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Vancouver-based editor at China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net, a Berkeley-based nonprofit publishing news and translations focused on human rights and freedom of expression in China. Also [email protected]
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What if the reason our universe has no Spider-man is that the spider here bit Pierre Poilievre, who wasn't interested in the job?

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Study Finds Cats Only Meow When They Want To Alert Owner Of Neighbor’s Murder They Witnessed Through Window theonion.com/study-f...

submitted 2 hours ago • 42 comments

Oh wow. This just in from a CISA spokesperson: “The CVE Program is invaluable to cyber community and a priority of CISA. Last night, CISA executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services. We appreciate our partners’ and stakeholders’ patience.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

If the vision is to force countries to choose between China and the US, and for the latter to look like this, things may not go exactly according to plan.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

A son of Hu Yaobang, the leader whose death sparked the Tiananmen protests, died at the end of last month. That historical connection, and Hu Dehua's own repeated criticisms of Xi and others, led to censorship of online tributes.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

LINK, people, PLEASE. Sometimes there is important information even beyond the first screen-length. And screenshots are incredibly easy to fake; whole pages and their urls, somewhat less so. And there's no penalty for linking here. And it's part of proper attribution. And and and and and.

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If wearing sports gear from a team other than your local one is grounds for banishment, we're going to need to colonise Mars just to house Man Utd fans.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

He needs another kid to name.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Here's China denouncing protectionism under Obama: www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xw/zyxw/... Trump I: www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjbzhd/2... Biden: www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zzjg... And "freedom" and "democracy" are two of the CCP's 12 "core values." Don't watch the mouth, watch the hands.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

At the Zhihua Temple in Beijing #monochrome #blackandwhite #temple #blacknwhite #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #chinaphotos #beijing #blacknwhite #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #China #bnw_zone

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

My first instinct is "no," but I did love Anathem.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

OH IT'S HAPPENING. Sitting down with Daughter for

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

No more CVEs assigned from the source? The downstream consequences of a pause will leave us drowning in bugs of many other names, & we won’t spontaneously sprout gills. We really don’t have time for this.

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

Might get me back into For All Mankind, though.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I guess the reason I have a mild aversion to all this pageantry is that women have been involved in space exploration (and not just in america!) in very, very serious and risky ways, for decades. in no real way was this suborbital tourist flight a step forward

submitted 16 hours ago • 22 comments

I for one am excited to see these brave female astronauts return safely

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Calm down Dorothy, I've spent longer putting the bins out

submitted 1 day ago • 163 comments

I'm sorry, this is getting silly.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

This is bad. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Is it excessively cynical of me to suspect that someone's going to misread LLM and attack him for proudly using AI to generate his thesis?

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submitted 18 hours ago • 140 comments

I have covered many injustices over the past 15 years, but Chen "Also Ran" "Brick Tamland" Weihua being hailed on here as China's Greatest Poaster is one up with which I will not put.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Ew.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Ok actually this overstates what happened. The interviewer asks if LatAm countries have to choose and Trump says “maybe they should, yeah”. Unclear how committed he is to the idea

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Does anyone else find they tend to read English in pinyin first, if it can be read in pinyin? You'd think your first language would remain the default, but there used to be a local plumber offering 热批评 services… Of course, I probably don't know how often it *doesn't* happen, because I don't notice.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Oh, Canada 🇨🇦 www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

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I started watching Reset on Rakuten Viki yesterday—it's available on their free plan. Good start! Looks kind of Source Code, or Groundhog Day-meets-Speed? Or Edge Of Tomorrow On A Bus? Or …

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