TAQUITO Trump always questions US Indo-Pacific treaty obligations (Feel like this one has been staring us in the face)

I like a policy that gives instructors control over their courses, but this is pretty close to my approach. Query how you can use an AI system to surface sources (which I do, and allow) without inadvertently aiding your conceptualization.

After all that... "There is not a single mention of Mr. Biden’s age, a regular concern of voters and Democratic officials throughout his presidency, nor of Israel and Gaza, an issue that dogged Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris in 2024 and has since fractured the party." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

“The US already runs a voluntary program to evaluate AI systems before their release.” Yes, since 2023.

Must watch and must read. A mind-blowing translation achievement.

We're looking at robotics in my seminar on tech in US-China relations next week, and I remain perplexed by everyone's fixation on humanoid robots. We are shaped this way by happenstance (or divine intention if you like). Why should machines we plan to use for various tasks be shaped this way?

For the record I am happy and ready to stand in solidarity against this and the broader destruction of rule of law with people who disagree with me on redistribution, defense spending, corporate power, aesthetics, philosophy, humidity, and even the superiority of brownies over cake. We can win.

LOL

may all my errors be my own

imagine telling a professor this: my fabricated quotes and misattributions in this paper about truth—let that be a warning to you

LOL! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

latest example showing we do not live in the regime type I grew up under.

Philanthropy. The world's richest man donates pages upon hours upon emails of materials to researchers and journalists who want to understand how a pivotal and bizarre company developed by suing, humiliating himself, and losing on statue of limitations.

Pretty good piece on TP-Link. More emphasis needed on key pt from Dakota Cary: US is “choosing [a] simple, anti-competitive policy instead of doing the hard work … The policies that we’re choosing to enact really fail to even address the security concerns.” www.thewirechina.com/2026/05/17/t... 1/

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A bunch of people seem to have been saying the US and China did not establish a new dialogue mechanism this week. Then today USG said the Board of Trade and Board of Investment would come into existence. Are these two things both true? www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/... 1/

A bunch of people seem to have been saying the US and China did not establish a new dialogue mechanism this week. Then today USG said the Board of Trade and Board of Investment would come into existence. Are these two things both true? www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/... 1/

Some stuff is bad these days, but I’m not buying that previous generations saw reality as imagined here.

More grist for my hobby thesis that the iPhone, a U.S.-Chinese joint production, signaled the end of humanity.

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A short early reaction to the Trump China trip from me, with a great group of others @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social acf.sais.jhu.edu/acf-voices-o...

"Graham Allison came to me with tears in his eyes and said, sir, no one has ever understood my work the way that you have"

One might say the wordsmiths had to come up with a new kind of great power relations for this meeting.

“中美建设性战略稳定关系” is getting translated in lots of awkward ways. “Constructive China-US relationship of strategic stability” from Xinhua is not good. I propose “constructive and strategically stable China-US relationship.”

After a certain number of posts and media mentions in a short period, people in the afterlife are hauled in by the apparition team in case they need to manifest over a lake or something. The real Thucydides trap is the retired scribe, for centuries left to his oil pastels, called back in to haunt.

“a monumental nonevent” comes to mind

ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)

After a certain number of posts and media mentions in a short period, people in the afterlife are hauled in by the apparition team in case they need to manifest over a lake or something. The real Thucydides trap is the retired scribe, for centuries left to his oil pastels, called back in to haunt.

Holy balls, this opinion: "As citizens, we trust that federal prosecutors . . . will play fair and be honest with its counterparts and the judiciary. DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case." (via @chrisgeidner.bsky.social) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In other classified findings, water is wet

I have an unpopular opinion, and I’m not telling.

YES!!! See also @gwbstr.com on the “AI race” framing discussed here:

My latest: By popular demand, my three reasons the “AI race” is almost always a misleading frame, even though it makes headlines shorter and sounds snappy. herecomes.transpacifica.net/p/why-the-us... 1/ [repost because link failed]

US presidents used to go to China, self-satisfied, and evangelize for the rule of law. Some Chinese welcomed this “beacon” (a word numerous Chinese contacts have used recently in describing to me what America used to be). Hilarious.

Everyone is maxxing something, how is TJ not cashing in?

My latest: By popular demand, my three reasons the “AI race” is almost always a misleading frame, even though it makes headlines shorter and sounds snappy. herecomes.transpacifica.net/p/why-the-us... 1/ [repost because link failed]

Interesting document, this Reddit thread. OP appears anti-immigrant and the app shoves some ”AI” in for fun.

Just published! My book, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China, is now available online for institutional users with subscription to Oxford Scholarship Online! academic.oup.com/book/62722 The print version will come out next month.

So the Trump administration is not only going after Chinese scientists, they are now going after Americans who defend them. Who would have thought?

This rocks. Proud contributor since May 2024. www.instagram.com/p/C7hI2ThxLoG/

Old enough to remember when putting something between quotation marks in journalism was thing of near holy reverence.

they read the last decade’s coverage of rights-abusing chinese tech and, in envy, cried ”why not us”

“We are a Chinese vessel. We were struck by a missile at 26°01.1, 55°48.2. The deck is on fire.” The struck vessel was JV Innovation, a Chinese oil tanker. It was loaded with 38 kilotonnes of petrochemical products from Jubail, Saudi Arabia. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Beware Trump admin puffery about an agreement to talk more. "The US side named the proposal, 'the Board of Trade,' and has promoted it. The Chinese side has been less effusive, calling it simply 'working mechanisms to expand economic and trade cooperation.'" www.thewirechina.com/2026/05/07/t...

Nice corrective to analysis that is over-confident about what US controls can effectuate.

Good luck. These things are proliferating after oakland‘s council approved over overwhelming opposition among people expressing an opinion.

I admit it. I'm confused what so enrages people about the Obama clip.