Wan@minniewannie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Neri Oxman (yes, the Wikipedia plagiarist from MIT Media Lab) had her students build a giant, useless silk pavilion to "explore relationships between digital and biological construction." oxman.com/projects/silk-pavilion-i I chose the wrong career. 🧪

In my Chinese primary school, we learned about Marie Curie fighting sexism in science. Meanwhile, Hollywood sold girls the dream of being fashion designers — a borderline scam of a career path. 🧪👩🏻‍🔬

What the US can learn from women in the Soviet workforce

In episode two of HBO’s 10-Emmy award-winning series Chernobyl, lead character Ulana Khomyuk (played by Emily Watson) delivers a scathing line to a male Soviet Communist Party leader: “I am a nuclear ...

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Ming F. Wan@minniewannie.bsky.social · 2y ago

A "world-renowned" designer with a website that looks like a 9th grader’s first CSS project. 🧪🐡

My bf drew our plushie kids 🐧🐻‍❄️🐸🐑🐶🦕 playing in the pond for our anniversary 🩷 #art

5 years ago, I wrote about how blood diamond monopoly De Beers tried to kill lab diamonds by undercutting them with cheap, low-quality lab diamond jewelry: www.cs.toronto.edu/~ming/422_es... That plan failed. Miserably. 🥳 🧪 #EconSky

De Beers To Close Lightbox, Its Lab-Grown Diamond Jewelry Brand

Lightbox was established by De Beers in 2018 to disrupt the lab-grown diamond industry, arguing that lab-grown diamonds are a distinct product from mined diamonds

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Ming F. Wan@minniewannie.bsky.social · 2y ago

🧪I created this YouTube Short after researching blood diamond companies and finding it amusing how desperate they are as younger generations stop buying into their corporate propaganda.

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The Desert Was Dying… Then Beavers Arrived

YouTube video by Innovative Techs

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My dad scored ~70 on a primary school IQ test. He later ranked in the top 30 out of 1M in one of the hardest Gaokao exams and has been a VP at multiple Fortune 500 companies. Whenever people say IQ tests are fair and objective, I just tell them this story. 🧪

I Took an IQ Test to Find Out What it Actually Measures

YouTube video by Veritasium

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Some heart-warming data: Decades of civil rights reforms significantly reduced the poverty rate of Black Americans. 🧪 #EconSky

Economists know it, but politicians rarely say it—globalization massively reduced global inequality. 🧪 #EconSky

Bf's company is producing a cartoon about the Aztecs, with all the dialogue in Spanish. Bf: The Aztecs didn't speak Spanish. It was the Spanish colonizers who massacred them that did. 🧪 #langsky

Weebs in academia🧪🦠 🔗 doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11081912 #anime #aot

Forbes just hit a new low—promoting someone running an open Ponzi scheme. 🧪 #EconSky

🧪My favorite plagiarism case will always be when my solution, posted in a GitHub issue comment, got copy-pasted into multiple Stack Overflow answers—without a shred of attribution.

Django 3.2 The app label is not a valid Python identifier. · Issue #17801 · FortAwesome/Font-Awesome

Describe the bug Error when using runserver in Django 3.2 Works with Django 3.1.8 To Reproduce pip install Django==3.2 pip install fontawesome-free==5.15.3 Add 'fontawesome-free' to your installed ...

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Neri Oxman (yes, the Wikipedia plagiarist from MIT Media Lab) had her students build a giant, useless silk pavilion to "explore relationships between digital and biological construction." oxman.com/projects/silk-pavilion-i I chose the wrong career. 🧪

And this is my biggest issue with the anti-consumption movement: Instead of showing how consuming less & saving more helps the economy and environment, it defaults to tEmU bAd takes—while fashion brands, magazines, and Hollywood are the real ones manufacturing demand. 🧪 #EconSky

The Luxury Fashion Industry Is Designed To Keep You Poor

YouTube video by Wall Street Millennial

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Ming F. Wan@minniewannie.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've always felt Temu & Amazon get undue hate for selling fast fashion, when the real culprits are fashion brands. They're the ones brainwashing consumers into thinking that constantly buying new clothes is somehow a form of self-empowerment. 🧪 #EconSky

Ada Lovelace as a new science leader in #Civ7! 👩🏻‍🔬🧪

I've always felt Temu & Amazon get undue hate for selling fast fashion, when the real culprits are fashion brands. They're the ones brainwashing consumers into thinking that constantly buying new clothes is somehow a form of self-empowerment. 🧪 #EconSky

Burberry says it won’t destroy unsold merch anymore. But plenty of other fashion brands still do.

An expert explains why Burberry, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, and Michael Kors would rather destroy merchandise than lose prestige.

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Agreed 🧪

Chiming in on the DeepSeek situation as a former Dev Lead of a BBC-recognized startup: The sad truth is that tech companies rarely prioritize environmental friendliness. Instead, they burn computing resources on buzzword features to impress investors. Props to them for actual energy-saving. 🧪👩🏻‍🔬

Nuclear stocks tank as energy names get caught in DeepSeek-fueled rout

DeepSeek is fueling a selloff in one of the market's best-performing sectors last year: nuclear energy.

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Some funny highlights: 1. Instead of establishing a promised Bitcoin strategic reserve, Trump formed a committee to decide whether to not sell digital assets the government already owns. 2. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) blatantly pumped & dumped on X, pretending to announce a Bitcoin reserve. 🧪 #EconSky

Molly White@molly.wiki · 2y ago

Newsletter: Trump horrifies even some of his crypto-steeped fans by launching a memecoin before his inauguration, and a flurry of activity from the new administration signals what’s in store for the crypto world in the next four years. www.citationneeded.news/issue-75/

Oda invented a unique pronoun for his gender-fluid character Ivankov. (Source: One Piece Volume 85 SBS, 2017) 🧪💙📚 #linguistics

Sharing this as some around me are eager to try all-natural Chinese herbal meds. One popular remedy for minor ailments, sold by a leading Chinese pharmacy, is potentially linked to 100k liver failure cases in China. The company denied responsibility and has never compensated victims. 🧪 #MedSky

新华视点：龙胆泻肝丸是清火良药还是致病根源?

新华视点：龙胆泻肝丸是清火良药还是致病根源?

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Hot take: Tite Kubo is the greatest artist alive. Not-so-hot take: I'm upset at Naruto 20 after seeing how good Bleach 20 is.

TVアニメ『BLEACH』20th PV

YouTube video by アニプレックス チャンネル

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Preprint "Price-fixing in the lab diamond market"💎 The lab-grown diamond industry, initially seen as a force for healthy competition and fair pricing in the diamond market, is now facing its own price-fixing issues. 🧪