Sichuan cuisine
Lost Sole (or, “Someone had a crappy morning”)
Chinese users are beating the censors to talk about Hong Kong
Joe Biden can’t stop using the toxic “lock up your daughters” joke
It is so cute when pundits use the term “realpolitik” as if it actually means something — as if pragmatic interests aren’t always shaped by norms and ideology.
Hong Kong Protests: Demonstrators Block Council from Debating Extradition Bill
Journalist David Neiwert: Twitter Suspended Me for Displaying Book About Far-Right
A Dalit Woman’s resilience forms the bedrock of the Forest Rights struggle in Sonbhadra
John Turturro Finishes Big Lebowski Spinoff Based on Jesus Quintana
Happy to discover that What is Democracy? by Astra Taylor can be bought online for about $10. Plan to watch this Summer…
Facebook claims to be cracking down on fake news, but they keep advertising shitty kickstarter scams based on false science.
Telegram user? You can now follow Kerim’s Micro Blog on its own Telegram Channel
The Unknowable Kamala Harris: The complicated career of a self-proclaimed progressive prosecutor
Half of All Translated Books In The Us Come From Just Nine Countries
I encourage everyone to take a 20 min break from following the protests in HK to watch Hasan Minhaj on the ongoing protests happening in Sudan
Kraftwerk’s “The Robots” Performed by German First Graders in Adorable Cardboard Robot Outfits
How Payday Lenders Spent $1 Million at a Trump Resort — and Cashed In
Just two years ago, I had hard time finding a decent cup of milk tea in Tokyo. That seems to be changing.
Training a modest machine-learning model uses more carbon than the manufacturing and lifetime use of five automobiles (Multiply by ~5k over 6 months for cost of “final paper-worthy model”!)