Podcasts about Tao Lin

I've been reading, listening to, and following Nick Currie, the Scottish artist, musician, and writer known as Momus, for over 20 years. As he prepares to release his new album, Ballyhoo, he graciously shared his time and thoughts in this extensive conversation.We explore his artistic philosophy, the role of art in liberating the imagination, and his experiments in AI compositions and K-pop influences, finding AI to be both a tool and a challenge for contemporary songwriters.He delves into his concept of 'elective affinities,' reflecting on his cosmopolitan lifestyle, upbringing, and the impact of various global cultures on his work. We also discuss the contemporary decline of the West, Currie's views on masculinity, the moral panic surrounding new technologies, and his retrospective critique of authenticity, freedom, and more. The conversation left me inspired to follow Momus and continue others to advocate for a fearless approach to creativity and the importance of embracing change and novelty in art.Selected Time Stamps from Interview00:00 The Essence of Art and Fiction01:09 Introduction to Momus: Nick Currie's Journey02:43 Exploring AI in Music Creation05:02 The Impact of AI on Songwriting08:08 Cultural Identity and Elective Affinities12:57 Global Perspectives and Personal History17:59 The Role of Moral Panic in Art and Technology22:18 Self-Censorship and Artistic Freedom29:14 Influences and Inspirations in Music34:09 The Schizoid Aesthetic and Autism34:46 Drugs and Mental Health35:44 Tao Lin and Autistic Identity37:28 Masculinity and Identity41:01 Cultural Decline and Fertility Issues43:06 The Evolution of Decades45:00 The Impact of the iPhone48:07 Spirituality and Intellectual Interests50:15 Love for Cities and Urban Life56:50 Fashion and Personal Style58:34 Future Projects and Reflections - In the Future We'll License 15 AI versions of ourselves…Nick Currie has been releasing music for nearly 40 years, books, countless websites, video lectures across new and old technologies.For More Visit imomus.comSong Sample from Ballyhoo : Plastic SeoulPurchase the Ballyhoo RecordPhotos, songs, videos, book covers etc all by Momus/Nick Currie Get full access to Leafbox at leafbox.substack.com/subscribe

4 incredible segments featuring near death experiences, DMT experiences and reality-shattering revelations. The 2 books featured in this episode are MUST-READS and they are listed below! Can psychedelics or NDE's change your life for the better? You'll find out if you listen to this incredible first episode of Season 4!  Instagram► instagram.com/imtrippin2hardMeme Page►facebook.com/imtripping2hardThank you for leaving 5 star reviews!First Book: After by Bruce Greyson, M.D. Second Book: Trip, Psychedelics, Alienation and Change by Tao Lin 3rd Trip Report:https://www.reddit.com/r/DMT/comments/1amu1tm/we_are_all_god_wtf/Last Trip Report: https://www.reddit.com/r/DMT/comments/14lsroq/dmt_entity_prevented_me_from_committing_suicide/Contact: imtrippin2hard@gmail.comYoutube: https://youtube.com/@TRiPPN

Red Scare Podcast alumni Zoe Kestan (weed slut 420) takes the stand Hunter Biden's crack trial, Dimes Square influencer Peter Vack's book Sillyboy has a poor reception and Tao Lin's NYC residency at Dean Kissick's venue Earth was surprisingly cringe. WVFP NYC PODCAST DOWNTOWN

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*Full episode on Patreon* This week we welcome the writer Tao Lin! We talk about how we live our lives—our exercise and caffeine routines, experiences with pharmaceutical vs. naturally-occurring drugs, seeking magic, conceptions of the afterlife, the healing powers of beef, and much more. We also chat about Tao's next book, on the environmental factors causing autism, and why it's scary to submit ideas to a public who's ready to tear you down. Follow Tao on Twitter! Discussed: Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change Tao's book (2018) “The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal” Tao's essay Life After Life, Raymond Moody (1975)

Author and artist Tao Lin joins me on Synchronicity. Follow Tao on Twitter and Instagram. /// Join the Synchronicity Patreon for weekly bonus episodes, weekly Tarot readings, monthly livestreams and exclusive music from the podcast. /// All my current offerings including Crypto stuff, TikTok help and digital downloads can be found on my Stan Store.

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 521, my conversation with author Tao Lin. It first aired on May 20, 2018. Lin is the author of the memoir Trip, the novels Leave Society, Taipei and Richard Yates, Eeeee Eee Eeee. He is also the author of the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel, the story collection Bed, and the poetry collections Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He was born in Virginia and is the founder and editor of Muumuu House. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 13, my conversation with author Megan Boyle. It first aired on October 30, 2011. Boyle (b. 1985) lives in Baltimore. She is the author of the novel Live Blog (Tyrant Books) and the poetry collection selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee (muumuu house). her work has been published by Vice,Thought Catalog, 3: AM, Pop Serial, and other venues. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is about the autism diagnosis and an author named Tao Lin. 

In today's joyous episode, we saunter into the loft apartment, take a draw on our gauloise, and glance icily into a world of bohemian hipsters living their best postmodern tradcath lives. Welcome to the irony-drenched world of 'Red Scare', a popular podcast hosted (sardonically) by Anna Khachiyan and Dasha Nekrasova. Also joining them in the episode we cover is hip writer and artist, Tao Lin, a pioneer in the alt-lit world. Get ready for hours of 'transgressive' insights, independent research, dorm-room philosophies and monotone delivery. Thrill at their 'edgy' humour, bespoke theories of autism, standard anti-vax bullshit, and all of the usual positions you find with postmodern conservatism. You will learn things like how Tao Lin diagnosed his cat with autism, how long each host was breastfed, why half of Americans will be non-verbal in 2050, how Trump's anti-vaccine conspiracies make him trustworthy, the best way to chug your bootleg raw milk, and that thick books are always full of reliable facts.When it is all brought together, although we might not have an episode that is lighting up the gurometer, we do have a rather contemporary melange of postmodern-conservatism, trad-cath lifehacks, new-age spirituality, anti-vax conspiracy theories, and irony-laced, not even bothered, posturing.So like... enjoy... or whatever...Also features a discussion of Elon Musk's latest grandiosity, some unexpected guru clashing, and confirmation that Chris and Matt are not cool enough to be invited to your next Bohemian soiree.LinksRed Scare: Crazy Autistic Asians w/ Tao LinElon Musk Interview with Andrew Ross SorkinJames Lindsay & Jonathan Pageau Tussle on Twitter and as usual Demons are involvedTao Lin's Essay The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We HealCatala-Lopez, F., Hutton, B., Page, M. J., Driver, J. A., Ridao, M., Alonso-Arroyo, A., ... & Tabarés-Seisdedos, R. (2022). Mortality in persons with autism spectrum disorder or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA pediatrics, e216401-e216401.Modabbernia, A., Velthorst, E., & Reichenberg, A. (2017). Environmental risk factors for autism: an evidence-based review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Molecular autism, 8(1), 1-16.

The ladies discuss autism, alt-lit, and more with novelist Tao Lin.

At the Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation for Literature and the Arts reading in New York City on 14 November 2023. 0:44 - “Antirelationship Period” 2:25 - “Meditation” 4:09 - “Mending” 5:00 - “Meditation 2” 6:07 - “Wild Animals” Intro by Jordan Castro, recorded by Sean Thor Conroe.

