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aqiun2025-01-02
来，记一下：
https://www.metafilter.com/206956/-Senatus-vs-Populusque-Romanus-
光看完post都觉得涨了一寸知识
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2024-12-21
好勤劳的创作者，脱帽敬礼！https://yalereview.org/article/amir-ahmadi-arian-zabihollah-mansouri
* a well-known magazine editor who serialized many of Mansouri’s translations, estimates that throughout most of his career, he submitted up to one hundred and forty thousand words per month to his various magazine editors. Given that Mansouri was an active translator for almost sixty years, fourteen hundred books is not an entirely implausible claim.
* But by contemporary standards, the most popular translator in the history of Iran translated hardly anything at all. Most of his works are a hodgepodge of source text mixed with his own additions and musings,
* He wrote on lined paper, cut in half because this allowed him to write across the width of the paper without lifting his wrist and enabled him to move his hand in only a vertical direction, another ergonomic strategy.
* Mansouri cavalierly expands and waters down Nabokov’s painstakingly constructed sentences, explaining everything without even bothering to fact-check his own explanations. His goal here seems to have been to make the text accessible to all of his readers
* his version of The Three Musketeers, which is some six hundred pages long in the original French, weighs in at more than six thousand pages,
* “Is Mr. Corbin alive?” Mansouri asked, visibly shocked.
“Of course he is. Didn’t you know that?”
“I wish you told him that Zabihollah Mansouri is dead.”
* Many of these places employed a naqal, who would show up in the evening to entertain the crowds with adaptations of the ancient epic.
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2024-12-06
我妈有个表弟，喜欢找她微信聊天下大事，我妈就非常不耐烦，总一句话‘这种事和我们老百姓有什么关系’，拒听。
这两天他女儿在帮我们把一些银行存款转外币，为这个由头表弟又语音聊天，又要指点江山，我妈又是不要听，表弟就说‘看要是你早听我说的懂点政治，早几年换钱，就不会这么吃亏了 。’
堵得我妈气急败坏，当场又把他挂了。
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2024-11-24
乐死了，这篇差评应该永垂不朽：https://defector.com/can-someone-please-write-normally-about-this-fascinating-woman?giftLink=09f87f6d344f2444351cca0d7b192630
While we are on the subject of nature, here is an entire paragraph, one of two about lightning in the story:
>> It’s monsoon season, and lightning bobs and weaves in the corner of your eyes all day like floaters. There are three separate storms to the south, delicately wind-tilted on the horizon. Lightning races them in a stitchless thread, and to the north rain shimmers through the sheerest rainbow, stamped perfectly horizontal against the mountains like the execution line on a document.
This is a 172-car pileup of mixed visual metaphors. What is the damn lightning (which bobs and weaves like a ... a floater) doing, racing the storms? Are you sure that it is racing them? It is racing them ... in a thread? A thread without stitches? Buddy, what the fuck is happening in the sky right now.
Well, see, over here, to the south, you got a thread. It lacks stitches. And boy, that thread is really hauling ass. In this sense, it will remind you of a floater. And then if you'll turn around and look over there to the north, you got your classic execution line on a document, the only way that the concept of straightness could be represented for the reader.
Hey man, I'm having a hard time picturing this "rainbow" thing you mentioned seeing. Oh, well, just picture the black line where you sign your name on a DMV form, that's basically it. OK, got it.
This manages to be simultaneously deranged and also not visually evocative in the least. It's like somebody sniffed glue and hallucinated the normal contents of a desk drawer.
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2024-11-21
拖了很久终于看完了 "对谈项飙：教育系统正在批量生产炮灰”
https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20241106A0453E00
* 什么是项飙所说的生命力？我很难给它下一个确切的定义。就像“附近”一样，它似乎来自于一种直观的感受。但在我的想象里，代表生命力一定不是整齐划一、拼命朝一个方向生长的速生林，而是森林的千姿百态。舒展的，柔弱的，挺阔的，散漫的，生命相互依存，自由生长，创造出属于自己的局部气候。
* 学校和教育系统不是在供给知识，而是好像在吸收一个什么东西。我想这个就是生命力。学生来学校提供生命力的消耗，去生产分数、生产成绩。不只是教育系统，其他地方还存在广泛意义上的“生命力捕获”。
* 现在我们看到的生命力的消耗，不仅是忙，而且在忙的过程中没办法让意识从行动当中抽身出来，对自己有一个叙述，大家都觉得被碾压了。.. 意识无法抽身的责任不是完全在于我们个人的。无论是工作还是学习，我们的任务都被设计成这样多头的、分散的、一个接一个碾压性的。特别是在学校，时间和空间的安排、每天学习任务的安排，都阻止着间隔的产生，人就很难有能力用意识再去反观自己的行动，形成自己的叙述。
* 把人完全当作资源，去讨论怎样以一个公平的方式对人进行分类，我觉得是一种想象。我不知道大家在自己生活中，真的会这么去看待吗？像这种没有基本数据来支撑的说法，是一种意识形态：用一个相对抽象的方式想象，然后加以解释，背后其实有很多假设。比如假设人就是一个和资源一样的东西、分配必然要高效化，这其实是自己在做一些比较抽象的推演。
为什么这种观点听起来好像很有道理呢？这就是阿伦特对意识形态[2]的评论，意识形态是高度理性的。意识形态的一个特点就是逻辑化，因为意识形态是权力，它代表了权力这一方对生活的想象。这个想象忽视人的真实生活，忽视真实实践当中的复杂性，只是在大脑里面用一些比较日常的、现象层面的东西进行进行纯粹的推理。
* 主要是两个人恋爱之后，就会对彼此说，我喜欢你，你考试考多少分没有关系。当他们说我喜欢你，我不需要第三者的判断时，就出现了横向反思空间，两个人在一起立刻就跟系统产生了间隔。然后老师再说什么，他们可能就不听了，在他们的脑子里面老师说话的分量一下子就没有了。
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2024-11-21
什么叫桑心，桑心就是看到一篇标题是‘In which our hero fights his way through stats aggregation woes’，期待观摩英勇之举，点了链接却发现整个网站都没了，只有squatter在那里拿着关键词做广告。
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2024-11-04
让我把这句话挂起来嘲笑一下：
‘我对软件编程到了发烧友的水平，所以关于AI的理解和专家相距不远。’
这么大的脸都是谁给的啊？
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2024-10-15
张春《各种普通的食物最好吃的时刻》 https://www.douban.com/note/596086598/?_i=89207069Go3VfZ :
* 西瓜就不一样，最好吃的吃法是把籽剔得差不多，然后一大口咬下去，用舌头把整口西瓜压扁。很多西瓜汁一起冒出来，叫人眉开眼笑。吃西瓜的人最好是儿童，光穿着背心，整个头都扎到西瓜里去。满胳膊都是西瓜汁，胸口也有，连腿上也有的样子。作为儿童像那样吃西瓜，夏天的景象就非常完美。所以说长大会很麻烦，竟然长出了胸部。对吃西瓜的夏天来说是令人感到头疼的事。但不管怎么样，有许多人把夏天吃到第一口西瓜的日子当成普通的日子一样对待，叫人黯然神伤。那可是夏天正式开启的重要日子，否则它和其他的季节比起来有什么特别的呢。
* 如果冬天可以烤炭火，要买一点红薯粉粉丝，一边烤着暖融融的火，一边拿着一根粉丝靠近炭火去烤，会看到它一点点膨化起来。要精心打理，靠太近会烧焦，太远又不能变蓬。如果蓬得太慢的话，中间的地方又会略硬。完美的状态应该是一下就蓬了，节奏应该类似力气很大的人一下就把长气球吹直。单这样吃就很香脆，加上烤火的时候必定非常惬意，如果有这样既可以玩，又不会一下子吃饱的零食真是太好了。但是，这还不是最完美的，如果有辣椒酱蘸着它吃，天哪……
* 蚕豆丰收也在春天，出来混的小孩每个人都要有一串蚕豆项链，特别豪华的还有蚕豆手镯。大人们用蒸锅焖熟，用线穿起来做成项链，我们挂在脖子和手上，想吃就拉一个下来。所有的小孩都挂着蚕豆无所事事地坐在各处，你吃一个我的，我还你一个。焖熟的蚕豆皮很软，一捏就挤出来了，小孩子吃它会发出mia mia享受的声音。我注意到最近人们常常提起“薄荷色”，其实要是叫“嫩蚕豆色”好像会更美，那两种颜色非常接近。因为蚕豆的颜色好像更厚和柔软一点。这样感觉没什么道理，就是胡乱一说。
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2024-10-10
觉得18年的时候我读过这篇，有机会复习一下挺好的
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-translation/
* All of these anxieties are compounded by the fact that translation is a profoundly strange and often counterintuitive art. It’s also perhaps the only art that can be not just bad, but wrong, and will never not be flawed.
