The "very Chinese time of my life" and Chinamaxxing fads don't seem to be translating into an actual interest in China among young Americans. Or is it too soon to tell?
06.03.2026 14:58
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The "very Chinese time of my life" and Chinamaxxing fads don't seem to be translating into an actual interest in China among young Americans. Or is it too soon to tell?
Something similar kind of seems to have happened to Chinese language education.
Kind of seems like a general shut down of interest in anything foreign or internationally oriented.
The latest issue of Hǎi 海 newsletter includes a profile of ceramic artist Chang Liu, and listings of events, podcasts, and articles from the global Chinese community:
Years ago at the height of pandemic shutdowns I wrote a book about supply chains and why they break.
I'm not going to make any projections about what comes next but, obviously, if this war drags on, it means more inflation.
Back in 2003, Steven Den Beste was a hero amongst pro-Iraq invasion bloggers for writing this "high level strategic view of the cause of the war, the reason that the United States became involved in it" etc.
Some of the bollocks we're hearing is very old.
sdb.dotclue.org/essays/strat...
Screenshot of email from WAPO titled "Must Reads: The cutthroat competition for the best baguette in Paris"
The Washington Post's spam team is keeping up with current events:
"We must get away from the propaganda and ask why this [war] might be happening…a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and…as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States." @timothysnyder.bsky.social
snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...
There is money for Trump and the kleptocrats to make in chip sales and changing Pentagon procurement policies to favor Elon Musk. National security has no bearing on any of their thinking.
#OtD 27 Feb 1973 armed Native American activists occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in protest at corruption and US treaty breaches with Native Americans. Despite state violence and killings they held out for 71 days and galvanised huge support stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9898...
The vandals are sacking the imperium. There is no reason, there no thought or plan. There is only grifting and greed and cruelty, and destruction for mere spectacle.
If you're feeling remorse I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but regret ain't one.
Vibes are bad. Tell me your favorite thing from the 90s. Bonus points for anything from 1999.
Cover of Beijing Scene magazine that I edited, March 1999.
Making Beijing Scene magazine in 1999
Because I like to keep track of sources, here are the X links:
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x.com/tyleraloever...
As the ADL and other Jewish American groups fret about students wearing keffiyeh or whatever, this:
bsky.app/profile/lets...
and this:
bsky.app/profile/joel...
Tennessee's crazy out-of-touch bigot senator Blackburn forced to admit ICE will not open a new concentration camp near Nashville. Keep pushing back people, the fascists are feeling it!
Those are the business class organs
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Some of them just spend their days figuring out how to loot the state!
Another murder to add to the long list of crimes of Trump / Miller / Noem et al.
Gosh I’m glad I live in the US, where corrupt leaders don’t appoint idiot family members to positions of power
I can’t even
Good news, although depressing that even 1% of Americans still approve of the criminal carnival barker.
As an editor, I am going to start referring to redactions as "exonerations."
We need to exonerate that adjective!
Let's exonerate that second paragraph!
Great work by NPR, true investigative journalism. They did the work.
It's not NPR's fault that this expose is also crazymaking by reminding us that Biden+Merrick Garland wasted four years, and that countless others covered this up for decades.
"In addition, there are ways in which Kafka more than Orwell speaks to a key element of life in both the Mao era and what has followed: the ease with which one can be trapped in or simply confused by a complicated, irrational and hard to navigate bureaucracy."
Alt text missing: Wilma Flintstone laughing with subtitles "tee hee hee"
The article does not note the appearance of new CBS chief Bari Weis's wife Nellie Bowles also appears in the Epstein files.
