"The rungs of the professional and social ladder have been severed, destroying upward mobility … the national strategy to double incomes is predicated on building a vast middle class with steady incomes and predictable futures. But a food delivery rider can never count on that kind of stability."

If you missed the spring session of Deconstructing Rust Binaries: I'll be teaching it again this fall! October 26-31, fully virtual, all Rust RE (:

Decoder Loop@decoderloop.com · 3w ago

We're BACK this fall at Ringzer0 with another round of Deconstructing Rust Binaries! October 26-31, 16 hours of virtual training on reversing Rust binaries. Struggling with Rust malware? This is the course for you. Early bird prices before July 31st! ringzer0.training/countermeasu...

Also explains a bit why Milk Tea Alliance was and kinda continues to be a thing. The struggles against the Thai state is related to the struggles against the junta in Myanmar is related to the struggles against the CCP in HK is related to the struggles against threats of Chinese invasion in Taiwan

Thailand also deported Uyghur asylum seekers who were rescued from a human-smuggling camp to China just last year, so this somehow does not surprise me

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP@hongkongfp.com · 3w ago

Thailand reportedly blocks activist, wanted by Hong Kong nat. security police, from flying to Canada for resettlement 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/07/13/t...

什么是“中华灯塔派”？ 从曾经向往毛时代中国的西方左派，到今天被DeepSeek、高铁和中国城市景观震撼的网红与知识分子，他们都在用同一种方式想象中国：高效、稳定、有秩序，甚至是另一种现代化答案。 查建英说，现在看到的也许只是“一袭华丽的长袍”，而底下的虱子，迟早会浮上来。 欢迎收听、收看本期下午茶： youtu.be/3jzyYjwM5Nw

高铁、AI与中国世纪：中华灯塔派在向往什么？

YouTube video by 不明白播客

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China Daily president and editor-in-chief Qu Yingpu said AI is evolving from a “cognitive tool” to an “action tool.” Read more on our CMP website or Substack: chinamediaproject.org/2026/07/09/t... linguasinica.substack.com/p/the-propag...

The Propaganda Promise of AI - China Media Project

Mandatory year-end accounting reports by Chinese state media treat "external propaganda" as a distinct, measurable pillar of their work. A recent policy piece by the top editor of China Daily lifts th...

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37 years, we remember, and light the candle, for those who cannot. June 4 1989 memorials in #Canada this Thursday: #Toronto: 6pm, Chinese Consulate, 240 St. George St / 7pm, march to Tiananmen memorial plaque @ U of T (www.tadc.ca/37th-june4/) #CommemoratingTiananmenIsNotACrime #八九六四 #悼念无罪 #悼念無罪

37th Anniversary June 4th Memorial 「六四」37周年悼念 | Toronto Association for Democracy in China

https://www.tadc.ca/37th-june4/

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See you at RustConf! :D

RustConf@rustconf.com · 2mo ago

Speaker Spotlight: Cindy Xiao, Security Researcher @ DecoderLoop Rust malware is rising & reverse engineers are scrambling. On Sept 9, Cindy surveys the '26 landscape: techniques, tooling gaps, & how to teach RE in a Rust world. Schedule: sched.co/2KHt7 Register: bit.ly/4eUTQ1g #rustconf

I will be at @nsec.io tomorrow and Friday, if you're there too and would like to meet up let me know! :D #NorthSec #nsec

For example, it is totally unclear to me how China is exhibiting "geopolitical restraint" or is more credible/predictable about anything while its diplomats regularly & aggressively insist Taiwan belongs to them & 73-year old Xi Jinping is completely purging the military of any opposition.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What is more predictable about China's security policy, exactly, in a world where 73-year old Xi Jinping is consolidating personalist control over the military?

Again, Xi/🇨🇳 may believe this, & we are stupidly trying to commit hegemonic suicide, but it's important to note that everything folks are rightly worried about in 🇺🇸 (aging personalist authoritarians, corruption, debt, repression, concentration camps, etc.) is far worse in 🇨🇳: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This by Ryan Hass rings true to what I've seen/ heard/ learned about current PRC leaders' view of US. (TL;DR China has enormous problems, but the US is blowing itself up.) Can't imagine MAGA team has any inkling of this. (Cf: "Quick, easy victory over Iran.") www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Very excited to present at RustConf this year! :D

RustConf@rustconf.com · 3mo ago

The growth of Rust has led to an increase in legit software targets to examine for vulnerabilities AND an explosion in malware written in Rust. @cxiao.net will be exploring this in “Reverse Engineering Rust Malware in 2026” @ #rustconf. View on schedule: sched.co/2KHt7 Register: bit.ly/4uB95Ru

Device code phishing is exploding, and AiTM actors are getting in on it. We found ODx phishing-as-a-service providing device code capabilities in addition to their AiTM offerings. ODx is one of the most popular AiTM kits currently. It's also tracked as Storm-1167 and FlowerStorm.