* no two languages’ grammars match, their vocabularies diverge, even punctuation has a different weight — there can be no such thing as a translation that is not “creative.”
* Literary style is not simply a mark of identity, like a fingerprint — it also has a function and a significance.
* Translating from Korean into English involves moving from a language more accommodating of ambiguity, repetition, and plain prose, to one that favors precision, concision, and lyricism.
* Because each author’s individual style distinguishes itself by the degree to which it diverges from this middle ground, and because the significance of style is therefore inextricable from language, translating it seems impossible. What we can do, at least, is to recognize that the “pole” of what registers as, for example, repetition or poetic prose is set at different heights in the source and target languages
* Some people tell me I ought to be proud, but to be honest I’m happy to feel conflicted — such an attitude is more useful for those of us in positions of privilege, encouraging us to act responsibly and generously towards texts, authors, and other translators.
* It’s this combination of low wages justified by dismissal of creativity and an insistence on “humility” that means translation is often spoken of as a feminized profession.
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2024-10-09
所以organized啥啥啥隐患那么多-- "当「有问题的个人」
遇到「有问题的团体」"
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/kXIEUQSO1H7nUgV2eoKTDg
* 40年代可能是最具天才气质的作家路翎，他在二十出头的时候就写了一部大概80万字的长篇小说《财主底儿女们》。这部小说应该是五四之后关于现代中国知识分子精神意志的一部百科全书。
* 更有意思的是，因为大家信奉这些新的理论，所以就会把一切行动，包括生活上遇到的一些小事都归结到那个最高原则中去解释、去说明、去评价：比如说你这是小资产阶级作风，你身上的个人主义没有很好地克服。
当每件事都用一个最高原则来解释来说明时，这个最高原则会变得非常空洞，它不得不扩大自己，因为它要包容一切事情，最后不得不变得稀薄。
* 路翎的小说中写到演剧队里存在一种比赛进步的氛围，这种氛围在今天的团体里是不是也会存在呢？
我自己在一个会议上听过一位社会学专业的老师分享，她说她曾经参加过一支有一些左翼色彩的青年团体，在那个团体里面就存在着某种隐形的鄙视链：
* 一方面是团体内部的关系不融洽，但这还是小事，更大的问题在于，用这样一种看待别人看待世界的方法，那你也很难跟你不一样的人——特别是很难和你希望帮助、希望理解的人建立真正的沟通和对话。所以怎么去理解团体生活，有着超出团体之外更大的意义。
* “西战团”有一位团员将丁玲的领导能力和写小说的天才做了一些联系，他说我们这个主任，是“把过去写小说的天才如今完全献给眼前的工作了，她把观察力、透视力完全应用到团里来了”。
* 一个一个地去认识，好像这句话很简单，但其实包含着非常丰富的现实理解。无论是一个团体，土改中面对的群众，还是一个公司一个单位，人并不是抽象和笼统的存在，是由非常具体的、需要耐心体会的个人构成的。能够耐心地去体会这些差异和层次，你才会有更好的社会把握跟现实理解。
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2024-10-03
居然第一轮反倾销关税是个德国人鼓动的：https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-opinion-how-us-lost-solar-power-race-to-china/
* Solar polysilicon is simply the poor cousin of the stuff computer chips are made from: While impurities of one part in 100 million are considered acceptable for solar panels, microprocessors need to be pure to as much as one part in 10 trillion.
* Since 2005, annual installations of solar panels have increased at an average annual rate of about 44%. This year, the capacity of new modules installed globally every three days is roughly equivalent to what existed in the entire world at the end of 2005.
* lamented one 2007 report on the sector, which blamed the shortage on oligopolistic behavior by big producers.
* Like Hemlock, Leshan lies atop a prehistoric sea, making it rich in brine and a natural home for a chemicals industry. Unlike Hemlock, it is blessed with a superabundance of cheap electricity.
* A separate WTO panel in 2014 found the US antidumping decision resulting from Asbeck’s complaint went against the trade body’s own rules.
* China’s support for solar developers is so unwavering, in part, because — unlike the US (which is currently pumping more oil and gas than any nation in history) — it’s desperately short of domestic energy sources,
* Successive waves of tariffs have done little more than create a Potemkin solar industry, while putting a tax on clean power as the climate crisis festers. The US installed about half as many solar panels in 2023 as the European Union
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2024-09-26
很会以文字表达的艺术家总是很加分的 -《公社｜与常羽辰对谈《珊瑚辞典》》 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/aswtK7Wv7CzQup63Ii81pw
* 而也许语言并不是人类发明出来再去投射到自然中的，也许语言就是自然的产物，就像树上的果实。很多语言中都有类似情深似海的表述，也许海并不只是一个被动的喻体，恰恰相反，是它教会了我们“深”这个概念。如果没有海，也许我们就不会懂得“深”，或者不会懂得那么“深”。遇到珊瑚的时候，我的感觉可以说是喜欢，但喜欢也许蕴含了类似熟悉的感觉，好像一种重逢。
* 很多时候我阅读的是形状，有时是质感和颜色。比如“爱”是多孔的，因为没有裂痕的心无法去爱。[1] 虽然它们已经在曝晒中失去色彩，但仍有微妙的冷暖倾向：“悲伤”是偏蓝的。“橡胶”是纯白光洁的，相较于大多数珊瑚微微泛黄的骨白色。
* 但我发现我的技术好契合它的质地。这手艺好像一个鬼魂附到了对的身体。也许因为铅笔的铅也是矿石，与钙化的珊瑚有类似的颗粒度的粉末感。也许它们都有某种过时，或说隽永的意味。
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2024-09-19
Alexandra Petri 犀利神 “Every time JD Vance tells a story, a sinkhole swallows 30 people” https://archive.is/hXJRt#selection-575
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2025-09-13
难道其他人不关心怎么改正降雨量纪录？https://coloradosun.com/2024/09/08/patrich-esch-ed-dean-jagers-ranchers-fraud-insurance/
* Modern agriculture in America can look like a gambling career with a gardening hobby.
