Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Always feel insanely blessed to be able to get out there. Thank you for a safe passage, mountains. 110
Reposted by Yvon Wangmimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 22/04/2026seriously, get rid of your crap 342218336
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Thanks @asianstudies.org staff for putting on a great #aas2026 in beautiful Vancouver! So delightful as always to see friends like @eastasiascitech.bsky.social @xiaoshuoing.com @devinfitz.bsky.social @dcporter.bsky.social @tristangbrown.bsky.social @matthewmosca.bsky.social @jeffweng.bsky.social! 2153
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Super excited to discussant for this panel tmrw! Thank you @damiandamiani.bsky.social for inviting me. #aas2026 054
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Very moving memorial panel for Prof. Janet Theiss, a sore loss to #qinghistory #genderhistory here at #aas2026 w a wonderful roster including Profs. Tobie Meyer-Fong, Paola Zamperini, Stephanie Painter, Wen-hsin Yeh, and Maram Epstein. What an exemplar of the generosity w which we should live. 093
Reposted by Yvon Wangdoom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region 225192504807
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social · 09/03/2026an entire administration illustrating the pitfalls of binary gender roles and vilifying drag 010
Reposted by Yvon WangG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/02/2026The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d... 33678282420
Reposted by Yvon WangHilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social · 21/02/2026FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.academia.eduAcademia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, ResearchersAcademia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests. 13596480
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social · 28/07/2025It's so little, too little, but little has got to be better than nothing... chuffed.org/project/1368...chuffed.orgGaza City Mutual Aid - Help Us Provide For Local FamiliesIn collaboration with my friend Mohsen in the north west of Gaza City, we are aiming to raise money to provide flour and water for families in Mohsen's local community. 010
Reposted by Yvon WangBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I don’t believe the whole “shut up and vote” thing is compelling or helpful but it sure as shit is definitely not helpful until a primary happens and there’s a nominee. Right now those people are just saying “accept transphobic shithead governors without question” 1239521
Reposted by Yvon WangJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/07/2025We’re apparently at the point where anonymous Facebook smack talk that exactly nobody is going to follow through on counts as news. 1028728
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social · 14/07/20255 years married, disgustingly happy, horrifyingly lucky. 🥰 050
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Just so delighted to get out this much this summer. There must be flowers as well as bread. 🌹🥖 010
Reposted by Yvon WangAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/07/2025hey, you guys? is it a good thing or a bad thing if during a hearing your own co-counsel texts your other co-counsel and says “oh shit that was just not true” in reference to something you just told the chief judge of the D.C. district court??? 11540291056
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Another beautiful weekend in and on top of some mountains. Reminds me of why it’s all worth fighting for. 020
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Back on my BS (blue sky) after a month in Asia. Will never get tired of having Rocky Mountain NP in our backyard 060
Reposted by Yvon Wangryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/05/2025so the Signal clone that Michael Waltz used was made by an Israeli company and some hacker found it trivially easy to own. in fuckin credible www.404media.co/the-signal-c...404media.coThe Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was HackedTeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked. 625363
Reposted by Yvon WangLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 05/05/2025I don’t know man, what could it possibly be? 261217255219
Reposted by Yvon WangDavid Noll @david.noll.org · 24/04/2025jeez this is bleak www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...wsj.comFearing Trump’s Visa Crackdown, College Students Race to Scrub Op-EdsCampus newspapers confront ethics debates as foreign students ask that their names and views be removed from past articles. 21910276
Reposted by Yvon WangGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I think there’s some college students who would disagree that the president believes we can “say whatever the f*ck you want” 2132526
Reposted by Yvon WangBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/04/2025The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery. 1206213506152
