Our new magazine, Equator, is officially out in the world — and here @equatormag.bsky.social Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org

Last week, I did two events, one at Stanford hosted by the Hoover Institution, the other at San Francisco's @cwclub.bsky.social in cooperation w/ @dissentmag.bsky.social /video of one and audio of the other are now up online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfZ2... & www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archi...

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Pleased by the lively & varied collection of friends who began arriving to chat after I took the photo: @chinarhyming.bsky.social Isabel Hilton Ed Pulford @afrawang.bsky.social Jeffrey Ngo Lijia Zhang Harriet Evans + soon to graduate history major Pan Siripark (who nicely came in from Cambridge)

👇 Today, in person, in London, talking about Orwell & China w/ @isabelh.bsky.social & Cindy Yu (our 3rd event as a trio, after 2 for Cindy's "Chinese Whispers" podcast, on protests www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/echo... & on the Qing (recorded in the British Museum) www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/did-...

The People's Republic of China is a rare example of a "Big Brother" state where Orwell's work is widely read. So, what *does* Orwell mean in China? Join us live in London with @jwassers.bsky.social, @isabelh.bsky.social and Cindy Yu. www.orwellfestival.co.uk/booking/p/ch...

Very proud of my former undergrad student @afrawang.bsky.social —who keeps doing new things & doing them well (& with style), from her work with the Loud Murmers podcast to this substack (excerpts below) afraw.substack.com/p/the-clock-...

I have a new book due out June 10 on protest & repression in HK and SE Asia, & I'm doing a lot of events related to the themes in April, in NYC, Boston, Minneapolis, at Pomona, &, for the 1st time, @ Luther College, Iowa, 2 events there www.luther.edu/event/youth-... & www.luther.edu/event/studen...

One of the best ways to understand DeepSeek via @afrawang.bsky.social The way we understand DeepSeek has to have some insider insights to fully make sense and here are observations to support that realization: DeepSeek's rapid adoption is highly symbolic. www.ai-supremacy.com/p/deepseek-a...

Don't miss our upcoming book talk with NPR correspondent Emily Feng, discussing her book "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom," identity in Xi Jinping's China, and her own journey as a journalist – in conversation with China Books Review editor Alec Ash. Register now to secure your seat! buff.ly/r73hVTg

d/acc, one year later: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025...

Reposting this post of mine from 1.5 years ago... I still find this fascinating vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023...

Bluesky has passed 21M users.

Interesting to see the recent spike in activity over here. I have been around for a few such waves over on Farcaster, curious to see how it plays out over here.

合抱之木，生于毫末；九层之台，起于累土；千里之行，始于足下。

The plight of decentralized social networks echoes the plight of decentralized identity - and the plight of linking an ETH address to a real human.

Dwebbing

Proposed categorization of the Three Great Tribes of Health/Longevity: Steak, Kale, Metformin

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