* The most reliable farm income often comes from not growing things, or subsidies for growing things that other people are already growing too much of: government insurance against bad weather, price floors for surplus commodities, payments to leave land fallow, cash for not using water.
* But that would involve changing the results at weather stations spread out over thousands of square miles in Colorado and Kansas. And it would mean no field staff had discovered the damage until cumulative readings from tampered gauges fell well below seasonal averages.
* Because the whistleblower case was successful, and despite the criminal indictment of Fox that was dismissed after his death, Fox’s estate received $500,000 of the federal settlement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
* But the southeastern Colorado rain gauge massacre remains an outlier even in the rich history of defrauding taxpayers.
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2025-09-05
在小孩因为排球训练开场不是跑三圈是跑五圈而掉眼泪的今天，看到朋友圈里别人家的体育健将孩子早早地和家门口的藤校校队约定加盟，我不酸谁酸呢？
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2025-09-05
"Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art" by Ted Chiang
写的都是我很喜欢听的话，但是人们有多需要真正的艺术呢
* Believing that inspiration outweighs everything else is, I suspect, a sign that someone is unfamiliar with the medium.
* Kafka’s ideal of a book—an “axe for the frozen sea within us”
* The programmer Simon Willison has described the training for large language models as “money laundering for copyrighted data,” which I find a useful way to think about the appeal of generative-A.I. programs: they let you engage in something like plagiarism,
* It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world.
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2025-09-05
这个DePalma guy 从纸上看很难让人信任 - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/tanis-site-controversy-paleontology-fossils-during-depalma.html ：
* Penfield spent a considerable amount of time, he told me, depressed that no one would hear him, not even a mediocre geologist whose reputation hinged on this very information. He named the crater Chicxulub specifically “to give the academics and NASA naysayers a challenging time pronouncing it after a decade of their dismissals.”
* The surface of the planet grew hot as an oven set to broil. T. rex, triceratops: These were not creatures designed to hide. A layer of iridium settled over the globe, to be buried by millions of years of sediment and discovered by Jan Smit 66 million years and a few weeks too late.
* If many people, in discussing Robert DePalma’s sartorial choices, will feel the need to explain that Indiana Jones was not even a paleontologist (he was an archaeologist),
* Camels would evolve right here on the plains, and American lions bigger than African ones. The species that took it upon itself to figure it all out, to make a story of the past, would largely overlook these creatures in favor of T. rex and triceratops. The species would construct elaborate rules that govern who may and may not tread on particular pieces of land. It would evolve a complex economy of prestige to accompany the discovery of truths about all that had come before — a shadowy interplay of gatekeeping, mentorship, and recognition. There would be reason for everyone, on every side of a small discovery of a single fact, to feel overlooked and underappreciated, awake to the vastness of time and vulnerable to the smallest slight.
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2025-09-03
Michael Lewis 好擅长这种故事 - https://wapo.st/3Xr9usa
* There was the direct load of the overhead stone, of course, but also the winds. (To estimate the winds in the 12th century, he found anemometer readings in rural France going back a century. Not perfect, but good enough.) He placed his fully loaded plastic model in an oven, where it was subjected not just to heat but also light. Warmed, the plastic model revealed its stresses, sort of like the way an MRI reveals damage to soft human tissue.
* Married couples learned to settle their arguments before the husband returned to the mine, because they might never see each other again.
* There was a reason no one could agree on coal pillar formulas: No one could agree how to measure the rock the pillars needed to support.
* From the moment we left the interstate, we were on narrow back roads winding through towns half-populated by people with a talent for throwing leery glances at strangers.
* “They had all this data but weren’t doing much with it,” said Chris. The phenomenon had also occurred in baseball and, I’d bet, in other fields, too.
* a crude method for work crews to determine if some rock would work as a road: whacking it with a ball-peen hammer. Oddly, it didn’t matter how hard you whacked it. There were just a handful of ways the rock might react, and its specific reaction revealed its strength.
* sure enough, the direction of the horizontal stress in coal mines lined up exactly with the definitive plate tectonics stress map that had been created in the 1970s.
* The point of the roof bolt story was that, left to itself, the free market would fail to protect ordinary workers — even when it clearly had the wherewithal to do so.
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2025-09-02
笑死，当然有Rickroll - https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/
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2025-08-30
以前还读过一本讲红染料的，https://przekroj.org/en/art-stories/the-wallpaper-that-killed-the-emperor/
* The bug-repelling properties of green wallpapers were neither magic nor due to some unknown averseness of insects towards certain shades of green. Invertebrates are extremely sensitive to arsenic, and, like the proverbial canary in a coal mine, their disappearance indicated the presence of a deadly toxin. Actually, “Paris Green” was named after the capital of France due to its widespread use as rat poison in Parisian sewers.
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2025-08-22
颜悦 《霉菌》节选：
https://weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404992914915721274
* 我并不抗拒任何一种荒唐的生活，尤其是潮湿的、阴影下的、布满霉菌的生活，我年轻的皮肤上有针对这种现实的疏水层。
* “你超过他，他才能认可你。他不快乐，你才能快乐，”姐姐说，“但你这个人受不了快乐，你从没想过要摆脱不幸，你找到了一种你舒服的方法来享受不幸，让你的不幸恰如其分。”
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2025-08-19
发现我妈就是很容易内耗的人。微信里其实想知道老友近况，但说人家没有主动联系她她窝上去巴结人家做什么。
我说朋友间交往要在心里分什么等级干什么。她自然不理我，说想想没意思，她一个人呆着蛮好。
真的很害怕她看破红尘的口气，黑洞一样，是她争气要强的个性的月之阴影。
今天小孩又没有注意要向她问好，中午她忍着怨气抱怨说你女儿一早上都没叫我，我也没理她。（好像这就是有效报复了。）
我教育小孩要礼貌要叫阿婆，我妈跟着说你不叫阿婆是不喜欢我了呢还是看不起我呢？
真想扑过去说不要这么上纲上线吧？小孩就是看iPad看得六亲不认，不是针对她啊。但如果这么辩解只能让她更不开心，牵出我这个女儿的不是，况且上纲上线历来有之，她现在都温和了好多，许多事都主动说不说了不说了。
就是那‘不说了’听得让人如鲠在喉。
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2025-08-11
读得想哭- https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/sideline-sinology
* I realized that any discipline of regional studies is bound to acquire some characteristics of both the moment and the place. I had gone to China during an era of pragmatism and relative openness, qualities that also influenced the field of sinology at that time. But Egypt in the 2010s was very different. The Middle East was troubled, with a long history of ignorance on the part of Westerners, and the Iraq War and other misguided foreign interventions had left people wary. It wasn’t surprising that scholars and others had little patience for outside perspectives.
