Nevin Thompson

Crying at this

People will be like "I would do anything for my kids!!!" right up until you suggest dropping the speed limit to 20mph.

Weirdly teleological, weirdly predictive.

Easy week night meal is chicken thighs with some garlic, paprika and a dash of salt. Also cooks pork loin perfectly.

I think a problem is a "managerial culture" at best in our politics at the provincial and federal levels. A lack of vision. The BC NDP is a prime example of this, but so is Carney (he *seemed* like he had a vision). Plus a general unwillingness to address the increasing socioeconomic chasm.

Thanks for the context. The rapid erosion of postsecondary in Canada is worrying. And seems to match the US bsky.app/profile/kare...

It's #57, from 2004. No longer available, although I do have my copy someplace. Snyder was published there a few times, some of it online.

I was once published in the same issue of Kyoto Journal as Gary Synder. My article, an interview with a Zen practitioner, ended, Snyder's poem was on the opposite page. A good memory.

Infinite Detail is so so good.

I truly don’t think even the most well-meaning, informed men understand how many of the women in their lives have been sexually assaulted or abused, often by multiple men, and often by men they know. The stories women share with each other privately would shock them to their core.

Never in a billion years did I see this one coming

It does seem that racism, particularly against South Asians, is more socially acceptable now. At least in online spaces like Facebook and Reddit community groups. A lot of this nativism and racism can be countered simply by investing or fixing systemic issues like healthcare and housing.

Say this to most normie Canadians and they lose their minds. Or, repeat the lie that "too many immigrants caused the housing crisis." Meanwhile, colleges and unis are collapsing, and Carney is promising super-charged austerity. "Elbows up!"

The Trudeau and Carney government's immigration policy has been devastating to post-secondary education in Canada. Entire programmes closing (even nursing), twenty percent budget cuts. Canadiah politics does seem to mirror the nativist and anti-intellectualism of the United States.

cannot speak to the veracity since this isn't how I get my tirz but this is a very legible guide to gray-market GLP-1 drugs.

Next up: “protected bike lanes are genocide”

This is a great piece not just about Napster but about how a quarter century of lawbreaking help build, for better and for worse, today’s tech industry.

My review of The Dilemmas of Working Women

“Japan and its writers have been coping with the reality of economic decline… for decades… The translation of Yamamoto’s short story collection comes 25 years after its original publication, but the English-language translation is startlingly relevant.”

The new sets sound awesome!

Some Japanese intellectuals, increasingly incredulous of the wartime state's announcements about the progress of the war, devised a technique called "article engineering" (kiji kōgaku 記事工学) to cut through the lies.

Here's literary critic Kōshin Murofuse on his approach:

Economists, take note.

What happened in this photo???

At the river #photography

Shoen Nakajima (1861-1901; aka Kishida Toshiko), was an orator who spent eight days in jail for a “political speech without a permit” on the subject of women’s rights. She was also a teacher, poet, + writer before her untimely death from tuberculosis.

Why is the stock market high, and the overall economy mixed, in the face of all these trade wars and government-generated uncertainty?

A big part of the answer is a massive boom in AI datacenter construction, so much it outweighs consumer spending. If that turns out to be an AI bubble… watch out.

A colleague whom I am not a fan of, was making a presentation on Zoom. Half way through I said I couldn't hear them and could they start over. By the time I said I could hear, they were practically yelling. If course I could hear the entire time.

Taiwan’s Democracy Is in Trouble How polarization undermines security.

For @foreignaffairs.com, @poscwty1.bsky.social and I write about how polarization in Taiwan has reached dangerous levels. Partisan politics needs an off-ramp, both for the sake of Taiwan’s national security, and its ability to function as a democracy.

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