William Moss
@williammoss.bsky.social
Trans-Pacific spin doctor. Technology industry sub-creature. San Francisco, Singapore and Taiwan. Head of global media relations at TSMC.
Ah. One of the cats is barfing. Good morning.
February 18, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Ah. One of the cats is barfing. Good morning.
I was in college, and there was an editorial cartoon I've remembered for nearly forty years, with Democratic leaders searching behind the furniture and under the rugs for a presidential candidate and Jesse Jackson just standing there in the middle of it.
February 17, 2026 at 10:29 PM
I was in college, and there was an editorial cartoon I've remembered for nearly forty years, with Democratic leaders searching behind the furniture and under the rugs for a presidential candidate and Jesse Jackson just standing there in the middle of it.
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新年快樂！
馬到成功！
馬到成功！
a person riding on the back of a horse with a fire coming out of its tail
ALT: a person riding on the back of a horse with a fire coming out of its tail
media.tenor.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:24 PM
新年快樂！
馬到成功！
馬到成功！
Huh. The very rare peal of thunder in our area. (Mid-peninsula, between San Francisco and San Jose.)
February 17, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Huh. The very rare peal of thunder in our area. (Mid-peninsula, between San Francisco and San Jose.)
If you’re using a sportsbook app, you’re a degenerate gambler, but if you use a prediction market you’re a “trader” seeking alpha. I’ve been noticing the word “trader” in coverage of prediction markets and would be interested to know if it was seeded as a deliberate PR strategy.
As prediction markets boom, competition is heating up. So traders go the extra mile for a fraction-of-a-second advantage or to sleuth out information nobody else has. It can lead to a huge payday. n.pr/3MOhLDQ
TV antennas and Super Bowl rehearsals: How prediction market traders seek an edge
As prediction markets boom, competition is heating up. So traders go the extra mile for a fraction-of-a-second advantage or to sleuth out information nobody else has. It can lead to a huge payday.
n.pr
February 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM
If you’re using a sportsbook app, you’re a degenerate gambler, but if you use a prediction market you’re a “trader” seeking alpha. I’ve been noticing the word “trader” in coverage of prediction markets and would be interested to know if it was seeded as a deliberate PR strategy.
This guy is the true vanguard of Chinese soft power.
Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year.
youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU
youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU
February 16, 2026 at 6:14 PM
This guy is the true vanguard of Chinese soft power.
Nothing makes me feel like I am hurtling towards mortality faster than the speed with which doing my tax prep arrives each year.
February 14, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Nothing makes me feel like I am hurtling towards mortality faster than the speed with which doing my tax prep arrives each year.
I have no idea whatsoever is going on in curling, but I appreciate the passion with which it is being played, whatever it is.
February 13, 2026 at 10:12 PM
I have no idea whatsoever is going on in curling, but I appreciate the passion with which it is being played, whatever it is.
What I note about this piece is the sheer number of anonymous knives out for Noem and Lewandowski, and the paucity of on-the-record defense other than from a "DHS spokeswoman." There is a White House statement from Leavitt that mostly about the President.
Firing a pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind. Berating staff when she's not on TV enough. Inside the constant chaos at DHS.
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
on.wsj.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
What I note about this piece is the sheer number of anonymous knives out for Noem and Lewandowski, and the paucity of on-the-record defense other than from a "DHS spokeswoman." There is a White House statement from Leavitt that mostly about the President.
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WHAT
This is your regular reminder that in the year 2000, Paul Rudd, with frosted tips, appeared in the Hong Kong film GEN-Y COPS as a bad guy (kinda). In the movie, he does martial arts, fights a robot, and, most shocking of all, does an entire scene in Cantonese.
February 13, 2026 at 12:44 AM
WHAT
Full endorsement of this. My one disappointment with the Palace Museum in Taiwan was that the jadeite cabbage had been loaned out when we were there. But you may be luckier!
This is a good Taiwan list but if you want to do a touristy thing the National Museum’s tucked away up in the mountains and has all the cool stuff the KMT stole from the mainland before they left. Makes the museum at the Forbidden Palace in Beijing look like shit (because they took the good stuff)
February 12, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Full endorsement of this. My one disappointment with the Palace Museum in Taiwan was that the jadeite cabbage had been loaned out when we were there. But you may be luckier!
Oh, look - someone did an interview with Isaac Chotiner and didn't get incinerated and it's my old friend from China Bill Bishop, talking about Xi Jinping's purge of the PLA leadership and more. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Xi Jinping’s Purge and What Trump’s Foreign Policy Means for China
Isaac Chotiner interviews Bill Bishop, the author of “Sinocism,” about how China views the Trump Administration’s alienation of NATO allies, and what is happening in Xi’s “anti-corruption campaign.”
