Related not related, we’ve started seeing non-consensual AI-generated images being used to target HK activists in exile, a lot of it depicting women as sex workers or doing sex acts. My guess is this kind of harassment will only get worse

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Publicists who represented Johnny Depp during his 2022 trial against Amber Heard charged Jeffrey Epstein five figures a month for representation during 2017, according to invoices in the Epstein Files. Their PR strategies for Epstein reflect the later MeToo backlash. spitfirenews.com/p/epstein-jo...

Indian writer Arundhati Roy says she was cancelling her planned participation in the Berlin Film Festival over comments from jury president Wim Wenders that the festival had to “stay out of politics” in response to a question on Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/vlaa02

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

Effective fertility policy: Remote work. If both parents work at home at least one day/week, they'll average 0.5 more children, pushing toward the “replacement” level of 2.1. A result of opportunity and availability, less time commuting=more time parenting. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker Who are the real people behind the accounts spreading fury about the capital online? And what motivates them? 🤑 www.londoncentric.me... 1/3

“Reading through the emails, it’s possible to see that Epstein himself coordinated pushback against #MeToo. Looking back, it seems obvious that sinking #MeToo also led to where we are now: a place where laws simply don’t apply if you have enough money and power. The same players are involved.”

This year, the Puppy Bowl isn’t just about puppies. Older dogs are getting some attention, too.

We don’t experience depression uniformly, and a new study finds that some symptoms may be more strongly linked with developing dementia later in life. https://cnn.it/45THWiZ

After huffily defending Trump for posting the racist apes video, the White House is now blaming it on an unnamed staffer. “A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down,” a White House official told Zeteo.

It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.

Don Lemon is just the tip of the iceberg. Trump’s minions are pressuring prosecutors to charge ICE protesters based on scant evidence. The latest scoop from @samanthamichaels.bsky.social:

Disappointing but not surprising that Anies Baswedan, seen as a "progressive" politician, rejects "dual citizenship," warning it will let foreigners enter Indonesia freely. This shows the narrow-mindedness and limited understanding of the issue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iunr...

Why is it that when a political leader talks about 'foreign intervention’ destabilising their country/city/etc., I get the feeling that, actually, they cannot recognise their own people and understand that they are responsible for causing people to want to protest/rise up against them?

Why is Prabowo pushing for legislation to counter disinformation and foreign propaganda? "... the most sinister aspect of the legislative proposal is its timing. It came as Prabowo once again whipped up fears of ‘foreign intervention’ destabilising Indonesia."

Experts (incl Nobel Prize laureate Maria Ressa & ex-Taiwan digital minister Audrey Tang) warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media Early versions of AI-powered influence operations have been used in the 2024 elections in Taiwan, India and Indonesia.

Trump's buddies now control TikTok in the U.S. www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/t...

This YouTube channel is faking stories from elderly people. An actual line from a video is "Subscribe because I won't be around much longer." Meanwhile, it's all AI generated.

Most recipients of the HK gov't's Equal Opportunities (Sexual Orientation) Funding Scheme are groups that organise activities like beach clean-ups and AI workshops. Most of them appeared to have pro-establishment ties, an HKFP investigation has found. In full: buff.ly/rrdESmy

"In a city that employs nearly 368,000 migrant domestic workers – 42 per cent Indonesians and 55 per cent Filipinos – there is always a worker facing a personal tragedy." 💔

When a tragedy struck Indonesian migrant workers in HK (think Erwiana, tortured by her employer; Seneng Mujiasih & Jesse Lorena, killed by a British banker), it was always fellow Indonesian workers offering support. It also happened with the Tai Po fire victims hongkongfp.com/2026/01/18/t...

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There is a striking similarity between the language being used online against Rohingya in Malaysian online (mainly FB) spaces today & what was used against them in Myanmar in the time prior to the genocide. Hateful, dehumanising, scapegoating & inciting violence against them.

I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute.

Hopefully so—as with elsewhere, the gig economy framing was used to deny workers basic labor rights in Taiwan

When Mr. King, the incarcerated occupational mentor, asked what the class could do to help Mike after his brother died, he replied, “Can I come by and pet that black lab that you are training?”