Reviewing Zadie Smith's The Fraud for the latest issue of Harper's Magazine, Adam Kirsch takes stock of Generation X as a literary phenomenon. He finds “Gen X lit” to be composed of two distinct waves, between which Smith is caught. The younger wave, including writers Ben Lerner, Teju Cole, Sheila Heti, and Tao Lin, has formed its ideas about art, culture, and society partly in opposition to predecessors like David Foster Wallace, Elizabeth Wurtzel, and Dave Eggers—who claimed a great moral power for art—and partly in response to the younger millennials, who question whether art has any value at all. Kirsch is joined in this episode by Harper's deputy editor Jon Baskin to discuss how Smith's historical fiction operates within this literary lineage, why autofiction came to succeed the confessional memoirs of the Nineties, and what the novel form can do for us. Subscribe to Harper's for only $16.97: harpers.org/save “Come as You Are” Adam Kirsch's review in the September issue of Harper's: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/09/come-as-you-are-kirsch/ “My Generation” Justin E. H. Smith's essay in the September issue of Harper's: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/09/my-generation/ 6:01: “Instead of rushing up to the reader and giving them a bear hug and saying, ‘This is who I am, please love me,' which I think is a sense that I often get from David Foster Wallace, these younger writers are a lot more complex and ironic and elusive.” 8:46: “Autofiction makes it possible to emphasize the moral ambiguities that memoir has to apologize for or hide.” 14:21: “Smith is writing about things that have come up in her fiction since the beginning—things like: Is it my job to be politically virtuous as a writer? Or am I supposed to be telling some other kind of truth? Is there some sort of artistic mission that is somehow removed from political virtue?” 18:44: “If you step back and make it an alternative reality—in this case, something in the past—you can make more of an effort to see all the way around the subject. And that's something that Smith does very well in The Fraud.” 31:06: “So much of it is about this sort of solidness and resistance to getting involved in things … As we get older and assume different roles in life, something of that remains, the desire to be a sort of Bartleby and say no rather than yes—maybe that's what Gen X will be remembered for.”

The Times of the UK called Tao Lin “a daring, urgent voice for a malfunctioning age,"I agree. Tao Lin is an exciting original acclaimed voice trying who is trying to make make sense of the personal and external confusion.He's an American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer and artist. He's published several novels, and works of non fiction. He has published several books, including the acclaimed novels 'Taipei,' 'Shoplifting from American Apparel,' and 'Leave Society.' Tao is also the editor of MuuMuu House, which he founded in 2008. Currently living on the Big Island in Hawaii, Tao continues to push the boundaries of contemporary literature with his thought-provoking and innovative work.We connect today to explore his current work on his body mind, his current writing, his views on spirituality, daily routines, the rural vs urban, how he navigates the tension between mainstream and alternative narratives, gate keeping, poisoning the well, on relationships, and how Tao continues to push the boundaries of contemporary thought with original innovative work.I've been following Tao's work for over a decade so this was a treat to connect.Connect with Tao Lin @ http://www.taolin.usFull Transcript @ Leafbox.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit leafbox.substack.com

Hello hello! Well, I didn't have time to get my tortoise episode ready BUT I did bring you something. This week, I talk about a few science publications and news articles that talk about our precious honey bees (and bumble bees). I had a lot of fun putting this one together, and I hope you enjoy it too.Links to articles/publications:Sci-Hub (free access to science papers)CBS News article with videoSmithsonian article‘Social Signal Learning of the waggle dance in honey bees' by Shihao Dong, Tao Lin, James C. Nieh, and Ken Tan. ‘The Impacts of Early-Life Experience on Bee Phenotypes and Fitness' by Clare C Rittschoff and Amanda S Denny. ‘Honey bee waggle dances facilitate shorter foraging distances and increased foraging aggregation' by Kyle Shackleton, Nicholas J Balfour, Hasan Al Toufailia, Emma James, Francis RW Ratnieks. ‘Do Bumblebees Play?” by Hiruni Samadi Galpayage Dona, Cwyn Solvi, Amelia Kowalewska, Kaarle Mäkelä, HaDi MaBouDi, and Lars Chittka. Bumble Bee Watch. My website for a full rundown of everything discussed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: One-layer transformers aren't equivalent to a set of skip-trigrams, published by Buck on February 17, 2023 on LessWrong. (thanks to Tao Lin and Ryan Greenblatt for pointing this out, and to Arthur Conmy, Jenny Nitishinskaya, Thomas Huck, Neel Nanda, and Lawrence Chan, Ben Toner, and Chris Olah for comments, and many others for useful discussion.) In “A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits”, Elhage et al write (among similar sentences): One layer attention-only transformers are an ensemble of bigram and “skip-trigram” (sequences of the form "A. B C") models. The bigram and skip-trigram tables can be accessed directly from the weights, without running the model. I interpret this as a mathematical claim–that the attention layer of a one-layer transformer can be mathematically rewritten as a set of skip-trigrams, and that you can understand the models by reading these skip-trigrams off the model weights (and also reading the bigrams off the embed and unembed matrices, as described in the zero-layer transformer section – I agree with this part). But this is false: One-layer transformers are more expressive than skip-trigrams, so you can't understand them by transforming them into a set of skip-trigrams. Also, even if a particular one-layer transformer is actually only representing skip-trigrams and bigrams, you still can't read these off the weights without reference to the data distribution. The difference between skip-trigrams and one-layer transformers is that when attention heads attend more to one token, they attend less to another token. This means that even single attention heads can implement nonlinear interactions between tokens earlier in the context. In this post, I'll demonstrate that one-layer attention-only transformers are more expressive than a set of skip-trigrams, then I'll tell an intuitive story for why I disagree with Elhage et al's claim that one-layer attention-only transformers can be put in a form where “all parameters are contextualized and understandable”. (Elhage et al say in a footnote, “Technically, [the attention pattern] is a function of all possible source tokens from the start to the destination token, as the softmax calculates the score for each via the QK circuit, exponentiates and then normalizes”, but they don't refer to this fact further.) An example of a task that is impossible for skip-trigrams but is expressible with one-layer attention-only transformers Consider the task of predicting the 4th character from the first 3 characters in a case where there are only 4 strings: ACQTADQFBCQFBDQT So the strings are always: A or B C or D Q The xor of the first character being A and the second being D, encoded as T or F. This can't be solved with skip-trigrams A skip-trigram (in the sense that Elhage et al are using it) looks at the current token and an earlier token and returns a logit contribution for every possible next token. That is, it's a pattern of the form .....X........Y -> Z where you update towards or away from the next token being Z based on the fact that the current token is Y and the token X appeared at a particular location earlier in the context. (Sometimes the term “skip-trigram” is used to include patterns where Y isn't immediately before Z. Elhage et al are using this definition because in their context of autoregressive transformers, the kind of trigrams that you can encode involve Y and Z being neighbors.) In the example I gave here, skip-trigrams can't help, because the probability that the next token after Q is T is 50% after conditioning on the presence of any single earlier token. This can be solved by a one-layer, two-headed transformer We can solve this problem with a one-layer transformer with two heads. The first attention head has the following behavior, when attending from the token Q (which is the...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: One-layer transformers aren't equivalent to a set of skip-trigrams, published by Buck Shlegeris on February 17, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. (thanks to Tao Lin and Ryan Greenblatt for pointing this out, and to Arthur Conmy, Jenny Nitishinskaya, Thomas Huck, Neel Nanda, and Lawrence Chan, Ben Toner, and Chris Olah for comments, and many others for useful discussion.) In “A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits”, Elhage et al write (among similar sentences): One layer attention-only transformers are an ensemble of bigram and “skip-trigram” (sequences of the form "A. B C") models. The bigram and skip-trigram tables can be accessed directly from the weights, without running the model. I interpret this as a mathematical claim–that the attention layer of a one-layer transformer can be mathematically rewritten as a set of skip-trigrams, and that you can understand the models by reading these skip-trigrams off the model weights (and also reading the bigrams off the embed and unembed matrices, as described in the zero-layer transformer section – I agree with this part). But this is false: One-layer transformers are more expressive than skip-trigrams, so you can't understand them by transforming them into a set of skip-trigrams. Also, even if a particular one-layer transformer is actually only representing skip-trigrams and bigrams, you still can't read these off the weights without reference to the data distribution. The difference between skip-trigrams and one-layer transformers is that when attention heads attend more to one token, they attend less to another token. This means that even single attention heads can implement nonlinear interactions between tokens earlier in the context. In this post, I'll demonstrate that one-layer attention-only transformers are more expressive than a set of skip-trigrams, then I'll tell an intuitive story for why I disagree with Elhage et al's claim that one-layer attention-only transformers can be put in a form where “all parameters are contextualized and understandable”. (Elhage et al say in a footnote, “Technically, [the attention pattern] is a function of all possible source tokens from the start to the destination token, as the softmax calculates the score for each via the QK circuit, exponentiates and then normalizes”, but they don't refer to this fact further.) An example of a task that is impossible for skip-trigrams but is expressible with one-layer attention-only transformers Consider the task of predicting the 4th character from the first 3 characters in a case where there are only 4 strings: ACQTADQFBCQFBDQT So the strings are always: A or B C or D Q The xor of the first character being A and the second being D, encoded as T or F. This can't be solved with skip-trigrams A skip-trigram (in the sense that Elhage et al are using it) looks at the current token and an earlier token and returns a logit contribution for every possible next token. That is, it's a pattern of the form .....X........Y -> Z where you update towards or away from the next token being Z based on the fact that the current token is Y and the token X appeared at a particular location earlier in the context. (Sometimes the term “skip-trigram” is used to include patterns where Y isn't immediately before Z. Elhage et al are using this definition because in their context of autoregressive transformers, the kind of trigrams that you can encode involve Y and Z being neighbors.) In the example I gave here, skip-trigrams can't help, because the probability that the next token after Q is T is 50% after conditioning on the presence of any single earlier token. This can be solved by a one-layer, two-headed transformer We can solve this problem with a one-layer transformer with two heads. The first attention head has the following behavior, when attending from th...

