Amy Weng

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Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book: Last year, 57 percent of Americans placed a bet.
The End of Reading Is Here - The Atlantic
Developed for aerospace engineering, CATIA did not merely describe form; it communicated directly with the tools that would make form real—translating geometry into instructions that could drive machines, guide fabrication, and coordinate assembly down to bolts and welds.
Frank Gehry remembered by architectural historian Julian Rose
When a reporter recently challenged Liu to answer the middle-school questions about the “meaning” and the “central themes” of his story, he didn’t get a single one right.
Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds | The New Yorker
He was looking for a “5’2, asian, pre-med, matcha-loving, funny, watches anime, white dog having, intelligent, ambitious, well dressed, CLEAN 19-21 year old.”
Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
Being in a scene you’re not passionate about is a really good way to end up resenting the people you’re around and I think that is Deeply Bad for your so
I love the bay area - by Ava - bookbear express
Which means that they undo everything feminist literature has built, like beauty standards and the reclaiming of sexual autonomy in heterosexual relationships.
Sex work will never be feminist - by Kien-ling
In making everything women do a feminist choice we eradicate the possibility that some of these choices may not be so radical.
Sex work will never be feminist - by Kien-ling
Disguised in commodification but presented as sexually autonomous
Sex work will never be feminist - by Kien-ling
it looks like they’re making a choice to be sex workers to make money.
Sex work will never be feminist - by Kien-ling
The main component in an argument against sex work as feminism is the emphasis on individualism, choice and empowerment.
Sex work will never be feminist - by Kien-ling
Ultimately you cannot reclaim something that has been anti-woman from the start.
Sex work will never be feminist - by Kien-ling
ethics of it aren’t questioned
Sex work will never be feminist - by Kien-ling
pornography is inherently anti-feminist
Sex work will never be feminist - by Kien-ling
any choice a woman makes can be feminist on the basis that she is a woman
Sex work will never be feminist - by Kien-ling
grace. The idea of love as unretractable and more than that—unchangeable
grace - by Ava - bookbear express
though he was no longer Christian he always resonated with the idea that we are born sinners and it is only through God’s love that we can be redeemed
grace - by Ava - bookbear express
If I am young, wasting time is a forgivable mistake
grow up! - by brit - booritney
you can’t not feel your age, because it is what you are. It follows that not feeling your age is a narrativized wrapper you’re choosing to adopt, and so you must want
grow up! - by brit - booritney
The market will not lift the great majority of citizens out of poverty. Rather, it will aggravate, at least in appearance and probably in reality, the existing ethnic maldistribution of wealth. Democracy will not make all voters imagine themselves as coparticipants in a fraternal national community. Rather, the competition for votes will more likely foster the emergence of ethnic political entrepreneurs (particularly among the impoverished majority) and active ethnonationalist movements. Markets and democracy cannot be regarded unproblematically as solutions to the dangers of ethnic strife in …
Markets, Democracy, and Ethnicity: Toward A New Paradigm For Law and Development
Take the first step, then see if you fall in love with the road before you.
chemistry needs contact - by Jesse - fish in a pool
“I GUARANTEE YOU,” ONE CHRISTIAN ENTREPRENEUR TOLD ME, “THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE LEVERAGING CHRISTIANITY TO GET CLOSER TO PETER THIEL.”
God Complex | Vanity Fair | APRIL 2025
gen z is quite slutty in theory, but not in practice
gen z's toxic relationship with cheating - steph :)