May-Li Khoe✨
@mayli.bsky.social
used to be @mayli in the old place.
hello! 👋 maylikhoe.com
tin house winter workshop 2025
Interdisciplinary designer writer artist musician dancer inventor educator. vp of design and former dj. mfa candidate.
hello! 👋 maylikhoe.com
tin house winter workshop 2025
Interdisciplinary designer writer artist musician dancer inventor educator. vp of design and former dj. mfa candidate.
I want to know what the trials will look like when the tables turn.
January 22, 2026 at 10:26 AM
I want to know what the trials will look like when the tables turn.
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if you need it
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January 9, 2026 at 7:23 PM
if you need it
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Seeing lots of folks incorporating "critical university studies" lessons into their spring classes. For what it's worth, my 2022 Redesigning the Academy class site is totally open, and I've got a bunch of relevant (open) Arena channels, too... [1/2]
redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/
redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/
January 5, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Seeing lots of folks incorporating "critical university studies" lessons into their spring classes. For what it's worth, my 2022 Redesigning the Academy class site is totally open, and I've got a bunch of relevant (open) Arena channels, too... [1/2]
redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/
redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/
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Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become
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They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
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A must-read:
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 2, 2026 at 6:12 PM
A must-read:
I can at least confirm that when you don’t have other ambitions (like ladder climbing, empire building, endless wealth hoarding, or a bottomless pit of an ego to fill), as a leader it really does open space and clarity to just focus on what needs to get done
I do agree with the core thesis here - Mamdani doesn’t really have some other ambition he is known to be beholden to and it opens up a lot more space to actually accomplish something which probably triggers both the oligarchs & the strivers
Too much of US politics is dominated by the (silly but powerful) warping force that “You might be president someday!” It’s not possible for Mamdani—and that opens up space for a political imagination inaccessible to most by the the new mayor and his constituents lithub.com/why-its-a-go...
January 2, 2026 at 5:51 PM
I can at least confirm that when you don’t have other ambitions (like ladder climbing, empire building, endless wealth hoarding, or a bottomless pit of an ego to fill), as a leader it really does open space and clarity to just focus on what needs to get done
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
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You’re going to be okay. Someone will hate your book. You’re going to be okay. Someone will not get what you’re trying to do with your art and judge you. You’re going to be okay. You’re going to keep creating, in 2026, because you need it and because the world needs you to. Okay?
December 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
You’re going to be okay. Someone will hate your book. You’re going to be okay. Someone will not get what you’re trying to do with your art and judge you. You’re going to be okay. You’re going to keep creating, in 2026, because you need it and because the world needs you to. Okay?
Para todo el mundo: porque no los dos?
Feliz año y feliz ano!
Feliz año y feliz ano!
Just like every year, a friendly PSA:
“Feliz ano nuevo” means “happy new anus.”
“Feliz año nuevo” means “happy new year.”
Wishing folks either one is nice, but make sure you’re using the one you mean.
“Feliz ano nuevo” means “happy new anus.”
“Feliz año nuevo” means “happy new year.”
Wishing folks either one is nice, but make sure you’re using the one you mean.
December 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Para todo el mundo: porque no los dos?
Feliz año y feliz ano!
Feliz año y feliz ano!
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you know who you won’t see in the epstein files tomorrow? drag queens and trans athletes.
December 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
you know who you won’t see in the epstein files tomorrow? drag queens and trans athletes.
louder for ppl in the back 📣
the Luddites were not inherently anti-tech!
the Luddites were not inherently anti-tech!
"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
December 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
louder for ppl in the back 📣
the Luddites were not inherently anti-tech!
the Luddites were not inherently anti-tech!
OH from parent to child “you know i have shoes older than you?”
December 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
OH from parent to child “you know i have shoes older than you?”
to spell this out bluntly:
1. cut / forbid new idea formation and practices that support it
2. tell you you don’t have new ideas
1. cut / forbid new idea formation and practices that support it
2. tell you you don’t have new ideas
First they cut arts in schools to make way for standards and efficiency. And now we hear we need machines to come up with new ideas for us because we can’t do it.
Just say No to these people. It’s dangerous nonsense. And should be disregarded and treated only with scorn.
Just say No to these people. It’s dangerous nonsense. And should be disregarded and treated only with scorn.
December 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM
to spell this out bluntly:
1. cut / forbid new idea formation and practices that support it
2. tell you you don’t have new ideas
1. cut / forbid new idea formation and practices that support it
2. tell you you don’t have new ideas
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Thank you majority: "According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy." You're right.
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thank you majority: "According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy." You're right.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Here’s the BBC, in contrast, naming him in the headline
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Eleven people were killed in the shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach, as crowds attended an event to celebrate Hanukkah.
www.bbc.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Here’s the BBC, in contrast, naming him in the headline
Again, even LLMs will tell you this is their limitation, but I keep finding people of all stripes who don’t get it. Will ppl listen to me more if I tell them about my two MIT CS degrees 🫠
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Again, even LLMs will tell you this is their limitation, but I keep finding people of all stripes who don’t get it. Will ppl listen to me more if I tell them about my two MIT CS degrees 🫠
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender-affirming care saves lives
tbh I’m wondering who this “we” is because nobody I’m spending time with by choice is defending the social order they were born into, and I have an inkling about who is ? most likely I have chosen to be in a bubble but it is not small, point still stands whenever i see a “we” i’m like whooo is weee
This need for a legible social order expresses itself in what social psychologists call "system justification." We have a propensity to justify & defend the social order we are born into-- *even if we are at the bottom of that order* --because a system that makes sense is preferable to uncertainty.
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
tbh I’m wondering who this “we” is because nobody I’m spending time with by choice is defending the social order they were born into, and I have an inkling about who is ? most likely I have chosen to be in a bubble but it is not small, point still stands whenever i see a “we” i’m like whooo is weee
always pay attention to the incentive system
It produces a performative ecosystem. Actors aren’t communicating; they’re staging provocations for yield. The result is disordered discourse: signals detached from truth, identity shaped by escalation, and a feedback loop where the performance eclipses reality itself.
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
always pay attention to the incentive system
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happy Jair Bolsonaro got arrested after failing to cut off his ankle monitor day
"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
happy Jair Bolsonaro got arrested after failing to cut off his ankle monitor day
Eventually, the few who remained wandered out of the cities on foot, leaving the bots to hit each others’ buttons and empty self-driving cars circling, charging, circling, charging. Moss crept over the concrete and tall grasses sprung up through cracks, waving golden goodbyes in the wind
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Eventually, the few who remained wandered out of the cities on foot, leaving the bots to hit each others’ buttons and empty self-driving cars circling, charging, circling, charging. Moss crept over the concrete and tall grasses sprung up through cracks, waving golden goodbyes in the wind
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i’m fairly sure it’s by design (that they don’t know)
American culture doesn't know the rest of us exist. Mainstream media do not know there's more than a century of history of activism and theory in which our movements are grounded, and that our communities have a operated in solidarity with other Black and brown communities since the 19th century.
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
i’m fairly sure it’s by design (that they don’t know)
*pat pat*
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
*pat pat*