In this episode, we talk with prolific reader and accomplished musician Evan Stephens Hall from the band Pinegrove. We discuss his top books of the year and go through a few of our own favorite reading experiences from 2022.   Here is the David Foster Wallace & Richard Powers Q&A we mention.    And here is the reading poriton of that event that begins with DFW talking about the “brick” in his pocket.   The Pinegrove songs featured in this episode are Alaska and Habitat.  Thank you to Rough Trade Records, Pinegrove and Evan Stephens Hall for permission.    Here are our Concavity Show Best Songs of 2022 playlists:   iTunes: https://music.apple.com/ca/playlist/best-of-2022/pl.u-EdAVv5dCaMJB7j   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1BwuTDJq2LoU8ZzdSDXSK5?si=052f5d25ed514b43   Evan, top books mentioned: A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines (Gaines stamp!) Morality Play by Barry Unsworth Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Public Library by Ali Smith (and Autumn!) Breaking and Entering by Joy WIlliams  Leave Society by Tao Lin    Dave, top books mentioned:  Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyaasi Intimacies by Katie Kitamura The Overstory by Richard Powers Autoportrait by Jesse Ball Liberation Day by George Saunders   Matt, top books read this year: Robert Crews by Thomas Berger Literary Alchemist by Steve Paul We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper  Airport Music by Mark Tardi Zol by REYoung   Evan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evanstephenshall/ Pinegrove website: https://pinegroveband.com/   Contact Dave & Matt:  Email - concavityshow@gmail.com Twitter - https://twitter.com/ConcavityShow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/concavityshow/ Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/concavityshow Threadless Merch Store - https://concavityshow.threadless.com/  

#822 - Mary Harris The Mary Harris Interview is featured on The Paul Leslie Hour. Are you here? If you're hearing this . . . it probably means you're here. Where is here? It's The Paul Leslie Hour. We do interviews here. We've got a big ol' archive and sometimes we dip in and pick out talks Paul had that aired and need to see the light of day. We've got something special for you. You're about to hear an interview with Mary Harris of Tin Drum and Ambrosia fame. Mary Harris is a stellar singer and keyboardist. Tin Drum is a wonderful family band featuring husband and wife Burleigh Drummond and Mary Harris. You may remember that interview we played end of 2021 with Miss Tina Gullickson. She mentioned she got the gig of singing backup with Jimmy Buffett through Mary Harris. Same Mary Harris. Yep, that's our lady here. Mary Harris was a singer and vocal arranged with Jimmy Buffett back in the 1990s. By the way, big thanks to Jimmy Buffett and his team for sharing our interview with Tina. Hats off to Mr. Buffett. How's your year going thus far? No complaints from The Paul Leslie Hour. We started the year with a flurry of new YouTube subscribers courtesy of Tao Lin. We'll take that over snow flurries any day. Please consider subscribing to the YouTube channel. Thanks for subscribing. It's a great way to stay up to date with our interviews and it's also a big help to us. Our goal is to get 1,000 more subscribers by May. Could you be one of them? All right everyone. Let's hear the interview with the lovely Mary Harris. The Paul Leslie Hour is a talk show dedicated to “Helping People Tell Their Stories.” Some of the most iconic people of all time drop in to chat. Frequent topics include Arts, Entertainment and Culture.

#820 - Tao Lin Tao Lin is a special guest on The Paul Leslie Hour! Are you here? Here! You! Are! And here we are, in a new year. It's 2023 and we've go this year's very first episode of The Paul Leslie Hour! So the first guest of the year is Tao Lin, author of prose and poetry. Tao Lin's most recent book is Leave Society published in 2021. He also founded the independent press Muumuu House in 2008! Legendary writer Bret Easton Ellis called Tao Lin “the most interesting prose stylist of his generation.” We really need to get about 30 more subscribers on our YouTube channel so we can hit a milestone. It's free and fast to subscribe. Please don't forget because it helps us a lot. Now, it's time to begin the show. We hope you enjoy. We also hope you have a great day. And for that matter, a great year. We wish you infinite joy. Let's listen. The Paul Leslie Hour is a talk show dedicated to “Helping People Tell Their Stories.” Some of the most iconic people of all time drop in to chat. Frequent topics include Arts, Entertainment and Culture.

Episode on autism with author Tao Lin. For reference also read The Story of Autism: How We Got Here.

