Year: 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”.