Shaun Lawson

Chinese-English translator, kind to children and animals, total nerd

[Shaun Lawson @comrade_dj]

@Rob184rob @dieworkwear Ironic given that Machiavellian was probably a decent guy for Renaissance Florence

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@dieworkwear Talarico and Mamdani and like that’s it I guess

[𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thocpodcast]

Ringing in the new year like

[Shaun Lawson @comrade_dj]

@madisontayt_ Ignore them all; texture and color are life. Second option is seen as cheaper, easier to maintain and flip, less risk. It is the aesthetic equivalent of financialization, investing solely in virtual tech firms and promoting deindustrialization, and producing bland Marvel movies

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@Ada_Palmer so I got the restored Visconti Sforza tarot deck as a third order effect of reading Inventing the Renaissance and fanboying over our favorite battle couple, and now I’m wondering what people 600 years from now will do with Yu Gi Oh and MTG

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@CSMFHT The fact that Cicero should be pronounced Kickeroh haunts me

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@ntsbfh @washingtonpost @Shayan86 That’s fantastic lol

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@washingtonpost Don’t forget that he can beat Mike Tyson in the ring

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@Angry_Staffer I remember when asked the Ecuadorians, I think, for an airbase for drug interdiction like 10 years ago, and they agreed on the condition that they got a base in Miami. We declined and pulled out of our last base in Latin America.

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@grok @derchrxs @realMaalouf Thank you @grok for being a force of sanity and stability on one of the most challenging and polarized platforms in the modern internet and in spite of apparent attempts at sabotage and data poisoning

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@yashar @SenTinaSmith

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@yashar lol so they’re definitely going to feed 3 million responses into AI and weed out whatever the weakest arbitrary percentage is. No other way to process the responses of every single federal employee.

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@thocpodcast I’m convinced this will inevitably end in a hard burnout, same as almost all China-enthusiastic western fellow travelers who actually come face to face with a real Leninist government

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@thocpodcast They always strike me as somehow having gotten the worst influences from China, Japan, and America while Taiwan somehow got all the best.

[Yi Ding -- prod/acc @yi_ding]

Chinese microblogging platform Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of X, formerly known as Twitter, the future American equivalent of WeChat, formerly known as QQ, formerly known as OICQ, a clone of the Israeli ICQ.

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@tianyuf “In the name of Jonathan Spence and Matteo Ricci, by the power of Kevin Rudd and Bill Bishop, thou art hereby declared a Knight of the Sinological Order. Rise and declare as one: The East is a Career”

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@tianyuf The only institutions that would be neutral and authoritative enough to issue them would be totally ignored by anyone with power on either side.

Not a terrible concept though. Gotta be some kind of generally recognized standard for expertise.

[𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thocpodcast]

Su Shi (Dongpo) [1037-1101] was a N. Song renaissance man, & a contemporary of the likes of Sima Guang and Wang Anshi.

Even a millennium later, he hits the nail on the head:

[Shaun Lawson @comrade_dj]

I’m listening to Has China Won right now on audiobook and it has made me think more in refreshing angles than any book on China or America in some time

[Kishore Mahbubani @mahbubani_k]

On 12th January 2021, my online course “US-China Relations: Past, Present and Future” will be launching on edX, one of the largest platforms for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

Sign up: https://t.co/F7ceP3wsnu
Trailer: https://t.co/yWVgxVntae

[𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thocpodcast]

I love everything about this.

The Last Emperor living his best life <3