Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Would Trump and Co really engineer a huge sell off in order to short a bunch of O&G stocks? No way! 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 03/02/2025The media keeps repeating the phrase DEI in the euphemistic way the right has re-coded the word, i.e., as affirmative action. It’s the kind of laziness that the right relies upon from the media (Bannon has said as much), and it’s also highly destructive, as we’re now seeing. Do better. 010
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Current sentiments. media2.giphy.com/media/l3q2GD...giphy.comSee Ya Goodbye GIF - Find & Share on GIPHYDiscover & share this See Ya Goodbye GIF with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs. 010
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The word for this is counter-revolution. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...reuters.comreuters.com 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 01/02/2025A thing I always admired about Taiwan’s government was that, Blue or Green, there was a strong governing consensus that as TW got wealthier things should get better: new subways, high-speed rail, more education slots, renovated schools, single-payer health, and so on. Simplifying, but still. 100
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Ohio has a new law requiring people to use the bathroom that aligns with their biological sex. You know what the law also says? Asking strangers in a bathroom (or anywhere), even politely, to prove their sex is harassment and that shit carries consequences. Legal consequences. 100
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I am struggling to comprehend the inner bleakness of a political leader whose response to people’s immeasurable grief is to take showy petty swipes at his opponents and to try and to insulate himself from accountability. 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I don’t know squat about AI but I do know a few things about China and could have told anyone who asked that if the Chinese central government has decided on a crazy-seeming goal, like being a dominant player in AI,your best bet is that it will happen. Let that guide your thinking hereafter. 020
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 29/01/2025All the buffoons on tv yesterday praising the spending freeze as a good, decisive action must be feeling pretty dumb now. Right? Ha! They don’t care. They’ll just say rescinding the memo is the boldest, most decisive-est step ever taken. 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Blood on their hands www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...nytimes.comTrump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor CountriesPEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped. 011
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Currently in a naturalization ceremony and all these people are so much more uplifting than the freaks running the federal government for now. 010
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025After the announced pause in aid I looked up USAID and State for this and got a 404. Now I know why. These f’ers. Pausing PEPFAR (and probably cutting it eventually) is unspeakably cruel and stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...nytimes.comTrump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment WorldwidePepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days. 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025The mighty Olentangy River is currently a frozen highway. 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Olentangy Trail bridge. (1/24/25) frosty bike commute, arguably my most wypypo activity 030
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Trump says we were wealthiest in the 1890s. That’s….insane and hilariously ignorant. In REAL dollars, per capita GDP in 1900 was under $9k. It’s about $90k now. WTF is even happening here? Why must we listen to this idiot? How is this doofus president? Misanthropy surging! 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Has Bill Easterly spoken up about Trump pausing all foreign aid (except, of course, military aid to the usual suspects) and subjecting all projects to approval by Russ Vought? 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 23/01/2025The Trump admin has a strange but totally predictable preoccupation with architectural norms. The historical record of regimes claiming to want to restore “Western Civilization” and build accordingly is not great. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...whitehouse.govPromoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture – The White HouseJanuary 20, 2025 MEMORANDUM FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION SUBJECT: 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Walked by this spectacular house in central Tokyo and had to get up real close to confirm that yes the entire exterior is sugi ban cladding. Stunning. (Yes I touched the walls) 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Dusting off my Mackinder now that territorial acquisition is on the agenda.media.tenor.coma woman in a pink shirt is standing in front of a bookshelf full of books one of which is titled bibleALT: a woman in a pink shirt is standing in front of a bookshelf full of books one of which is titled bible 010
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Someone at the DNC thought 9am today was a good time to send out a donation solicitation.media.tenor.coma cartoon character is scratching his head and the word bruh is on the bottomALT: a cartoon character is scratching his head and the word bruh is on the bottom 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Someone coined the term “seminar bro” and here is a specimen in the wild. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...nytimes.com‘The Interview’: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy is DoneThe once-fringe writer has long argued for an American monarchy. His ideas have found an audience in the incoming administration and Silicon Valley. 010
