Wendy Xu

the way that mob boss dies in peking opera blues is fucking insane and inspirational LMAO

how does tsui hark have this many bangers in the arsenal

literally slamming the table eyes popping out like the tex avery wolf

brigitte lin in republic era men's attire

why is brigitte lin in peking opera blues actually the hottest woman who has ever lived

Dario Lied People Died

that basement stationary area is always so damp 😩

this happened to me at baptist youth group when the auntie leading told me jesus had cured her husband's cancer & i was like what about the hospital drs

NO?!?!?!?! niconeco in the e village or loaf on paper in wburg might have

It fascinates me that humans want this connection so much. It's SETI on planet Earth.
And that there's an openness to consciousness in machines, but less so* to identifying it in most sentient, intelligent, socially complex non-human animals.

*I'm talking public, not researchers in either case

Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC: "Home Health Aide $23,000 I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them? Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."

It's all so clear

Why it’s time to end the grim march of the touchscreen Self-service kiosks make us buy more stuff and feel more lonely

“The existence of technology can lead us down many paths. That does not mean all should be taken.”

the ft slowly embracing the luddite cause

addressing the ways in which the greeks were fucked up but still with the sincerity of the kid who was obsessed with mythology? it's more likely than you think

daedalus is dead by seamus sullivan

oooooouuuu this was short, concise & intense. crazy stuff (complimentary)

sketch & photo of dumbo

back on my weekend shit

it can't tell if the output is true because *it has no concept of truth*. The only thing it "knows" is "this output is correlated"

It is structurally indifferent to truth

The Publisher Weekly announcement of a 3 book deal Laine Falk and I have with Scholastic for an early readers graphic novel series: Pine School Pals.

A drawing of all the pals from our series. They’re in 2nd grade and are named as followed. Top row (left to right): Nora, Jack, Riley, Ava, Sara and Malik Bottom row (left to right: Niki, Jun, Zoey, Tate, Ben and Theo

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!

I’ve been working on an early readers graphic novel series with Laine Falk: The Pine School Pals! The first book of the 3 book deal will be out this Fall (and you can already preorder it). Shoutout to my agent, Hannah Man @ Writers House

Can’t wait for y’all to meet the pals!✏️🐸

how else will they feel important tho!!

If the PM panics → the team panics. If the PM hesitates → Slack explodes. If the PM reacts emotionally → congratulations, you just created another problem to manage. So you become the company's human shock absorber. Turning chaos into: "Yep, we're on it." The weirdest side effect? You start doing this in real life too. Family argument? Stakeholder alignment. Grocery planning? Prioritization framework. Weekend trip? Roadmap with dependencies. The better you get at it, the less visible it becomes. We call it ownership. But sometimes... it's just pressure management with better vocabulary.

we need to put these ppl in reeducation camps

cake and assorted desserts

1/8 EPHEMERAL MATTER Mujiangzi Financier Sichuan Green Huajiao and Mujiangzi Oil + Taiwan Longan Honey Pu'er Black Sesame Triple Cream Cake Black Sesame Chiffon + Puer Fermented Tea and Hongtang Triple Cream Layers Hongtang Brown Butter Niangao Sticky Rice Cake +Shaanxi Persimmon + Aged Yunnan Hongtang Syrup + Laozao Fermented Rice + Flake Salt Jasmine Green Tea Salted Cheese Jellos Sichuan Molihua Flower Tea + Salted Cheese Cream Sichuan Zongzi Sticky Rice, Auntie Liu's Smoked Wind-Cured Sichuan Pork Belly, Flower Shitake, Red Bean, Pea, Red Huajiao Sunday 8, March @wei.collective @misesame @long-_pang

middle of the day dessert tasting. niangao my fave (& the standout!) but everything was lovely!

YUKO NOOOOO LMAO

my dad tried to convince me to outsource some comics work to him.... no 😭😭😭😭😭😭

OP making a really silly face on Fox News

lmaooo

Mask-off corporate bootlicking that causes these fucks to junk the most vulnerable members of their audience at the first sign of resistance aside:

cannot even begin to tell you how offended the cat is that i have to vacuum today

digital red ink gesture drawings of malenia from elden ring

malenia warmup

All Robot & Computers Must Shut The Hell Up To All Machines: You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To → And I Will Never Speak To You + I Do Not Want To Hear "Thank You" From A Kiosk I am a Divine Being You are an Object You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue

re "claude is conscious explain human consciousness"

EGGDOG!! godspeed!!

painting of a white chrysanthemum

painting of a red chrysanthemum

drawing of the head of a chrysanthemum

One aspect of Mondrian's early work I wish was better known are the many gorgeous paintings and drawings he made of chrysanthemums, which tend to focus on the flower's detailed structure

This thinking is not different from antivaxx, it just says “tech” more

move slow and repair things