Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Better comparison: Gross National Income (GNI) per capita before and after the Brexit vote 📊 Made with data from data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY... 🧪 #EconSky 1138
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Yes, there’s something that bothers me about the movie even more than that unbalanced centrifuge 🧪📚💙📽️ #LangSkyarstechnica.comAndy Weir’s Project Hail Mary and the soft, squishy science of languageA deep dive into xenolinguistics, pragmatics, the cooperative principle, and Noam Chomsky! 240
Reposted by Ming F. WanMilo Magnetuning 🧲🎶 @magnetuning.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Hihi!!! I made a thing!!! (Thank you sm Feora for sharing this!!!!) 262
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Just wanna thank @anarazel.de for (sort of) saving the world, and Veritasium for the excellent explanation of the LZ77 algorithm 🧪 0104
Reposted by Ming F. Wanmutualcombat @mutualcombat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026astarion and his daughters #bg3 418850
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Presented my PageRank slide that I thought was hilarious. Sparse chuckles. Peer review is brutal 🧪 www.cs.toronto.edu/~ming/unsupe... 170
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Pretty sure these hyper-elaborate skincare routines are scams (and bad for the environment). Also: telling women they need to spend this much time and money on skincare is bad for their career growth and for feminism. 🧪👩🏻🔬youtu.beLiv Tyler Does Her 25-Step Beauty and Self-Care Routine | Beauty Secrets | VogueYouTube video by Vogue 4367
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 15/11/2025AI doing the important work — automating scammers out of their Academese fortresses 🧪youtu.beThe (Overdue) Collapse of Corporate ConsultingYouTube video by The Invisible Game 05117
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 01/11/2025In my Chinese primary school, we learned about Marie Curie fighting sexism in science. Meanwhile, Hollywood sold girls the dream of being fashion designers — a borderline scam of a career path. 🧪👩🏻🔬qz.comWhat the US can learn from women in the Soviet workforceIn episode two of HBO’s 10-Emmy award-winning series Chernobyl, lead character Ulana Khomyuk (played by Emily Watson) delivers a scathing line to a male Soviet Communist Party leader: “I am a nuclear ... 43710
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 26/10/2025My bf drew our plushie kids 🐧🐻❄️🐸🐑🐶🦕 playing in the pond for our anniversary 🩷 #art 010
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 19/10/20255 years ago, I wrote about how blood diamond monopoly De Beers tried to kill lab diamonds by undercutting them with cheap, low-quality lab diamond jewelry: www.cs.toronto.edu/~ming/422_es... That plan failed. Miserably. 🥳 🧪 #EconSkyforbes.comDe Beers To Close Lightbox, Its Lab-Grown Diamond Jewelry BrandLightbox was established by De Beers in 2018 to disrupt the lab-grown diamond industry, arguing that lab-grown diamonds are a distinct product from mined diamonds 45912
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 25/08/2025🦫🧪youtu.beThe Desert Was Dying… Then Beavers ArrivedYouTube video by Innovative Techs 26225
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 08/03/2025My dad scored ~70 on a primary school IQ test. He later ranked in the top 30 out of 1M in one of the hardest Gaokao exams and has been a VP at multiple Fortune 500 companies. Whenever people say IQ tests are fair and objective, I just tell them this story. 🧪youtu.beI Took an IQ Test to Find Out What it Actually MeasuresYouTube video by Veritasium 108912
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Some heart-warming data: Decades of civil rights reforms significantly reduced the poverty rate of Black Americans. 🧪 #EconSky 27016
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Economists know it, but politicians rarely say it—globalization massively reduced global inequality. 🧪 #EconSky 1017857
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Bf's company is producing a cartoon about the Aztecs, with all the dialogue in Spanish. Bf: The Aztecs didn't speak Spanish. It was the Spanish colonizers who massacred them that did. 🧪 #langsky 1191
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Weebs in academia🧪🦠 🔗 doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11081912 #anime #aot 0110
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Forbes just hit a new low—promoting someone running an open Ponzi scheme. 🧪 #EconSky 94915
