sa....

fwiw (which is not much since my instincts are 15 years out of date and now heavily compromised by 文言) my sense is that 手工 is shading into 'artisanal' or 'handmade'

I have deadass seen "analog cigarette" in the wild

100%; 人工智能 takes longer to say too

I reject artificial intelligence; artifice all the way

You see, in English we call it "AI," but in Chinese we call it "AI" in Chinese. And where Silicon Valley doomers see only "crisis..."

Interviewer: Can you explain this empty space in your resume? Laozi: Emptiness and presence emerge together but are named differently. Together we call it mysterious.

the ink marks on the page are recognized as useful, but it is the blank spaces between them that make them so

this is, unfortunately, the real answer

this is more or less how gyoza adopted me (trotting over, flopping down on my feet, and starting to purr) so it's kind of cool to think i'm his megan thee stallion

responding to questions with a detailed plot summary of everything in the Yakuza franchise leading up to wherever I currently am

torn between hoping the mac version comes out soon and hoping that it doesn't get released until winter break

no no, let them cook

Vale, Al Dien (1927-2026): My fondest memory of him is from Dunhuang in 1998, when he went to a local beer festival and then came to us students (unannounced) with armloads of bottles. It was our job to drink the beer so he could remove the labels for his extensive collection 🍺

Also Harriet Zurndorfer and Anne McLaren.

bro I hate Zhou Enl-I mean Confucius so fucking much

*larnéd, a half-rhyme with “varmint”