William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social · 8hSome Chinese person surnamed Hong has accidentally given United Healthcare my phone number instead of their phone number and every week or so I get another call from their Chinese speaking call center from another confused worker trying to contact him about his insurance 121
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic. 332125341
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not 592560410
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I knew Victor Marx was a bad dude but I was not prepared for how sickening this whole thread was 150
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I know it's a lot to ask but I would really appreciate if the president had more lucidity than my sick 88-year-old grandfather 120
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20... 7453159
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient 202036615
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's a government version of the End Poem from Minecraft but for people who have never beat the game before (most people) it's a really creepy response to get from a chatbot lol 141
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 29/09/2026"Replication crisis" reforms like preregistration & pre-analysis plans were developed to control false positives in experimental research. Does that work in observational studies? Our new paper in Sociological Methods & Research argues for a different approach. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 28129
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds). 23780191
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026is this the pivot to Asia we were promised 020
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal 337153151280
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Doro|河文 @faeydoro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026White person shocks waiter with horrible mandarin, asked to eat with fork and knife, they could at least have given me a spoon 142
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Kansas Livestock Association comes out against the ICE Raids????!!!! 39471129
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026insisting my gender pronouns are alf/alf slow-burn revelation that I genuinely believe I was previously abducted by a psychic alien Sasquatch with stars in his eyes Enthusiastic hissing as I describe my life as a gender-expansive possum-kin 1318113
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026hot take but nothing is more irritating to me when I'm working on actual work than thinking something is referencing actual empirical work on minds and then finding out it's philosophy and the basis is "some essay" jfc 1362
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Rep. Jamie Raskin ...said on social media that the ad could amount to “felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes.” He also cited the Hatch Act, which prohibits govt employees from using positions or official resources for polit activities" 34431
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I keep pointing this out, but MAGA fundraisers implying they control access to government checks on the condition you respond to them is pretty blatantly illegal. 38924
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026having fun webscraping and learning that, for some articles, the Taiwan Affairs Office uses html for its text styles and for other articles it uses css. Not sure at the moment why, it kind of appears random to me. 010
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026you are all like little babies, to me (archiveofourown.org/users/Empero...) 511312
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social · 22/09/2026to be honest I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with the idea that 6 out of 10 democrats would support a military coup against trump 110
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Tom Ellison @123tomellison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Imagine the vibes in the student newspaper bullpen during these email exchanges. Delectable. 46624
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Just found out that the Kaohsiung Port Police get to operate the ROCS Cutie Patootie 2182
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 20/09/20262019: "I don't want to learn Blender: I'm going to write my own renderer in R, so I never have to use a GUI and can write all my scenes as code!" 2026: "... and then you call raygui(), and you can explore and change your scene without writing any code at all!" 🤷♂️ #RStats #rayrender 2487
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026the president has finally revealed his true form: a 1980s preppie villain determined to tear down the rec center 181228179
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Doro|河文 @faeydoro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Having a bunch of sex cults is usually a sign of dynastic decline in imperial china 172
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Me: "wow, I wonder who could have written this DPP perspective on cross-strait issues in this NCAFP publication from 2009" look inside it's the future vice president of Taiwan 111
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Amanda Weiss @amandaweiss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026🚨 New Working Paper! 🚨 Do voters *like* local prisons? Are prisons that good for the economy? After years of data collection (+ using a novel estimator?!), @nottone & I find new prisons: • Reduce Republican incumbent vote shares 1-3pp • Decrease per cap. incomes >$2,500 osf.io/dnwke 🧵👇 22915
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Dave Calder @ldsfn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’m surprised to see the LDS church back a ban more stringent than its own guidance. The cruelty of the Idaho legislature has resulted in pregnant women being life-flighted to Utah for complications that would otherwise be treated in Idaho. idahocapitalsun.com/2026/08/13/i... 2102
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Of all the impacts AI has had on my life the worst one is probably the way it has significantly reduced the quality of former president Chen Shui-bian's Instagram posts. Like come on that's not even a Chinese character 242
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 17/09/2026WOW this is a big story, don't know how I missed it til now. Not that MTurk was perfect (it was not!) but what are people going to do to get their training data now? Are we thinking we're done training models?! And as this article makes clear, many many workers are going to be affected. 031
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Every now and then I see one of these and I'm like "there's no way that's an accurate transcription" and then I look inside and 110
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked. 6330131672
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I tried the volcano style pizza at Taiwanese Pizza Hut and folks let me tell you this would absolutely go crazy in the states. Literally the most American pizza style I've ever had. When I get back to the US I'm making a call to the Pizza Hut CEO 182
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026Trump Jr’s wedding appears to have been paid for by Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch *linked to the theft and kidnapping of Ukrainian children*. This is both hideously evil and so utterly tawdry. newrepublic.com/post/215371/...newrepublic.comThe Terrifying Person Who Bankrolled Trump Jr.’s WeddingDonald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, which he described as attended by “just really close friends,” was thanks to an ally of Vladimir Putin. 40825293
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026In a hidden-camera operation, pardon brokers Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl said that for $300,000, they could help a felon get a pardon from the president. They said their services included working with influencers to advocate for his case. cbsn.ws/4dj706z 18723431191
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026When Trump campaigned in 24, in the midst of overwhelming rhetoric about mass deportation, he also echoed Romney about giving a Green Card to STEM graduates. That was BS, clearly, and he’s taken a maximalist position against international academic exchange 0189
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 361742738
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It's bad that the central rule of US diplomacy is now "sometimes the president just says crap, and sometimes he justs post crap, and neither is the official position of the United States, except sometimes seriously but not literally, or sometimes literally, or sometimes it is. You'll find out." 371413366
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social · 12/09/2026they should invent a car back seat that fits three people 110
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I'm afraid to read the new R F Kuang book because I suspect it will be too relatable lol 000
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 11/09/2026America’s broad consensus view on housing is that it should be cheap when people are buying it (affordability!) and expensive when people are selling it (Building Generational Wealth For Families!). 217925
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's not easy to blaspheme monotheistic religion and the American civic religion at the same time, but by leading a pledge of allegiance to himself, Trump pulled it off. 414232
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)New Bloom @newbloommag.net · 11/09/2026"What Does the Collapse of TPP-KMT Cooperation in Hsinchu Mean?" by @brianhioe.bsky.socialnewbloommag.netWhat Does the Collapse of TPP-KMT Cooperation in Hsinchu Mean? | New Bloom MagazineCooperation between the KMT and TPP has been quick to dissipate in Hsinchu. This follows a familiar pattern… 062
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026I know we say this about a lot these days but "ross ulbricht starts drug marketplace, tries to hire hitmen, goes to jail for life, is pardoned by trump and appears at his convention with a 'become ungovernable' background in support of the literal president" is a little on the nose 292335581
Reposted by William Martindale (馬凱威)James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/09/2026This is the founder of Silk Road – which enabled international drugs trafficking on an industrial scale, among other things – speaking at President Trump's midterm convention (after getting a pardon from him), because lol nothing matters. 952440836
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social · 11/09/2026They should make a Taiwanese language textbook that just teaches you how to understand your family at dinner 130