Why grandmasters like Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana lose weight playing chess 《Replace “chess” with “PhD dissertation”》
I’m A Black Woman Who Travelled Asia For More Than A Year. Here’s What I Know About Anti-Blackness.
Two Men in Japan Dared to Take Paternity Leave. It Cost Them Dearly, They Say.
Hong Kong Is the Lung Through Which Chinese Banks Breathe 《I plead guilty to getting this totally wrong. Was saying the opposite to someone at a party just last night…》
Musicians in gas masks perform orchestra version of Hong Kong’s “new national anthem”
New species discovered: so-called leftist academics who are willing to uncritically share articles from a journal that exists solely to promote long discredited racist views. If you are citing phrenologists maybe you aren’t really a leftist?
Robert Frank, Pivotal Figure in Documentary Photography, Is Dead at 94
Wild blue yonder
Norway dogs die in mystery illness 《So scary!》
“It feels like their statement is more of a straw man to deflect away from the human rights abuses” 《On Apple’s inability to call out China by name…》
Despite rumors that we live in the age of “globalization,” companies like Apple make it very hard to exist digitally in multiple countries at the same time. Here is a useful work around.
Newark Airport Chaos After Racial Profiling Of Two Men 《I called this as soon as the story broke, just got the ethnicity of the targeted passengers wrong….》
The Gates Foundation shouldn’t give an award to Narendra Modi
Just saw the first episode of Babylon Berlin and we’re completely hooked!
Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen fends off sexist attacks 《From July, but worth repeating as election season gets into gear.》via @WilliamYang120
How the American Sangh built up Tulsi Gabbard 《This article desperately needs an editor, but offers a well documented and devistating account of how Gabbard depended on fascist Hindutva funding to launch her political career.》
I think Aaron is wrong about Succession. It’s a bit like saying watching action films will make us more likely to use guns, or that King Lear is bad because it ignores the peasants…
We Are Going on an Adventure: On Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Children of Ruin” 《Just finished this, now reading “Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness” by Peter Godfrey-Smith》