Essays, stories, and translations on language, memory, and power
都说这是全国第二深的湖，最深处达百又五十米。但我哪里晓得这个去。那晚我只是和女友沿着悬崖往下爬，要去湖边摸一下水。夕阳正是最绚烂的时刻，湖面有紫霞自天而降。湖对岸的群山上空，西方の天际，有乌云拢聚。再稍等一阵，日头要被遮蔽，金色的光线要暗淡下来。心里会生害怕。
你不去，所以你就不明白。山中的一个湖，中等大小，水深却超过一百五十米。本是清澈的水，却是深黑的蓝。就有一种妖气，一种诡异感，一种超自然和异世般的氛围。放眼瞭望，只见天高地阔，然却有一种莫名的不安笼罩着你，整个身体弩张箭拔……点击文章标题👆阅读全文 ->
1 They say this is the second-deepest lake in the country, reaching 155 meters at its deepest point. But that was unbeknownst to me that evening as my girlfriend and I climbed down the steep cliffs to reach the water’s edge. The setting sun was at its most glorious, but over the mountains on theContinueContinue reading “That Which Was, Will Be”
But soft, dear Yorick — let me speak as the Prince I pretend to be, holding this strange skull, half-socket, half-circuit, forged of silicon and jest. Yego: It’s almost comical when I stop and think about it: me, a human being, talking to a large language model — like we’re having a real conversation. Sure,ContinueContinue reading “Numbers Don’t Cry, But I Do”
“If I can’t grep the source, how can I trust the program?”— Every veteran coder, at least once You’ve lived through assembler, C, PERL one-liners, Java app-servers, and maybe even the JavaScript awakening. Now you open ChatGPT, ask a question, and a wall of well-formed prose appears. Where are the ifs, fors, and seg-faults youContinueContinue reading “LLMs for Old-School Programmers”
what’s the English word for that? England, once a titan of empires, now slinks through the global gutter, embodying the essence of a “low life.” This critique targets not individual citizens but the collective character of England’s government, society, and media. To grasp this fall, we first define the low life, then expose how England’sContinueContinue reading “England’s Descent: A Nation of Low Life”
My cousin from Hong Kong came to visit last summer. He was slick, confident, and wore a blazer in ninety-degree weather. Over dim sum, he declared — in a thick, showy accent — that English was “the key to civilization.” I asked him what kind of tea he preferred, and he answered, “Frankly, I onlyContinueContinue reading “My Cousin from Hong Kong”
1. Four Meters in English Poetry There are four basic meters in English poetry:Iambic = da-DUM da-DUM (a single foot is an iamb)Trochaic = DUM-da DUM-da (a single foot is a trochee)Anapestic= dada-DUM dada-DUM (a single foot is an anapest)Dactylic = DUM-dada DUM-dada (a single foot is a dactyl) Iambic meter is the most commonContinueContinue reading “Chinese Poems in English Meters”
揍屁屁 Of Whiners and Emperors: The Art of Keeping the Intelligentsia in Check What Is a Whiner? A whiner is someone who complains constantly—not out of necessity or moral urgency—but out of habit. No solution satisfies them; no improvement is ever enough. If you fix their roof, they’ll complain about the color of the shingles.ContinueContinue reading “Of Whiners and Emperors”
1 想象一下：你打开谷歌地图和苹果地图，放大美国与墨西哥之间的水域，发现“墨西哥湾”被改名为“美洲湾”。这并非假设情境，而是令人不寒而栗的现实：数字平台掌握着重绘地理、抹除文化历史、无需开一枪就能宣示主权的力量。 这种狂妄之举正是数字殖民的典型例证——21世纪的新帝国主义……
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Standing Tall and Unconquered in the Age of Digital Colonization 1. Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America? Imagine opening Google Maps or Apple’s iMaps, zooming into the waters between the United States and Mexico, and finding the Gulf of Mexico renamed the “Gulf of America.” This is not a hypothetical scenario but a chillingContinueContinue reading “STANDING TALL”
Yego’s Chronicles