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 05/02/2025🧪My favorite plagiarism case will always be when my solution, posted in a GitHub issue comment, got copy-pasted into multiple Stack Overflow answers—without a shred of attribution.github.comDjango 3.2 The app label is not a valid Python identifier. · Issue #17801 · FortAwesome/Font-AwesomeDescribe the bug Error when using runserver in Django 3.2 Works with Django 3.1.8 To Reproduce pip install Django==3.2 pip install fontawesome-free==5.15.3 Add 'fontawesome-free' to your installed ... 0101
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Neri Oxman (yes, the Wikipedia plagiarist from MIT Media Lab) had her students build a giant, useless silk pavilion to "explore relationships between digital and biological construction." oxman.com/projects/silk-pavilion-i I chose the wrong career. 🧪 46511
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 03/02/2025And this is my biggest issue with the anti-consumption movement: Instead of showing how consuming less & saving more helps the economy and environment, it defaults to tEmU bAd takes—while fashion brands, magazines, and Hollywood are the real ones manufacturing demand. 🧪 #EconSkyyoutu.beThe Luxury Fashion Industry Is Designed To Keep You PoorYouTube video by Wall Street Millennial 2266
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Ada Lovelace as a new science leader in #Civ7! 👩🏻🔬🧪 3363
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I've always felt Temu & Amazon get undue hate for selling fast fashion, when the real culprits are fashion brands. They're the ones brainwashing consumers into thinking that constantly buying new clothes is somehow a form of self-empowerment. 🧪 #EconSkyvox.comBurberry says it won’t destroy unsold merch anymore. But plenty of other fashion brands still do.An expert explains why Burberry, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, and Michael Kors would rather destroy merchandise than lose prestige. 293
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Chiming in on the DeepSeek situation as a former Dev Lead of a BBC-recognized startup: The sad truth is that tech companies rarely prioritize environmental friendliness. Instead, they burn computing resources on buzzword features to impress investors. Props to them for actual energy-saving. 🧪👩🏻🔬markets.businessinsider.comNuclear stocks tank as energy names get caught in DeepSeek-fueled routDeepSeek is fueling a selloff in one of the market's best-performing sectors last year: nuclear energy. 2398
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Some funny highlights: 1. Instead of establishing a promised Bitcoin strategic reserve, Trump formed a committee to decide whether to not sell digital assets the government already owns. 2. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) blatantly pumped & dumped on X, pretending to announce a Bitcoin reserve. 🧪 #EconSky 2173
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Oda invented a unique pronoun for his gender-fluid character Ivankov. (Source: One Piece Volume 85 SBS, 2017) 🧪💙📚 #linguistics 2150
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Sharing this as some around me are eager to try all-natural Chinese herbal meds. One popular remedy for minor ailments, sold by a leading Chinese pharmacy, is potentially linked to 100k liver failure cases in China. The company denied responsibility and has never compensated victims. 🧪 #MedSkynews.sina.cn新华视点：龙胆泻肝丸是清火良药还是致病根源?新华视点：龙胆泻肝丸是清火良药还是致病根源? 47217
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Hot take: Tite Kubo is the greatest artist alive. Not-so-hot take: I'm upset at Naruto 20 after seeing how good Bleach 20 is.youtu.beTVアニメ『BLEACH』20th PVYouTube video by アニプレックス チャンネル 121
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Preprint "Price-fixing in the lab diamond market"💎 The lab-grown diamond industry, initially seen as a force for healthy competition and fair pricing in the diamond market, is now facing its own price-fixing issues. 🧪cs.toronto.edu 12310
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 06/01/2025The #NoLawns movement deserves more attention and participation. 🧪🌱washingtonpost.comOpinion | I’m no genius with genuses, but your garden is killing the EarthYour lawn and garden are helping to doom the Earth. If you want to save the planet, all you really need to do is plant a single oak tree. 1415328
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Yet another Stanford dropout, whose company supposedly had a renowned Stanford professor as an advisor, turned out to be a narcissistic scammer. 🧪 #AcademicSky 1181
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 04/01/2025I'm convinced that most people who recommend A Hundred Years of Solitude have never actually read it. 💙📚reddit.comFrom the menwritingwomen community on Reddit: This book is chock-full of WTFisms like this (100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez)Explore this post and more from the menwritingwomen community 000
