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PhD student in Sinology // Illegalisms & State-building in Late Modern China //📍 🇸🇪
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The Falungong are back in Sweden. Again.

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oil companies are bad but petroleum is everywhere in modern life. defense contractors are bad but the weapons they come up with are new. meta platforms, the radicalization machine that fuels genocides, renamed itself & burned $100 billion to ripoff nintendo miis. it’s the worst company in america

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

I realize there are good faith ideas about how various AI programs can be of use in education, but the vast majority seem to be oriented around accepting mass functional illiteracy beyond a level of basic reading competency as a fact and trying to work around it.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

tired homophobia without any material resistance? That’s Democrats baby!

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

好好学习

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

submitted 19 days ago • 51 comments

🐍

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Musk joins German far right's opening rally remotely, instructs Germans to stop feeling guilty and reminds them how impressed Caesar had been with German tribes' ability to fight. Could not make this up.

submitted 32 days ago • 399 comments

It is traditional Chinese symbolism. It means "my heart goes out to you."

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

mais non

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

🔴 Israel anuncia el inicio del alto el fuego tras recibir la lista de rehenes que entregará Hamás

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

ainsi que Zemmour et sa go, et pas Macron

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They used to say there was no such thing as gay kids. That it was a choice that could be beaten or tortured out of them through conversion therapy

submitted 58 days ago • 202 comments

Gollum has a Swedish accent send skeet

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

submitted 63 days ago • 435 comments

Democrats not be cringe and stupid for one day straight challenge

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine Jesus hosting his final feast not in Jerusalem, but in a Ming Dynasty(1368–1644) courtyard! #art In this early 20th-century painting, Christ presides over a table where Peter rocks a elegant blue hanfu instead of biblical robes, and everyone's perched on traditional three-legged stools. 1/2

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

圣诞快乐~

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

free Palestine

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

« Complément d’enquête » sur Gérard Depardieu : retour sur un an d’intox et de mensonges via @Mediapart www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

the list grows taller and taller

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Spectacle of paternalistic colonialism in the 21st century #Macron #decolonization www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

你炸了，布布！你需要点碗！

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

chinabooksreview.com/2024/12/19/b...

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

Explain this, humankind

submitted 73 days ago • 273 comments

"i'd have sex with luigi the shooter! i'd ride him all crazy etc" no you wouldn't. you'd hurt his back

submitted 74 days ago • 55 comments

France, USA, your turn

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Sweden, 3pm

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

it is a bright day for @mossonstone.bsky.social is now on bluesky. We now lack nothing on this social

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

maybe I'm gonna change my thesis topic

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment