“i have new year’s eve plans”

the plans:

Sad news about Lee Sunkyun. Inevitably referred to as 'the actor from Parasite' in Western media, but his presence in Korean cinema /TV was huge. Personal favourites were Paju, Hong Sang-Soo's films, and TV drama My Mister. RIP.

Is it just me, or is the twitter timeline mostly just showing me tweets with high like counts

Is there anything written about @GitLab vs @GitHub privacy & security? (e.g., how 'private' your private repo is, diff cryptographic protocols)

Curious about how they compare in general. (And ofc GitHub is owned by Microsoft, which works with OpenAI, so data privacy aspect too)

97 year old comic about what would happen if 'pocket telephones' were to be invented.

There's a line attributed to Feynman (probably apocryphally) that 'philosophy of science is as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds'. I've always taken it as a compliment. Imagine putting birds in charge of their own conservation programs.

A NEW Parul Sehgal ESSAY JUST DROPPED

What was the last novel you read that made you say to yourself “I didn’t know novels could do that”?

Michael did for me what writers who are just starting out can never forget — he took a chance on a young writer.

Since then, he has helped me exorcise bad habits, bad ideas, and bad prose (and tolerated my rambling pitches). I owe him so much.

This year's top 10 Longreads Reading Lists include my piece on running! Thanks again to @[email protected] :)

I did nothing productive during Thanksgiving, so to make myself feel better, I'm resharing something I wrote a few weeks ago about plastic surgery and why lookism is really, really bad

wired.com/story/lookism-…

Today I noticed it's been a while since I've received random emails from PR companies? Then I realized one Gmail filter I set up last month has filtered out 99.9% of them lol

I shouldn't post it here since they can bypass it, but DM/email me if you're in the PR email inferno

and yet, a trace of the true self persists

It was a true honor having Manuel Blum as my PhD advisor. He gave me confidence and taught me how to think deeply and communicate clearly.

technologyreview.com/2023/10/24/108…

Someone should write a book on very good advisors and mentors: technologyreview.com/2023/10/24/108…

Hope you'll read my profile of Manuel Blum — endorsed by tylercowen

📢 I'll regularly retweet (RIP) this

Not going to stop using Twitter anytime soon, but I find myself checking this less and less. If you're interested in new writings or updates (or my cats!) here's my IG: sheon.han

(The new algo suppresses posts with links, so I'll link below)

so damn good

#KillersOfTheFlowerMoon is Eli the owl's first movie role 🦉

She beat out 5 other owls for the part and Leonardo DiCaprio took a break from filming to watch her scenes