Ming F Wan
@minniewannie.bsky.social
AI doing the important work — automating scammers out of their Academese fortresses 🧪
November 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
AI doing the important work — automating scammers out of their Academese fortresses 🧪
In my Chinese primary school, we learned about Marie Curie fighting sexism in science. Meanwhile, Hollywood sold girls the dream of being fashion designers — a borderline scam of a career path.
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November 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
In my Chinese primary school, we learned about Marie Curie fighting sexism in science. Meanwhile, Hollywood sold girls the dream of being fashion designers — a borderline scam of a career path.
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October 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
5 years ago, I wrote about how blood diamond monopoly De Beers tried to kill lab diamonds by undercutting them with cheap, low-quality lab diamond jewelry: www.cs.toronto.edu/~ming/422_es...
That plan failed. Miserably. 🥳
🧪 #EconSky
That plan failed. Miserably. 🥳
🧪 #EconSky
October 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
5 years ago, I wrote about how blood diamond monopoly De Beers tried to kill lab diamonds by undercutting them with cheap, low-quality lab diamond jewelry: www.cs.toronto.edu/~ming/422_es...
That plan failed. Miserably. 🥳
🧪 #EconSky
That plan failed. Miserably. 🥳
🧪 #EconSky
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The Desert Was Dying… Then Beavers Arrived
YouTube video by Innovative Techs
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August 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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My dad scored ~70 on a primary school IQ test. He later ranked in the top 30 out of 1M in one of the hardest Gaokao exams and has been a VP at multiple Fortune 500 companies.
Whenever people say IQ tests are fair and objective, I just tell them this story.
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Whenever people say IQ tests are fair and objective, I just tell them this story.
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I Took an IQ Test to Find Out What it Actually Measures
YouTube video by Veritasium
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March 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
My dad scored ~70 on a primary school IQ test. He later ranked in the top 30 out of 1M in one of the hardest Gaokao exams and has been a VP at multiple Fortune 500 companies.
Whenever people say IQ tests are fair and objective, I just tell them this story.
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Whenever people say IQ tests are fair and objective, I just tell them this story.
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Bf's company is producing a cartoon about the Aztecs, with all the dialogue in Spanish.
Bf: The Aztecs didn't speak Spanish. It was the Spanish colonizers who massacred them that did.
🧪 #langsky
Bf: The Aztecs didn't speak Spanish. It was the Spanish colonizers who massacred them that did.
🧪 #langsky
February 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Bf's company is producing a cartoon about the Aztecs, with all the dialogue in Spanish.
Bf: The Aztecs didn't speak Spanish. It was the Spanish colonizers who massacred them that did.
🧪 #langsky
Bf: The Aztecs didn't speak Spanish. It was the Spanish colonizers who massacred them that did.
🧪 #langsky
February 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
February 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🧪My favorite plagiarism case will always be when my solution, posted in a GitHub issue comment, got copy-pasted into multiple Stack Overflow answers—without a shred of attribution.
Django 3.2 The app label is not a valid Python identifier. · Issue #17801 · FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
Describe the bug Error when using runserver in Django 3.2 Works with Django 3.1.8 To Reproduce pip install Django==3.2 pip install fontawesome-free==5.15.3 Add 'fontawesome-free' to your installed ...
github.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
🧪My favorite plagiarism case will always be when my solution, posted in a GitHub issue comment, got copy-pasted into multiple Stack Overflow answers—without a shred of attribution.
Neri Oxman (yes, the Wikipedia plagiarist from MIT Media Lab) had her students build a giant, useless silk pavilion to "explore relationships between digital and biological construction." oxman.com/projects/silk-pavilion-i
I chose the wrong career.
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I chose the wrong career.
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February 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Neri Oxman (yes, the Wikipedia plagiarist from MIT Media Lab) had her students build a giant, useless silk pavilion to "explore relationships between digital and biological construction." oxman.com/projects/silk-pavilion-i
I chose the wrong career.
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I chose the wrong career.
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And this is my biggest issue with the anti-consumption movement: Instead of showing how consuming less & saving more helps the economy and environment, it defaults to tEmU bAd takes—while fashion brands, magazines, and Hollywood are the real ones manufacturing demand.
🧪 #EconSky
🧪 #EconSky
February 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
And this is my biggest issue with the anti-consumption movement: Instead of showing how consuming less & saving more helps the economy and environment, it defaults to tEmU bAd takes—while fashion brands, magazines, and Hollywood are the real ones manufacturing demand.
🧪 #EconSky
🧪 #EconSky
February 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I've always felt Temu & Amazon get undue hate for selling fast fashion, when the real culprits are fashion brands. They're the ones brainwashing consumers into thinking that constantly buying new clothes is somehow a form of self-empowerment.
🧪 #EconSky
🧪 #EconSky
Burberry says it won’t destroy unsold merch anymore. But plenty of other fashion brands still do.
An expert explains why Burberry, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, and Michael Kors would rather destroy merchandise than lose prestige.
www.vox.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I've always felt Temu & Amazon get undue hate for selling fast fashion, when the real culprits are fashion brands. They're the ones brainwashing consumers into thinking that constantly buying new clothes is somehow a form of self-empowerment.
🧪 #EconSky
🧪 #EconSky
Chiming in on the DeepSeek situation as a former Dev Lead of a BBC-recognized startup:
The sad truth is that tech companies rarely prioritize environmental friendliness. Instead, they burn computing resources on buzzword features to impress investors. Props to them for actual energy-saving.
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The sad truth is that tech companies rarely prioritize environmental friendliness. Instead, they burn computing resources on buzzword features to impress investors. Props to them for actual energy-saving.
