{"id":10631,"date":"2022-06-30T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=10631"},"modified":"2022-06-30T15:48:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T19:48:27","slug":"temu-decides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2022\/temu-decides","title":{"rendered":"Temu Decides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the xenophilia Discord (where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Joshua\">my Patreonfolk<\/a> hang out), I had to give an example, and spontaneously mentioned <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>an idol of Temu, with her hair of reeds and four horns, made from clay from the river. Carrying a seed pod in one hand and a strangled ibis in the other. You know the story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8230;and then I could exactly see her, and had to start drawing right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Temu-694x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Temu-694x1024.png 694w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Temu-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Temu-102x150.png 102w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Temu-768x1133.png 768w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Temu-1041x1536.png 1041w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Temu-1200x1771.png 1200w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Temu-400x590.png 400w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Temu-41x60.png 41w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Temu-61x90.png 61w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Temu.png 1318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tamlil is pretty surprised. They were expecting some sort of &#8220;get in the water and say the name and have an abstract vision&#8221; kind of interaction. That is not what this one is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image.png 1080w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-768x149.png 768w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-1024x198.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Modular systems are a function of industrial society. But do people of The Fifth World still know how to agree to standards? With their acute interest in efficiency, I think they might have carried that lesson forward!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the xenophilia Discord (where my Patreonfolk hang out), I had to give an example, and spontaneously mentioned an idol of Temu, with her hair of reeds and four horns, made from clay from the river. Carrying a seed pod in one hand and a strangled ibis in the other. You know the story. &#8230;and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2022\/temu-decides\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Temu Decides&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-set-of-all-sets-that-do-not-include-themselves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10635,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631\/revisions\/10635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}