Catherine Thorbecke

@thorbecke.bsky.social

Asia technology columnist at Bloomberg Opinion. Based in Tokyo. For tips and love letters: cthorbecke1@bloomberg.net

I’ve been cheering for Bluesky for a while, but for me the biggest thing that felt missing as someone outside the US was the int’l users and trends. Sharing a (free to read!) link to my latest column for @opinion.bloomberg.com here because seems only fitting: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Bluesky Needs to Burst Its American Bubble

X, formerly Twitter, has kept finding new ways to get worse ever since it was taken over by the world’s richest man. And that was before it began doubling as a generator of non-consensual AI porn, som...

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Trump's program "devolved into an ineffective racial profiling campaign targeting Asian American academics, and left a string of wrongful accusations that upended researchers’ lives while doing little to stamp out suspected spying," writes @thorbecke.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

US Cannot Repeat Trump’s Attacks on Chinese Scientists

His first-term China Initiative was a failure. Bringing it back would play into Beijing’s hands and impact US innovation.

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