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Nuclear stocks tank as energy names get caught in DeepSeek-fueled rout
DeepSeek is fueling a selloff in one of the market's best-performing sectors last year: nuclear energy.
markets.businessinsider.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Chiming in on the DeepSeek situation as a former Dev Lead of a BBC-recognized startup:
The sad truth is that tech companies rarely prioritize environmental friendliness. Instead, they burn computing resources on buzzword features to impress investors. Props to them for actual energy-saving.
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The sad truth is that tech companies rarely prioritize environmental friendliness. Instead, they burn computing resources on buzzword features to impress investors. Props to them for actual energy-saving.
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Some funny highlights:
1. Instead of establishing a promised Bitcoin strategic reserve, Trump formed a committee to decide whether to not sell digital assets the government already owns.
2. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) blatantly pumped & dumped on X, pretending to announce a Bitcoin reserve.
🧪 #EconSky
1. Instead of establishing a promised Bitcoin strategic reserve, Trump formed a committee to decide whether to not sell digital assets the government already owns.
2. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) blatantly pumped & dumped on X, pretending to announce a Bitcoin reserve.
🧪 #EconSky
Newsletter: Trump horrifies even some of his crypto-steeped fans by launching a memecoin before his inauguration, and a flurry of activity from the new administration signals what’s in store for the crypto world in the next four years.
www.citationneeded.news/issue-75/
www.citationneeded.news/issue-75/
Issue 75 – Absolutely preposterous
Trump horrifies even some of his crypto-steeped fans by launching a memecoin before his inauguration, and a flurry of activity from the new administration signals what’s in store for the crypto world ...
www.citationneeded.news
January 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Some funny highlights:
1. Instead of establishing a promised Bitcoin strategic reserve, Trump formed a committee to decide whether to not sell digital assets the government already owns.
2. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) blatantly pumped & dumped on X, pretending to announce a Bitcoin reserve.
🧪 #EconSky
1. Instead of establishing a promised Bitcoin strategic reserve, Trump formed a committee to decide whether to not sell digital assets the government already owns.
2. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) blatantly pumped & dumped on X, pretending to announce a Bitcoin reserve.
🧪 #EconSky
Oda invented a unique pronoun for his gender-fluid character Ivankov.
(Source: One Piece Volume 85 SBS, 2017)
🧪💙📚 #linguistics
(Source: One Piece Volume 85 SBS, 2017)
🧪💙📚 #linguistics
January 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Oda invented a unique pronoun for his gender-fluid character Ivankov.
(Source: One Piece Volume 85 SBS, 2017)
🧪💙📚 #linguistics
(Source: One Piece Volume 85 SBS, 2017)
🧪💙📚 #linguistics
Sharing this as some around me are eager to try all-natural Chinese herbal meds.
One popular remedy for minor ailments, sold by a leading Chinese pharmacy, is potentially linked to 100k liver failure cases in China. The company denied responsibility and has never compensated victims.
🧪 #MedSky
One popular remedy for minor ailments, sold by a leading Chinese pharmacy, is potentially linked to 100k liver failure cases in China. The company denied responsibility and has never compensated victims.
🧪 #MedSky
新华视点：龙胆泻肝丸是清火良药还是致病根源?
新华视点：龙胆泻肝丸是清火良药还是致病根源?
news.sina.cn
January 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Sharing this as some around me are eager to try all-natural Chinese herbal meds.
One popular remedy for minor ailments, sold by a leading Chinese pharmacy, is potentially linked to 100k liver failure cases in China. The company denied responsibility and has never compensated victims.
🧪 #MedSky
One popular remedy for minor ailments, sold by a leading Chinese pharmacy, is potentially linked to 100k liver failure cases in China. The company denied responsibility and has never compensated victims.
🧪 #MedSky
Hot take: Tite Kubo is the greatest artist alive.
Not-so-hot take: I'm upset at Naruto 20 after seeing how good Bleach 20 is.
Not-so-hot take: I'm upset at Naruto 20 after seeing how good Bleach 20 is.
TVアニメ『BLEACH』20th PV
YouTube video by アニプレックス チャンネル
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January 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Hot take: Tite Kubo is the greatest artist alive.
Not-so-hot take: I'm upset at Naruto 20 after seeing how good Bleach 20 is.
Not-so-hot take: I'm upset at Naruto 20 after seeing how good Bleach 20 is.
Preprint "Price-fixing in the lab diamond market"💎
The lab-grown diamond industry, initially seen as a force for healthy competition and fair pricing in the diamond market, is now facing its own price-fixing issues.
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The lab-grown diamond industry, initially seen as a force for healthy competition and fair pricing in the diamond market, is now facing its own price-fixing issues.
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www.cs.toronto.edu
January 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Preprint "Price-fixing in the lab diamond market"💎
The lab-grown diamond industry, initially seen as a force for healthy competition and fair pricing in the diamond market, is now facing its own price-fixing issues.
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The lab-grown diamond industry, initially seen as a force for healthy competition and fair pricing in the diamond market, is now facing its own price-fixing issues.
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Yet another Stanford dropout, whose company supposedly had a renowned Stanford professor as an advisor, turned out to be a narcissistic scammer.
🧪 #AcademicSky
🧪 #AcademicSky
Funny detail: he references his own Wikipedia page on his personal website.
January 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Yet another Stanford dropout, whose company supposedly had a renowned Stanford professor as an advisor, turned out to be a narcissistic scammer.
🧪 #AcademicSky
🧪 #AcademicSky