My dad made a joke comparing my 4yr old daughter to 「ようきひ」 and it took me like a full minute to realize he was referencing 杨贵妃
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸
Профиль VivelyJapanese/Chinese ハーフ living in the USA 大田区🇯🇵 X 辽宁🇨🇳 X SF Bay Area🇺🇸 Has a Japanese soul, an American brain, and a Chinese stomach. Born in Japan, roots for Japan in the Olympics🇯🇵🎌🇯🇵 Somewhat of an Japan Knower. Loves history. Radical Qing monarchist?
Trump is an absolutely singular talent at…I dunno, projecting a version of himself that simply doesn’t exist. It’s honestly insane how effective it is.
Ben HarrisThis is the anecdote that really struck me in the Paul Weiss story. “I was surprised Trump changed the deal and attributed things to me I didn’t say or agree to.” My man. Had you not been paying attention to a single thing Trump has done in his public life?
I’ve been saying this for a while: what is the actual economic case for frontier models? Will most users notice the difference between it and a Chinese model that’s maybe 90% as good but costs 10x less? SV has been so used to low cost and high margins, they genuinely don’t have an answer to this.
Albert PintoAnatomy of the AI crisis 1 OpenAI and Anthropic have hundreds of billions in payments coming due this year to BigTech AI companies Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia etc 2 They need revenue, so jack up rates. 3 Users shift to cheap open-source Chinese models 4 ??? We are at stage 4 x.com/Hedgeye/stat...
I say again and again, even if your take on trans women playing sports may make sense for you in an vacuum as an isolated comment, we can see your holistic attitudes and what you do and do not comment on, and come to the conclusion you care more about hating trans women than protecting women sports.
It was genuinely crazy when I was over there and went out as a family of maybe 12-13 people, got a huge ass meal, put it on my credit card, and a “$70” popped up from my app and I was like 😳
The Japan TimesFinance Minister Satsuki Katayama will announce on Monday that Tokyo and Washington took joint action in the currency market to arrest the yen's slide to 40-year lows, two Japanese government officials said. 👉 ebx.sh/hXOUWV
I always struggle to find the right words to explain it, but it’s hard to observe it from individual posts but when you look at a pattern of posts, see what always goes viral, what gets liked, what discourse sticks in people’s brains, that’s when the (really subconscious) anti-semitism comes out.
Matt BaldwinSo, while I am personally inclined to agree with the person quoted here in this instance, I do think it's really crucial to observe that antisemitism, like all other forms of bigotry, is not an ontological, static state of being, it is learned behavior that people can be conditioned into.
I do reflect on this a lot because I always did feel kinda out of place growing up. I was surrounded by elite Asian families who were super well-educated and wealthy while my parents were 1. Son of a blue-collared small workshop-owning family and 2. Literal refugee from the CCP.
川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸My parents, while Asian, weren't super "Asian" relative to others. I went to an okay school, did okay educationally, and now am doing pretty dang fine for myself career and family wise.
The other fun (or not so much?) side of it is getting reminders of a lot of suuuuuuper high-achieving classmates in high school, brought up in super strict Asian families, who're now absolutely listless as adults due to all that mental stress when they were younger.
Cadenza 華彩樂I keep getting intermittent reminders of how so many people younger than me have whole-ass families with multiple children and rigid Life Schedules etc
It is genuinely wild to see Trump basically flaunt every single political common sense
Don MoynihanThe easiest possible layup for a President at war with another country would be to explain that they are attacking us. Trump won't do that because he views Minnesota as a bigger enemy than Iran.
Incredibly based. I don’t think people realize how NIMBY California leftists are in general.
Benjamin SchneiderProgressive LA Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman told Vanity Fair that her main difference with DSA is on housing. www.vanityfair.com/story/nithya...