It seems more like an intentional & arbitrary barrier to entry into the profession.

Donald Trump just passed the largest transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich in history and the tech oligarchs are now lining up to praise him.
 
The greed of the billionaire class knows no bounds.

🎥: Washington Post

又落緊雨。地球真係壞左。

Donovan’s Deep Dives: The real winner in the recalls - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

I submitted this column feeling pleased that I had a different take than anything else out there. Minutes after sending it in, I checked my messages and discovered that Jenna had come to similar conclusions, so turned out I wasn't so original after all:

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Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.

Ūi-tio̍h si̍p-koàn kap “bûn-hòa,” tāi-chì lóng bē sái thó-lūn, kám sī?

爲着習貫甲「文化」、代志朗袂使討論、甘是？

"Men aren’t avoiding marriage. They’re avoiding divorce."
　
Wow.

Most Home Runs In An AL/NL Season
(Guys Who Pitched 3+ Games):

46, Shohei Ohtani (2021)
44, Shohei Ohtani (2023)
34, Shohei Ohtani (2022)
32, Shohei Ohtani (2025 so far)
29, Babe Ruth (1919)
22, Shohei Ohtani (2018)

Thiaⁿ tio̍h Tâi-gí, Tâi-gí koa, sim-lāi tio̍h hoaⁿ-hí.
　
听着台語・台語歌、心內着歡喜。

Tâi-jîn 1920 nî í-āu ê sú-koan ka-kī koán. 1870 nî chìn-chêng ê sú-koan gōa-pau hō͘ Tiong-kok-á koán.
　
台人一九二〇年以后个史觀カキ管。一八七〇年進前个史觀外包乎中國仔管。

Lâm-pō͘ gōa-kháu teh chia̍h chàng, khah chá ná chhiūⁿ lóng ū thang hē iân-sui, kám tio̍h? Chit 5 tang 10 tang chiah lóng-chóng bô ·khì. Á-sī góa teh hām-bîn?

南部外口塊食粽、巧早那象朗有通下延荽、甘着？只五冬十冬者朗總無去。亜是我塊含眠？

The pre-1945 tribes are on the same footing vs the grievances symbolised by the 中正 street names, etc. "Junior" tribes don't lose their claim b/c senior tribes forgo theirs....

Some good points made, but there might never be a "good" time for such a change. Some kind of companion paperwork-reduction measure might be a good idea. "[C]onversation between different diasporas of Han colonialists" is provocative but inaccurate; "Han" doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

President of the Mexican Senate,
"We'll build the wall and pay for it.
But we'll do it according to the 1830 map of Mexico... Mexicans were settled in these territories before the U.S. The Mexicans living there are in what has always been their homeland."

But the theory of the margins has much diminished mass appeal. This dynamic plays out in radical milieus regardless of proclaimed values of theoretical robustness! Bc the very structure of most social activity rn normalizes ableist violence, demands it.

imagine paying $200 to watch a 2 hour French New Wave film that could have been collapsed into a 10 min scene of young people running around.

$300 to watch In the Mood for Love, and in the end, they don't even kiss.

Lí hā-ì-sek lia̍h chún lín chó͘-kong chó͘-má sī Tiong-kok-á, m̄ chiah m̄ kam kóng “Tiong-kok lâng,” kiàn kóng lóng “Chi-ná lâng.”
　
Án-ne kám ē hô? “Chi-ná” chit ê sû ū pa̍t ê lō͘-iōng--neh. Koh-chài kóng, lín chó͘-kong chó͘-má kám ū iáⁿ sī Tiong-kok-á?

ChatGPT is referring to DALL-E as "the AI".

Hey, maybe it won't be as bad as COVID.

Bân-kan!
閩奸
XD

Abolish Rule by Ethnic Majority Subject piece of discussion: https://crimethinc.com/2024/10/03/ya-ghazze-habibti-gaza-my-love-understanding-the-genocide-in-palestine A recent piece published by Crimethinc is described as "in-depth a...

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Meanwhile, Chinese Nationalist settlers and "the CNP" itself mass-imported a 20th-century version of Qing culture....

The Chinese Nationalist Party ("CNP") took root by making love to the worst aspects of Qing settler culture—esp. mid-island (mid-west), where both non-Chinese (incl. Christian) AND pre-Qing cultural elements were (and are) at their weakest.

Wait, this was made by a branch of the PLA?

Interesting piece on an intriguing matter.

Note "Taiwanese Hoklo". @donovan-smith.bsky.social knows where the nerves & arteries lie.

THAT NEW CHESAPEAKE OYSTER CATCHERS LOGO MY GOODNESS

I sense an insane coincidence, vs Hoklo.

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

Magga is corruption. Period.

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Quote from JM Smith’s “You Can’t Peacefully Vote Your Way Out Of Fascism.” It reads “The history of the Spanish Civil War reminded me that once you have a fascist government, you can’t peacefully vote your way out of it. To wrest a society free from fascism, citizens are arrested, tortured, stripped of their wealth, castigate and die in large nameless numbers. It takes decades of struggle to break the chains of fascism.”

open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/...

Anderson Cooper 360 on Instagram: "“You should’ve never started it. You could’ve made a deal”: President Donald Trump appeared to blame Ukraine for starting the war that began three years ago when Rus... 2,199 likes, 185 comments - andersoncooper360 on February 18, 2025: "“You should’ve never started it. You could’ve made a deal”: President Donald Trump appeared to blame Ukraine for starting the war t...

Lō͘-se-a hit ê chiàn-cheng sī U-kok jiá ·ê?
露西亜彼个戰爭是ウ國惹个？

Ū tì-hūi ê Tâi-oân lâng bē koh ǹg Chhòa M̄ ·ah ·lah.
有智慧个台湾人袂閣映蔡不ア拉。

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