Reposted by Yvon Wangceej @ceej.online · 23/04/2025love a senator imploring regular citizens to fight back against tyranny. dawg you spent the last twenty years giving machine guns and tanks to traffic cops this is like pushing your toddler into the ring with ivan drago 70102051679
Reposted by Yvon WangBrendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 22/04/2025Literary Chinese you can use, from Zhang Yanghao (1270-1329) on history: 興,百姓苦,亡,百姓苦 “Rise: the little people suffer. Fall: the little people suffer.” 315047
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social · 23/04/2025🎻: spent hours today trying to move 6k mp3s from my ancient laptop using iTunes (yes, by not upgrading the OS for 4 yrs) to new (to me, 2ndhand) iPhone. Best option for Mac/iOS is Doppler. 1-time payment, $39 to hook up a phone + up to 3 computers. Enshittified subscription-based apps are evil. 000
Reposted by Yvon WangWard Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 20/04/2025The reason for the season: 20963313
Reposted by Yvon WangBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2025I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't. 657344555345
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social · 19/04/2025I dressed up like this as soon as I'd seen the book cover 120
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social · 19/04/2025this would be encouraging if I weren't so skeptical of the ability of the Institutions That Be to stand firm, make noise, and stare them down. 010
Reposted by Yvon WangCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes? 152132053094
Reposted by Yvon WangDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Love to know about history 872027170
Reposted by Yvon WangPaul Gowder @gowder.io · 18/04/2025Observe that the one that complied and the one that didn't comply are treated exactly the same way. 252708910
Reposted by Yvon WangNicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 18/04/2025It’s very “only Nixon could go to China,” in the sense that Democrats who call for general strikes and say “abolish ICE” are scolded by a broad swath of other Democrats and journalists, but when Brooks or Kristol say it, they’re treated seriously. 25940155
Reposted by Yvon WangPaul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life. www.politicshome.com/news/article...politicshome.comPalantir Boss Louis Mosley: Keir Starmer 'Gets' AI, 'You Could See In His Eyes'In a bid to boost growth, Labour has thrown open government’s doors to controversial US tech firm Palantir. In his first ever sit-down interview, P... 5622821062
Reposted by Yvon WangDavid Sirota @davidsirota.com · 13/04/2025Ezra Klein, 2010s: President Obama has no power to do anything, and liberals saying he does believe in a fantastical “Green Lantern Theory” that is false Ezra Klein, now: President Biden shoulda moved even faster than he did, because presidents can do anything 1020222
Reposted by Yvon Wangneck romancey @bruxa.online · 10/04/2025I mean it goes without saying that they are just lying about this. My boss told me “AI is going to be what gets us to UBI” as though the thing holding us back is technology rather than political will. It’s a child promising to do their homework if you let them play videogames for hours first 760380
Reposted by Yvon WangMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The world’s richest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth after Trump pledged to pause tariffs for some countries. It was the largest one-day jump ever. 8515165
Reposted by Yvon Wangjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2025a lot of you seem to have a view of the typical american servicemember that has more in common with some dystopian YA novel than it does the men and women who actually volunteer to serve this country 1153921307
Reposted by Yvon WangKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The typical pattern (nearly universal) is consultants come in, enhance/confirm admins' fixation on program and personnel cuts as the Only Solution, lay waste to the uni, collect a giant check, and leave. And a few years out, those places are still limping along, as precarious as they were before. 2395
Reposted by Yvon WangTom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Headed up to Buffalo to speak at the SUNY “AI” conference about use in health and I’m gonna bet dollars to donuts in the only one whose presentation is “don’t” LLMs are a good tool in health and PH in a very narrow use case: brute force data collection and giant data pattern identification 2225
Reposted by Yvon WangMichael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I think I’m going to be thinking about this quote from Gordon Hirabayshi on the walls of the museum for a long time. 131112476
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Thankful for our little old Steve in these bad times. #catsofbluesky 0220
Reposted by Yvon WangPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/04/2025You know The Economy is real when trillions of dollars can move up and down based on a tweet of a made-up quote 547377
Reposted by Yvon WangDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/04/2025At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs. 299246225391