Every time I start to plan my road trip, I get overwhelmed and give up, so nothing gets planned.

Look what we got in the mail today!!!

Did any of you join Rednote?

I did. I’ve been on Chinese social media for a couple years now. I have a lot of Chinese students so I got WeChat and it went from there. Rednote is actually lovely. Some of my favorite creators are there like Li Ziqi.

Also found an old law school classmate who now runs a museum in China.

I almost forgot.

Merry Christmas

It looks like Ohio is set to ban DEI in higher ed, all but eliminate tenure (wide open revocation and retrenchment), and cripple faculty unions. Faculty will have to demonstrate how we are teaching “both sides.” Like the scientific consensus AND the crackpot theories and a single student can complain and the state will potentially revoke funding.

I’m going to read this book over break.

Watching Silo.

This has truly been the semester from hell.

SL has suddenly become way shinier than it needs to be.