"Whoever wins the AI race is going to win AI" 🤯

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h ago

"They're spending a lot of money on promoting 'don't build" -- Trump suggests China is secretly running an influence campaign in the US to turn Americans against data centers

I have been avoiding weighing in on this, because I don't support the law's unapologetic policy of assimilation. I think this article's statements about article 63, however, are not correct that the law allows pursuit of people absent a charge, or court, anywhere in the world. [SHORT 🧵]

Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · yesterday

China’s new Ethnic Unity Law doesn’t just target dissent at home, it claims the right to pursue critics abroad. A concise explanation of why Article 63 matters for #Tibetan, #Uyghur, & other diaspora communities in Canada theconversation.com/china-is-cla...

I think if we make it through the round, the stockpile replenishes, but that's a big if.

CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterday

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters

I have been avoiding weighing in on this, because I don't support the law's unapologetic policy of assimilation. I think this article's statements about article 63, however, are not correct that the law allows pursuit of people absent a charge, or court, anywhere in the world. [SHORT 🧵]

Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · yesterday

China’s new Ethnic Unity Law doesn’t just target dissent at home, it claims the right to pursue critics abroad. A concise explanation of why Article 63 matters for #Tibetan, #Uyghur, & other diaspora communities in Canada theconversation.com/china-is-cla...

Gross. FWIW, the trend I get served, is delivery guys picking up orders, and the women working the camera do choreographed tiktok dances, then mock the delivery guys for not racing back to their bikes.

Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵

Orange is the New Cammo. --from 2014.

It's odd, because his entire obsession with tariffs and trade imbalance began with Japan in the 80s, and he was very aggressive about Japan in his first term: www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/b...

Donald Trump Laces Into Japan With a Trade Tirade From the ’80s (Published 2016)

In an attack reminiscent of another era, Mr. Trump has chastised Japan as a country where “we are getting absolutely crushed on trade.”

nytimes.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: "Japan has been very good to us with the exception of Pearl Harbor"

The FCC Just Banned Most Robot Vacuums. www.cnet.com/tech/computi...

The FCC Just Banned Most Robot Vacuums. Here's What That Means - CNET

The FCC's latest guidance could effectively ban robot vacuums, mowers and pool cleaners.

cnet.com

There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.

Saying people ‘used AI’, labeling them as bots or NPCs, seems like it's all part of the same desperate search for a quick reason to dismiss and ignore any contrary opinions that somehow penetrate an (Ai-curated) information cocoon.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d ago

So I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.

Sorry, this is an unnecessarily long thread. TLDR: 1. There is no reason to believe Public Interest Litigation will especially target foreigners. 2. It may still impact foreigners, even for complying with foreign sanctions regimes, but PIL is probably the least of your worries at that point.

China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum@chinalawtranslate.bsky.social · 3d ago

This new article raises some valid concerns about China's draft Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation Law, but also makes fairly fundamental mistakes in reading it and regarding PPIL generally I've seen the same issues elsewhere, so it's worth addressing. 👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sued...

This new article raises some valid concerns about China's draft Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation Law, but also makes fairly fundamental mistakes in reading it and regarding PPIL generally I've seen the same issues elsewhere, so it's worth addressing. 👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sued...

One of the inserts in "A Mind Forevor Voyaging" , a 1985 game set 5 years in our future, where you play the world's first sentient AI, tasked with helping humanity change its course by evaluating potential outcomes.

At the age where 'going out on Saturday night' means reading my book somewhere outside of my house for a change of scenery.

NEW: “We now have evidence confirming that both of the two largest AI labs have not only failed to contain their agents, but also failed to detect their jailbreaks in real time.” @lmatsakis.bsky.social & @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests

In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.

wired.com

We've spent so much energy trying to quantify and measure different types of intelligence, but hear me out, maybe we've got it all wrong-- we should be inventing a scale and taxonomy of stupid.

Anyways... We have a draft translation of China's draft Cyberviolence Law. It involves regulating online conduct, including doxxing, speech, harrassment, etc., and will eventually reach your newsfeed. I will be writing it up soon, probably this weekend www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/cyberviol...

中华人民共和国反网络暴力法 （征求意见稿）

第一章 总 则 第一条 为了预防、制止和惩治网络暴力，加强反网络暴力工作，保护个人、组织的合法权益，维护国家安全和社会公共利益，制定本法。 第二条 本法所称网络暴力，是指通过网络对个人、组织集中或者持续实施的侵害名誉权、荣誉权、隐私权、肖像权、个人信息等合法权益的下列活动：

chinalawtranslate.com

So my takeaway from all the bisesquicentennial celebrations is that I have somehow, at age 50, I have been alive for 20% of American history.

Taking full responsibility for an error after you've been publicly called out should not be noteworthy. "analysis found the image of the map included ⁠in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

theguardian.com

China cuts deal with Houthis, adjusts for long US war with Iran China is cutting its own deals and gaining wartime leverage as the Trump administration scrambles to contain the war and reopen Hormuz. www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

China cuts deal with Houthis, adjusts for long US war with Iran

China is cutting its own deals and gaining wartime leverage as the Trump administration scrambles to contain the war and reopen Hormuz.

al-monitor.com

I don't understand how Trump 2.0 seems to be viewed as slightly more 'likely to do the right things than Trump 1... despite... 🤷‍♂️

I haven't even seen the movie, or read Wilson's translation, but even just reading the criticism of the criticism.... well.... It's been quite the journey.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

I wasn’t going to post on this anymore, but I must report Joyce Carol Oates has weighed in on the Emily Wilson review www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Very important move, building on a wealth of existing authority, available here cse.google.com/cse?cx=00053...

𝙉𝙋𝘾 𝙊𝙗𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙧@npcobserver.com · last wk.

#NewDraftLaw: The Cyberspace Administration of China is seeking public comment on a draft 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒊-𝑪𝒚𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒘 [反网络暴力法] through August 28, 2026. Official announcement, with draft and explanation: www.cac.gov.cn/2026-07/29/c... Our bill page: npcobserver.com/legislation/...

I watched Ann Droid. It's a cozy show with some fun laughs; comfortable, in large part, because it could be from the 80s. "Awkward, other (robot, alien, foreigner) teaches us to be our best selves." Even advances in real-world tech are irrelevant- robot voice, literalism tropes all still there.

POV: White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Reposting in light of the "Odyssey reboot"

China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum@chinalawtranslate.bsky.social · last yr.

It's not that entertainment has grown more political. It's that politics have been so completely reduced to a form of entertainment that having an opinion on a superhero movie feels just as relevant as anything else.

This utter muppet of a conservative Canadian politician in New Brunswick forgot to remove the LLM text from his floor speech and read it out loud.

Brand New Day

Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes and Claims of Torture Was Murdered in Ecuador open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes and Claims of Torture Was Murdered in Ecuador

New evidence has emerged of U.S. Coast Guard activity in the aftermath of two strikes, further corroborating survivor testimony.

open.substack.com