* In that respect, we had entered the age of the sideline sinologists: the experts who hadn’t lived in China for years and in some cases couldn’t return at all.
* I sometimes sensed that China’s later success only made foreigners more upset about the country’s early mistakes. This pattern reflected the zero-sum mindset that had contaminated so much thinking about China.
* The next day, she sent me an email. Her message reminded me that few things in China are as heartbreaking as the patience of the young: --I will write about this “forbidden” topic 30 years later when things are better. I have an outline that I really like.
* n that regard, the transformation at the individual level runs directly against the grain of what’s happened with the political system. This is by no means a guarantee of change—systems have a way of overwhelming individual talent and decency. But between these two dynamics is an underlying tension, and within that tension lies hope.
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2025-08-08
用Omar Little 做抬头自然要看完的 - https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Jy8l2mpcN9xOYlTZ5mlo8A：
* 十九世纪中叶纽约到旧金山的时间比香港到旧金山多了两倍。香港也抓住机会成为了加州货物的主要供应地。这简直就像是 Temu 的早期版本。接近二百年过去了，具体的问题变了，可物流作为大问题还在困扰着美国企业。
* 人工成本的挑战是送货的效率，但效率无法无限提高。归根结底，挑战的本质是美国城市规划。上世纪理性主义的规划者们，认为城市应该简化降低密度、以高速公路穿行其间甚至居民应该直接离开城市，搬到郊区。所以美国的中产和富裕阶级像是披萨上的香肠一样被平铺洒在城市周边的郊区。
* 美国有 96% 的工业空间都被仓库租走了。这是个仓库的国家，密密麻麻的大型仓库、个人仓库出现在乡村、郊区、港口、城市之间。美国有全球最大规模的仓库，而且还在不断增加。
* 接住了工业的地方会源源不断的生产，商品漂洋过海和再次回到一切的起点与曾经的生产者汇合。经济对人的抛弃结了痂，成了电商企业报表中一条别别扭扭的、需要解释的成本细项。
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2025-08-03
记一下要看个文这么难，因为海棠的事废文也牵连到，不少收藏的文要删了，所以想用404小说下载器先存下来。
公司新laptop上通过greasemonkey从greasyfork安装失败，搜了一圈进入extension 的developer mode，再把脚本代码复制到greasemonkey的新脚本里手动安装，才终于看到了网页右侧熟悉的箭头。
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2025-08-01
Costco的好处难道不是没有选择？https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/07/18/costco-in-cancun/：
* To be ripped off is to be taken for a sucker. It is to have your resources wasted, your hard-earned cash sucked into a delusion of taste, timeliness, or class. It is to be left with nothing; or worse, to be haunted by an alternate timeline in which you saved more money. Costco is a fortress against this loss,
* suddenly I am not embarrassed to be at the Paradisus but embarrassed at the highbrow distance that I had tried to graft on to my time at this middlebrow vacation. Ironic consumption is no different from earnest consumption; I am here now, and I am critical and I am also happy, and I breathe in this nice eucalyptus-scented sauna air together with her.
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2025-08-01
爽文谁都喜欢看：
https://grantland.com/the-triangle/katie-ledecky-athlete-best-swimmer/
*They’re all chopping their arms and spinning their legs like wild steamrollers, only some of the people you’ve never heard of are, for reasons you can’t really divine, chopping and spinning at a rate that means they’ll finish a fraction of a second ahead of the other people you’ve never heard of. It’s like, Wow, look at the arbitrary momentum disparity between those two blips; let’s celebrate nationalism!
* There’s a special kind of lightness you feel when you realize you’re seeing a truly great athlete for the first time. When you understand that what you’re watching is not someone who is merely very good, or very tough, or very skilled relative to her peers, but someone to whom the normal rules do not apply. When your imagination runs the math on an athlete and returns an error sign.
* At the start of the race, she was an afterthought; at the end of it, the afterthought is everyone else in women’s freestyle swimming. That’s Katie Fucking Ledecky.
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2025-07-31
"sky of Paris as a memory of past love" 虽然是香水名字但还是令人向往，别的城市好像氛围没那么浓郁。
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2025-07-17
蛮辛苦地读下来了
https://socratesonthebeach.com/xiao-yue-shan ：
* She looks at him, and decades of cinema, of longing, of lying yourself into the truth—which is the actor’s vocation—passes between them,
* Henry James: “relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the author is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.”.. we must always honour the centre and its gravity, the structural integrity of a duration rounded off from the chaos of time.
* the definitive quality by which these two countries coalesced in my mind was that, within their boundaries, there reigned a fierce, opulent pride.... It was this sense of not loving or hating your nation, but being inextricable from it, that raised the mirror between these two dazzling arenas. This, and the fact that this pride ruled alongside another monarch, equally as omnipotent but much less discernible—and that figure was silence.
* Just as in chiaroscuro, darkness ripens the volume of light.
* '...In Italy no one can afford to delude himself. . . The lower his condition the more vulnerable he is and the quicker he must recognise the real rules governing life in order not to prosper but merely to survive. .. Few Italians can avoid learning them, however, as they are taught by fear, humiliation, deception, and defeat.'
* The building, unchanged, will no longer recognise that what survives is not itself, but the illusive disorientation of always.
* These buildings are the ultimate indulgence: beautiful and spacious, rich in insinuated antiquity, yet unmistakably contemporary. They pay tribute to the past by underscoring its annihilation. They love history because it is long and far and mutable, and destruction is imprinted in its very conception.
* I’ve learned that every country one travels to will always be a site of mourning for one’s first country.
* I carved the transcript of my story into the unwritten, a thin thread of light chiselling at shadows. Because I had inherited a vast legacy of silence, because silence was my country, I had to build a wall to see its borders.
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2025-07-16
在豆瓣当怨妇的时候突然想到：
指望出版社在乎翻译质量和指望政府在乎民生一样，
只是你觉得的理所当然，
因为你在想象的共同体陷阱里。
（今日释然份额
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2025-07-08
星期一一大早上就收到老同学短信问当年中学校徽还有没有，于是翻箱倒柜找不到，只记得可能十年前在朋友群晒过校徽照片；
然后就是看诺奖女性（及两任丈夫）塌房，砸得路人都灰头土脸；
然后公司有邮件来说为安全起见你的laptop要近日更换；
然后婆婆打电话来问怎么孙女昨天穿的裙子这么短，问我对她秋季服装有何安排，问知不知道她那条格子呢裙裤看上去像50年代来的。
显然每个人在乎的东西都太不一样了。
来，记一下：
https://www.metafilter.com/206956/-Senatus-vs-Populusque-Romanus-
光看完post都觉得涨了一寸知识
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2024-12-21
好勤劳的创作者，脱帽敬礼！https://yalereview.org/article/amir-ahmadi-arian-zabihollah-mansouri
* a well-known magazine editor who serialized many of Mansouri’s translations, estimates that throughout most of his career, he submitted up to one hundred and forty thousand words per month to his various magazine editors. Given that Mansouri was an active translator for almost sixty years, fourteen hundred books is not an entirely implausible claim.
