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Ok folks. I’m going to log off this place for a while and focus on book reading and writing. Keep it real.

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To be fair, with the exception of Obama’s stance on Iraq specifically, both parties have stood for wars of choice in the Middle East that whole time. How else am I supposed to think about Yemen and Syria, maybe Libya. Not an expert but I didn’t witness an end of or halt in new uses of the AUMF.

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Honda has been making reusable rockets since before I was born

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I have finally done the thing that someone a #filmphotography forum asks about at least once a day. I have shot a roll of HP5 with the camera set to 100 ISO. Simple enough to compensate. The real mystery is why I had it set to 100 at all. Not a beginner but the opposite: Do I need reading glasses?

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I have turned in final grades, capping my fifth year teaching on technology policy in and about China at Stanford. What a relaxing five years in our subject area! Anyway, huzzah! Fear The Tree (or something)! I'm taking the night off.

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A notable statement coming from a former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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Here’s another example of a risk to people and society that China has made illegal and the US just leaves to the whims of bottom-feeding capital.

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For Coloradans it’s apocalyptic. Arapaho National Forest, Roosevelt National Forest, Walker Ranch (for Boulder types and scouts)—I dunno looks like about half of the western slope. It’s a heist.

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Or they could drop the US as a host so their athletes won't end up detained

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Crazy-making exercise: If you were spending your cancelled lunch hour in Beijing figuring out how to interpret the implications for Chinese of US erraticism and expanding war in the Middle East, what have you got beyond "get our citizens out"?

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A year ago I'd have been able to venture an answer to this, but I've since learned that the Outsider Shock Bar can be as low as "there is food in China," so now I just don't know where to start.

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? China’s government is not in fact completely animated by the will of one top ruler but rather has politics and competing interests.

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I too am team “no one knows what he’ll do including the man himself,” and not just on this one. It’s why I keep saying the US-China development of the day isn’t a “deal” or a detente or whatever. It’s being jerked around by spasms and whims, not dragged on a path to some destination.

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i'm breaking this post out of reply thread hell bc it summarizes my response to a lot of thoughts that people are having. chatGPT, due to design choices made by openAI (NOT things intrinsic to LLMs as a category), is actively uninterested and maybe even hostile to teaching most users how to use it

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A gif of my head hurting

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NYT: We’re not endorsing, and between the two leading candidates you should not rank one of them and the other of them would be better. Summary: Don’t take us seriously.

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"But China has not budged on specialized rare earths, including samarium, which are needed for military applications and are outside the fast-track agreed in London, the two people said." www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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This was a really illuminating talk from US-China Business Council head Sean Stein a few weeks back. Glad it's online. Great insights on how the Trump admin miscalculated on tariffs with China, thinking (WHAT?) they wouldn't retaliate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhYR...

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Pretty good thread going of kings to appreciate today and not tomorrow. Who'd we miss?

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I will never apologize for a post

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Not tomorrow, unfortunately

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On No Kings Eve, it is traditional to apologize to the great kings who will be thrown out with the bathwater for the holiday. Here are a few to start. Add your own. Our apologies, B.B. King. The thrill is gone away. youtu.be/0v4GV5dxOkI?...

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Haha delve is such a good avatar of fake insight

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As I just flagged, this has been replaced with something which is arguably worse; requiring that basically every plaintiff seeking a preliminary injunction against the federal government pay millions or billions of dollars in "security" to pay for "costs" to the federal government if they later win.

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“In recent months, tech journalists at The New York Times have received quite a few such messages, sent by people who claim to have unlocked hidden knowledge with the help of ChatGPT, which then instructed them to blow the whistle on what they had uncovered.”

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The senator thing is bad, but today the government openly said they intend to use military force to depose democratically elected leaders, and they argued in court the president has unreviewable power to put national guard under his command. Mere “constitutional crisis” was ten exits ago.

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Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

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This is great—a Google shareholder is suing for details about why Google (insanely, in my view) agreed to go along with Trump's plan to not enforce the TikTok ban, despite the fact that Google is potentially on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars in liability. www.wired.com/story/google...

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Congrats @jayrosen.bsky.social! PressThink appeared while I was a j-student and a student journalist and a blogger and a (short-lived) magazine editor and I never stopped reading. “Not the odds, but the stakes” combined with someone’s admonition to ask “so what” feed my own teaching today.

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