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This section is intended for trivial amusements and ephemeral thoughts in their unorganized form — think of social media posts without interactions. Please allow for errors and imprudence. Also archived here is a selection of my older posts from Twitter and Weibo, neither of which I remain active on. Posts may be removed without notice if they are developed into formal articles or no longer reflect my current opinions.
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July 2024
2024-07-03 06:46
I have absorbed so much poorly lit human misery, so much operatic anxiety, so much gleeful and yet humorless gore, so much soul-destroying viciousness disguised as cleverness, all in the guise of entertainment, all ostensibly my break from the real world. Blooper reels are my vacation from that vacation. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/magazine/enough-with-prestige-tv-give-me-the-bloopers.html (TIL, NG 是翻译成 blooper
June 2024
2024-06-30 18:22
what a semester.
2024-06-28 21:26
2024-06-28 00:40
2024-06-22 16:09
starting to see can necessitate an epistemic disruption, and to unsee, a performing art
2024-06-20 20:45
2024-06-20 01:29
book hangover is real
2024-06-18 06:07
2024-06-18 02:05
anecdotally, also work as deterrents that effectively annul any presumptive parental authority 🙃
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/should-we-expect-more-from-dads
2024-06-15 22:43
每次难产作文写完能产生四五天的精神通畅(然后进入下一个拖延循坏
2024-06-13 13:19
2024-06-12 02:00
2024-06-11 07:16
I had hoped that Apple could do better than the clichéd, gaudy rainbow effect in the visual design of their AI features
2024-06-10 06:17
come to terms with my dysnomia in reading fictions after finding an analogy in hearing anecdotes, where one is not expected to capture all the characters in one pass but just the rough dynamic and vibe; confusing names is venial if the confusion is part of the experience
2024-06-09 21:30
2024-06-09 10:20
2024-06-08 13:46
2024-06-07 08:48
2024-06-05 22:23
you don’t.
到底怎么跟人解释「不是的,我不是对你有意见,没有心情不好,更没生病,我就是一般不会没话找话」
2024-06-05 12:11
2024-06-05 06:57
my beef with pop psychologies is how recklessly pundits diagnose with terms that can sound accusatory and stigmatizing to laypersons without offering more context and reassurance—a manipulative narration per se as though their theoretical importance was fed on the denial of patients’ wholeness and autonomy. people will be fine living with their $syndrome and $deficiency; thank you very much.
2024-06-01 17:35
2024-06-01 06:58
The beginning is not fictive. It cannot be placed in the control of a writer or reader. If you are reading, you are not at the beginning.
What is erotic about reading (or writing) is the play of imagination called forth in the space between you and your object of knowledge.
Written texts make available the notion that one knows what one has merely read. Attempts to shortcut the process [of the reach for knowledge], or package it for convenient reuse […] are a denial of our commitment to time and cannot be taken seriously.
May 2024
2024-05-29 06:49
that peculiar twenty-first-century zone where the sensitive upkeep of the self merges, without friction, into running a company and stroking the bulge in your bank account 二十一世纪特色:细腻的自我照护最终都顺滑发展为一门生意,揩走你账上多挣的钱
lmao https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/27/can-you-read-a-book-in-a-quarter-of-an-hour
2024-05-25 19:26
2024-05-23 21:07
Frantumaglia: bits and pieces whose origin is difficult to pinpoint, and which make a noise in your head, sometimes causing discomfort. Domesticating the truth: taking overused expressive paths; betraying the story out of laziness, out of compliance, out of convenience, out of fear. It has become natural to think of the author as a particular individual who exists, inevitably, outside the text. […] Yet, if we simply remove that individuality from the public eye, […] the text has more in it than we imagine.
2024-05-22 09:00
2024-05-19 17:50
2024-05-19 07:08
2024-05-18 08:53
2024-05-17 21:15
“The weather is only the weather, and like us resembles the moods that blow through us, that carry us.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/11/invitation-daniel-halpern-poem
2024-05-16 19:46
2024-05-16 07:14
morning swims and REM sleep are physiologically contrasting but functionally complementary for me in that during both the remnants of the previous day are still being processed and consolidated
2024-05-14 06:47
2024-05-13 06:53
2024-05-11 06:54
才知道端传媒做了播客 听了一耳朵 编排绝对是对着扭腰时报 The Daily 扒谱的 连 intro 的曲风和旁白进的时点都学了 恍惚间都觉得会冒出来一句 I’m Michael Barbaro
2024-05-10 20:40
for good or bad this year has been an emotively wild ride that cost my deadpan performer
2024-05-10 13:51
2024-05-08 09:04
$aapl can have my keyboard and trackpad when they pry open my dead hand with the thrillingly sleeker razor-sharp all new ipad 🤗
2024-05-08 06:59
2024-05-07 20:38
however awkward it is, there will be an installment of xkcd for that [跪了]
2024-05-07 06:16
2024-05-06 06:53
2024-05-05 21:12
写的是推但别的地方也一样 Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience doi.org/10.1177/1461444810365313
2024-05-04 05:35
my time-honored and yet-to-be-replaced “killer app” for wired earbuds: music played through the wire during half-awake moments sounds incredibly more poignant and intimate than usual, deftly warping across the penumbra of consciousness; it’s almost a psychedelic experience.
2024-05-02 23:26
when it comes to tech news ars technica > wsj >>>> nyt (the verge can be anywhere in between)
Debugging Tech Journalism by Timothy B. Lee https://asteriskmag.com/issues/06/debugging-tech-journalism
2024-05-01 10:46
有的时候也不知道怎么评价本地宝 内容农场吧是真农场 但把那些政务公众号发的东西从小龙局域网搬到公网 又好像没有功劳也有苦劳
April 2024
2024-04-30 00:40
context giveth and context taketh away; cursed be the name of context
2024-04-29 00:51
2024-04-28 00:25
- 到哪都有人问安徽是南是北
- 到哪螺狮粉的 slogan 都是一样的
- jiayang fan 真的很会写 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/in-search-of-lost-flavors-in-flushing