In case anyone else also needs to brighten up their Friday, here is Role Model singing an adaptation of his viral hit Sally, When the Wine Runs Out with a group of school kids who co-wrote it with him: www.tiktok.com/@celebritysu...

Strolling along Dongsi 8 Tiao hutong 东四八条 in Beijing this pm I saw this gate, with a little Buddha statue inside. Then I read the plaque. *Everything* happened in this house. (Manchus to Martial arts to Mara Hari).

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Not now, Hayward Fault.

First #UNESCO International Institute for STEM #Education (IISTEM) established in Shanghai...hmm....#China's ambition for setting agendas, getting talents and recognition. No competing initiatives due to lack of money or low prioritization? www.gov.cn/lianbo/bumen...

"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got outta hand." youtu.be/vETxuL7Ij3Q?...

"Pema Tashi, a Tibetan military instructor stationed at Kindergarten No. 5, said that the soldiers’ emphasis on ‘red’ education was 'taking root in young minds…like seeds sown quietly.'”

This is where we are as a society I guess.

I spoke with @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social and @chinafile.bsky.social's Jessica Batke about their recent Locknet report, which provides a brilliant, concise, detailed but accessible overview of China's online censorship system.

This guy who was found abandoned on the side of the highway at 7 weeks old weighing 4 pounds has now outgrown one chair and needs to sleep on two.

University of Montreal seeks China specialist in political science. No French language skill is needed to be eligible, although you will need to learn with what a colleague who's there calls "their amazing support" once on the job. rh-carriere-dmz.synchro.umontreal.ca/psc/rhprpr9_...

pbs.twimg.com/media/DJdtXt... www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

Sara Jacobs: "Filler is gender affirming care. Boob jobs is gender affirming care. Botox is gender affirming care. Lots of my colleagues have received gender affirming care and let me be clear, I think everyone should have access to the gender affirming care they need." Nancy Mace: *screams*

This covers well the damage of what’s happening, and I’ll add: people outside this ecosystem underestimate how much information it produces that others rely on for their knowledge of world affairs

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As part of a consortium of researchers and journalists, I spent the better part of a year digging into leaked documents from Chinese security company Geedge, which plays a pivotal role exporting the Great Firewall around the world: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/15c699a...

Just don’t lock yourself out because you’d have gnocchi

What happens if ICE stops you on the streets? 如果美国移民与海关执法局 (ICE) 在街上接近您，您怎么做？ Help us share out our bilingual Chinese-English Know-Your-Rights infographics! Knowing your rights can make the difference between safety and deportation. caasf.org/2025/01/comm...

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

So grateful to write for @dissentmag.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue "Authoritarianism and Resistance." I drafted the piece in June with the new school year in mind, as an immigrant scholar severed from her homeland: What can we teach the young about how to exist and persist at this historic juncture?

This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

In 2021, we exposed China’s colonial boarding schools separating Tibetan children from their families. Our new report uncovers even worse abuses, including targeting children as young as four. Read @chinadigitaltimes.net interview with Dr Gyal Lo chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/08/inte...

The world may be falling apart but I just sat 50 feet from Yo-Yo Ma and Angelique Kidjo as they performed songs from all over the world including Once in a Lifetime by the Talking Heads 😍

Interview with Dr. Gyal Lo: Tibetan Children Are Becoming "Strangers in Their Own Homes" "What China is providing is not even a formal education. It's assimilation. It’s indoctrination."

Seems like a good weekend to find one nice thing to do for others, and one nice thing to do for yourself. Rest up if you can. Mask up if you’re in a crowd. Watch some birds. Fix something with your hands. Look at something beautiful for a while.

CDT Quote of the Week: chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/08/inte...

Read more from our Tibet-focused interview series here: chinadigitaltimes.net/china/tibet-...

What a fantastic development. Historical icon Amoeba Music will build housing on its site and remain a music store (and preserve the famous People's Park mural). Pretty A+ all around. Thankfully, no CEQA for infill means this project can't be fucked with. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/08/28/a...

“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis

"China always says Tibetan language is backward, Tibetan culture is backward. No! We've been using our language, carrying out our civilization for more than 4,700 years. Our language is capable in a modern context. Learning Tibetan doesn’t mean rejecting modernization."

Thank you to Dr. Gyal Lo for speaking with me about the impact of colonial boarding schools on Tibetan children and society, and about the new report on this topic by @tibetaction.bsky.social. I learned a lot from our conversation and you will too.

This is a funny tweet because she's actually right, this the story of Berkeley. An Americanized Chinese food restaurant that appealed to WASPs happily sold out after the owners reached their elderly age and the new business serves the booming Asian population downtown. And the WASPs think its bad

Gangster films like his biopic about the Dalai Lama bsky.app/profile/soph...

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

We founded the U of Arizona Center for East Asian Studies three years ago with a US Dept of Education grant. Last Friday marked the end of year 3 of 4. Though the grant was for four years, we have not received word about year 4 funding. Without this support, we have no choice but to close down.

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This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

Translation: Filmmaker Describes Monitoring by Local Cadre in Urumqi "I kept my tone amiable and didn’t argue, but inwardly I was cursing, 'What kind of hellhole is this, where renting an apartment means you have to report in every time you leave?!'"

Censorship Scandals Engulf Thai, French Art Museums "Some works [at the Bangkok Arts and Cultural Centre were removed,] while other pieces had been altered, with the words 'Hong Kong', 'Tibet' and 'Uyghur' redacted, along with the names of the artists."

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never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

And the vast majority of the western mainstream media barely ever even deign to recognize these murdered journalists as our colleagues. These dead journalists who have done a job 10,000 times harder than any of us will ever have to do. Reporting on their own destruction until the very end.

In China, references to the June 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square are forbidden and meticulously regulated by the ruling Communist Party government.

“There comes a redeemer, and he slowly too fades away And there follow his wagon behind him that's loaded with clay And the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom, and decay And night comes so quiet, it's close on the heels of the day” Love you, always, Jerry. ❤️✨ youtu.be/kuSJ0djewQU?...

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

Just found this photo of Pudong, Shanghai that I took in 1995