* But by contemporary standards, the most popular translator in the history of Iran translated hardly anything at all. Most of his works are a hodgepodge of source text mixed with his own additions and musings,
* He wrote on lined paper, cut in half because this allowed him to write across the width of the paper without lifting his wrist and enabled him to move his hand in only a vertical direction, another ergonomic strategy.
* Mansouri cavalierly expands and waters down Nabokov’s painstakingly constructed sentences, explaining everything without even bothering to fact-check his own explanations. His goal here seems to have been to make the text accessible to all of his readers
* his version of The Three Musketeers, which is some six hundred pages long in the original French, weighs in at more than six thousand pages,
* “Is Mr. Corbin alive?” Mansouri asked, visibly shocked.
“Of course he is. Didn’t you know that?”
“I wish you told him that Zabihollah Mansouri is dead.”
* Many of these places employed a naqal, who would show up in the evening to entertain the crowds with adaptations of the ancient epic.
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2024-12-06
我妈有个表弟，喜欢找她微信聊天下大事，我妈就非常不耐烦，总一句话‘这种事和我们老百姓有什么关系’，拒听。
这两天他女儿在帮我们把一些银行存款转外币，为这个由头表弟又语音聊天，又要指点江山，我妈又是不要听，表弟就说‘看要是你早听我说的懂点政治，早几年换钱，就不会这么吃亏了 。’
堵得我妈气急败坏，当场又把他挂了。
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2024-11-24
乐死了，这篇差评应该永垂不朽：https://defector.com/can-someone-please-write-normally-about-this-fascinating-woman?giftLink=09f87f6d344f2444351cca0d7b192630
While we are on the subject of nature, here is an entire paragraph, one of two about lightning in the story:
>> It’s monsoon season, and lightning bobs and weaves in the corner of your eyes all day like floaters. There are three separate storms to the south, delicately wind-tilted on the horizon. Lightning races them in a stitchless thread, and to the north rain shimmers through the sheerest rainbow, stamped perfectly horizontal against the mountains like the execution line on a document.
This is a 172-car pileup of mixed visual metaphors. What is the damn lightning (which bobs and weaves like a ... a floater) doing, racing the storms? Are you sure that it is racing them? It is racing them ... in a thread? A thread without stitches? Buddy, what the fuck is happening in the sky right now.
Well, see, over here, to the south, you got a thread. It lacks stitches. And boy, that thread is really hauling ass. In this sense, it will remind you of a floater. And then if you'll turn around and look over there to the north, you got your classic execution line on a document, the only way that the concept of straightness could be represented for the reader.
Hey man, I'm having a hard time picturing this "rainbow" thing you mentioned seeing. Oh, well, just picture the black line where you sign your name on a DMV form, that's basically it. OK, got it.
This manages to be simultaneously deranged and also not visually evocative in the least. It's like somebody sniffed glue and hallucinated the normal contents of a desk drawer.
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2024-11-21
拖了很久终于看完了 "对谈项飙：教育系统正在批量生产炮灰”
https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20241106A0453E00
* 什么是项飙所说的生命力？我很难给它下一个确切的定义。就像“附近”一样，它似乎来自于一种直观的感受。但在我的想象里，代表生命力一定不是整齐划一、拼命朝一个方向生长的速生林，而是森林的千姿百态。舒展的，柔弱的，挺阔的，散漫的，生命相互依存，自由生长，创造出属于自己的局部气候。
* 学校和教育系统不是在供给知识，而是好像在吸收一个什么东西。我想这个就是生命力。学生来学校提供生命力的消耗，去生产分数、生产成绩。不只是教育系统，其他地方还存在广泛意义上的“生命力捕获”。
* 现在我们看到的生命力的消耗，不仅是忙，而且在忙的过程中没办法让意识从行动当中抽身出来，对自己有一个叙述，大家都觉得被碾压了。.. 意识无法抽身的责任不是完全在于我们个人的。无论是工作还是学习，我们的任务都被设计成这样多头的、分散的、一个接一个碾压性的。特别是在学校，时间和空间的安排、每天学习任务的安排，都阻止着间隔的产生，人就很难有能力用意识再去反观自己的行动，形成自己的叙述。
* 把人完全当作资源，去讨论怎样以一个公平的方式对人进行分类，我觉得是一种想象。我不知道大家在自己生活中，真的会这么去看待吗？像这种没有基本数据来支撑的说法，是一种意识形态：用一个相对抽象的方式想象，然后加以解释，背后其实有很多假设。比如假设人就是一个和资源一样的东西、分配必然要高效化，这其实是自己在做一些比较抽象的推演。
为什么这种观点听起来好像很有道理呢？这就是阿伦特对意识形态[2]的评论，意识形态是高度理性的。意识形态的一个特点就是逻辑化，因为意识形态是权力，它代表了权力这一方对生活的想象。这个想象忽视人的真实生活，忽视真实实践当中的复杂性，只是在大脑里面用一些比较日常的、现象层面的东西进行进行纯粹的推理。
* 主要是两个人恋爱之后，就会对彼此说，我喜欢你，你考试考多少分没有关系。当他们说我喜欢你，我不需要第三者的判断时，就出现了横向反思空间，两个人在一起立刻就跟系统产生了间隔。然后老师再说什么，他们可能就不听了，在他们的脑子里面老师说话的分量一下子就没有了。
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2024-11-21
什么叫桑心，桑心就是看到一篇标题是‘In which our hero fights his way through stats aggregation woes’，期待观摩英勇之举，点了链接却发现整个网站都没了，只有squatter在那里拿着关键词做广告。
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2024-11-04
让我把这句话挂起来嘲笑一下：
‘我对软件编程到了发烧友的水平，所以关于AI的理解和专家相距不远。’
这么大的脸都是谁给的啊？
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2024-10-15
张春《各种普通的食物最好吃的时刻》 https://www.douban.com/note/596086598/?_i=89207069Go3VfZ :
* 西瓜就不一样，最好吃的吃法是把籽剔得差不多，然后一大口咬下去，用舌头把整口西瓜压扁。很多西瓜汁一起冒出来，叫人眉开眼笑。吃西瓜的人最好是儿童，光穿着背心，整个头都扎到西瓜里去。满胳膊都是西瓜汁，胸口也有，连腿上也有的样子。作为儿童像那样吃西瓜，夏天的景象就非常完美。所以说长大会很麻烦，竟然长出了胸部。对吃西瓜的夏天来说是令人感到头疼的事。但不管怎么样，有许多人把夏天吃到第一口西瓜的日子当成普通的日子一样对待，叫人黯然神伤。那可是夏天正式开启的重要日子，否则它和其他的季节比起来有什么特别的呢。
* 如果冬天可以烤炭火，要买一点红薯粉粉丝，一边烤着暖融融的火，一边拿着一根粉丝靠近炭火去烤，会看到它一点点膨化起来。要精心打理，靠太近会烧焦，太远又不能变蓬。如果蓬得太慢的话，中间的地方又会略硬。完美的状态应该是一下就蓬了，节奏应该类似力气很大的人一下就把长气球吹直。单这样吃就很香脆，加上烤火的时候必定非常惬意，如果有这样既可以玩，又不会一下子吃饱的零食真是太好了。但是，这还不是最完美的，如果有辣椒酱蘸着它吃，天哪……
* 蚕豆丰收也在春天，出来混的小孩每个人都要有一串蚕豆项链，特别豪华的还有蚕豆手镯。大人们用蒸锅焖熟，用线穿起来做成项链，我们挂在脖子和手上，想吃就拉一个下来。所有的小孩都挂着蚕豆无所事事地坐在各处，你吃一个我的，我还你一个。焖熟的蚕豆皮很软，一捏就挤出来了，小孩子吃它会发出mia mia享受的声音。我注意到最近人们常常提起“薄荷色”，其实要是叫“嫩蚕豆色”好像会更美，那两种颜色非常接近。因为蚕豆的颜色好像更厚和柔软一点。这样感觉没什么道理，就是胡乱一说。
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2024-10-10
觉得18年的时候我读过这篇，有机会复习一下挺好的
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-translation/
* All of these anxieties are compounded by the fact that translation is a profoundly strange and often counterintuitive art. It’s also perhaps the only art that can be not just bad, but wrong, and will never not be flawed.