What moral injury comes of being called racist when racism is so thoroughly rewarded?

my father was a grassroots bureaucrat who hung out with other grassroots bureaucrats. at a family banquet, my relative said telling me about politics would be 对牛弹琴 (lit. playing the lute to a cow) chenchenzhang.net/2026/05/01/o... read on and it gets more interesting

On (not) knowing politics

My father was a grassroots bureaucrat who hung out with other grassroots bureaucrats. A few years ago I attended a family banquet, as you usually would when returning home after being away for some…

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Also shout out to @krishraghav.bsky.social whose comic I talk about in this newsletter who has a new game out 🚨 🚨 krishraghav.itch.io/dont-get-you...

Don't Get Your Hopes Up by Gobi65 Games

An interactive comic about housing shortage and horror in architecture.

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Happy Labor Day. I wrote about Chinese work and why it’s frustrating that Americans refuse to learn about it beyond stereotypes the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/the-chinese-...

The Chinese Worker and You

Support my Writing with a Tip This international Labor day, I wanted to do a small post on the nature of work in contemporary China. Why? a) I'm Chinese b) I'm a worker c) The work includes examin...

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Again, before we make trade-offs in civil liberties for nominal security, why not look at the world's largest age-gating experiment to see if it even helps? www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/c...

Lessons From China’s Age-Gated Internet

Jeremy Daum warns that bad actors will continuously find new ways to circumvent strict rules and mandatory guardrails.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 3mo ago

A bill moving in Congress this week would require ID checks for all internet users, just to use many online tools, and could lock minors out entirely. The GUARD Act is a sweeping age-gating mandate. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Installez-vous confortablement, détendez-vous et regardez comment nous retirons doucement le support papier acide au dos d’une estampe! Écouteurs recommandés 🎧 #ASMR #Restauration youtu.be/hIf46oI8XpU

ASMR: Retirer un support papier

YouTube video by Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

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In case I’m too cryptic - it’s Xinjiang. A lot of Chinese solar panels come from Xinjiang and are likely made by slavery www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Labour accused of turning ‘blind eye to slavery’ over solar panels made in China

MPs likely to be whipped against move to add protections, as government says it is already taking action on risk of forced labour

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Good day yesterday, picked up the new @thepeopleswant.bsky.social book (published by @haymarketbooks.org) from my local bookstore. As a coincidence, it was also #IndieBookstoreDay! I think @brianhioe.bsky.social mentioned during the book launch event that there is a Chinese version coming too (!!)

A few days ago I asked about posting more protest art and expanding my essays on the HK pro-democracy movement somewhere and... er, this happened. niaocollective.bearblog.dev

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Screenshot 2026-04-05 at 20 A collection of protest art, pamphlets, photos from the HK pro-democracy movement filled with tears and teargas. {{ posts|...

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the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it

wesley b@wesburt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Part of the bloodbath today 🫡

It's such a low-key resistance move but talking about not using AI, especially in a professional context, is so important in working against "inevitability" narratives and so powerful in identifying who your people are — and in ensuring there are more of us all the time.

We’re cooking on Beyond the Spider-Verse!!! So excited to share these new stills… see you in IMAX on June 18, 2027!! 🕷️

This posture also makes it hard for people to appreciate the many individual, marginal steps that are needed in combination. Incremental steps are too often dismissed as “magical thinking” that won’t “solve” “the problem.” As if there is a single problem or, somewhere out there, a single solution.

Jan-Werner Mueller@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In the wake of HU elections, social media flooded with „Just do x and far-right populism will be defeated“-solutionism. If it were as simple as anti-corruption campaigning, Fidesz would have been defeated by 2018.

Memories of Hong Kong & Taiwan 💚

I'll be speaking at @rustconf.com in September! Looking forward to presenting on reverse engineering Rust binaries, to the Rust community! sched.co/2KHt7 #RustConf #RustConf26 #Rustlang #Rust

Decoder Loop@decoderloop.com · 4mo ago

📣 Our own @cxiao.net will be speaking at @rustconf.com this year, with the talk "Reverse Engineering Rust Malware in 2026"! sched.co/2KHt7 Rust is now a popular language not only for writing legitimate software, but also for writing malware. How are malware reversers dealing with this? #RustConf

面对家庭暴力、关系伤害或其它暴力时，如何求助、去哪求助是亟需回应的问题。资源地图或许无法解决所有困难，但我们希望它能够在某一个时刻，为需要的伙伴提供方向和安全感。

镇镇的彩虹｜资源发布 ！第六版多元性别暴力干预服务资源地图上线

面对家庭暴力、关系伤害或其它暴力时，如何求助、去哪求助是亟需回应的问题。资源地图或许无法解决所有困难，但我们希望它能够在某一个时刻，为需要的伙伴提供方向和安全感。

chinadigitaltimes.net

当新闻无法改变现实，它的社会意义也被重新定义。

田间 Tian Jian｜审查无所不在：中国记者的现实风险

当新闻无法改变现实，它的社会意义也被重新定义。

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