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 18/01/2025www.reuters.com/world/china/...reuters.comTrump's Greenland bid stirs debate in China about what to do with TaiwanFor years, the U.S. government has urged China to show "restraint" in pushing its claim on Taiwan and to drop military threats to bring the democratically governed island under its control. 010
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 17/01/2025This might be the wildest trick ive ever seen. youtube.com/shorts/4p7oB...youtube.comFilipe Mota Kickflip Front Blunt Hollywood 16 from Primitive’s “DAYDREAM” videoYouTube video by SLS 010
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 16/01/2025The NYT now has published four Trump voter forums framed by the assumed strangeness of this particular type of American. Do they understand that their heartland safaris affirm every stereotype about themselves? Do they know this tic they exhibit is a running gag now decades old? 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 16/01/2025What are the odds Hegseth doesn’t know the difference between Taiwan and Thailand? I’d say rather high. 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 14/01/2025It should NOT take three months to find reviewers for an article. It should NOT take a week to reply to an email about this. Academic publishing is ridiculous. Not the first to say this, but why must it be said over and over? 010
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Reading Perlstein’s “Nixonland” and learning of the huge reactionary resistance to social change in the 60s. The intensity of it is remarkable and familiar. I had to look up the Miami Rally For Decency when 30k+teenagers rallied outraged by Jim Morrison. Too funny. Too ridiculous. So sad. 010
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Birds are not far behind cats as perfect animals. Here a northern flicker feasts on suet. 010
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 06/01/2025This is the week to cue up Stan Robinson’s “Shaman” and go for long walks in the snow. (The Mars stuff is slightly tainted owing to one specific weird asshole who clearly read the trilogy as an instruction manual) 010
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Columbus, Ohio, needs whatever the reverse of congestion pricing might be. Something, anything to get people into the lifeless wasteland called downtown. 100
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Old bookstores are awesome. Might have to grab this one. 100
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Old bookstores are awesome. Might have to grab this one. 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Course syllabi at OSU are no longer intellectual statements and plans for learning. They are absurd legal documents. Mine for an intro course runs 17 pages, 14 of which are mandated legal boilerplate, with the remainder being the course description and schedule. 100
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Read Sinclair’s “The Jungle” and Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” over the holiday because they seemed relevant to the present conjuncture, as they say. But dayum they’re also just amazing books. Such good writing and storytelling. 010
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Animals (pretending to be?) very happy I’m home. 010
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 30/12/2024As someone deep in this scene thru the kiddo, I have to object to this lame take on breaking at the Olympics. Not because Raygun didn’t massively smear the scene. She did. But she could have been ignored as a weak competitor and people could’ve moved on. … www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/a...nytimes.comBreaking Was Supposed to Break Out in 2024. It Didn’t.It was a 50-year journey from the streets of New York to the Paris Olympic Games. But a would-be celebration turned into something of a debacle. 100
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Read “An Hour Before Daylight” by Jimmy Carter this year. Figured I should read at least one of his 30(!!!) books. It was really good. Don’t normally go for the Big Man biographies but he’s different in many good ways. What a life! 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Aerial view of King Cinder. That’s a 16-inch circumference btw. 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Electronic Arts in Vancouver made perfect skating terrain and then posted these dumb “no skating” warnings. I’m sorry, but that s$&t’s getting skated. Just look at it! 010
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 28/12/2024So I hear the MAGA crowd is finally learning that our tech overlords are a bunch of eugenicist freaks with a very strong social Darwinian streak and that in the tech utopia MAGA are, at best, the servant class, if not bred out of existence. Guess MAGA doesn’t read sci-fi. Or anything. 000
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 27/12/2024FC Taiwan jersey. Shop owner in Taipei objected to that whole “Chinese Taipei” thing and carries a renegade province jersey as a protest. Represent. 020
Max D Woodworth @maxwoodworth.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Japanese colonial-era city planning evident in the buildings and streets around the train station in Pingtung, Taiwan. Gotta look close to see the Art Deco design under the many additions. The signature roundabout is still in use. 010