* no two languages’ grammars match, their vocabularies diverge, even punctuation has a different weight — there can be no such thing as a translation that is not “creative.”
* Literary style is not simply a mark of identity, like a fingerprint — it also has a function and a significance.
* Translating from Korean into English involves moving from a language more accommodating of ambiguity, repetition, and plain prose, to one that favors precision, concision, and lyricism.
* Because each author’s individual style distinguishes itself by the degree to which it diverges from this middle ground, and because the significance of style is therefore inextricable from language, translating it seems impossible. What we can do, at least, is to recognize that the “pole” of what registers as, for example, repetition or poetic prose is set at different heights in the source and target languages
* Some people tell me I ought to be proud, but to be honest I’m happy to feel conflicted — such an attitude is more useful for those of us in positions of privilege, encouraging us to act responsibly and generously towards texts, authors, and other translators.
* It’s this combination of low wages justified by dismissal of creativity and an insistence on “humility” that means translation is often spoken of as a feminized profession.
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2024-10-09
所以organized啥啥啥隐患那么多-- "当「有问题的个人」
遇到「有问题的团体」"
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/kXIEUQSO1H7nUgV2eoKTDg
* 40年代可能是最具天才气质的作家路翎，他在二十出头的时候就写了一部大概80万字的长篇小说《财主底儿女们》。这部小说应该是五四之后关于现代中国知识分子精神意志的一部百科全书。
* 更有意思的是，因为大家信奉这些新的理论，所以就会把一切行动，包括生活上遇到的一些小事都归结到那个最高原则中去解释、去说明、去评价：比如说你这是小资产阶级作风，你身上的个人主义没有很好地克服。
当每件事都用一个最高原则来解释来说明时，这个最高原则会变得非常空洞，它不得不扩大自己，因为它要包容一切事情，最后不得不变得稀薄。
* 路翎的小说中写到演剧队里存在一种比赛进步的氛围，这种氛围在今天的团体里是不是也会存在呢？
我自己在一个会议上听过一位社会学专业的老师分享，她说她曾经参加过一支有一些左翼色彩的青年团体，在那个团体里面就存在着某种隐形的鄙视链：
* 一方面是团体内部的关系不融洽，但这还是小事，更大的问题在于，用这样一种看待别人看待世界的方法，那你也很难跟你不一样的人——特别是很难和你希望帮助、希望理解的人建立真正的沟通和对话。所以怎么去理解团体生活，有着超出团体之外更大的意义。
* “西战团”有一位团员将丁玲的领导能力和写小说的天才做了一些联系，他说我们这个主任，是“把过去写小说的天才如今完全献给眼前的工作了，她把观察力、透视力完全应用到团里来了”。
* 一个一个地去认识，好像这句话很简单，但其实包含着非常丰富的现实理解。无论是一个团体，土改中面对的群众，还是一个公司一个单位，人并不是抽象和笼统的存在，是由非常具体的、需要耐心体会的个人构成的。能够耐心地去体会这些差异和层次，你才会有更好的社会把握跟现实理解。
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2024-10-03
居然第一轮反倾销关税是个德国人鼓动的：https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-opinion-how-us-lost-solar-power-race-to-china/
* Solar polysilicon is simply the poor cousin of the stuff computer chips are made from: While impurities of one part in 100 million are considered acceptable for solar panels, microprocessors need to be pure to as much as one part in 10 trillion.
* Since 2005, annual installations of solar panels have increased at an average annual rate of about 44%. This year, the capacity of new modules installed globally every three days is roughly equivalent to what existed in the entire world at the end of 2005.
* lamented one 2007 report on the sector, which blamed the shortage on oligopolistic behavior by big producers.
* Like Hemlock, Leshan lies atop a prehistoric sea, making it rich in brine and a natural home for a chemicals industry. Unlike Hemlock, it is blessed with a superabundance of cheap electricity.
* A separate WTO panel in 2014 found the US antidumping decision resulting from Asbeck’s complaint went against the trade body’s own rules.
* China’s support for solar developers is so unwavering, in part, because — unlike the US (which is currently pumping more oil and gas than any nation in history) — it’s desperately short of domestic energy sources,
* Successive waves of tariffs have done little more than create a Potemkin solar industry, while putting a tax on clean power as the climate crisis festers. The US installed about half as many solar panels in 2023 as the European Union
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2024-09-26
很会以文字表达的艺术家总是很加分的 -《公社｜与常羽辰对谈《珊瑚辞典》》 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/aswtK7Wv7CzQup63Ii81pw
* 而也许语言并不是人类发明出来再去投射到自然中的，也许语言就是自然的产物，就像树上的果实。很多语言中都有类似情深似海的表述，也许海并不只是一个被动的喻体，恰恰相反，是它教会了我们“深”这个概念。如果没有海，也许我们就不会懂得“深”，或者不会懂得那么“深”。遇到珊瑚的时候，我的感觉可以说是喜欢，但喜欢也许蕴含了类似熟悉的感觉，好像一种重逢。
* 很多时候我阅读的是形状，有时是质感和颜色。比如“爱”是多孔的，因为没有裂痕的心无法去爱。[1] 虽然它们已经在曝晒中失去色彩，但仍有微妙的冷暖倾向：“悲伤”是偏蓝的。“橡胶”是纯白光洁的，相较于大多数珊瑚微微泛黄的骨白色。
* 但我发现我的技术好契合它的质地。这手艺好像一个鬼魂附到了对的身体。也许因为铅笔的铅也是矿石，与钙化的珊瑚有类似的颗粒度的粉末感。也许它们都有某种过时，或说隽永的意味。
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2024-09-19
Alexandra Petri 犀利神 “Every time JD Vance tells a story, a sinkhole swallows 30 people” https://archive.is/hXJRt#selection-575
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2025-09-13
难道其他人不关心怎么改正降雨量纪录？https://coloradosun.com/2024/09/08/patrich-esch-ed-dean-jagers-ranchers-fraud-insurance/
* Modern agriculture in America can look like a gambling career with a gardening hobby.
