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Tim Hwang

@timhwang.bsky.social
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
happy thirteenth anniversary to adventure time broadcasting this pure emotional crisis right into your brain
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Wife: What’d you get in that huge box? Me:
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
What is the oldest book you own?
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
No Country for Corporate Memphis
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
yeah sex is great but have you ever stepped into the MIT Press bookstore in Kendall Square with some money burning a hole in your pocket
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
a smooth brain encounters less friction
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
jack dorsey's flickr page is still up and it's this incredible time capsule from 2006/2007
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
moby dick is a book about a startup
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Washington, Washington Twelve stories high, made of radiation The present beware, the future beware He’s coming, he’s coming, he’s coming
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
CORMAC MCCARTHY: He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die. JOE ROGAN: sure. I've met guys like that
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
guys who read seeing like a state and decided that they wanted to be the state
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
raising my kids right
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
been trying to get 4o to apply a norman rockwell filter to 2000s nostalgia and it is turning up some nice results
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
big following, poor epistemics, can’t lose
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
With the decline in the influence of social media and the rise of the groupchat, we are probably operating in the twilight of the big, public kayfabe brawler as the apex predator of media
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Just learned about this wild period in American history where Meyer Lansky mobilized Jewish mobsters to go after domestic Nazis in New Jersey www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...
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Gangsters vs. Nazis: How the Jewish Mob fought American admirers of the Third Reich
Emboldened by Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in 1933, and fueled by the Great Depression, anti-Semitism increased throughout the United States, and over 100 anti-Semitic organizations sprung up acr...
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
What is comparatively the most minor event that marks the point at which the timelines started to diverge?
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The Shukhov Towers on the Oka River in Russia, the world’s only diagrid hyperboloid transmission towers. Pictured in 1988, only one stands today because the entire left tower was stolen, Carmen Sandiego style, in 2005.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...
Flashing lights, large screens ablaze with animated graphics reminiscent of the oughties. The CPAC logo spins around as generic rap-rock blasts across the crowd.

Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for the DOGE update. Please welcome Newsmax host, Rob Schmitt.

Schmitt: Man. That is a big crowd. And they are not here for me.

Crowd cheers.

Schmitt: How you guys doing? Nice vibe this month, right? After the best month we’ve ever had. Nice to see you. Thanks for coming out. It’s good to see you. Let’s not kill any more time, let’s bring out Elon Musk.

Crowd goes wild. Elon Musk enters stage, pumping both fists high in the air, walking slightly unsteadily. He is wearing a black MAGA baseball cap and sunglasses that look like they were bought in a gas station in 1989. He continues to pump his fists as he makes his way in front of the beige arm chairs at the front of the stage. Rob Schmitt attempts to get his attention, but he turns and waves at the crowd.

Schmitt: We’ve got one more surprise, in case this wasn’t enough.Musk: Well, President, uh, President Milei has a gift for me.

Schmitt: [hamming at camera] Javier Milei from Argentina, you guys know who that is, right?

Milei, a friendly-looking figure who resembles Bilbo Baggins right before he Smeagolifies, enters the stage carrying a chainsaw. He presents the chainsaw to the billionaire, who then waves it around unsteadily.

Musk: This… is… the chainsaw for bureaucracy. [pumps the chainsaw in the air] CHAINSAAAW!He takes a beat to examine the chainsaw. He is still wearing his sunglasses. He turns around and starts wandering to the other side of the stage, waving the chainsaw around.

Musk: Uwaaauwaargh!

Milei lurks awkwardly in the background, trying to wave goodbye to Musk, before Schmitt takes notice.

Schmitt: Mr. President, thank you so much. Nice to meet you. I love it. We love it.

Musk’s attention snaps to Milei. The two men shake hands with the Argentinian president, who then departs.
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"the woke mind virus" mind virus
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
french mcdonalds is something else
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
seven year old nephew just drew this in crayon on my window (???)
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
my toxic trait is scheduling slack messages with odd minute increments (0:17, 0:22, 0:56) for that added “in front of keyboard” verisimilitude
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
one of my absolute favorite things is seeing a friend pop off in multiple mutual groupchats at the same time
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
vibe shift: substack officially renames "trust and safety" to "standards and enforcement"
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
*mcphee intensifying*
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
It’s 1984 and there’s a guy in Atlanta writing a memo comparing the rollout of New Coke with D-Day.
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
what is the shortest, most powerful book ever written
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
the idea that xiaohongshu is actually a reference not to mao but to stanford GSB and bain is just so, so sweet
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
a shitposter should be able to troll a sucker, plan an invasion, fake an image, code a website, shoot a gun, quote Gwern, shill a substack, pretend to be a lawyer, sense vibes, start vibes, manipulate an algorithm, stay anonymous, die gallantly. specialization is for threads.
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
traditional cigarettes are due for a huge comeback since they’re one of the most potent things that kids will have to offend the sensibilities of their millennial parents
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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
incredible
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
parenting divides the built landscape into surfaces which are visible and reachable visible and not reachable not visible and reachable neither visible nor reachable
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
calvin and hobbes (june 30, 1993)
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
“systems thinking”, once the preferred analytical frame of the tech intelligentsia, is increasingly an out of fashion mental model for the world in its place - direct, reductionist weltanschauung: “you can just do things” the midwit meme “high agency” mysticism grand histories
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
enjoying the All Souls past examination questions
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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
my new thing in 2025 is going to be library tourism. if you pull up to a new city with me we're going to the mf library
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
today, i commend to you this unbelievably great funky song-poem about jimmy carter www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Psi...
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Jimmy Carter Says "YES"
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
the style and effortless cool i’m aspiring to in 2025
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
when your wife really, really gets you
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
going through and wishing merry christmas to the groupchats like carolers going door to door spreading holiday cheer
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 25/12/2024
As part of an experiment digitizing 40 year old videotapes, I pulled out of from 325 hours about an hour of Boston-area commercials from 1984. It's got everything: Long-lost brands, holiday wishes, calls to visit Florida. So much more. Check it out: archive.org/details/Mari...
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
die hard is a hanukkah film (foreigners looting a temple, miracles involving fire)
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
the societal transition from traditional to digital media has been transition of the marketplace of ideas from a monopoly to a monopsony
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
whole symposium to be done on this photo
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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
and this “civil society” - is it in the room with us right now?
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