www.newyorker.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Oh, look - someone did an interview with Isaac Chotiner and didn't get incinerated and it's my old friend from China Bill Bishop, talking about Xi Jinping's purge of the PLA leadership and more. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Joan Baez
Two members of the Dead: Pigpen and Kreutzmann
Davante Adams and Jim Harbaugh (whom I overlapped with but did not know because he was QB and I was a D&D nerd)
The acting Franco brothers (problematic)
Not super famous, but interesting: Douglas Hofstadter
Two members of the Dead: Pigpen and Kreutzmann
Davante Adams and Jim Harbaugh (whom I overlapped with but did not know because he was QB and I was a D&D nerd)
The acting Franco brothers (problematic)
Not super famous, but interesting: Douglas Hofstadter
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Joan Baez
Two members of the Dead: Pigpen and Kreutzmann
Davante Adams and Jim Harbaugh (whom I overlapped with but did not know because he was QB and I was a D&D nerd)
The acting Franco brothers (problematic)
Not super famous, but interesting: Douglas Hofstadter
Two members of the Dead: Pigpen and Kreutzmann
Davante Adams and Jim Harbaugh (whom I overlapped with but did not know because he was QB and I was a D&D nerd)
The acting Franco brothers (problematic)
Not super famous, but interesting: Douglas Hofstadter
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February 12, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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this may be the most English man ever to exist.
“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
February 11, 2026 at 7:04 PM
this may be the most English man ever to exist.
This is an A+ troll. (I guess LA could have a reciprocal “don’t be a GIANT ass” campaign.)
Just want to point out as well that SF has quite possibly the best anti-fare dodging ad campaign based on their baseball team’s fiercest rivals being the Dodgers.
February 11, 2026 at 4:03 PM
This is an A+ troll. (I guess LA could have a reciprocal “don’t be a GIANT ass” campaign.)
The military controls all airspace in China. I used to fly BJ-SH a lot and there would be occasional military closures and the entire air travel system would melt down and you’d get to spend a fun day at Hongqiao eating bad airport dumplings. I edited an entire video during one such delay.
The FAA has lifted a planned 10-day ground stop at El Paso International Airport, saying there is no threat to commercial aviation.
On Tuesday, the agency halted all flights in and out of the airport, citing “special security reasons.”
On Tuesday, the agency halted all flights in and out of the airport, citing “special security reasons.”
FAA lifts restrictions at El Paso airport after ground stop for security reasons
The FAA reversed course early Wednesday morning, saying air traffic could resume as normal. It did not provide a reason for the temporary closure.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
The military controls all airspace in China. I used to fly BJ-SH a lot and there would be occasional military closures and the entire air travel system would melt down and you’d get to spend a fun day at Hongqiao eating bad airport dumplings. I edited an entire video during one such delay.
OMG are we doing avocado toast discourse again?
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:05 AM
OMG are we doing avocado toast discourse again?
This seems like a literal walking PR crisis for the university.
February 11, 2026 at 1:17 AM
This seems like a literal walking PR crisis for the university.
BRB. Checking Kalshi for the odds on "Congress Subpoenas Bad Bunny"
Rep Mark Alford (R-MO) says House Rs are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show & talking with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. Alford says he didn't watch the whole thing & also doesn't know Spanish but suspects it might have been "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction"
February 10, 2026 at 9:56 PM
BRB. Checking Kalshi for the odds on "Congress Subpoenas Bad Bunny"
China hit 14% in 2007, when I was living there. It was five years after WTO accession, China was transforming into the hub of global manufacturing and undergoing the largest wave of urbanization in human history.
Trump: "If our new head of the Fed, who I think is gonna be great, if he does the job he's capable of we can grow at 15%. I think more than that."
February 10, 2026 at 3:51 PM
China hit 14% in 2007, when I was living there. It was five years after WTO accession, China was transforming into the hub of global manufacturing and undergoing the largest wave of urbanization in human history.
I feel bad for the Malaysian farmers but ngl, would be perfectly happy if the glut lasts until my next trip to Singapore, sometime this summer.
Chinese demand for fresh, not frozen, durian has left Malaysia’s farmers with a glut of unsold produce and thrown the industry into turmoil.
A Shift in Chinese Taste for Durian Throws Malaysian Farmers Into Turmoil
Malaysian durian farmers saw immense profits over the last decade as China snapped up their produce. But tastes have shifted.
nyti.ms
February 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I feel bad for the Malaysian farmers but ngl, would be perfectly happy if the glut lasts until my next trip to Singapore, sometime this summer.
idk I feel like countries tend to look back on their concentration camp eras with regret
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:58 PM
idk I feel like countries tend to look back on their concentration camp eras with regret
Post a banger that isn’t in English. youtu.be/ShgAspeDRds?...
February 9, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Post a banger that isn’t in English. youtu.be/ShgAspeDRds?...
I think people were looking for things that were never going to happen, like Bad Bunny wearing an anti-ICE t-shirt. I read the show as quite political. The genius of it was packaging the politics in a way that felt coherent with the performance and personally relevant to Mr. Bunny.
Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:28 PM
I think people were looking for things that were never going to happen, like Bad Bunny wearing an anti-ICE t-shirt. I read the show as quite political. The genius of it was packaging the politics in a way that felt coherent with the performance and personally relevant to Mr. Bunny.