* The most reliable farm income often comes from not growing things, or subsidies for growing things that other people are already growing too much of: government insurance against bad weather, price floors for surplus commodities, payments to leave land fallow, cash for not using water.
* But that would involve changing the results at weather stations spread out over thousands of square miles in Colorado and Kansas. And it would mean no field staff had discovered the damage until cumulative readings from tampered gauges fell well below seasonal averages.
* Because the whistleblower case was successful, and despite the criminal indictment of Fox that was dismissed after his death, Fox’s estate received $500,000 of the federal settlement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
* But the southeastern Colorado rain gauge massacre remains an outlier even in the rich history of defrauding taxpayers.
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2025-09-05
在小孩因为排球训练开场不是跑三圈是跑五圈而掉眼泪的今天，看到朋友圈里别人家的体育健将孩子早早地和家门口的藤校校队约定加盟，我不酸谁酸呢？
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2025-09-05
"Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art" by Ted Chiang
写的都是我很喜欢听的话，但是人们有多需要真正的艺术呢
* Believing that inspiration outweighs everything else is, I suspect, a sign that someone is unfamiliar with the medium.
* Kafka’s ideal of a book—an “axe for the frozen sea within us”
* The programmer Simon Willison has described the training for large language models as “money laundering for copyrighted data,” which I find a useful way to think about the appeal of generative-A.I. programs: they let you engage in something like plagiarism,
* It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world.
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2025-09-05
这个DePalma guy 从纸上看很难让人信任 - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/tanis-site-controversy-paleontology-fossils-during-depalma.html ：
* Penfield spent a considerable amount of time, he told me, depressed that no one would hear him, not even a mediocre geologist whose reputation hinged on this very information. He named the crater Chicxulub specifically “to give the academics and NASA naysayers a challenging time pronouncing it after a decade of their dismissals.”
* The surface of the planet grew hot as an oven set to broil. T. rex, triceratops: These were not creatures designed to hide. A layer of iridium settled over the globe, to be buried by millions of years of sediment and discovered by Jan Smit 66 million years and a few weeks too late.
* If many people, in discussing Robert DePalma’s sartorial choices, will feel the need to explain that Indiana Jones was not even a paleontologist (he was an archaeologist),
* Camels would evolve right here on the plains, and American lions bigger than African ones. The species that took it upon itself to figure it all out, to make a story of the past, would largely overlook these creatures in favor of T. rex and triceratops. The species would construct elaborate rules that govern who may and may not tread on particular pieces of land. It would evolve a complex economy of prestige to accompany the discovery of truths about all that had come before — a shadowy interplay of gatekeeping, mentorship, and recognition. There would be reason for everyone, on every side of a small discovery of a single fact, to feel overlooked and underappreciated, awake to the vastness of time and vulnerable to the smallest slight.
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2025-09-03
Michael Lewis 好擅长这种故事 - https://wapo.st/3Xr9usa
* There was the direct load of the overhead stone, of course, but also the winds. (To estimate the winds in the 12th century, he found anemometer readings in rural France going back a century. Not perfect, but good enough.) He placed his fully loaded plastic model in an oven, where it was subjected not just to heat but also light. Warmed, the plastic model revealed its stresses, sort of like the way an MRI reveals damage to soft human tissue.
* Married couples learned to settle their arguments before the husband returned to the mine, because they might never see each other again.
* There was a reason no one could agree on coal pillar formulas: No one could agree how to measure the rock the pillars needed to support.
* From the moment we left the interstate, we were on narrow back roads winding through towns half-populated by people with a talent for throwing leery glances at strangers.
* “They had all this data but weren’t doing much with it,” said Chris. The phenomenon had also occurred in baseball and, I’d bet, in other fields, too.
* a crude method for work crews to determine if some rock would work as a road: whacking it with a ball-peen hammer. Oddly, it didn’t matter how hard you whacked it. There were just a handful of ways the rock might react, and its specific reaction revealed its strength.
* sure enough, the direction of the horizontal stress in coal mines lined up exactly with the definitive plate tectonics stress map that had been created in the 1970s.
* The point of the roof bolt story was that, left to itself, the free market would fail to protect ordinary workers — even when it clearly had the wherewithal to do so.
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2025-09-02
笑死，当然有Rickroll - https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/
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2025-08-30
以前还读过一本讲红染料的，https://przekroj.org/en/art-stories/the-wallpaper-that-killed-the-emperor/
* The bug-repelling properties of green wallpapers were neither magic nor due to some unknown averseness of insects towards certain shades of green. Invertebrates are extremely sensitive to arsenic, and, like the proverbial canary in a coal mine, their disappearance indicated the presence of a deadly toxin. Actually, “Paris Green” was named after the capital of France due to its widespread use as rat poison in Parisian sewers.
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2025-08-22
颜悦 《霉菌》节选：
https://weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404992914915721274
* 我并不抗拒任何一种荒唐的生活，尤其是潮湿的、阴影下的、布满霉菌的生活，我年轻的皮肤上有针对这种现实的疏水层。
* “你超过他，他才能认可你。他不快乐，你才能快乐，”姐姐说，“但你这个人受不了快乐，你从没想过要摆脱不幸，你找到了一种你舒服的方法来享受不幸，让你的不幸恰如其分。”
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2025-08-19
发现我妈就是很容易内耗的人。微信里其实想知道老友近况，但说人家没有主动联系她她窝上去巴结人家做什么。
我说朋友间交往要在心里分什么等级干什么。她自然不理我，说想想没意思，她一个人呆着蛮好。
真的很害怕她看破红尘的口气，黑洞一样，是她争气要强的个性的月之阴影。
今天小孩又没有注意要向她问好，中午她忍着怨气抱怨说你女儿一早上都没叫我，我也没理她。（好像这就是有效报复了。）
我教育小孩要礼貌要叫阿婆，我妈跟着说你不叫阿婆是不喜欢我了呢还是看不起我呢？
真想扑过去说不要这么上纲上线吧？小孩就是看iPad看得六亲不认，不是针对她啊。但如果这么辩解只能让她更不开心，牵出我这个女儿的不是，况且上纲上线历来有之，她现在都温和了好多，许多事都主动说不说了不说了。
就是那‘不说了’听得让人如鲠在喉。
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2025-08-11
读得想哭- https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/sideline-sinology
* I realized that any discipline of regional studies is bound to acquire some characteristics of both the moment and the place. I had gone to China during an era of pragmatism and relative openness, qualities that also influenced the field of sinology at that time. But Egypt in the 2010s was very different. The Middle East was troubled, with a long history of ignorance on the part of Westerners, and the Iraq War and other misguided foreign interventions had left people wary. It wasn’t surprising that scholars and others had little patience for outside perspectives.
