Teddy Kim
@Teddy__Kim
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🍸 making weekends better @try_lastcall | movies, markεts, morals
New York, NY
Joined August 2012
Latest podcast from @Gregory_C_Allen has an insane section on criminal activity at Meta. Internal docs leaked to Reuters show: • 10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods ($16B/year) • Meta estimates it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the US
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Ok I actually have something to promote, my startup. Grab some Last Call if you’re hungover from all your holiday drinking
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Last Call is a fun & convenient after-alcohol wellness aid to be taken any time you drink. We're inspired by highly popular and well-established Korean products that line the shelves of stores around...
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A 95% on rotten tomatoes, used to really mean something
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“It’s just that all of these Caribbean resorts look exactly the same to me. It’s just a random beach.” “Oh I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You sit at your laptop, and you select… I don’t know, that all-inclusive resort for instance, because you’re trying to
Cancun is not my cup of tea, but boy is it an incredible success story of engineering: the Mexican government engineered a tourist hotspot custom-built to attract American dollars, from a place that had nothing in 5 short years. In the late 60s, Mexico ran a huge trade deficit
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It might be pure coincidence but it is kinda wild that the core of Medallion’s algorithms were built by computational linguistic experts, one of whom studied under Geoffrey Hinton while getting his PhD
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I am so excited to see @JohnathanBi tracing family history and preparing to dive into the Chinese classics. Adding the Eastern canon to his presentations will help establish many new connections for myself and others
On my recent trip to China, I discovered a letter addressed to me, from 1884… My maternal line runs through one of the great houses of the Chinese Empire. It produced imperial scholars and statesmen for the better part of a millennium the most notable of which was Chen Jie Qi
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A still very underappreciated consequence of all this
even minor aristocrats could not get the kind of tutor on demand for their kids that every single family who can pay twenty dollars a month can now
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I remember when I first learned about @BenSasse when he gave his first speech in the Senate. Worth rewatching today
Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence.
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periodic reminder that no matter how famous or busy a person is, if they love their work, they always like hearing specific details about how their work has impacted your life
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the world is finally embracing Luke Metro Thought
Chamath: We need to follow the example of Industrialist leaders like Carnegie & Ford to fix AI's massive perception problem. @chamath "Enough of the stupid haircuts, dumb watches, ugly clothes, ostentatious displays of wealth. We've all done it. I've been guilty of it. It
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did not realize the south korean stock market is up 70% this year
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Jim Cameron is so funny. His response to the charge that he employs the "noble savage" trope is "of course, because it's a cool myth that speaks to us" and his response to why the Na'vi need human help is "it's historically accurate."
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There's a very funny phenomenon where otherwise left-liberal types will start to sound like John Wayne when this one topic comes up
read the compact essay on the woes of white millennial men in the meaning industries, and as a white millennial man who washed out of journalism i say: life goes on, it maybe even gets better when you accept no one is owed a prestige media or TT humanities job
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Very lucky to write for Emily at Feed Me 🙏
Comments like this mean so much to me. I feel so lucky to have contributors like @Teddy__Kim writing for Feed Me.
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six way parlay. i want ground strikes in venezuela. i want a Monroe Doctrine shoutout. i want an east wing ballroom weave, an autopen mention, and the JD clapback to hit six thousand likes. wiles stays in. read it back to me.
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Roman augurs would have had a field day with this one
A Maine man says he was on his way to a work site on Sunday when he came across a large gathering of bald eagles. He counted at least 20 in this video that he shared on social media. https://t.co/1QBWT60Hrw
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handing off your startup fulfillment to a 3PL is bittersweet. The touch of a poly bubble mailer, the stickiness of the adhesive sealing strip, and the smell of a freshly printed thermal label. All the intimacies of business stripped away by the impersonal capitalist machine
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