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Wonderful essay by @shenlulushen about food, life and her native village in the mountains of Zhejiang province.
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Someday, when I am older and wiser, I want to be able to write half as well as @mattfleg
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I just want to be successful thats all..
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This is …. And I don’t say this lightly…. The single greatest piece of writing I have ever seen in my life
The Japanese have discovered unlimited chips & salsa and it’s beautiful
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USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
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Oh come on that’s not even a couple of hallucinated cites but a lot…..
Very disappointed to see that @AramHur's latest paper in @koreaobserver has six completely fabricated citations.
Academic integrity matters, people.
A short 🧵
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My train from Providence to New York took 6.5 hours due to a downed power line. At Chinese HSR speeds, I would've been in Miami in the same amount of time. This country desperately needs to invest in its infrastructure.
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Absolutely massive scoop by @emilypont: The Trump administration is giving up defending the president's offshore wind permitting freeze in court
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I will never, ever stop believing that liberal democracy and human rights are worth fighting for, and here's why.
It is the easiest thing in the world to say that those people over there don't need human rights. It's so, so easy to do this. "They don't deserve it. They don't need it. They're happier without it. Society is better overall if they don't have it." Easy, easy, easy.
But EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON in the entire world wants human rights for themselves and their children. Without exception.
Every single person on earth wants justice if their loved one is murdered. Every single person on earth wants to be able to hold their government accountable if the government steals their home, wages, or land.
Every single person on earth wants to be able to speak freely to other people about injustices they or their children have personally suffered.
Those arguments you're hearing about why liberal democracy isn't all it was cracked up to be? It's all crap. It's steaming garbage repeated by people who believe that it will be other people, not themselves, who have to give up these rights.
I know this beyond a shadow of a doubt. It is my lighthouse in a world increasingly shrouded in choking, blinding fog.
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And yet another thread debunking extremely compromised China influence research, this time from the National Association of Scholars, an ideologically hard-right organization.
Like the recent reports from Bitcoin Policy Institute and Power the Future, this report's primary goal isn't to ensure the integrity of American civil society.
Rather, its primary goal is to achieve domestic ideological and political goals, namely to delegitimize 2 bogeymen of conservatives: Progressive energy policies, and California's public universities, which conservatives have hated since the 1960s.
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Good morning with good news: Biggest solar cell factory in US history starts making solar cells and every major piece of a solar panel!
Qcells will annually make in Georgia 8.6 GW of modules and 3.3 GW of cells, ingots & wafers.
It will employ 4,000!
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“They are running out of people,” he said. “When the only people you can hire are bad lawyers, you get bad cases litigated badly.” by @DevlinBarrett
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“ The country is so dangerous that the U.S. State Department states on its website, “do not travel for any reason.”
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EXCERPT from Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by @jonathanvswan and me, in NYT Magazine today. How the Epstein files crisis paralyzed the Trump White House for the better part of a year nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magaz…
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To this excellent article I would add the idea of raising the price of a parking ticket, which seems to be totally immune to inflation. At $65 for an alternate-side violation, lots of drivers have made the calculation that the fines are way lower than paying to park in a garage.
Jun 10
With a new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who wants the city to be less reliant on cars, parking reformers see an opportunity to reimagine the streetscape: nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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I've always said the Supercharger network is the best thing Tesla has ever done for EVs. Now BYD is deploying 1,500 kW chargers at nearly 1 GW per month — 2.4x Tesla's rate. This competition is the next best thing to happen to the EV revolution. The only bummer? US protectionism means Americans will miss out.
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BYD is deploying 2.4x more charging power per month than Tesla electrek.co/2026/06/10/byd-c… by @fredlambert
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This one hits hard.
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NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the United States hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl @johnismay @ArtemisChats
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Some very unusual stuff happened in the White House Situation Room last summer. Adapted from @maggieNYT and my forthcoming book, "Regime Change" - gift link: nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magaz…
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You can already start to see it.
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Please, people, for the love of all that is good, do NOT use the words "changemaker" and "thought leader" - banish them from your vocabulary, forever.
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