* In that respect, we had entered the age of the sideline sinologists: the experts who hadn’t lived in China for years and in some cases couldn’t return at all.
* I sometimes sensed that China’s later success only made foreigners more upset about the country’s early mistakes. This pattern reflected the zero-sum mindset that had contaminated so much thinking about China.
* The next day, she sent me an email. Her message reminded me that few things in China are as heartbreaking as the patience of the young: --I will write about this “forbidden” topic 30 years later when things are better. I have an outline that I really like.
* n that regard, the transformation at the individual level runs directly against the grain of what’s happened with the political system. This is by no means a guarantee of change—systems have a way of overwhelming individual talent and decency. But between these two dynamics is an underlying tension, and within that tension lies hope.
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2025-08-08
用Omar Little 做抬头自然要看完的 - https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Jy8l2mpcN9xOYlTZ5mlo8A：
* 十九世纪中叶纽约到旧金山的时间比香港到旧金山多了两倍。香港也抓住机会成为了加州货物的主要供应地。这简直就像是 Temu 的早期版本。接近二百年过去了，具体的问题变了，可物流作为大问题还在困扰着美国企业。
* 人工成本的挑战是送货的效率，但效率无法无限提高。归根结底，挑战的本质是美国城市规划。上世纪理性主义的规划者们，认为城市应该简化降低密度、以高速公路穿行其间甚至居民应该直接离开城市，搬到郊区。所以美国的中产和富裕阶级像是披萨上的香肠一样被平铺洒在城市周边的郊区。
* 美国有 96% 的工业空间都被仓库租走了。这是个仓库的国家，密密麻麻的大型仓库、个人仓库出现在乡村、郊区、港口、城市之间。美国有全球最大规模的仓库，而且还在不断增加。
* 接住了工业的地方会源源不断的生产，商品漂洋过海和再次回到一切的起点与曾经的生产者汇合。经济对人的抛弃结了痂，成了电商企业报表中一条别别扭扭的、需要解释的成本细项。
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2025-08-03
记一下要看个文这么难，因为海棠的事废文也牵连到，不少收藏的文要删了，所以想用404小说下载器先存下来。
公司新laptop上通过greasemonkey从greasyfork安装失败，搜了一圈进入extension 的developer mode，再把脚本代码复制到greasemonkey的新脚本里手动安装，才终于看到了网页右侧熟悉的箭头。
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2025-08-01
Costco的好处难道不是没有选择？https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/07/18/costco-in-cancun/：
* To be ripped off is to be taken for a sucker. It is to have your resources wasted, your hard-earned cash sucked into a delusion of taste, timeliness, or class. It is to be left with nothing; or worse, to be haunted by an alternate timeline in which you saved more money. Costco is a fortress against this loss,
* suddenly I am not embarrassed to be at the Paradisus but embarrassed at the highbrow distance that I had tried to graft on to my time at this middlebrow vacation. Ironic consumption is no different from earnest consumption; I am here now, and I am critical and I am also happy, and I breathe in this nice eucalyptus-scented sauna air together with her.
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2025-08-01
爽文谁都喜欢看：
https://grantland.com/the-triangle/katie-ledecky-athlete-best-swimmer/
*They’re all chopping their arms and spinning their legs like wild steamrollers, only some of the people you’ve never heard of are, for reasons you can’t really divine, chopping and spinning at a rate that means they’ll finish a fraction of a second ahead of the other people you’ve never heard of. It’s like, Wow, look at the arbitrary momentum disparity between those two blips; let’s celebrate nationalism!
* There’s a special kind of lightness you feel when you realize you’re seeing a truly great athlete for the first time. When you understand that what you’re watching is not someone who is merely very good, or very tough, or very skilled relative to her peers, but someone to whom the normal rules do not apply. When your imagination runs the math on an athlete and returns an error sign.
* At the start of the race, she was an afterthought; at the end of it, the afterthought is everyone else in women’s freestyle swimming. That’s Katie Fucking Ledecky.
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2025-07-31
"sky of Paris as a memory of past love" 虽然是香水名字但还是令人向往，别的城市好像氛围没那么浓郁。
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2025-07-17
蛮辛苦地读下来了
https://socratesonthebeach.com/xiao-yue-shan ：
* She looks at him, and decades of cinema, of longing, of lying yourself into the truth—which is the actor’s vocation—passes between them,
* Henry James: “relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the author is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.”.. we must always honour the centre and its gravity, the structural integrity of a duration rounded off from the chaos of time.
* the definitive quality by which these two countries coalesced in my mind was that, within their boundaries, there reigned a fierce, opulent pride.... It was this sense of not loving or hating your nation, but being inextricable from it, that raised the mirror between these two dazzling arenas. This, and the fact that this pride ruled alongside another monarch, equally as omnipotent but much less discernible—and that figure was silence.
* Just as in chiaroscuro, darkness ripens the volume of light.
* '...In Italy no one can afford to delude himself. . . The lower his condition the more vulnerable he is and the quicker he must recognise the real rules governing life in order not to prosper but merely to survive. .. Few Italians can avoid learning them, however, as they are taught by fear, humiliation, deception, and defeat.'
* The building, unchanged, will no longer recognise that what survives is not itself, but the illusive disorientation of always.
* These buildings are the ultimate indulgence: beautiful and spacious, rich in insinuated antiquity, yet unmistakably contemporary. They pay tribute to the past by underscoring its annihilation. They love history because it is long and far and mutable, and destruction is imprinted in its very conception.
* I’ve learned that every country one travels to will always be a site of mourning for one’s first country.
* I carved the transcript of my story into the unwritten, a thin thread of light chiselling at shadows. Because I had inherited a vast legacy of silence, because silence was my country, I had to build a wall to see its borders.
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2025-07-16
在豆瓣当怨妇的时候突然想到：
指望出版社在乎翻译质量和指望政府在乎民生一样，
只是你觉得的理所当然，
因为你在想象的共同体陷阱里。
（今日释然份额
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2025-07-08
星期一一大早上就收到老同学短信问当年中学校徽还有没有，于是翻箱倒柜找不到，只记得可能十年前在朋友群晒过校徽照片；
然后就是看诺奖女性（及两任丈夫）塌房，砸得路人都灰头土脸；
然后公司有邮件来说为安全起见你的laptop要近日更换；
然后婆婆打电话来问怎么孙女昨天穿的裙子这么短，问我对她秋季服装有何安排，问知不知道她那条格子呢裙裤看上去像50年代来的。
显然每个人在乎的东西都太不一样了。