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Thrilled to share my publication in Linguistics Vanguard! In this paper, I debunked common myths about hashtag popularity and uncovered how hashtag syntax influences its popularity. 🧪 #linguisticsdoi.orgThe role of syntax in hashtag popularityResearch on hashtag popularity presumes hashtag popularity to be correlated with its semantics and lexical clarity, and the popularity of its topic. However, within a single event, hashtags of identic... 45812
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 02/01/2025🧪On Wikipedia, Tether attempts to discredit Griffin and Shams's research exposing their market manipulation by misrepresenting subsequent studies. 092
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 02/01/2025🧪I created this YouTube Short after researching blood diamond companies and finding it amusing how desperate they are as younger generations stop buying into their corporate propaganda.youtube.comBlood diamond firms are desperateYouTube video by Minnie Wannie 1161
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 31/12/2024🧪Scam crypto project Parallel Finance claims to be advised by renowned Stanford CS prof Dan Boneh. I emailed him about this affiliation but got no response. 182
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Yubo Ruan, CEO of the recently collapsed crypto company Parallel Finance, seems more focused on polishing his Wikipedia page than addressing the users he defrauded. #Crypto 121
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 30/12/2024🧪Bitcoin miners face little scrutiny in academia despite their massive waste, zero societal value, and existence solely fueled by opportunistic investors chasing a Ponzi scheme.cbsnews.comCryptocurrency is making lots of noise, literallyThe peace and quiet of rural Bono, Arkansas, has been shattered by a loud and incessant mechanical buzzing sound created by a bitcoin mine. Residents are HODL. 1024180
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 29/12/2024My Chinese parents tried an AI tool to turn their profile pics into drawings. The result? A white mom and an Indian dad. My boyfriend: 'Your mom’s does look like her… if she were white.' 🧪 2212
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 27/12/2024I created this video inspired by Geoffrey Pullum's 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice. It frustrates me that The Elements of Style is still used in academia. As a non-native speaker, I hold a personal grudge against this book because I believe it actually worsened my English writing. 🧪#AcademicSkyyoutu.beThe book that ruined your English writingYouTube video by Minnie Wannie 4305
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 25/12/2024🎄Me, Christmas & Pokémon🎄 #artcs.toronto.eduMing Feng WanLooks like I’m a Computational Social Scientist—and I dabble in neural networks too. 000
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 23/12/2024🧪I’ve always wondered why the FTC never targets LVMH—it seems like an easy win.smulook.comThe Monopoly Man: How Bernard Arnault and his LVMH Empire are Eliminating Competition in the Luxury Market – SMU Look 051
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Bit annoyed by the praise for this game’s aesthetics—it’s awful. The art style is inconsistent, the 'realistic' models look like generic asset flips, and it feels like a crypto game using Unreal 5 asset flips without understanding basic game design principles. #gamedev #gamedesignyoutu.beAra: History Untold ReviewYouTube video by IGN 040
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 20/12/2024🧪Turned my recent publication into a mini "animation" doi.org/10.1515/ling... 180
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 20/12/202412-year-old still watches Naruto—maybe I’m not that old after all. 000
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 20/12/2024🧪Anyone else notice that he's cosplaying as Kakashi? www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/h...nytimes.comLife Without Sickle Cell Beckons Boy Who Completed Gene TherapyAfter 44 days, Kendric Cromer, 12, left the hospital. While his family feels fortunate that he was the first to receive a treatment, their difficult experiences hint at what others will be up against. 050
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 19/12/2024🧪 Actually managed to get this joke published in a prestigious journal😝 doi.org/10.1515/ling... 091
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Canva is an overlooked gem for creating academic presentations🧪 www.cs.toronto.edu/~ming/the_ro... 000
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024An overlooked form of misinformation: fake data 🧪 A tweet from a self-proclaimed 'financial analyst' comparing the US and Canada’s GDP per capita has gained 254K impressions, but no one has pointed out that the graph's data is entirely fabricated. For context, I’ve attached the real IMF data. 0194
