Kerim Friedman 傅可恩
Taiwan-based anthropologist.
人類學家與台灣新住民。
https://kerim.one
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- Reposted by Kerim Friedman 傅可恩Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Carter's reforms lasted longer than most, Obama's were largely ineffectual, and we are now far beyond what either the Church Committee or Snowden warned us about.
- This post just made my e-reader problem worse...
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- Does the U.S. Constitution apply to undocumented immigrants? "Yes, without question," said Cristina Rodriguez, a professor at Yale Law School. "Most of the provisions of the Constitution apply on the basis of personhood and jurisdiction in the United States."
- While I agree with the sentiment, and I know writers don't pick their headlines, I really wonder: which countries still belong to the "free world" these days?
- Reposted by Kerim Friedman 傅可恩ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
- 10 questions, and you have to guess if each news story is from the US, Iran, or Venezuela. newsquiz.org
- Reposted by Kerim Friedman 傅可恩I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
- How many of the 1% support Trump? I wish there were separate polling numbers just for the ruling class, though I don't know how you'd get them to answer a phone poll... I suspect he will continue to have their support as long as the stock market bubble lasts.
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- Pro tip: Never read the comments on popular posts in Threads.
- Fact: Chinese first settled Taiwan because the Dutch East India company needed farmers for their new colony in the seventeenth century. Fact: For the six to ten thousand years before that it belonged solely to the Austronesian speaking Indigenous inhabitants.
- Historical and legal precedents unequivocally affirm that #Taiwan has been an inalienable part of Chinese territory since ancient times #China #drawing #illustration #facts
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- Dems: vote for us or the fascists will win! Also Dems: let’s give more money to the brown shirts!
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- Would rather vibe code an entire word processor rather than start working on the next paper...
- Over the past couple of weeks, I used Claude Code to build the word processor of my dreams. Not yet ready to share it with the world (still needs a lot of polish), but I think it might be good enough to start using it on my next writing project! When it is finally released, it will be open source.
- Already happening under TikTok's new ownership www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
- Reposted by Kerim Friedman 傅可恩9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable
- www.ft.com/content/d0b7... No thank you.
- Reposted by Kerim Friedman 傅可恩Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
- Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban aje.news/ljjuww
- Reposted by Kerim Friedman 傅可恩i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact
- I see Bluesky is debating optimism vs. pessimism. I always liked what Gramsci had to say about this: “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
- From the latest issue of my Triptych newsletter: How Black men and women in Pittsburgh invented emergency medical services. What was said in those sections of Plato's Symposium that were censored by Texas A&M? And a painter whose work is inspired by M.C. Escher, but packs an emotional punch.
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- Reposted by Kerim Friedman 傅可恩Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
- Important corrective, from Michael Turton, about that article which claimed that wind turbines are destroying Taiwan's oyster industry.
- Reposted by Kerim Friedman 傅可恩Obviously this is a setback but I think it's important not to let it discredit the concept of building a long, extremely narrow glass city in the middle of the desert. www.ft.com/content/036b...
- Congratulations to the @zotero.org team for another amazing update. I can remember when this app was practically unusable, it was so poorly designed, but now it is becoming a genuine pleasure to use!
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- He blocked me, so I won't use screenshots, but there is a popular post right now claiming that Nazis weren't inspired by Jim Crow. This is just historically ignorant.
- If only there had been a sign that Trump was a fucking N*zi before he was elected. Oh, right, that 1990 profile which said that he kept a copy of H*tler's speeches by his bed . . . I never forgot that piece, not sure why everyone else did?
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- Not one single intellectual position taken up by the right over the last thirty years has been argued in good faith. They don't actually believe in originalism, free trade, free speech, or any of the other ideas they have insisted we debate them on.
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- China: Flies sorties into Taiwan's air defense zone (ADIZ) China: Cuts Taiwan's undersea cables China: Swarms fishing boats into military formation China: Flies a drone into Taiwan's air space China: Says it will take Taiwan by force, if necessary Rest of the world to Taiwan: Stop provoking China!
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- How long till other countries retaliate and start denying visas to people with US passports?
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- Luke to Obi-Wan, when they first meet: "I can't get involved! I've got work to do! It's not that I like the Empire. I hate it! But there's nothing I can do about it right now."
- They are not stupid; they are impulsive, incurious, and arrogant, but they do delight in their power to impose stupid ideas on the rest of us.
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- From a 2014 report that border patrol tried to cover up: "Border Patrol agents have deliberately stepped in the path of cars apparently to justify shooting at the drivers"
- "progressive resistance training can strengthen and build muscle even for the oldest people, with life-changing effects"
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- I’m enjoying Andrew Hickey’s History of Rock Music, but I will be greatly relieved when he’s finally done talking about surf rock.
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- I can't stop laughing at this Canal+ advertisement from 2006, in which a man tries to describe the film "La marche de l’empereur" to someone.
- If only academics had coined a word to explain this kind of relationship between two countries . . .
- "You may mitigate your course content to remove the modules on race ideology and gender ideology, and the Plato readings that may include these."
