Hong Kongers are using an ad hoc system of Romanization to weed out false flag Mainlanders who are causing violence: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=44034 #hongkong #language #romanization #women #peoplesrepublicofchina #democracy #protests

Lotteries are bad public policy, bad budgeting, and actively hostile to the poor: https://theoutline.com/post/7737/abolish-state-lotteries #class #poverty #lottery #goodgovernance

Taiwanese are supporting Hong Kongers in their ongoing protests against he Mainland. https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/08/article/helmets-goggles-sent-from-taiwan-to-hk-protesters/ Remember this the next time you hear any nonsense about how democracy or mutual aid are only practical for one race or group of people or some other hogwash. #democracy #humanrights #peoplesrepublicofchina #hongkong #taiwan #republicofchina #mutualaid

A fun profile of Svalbard that hardly mentions their seed archive: https://www.thenation.com/article/svalbard-arctic-open-borders/ #norway #svalbard #openborders

@Wolvie Evidently! I know that there is a burgeoning field of gut biome research and if eating Honeycrisps is what the science says, then eating Honeycrisps is what I will do!

This is the first empirical evidence I have seen to actually support organic food as better nutritionally: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/24/100m-bacteria-a-day-keep-the-doctor-away-apple-research-suggests If anyone knows of more resources on this, let me know. #organic #food #biome #nutrition #health

I have been interested in learning smithing for a few years now and I may have found the perfect excuse: beating swords into ploughshares: https://billypenn.com/2019/07/25/using-fire-and-force-this-philly-author-turns-guns-into-garden-tools/ #pacifism #christianity #smithing

The number of Jain renunciants has gone up 20-fold in the past decade: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48879591 It seems this is motivated by strong personality worship. #jainism #asceticism #india

A handy guide to tech-bro speak: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/26/how-to-speak-silicon-valley-decoding-tech-bros-from-microdosing-to-privacy #siliconvalley #scams #doublespeak

This is probably not a huge surprise to many of you but if you are unfamiliar with CostCo: https://thehustle.co/costco-membership-economics/ There is no ethical consumption under capitalism but this is a lot better than most of it. #costco #capitalism #humanity

HTML is the Web: https://www.petelambert.com/journal/html-is-the-web #html #webdesign #accessibility #usability #worldwideweb

The Republic of China has a careful regiment to “innoculate” viral disinformation without resorting to censorship: https://cpj.org/blog/2019/05/qa-taiwans-digital-minister-on-combatting-disinfor.php #information #disinformation #misinformation #republicofchina #taiwan #peoplesrepublicofchina #lies #internet #web #freedom #knowledge

Looking for a villain on the Web? Try Chrome! https://alexdanco.com/2019/05/30/google-chrome-the-perfect-antitrust-villain/ There is no excuse for not using Firefox or Tor (or at the very least Brave). #chrome #google #opensource #freesoftware #monopoly #web #internet #freedom

@stark I mean, it seems like you are a Swede, so you are _probably_ white. That helps. :/ America is a real mixed bag. There are a lot of great things that we have done and a lot of nasty ones as well (including ones that we are _doing_.) I hope you can separate the good from the bad but sometimes, that is impossible.

Some truly draconian and fascist border patrols in the United States: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/22/cbp-border-searches-journalists/ Possibly the most shocking thing here is a journalist handing over the password to his phone. That is mind-boggling. #privacy #fascism #mexico–unitedstatesborder #journalism

The folks at Inkstone have done all us non-Mandarin speakers a solid and translated a graduation speech by 曲衛國 (Qu Weiguo) :https://www.inkstonenews.com/education/chinese-college-professor-qu-weiguos-full-graduation-speech/article/3015786 Themes include: freedom as a universal human condition, Schopenhauer’s view of reading, and the pursuit of non-material goals. #beauty #truth #good #graduation #commencement #fudanuniversity #liberty #freedom #reading #曲衛國 #quweiguo

@erose You will be spared.

@erose Oh sorry, I didn’t understand how to read that thread upstream. Odd. No, I will never not be an egg. One of these days, I will figure out how to make an all-egg mutiny on this platform. ¡Viva huevos! (But thanks for your note.)

@erose Sorry? I think I misunderstand, erose. Can you explain why you tooted me?

Naomi Klein re-centers the internecine squabbles in the Democratic horse race: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/21/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-progressive/ #democrats #naomiklein #2020unitedstatespresidentialelection #joebiden #progressivism #berniesanders #elizabethwarren #neoliberalism