But from the viewpoint of prestige, morale, and that kind of thing, they couldn't pick somebody better.
Crucial point is whether Tsinghua and others have figured out or already knows it in their bones "the hubris of middlemen--- who control pipeline (markets) between talent and (future) society"
Which to me smells like one (market-)failure mode of liberalism.
I'm grateful that (for HN at least) 2CPd was some of
https:// news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Duanemclemore
Blow the rich black man's God-fearin' socks off with shamanic MoF-baths, brother
Sorry if I sound like frontier LLM. Brain fog. Tends Markovian, which AI would've chunked. Really.
Oh, for the sub-paranoid ethno-evangelicals reading along: some millions of honorarier-than-thou-whiteys with native access to rareearths ---Turks, and CentralAsians,--- are more than willing to close one eye to Confucianism (don't underestimate the pre-Abrahamic Altai connection ?!)
So don't gripe about those F-3X, or throw out that Mughal cred/card. Yet.
https://wildhunt.org/2026/02/pagan-community-notes-week-of-f...
but she is a high priestess even if she omits "high". Now I did get a high when I went to Litha (summer solstice) at her place that lasted for days because the experience was ethereal and otherworldly. But she's a professional who does this full time.
I got a very similar high at the fourth of July; driving up to Little York lake I was rehearsing a five minute sermon on "the magic of blessings" with the consequence that whenever anyone said something like "enjoy the fourth of July" it exploded in my head like a firework and eating soft serve on the midway felt like what Martin Prechtel talks about when he says "the feast is the only ritual".
So when Valerie says we can recover ancient agricultural animism and restore a consciousness similar to what indigenous people experienced she's right. But we can also recover the old religion that lies under the surface in contemporary ordinary activities like being a sports fan, like at Cornell we have a bear statue that people tie scarfs to and make other offerings. People don't think this is a religious activity but it is.
So far as tech goes I am starting to put some effort into the back end of this system
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/116086491667959840
for months these tokens have all had unique identifiers and I am now looking at what I can do in terms of relationship building (register cards to an individual when I hand them out) and building territories (register cards that I install on a bulletin board to a place and enroll in an AR game)
And of course there is the wearable system that supports my photography on the go like being able to show people the group portrait I just took and reshoot if somebody had their eyes closed that is a work in progress. I'm like a theme park performer who brings the whole park with me everywhere i go.