今天是震惊世界的709律师大抓捕的十周年，伍雷律师与我们分享他从做律师到远居日本的心路历程。录这期节目令人心酸，但作为旁观者，我们对亲历者能做的最基本的事，就是倾听和看见他们，并与他们同在 open.substack.com/pub/jfbooks1...

I was in a talk by Bjorn Lomborg. He showed a graph of damages of electric cars, he pointed to an incredibly high bar on human toxicity, and said: this is mostly in China, so do we really care? The room laughed, and I was stunned, not knowing what he meant (or perhaps I did) and how to react.

Jensen Huang is the only respectable leader in Big Tech, because he’s the only one not to donate to Trump’s inauguration fund, not attend meals at Mara Lago, and not go to the inauguration. I respect his choices.

youtube.com/watch?v=nFVT... Amazing lecture on Soviet dissident movement, very inspiring and intellectually satisfying

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%... 如果按照这个讲法，每年都是转折点

明明就是Little Red Book（literally），非要换个“Red Note”的名字洗白

youtube.com/watch?v=wVQ4... Fun interview of Eric Hobsbawm’s life

🤝 📚 Shorenstein APARC Fellow Thomas Fingar joined @hooverinstitution.bsky.social visiting fellow @heliuleo.bsky.social to discuss the early phases of US-China educational exchange that occurred during the Carter administration's normalization of relations. ⤵️

读英文的中国分析，时常有种感受：质量这么差的分析，为什么总能被认真对待。当然，读中文分析我也有这种感受，但我理解中文世界受到言论审查，表达不自由。但英文世界表达自由，为什么还总是错的离谱？前两天遇到两位分析师。我最近看到该司报告，质疑中国的gdp数字，产生了点好感。但是两位开口就说，今天中国的问题是金融系统的问题，说习近平是一个失败了的改革者，让我笑掉大牙。这叫什么真知灼见？我奶奶都知道地方债务有问题，关键是为什么、系统机理在哪里。而把习近平看作是一位“改革者”，无论你对于“改革”的定义是什么，都很能说明问题。而这还是西方世界最受吹捧的中国分析公司之一...

In this week of Jimmy Carter’s funeral, I bring you a piece with Dr. Thomas Fingar, who facilitated US-China education exchanges in late 70s and early 80s at Stanford and National Academy of Sciences. This is a story of how US-China education exchange came together. substack.com/@liuhe/note/...

The sight of Silicon Valley flocking to Trump through $1m donations is truly disgusting. Short live the king.

‘I suppose it could seem odd to travel to a war, and not just in one’s imagination—even if I do come from a family of travelers. My father, who was a fur trader in northern China, died there during the Japanese invasion—I was five.’ WHAT? www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1...

Not everyday that you read a story of how a president orders a hitman to feed an enemy to a crocodile… and more www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/w...

感谢卡特总统，在他任上开始和中国的教育交流，让我们这么多人能够来美国读书工作 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

On this day of huge BTC explosion again, I’m reading major BTC crashes in history to remind myself sanity and prudence.

I hope someday I will achieve the clarity and truth-seeking collaborativeness of a good rationalist. Still getting there www.lesswrong.com/posts/XPv4sY...

Welcome guys!

A nice short history of violent partitions. I am left wondering - has partition ever worked? Are we just condemned to violence, with or without partition in Ukraine? www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/h...

‘His hatred of the New York Times… leaps off the page. He sees the Times as one of three defining world powers, along with Bitcoin/crypto and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).’ First time seeing such a comparison 😂 www.combinationsmag.com/build-networ...

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll contribute to the global overdepletion of the ocean. So give him a salad, maybe.

NEWS The NYT has obtained an email that Pete Hegseth’s mom sent to her son in 2018. In the email, Penelope Hegseth refers to her son as “an abuser of women.” In an interview with the New York Times, Penelope Hegseth says she regrets sending the email to her son. Full Story: bit.ly/3ZbUs9h

So a reminder: It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom. It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president. It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child. For the record.

读完，想哭。总有一天我也要面对我母亲与父亲的离开，以及与他们的回忆和物件。睹物思人，到时我又会如何后悔、内疚、留恋与不舍？ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/t...

‘If you want a new idea, read an old book.’

Except that MAGA is also creating its own set of institutions. The difference is not quite institutionalism vs anti-institutionalism, but liberal institutionalism vs MAGA-institutionalism. And by destroying the former, Trumpists build the latter. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/o...

劳东燕：我们早已被环境驯化得习惯于降低期待了，却仍然被不断降低乃至根本没有底线可言的产品质量与服务质量所惊到。

得，一不小心炸了自家后院

An amazing piece of public philosophy, weaving through clear moral arguments to call attention to an ongoing and neglected moral catastrophe. I have often struggled to see the value of abstract philosophy in today’s world. Nussbaum has reminded me just that. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

What the fuck does that mean 😂

Title Books not Bombs! Author/Creator International Union of Students

夹边沟最后的幸存者李景沆去世，享年95岁。

This is the election result that Piers said was the Democrats getting "pounded into total, shameful, humiliating oblivion."

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann

林小英、颜李如：从“小毛孩”到“小标兵”：学校课堂规训机制的参与式观察研究。/1

Bluesky has a nice energy. I like it

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

Just waiting for the day when Nobel Prize for Literature gets rewarded to an online reviewer - and it will happen. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

在前苏联发现古玛雅文明的复杂性，曾被认为是“反马克思主义”学说。因为马克思曾发文评价玛雅文明为落后蛮荒。做玛雅研究要承担生命威胁。多么荒谬。 open.substack.com/pub/countero...

I enjoyed this particular Jenga tower metaphor, a tower that stands until the final moment of collapse. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...