Alaska gun owner, substance hunting family here and I fully support an assault weapons ban. AR-15s and similar weapons need to be on the National Firearms Act list. #marypeltola, #lisamurkowski, #dansullivan
After my lovely shout out last week I slept through the first half of the #readingthestone meeting and then was turfed out because I arrived with my Korean class alias ... Will listen to the replay! Missed you all.
Russia's victimhood talk is part of the crime.
This is the text of my briefing of the UN Security Council, for a session called by the Russian Federation to discuss "russophobia."
https://t.co/7AGvi7BST5
About to sit down with a cup of tea and the last two chapters of #readingthestone. I really enjoyed reading it, but I know I wouldn't have gotten this far without Team #readingthestone and insider info and explanations. Thank you all!
@IchVerbinden We asked the bot questions about HLM in English last night. The essays were bad and there were actual inaccuracies ... Not as good as the Wikipedia article! AI #readingthestone
@readingthestone Now I remember: credit to Susan Chan Egan & Pai Hsien-Yung in A Companion to the Story of the Stone (2021) for pointing out "can't read a word" is only one possible translation of "bu rende zi"
I love this. Hawkes/Mitford make Xifeng seem a bit stupid (cf "can't read a word" which someone (sorry can't remember who!) explained could have been translated as reads a lot but not a scholar...) We miss so much in translation but the #readingthestone group helps a lot!
@bookwitz@iasann Ah. Missed that. Interesting. I was thinking about Wang Xifeng probably not being able to read/write (or at least not comfortably) and wondered how Caltrop wound up such a poet.
#readingthestone wondering about doubling between the 12 actresses and the 12 beauties of Jinling. I don't have all the actresses straight yet so I don't see correlation yet.