Oh my goodness. I play her music to every one of my Chinese classes. Her Carmen is just jaw-to-the-floor awesome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqI4...

葛蘭 - 卡門 王天林電影《野玫瑰之戀》Carmen [GeLan / Grace Chang]

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Dylan Cheung@dylancheung.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's been reported that Grace Chang, Hong Kong's preeminent Mandarin screen diva of the 50s, passed away this afternoon, one day shy of her 93rd birthday. Watch Mambo Girl and The Wild, Wild Rose to see her at the height of her powers.

"A former tantric sex coach who has become the world's 1st elected anarcho-capitalist president announced in the @financialtimes.com he would be transforming Argentina, the planet's eighth largest country, into a tax haven for 'non-human corporations' fully owned by AI entities" ✏️ @thenerve.news

Peter Thiel, precogs and ‘non-human corporations’ – welcome to the wild world of AI Argentina

President Milei’s plans to turn my country into an anarchic tech paradise makes him just the latest character in the nation’s long history of chancers and dictators, writes Uki Goñi

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"guys bob wants to study the venom of the gila monster, what a stupid idea" -- industry, 1990s

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5d ago

Love this idea that industry should subsidize basic research. Industry famously is great at prioritizing timelines longer than a year or two

"We're gonna go through every file!"

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d ago

One bystander starts standing up for his neighbors and then others do too. Courage is contagious. Pass it on.

Gasp, we're exposed to chemicals? Like dihydrogen monoxide? Sodium chloride?

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 5d ago

We’re exposed to dozens of chemicals each day, from hygiene products, food, cleaning supplies, and more. According to a toxicologist, the cumulative exposure from all these individual chemicals is a health risk.

The AI slop government

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...

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Joseph Torigian@josephtorigian.bsky.social · 6d ago

Very excited to see "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" longlisted for the Cundhill Prize. Congrats to @hofrench.bsky.social Jonathan Cheng and all the others! quillandquire.com/omni/15-book...

Worthy recipient of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize

Wesley Morgan@wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 7d ago

In 2026 so far, the Trump admin has bombed: —Iran—14,000+ strikes; 1 JSOC mission —Somalia—strikes on 66 days —Caribbean/E. Pacific—31 strikes —Iraq—strikes on 26+ days —Syria—strikes on 18 days —Arabian Sea—9 strikes —Nigeria—strikes on 3 days; 1 JSOC raid —Venezuela—strikes on 2 days; 1 JSOC raid

Socialism with American characteristics? 1/3

Unbelievable that in 2026, these weirdos are still fully obsessed with ivermectin and lab leak fanfic.

Kiera Butler@kieraevebutler.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about the inevitable conspiracy theories being spun up around Fauci's diary. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Graphomania is real.

Beetle Moses is the best to ever do it.

beetle moses@beetlemoses.bsky.social · last wk.

"Mr. Douthat is the latest example of a relatively new and somewhat alarming breed: the Ivy-educated instapundit."

Elon Green@elongreen.bsky.social · last wk.

We are a long way from the first Douthat profile, written by @sheelahk.bsky.social observer.com/2005/03/a-pi...

'Many of those proposed programs are designed to “reclaim diplomatic leverage” through investments in areas where the U.S. had previously been spending money but stopped as the Elon Musk-led…DOGE, carried out deep cuts to government budgets and personnel last year.'

Daniel Ahmad@zhugeex.com · last wk.

"The Trump administration is preparing to ramp up funding by hundreds of millions of dollars for programs designed to counter China’s growing influence around the world." It's always funny to me that the US considers doing soft power as an anti-China move lol

Exactly. You cannot "summarise" sources. You have to fucking read them. You're skipping steps. The reading is the point and you have to do it yourself. My PhD (in history) was based on war crimes trial records, thousands and thousands of them, collected over many years. You cannot do it differently.

Brendan Keogh@brkeogh.bsky.social · last wk.

Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??

What is the best English rendering of 网红打卡点？

Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.

There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.

And here he calls the editor of The Economist, noted hub of anti-Western radicalism, a "traitor to the West."

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · last wk.

Just an absolute shout out to everyone out there who helped manufacture doubt around the question of this guy being a Nazi, particularly after the Nazi salute.

I don't want to go check Twitter, but has the cannibal eaten Andrew Tate yet?

What will happen when Trump refuses to leave the White House in 2029? (I don't think we can count on him dying.)

Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 2w ago

If you get upset about this, right-wingers will call you humorless. Meanwhile, well-meaning folks will say you shouldn't get upset b/c it's just a distraction, and you should focus on policy fights and on winning in November. As for me: This isn't funny, and it's good to take time to be angry.

We went to the HQ of Yili today, which is the self proclaimed "future silicon valley of dairy" and also a very surreal experience in how one can advertise milk

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

Christian nationalist Pastor Joel Webbon tells Patriot Front founder Thomas Rousseau he doesn't want to live with different races here on Earth because it would ruin the heavenly surprise. 🤔 (More in link below.)

Bremmer steals tweets and memes from small accounts. His writing and ideas—no doubt all pastiches of his staff's work—have been vanilla slop since way before LLMs were a thing.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.

Loving @ossoff.bsky.social.

The cyclospora outbreak has reached 7,400 cases across 9 states. The FDA just recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,300 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”

If the people who cut USAID—causing many avoidable deaths—weren’t in a public panic about fertility rates while opposing immigration and blocking refugees but making special accommodations for white South Africans based on false conspiracy theories, that might be different. But, you know, context.

Ed@notdred.bsky.social · 2w ago

To me cutting USAID is like, you put a quarter into a slot every day to keep millions of people alive. You don’t have to do it but it causes you no hardship. Then one day the job falls to people who are overtly white supremacist and they decide to stop doing it. It is most obviously murder

This segment does not really discover anything new but it introduces you to some of the characters in this would-be "network state" node.

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 2w ago

Honduras: Inside Caribbean ‘tech utopia’ start-up city of Prospera www.channel4.com/news/hondura...

I don't want to join any kind of church, but I also do not want to join what appears to be some kind of marketing scam: bsky.app/profile/wald...

politiburb@politiburb.bsky.social · 2w ago

You are looking for a church to join, not a political party to support. But all your friends are atheists so you can't admit you're looking for a church to join.

Apologies if I sound angry, but it is a real problem that the 'smart' commentary on this war is trying hard to avoid the core lesson ("the president is a fucking moron") because it doesn't sound very clever when it is absolutely the most important takeaway from this debacle.