Donald Trump's AI-generated "Board of Peace" logo is so bad it doesn't even have Greenland on it, the territory he almost took the US to war this week to seize. No, really, look closely:
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China Correspondent for Swiss Television SRF, based in Shanghai. 瑞士电视台驻华通讯员。เจ็ดปีในประเทศไทย. ເຄີຍຢູ່ລາວແລະຍັງຄິດຮອດລາວຢູ່.
China has the largest installed wind capacity in the world.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoTrump: "There are windmills all over Europe. There are windmills all over the place. And they are losers. One thing I've noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses, and the worse that country is doing. I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China."
Die armen Historiker:innen, die das alles später mal erforschen.
X is literally making child porn as a service so there really shouldn't be a question to whether or not MPs leave. Bellingcat has.
Zoë Crowther@zoecrowther.bsky.social · 7mo agoEXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging govt to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK" The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
There honestly cannot be a satire cutting enough to make fun of Americans. What the fuck do you mean the highest colonial ideal you could imagine was a parking lot with McDonald's on both sides
Trending Mainland China Shows on Viki currently include Love and Crown, Fight for Love, Love in the Clouds, Love’s Ambition, Love on the Turquoise Land, Love Like the Galaxy, Only for Love, Fireworks of my Heart, and Why Is He Still Single? I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I sense a trend.
"There is a sense from some in Switzerland that this was very close to corruption," 😲 www.ft.com/content/36c9...
BREAKING Dutch government suspend the goods availability act invoked over Nexperia!
Update on invoking Goods Availability Act
Update detailing the suspension of the Order under the Goods Availability Act.
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Hong Kong’s plan to prove that a dynamic financial hub and “world city” does not have to hew to Western liberal values. My column, The Telegram, reported from HK economist.com/internationa... from The Economist
China places a Hong Kong-sized bet on Western decline
The territory aims to prove that a non-free society can be a global financial hub
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Waiting for the hit piece on Trump's dogmatic education he received at Wharton. "The president has said his education at Wharton was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how business schools steep students in capitalist dogma."
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 9mo agoA few thoughts about this deeply-flawed Jeremy W. Peters article.(Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
And, of course, by cancelling his visa they are verifying that Trump is, indeed "Idi Amin in whiteface."
David Beard@dabeard.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe US has revoked the visa of a Nobel Prize winner in literature after the author called President Trump "Idi Amin in whiteface." Nigerian Wole Soyinka, 91, said the US consulate told him to bring in his passport so it could be canceled in person. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Iowas Sojabauern wählten Trump. Doch seine Zölle kosten sie ihren Hauptkunden China. Ausgerechnet hier, wo einst ein junger Agrarbeamter namens Xi Jinping aufkreuzte, der bis heute eine Brieffreundschaft mit einer Seniorin pflegt. Reportage aus Muscatine @spiegel.de www.spiegel.de/ausland/chin...
(S+) Sojakrieg am Mississippi: Chinas Rache an Trumps Bauern
Iowas Sojabauern wählten Trump. Doch seine Zölle kosten sie ihren Hauptkunden China. Ausgerechnet hier, wo einst ein junger Agrarbeamter namens Xi Jinping aufkreuzte – der bis heute eine Brieffreundsc...
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EU sanctions envoy David O'Sullivan the latest top EU official to confirm Wang Yi comments to Kallas "I know that in many in America would say, yeah, but China is much more of a problem than Russia. But actually they're kind of two sides of the same coin...
So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.
One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox. By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands. Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid. “My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
So what are we thinking, a 70-30 balance?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo agoTrump: "When 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech."
"This country is full of maniacs with guns who shoot people for all kinds of crazy reasons" — a long text message from my friend Cleo Rose-Innes (like me, not born in the U.S.), copied in this 🧵:
“Do I want the Silicon Valley people to win? Probably not.” He wants, he said, the most ethical version of AI to win. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China
In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race
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Ich bin jetzt seit bald zwei Monaten in China, und ich bin fasziniert wie "weit weg" das Land von Europa doch immer noch ist. Ein Beispiel: @watson.ch publiziert einen Artikel über angebliche "selbstschiessende" Autos. Darin stimmt eigentlich nichts. www.watson.ch/internationa...
In China gibt es jetzt unbemannte, selbst schiessende Polizeiautos
In China gibt es die ersten unbemannten und selbst schiessenden Polizeiautos.
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Get ready for a bunch of media interviews with traumatized South Koreans workers once they all return home, about how they were treated by the U.S. and ICE.
Europe’s summer from hell bleeds into autumn as Trump and Xi turn the screws My piece looking at how China's flex of military muscle and diplomatic clout is going down in Europe
Europe’s summer from hell bleeds into autumn as Trump and Xi turn the screws
Brussels flounders and others set the pace of global power politics, so commentators reach for comparison in Chinese history.
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My prediction is that someday fairly soon we will wake up to find Chinese astronauts walking on the Moon, and the entire country will absolutely freak out about falling behind in space.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last yr.Trump wants to slash NASA’s budget. A "Real World" star will lead the agency. But who needs space anyway? @petridishes.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.
Important piece from @davidautor.bsky.social & Gordon Hanson about the next "China shock" and how to deal with it. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
Opinion | We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse.
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Important to keep an eye on what is occurring in Thailand at present
Thailand’s judiciary is flexing its muscles, but away from PM’s plight, dozens of activists are at the mercy of capricious courts
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been suspended from office. Meanwhile, leading activists languish behind bars on ‘lèse majesté’ offenses.
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Maroussia Lévesque uses the term “analog privilege” to describe how the wealthy avoid being subject to & penalized by algorithmic decision making models. You know what rich people also do? Send their kids to private schools where they have low student-to-teacher ratios & aren’t forced to use GenAI.
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · last yr.This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n