Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Irish green (#009A44) for 🇮🇪 and royal blue (#00247D) for 🇬🇧. You can also view the interactive chart here:data.worldbank.orgWorld Bank Open DataFree and open access to global development data 110
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 · 06/08/2026(Late to the discussion but still want to chime in) I think, for Sebastian at least, it's more about guilt than affection—otherwise, "I truly wanted you" wouldn't be a Deception check 000
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Peterson Academy flexing Harvard professors while Jordan Peterson constantly attacks elite universities has the same energy as Candace Owens calling the NYT fake news while citing her NYT bestseller status #AcademicSky 🧪 091
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The new subtle float animation in Font Awesome 7 is 👌 #AcademicSky 🧪 040
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026A jeweller once posted that mined diamond rings are a great investment because they knew people who sold theirs for 2× return. I replied with the diamond price index: even at its peak, diamond prices didn't beat inflation. The gold setting probably did the heavy lifting. They blocked me 🧪 #EconSky 0100
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 · 12/07/2026Marathon Digital Holdings: all that environmental damage and human suffering... for a net profit margin of -234.83%. Bravo 👏 🧪 #EconSkyyoutu.beI Live 500 Feet From A Bitcoin Mine. My Life Is Hell.YouTube video by More Perfect Union 081
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 419050
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 · 21/12/2025Marie Curie: teaches to survive, conducts groundbreaking experiments in a leaky shed, while raising an infant. Hollywood: let’s make a “classic” about how much plantation owners suffered during the Civil War and call it female resilience. 🧪👩🏻🔬reddit.comFrom the movies community on RedditExplore this post and more from the movies community 1162
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Some real data, not fake numbers from a right-wing shill: Ireland’s GDP per capita used to be just over half of the UK’s. Now it’s more than twice as high. (Yes, GDP isn’t the whole story—but this stark contrast couldn’t have happened without Brexit.) 🧪 #EconSky 1132
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 30/11/2025The good old pre-globalization days, when America had less income inequality because everyone was poorer. 🧪 #EconSkyyoutu.beThe Myth of the 1950sYouTube video by BritMonkey 2132
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 · 09/11/2025This site’s design is riddled with rookie mistakes: 1. Large empty spaces 2. Jarring font size contrasts 3. No title hierarchy 4. Zero border padding Basically what happens when you ask an abstract "artist" to design something practical. 010
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 · 13/10/2025@forbes.com: feature → collapse. Speedrun complete💀 🧪 #EconSkydlnews.comBitcoin treasury narrative gets ‘annihilated’ for firm as stocks collapse over 96%Nakamoto Holdings has raised billions to fund Bitcoin buys. Shares of the company are down over 96% since their May peak. The crypto treasury narrative “has been annihilated,” said one analyst. 073
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 · 02/06/2025Now that money laundering via crypto is legal, it turns out we don't need elongated head sculptures to remind us of our existential crisis after all. 🧪 #EconSkyyoutu.beArt Market Collapse?YouTube video by Patrick Boyle 0145
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Word is, the same Chinese sweatshops churning out LV bags also make their counterfeits — and the replicas are actually better made. 🧪 #EconSkyyoutu.beChinese Manufacturers Are Exposing Luxury Brands | DOCO MiNiYouTube video by DOCO Documentaries 020
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Gotta love how Hermès didn’t even try to make their condo-priced bags less dull. 🧪 #EconSky 041
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Worth noting: My dad’s parents were illiterate serfs. He was the top student in his "primary school"—one grade, one teacher with barely any education. Easy for a eugenicist to look at this data point and say, "See? Even their brightest is this dumb. They’re meant to be peasants forever." 🧪nautil.usHow Eugenics Shaped StatisticsExposing the damned lies of three science pioneers. 1203
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 · 04/03/2025👩🏻🔬🧪 #Civ7youtu.beFirst Look: Ada Lovelace | Civilization VIIYouTube video by Sid Meier's Civilization 160
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 03/03/2025A "world-renowned" designer with a website that looks like a 9th grader’s first CSS project. 🧪🐡 172
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 02/03/2025American factories shut down when Black workers unionized and demanded equal treatment. Makes you wonder if those high-paying factory jobs only existed because they depended on exploiting minorities. 🧪 #EconSky 061
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Americans who brag about their high-paying unionized factory jobs pre-globalization conveniently ignore how those white-led unions shut Black workers out—forcing them into low-wage jobs, sweating in 100-degree heat without even electric fans. 🧪 #EconSkyprospect.orgBlack Workers Remember 1182
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Next up: oil dealer explains why spills are actually good for marine life. 🧪youtu.beMyth: Bitcoin Is Bad For The Environment - Coinbase Crypto UniversityYouTube video by Coinbase 0103
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 · 12/02/2025Luxury brands sell $57 sweatshop bags for $2,800, yet Temu and Amazon get all the hate for selling cheap clothes. 🧪 #EconSkybusinessinsider.comNow we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bagIn recent months, Italian authorities raided Dior subcontractor workshops where people were working around the clock, they said. 31710
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 · 08/02/2025He contributed nothing to blockchain technology—just a convicted fraudster.sec.govSEC.gov | Michael Jerry Saylor, Sanjeev Kumar Bansal and Mark Steven LynchLock 010
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025One of Forbes' judges is Cathie Wood—best known for saying she started an investment fund to "fulfill the will of God" and for being the worst fund manager of the past decade. 🧪 #EconSkyyoutu.beForbes Has a Fraud Problem!YouTube video by Patrick Boyle 2203
Ming F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Michael Saylor has a history of securities fraud and tax fraud. Now, he’s running an open (and technically legal) Ponzi scheme.youtu.beMicroStrategy's "Infinite Money Glitch" ExplainedYouTube video by Wall Street Millennial 000
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 · 06/02/2025My research found that people don’t pick the shortest or clearest hashtag—they just copy whatever format is trending. 🧪 #linguistics 050
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 · 04/02/2025More like a lack of regulation. A capitalist economy actually benefits more when the average person buys fewer clothes and invests in clean energy stocks instead.en.wikipedia.orgSolow–Swan model - Wikipedia 010
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 · 02/02/2025My favorite part of the video—the discussion section. 👩🏻🔬🧪 #linguistics #AcademicSky 040
