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Former journalist. Sometimes writer. Usually in Korea
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Huh. Hyundai-Kia are No. 2 for EV sales in Europe so far in 2025. Funky.

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Severance s2e3 … Really frickin’ silly. It’s an enjoyable watch, but it’s really silly.

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You’d think at this point the major newspapers would have extra reporters on duty every Friday evening. That’s when the big White House abomination-of-the-week always drops.

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NEW: Canada beats USA in overtime to win the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off hockey tournament, capping a heated and politically charged event.

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Looks like we have a bit of a weather shift coming to Seoul over the next week … highs of 1 to 17! Shorts weather!

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Tens of trillions of viruses live in our bodies (hundreds of trillions if you looked at my sons before their showers). Pretty amazing that we’re finally getting serious about identifying them all. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/h...

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Happy to have WHITE LOTUS back on the air. Very happy with Lisa’s debut (although I hope she gets something more meaty as this series goes on).

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As seen on Reddit…

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East coast sunrise~

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 8 days ago • 539 comments

A cloudy afternoon on Korea’s east coast.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

What really impresses me about this is that we basically went through the same thing with Trump I, when Rick Perry became head of the Department of Energy.

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Do you understand how badly you have to fuck up to make Quebec sing the anthem with this much pride

submitted 9 days ago • 51 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

submitted 11 days ago • 39 comments

It’s remarkable how institution after institution in America has turned out to be utterly spineless when confronted with a true threat. But the press caving in is for me the saddest failure of them all.

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What does Trump have against Canada? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-empero...

submitted 11 days ago • 83 comments

Huh. Google Maps in Korea is doing the Gulf of Mexico (America) thing. But the Sea of Japan is only the East Sea.

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One of my most conservative Econ profs in university (a Hoover Institution type) eventually came to the view that secondary democratic institutions were incredibly important to modern economies, and started working to improve them around the Third World. Little did he expect that back in the US…

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Ooh, the Hani translated this article. Was hoping they would. It’s pretty brutal. english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

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A cold, winter sunset in Seoul.

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Just finished Kaldellis’s THE NEW ROMAN EMPIRE, and immediately started re-reading it. One of my favorite songs of a good book. www.amazon.com/New-Roman-Em...

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Testimony today at Yoon's impeachment hearing may seal his fate. Col. Kim Hyun-tae said he was told to limit the # of the people in the Natl Assembly to 150. Although he didn't know it at the time, that was the number to reach a quorum and rescind martial law. 1/ en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...

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The end of an era in Korea. Goodbye, TGIFridays~ koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-02...

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A good report on the growing danger journalists in Korea face of violence from pro-Yoon mobs. www.fccj.or.jp/index.php/nu...

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This Oceans11’s sequel is ambitious but the cast really sucks. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

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Just staggering reading the US news right now. It’s like vile, stupid, and corrupt are having a big 3-way fight for supremacy … and none is about to tap out any time soon. It’s going to be really tough to stop the doom scrolling for the next four years.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment