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Dave Lofquist

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Sports, China, software Be there. Be happy. Be kind.

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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I went back to China after a decade away—I'd previously lived there for 20 years. Some notes:
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App Life in China
“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovi...
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Dave Lofquist @lofquid.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Air Force was way ahead of the other branches in this.
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Dave Lofquist @lofquid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Leach hit two triples in the first game of the first World Series, a record tied but never broken. Are there any other sporting records set at the first opportunity like that?
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Chris Weatherspoon @cweatherspoon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A huge story and a quite staggering failure of football governance
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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
One of my favorite hidden gems at Retrosheet is our 2020 MLB schedule, which can be downloaded here: www.retrosheet.org/schedule/ind... It's such a perfect historical document. (1/5)
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Retrosheet Original regular season Schedules
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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 08/06/2026
The most inclusive World Cup ever www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Top African referee Omar Artan refused access to US before World Cup
Omar Artan was going to be the first Somalian to officiate at a World Cup but was refused entry at Miami airport despite a valid travel visa
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Dave Lofquist @lofquid.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
BRB, creating a database of ethics violations that cannot be publicly disclosed with SHA-3-512 hashes for proof of possession.
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Aston Villa Statto @avfcstatto.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I wouldn't swap Unai Emery for any manager in world football. This man is now immortal at Aston Villa. He has changed our club immeasurably. Build the statue❗️ #AVFC
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Dave Lofquist @lofquid.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Taking more than the standard deduction is unpatriotic.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21/04/2026
Today’s 10 years since Prince passed, and I just wanted to tell one of many personal stories, about why I have this wonderful photo by Afshin Shahidi (a friend, who was also Prince’s personal photographer for years) hanging in our home. It tells a very special story…
Prince walks down 52nd St. in New York City in 2004, on his way to rehearsal, and on his way to history.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Minnesota's state hockey tournament time is here which means the state is once again suffering from a peroxide shortage. First team up is Dodge County
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Far from the biggest concern right now, but Iran is a qualifier for the 2026 World Cup, and is supposed to stay in Tucson
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It really is infuriating they got away with it
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Dave Lofquist @lofquid.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Look, I know he’s had less than 40 days in his position, but couldn’t the Chairman of the Board of Peace do something in response to the bombing of Iran?
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Tom Lawton @startwitheasy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Catching up on some reading, and this is an incredible piece of writing from @jeffrueter.bsky.social . Captures the day-to-day life, and excellently conveys the emotional and psychological damage of the federal presence.
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A Saturday and a state killing: soccer as Minnesota is torn apart | Jeff Rueter
On the whims of Fifa’s Peace Prize winner, a life usually so focused on sports has found anything but peace
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 29/01/2026
The thing is… you never know who will fight… like actually throw hands
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The combination of the image and headline
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Paul Tenorio @paultenorio.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Ex-MLS coach Adrian Heath thought the job interview might lead to the next part of the world football would take him. Instead, it turned into a nightmare. “I started thinking about all the good stuff about my life,” he said. “My wife. My children. My grandkids.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/698...
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The extraordinary story of a soccer coach, a kidnapping and a Saudi job that didn’t exist
Adrian Heath was duped into thinking he was on the verge of a new job – only to be held at knifepoint in Morocco. Turns out he's not alone
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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I genuinely think there are geographic reasons they’re going to regret using Minneapolis for their big “show of force”.
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Alex aka Muscato @cafemuscato.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
My older brother, this Christmas season, set himself the task of organizing my mother‘s holiday recipes and testing out, for the first time in many years, all of her cookies. He started simply, with the sugar cookies, cut using her cutters into all the familiar shapes, iced with her trademark…
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Jack Grimse @jackgrimse.com · 23/12/2025
Aston Villa Then 📉 🎠 4 Mangers in 1 Season 💨 Easy Away Day 😟 Relegation Aston Villa Now 📈 🐐 Unai Emery 🏰 Fortress Villa Park ✈️ European Football #AVFC
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Greg Huss @outofthevines.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
By midsummer in Myrtle Beach, losses had piled up piled up for the Pelicans. Frustrations simmered and the team seemed stuck in neutral. Then Chris Clarke walked into the clubhouse. ⬇️ outofthevines.com/2025/12/18/p...
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Pre- and Post-Chris Clarke: How a Cubs Minor League Vet Sparked a Culture Shift in Myrtle Beach
By midsummer in Myrtle Beach, losses had piled up piled up for the Pelicans. Frustrations simmered and the team seemed stuck in neutral. Then Chris Clarke walked into the clubhouse.
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Dave Lofquist @lofquid.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Walter Cronkite’s advice for old men: 1. Never trust a fart. 2. Never pass up a drink. 3. Never ignore an erection.
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NBC Sports Soccer @nbcsportsoccer.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
You hear that? That's the sound of pure Aston Villa joy. 🔊
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
honestly, if there’s one thing our people excel at, it’s being an annoying pain in the ass while having the patience to do so within the realm of the current written laws — if for nothing else, out of spite
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️
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Dave Lofquist @lofquid.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
For 16 inch? This calls for deep reflection on your part, my child.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
1/2 Several weeks before he came onto national scene, last summer while Biden was still in the race, I was at a tech conf where Walz gave 40-minute keynote, about the way advanced geospatial data systems were transforming all sectors in Minnesota. Gov, ag, educ, mfr, research, sustainability [cont]
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 25/11/2025
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
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The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Thanks so much to GQ for publishing my liner notes for the new Replacements 'Let It Be' boxset, out on Friday. Extra special thanks to Jessica Hopper, Patterson Hood and Brian Paulson for their extraordinary insights. What an absolute joy this project has been to work on. www.gq.com/story/when-t...
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When The Replacements' Courage Was at its Peak
On their 1984 album ‘Let It Be,’ the Minneapolis indie-rock wastrels spewed a message of working-class passion and outsider solidarity into the world's answering machine.
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
不相上下 Welcome to the beginning of Locknet, U.S. version.
Screenshot of Baidu.com search result for "White Paper Revolution" that reads: "Sorry, there are no results for this search." 