I've always felt this was, at least, partly true. Can be extrapolated to also be a reason why #China dominated cleantech too - something that most #climate & #environment groups don't want to acknowledge. thediplomat.com/2026/01/why-...

When violence expert Bandy Lee publicly warned that Donald Trump likely presented a danger to the nation’s health, she was ostracized by the psychiatric community. It turns out she was right.

interestingly some of my interviewees (Chinese feminists) have the same critique of a certain type of anti-CCP dudes (Chinese dissidents), that is they hate a particular regime but don't have compassion for the oppressed

NEW: Meet the folks at AccessNow's Digital Security Helpline, who have been investigating government spyware for more than a decade, helping journalists and dissidents all over the world. I spoke to Hassen Selmi, who heads the incident response team, to learn how his team fights spyware abuses.

LeMonde said, not on our watch

There isnt an 'election' happening in Myanmar today. Its a sham, a facade, a desperate attempt to gain legitimacy by the brutal, murderous Junta which since its coup has & contines to displace millions, kill & detain thousands. #RejectShamElection

Well, the FT writing about One Piece. I did not have this on my bingo card this year. www.ft.com/content/69ba...

The repatriations of 10 migrant workers who died in the massive HK fire have begun, nearly a month after the tragedy. The remains of Novita arrived in Indonesia on Sun, while the body of Maryan Esteban arrived in the Philippines on Sat. hongkongfp.com/2025/12/22/t...

In recent weeks, devastating floods swept away villages in Sumatra, killing 1000+ people. My ex-colleague Moses Ompusunggu's 2022 docu about an indigenous activist whose village is threatened by deforestation feels like a warning of the disaster. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2wb...

A leaked video of the secret court-martial of Xu Qinxian, the Chinese general who refused an order to crush the Tiananmen protests in 1989, sheds new light on the tensions among China’s military leaders as Deng Xiaoping ordered a crackdown that would kill hundreds www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...

“From Beijing’s point of view, there is only one measure that will determine whether Lee will keep his job: will he be able to prevent any protests and snuff out any signs of dissent? By that measure, his performance so far has been faultless.” @antd.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

If you write or edit stories about Indonesia or other countries in Southeast Asia, please remember that their naming system differs from that of the West. Too often, foreign media apply the Western system, using "family names" (or what they wrongly think is a family name) on second mention.

Indoor tanning is trending among Gen Z. A new study finds tanning bed users not only have a much higher risk of melanoma, they also have DNA damage linked to cancer across nearly their entire skin. n.pr/4qcoLss

Singapore doesn't tolerate bigamy. This man married his second wife according to Chinese customs, but he did not register his second marriage. He still gets jail. www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ma...

After 1 Filipina worker died in the HK fire, Philippine Secretary for Migrant Workers Hans Leo Cacdac flew to Hong Kong and had a press conference with HK Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun. It is unclear if Indonesia, which lost 9 workers in the fire, will send a minister to HK

“20 construction netting samples taken from the site of the fatal Tai Po blaze. 7 of them have failed to meet fire safety standards. These nets didn’t meet fire resistance standards, & the Styrofoam boards, that caused the fire to spread so rapidly,” authorities say. #HongKong

For those who want to read more about Freddy Lim - www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/w...

Remember that flashy new Chinese law about fining influencers 100k RMB for spreading bad information? It doesn't exist, it was made up by a Facebook page called Enséñame de Ciencia and @wenhao.bsky.social has a great breakdown of why you *think* it does

Accounts from Asia and Australia are propagating extremist views in Europe, according to an analysis of X posts.

Three of the people from this 2018 Palestine solidarity protest in Hong Kong are now facing subversion charges; they're not in jail bc of their Palestine activism, but still highlights how Beijing has systematically destroyed HK's left hongkongfp.com/2025/11/23/n...

Indonesia discovers the way to Trump heart is through billion dollar real estate concessions. www.ft.com/content/12c4...