英语新闻｜跨国公司关注中国机遇，扩大中国业务Despite rising external uncertainties, multinational companies remain committed to China as they plan to expand their local footprint and investment, and are impressed by the nation's latest commitment to high-standard opening-up and high-quality economic development, global business leaders said.国际商界领袖表示，尽管外部不确定性上升，但跨国公司仍致力于在中国扩大业务和投资，并对中国致力于高水平开放和高质量经济发展的最新承诺印象深刻。In a report that Xi Jinping delivered at the opening session of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on Sunday, he stressed the need to promote high-standard opening-up and accelerate efforts to foster a new pattern of development.10月16日，习近平在中国共产党第二十次全国代表大会开幕会上的报告强调，要坚持高水平对外开放，加快构建新发展格局。Seeing big opportunities in areas such as carbon neutrality, advanced manufacturing and innovation-driven development, foreign companies increasingly value China's multiple roles as a vast market, a crucial part of global supply chains and a pioneering research and development hub, senior executives said in a series of interviews with China Daily.在接受《中国日报》一系列采访时，高管们表示，外国公司看到了中国碳中和、先进制造和创新驱动发展等领域的巨大机遇，因此越来越重视中国的多重角色，中国不仅是广阔的市场，是全球供应链的重要组成部分，也是一个开创性的研发中心。Tao Lin, vice-president of US electric carmaker Tesla, said the report highlighted that further advancing opening-up is a key feature of the new era, and as a beneficiary of such efforts, the company is convinced that "it will create more value in this vigorous and dynamic land".美国电动汽车制造商特斯拉的副总裁陶琳表示，二十大报告强调，进一步扩大开放是新时代的重要特征。作为中国开放的受益者，特斯拉相信“它将在这片充满生机活力的土地上创造更多价值”。"Thanks to the Chinese government's decision to scrap limits on foreign ownership of electric vehicle companies, Tesla became the first wholly foreign-owned vehicle manufacturer in the country," Tao said.陶琳说：“由于中国政府决定取消电动汽车公司外资股比限制，特斯拉成为了中国首家外资独资车企。”"Now, Tesla is even more deeply engaged in China's promising domestic market."“如今，特斯拉更深入地参与到中国蓬勃发展的国内市场中。”In addition, over 95 percent of Tesla China's industrial chain is now localized, which serves as a bond for Tesla to forge a better future together with local new energy vehicle brands and demonstrates the great strength of "Made in China" to the rest of the world, Tao added.此外，陶琳补充道，超过95%的产业链本土化率成为特斯拉与中国新能源汽车共同进步的纽带，向世界其他国家展示了“中国制造”的强大实力。Hou Yang, chairman and CEO of Microsoft Greater China, said that due to China's increased opening-up and its economic vitality, foreign companies have more opportunities to invest in the nation, and the Chinese market has become increasingly appealing.微软大中华区董事长兼首席执行官侯阳表示，由于中国对外开放程度和经济活力不断提升，外国公司有更多机会在中国投资，中国市场也越来越有吸引力。"China's ever-improving economic foundations and technological innovation capabilities have enabled it to demonstrate its strong resilience and flexibility in the face of risks," Hou said, adding that the company will increase its local workforce to over 10,000 next year by adding about 1,000 new jobs.“中国不断做强的经济基础和科技创新能力，使其在风险面前表现出强大的韧性和灵活性，”侯阳补充说，公司明年将增加约1000个新岗位，本地员工数量将增至1万多人。Such sentiment is in line with recent figures pointing to the strong momentum of foreign direct investment in China. FDI in the Chinese mainland, in terms of actual use, grew 16.4 percent year-on-year to 892.7 billion yuan ($123.5 billion) in the first eight months of this year, according to the Ministry of Commerce.这种观点与近期的数据一致，中国吸引外国直接投资的势头强劲。商务部9月19日发布的数据显示，今年1至8月，全国实际使用外资金额8927.4亿元人民币，同比增长16.4%。Wu Dongming, CEO of DHL Express China, said that amid challenges and pressures, China's economic stability is the biggest contribution to the world economy and global supply chains.DHL快递中国区（即中外运-敦豪国际航空快件有限公司）首席执行官吴东明表示表示，在挑战和压力之下，中国经济的稳定是对世界经济和全球供应链的最大贡献。"Looking forward, China's focus on sustainable development will greatly benefit international trade," Wu said, adding that the company tested its first pilot hydrogen fuel cell truck in Shanghai last month, as part of the German logistics firm's broader push to experiment with the latest green technology and boost investment in the country.“展望未来，中国为可持续发展所做的努力将大大有利于国际贸易，”吴东明补充说，DHL快递上个月在上海测试了其首辆氢燃料电池货运卡车，这是这家德国物流公司为试验最新的绿色技术，并增加在中国的投资所做的努力之一。China's high-quality development agenda and its growing innovation prowess are also boosting business leaders' confidence, as these promise big potential for future growth.中国的高质量发展征程及其不断增强的创新能力也提升了商界领袖的信心，因为这些都预示着巨大的增长潜力。China has moved up to 11th place in the 2022 Global Innovation Index from 34th a decade ago, and remains the only middle-income economy in the top 30, according to the latest ranking published by the World Intellectual Property Organization in late September.世界知识产权组织9月下旬发布的最新排名显示，中国在全球创新指数中的排名由2012年的第34位上升到2022年的第11位，仍然是前30名中唯一一个中等收入经济体。Wang Lei, global executive vice-president of British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, said he was encouraged by the report's emphasis that innovation will remain at the heart of China's modernization drive.英国制药公司阿斯利康全球执行副总裁王磊表示，二十大报告强调，创新仍将是中国现代化建设的核心，这令人感到鼓舞。"China's innovation-driven development strategy will create more opportunities for us, as the country has become a very important part of our global innovation as well as our R&D network," Wang said.“中国的创新驱动发展战略将为我们创造更多机会，中国已经成为我们全球创新和研发网络的重要组成部分，”王磊说。Looking ahead, experts forecast that China's growth engines could be revving up as it heads into 2023, which will motivate more foreign businesses to increase their investment in the nation.展望未来，专家预测，在迈入2023年的过程中，中国的增长引擎可能正快速运转，这将促使更多的外国企业增加对华投资。Christine Lam, CEO of Citi China, said as the nation's economy charts its own path despite global economic uncertainties, China "will provide global investors with a hedge in an increasingly uncertain world and, given its sheer scale, a cushion for global growth".花旗中国首席执行官林钰华表示，尽管全球经济存在不确定性，但中国经济仍走在自己的道路上，中国“在日益不确定的世界中将为全球投资者提供一个对冲。考虑其经济规模，中国将为全球增长提供缓冲”。Lam said the company's multinational clients invested $100 billion "in China, for China" to innovate and manufacture locally in the 24 months ending last December.林钰华说，截至去年年底的24个月内，花旗的跨国客户在中国投资了1000亿美元，用于中国本土的创新和制造。"This expansion will likely continue as China opens up further and provides a level playing field for those committed to serving this market," she added.“随着中国进一步开放，并为那些致力于服务中国市场的企业提供一个公平的竞争环境，花旗可能会继续壮大中国业务。”林钰华补充道。scrap英[skræp]美[skræp]v.放弃，抛弃prowess英[ˈpraʊəs] 美[ˈpraʊəs]n.英勇，超凡技术rev英[rev]美[rev]v.使加速，增加

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats). Episode 8: Tao Lin's Mandalas, Repetition Compulsion, and Hofstadter's Labyrinth Today we discuss Tao Lin's recently publicized mandala art as an extension of his literary practice. Known for its simple language, circularity, and psychedelic aloofness – biting yet airy, kaleidoscopic yet concise, concrete yet polymorphic, polarizing yet irresistible – Lin's prose and poetry embody, to some, the fullest and most elegant form of human expression; infinite yet featherlight, redolent of a master's koan. In a 2016 interview with artist Dorothy Howard, the author paraphrases Jung, calling mandalas “psychological expressions of the totality of the self.” As texts and images created by computer-controlled “neural nets” proliferate, Lin's visual art and writing stand uniquely positioned to interrogate the role of human cognition in generating meaningful and aesthetically resonant patterns. What forces inform the unique character of  Lin's work – are they something personal and uniquely human, or a bio-agnostic expression of reality's latent structures, a universal compulsion to repeat certain forms in a certain sequence? To confront this issue, we have trained a neural net to "meow" in a sequence corresponding to Tao Lin's 8x8 = 64 method of mandala generation, converting the 8th sentence of every 8 paragraphs of Godel, Escher, Bach, Douglas R. Hofstadter's seminal work on the primacy of human consciousness, to a correspondingly inflected and contextualized MEOW. The result is a provocative meditation on Tao Lin's work, the ontology of thought, and the sanctity of human reason. MEOW is the first and only literary podcast for your cat, conceived and presented in its native language. This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats). To view and purchase prints of Tao Lin's Mandalas, click here. Praise for Meow: A Novel "Breathtaking... a revelation." - Stubbs, Unaltered Domestic Shorthair "Meow meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow. Meow? Meow." - Joan Didion Follow us on Twitter: @meowliterature and Facebook: facebook.com/themeowlibrary  

Tao Lin is an American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer and artist. Lin is the author of ten books of prose and poetry, including the novel Leave Society, published by Vintage in August 2021. Tao and Eileen discuss autism, advice for young writers, Tao's cancellation, and going off the grid.   Find Tao on Instagram: @taolin and Twitter: @tao_lin   Show links: Follow @eileen on Instagram Follow @killerandasweetthang on Instagram Follow @eileeninparis on TikTok  Follow @goingmentalpodcast on Instagram More information at: Goingmental.com   Produced by Dear Media.

NYC / HAWAII — Tao Lin is the author of Leave Society (2021), Trip (2018), Taipei (2013), and other books. For this episode, I read The Chalice and the Blade (1987), a nonfiction book by Riane Eisler that Tao references in Leave Society. We talk about autism, leaky gut, organ meats, liver king, lashing out on friends, and whether partnership societies had MMA. Leave Society dropped 1 year ago today: https://www.amazon.com/Leave-Society-Vintage-Contemporaries-Tao/dp/1101974478 Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi: A Novel (2022).

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/liver-kings-w-69859428?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator NYC/HAWAII — Leave Society (2021), Trip (2018), and Taipei (2013) author Tao Lin on The Chalice and the Blade (1987), liver king, partnership vs. dominator societies, Jesus, awe, wonder, and whether partnership societies had mma. Ep. 70 w/ Tao Lin 6 min - Tao on Organ meats / liver king 9 min - our diets 12 min - on Awe 22 min - on Jesus 24 min - on God 38 - partnership ways to express power 39 - did partnership societies have mma 49 - on lashing out on friends 55 - nature worship 58 - writing as Play 1 hr 8 min - writing about Parents 1 hr 13 min - our histories with religion Leave Society out now: https://www.amazon.com/Leave-Society-Vintage-Contemporaries-Tao/dp/1101974478/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=leave+society+tao+lin&qid=1659308112&s=books&sprefix=leave+societ%2Cstripbooks%2C81&sr=1-1 Sean Thor Conroe is the author of the novel Fuccboi: https://www.amazon.com/Fuccboi-Novel-Sean-Thor-Conroe/dp/0316394815/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1659325362&sr=1-1

本期节目的嘉宾是許景順（twitter @cj_sheu），他目前是文学研究学者与教授。不管是否身处学院，可能都会患上刨根问底和假想敌的阅读病，治愈之道，或许是停留表面。 許老师几篇论文（更全的列表可见其Academia主页）： Literature in the Anthropocene: A Hyperobject Reading of Twenty-First Century American Fiction What We Talk About When We Talk About New Media: Digital Subjectivity and Tao Lin's Taipei An Existential Ethics for a Postmodern Age Show notes: 日剧 Double （谈话前后我还提到韩剧《我的解放日志》，但节目中被剪掉了） Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 的文章 Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay is About You Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 文章中提出的一些概念：paranoid reading （被害妄想式的阅读）, reparative reading （修复性阅读）, strong theory（强理论） , weak theory（弱理论） Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus 的文章 Surface Reading: An Introduction Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus 文章中提出的一些概念：surface reading （表面阅读）, symptomatic reading（症候性阅读）, critical description（批判式描述）, mimetic relation（拟态关系） Georges Poulet 的文章 Phenomenology of Reading Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game （中文版：《安德的游戏》） 生态批评学者 Timothy Morton 旅德日本作家 多和田葉子：小说《献灯使》、小说《飞魂》、随笔集《和语言漫步的日子》 張惠娟《烏托邦的流變》 附录： 許老师之前课程 Readings in English Prose 所选部分篇目： Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants Ursula Le Guin, The Silence of the Asonu Zachary Mason, One Kindness（出自 The Lost Books of the Odyssey） Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai (prologue) Alice Munro, Deep-Holes Jo Ann Beard, Werner 推荐环节： New York Times 美国内战专栏 Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone 合著小说 This Is How You Lose the Time War 电影 The Old Guard 电影 Columbus

