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NE ZHA 2 is “a rare sequel that amplifies both its action and drama without sacrificing much of what already worked in the last movie.” Read @simonsaybrams.bsky.social’s review:

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A quick search of Cotton’s accounts show that the first time he posted a single word critical of USAID was 5 days ago, despite serving in the Senate for 10 years and the House before that.

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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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‘He smashed his iPad and headphones. My lyrics got torn up’: inside Elton John and Brandi Carlile’s explosive duets album

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this is awful reporting, laundering Trump's policies in Gaza in the same way they have been laundering his policies at home. but also 'devastated seaside enclave' is a genuinely offensive second mention. 'devastated seaside enclave'. can you hear yourselves. can you hear the words you are saying.

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These are the people who we have been expected, for years now, to take seriously when they claim to be concerned about free speech, viewpoint diversity, & the marketplace of ideas on college campuses.

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Check the date on this shocking story. And then ask yourself why Nigel Farage and Elon Musk haven’t been tweeting about these people. You know why. They know why. We all know why.

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DeepSeek’s success wasn’t because of China’s innovation system—it was in spite of it. In this post, I show how DeepSeek's deviation from many of China's tech industry practices and from official channels of state support has enabled its success. highvalueadded.substack.com/p/deepseek-p...

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i can see how you would come to this conclusion if your job didn't require you to ever be correct

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ethnic cleansing: "the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area" it's textbook ethnic cleansing and you go with"remarkable proposal"

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Dude is the richest person in the world but cannot buy a sense of humor.

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Love her, best new artist of the past couple of years. The BlueSky comment section is not covering itself in glory I have to say

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A joy to visualise this good climate news ☀️ Solar is growing in every EU country and, for the first time in 2024, generates more electricity than coal. Plenty more powerful and positive insights in @ember-energy.org's European Electricity Review 2025 out today ➡️➡️➡️ ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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The impressive home of a wealthy Sichuan Province farmer & land owner, by Joseph Beech, c.mid-1920s

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She can be a stock trader or she can be a public official. She shouldn’t be able to use her knowledge and access as the latter to be the former. Members of Congress who can influence share prices though policy or gain special intelligence should hold their investments in a blind trust.

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Thrilled to announce the public launch of the Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs (ACF) at Johns Hopkins SAIS, where I am inaugural faculty director. ACF will add rigor and reason to public and policy discussion on #China. Join us on Feb 3: acf.sais.jhu.edu/getting-chin...

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Hey I called it

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Recorded just a couple of hours ago, here's the latest Sinica Podcast — all about the Xiaohongshu (RedNote) "TikTok Refugees," with Ivy Yang of Wavelet Strategy and David Fishman of the Lantau Group. Fantastic insights from both of them! Links in replies.

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"... lockdowns were not smooth orchestrations of high formal state capacity. Instead, they were fraught with procedural, material, and personnel deficiencies and breakdowns, leading to administrative chaos and intensified resident disobedience". www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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After embarrassing SCOTUS decision created precedent for USG to ban any foreign-owned media platform simply by muttering "national security," Tiktok outfoxed both Dems and GOP by actually pulling the plug. Even VPNs don't work (unlike getting to banned aps in PRC!)🧵

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This nails it 💯

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The “growth plan” for Brexit was that it would “unleash” UK from the “shackles” of EU. And therein is the clue why there has been no growth. The plan was no more substantial than vivid words deployed in some newspaper column or political speech. Flimsy boosterish rhetoric, and nothing more.

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I don't know what it says about the state we're in, but the sanest and most well-rounded take on the TikTok ban comes from an improv comic, and I'm not even surprised.

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As a British news enjoyer, the whole Elon frame has been crazy - he just heard about it so he informed the UK that it had never heard of this story that was HUGE and EVERYWHERE a decade ago.

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Thank goodness Elon bought Twitter to block the bots! Thank goodness Congress is banning TikTok to stop Chinese Influence campaigns!

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Interesting diplomatic move that shows where China's priorities lie in Europe Vice-foreign minister Deng Li whose portfolio was European affairs, named ambassador to France Deng seems heavyweight compared to its EU envoy, who had never held such a rank www.ecns.cn/news/politic...

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"we should raise tariffs on all goods to insane levels" is one of Trump's only consistent econ policies, but everyone with basic knowledge knows that's a moronic idea, which leads to Trump staffers repeatedly sanewashing it, only for Trump to go "no I want the insane version"

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Every neo-feudalist out there assumes they'd be living in a castle or at least a manor house, when in fact they'd be living in a hovel shoveling shit.

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Yes, this 👇from one of the foremost experts on cyber operations in the world. Simply incredible - & flying in the face of the available facts - to propogate the myth that the US has been only on defense Easier to do this I guess than to work out why imposing costs via cyber hardly ever works

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It is indeed a crude and cruel attack Sriram, who should only be judged by his record as an American entrepreneur. But it is also what happens when racism — misogyny, homophobia, fill in the blank — is unleashed so carelessly and for cynical political advantage this gang sowed and is now reaping.

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#China #photography I understand @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social used the Nagel guide in 1984. I did too in 1979-81 when it corresponded even less to the built environment, but already there were attempts to reverse the Cultural Revolution damage. See below the rebuilding of the Xi'an mosque in 1980.

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The legendary Chinese rock and roll and jazz saxophonist Liu Yuan 刘元 passed away at 64. He was Cui Jian 崔健 saxophonist, he opened the CD Café, a safe haven for rockers and punks in the 1990s, and the East Shore Live Jazz Cafe in Beijing: tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%85%9F-%E...

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Here is a hopefully useful chart for those who think China's electricity demand growth is driven by data centers (part of IT services), EV charging, solar manufacturing or EV manufacturing.

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In reporting on the Nissan-Honda merger this morning, the @bbcworldservice talked of 'falling demand for EVs' This narrative is being repeated everywhere, and is just not backed up by the facts Global EV sales are 25% higher in 2024 than in 2023 rhomotion.com/news/record-...

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The Ancient Greek noun ἰατρός 'healer' (as in English words like 'psychiatry') and the prefix ἀρχι- 'first' (as in 'archbishop') combined to form ἀρχιατρός, an official role of 'first physician'. Put ἀρχιατρός through a few centuries of sound changes, and you get the German word for 'doctor', Arzt.

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For a client I recently reviewed a redlined contract where the counterparty used an "AI-powered contract platform." It had inserted into the contract a provision entirely contrary to their own interests. So I left it in there. Please, go ahead, use AI lawyers. It's better for my clients.

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