Video game lets you do nothing in particular in a suburban Russian tower block “All you have to do is experience the precisely detailed, pixelated mundanity of the world around you.”
Beto O’Rourke Is the Hello Kitty of presidential candidates. Favored by those scared of anyone with a mouth.
“as of the end of 2018, nonfinancial corporations had $4.4 trillion in cash… And…unincorporated businesses… have another $1.6 trillion on hand” so they could easily pay for a Green New Deal!
The “new” Brexit withdrawal agreement is identical to the old one – just reformatted
Yale admissions, the movie.
Ideal allocation of my attention: 70% current research, 15% keeping up with the discipline, 10% class prep, 5% news & current events. Actual allocation of my attention? 50% class prep, 25% current events, 20% keeping up with the discipline, 5% current research… 😭😭😭
Huge scandal as people learn Yale and other elite schools have admitted students whose parents hadn’t first donated a new building to the campus.
Chinese people don’t need to be saved from their English names
The memoirs of Obama’s White House staffers show us how not to do politics…
After taking them down, Facebook restores Elizabeth Warren ads calling for breakup of Facebook
Bruno Latour and Martin Guinard-Terrin to Curate Taipei Biennial in 2020
Ready for The Shoplifters vs Minority Report?, the movie sequel nobody asked for?
Hillary Clinton Is Still Confused About What Happened in Wisconsin
Cashless stores are convenient, but they also marginalize low-income shoppers. (And immigrants.)
Fine, bring the dinosaurs back if you must! But please keep them from running our government!
This is the first time in years I don’t have any conference plans. I think I might keep it that way a while. At least till I get all my overdue book chapters out the door to the various editors… Instead I think I need to plan some real vacation time!
Elizabeth Warren proposes breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook
The new, safer nuclear reactors that might help stop climate change
Waiting for the train in Shoufeng
Waiting for the train in Shoufeng
Zhixue village at sunset