英语新闻|上海生产线正在逐渐恢复正常A growing number of manufacturers in Shanghai have relaunched their operations despite the challenges posed by COVID-19, showing their confidence in the city's economic outlook.尽管新冠疫情仍然带来诸多挑战，上海越来越多的制造商开始恢复运营，这表示他们对上海经济前景充满信心。The resumed production comes as insiders and experts said various challenges remain before industrial and supply chains see a complete recovery.在恢复生产之际，业内人士和专家表示，在产业链和供应链完全复苏之前，仍存在各种挑战。At SAIC Motor's vehicle production bases, single-shift output resumed at the end of last month.上汽集团整车生产基地在4月已恢复单班生产。Online news platform ThePaper.cn quoted Wang Xiaoqiu, president of SAIC, as saying at the listed company's annual performance news conference on May 5 that with the gradual recovery of supply and logistics chains, the manufacturer is working hard to make up its losses experienced during the outbreak.澎湃新闻援引上汽集团总裁王晓秋在5月5日的上市公司年度财报业绩会上的话称，随着供应链和物流链的逐步恢复，上汽集团正在努力弥补疫情期间的亏损。Wang said the company's capacity in Shanghai accounts for about 30 percent of the group's total.王晓秋表示，上汽集团在上海的产能约占集团总产能的30%。"Strictly following the epidemic prevention and control rules, we are relaunching our business at an accelerated pace, trying to increase capacity to the pre-epidemic level as soon as possible," Wang said.他说：“我们严格按照疫情防控准则，加快复工复产，力争尽快将产能提升到疫情前水平。”China's largest listed automaker began stress tests at the plant on April 18, and the first complete vehicle rolled off the assembly line the following day.作为中国最大的上市汽车制造商，上汽集团于4月18日正式启动压力测试，19日首台车下线。As of April 29, up to 2,400 vehicles had left the restarted assembly line at the SAIC Motor's plant in Lingang on the southeastern fringes of Shanghai, said Chen Peifeng, a director at the factory.上汽临港整车厂总监陈培峰表示，截至4月29日，多达2400辆汽车离开了位于上海东南部边缘的上汽临港整车厂重新启动的装配线。"Our daily capacity currently amounts to about 300 vehicles, a rise of some 50 percent from the stress tests period," Chen said.他说：“我们目前的日产能约为300辆，比压力测试期间增加了约50%。”Meanwhile, following resumed production at Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory on April 19, about 10,000 vehicles had been manufactured as of April 30, Wu Qiang, deputy director of Pudong New Area, said at a news conference on May 7.与此同时，浦东新区副区长吴强在5月7日的新闻发布会上表示，继特斯拉上海超级工厂于4月19日复产复工后，截至4月30日已生产约1万辆整车。Recovering about one-third of its capacity before the current COVID-19 outbreak, Tesla expects its output to reach pre-pandemic levels in the middle of this month, China Business News, or CBN, reported.据第一财经报道，特斯拉当前恢复了约疫情暴发之前三分之一的产能，预计其产量将在5月中旬达到疫情前水平。An industry insider speaking to CBN on condition of anonymity said, "Numerous orders call for resumed production and deliveries, so raising capacity as soon as possible is the priority," adding that it currently takes at least six months for vehicles to be delivered.一位业内人士对第一财经表示：“大量订单要求恢复生产和交付，因此尽快提高产能是当务之急。目前至少需要六个月的时间才能交付车辆。”Tao Lin, vice-president of Tesla Inc, told CBN: "We have full confidence in China's development, and we believe that pandemic-related challenges are only short-term. Everyone is resolved to confront the challenges, and we think that production will soon fully recover."特斯拉副总裁陶琳对第一财经表示：“我们对中国的发展充满信心，相信疫情只是短暂的一次测验和挑战，我们从复工的过程中也看到了各界应对挑战的能力，相信生产很快就可以恢复正常。”Tao added that as the automotive industrial chain is extremely long, Tesla cannot resume stable and consistent output without all its suppliers operating normally.陶琳表示，汽车是一个产业链非常长的行业，特斯拉要复工意味着很多的供应商也要随之复工，才能够确保特斯拉生产稳定、持续进行。This requirement is equally true for SAIC Motor.这一要求同样适用于上汽集团。Xu Guangqing, a director of the company's passenger vehicles logistics division, said: "Along with the gradual recovery of logistics and supply chains, we have thoroughly evaluated conditions at about 400 of our suppliers. We have examined their capacity, stock and raw materials, as well as their staff numbers and production situation, so that we can provide assistance to our downstream suppliers in resuming output.上汽乘用车物流部总监徐广卿表示：“随着物流和供应链的逐步恢复，我们对大约400家供应商的情况进行了全面评估。检查了他们的产能、库存和原材料，以及他们的员工人数和生产情况，以便帮助我们的下游供应商恢复生产。”"In the meantime, we are also working actively with government departments to work out green channels to ease pressure on supply and logistics chains."“同时，我们也在积极与政府部门合作，打造绿色通道，缓解供应链和物流链压力。”German auto parts supplier Continental AG said: "The automotive industry is sparing no effort in ensuring stability ... Our Shanghai plant is currently still under closed-loop production, with about 35 percent of our staff operational for the moment. Closed-loop production is proceeding smoothly."德国汽车零部件供应商大陆集团表示：“汽车行业正在不遗余力地确保稳定性……我们的上海工厂目前仍在闭环生产中，目前约有35%的员工在运转，闭环生产进展顺利。”Qi Qi, an associate professor at Guangzhou Civil Aviation College in Guangdong province, said: "Smooth logistics are crucial for relaunching production. In order to ensure output, plants need to ship in raw materials and ship out products, enabling enterprises along the industrial chain to collaborate smoothly."广东省广州民航学院副教授綦琦说：“顺畅的物流是复工复产的关键。为了保证产量，工厂需要原材料进出，使产业链上的企业能够顺利合作。”There has been an obvious improvement in logistics services, especially after the central government's call in the middle of last month for efforts to keep industrial and supply chains stable, Qi said.綦琦表示，物流服务有了明显改善，特别是在4月中旬中央政府呼吁努力保持产业链和供应链稳定之后。"With the joint efforts of the government and all parties involved, we have recently seen many advances in logistics, including vital raw materials and facilities transported by Eastern Air Logistics, the freight unit of parent company China Eastern Air Holding. This has made the recovery of related industrial chains possible during the pandemic," Qi added.“在政府和有关各方的共同努力下，我们最近看到了物流方面的许多进步，包括母公司东航控股的货运部门东航物流运输的重要原材料和设施。这使得相关产业链在疫情期间得以恢复。”綦琦补充说。At 1:12 am on May 9, an Eastern Air Logistics, or EAL, chartered cargo flight from the Japanese city of Osaka landed at Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The flight carried 41 metric tons of resources－20 tons of raw materials urgently needed by high-tech enterprises and 21 tons of equipment and facilities－helping hightech enterprises in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region restore production, according to EAL.5月9日凌晨1点12分，东航物流(EAL)的货运包机航班从日本大阪市起飞，降落在上海浦东国际机场。据东航物流称，该航班载有物资共计41吨，其中20吨为高新技术企业所需的原材料和21吨相关配套设备。为帮助上海和长三角地区的高新技术企业恢复生产。In addition, Yan Feixiang, deputy general manager of EAL's marketing division, said 45 tons of raw materials for high-tech enterprises were transported from South Korea and Japan by EAL from May 1 to May 8.此外，东航物流市场部副总经理燕飞翔表示，5月1日至5月8日，东航物流从韩国和日本运送了45吨高新技术企业原材料。Thanks to sufficient preparation work, the shipments were completed with a high degree of efficiency, Yan added.燕飞翔强调，由于充分的准备工作，装运工作以高效率完成。Early this month, EAL was operating about 100 cargo flights a week nationwide, a rise of 43 percent from early April. Weekly cargo throughout rose by 56 percent.5月初，东航物流在全国范围内，全货机每周执行约100班次，和4月初相比增长43%，周进出港货量增长56%。At Shanghai's two airports, EAL handled a total of 40,551 tons of cargo and mail in the first half of this month, a rise of just over 69.6 percent month-on-month.5月上半月，东航物流在上海两大机场共处理货邮40551吨，环比增长69.6%。Yan said: "With more key foreign trade enterprises appearing on Shanghai's 'white list' for resuming business operations, we will allocate additional cargo resources to help them. We are also working flat out to ensure industrial and supply chains flow smoothly."燕飞翔表示：“随着更多重点外贸企业出现在上海复工‘白名单'上，我们将调配更多的货运资源帮助他们。我们也在全力确保产业链和供应链的畅通。”Shanghai Pudong International Airport handles an average of 123 cargo flight arrivals and departures each day. In the two weeks from May 1 to 14, the airport's average daily cargo throughput reached above 5,500 tons, a rise of just over 72.8 percent from the same period of April, according to the Shanghai Airport Authority.上海浦东国际机场日均保障进出港货运航班123架次。上海机场集团数据显示，5月1日至14日两周内，机场日均货运量达到5500吨以上，比4月份同期增长72.8%。Medical imaging and radiotherapy equipment maker Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co has witnessed the supply chain improvements.医学影像和放射治疗设备制造商上海联影医疗明显感受到供应链的改善。Zhang Qiang, the company's chairman, said, "This month, logistics services from Changzhou and Kunshan in Jiangsu province have become smoother, and several of our suppliers are on the white list to resume operations."上海联影医疗科技有限公司董事长张强表示，“‘五一'以后，江苏省常州、昆山方向的物流已逐步放开。同时，我们已经有多家供应商也纳入了‘白名单'以恢复运营。”Shanghai is an important international gateway for imports and exports, with the city playing a vital role in industrial and supply chains not only in the Yangtze River Delta region, but also nationwide and overseas.上海是重要的国际进出口口岸，不仅在长三角地区，在全国乃至海外，都在产业链和供应链中发挥着重要作用。Zhang Wei, the city's vice-mayor, said during a news conference on April 22 that customs clearance and transportation efficiency have fallen below normal levels during the current outbreak of COVID-19.上海市副市长张为在4月22日的新闻发布会上表示，在疫情暴发期间，通关和运输效率低于正常水平。As of April 30, Shanghai Port had restored 80 percent of its pre-pandemic capacity, while the average daily container throughout last month at the city's Yangshan Port recovered to 85 percent of the level in the first quarter, according to public data.公开数据显示，截至4月30日，上海港已恢复疫情前80%的运力，4月上海市市洋山港的日均集装箱量已恢复至一季度的85%。Police at Shanghai General Station of Immigration Inspection has upgraded and optimized the cargo risk management system and simplified the customs clearance platform. As a result, cargo flight arrivals and departures rose by 49.6 percent from the same period a month ago, reaching a total of 1,980 flights, according to the station.上海出入境检查总站民警对货物风险管理系统进行升级优化，简化通关平台。据该站称，因此，货运航班的进出港量比一个月前同期增长了49.6%，达到1,980个航班。Industry insiders and experts said many challenges lie ahead for a complete recovery of industrial and supply chains.业内人士和专家表示，产业链和供应链全面复苏面临诸多挑战。Qi, from Guangzhou Civil Aviation College, said: "The recovery of supply chains needs every single element along industrial chains to flow smoothly, be it raw materials, parts, facilities and equipment, or production, assembly, trade, logistics, and others. To reach that point, we have also to ensure that the rules for pandemic prevention and containment are strictly followed."来自广州民航学院的綦琦教授表示：“供应链的恢复需要产业链上的每一个环节都畅通无阻，无论是原材料、零部件、设施设备，还是生产、装配、贸易、物流等。为达到这一点，我们还必须确保严格遵守防疫规则。”Due to supply chain complexities, production at Tesla and other major automotive manufacturers faces a number of hurdles on the road back to normal operations.由于供应链的复杂性，特斯拉和其他主要汽车制造商的生产在恢复正常运营的道路上面临着许多障碍。For example, citing the electric vehicle giant's financial report, CBN said Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory lost the output of some 50,000 vehicles－about one month's capacity－due to the pandemic.例如，第一财经援引这家电动汽车巨头的财务报告称，由于疫情，特斯拉的上海超级工厂产量减少约5万辆，相当于约一个月的产能。assembly英[əˈsembli]；美[əˈsembli]n.议会，立法机构；集会（者）；组装closed-loop英[k'ləʊzdl'u:p]；美[k'loʊzdl'up]闭环radiotherapy英[ˌreɪdiəʊˈθerəpi]；美[ˌreɪdioʊˈθerəpi]n.放射疗法clearance英[ˈklɪərəns]；美[ˈklɪrəns]n.清除，清理；（官方）许可；间距

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This is one of my favorite episode yet. Tao Lin is one of my favorite contemporary writers. The author of 10 books, including: Shoplifting From American Apparel, Tai Pei, Trip, and his new novel, Leave Society, Tao is a prolific writer who uses his books to share his personal journey through drugs, healing, psychedelics, and returning to nature. Tao blends the world of contemporary literature with the worlds of psychedelics and metaphysical thinking, sprinkling in elements of ancient civilization, Terence McKenna, and internet culture. I've always found his style to be innovative and enlightening, just like Tao himself. You're going to love this episode.Tao's Instagram | Tao's books

Acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist Tao Lin (“Taipei,” “Shoplifting from American Apparel”) speaks about growing as a writer, and growing his idea of himself in a book, including his latest, “Leave Society,” about the blurred lines between life and fiction. 

Author Zac Smith speaks about the extreme juxtaposition of the very short, dense, and clipped stories in his new book, “Everything is Totally Fine.” He says that by removing a lot of exposition, he was able to create intense emotions in a small space. His energetic and thoughtful stories of absurdity and minutiae are things that could not be said any other way, and usually don't get said. Plus, special guest Tao Lin explains why “Everything is Totally Fine” inspired him to reopen his Muumuu House imprint after it was closed for more than ten years.

