“Imagine an iron house, with absolutely no windows, indestructible, with many people asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation…Would you think you are doing them a good turn [by waking them before they perish]?”

“But if a few awake, you can’t say there is no hope.”

Lu Xun

The Columbia Daily Spectator staff wrote and photographed an entire cover package for New York Magazine, I am so ridiculously proud of them!!! columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/0…

Facebook memory reminds me THIS happened 10 yrs ago between Henry Kissinger and then Chinese ambassador Cui Tiankai:

Paul Auster as a student participating in the 1968 occupation of Columbia University, as seen in Peter Whitehead's The Fall (1969).

safe travels

我只做了個小工具，在你輸入中英泰任意一種語言時，會翻譯成其它兩種語言並且放在可以剪貼的文本框裡，簡直是泰國生活必備！chat.openai.com/g/g-9dtVyvpUw-…

Editors: I've had an incredible time at The New York Times but my fellowship is coming to an end soon. So I am looking for my next opportunity!

I spent the past year jumping on some biggest news in tech, delivering some scoops and two A1 stories. Get in touch! [email protected]

蒙群友提醒，十年前的今天發生了這麼一件事：

沒錯就是我這輩子網上人設都不要想甩掉的標籤了，尋廁手冊發表辣👻

這麼多年來承蒙各位不棄關注，未來...該怎麼樣還怎麼樣，祝大家都好好活著。

FEATURE: If you've wondered how TSMC's venture into Arizona is going, our reporting over the past four months will answer all your questions and more (and probably make you laugh, too)

Incredible story by Viola Zhou! restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-ariz… Rest of World Michael Zelenko #longread

Anyway, if you’re unsure whether things are shaking or not, look at a glass of water

.CJR covers the media world, not what’s going on on Columbia’s campus. But sometimes those imperatives collide. I wrote about the media stories of the university’s last few days—and last 60 years—for CJR:

cjr.org/the_media_toda…

伊藤詩織笑着回來了。

自2017年公開遭性侵的經歷，她飽受公眾質疑，「人們不理解為什麼我要公開講性暴力，這在日本是禁忌和恥辱。」

她把這些真實發生過的，拍成自傳紀錄片，觀眾還在為她落淚，她卻已笑着上台，真誠地分享，希望鼓勵別人： bit.ly/4b08hfp

Unpopular view maybe, but I think media reporters sometimes rise too easily to Fox bs that is blatantly designed to bait liberals and is of relatively less significance.

Not this. This is a fucking disgrace.

英國買房子真的是一步一個坑。

這次我不說我自己（還在交易過程中，希望可以順利完成。

看到篇新聞我震驚了，話說英國有種房子叫shared ownership，就是政府說你買不起整個單位是吧，沒問題，賣給你一半甚至更低的比例。起碼你可以半買半租，先上車再慢慢存錢買。…

Out of context this is just comedy gold

PUB. GAY PUB. THE MISSING WORD IS PUB.

Saw someone use an old idiom today that I long find tacky and crude.

“金窝银窝，不如自己的狗窝”

(Gold den or silver den,
Can't compare to my doggy pen.)

Now in my 30 something and finally settled down a bit, it suddenly struck me how much weight this saying actually holds.

tb, my album cover for björk 'bastards'

Living across different languages creates the most random vacuums of knowledge. I'm today years old in learning that this thingy isn’t (just) a weirdly-shaped fork but has its own name “spork”.

My world just collapsed a little.

真·沉浸式体验！泰国清迈宁曼路泼水节全记录，水枪大战一触即发！ youtu.be/Z7qANSYe9LE?si… 来自 YouTube