Is there something I am missing or did I in fact get the point? Harvard’s Asian Futures is all white people!
Thank you to all the MLA members who participated in this afternoon's open discussion session with @tinalu888.bsky.social, Herman Beavers, and Waïl Hassan and shared how the current threats to higher ed are affecting you and how the MLA might help. 1/3
Hi, folks. I am the President of the MLA and am planning plenary sessions for the @modernlanguage.bsky.social convention in January. The theme is “Family Resemblances.” Brainstorm with me—below or via email: tina.lu@yale.edu. Read more about my theme below! 1/10
Yale University
Since its founding in 1701, Yale University has been dedicated to expanding and sharing knowledge, inspiring innovation, and preserving cultural and scientific information for future generations.
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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!
I was yesterday years old when I learned that “condominium” is an 18th century word. It’s con-dominium (“shared dominion”) not condo-minium. You’re welcome!
Let me be a cautionary tale. Don’t send in passport photos in glasses.
…and high school valedictorian, and double degrees from Penn, and now a modern day 刺客!
A high school valedictorian, a BSE and MSE from Penn, and now a martyr. The system really does seem broken. images.app.goo.gl/SPbS7Yv4PzcN...
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Within a few months we’ll be following all the public health folks. Might as well get a jump and start following @gregggonsalves.bsky.social !
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2y agoSo we haven’t seen this occur in nature and there are other hurdles H5N1 would have to surmount to efficiently spread human to human. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
So we haven’t seen this occur in nature and there are other hurdles H5N1 would have to surmount to efficiently spread human to human. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors
In 2024, several human infections with highly pathogenic clade 2.3.4.4b bovine influenza H5N1 viruses in the United States raised concerns about their capability for bovine-to-human or even human-to-h...
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You should be able to go to your local Democratic Party headquarters and get help with anything you need help with. Don't have a printer and need to print out a form? We gotcha! Need help applying for a passport? We gotcha! Need a bathroom or a sandwich? We gotcha! I'm not kidding in the least.
"Democrats need to organize their future politics around the simple reality that the establishment media is structural hostile to the Democratic party."
Wired for the GOP
This column, by Alexander Burns, the head of news at Politico, is a rich example of the DC logic that only Democrats have agency and it’s only to Democrats that standards, norms…
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Metric for cultural China: ratio on your socials now of 瓊瑤 content vs that health care CEO who was just shot. Ol’ what’s his name. @chowleen.bsky.social
Me, letting out small shriek: “You play mahjong with Qiong Yao? In her mysterious downtown mansion with private bowling alley and screening room??” Mom, shrugging: “Oh right. She wrote those romance novels you used to borrow from your Guzhang.” @tinalu888.bsky.social
Just using this once again to push for @contesteveryrace.bsky.social
Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2y agoAnd the next time one of you starts to say "but they voted for it" about someone in a super gerrymandered state, I want you to remember that I had 25 local races on my ballot where I had republicans running unopposed. Unsurprising republicans swept every race.
Just reposting this content one more time. NC Supreme Court seats are elected; so yes the entire House came down to one local seat or two. If we’d won the NC Supreme Court, the Dems would have had a House majority.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 2y agoThe final House results have now landed as 220-215 for the GOP. That means the House majority came down to the 3 NC seats the GOP flipped thanks to its brand new gerrymander. And that gerrymander hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022. I wrote this last month: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
Scroll down for her suicide note—which at 86 and obviously in extremis is nonetheless distinctively her style. It sounds lifted from one of her novels.🀄️📚 www.hk01.com/%E5%8F%B0%E7...
《還珠格格》作者瓊瑤家中輕生亡 遺書要年輕人「不要放棄生命」
新北市淡水區一處民宅4日下午發生一宗死亡事件，一名86歲女性在家中輕生，死者經台媒報道是知名言情小說作家瓊瑤，瓊瑤多部小說作品被改編為電影或
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My childhood, our childhoods. Safe travels to the great storyteller Qiong Yao 瓊瑤. (1938-2024) (She was once my mom’s mahjong partner - and her age, and that makes me sad too)
The author Qiong Yao 瓊瑤 with Brigitte Lin 林青霞, the most frequent and best embodiment of her many romantic protagonists-
eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 2y agoMy childhood, our childhoods. Safe travels to the great storyteller Qiong Yao 瓊瑤. (1938-2024) (She was once my mom’s mahjong partner - and her age, and that makes me sad too)
NEW: Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform. With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.
Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification
At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success.
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Omg I couldn’t love this more. Maybe one day I will name an orange dog 柿子. And check out how long lived so many of the dogs were—a number made it to their early teens.
Li Chen多伦多大学陈利@lchen2024.bsky.social · 2y ago1. How seriously did late imperial China's rulers treat their pets and/or job of archiving their everyday lives? Here're 2 registers from the No. 1 Historical Archives of the Qing royal family's cats and dogs (with names & years of birth/death). Two cats died after 9 years & one dog after 15 years.
Totally agree. The older I get the more I realize complicated conspiracies are impossible. People are way too incompetent.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2y agoone of my iron clad beliefs is that there are very few actual “schemes” in the world. instead, there are just a lot of stupid, venal people and quite a few of them hold positions of real power and authority
This genre (“why Trump won”) consistently muddles two separate problems: 1) the many many reasons folks voted for him (and yes the MSM is one); 2) the swing voters who would have swung the election. Sorry, TNR. If “inflation” voters had voted Dem, we obviously WOULD be swearing in Pres Kamala.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2y agoToday, the right-wing media sets the news agenda in this country... Even the mighty New York Times follows in its wake, aping the tone they set disturbingly often. newrepublic.com/post/188197/...
Obama's '08 campaign won the biggest margin of victory in the last 30+ years. Within hours of his inauguration, Republicans went to dinner and agreed to oppose him on every single item. Two years later, they won 63 House seats and 6 Senate seats.
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 2y agoSo this the kind of Trump admin that progressives on the Hill and some leftists want to play clever game of footsie with around issues on anti trust and credit card fees?
Absolutely grueling to read.
Chris Morran@themorrancave.bsky.social · 2y agoThe same state that questioned Mayron’s fitness to care for her four children forced her to continue a pregnancy that risked her life to have a fifth — one that would require more intensive care than any of the others. projects.propublica....
I am such a believer in this. Down-ballot is the way. It’s also how we build a sustainable future of good leaders and infrastructure to elect and support them, as well as the movements they represent. We don’t just need strong candidates. We need strong organizers, managers, CoS, grassroots, etc.
Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2y agoI’ve been organizing in rural areas since the first Trump administration. Rural Dems can make the difference in races at the top of the ticket. Republicans have all of the electorate they’re ever going to have. Organize to turn out 5% to 10% more Dems in rural spaces. Watch what happens…