Nora Van den Bosch

And the Pedantry Award goes to...

“We moeten besparen. België geeft te veel uit. Vooral aan sociale bescherming en zorg. Nieuwe belastingen? Kan niet. We zijn al belastingkampioen! En die raken enkel de middenklasse & schaden de economie.”

De onuitgesproken uitgangspunten van de begrotingsdiscussie. Kloppen ze? 🧵

Behind the Counter: Shopkeepers in Shanghai, 1870–1949 Historians of modern China have often written about the great and the downtrodden—the famous and powerful who shaped economies, or the workers who carried revolutions, albeit unsuccessfully. Somewhere...

enepchina.hypotheses.org/6675 #sinology

Kennis koesteren, doorgeven, zelf maken ... is een maatschappelijk functie van de #universiteiten, ongeacht of die op onmiddellijk "iets oplevert". Het is een maatschappelijk goed, geen economische parameter.

Ik denk dat afhankelijk van AI in schrijfopdrachten wijst op grotere problemen: gebrek aan informatievaardigheden, weinig lezen en het feit dat schrijven nooit serieus aangeleerd wordt.

I misread the feed name “Air Canada strike” as “Canada Airstrike.” I didn’t know how I did it but I had a small heart attack.

For my China studies friends here: new Wilkinson just dropped. 7th edition, huge news. On Pleco, too.

If you don’t know what that means, do you even sinologize, bro?

@pleco.com
#Sinology🀄️📚

I appreciate the Daily Pratchetts. They are the chicken soup for my weary soul.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

België zou over #ChatControl eens duidelijk in het NEE-kamp kunnen gaan staan, en daar blijven, in plaats van telkens het probleem vooruit te porren en te hopen dat er de onvermijdelijke volgende keer minder ophef rond is.

Also, sorry to burst the author’s bubble, but people are not obliged to like children, just like a teacher is not obligated to like their whole class.

Or social spaces for families that does not require a fee, but I think irritated adults at a overflown Disneyland on a hot day are the least of the problems, compared to let’s say urban design with less green spaces and cars-dependent traffic.

The author seems to be born yesterday to think that explicitly stating the dislike for children is a recent phenomenon. Which is not. Yes, we can have a discussion about how there are less public spaces for children to roam safely

In b4 someone barges in with "no, you're doing it wrong, you must ask for python code to do this"

No. A system being marketed as "a team of PhD-level scientists in your pocket " should not struggle with this.

Tokenization remains a *fundamental* problem.

Through social media osmosis I’ve learned about the existence that is Labubu. I don’t know what Labubu is and after spotting one in the wild I have now more determination not to learn what it is.

Ik ben blij dat ik niet de enige ben die dit artikel walgelijk vind.

Sounds like Brussels Zaventem to me

I could get some fog machine!

In short, books transform in unexpected ways.

Maybe a second read very soon?

But before I finished the book I had trouble connecting to the story because of the gory scenes and the blatant depravity of some characters. I found the pointless cruelty taking place on the pages so unreal. But after six months of the 2nd Trump term, I am like: “Oh…”

#booksky

Last year I read Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez. It had an intriguing plot about a cult in contact with the supernatural during a dictatorship, supplemented with a masterful rending of atmosphere.

Good luck with the dissertation!

His books The Chinese typewriter and The Chinese Computer are great reads. Very inspiring in my work on processing Chinese historical data.

Out of curiosity, what is your (main) pet peeve in China-related opinion pieces and/or reporting?
#sinology

The Steisand effect!

A close-up photo of a red-tailed hawk with its beak wide open. A strand of something is draped across its upper beak, likely debris of some sort from its recent bath in the river.

I call it "The Scream," but the red-tailed hawk didn't actually make any sound. I don't know if it was trying to cough up a pellet, or if was annoyed by something stuck to its beak, but it was only like this for a moment, and then it flew off and caught some breakfast.

A photo of a red-tailed hawk perched on drift wood by the river. The hawk is wet from a recent bath, and its beak is wide open.

The Scream

#birds #nature #wildlife

My biggest pet peeve on social media platforms is videos that play the moment you pass by while scrolling. I wish to have the power to choose whether a video is worth my attention instead of being constantly hijacked.

Tenure-track position in contemporary Chinese society (283182) | University of Oslo Job title: Tenure-track position in contemporary Chinese society (283182), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, October 27, 2025

#China
Tenure-track position (tenure-track in a postdoctoral position and tenured as associate professor) in contemporary Chinese society is available at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (IKOS), University of Oslo.

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Knowledge management!