Category: mini-blog
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What we mispelled our former Executive Director’s name…
What, we mispelled our former Executive Director’s name? Oh lol. Carry on then. I looks like your automated spam script failed to account for diversity within the English speaking world. Systemic mistakes like these can ruin your spam product’s non-existing credibility.
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Live Korean viewer comments during the Hanoi summit
I watched a bit the US-DPRK Summit of yesterday, towards the end, after people had left for the expanded meeting and reporters were wondering why they were getting delayed beyond their original schedule, until the no deal debacle that followed soon thereafter. I watched it on JTBC, one of Korea’s post-media reform (2009) TV channel…
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one disadvantage to watching stuff with captions is…
one disadvantage to watching stuff with captions is that they spoil the song that starts playing real low volume a full 10 seconds before you can identify the main melodic line
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I was feeling sick and going over my…
Designated Survivor feels like a comical satire of the Trump administration.
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I recently noticed and was bewildered that the…
I recently noticed and was bewildered that the coloring and notation of Western Avenue in LA changed to that of a highway, with the yellow color and the numbering “258” – looked it up and it turns out to be something known as an “unconstructed state highway” – “their routings have been defined by state…
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If we gotta rig the vote, lets rig it by sunshine, not race
Your ignorance of history and the importance of the electoral college is appalling. Without the electoral college, the president would only care about satisfying the will of the people in about 15 states. The rest of the states would be totally forgotten. — Justin T. Haskins (@JustinTHaskins) January 26, 2019 Since someone was bringing up…
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this is the first time i hear of…
this is the first time i hear of Prager U but it seems they make among the most easily rebutted right wing arguments on the internet – after youtube comments. not sure if they are a menace for giving the right wing something to link, or a blessing for giving too many people the worst…
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Post friday ca39 schedule is all over the…
Post-friday ca39 schedule is all over the place: -OC: every day but today is at 5pm -LA: Tuesday but seems it could be any time between 4pm and 7pm? -SB: Wednesday 4pm
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Someone saying they never saw or expected the…
Someone saying they never saw or expected the email from me on Wednesday (I usually have been sending it over KakaoTalk, but felt that this time it didn’t merit the level of “urgency” in an instant message), gave me a glimpse of what is going on with all these people communicating over Instagram or Facebook…
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For people awaiting final #CA39 results it’s going…
For people awaiting final #CA39 results it’s going to be an interesting next few days. I don’t know if they’ve been doing this every year, but this year the OC Registrar will be posting updates on late ballots every day. Los Angeles and San Bernardino haven’t posted an update since Tuesday eve. Are they going…
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I was looking at numbers for #CA39 in…
I was looking at numbers for #CA39 in the Orange County Registrar, assuming that it would have the quickest turnaround. Then I found a Twitter account that was showing numbers consistently lower than the OC Registrar, and it hit me: each county registrar reports only on their own county’s results. So CA39 shows up in…
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I think Trump said if Dems win…
I think Trump said “if Dems win the house, there will be a wave of crimes, alien invasions, and violence.. lots of violence. And it’s gonna be your fault, not mine.”. Tremendous success tonight. Thank you to all! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2018
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Holy shit those Prop 10 numbers https vote…
Holy shit those Prop 10 numbers https://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures
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This newspaper is funny Friday ad strongly attacking…
This newspaper is funny: Friday ad, strongly attacking Trump -> inserts small disclaimer “may not reflect opinions of our newspaper” Wednesday ad, more uplifting tone, not as aggressive -> no disclaimer Friday ad, strongly attacking -> inserts small disclaimer
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Online reception of the Trump’s latest citizenship comment…
Online reception of the Trump’s latest citizenship comment is a bit mixed, because the Korean media (in this case, both peninsular and U.S. based) has long (20+ years?) established a standard buzzword to frame the issue: Expedition Birth (원정출산) The word Expedition has been combined with a few choice words to frame a couple topics…
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the sad state of my Instant Messenger accounts…
the sad state of my Instant Messenger accounts I mostly use SMS, Slack and KakaoTalk for my daily messaging. Colleagues use Slack; us-based contacts use SMS and I get them via Hangouts, but for the past 4 years I haven’t been able to figure out how to set Hangouts (instead of Android’s built-in “Messages” app)…
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So I keep hearing about this mythical …
So I keep hearing about this mythical “reasonable and afraid” crowd who we can establish reasonable conversations with. Let’s see: I see how the Korean media covers their activities and their positions, and I want to throw up. It’s disgusting. I go to their website, and I want to puke. It’s worse in online spaces.…
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Are we sure that by using the …
Are we sure that by using the “latinx” term we are not further reinforcing the misguided notion of people who don’t care that “people from latin america” are “latin people”? Unless people are engaged in intentional identity conversations, “latinx” can easily pass as a typo of “latin”.
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You can’t gather up a group of people…
You can’t gather up a group of people who are wholeheartedly convinced that something is wrong and they have every right to say that it’s wrong and tell them that they ought not to say what they believe, and instead convince them to say “oh i think it is very good, it’s just that.. XYZ..…