Notes

nothing went as planned even the unplanned didn’t go unplanned as planned

“material to the functioning of hk as an international financial centre”

눈_눈

https://archive.is/kKZLz

goat https://deadline.com/2025/05/read-severance-season-2-finale-script-dan-erickson-1236382894/

number 6 版劳斯莱斯能循环放一百遍

Do you know how entrepreneurs and psychologists write? It’s 99 percent packing peanuts, and they get paid for it. There’s something almost artful about it.

The blurbs on mainstream releases, mostly by other authors and journalists of traditional institutions, create the impression that readers of said books experience nirvana on every page. They usually don’t.

好 mean，喜欢 https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/kill-the-editor

as a search addict i’m always stunned to find how unwilling ppl can be to do even a trivial amount of fact-checking before talking bullshit

一个媒体快不行的时候 be like

看了三分之一跑去弄了本纸书 真会写

path dependence in action

看到一句本来是字面意思但是也可以有很多意思的话 I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m stocking up on ibuprofen

我扔起东西来还是挺六亲不认的

老中这么喜欢折腾 AI 怎么就不能把自己写出来的句子都扔进去检查一下语法每次看到国产 readme 都觉得要昏厥了

agentic, AI 娱乐圈发明的最生硬没美感的烂词之一

movements as the empty calories consumed to plug my unrestful skepticism

catch-up call from home be like: -u go anywhere? -nah. -wyd then? -reading. -reading what? -…poetry. -wow okay must be in a good mood -wait wat? -like, you wouldn’t feel artsy otherwise right? -?? (but just let it go knowing that my banter game is also trash)

if i were made to encounter a Boggart it must be holding an iPhone threatening to fire a notification with the tone set to “Rebound” while remaining incommunicado ad infinitum

NYT 副刊出了个日本文化特刊，看封面觉得不错噢点进去几篇一脸蒙蔽： 第一篇，the Japanese found myriad ways to crystallize and savor impermanence, like wabi sabi, mono no aware, blah blah 好的但是上过学的都知道了？ 第二篇，Japan is best experienced by foot 因为 walking is enlightening and meditative and communual 嗯嗯因为散步就是这样而且以前夸英国人散步你们也是这么说的？ 第三篇，卡哇伊不仅是一种审美，也是一种 consumerism 和 learned helplessness 和 numbing of the mind 和 a story of power and powerlessness，不是老师如果你这么喜欢 critical theory 那对自己的东方主义也可以批判一下？ moral of the story: 1 发在报纸 style 版面的东西认真看图片以外的东西你就已经输了 2 少看 nyt 快乐生活

never smelled the same and would rather not

可能是今年戴口罩闷得太久了吧 现在每次跑步都觉得外面空气好闻到爆炸 像今天这种还下了点小雨的就简直是 porn 级别的体验了

live versions wear so well with looping. even when the melody and lyrics are replayed to the point of boredom, listen instead to the harmonies, instruments or even breathing and voilà there’s a new song prime for another perusal

roughly how i converted from a gpt-chatter denialist to a frequenter

https://archive.is/RojUn

Siri 导航面对拼音地名的梦幻发音：Da Shahe (Shaa-uh), Futian (Fyu-shan), Gongye (Gon-gie) Yuan 英语的正字法（有这种东西吗）只有这种时候才显得格外 规范

a pattern of how i eventually get lingering annoyances purged: step 1: ask myself “am i entitled to x?” — where x is the thing i feel has failed or eluded me, which can take anywhere from seconds to days to identify — to which the answer is almost always no, logically or legally or morally or however; step 2: there’s no step 2, Q.E.D.

readwise 这个对所有过往标注内容提问的效果真的是好疯了

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