See Wikipedia for details on White Paper Revolution: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_COVID-19_protests_in_ChinaScreenshot of results for Google search for "does trump show signs of dementia." The AI result at the top is "An AI Overview is not available for this search."
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Dave Lofquist @lofquid.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Omnes circenses, nullus panis
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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The lone long-lost MingKwai typewriter, invented by Lin Yutang in 1947, has resurfaced in a NY basement. How did it get there? Where might it go next? The journey of the groundbreaking invention embodies the search for modernity and Chinese identity. My latest: madeinchinajournal.com/2025/05/02/l...
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Lost and Found: The Unexpected Journey of the MingKwai Typewriter | Made in China Journal
It began as an innocuous inquiry on Facebook. Nelson Felix, a resident of New York State, posted in the group ‘What’s My Typewriter Worth?’ about a curious find he made while clearing out the basement...
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I wrote about small-r republican virtue and whether America has enough left to get out of this mess. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/inherent-vic...
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Inherent Vice: Can America Come Back From Who We’ve Become?
At the richest moment in world history, in an unparalleled time of comforts and luxuries, we have elected self-harm and self-pity.
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Sara Sanchez @bcbsara.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The largest paying crowd in the history of Wrigley Field was the day Jackie Robinson made his debut. Wrigley is the only park left Jackie played a game in. Mike Ryoko was a kid at that ballpark that day and he wrote about it. Take a minute and read this today. press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...
A newspaper clipping from Mike Ryoko part one:

Jackie's Debut a Unique Day
All that Saturday, the wise men of the neighborhood, who sat in chairs on the sidewalk outside the tavern, had talked about what it would do to baseball.
     I hung around and listened because baseball was about the most important thing in the world, and if anything was going to ruin it, I was worried.
     Most of the things they said, I didn't understand, although it all sounded terrible. But could one man bring such ruin?
     They said he could and would. And the next day he was going to be in Wrigley Field for the first time, on the same diamond as Hack, Nicholson, Cavarretta, Schmitz, Pafko, and all my other idols.
     I had to see Jackie Robinson, the man who was going to somehow wreck everything. So the next day, another kid and I started walking to the ballpark early.
     We always walked to save the streetcar fare. It was five or six miles, but I felt about baseball the way Abe Lincoln felt about education.
     Usually, we could get there just at noon, find a seat in the grandstand, and watch some batting practice. But not that Sunday, May 18, 1947.
     By noon, Wrigley Field was almost filled. The crowd outside spilled off the sidewalk and into the streets. Scalpers were asking top dollar for box seats and getting it.Part II:

  I had never seen anything like it. Not just the size, although it was a new record, more than 47,000. But this was twenty-five years ago, and in 1947 few blacks were seen in the Loop, much less up on the white North Side at a Cub game.
     That day, they came by the thousands, pouring off the northbound Ls and out of their cars.
     They didn't wear baseball-game clothes. They had on church clothes and funeral clothes·suits, white shirts, ties, gleaming shoes, and straw hats. I've never seen so many straw hats.
     As big as it was, the crowd was orderly. Almost unnaturally so. People didn't jostle each other.
     The whites tried to look as if nothing unusual was happening, while the blacks tried to look casual and dignified. So everybody looked slightly ill at ease.
     For most, it was probably the first time they had been that close to each other in such great numbers.
     We managed to get in, scramble up a ramp, and find a place to stand behind the last row of grandstand seats. Then they shut the gates. No place remained to stand.
     Robinson came up in the first inning. I remember the sound. It wasn't the shrill, teenage cry you now hear, or an excited gut roar. They applauded, long, rolling applause. A tall, middle-aged black man stood next to me, a smile of almost painful joy on his face, beating his palms together so hard they must have hurt.Part III:

When Robinson stepped into the batter's box, it was as if someone had flicked a switch. The place went silent.
     He swung at the first pitch and they erupted as if he had knocked it over the wall. But it was only a high foul that dropped into the box seats. I remember thinking it was strange that a foul could make that many people happy. When he struck out, the low moan was genuine.
     I've forgotten most of the details of the game, other than that the Dodgers won and Robinson didn't get a hit or do anything special, although he was cheered on every swing and every routine play.
     But two things happened I'll never forget. Robinson played first, and early in the game a Cub star hit a grounder and it was a close play.
     Just before the Cub reached first, he swerved to his left. And as he got to the bag, he seemed to slam his foot down hard at Robinson's foot.
     It was obvious to everyone that he was trying to run into him or spike him. Robinson took the throw and got clear at the last instant.
     I was shocked. That Cub, a hometown boy, was my biggest hero. It was not only an unheroic stunt, but it seemed a rude thing to do in front of people who would cheer for a foul ball. I didn't understand why he had done it. It wasn't at all big league.
     I didn't know that while the white fans were relatively polite, the Cubs and most other teams kept up a steady stream of racial abuse from the dugout. I thought that all they did down there was talk about how good Wheaties are.Part IV:

 Late in the game, Robinson was up again, and he hit another foul ball. This time it came into the stands low and fast, in our direction. Somebody in the seats grabbed for it, but it caromed off his hand and kept coming. There was a flurry of arms as the ball kept bouncing, and suddenly it was between me and my pal. We both grabbed. I had a baseball.
     The two of us stood there examining it and chortling. A genuine major-league baseball that had actually been gripped and thrown by a Cub pitcher, hit by a Dodger batter. What a possession.
     Then I heard the voice say: "Would you consider selling that?"
     It was the black man who had applauded so fiercely.
     I mumbled something. I didn't want to sell it.
     "I'll give you ten dollars for it," he said.
     Ten dollars. I couldn't believe it. I didn't know what ten dollars could buy because I'd never had that much money. But I knew that a lot of men in the neighborhood considered sixty dollars a week to be good pay.
     I handed it to him, and he paid me with ten $1 bills.
     When I left the ball park, with that much money in my pocket, I was sure that Jackie Robinson wasn't bad for the game.
     Since then, I've regretted a few times that I didn't keep the ball. Or that I hadn't given it to him free. I didn't know, then, how hard he probably had to work for that ten dollars.
     But Tuesday I was glad I had sold it to him. And if that man is still around, and has that baseball, I'm sure he thinks it was worth every cent.
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
we're thrilled to share that we've started the year with a new addition to our team! he's extremely smart, capable, charming, persuasive, and boasts a wealth of museum experience
Feathers McGraw (a penguin with a rubber glove for a hat, or a chicken depending on who you ask) stands outside the entrance of The Museum of English Rural Life.
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Kori Rumore Finley @chicagorumormill.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
But the second game in a Cubs (Colts) vs. Reds doubleheader from the previous day ALSO includes a Tinker-Evers-Chance double play in the box score. Should THIS be the first double play turned by them?
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Dave Lofquist @lofquid.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Just your everyday 25 minute, 38 kick shootout. (both keepers converted)
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Dave Lofquist @lofquid.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
If you’re a reincarnated Tibetan lama in a US high school, what else could you be, except an offensive lineman?
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Behind the facemask, a spiritual leader
Football Across Minnesota: Jalue Dorjee deftly balances life as a teenager and reincarnated Buddhist lama recognized around the world.
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Mara Novak @maranovak.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This painting was the funniest one in the show
SIMONE MARTINI
(Italian, active 1315-1344)
CHRIST DISCOVERED
IN THE TEMPLE
dated 1342
Tempera and gold leaf on panel
Signed and dated 1342, this remarkable painting is from Simone Martini's final years in Avignon. There is no evidence that it was associated with another panel. Although vaguely associated with the biblical narrative of the evangelist Luke (2:41-51), its unique and enigmatic iconography is less a depiction of a singular episode from the infancy of Christ than a meditation on a psychological moment in a story. Simone focused on exploring the dynamic of a family drama: an elderly father points to the worry that a child's absence has brought to his mother; the pouting adolescent seems unmoved.
Simone's free application of diluted paint to create the abstraction of stone on the reverse is equally astonishing. This panel sionals a new age of independent painting in Western art.
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
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baddantakes @baddantakes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
one of the best "what a fool believes" knockoffs www.youtube.com/watch?v=L60q...
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Rita Lee - Lança Perfume (1980)
YouTube video by Musicalidade
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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-... —new review up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, @mauracunningham.bsky.social on @tsmullaney.bsky.social’s Chinese Computer, an @mitpress.bsky.social book
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The Character of Chinese Computing | Los Angeles Review of Books
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham reviews Thomas S. Mullaney’s “The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age.”
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Pierre-Yves Baubry 博磊 @pybaubry.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Baseball. Taiwan's historic victory in the WBSC Premier12 Championship has allowed further affirmation for the country on the international stage. This gesture by Team Taiwan's captain Chen Chieh-hsien best encapsulates this breakthrough. You can't see any logo or team name? Try harder. Thread. 1/n
Taiwan baseball national team captain Chen Chieh-hsien the non-existent TAIWAN Logo on th his jersey with both hands in front of his chest.
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Whipling @seanhaines.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Uh oh. Someone was busy in his Summer off social media. Got a few more already locked and loaded in the chamber. Investigations. Thoughts. Essays. Reminisces. First one is up now~ 👇
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As Bluesky takes flight, China has got a Twitter problem
For years, state media have been seeking to grab the microphone. Now Musk has handed them it.. no one is listening?
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