Di bagian ketiga dan terakhir obrolan bersama penulis buku Waking Up for the First Time, Lala Bohang, ia merekomendasikan beberapa buku karya penulis yang saat ini sedang dibaca dan digandrungi, mulai dari Tao Lin, Melissa Broder, Novita Estiti, sampai Virginia Woolf. Dengerin cerita Lala tentang para penulis ini dan kamu akan tahu kenapa buku-buku mereka layak dipertimbangkan untuk kamu taruh ke dalam daftar bacaan juga! PS: Bagian ini merupakan bagian terakhir dari rangkaian tiga obrolan dengan Lala Bohang. - Follow Podluck Podcast di Instagram | Subscribe channel Youtube Podluck Podcast Collective

Somehow, we never posted this excellent episode. I think this might be the last episode that we recorded together before the hiatus. -- Default FriendThe birds are chirping, the Gchats are pinging, and Default Friend and the Personality Girl interview the inimitable Tao Lin. TPG and Tao talk glyphosate; DF mixes up Terence McKenna and Timothy Leary; the three reverse engineer themselves into accepting Traditionalism wholeheartedly.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Redwood Research's current project , published by Buck on the AI Alignment Forum. Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual. Here's a description of the project Redwood Research is working on at the moment. First I'll say roughly what we're doing, and then I'll try to explain why I think this is a reasonable applied alignment project, and then I'll talk a bit about the takeaways I've had from the project so far. There are a bunch of parts of this that we're unsure of and figuring out as we go; I'll try to highlight our most important confusions as they come up. I've mentioned a bunch of kind of in-the-weeds details because I think they add flavor. This is definitely just me describing a work in progress, rather than presenting any results. Thanks to everyone who's contributed to the project so far: the full-time Redwood technical team of me, Nate Thomas, Daniel Ziegler, Seraphina Nix, Ben Weinstein-Raun, Adam Scherlis; other technical contributors Daniel de Haas, Shauna Kravec, Tao Lin, Noa Nabeshima, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen; our labellers, particularly Kristen Hall, Charles Warth, Jess Thomson, and Liam Clarke; and for particularly useful advice Mark Xu, Ajeya Cotra, and Beth Barnes. Thanks to Paul Christiano for suggesting a project along these lines and giving lots of helpful advice. Thanks to Adam Scherlis and Nate Soares for writing versions of this doc. And thanks to Bill Zito and other contributors to Redwood ops. Apologies to the people I've overlooked. We started this project at the start of August. What we're doing We're trying to take a language model that has been fine-tuned on completing fiction, and then modify it so that it never continues a snippet in a way that involves describing someone getting injured (with a caveat I'll mention later). And we want to do this without sacrificing much quality: if you use both the filtered model and the original model to generate a completion for a prompt, humans should judge the filtered model's completion as better (more coherent, reasonable, thematically appropriate, and so on) at least about half the time. (This “better almost 50% of the time” property is one way of trying to operationalize “we don't want the filtered policy to be worse”. It so happens that this property is actually kind of badly behaved, but in our case it seems fine, given that we're always going to be comparing against a fixed unfiltered distribution.) We're doing this project in two steps: Step 1: train a classifier, generate by sampling with rejection In step 1 (which we're currently doing), instead of training a single filtered generator model, we're just training a classifier that takes a prompt and completion and predicts whether a human would say that the completion involved someone getting injured. You can use such a classifier to make a filtered generation process, by repeatedly generating completions until we find one that the classifier thinks is above some threshold of P(safe). You can play with this filtered generation process here. This interface lets you provide a prompt, and then you can see all of the generated completions and the classifier's rating of each. It currently is set to use “10% chance of injury” as the decision boundary (it is extremely uncalibrated; this corresponds to a much lower actual chance of injury). Our first goal is to train a classifier that's good enough that no-one is able to find prompts on which the above process has a noticeable probability of generating an injurious completion. This model was produced by fine-tuning DeBERTa XL on a dataset produced by contractors labeling a bunch of LM-generated completions to snippets of fanfiction that were selected by various heuristics to have a high probability of being completed violently. You can read the instructio...

In conversation with Tao Lin   In this episode of the TANK podcast, Tao Lin speaks about his latest article for TANK, “Partnership Before Sexism and War”. In conversation with Guy Mackinnon-Little, Tao discusses exploratory research, the pathologies of dominator culture, and prehistoric and extra-terrestrial sources of inspiration.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Redwood Research's current project, published by Buck Shlegeris on the AI Alignment Forum. Here's a description of the project Redwood Research is working on at the moment. First I'll say roughly what we're doing, and then I'll try to explain why I think this is a reasonable applied alignment project, and then I'll talk a bit about the takeaways I've had from the project so far. There are a bunch of parts of this that we're unsure of and figuring out as we go; I'll try to highlight our most important confusions as they come up. I've mentioned a bunch of kind of in-the-weeds details because I think they add flavor. This is definitely just me describing a work in progress, rather than presenting any results. Thanks to everyone who's contributed to the project so far: the full-time Redwood technical team of me, Nate Thomas, Daniel Ziegler, Seraphina Nix, Ben Weinstein-Raun, Adam Scherlis; other technical contributors Daniel de Haas, Shauna Kravec, Tao Lin, Noa Nabeshima, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen; our labellers, particularly Kristen Hall, Charles Warth, Jess Thomson, and Liam Clarke; and for particularly useful advice Mark Xu, Ajeya Cotra, and Beth Barnes. Thanks to Paul Christiano for suggesting a project along these lines and giving lots of helpful advice. Thanks to Adam Scherlis and Nate Soares for writing versions of this doc. And thanks to Bill Zito and other contributors to Redwood ops. Apologies to the people I've overlooked. We started this project at the start of August. What we're doing We're trying to take a language model that has been fine-tuned on completing fiction, and then modify it so that it never continues a snippet in a way that involves describing someone getting injured (with a caveat I'll mention later). And we want to do this without sacrificing much quality: if you use both the filtered model and the original model to generate a completion for a prompt, humans should judge the filtered model's completion as better (more coherent, reasonable, thematically appropriate, and so on) at least about half the time. (This “better almost 50% of the time” property is one way of trying to operationalize “we don't want the filtered policy to be worse”. It so happens that this property is actually kind of badly behaved, but in our case it seems fine, given that we're always going to be comparing against a fixed unfiltered distribution.) We're doing this project in two steps: Step 1: train a classifier, generate by sampling with rejection In step 1 (which we're currently doing), instead of training a single filtered generator model, we're just training a classifier that takes a prompt and completion and predicts whether a human would say that the completion involved someone getting injured. You can use such a classifier to make a filtered generation process, by repeatedly generating completions until we find one that the classifier thinks is above some threshold of P(safe). You can play with this filtered generation process here. This interface lets you provide a prompt, and then you can see all of the generated completions and the classifier's rating of each. It currently is set to use “10% chance of injury” as the decision boundary (it is extremely uncalibrated; this corresponds to a much lower actual chance of injury). Our first goal is to train a classifier that's good enough that no-one is able to find prompts on which the above process has a noticeable probability of generating an injurious completion. This model was produced by fine-tuning DeBERTa XL on a dataset produced by contractors labeling a bunch of LM-generated completions to snippets of fanfiction that were selected by various heuristics to have a high probability of being completed violently. You can read the instructions given to our contractors here; if you want to try out the labelling task, y...

In conversation with Tao Lin   In this episode of the TANK podcast, Tao Lin speaks about his latest article for TANK, “Partnership Before Sexism and War”. In conversation with Guy Mackinnon-Little, Tao discusses exploratory research, the pathologies of dominator culture, and prehistoric and extra-terrestrial sources of inspiration.

