I don't understand why AI is being mentioned in this story at all, but however it was edited, it seems like a Berne Convention rights issue, no? Are the creators pursuing a remedy?

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

When my daughter was younger, I would often slowly drift off while telling her bedtime stories, only to be jolted awake by hearing myself say something wildly innapropriate. Watching the slow decay of Trump's speech here brought back those memories.

China will not be seeking new special and differential treatment -- a privilege granted to developing countries -- in current and future World Trade Organization (WTO) talks, the country's official Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday.

I quite literally would not be here without Jerry Cohen's support and encouragement. Jerry saw what he could learn from, and do for, others-from longtime friends to random students at his lectures- building on strengths rather than poking at weaknesses. And this made his criticims ring true.

Awkward admission: Among the many things I learned in the last two weeks was that Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro were not the same person.

I keep seeing people push the term "Electrostate" But I believe the preferred term is "State-ic Electricity"

As Trump puts 100,000 fees on H1-B, China's K visa for young STEM talent is set to begin Oct 1. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Bilx0MLwHa...

New regulations on reporting and grading cybersecurity incidents deviate from past standards by not considering the spread of illegal and harmful information to be a cybersecurity incident in and of itself. [Still illegal, just not a cybersecurity issue] www.chinalawtranslate.com/quicktake-cy...

Most of the restrictions mentioned in this article are in 2021's Internet Religious Information Services regs. www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/internet-... What is new in the Code of Conduct is that it impacts online conduct of registered clergy in their personal, as well as professional capacity.⏬

The current shift among US China watchers from condemning China's 拆迁 (forced demolition) cases as a human/civil rights to calling for a rehabilitation of Robert Moses to compete with China and revitalize US construction... is something.

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

A Chinese citizen journalist who served a prison term over her coverage of the initial Covid-19 response has been sentenced to four years in jail, a rights group and activists said. In full: buff.ly/PEU461W

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

Requiring schools to teach children to love the motherland is very much a part of Communist law and Ideology.

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

This homepage is like the tombstone for idealism. Doge.gov.

This homepage is like the tombstone for idealism. Doge.gov.

Gentle reminder that Trump also declared Antifa a terrorist organization once in 2019 and once in 2020, and Congress also entertained resolutions to this effect in 2019, 2021, and in January of this year. I don't think democracy is dead. I think Trump is, once again, flailing.

I deleted a post on Trump's Antifa "major terrorist organization" announcement for two reasons: 1. Legally, It's unclear what he means by this- sowill wait and see. 2. Practically, it's crystal clear what he means, so no comment needed: Identify a vague enemy, threaten state action.

In Chinaspeak: "News Information units with the capacity to mobilize public opinion must not hype hot topics in current events to sow discord or insult leading cadres, the party, or its policies."😂

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

China's online code of conduct for clergy builds on 2021's Measures on Internet Religious Information Services, in trying to keep religion off the mainstream internet. Notably, it expressly applies to activity on foreign websites and platforms. www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/clergy-co...

China's online code of conduct for clergy builds on 2021's Measures on Internet Religious Information Services, in trying to keep religion off the mainstream internet. Notably, it expressly applies to activity on foreign websites and platforms. www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/clergy-co...

Is shooting boats of civilians in international waters political violence or just regular violence?

So little mention of the law banning it apnews.com/article/trum...

I don't know if they are using AI or just firing editors, but CNN really wants you to know the shooter's family thinks he leaned left... and that the FBI may have had a role in the shooting.

Facebook reminds me that 9 years ago, I helped organize a trip by Justice Alito to Beijing where we visited Peking University and the Supreme People's Court. It also reminds me that I had a phone with a terrible camera.

British prosecutors drop case against two men accused of spying for China www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

China is ditching the dollar, fast: Officials believe that the yuan has finally come of age – The Economist: ‘Over 30% of China’s trade in goods and services is now done in its own currency (compared with 14% in 2019).’

If you need a break from hearing about Charlie Kirk; The Epstein Birthday book is still online. drive.google.com/file/d/1rR1B...

Seems like a good time to.remind people that Biden was very old. Also, he's even older today.

A surreal time capsule. At the start of the pandemic I left China, expecting to return fairly quickly. I kept paying rent on our unoccupied China apartment for 2 years until out landlady kicked us out, and we hired movers to pack and store our belongings in absentia. Today, I have my boxes back.

“Clients are flooding our inboxes…” said Matthew Dunn, head of business immigration for the US at the law firm HSF Kramer. “They ask if corporate headquarters should be concerned…if their US managers are at risk…if their foreign national[s]…on work sponsored visas will be targeted by government”

Books that leave you slightly diminished: -The Beckett Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable. -Heller's Something Happened -West's The Day of the Locust

This review of Breakneck echoes many of my thoughts but wth a grace and clarity I could only aspire too- even mirroring some of the book's style while supplementing it with further data and analytic rigor. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Why?

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

Let the record show that the first thing the new "Department of War" did was threaten to invade an American city.

Can’t express in words how big this rally in Chicago is. The president’s fascist goon squad is not welcome here.

The problem for the rest of us is that it doesn't seem to matter. At all.

I dunno, I think that Trump trying to change the DoD to the Department of War is a rare instance of him moving towards honesty. But yes, it's not a power he has.

Anyone who saw him suck up to Xi Jinping has seen this before.