David Song

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"I said, 'My God, I'm Japanese and I didn't know it,'" Stefani told Allure. She later insisted, "I am, you know," calling herself a "super fan" of Japanese culture. Stefani made the remarks to Allure reporter Jesa Marie Calaor, who is Asian American.
Gwen Stefani says she's Japanese in response to cultural appropriation charges
Yet another example is when I talk to white trans people about the concept of “passing” and how I feel more comfortable passing than being visibly transgender, they’re quick to label me as self-hating. What these individuals refuse to acknowledge, though, is that it’s hard enough being Asian in white professional and social spaces already; I don’t need my marginalized gender identity to be another obstacle to my moving through life as easily as possible.
Being Transgender Is A Unique Experience When You’re Chinese | HuffPost Voices
Whether we want to recognize it or not, in the American transgender community, whiteness is the default. But this doesn’t mean that white transness is the only way to be trans.
Being Transgender Is A Unique Experience When You’re Chinese | HuffPost Voices
However, even as the U.S. government is accusing Chinese corporations like ByteDance and Huawei of colluding with the state, it too is expanding collaborations with U.S. technology companies. For instance, in 2019, Microsoft was awarded a $10 billion contract from the Department of Defense to update and transform the U.S. military's cloud computing infrastructure. The project, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), is the Pentagon's largest technology contract to date38 and represents the growing relationship between the high-tech industry and the military. Ironically, th…
Project MUSE - Yellow Peril and Techno-orientalism in the Time of Covid-19: Racialized Contagion, Scientific Espionage, and Techno-Economic Warfare
If the cases of Japanese American incarceration and the imprisonment of Dr. Wen Ho Lee offer any lessons, it is that ethnic Asians, perceived as perpetually foreign, are always subject to the rigged test of national loyalty. It matters not what factual evidence there is, if it exists at all. The machinations of the "yellow peril" rely on the perpetuated belief that ethnicity determines national loyalty and allegiance. Moreover, projected as an undifferentiated mass, Chinese/Asian Americans are represented as the servile minions that both embody and extend the anti-West and its efforts to domin…
Project MUSE - Yellow Peril and Techno-orientalism in the Time of Covid-19: Racialized Contagion, Scientific Espionage, and Techno-Economic Warfare
The danger with this kind of suppression is that it makes unnatural allies between the genuinely scummy (i.e. Asian guys who would’ve been harassers in any environment) and those who simply want an honest discussion about a problem that everyone can see.
The Deeper Roots of the Celeste Ng Controversy
In short, this issue isn’t some weird quirk endemic to Asian Americans. This is a feature of the system we all live in. And almost everyone else is able to talk about it, except for us.
The Deeper Roots of the Celeste Ng Controversy
This is more Wall Street but pretty sure it works in all industries. Every 3 years or so you’re up for promotion. Effectively, *99%* never get promoted until their 3 year analyst stint is done. Or. The ~3 years of being an associate (ignoring the stub half year to keep it simple). This means the following: 1) year one you kill yourself establish yourself as an amazing worker first 6 months, 2) prioritize and cruise from year 0.5 to 1.75-2.0 and 3) the promotion year run it up hard and grind to secure the promotion. Go back to step 1. As you can see, by doing this you will make it a lot easier …
Career Advice and Some Small Announcements
Today, beta-amyloid can be detected via PET brain scans, spinal fluid examination or blood tests (although the latter aren’t yet commonly used). The buildup of this protein starts perhaps 20 years before symptoms occur, and around 20% of healthy, asymptomatic 70-year-olds have significant brain beta-amyloid deposition. While this has led some scientists to question the toxicity of beta-amyloid, others view this long, pre-symptomatic period as an opportunity – a time when intervention could prevent the onset of cognitive decline.
It’s just a first step, but this new Alzheimer’s drug could be a huge breakthrough | Jonathan Schott | The Guardian
Take the tendency I discussed for people to ascribe the most quotidian and common elements of human life to ADHD.
Your Personality Has To Be Load-Bearing - Freddie deBoer
A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It's all about them. They have mastered the Star Wars or Star Trek universes or whatever, but their objects of veneration are useful mainly as a backdrop to their own devotion. Anyone who would camp out in a tent on the sidewalk for weeks in order to be first in line for a movie is more into camping on the sidewalk than movies.
Your Personality Has To Be Load-Bearing - Freddie deBoer
I still believe that, at the core of things, you can be your studied indifference to the vagaries of fate, but you cannot be the motorcycle you bought to broadcast it.
Your Personality Has To Be Load-Bearing - Freddie deBoer
Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
Curius / Onboarding