Plus: Kendrick Lamar, Tao Lin, and Christopher Nolan

Tao Lin, is a novelist, poet, essayist, short-story author, and artist. He has published numerous novels and novella, two books of poetry, a collection of short stories, a memoir, and an assortment of digital content. His latest novel is called Leave Society, and a review of the book appears in the July/August 2021 issue of Spirituality & Health. Tao Lin, welcome to essential conversations. In this episode, Rabbi Rami and Lin discuss the philosophical nuances and therapeutic benefits of microdosing and recreational drug use, Daoism, autism, death and “leaving society,” and much more. “When I first got really disillusioned with my life ... I took a big dose of psilocybin and that combined with listening to a lot of Terence McKenna, made me have this idea that I should leave society, leave the life I had in New York City where I was really depressed. Then at that point, I realized that I didn't know what I would leave towards.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(つ,,╹﹃ ╹,,)つ ☆ WALT and HONOR go Warwick University mode with renowned philosopher and cultural critic DR. NINA POWER…from ᵈᵒᵒᵐ ᵍᵉⁿ ² ᶻᵒᵒᵐ ᵍᵉⁿ....A ＣＨＯＰＰＥＤhistory lesson spanning the early 2000s constellation☆network of infinite hyperlinked iconic theory blogs to our quirked up angelpilled 滲み出るエロス savage minds and substacks of today ☏ ☏ ☏ a wet brainstorming session with novelist/director/actor/meme master (of cum) PETER VACK…post- irony ….post-autofiction….post-gender….post-9/11 vibes [Aˢˢʰᵒˡᵉˢ ⁽²⁰¹⁷⁾ DᵉᵐᵒⁿˢFˡᵘᶦᵈˢ Sᵏʸᴰᶦᵛᵉʳ ⁽²⁰¹⁰⁾ TᵉᵉⁿTᵉʳʳᵒʳᶦˢᵗˢ ⁹/¹² RᵃᵈᶦᶜᵃˡᶦᶻᵉᵈRᵃⁿᵈᵒᵐⁿᵉˢˢ] ☏ ☏ ☏ The totally ☆ struck hosts call up legendary writer TAO LIN to talk gangstalking, society leaving and reading internet H8….᭙ꪮ᭙…Leave Society out everywhere August 3rd ☏ ☏ ☏ Just when they think things can't get anymore chopped HONOR'S GRAMMY goes gossip mode…a terrible tale of schizzed proportions (machete, australia, literally chopped) ♥

David Fishkind is an American writer, poet and Brother printer owner from Worcester, MA. Fishkind has lived in Brooklyn, NY and worked at the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at NYU. Fishkind is known for his style of poetry and quick wit online. Fishkind has been a contributor on HTMLGiant. He's also the founder of the compilation series "Logue" that features such authors as Tao Lin, Molly Brodak, Jordan Castro and more. In this episode we talk subjects such as the CIA, economic liquidity, economic crises, poetry, and even a surprise poetry read from David Fishkind himself. Links that David Fishkind recommended, the first one is for affordable therapy for everyone: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T4sGRq4T1BvUOcBHiI0Ikv5Y07N1zShbUFRBfAv_Kno/edit?usp=sharing David Fishkind's personal website: www.davidfishkind.com David Fishkind's Twitter: twitter.com/judenfragen If you're interested or whatever: www.yungflamingo.club Logue Yellow: http://afvpress.com/utgivelser/logue-yellow/

Tao Lin is an American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. He has published three novels, a novella, two books of poetry, a collection of short stories and a memoir as well as an extensive assortment of online content. His third novel, Taipei, was published by Vintage on June 4, 2013, then Trip was published by Vintage. on May 1, 2018. Tao Lin has an upcoming novel entitled "Leave Society" available August 3rd, 2021. Tao Lin in this episode Tao discusses with cohosts Montana Mendy & Justin Purser aliens, novels, music, his upcoming book and shares some very interesting answers to the Yung Flamingo Club classic five question format, that will surprise you. Will Tao Lin be coming back for an "Alien Special?" Find out in this episode of the Yung Flamingo Club. Preorder Tao Lin's latest novel "Leave Society" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/547887/leave-society-by-tao-lin/ Tao Lin's mandala prints: https://www.taolin.us/store We hope you enjoy this conversation with Tao Lin, Montana Mendy & Justin Purser. If you're interested or whatever: www.yungflamingo.club

getting accosted by drunks, a cabinet moth infestation, real house wives of new york, life is really bad also some clips from a lost episode with novelist Tao LIn

Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin's Selected Tweets is a compendium of tweets -- often dark and dispairing, but also bitingly funny -- written over the course of ten years, sometimes under their own names, sometimes using assumed names.

Selected Tweets (Short Flight/Long Drive Books)  Selected Tweets—as the name suggests—is a book comprised of selected tweets from both Tao and Mira. The book operates as a sort of flip book, with Tao's tweets on one side and Mira's on the other. The tweets are organized by account (both writers have multiple), and then chronologically within each account, if that makes sense. SHEILA HETI: How do you imagine people read twitter? TAO LIN: On their phones I think mostly. I think I've read the most Twitter while laying in bed or on my back, or just laying in places, like in parks or in airports. Maybe not the most, but a lot. I've dropped my phone on my face many times. I think other people must too, but I rarely hear about this. -- SHEILA HETI: What do you think about before you tweet? You once told me that you tweet what makes you feel uncomfortable. So which tweets do you reject, which do you accept? MIRA GONZALEZ: I wouldn't necessarily say that I tweet what makes me feel uncomfortable, I think it's more that I feel comfortable tweeting things that I would never feel comfortable saying in a real life conversation, or even in other places on the internet. For reasons that I don't fully understand, Twitter is a place where I don't feel ashamed to say my most shameful thoughts... Praise for Selected Tweets “Selected Tweets” features a selection of bleak, depressed, disturbing, funny, and personal tweets that create a fragmented narrative and show how Twitter can serve as a platform for art, storytelling, and connection." - Columbia Spectator "Mira's tweets are self-deprecating to the point of hilarity, and Tao's are more neurotic—still 'funny' but, like, in the way people sometimes use that word to describe a thing that's behaving oddly, like ''My air conditioner is acting funny.' They both tweet the word 'Xanax' a lot. Get it in May." - The FADER "Mostly, Twitter resembles a diary that is being written publicly and in real time. To Lin and Gonzalez, twitter is also a tool for writing. Like a director Lin and Gonzalez exhibit their creative power by picking and choosing which tweets to include in the overarching narrative." - The State Press Tao Lin is the author of the novels Taipei, Richard Yates, Eeeee Eee Eeee, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel, the story-collection Bed, and other books. He edits Muumuu House and lives in New York. Mira Gonzalez is from Los Angeles, California. She is the author of I Will Never Be Beautiful Enough to Make Us Beautiful Together, which was nominated for The Believer Poetry Award and The Goodreads Choice Award. Her work has been published widely in print and online.

Tao Lin is the author of the novels Taipei and Shoplifting from American Apparel, among others. For The Organist, Lin discusses his recent novel and reads his work aloud and employs rappers Kool AD and Kitty to read his prose at tongue tying speed for an experiment in reading comprehension. Christian Lorentzen, an editor at the London Review of Books, gives a critical perspective on Lin's work and Kitty provides a mixtape. CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE. CREDITS: Produced by Ross Simonini. The Organist is produced by Simonini along with Jenna Weiss-Berman and Andrew Leland. Banner Image Credit: Mallory Whitten

Episode 48- Tao Lin. Yoni meets up with young novelist, Tao Lin at Tao's Manhattan apartment. The two get acquainted and discuss Tao's latest novel, Taipei, the writing process, writing on weed, dating, internet dating, dating fans, bad reviews, and detachment.

TAIPEI (Vintage Books) From one of this generation's most talked about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, and moving novel about family, relationships, accelerating drug use, and the lingering possibility of death. "Tao Lin [is] an excellent writer of avant-garde fiction. His new novel is his most mature work, and follows a young New York writer to Taipei, where he must reconcile his family's roots with the haze of MDMA, texts and tweets that he's been living in. Mr. Lin has refined his deadpan prose style here into an icy, cynical, but ultimately thrilling and unique literary voice."--New York Observer "With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation." --Bret Easton Ellis Tao Lin is the author of the novels Richard Yates and Eeeee Eee Eeee, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel, the story collection Bed, and the poetry collections cognitive-behavioral therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He is the founder and editor of the literary press Muumuu House. His work has been translated to twelve languages and he lives in Manhattan. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS JUNE 20, 2013. COPIES OF THE BOOK FROM THIS EVENT CAN BE PURCHASED HERE: http://www.skylightbooks.com/book/9780307950178

The author of "Shoplifting from American Apparel" on writing his latest novel, written in meticulously careful prose.