someone tell Farage yet that Hong Kongers under BNO are citizens? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thrilled that Alaa will be free. Heartbroken at the costs paid by his family and everyone that loves him: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

the uncertainty is a feature, not a bug.

1/THREAD: @AP has published our investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state. We obtained multiple, massive leaks of internal and classified Chinese government and corporate documents running into the tens of thousands: apnews.com/article/chin...

MacOS 26 Tahoe is out!

i am listening to spotify's "discover weekly" which is a list of songs it thinks i might like. and indeed, there's a track that grabs my attention. i like the song, and look up the artist. turns out there is an entire album. all the songs are great. but ... they also feel a bit similar.

The protests in Nepal, and the governments violent repression of them, are an increasingly important story right now. @globalvoices.org has reporting from Nepal on the "Nepo Kid" movement, including what the "international media" are getting wrong

lebron james is an incredible basketball player but has the moral courage of a small cat. www.foxnews.com/sports/lebro...

fantastic news. @signal.org is introducing secure backups. signal.org/blog/introdu...

hello lydia wei slash isabella zhao

Nine years ago today: “Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that his wife will hold a news conference ‘over the next couple of weeks’ to address reports that she violated immigration laws when she first came to the U.S.” Still waiting.

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

this right here is the major deal breaker of AI for me: they tell you want you _want_ to hear, not what you need to hear.

“Do U.S. companies have a social mission or obligation outside of their bottom lines — a duty to ensure that their products are used responsibly and not for violence, conflict and legal and human rights violations, as is likely the case in Gaza?” hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/will-big-t...

Moderate Dems have changed tone on Gaza. Public opinion for what Israel is doing at a record low. But so far: no indication from Big Tech they’ll change course. What’s it going to take? My latest for @hard-reset.bsky.social hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/will-big-t...

beijing forces thai art gallery to shutdown an exhibition on transnational repression. hey siri, what’s the definition of transnational repression? www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/c...

on monday i joined a group of taiwanese uni students in protesting at the national taiwan university for hosting a talk with US defence tech company anduril's founder palmer luckey. luckey self describes as a "radical zionist" and once said that "israel has my [and our] unqualified support."

pet peeve: youtube automatically using AI voice over and not having a default option to turn that off and force videos to be played in their original language.

anyone know what "chinese-chinese cuisine" is?

"The pretense that we will find out whether or not Donald Trump is a sexual predator if the Epstein files are released is itself a kind of cover-up, since we already know he is" on point and sobering essay by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

wtf lmao. I wonder how one makes such a mistake? (for those who cannot read Chinese, the author confuses me with a completely different person, eg the name in Chinese is not my name).

Huge win for justice against mercenary spyware! Congratulations to @davidgreene.bsky.social & @eff.org colleagues I write about Loujain's case and the @citizenlab.ca's investigations into it in my book, Chasing Shadows chasingshadowsbook.ca One of the most courageous people I've ever met

How do you celebrate & support the hard, beautiful work of cultivating understanding across difference? Next weekend, I'm riding my bicycle up 10k meters of elevation in an "Everest Roam" to support the journalism, translation, & community at @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2025/07/24/f...

Glad to share this new article on digital transnational repression, its impacts on women and queer individuals, and the responses of host states. #DTR muse.jhu.edu/article/965783 Project MUSE - Targeted Across Borders: Digital Transnational Repression, Gender Dimensions, and the Role of Host States

Today PornHub introduced mandatory age verification for UK users - as demanded by the Government's new Online Safety Act. In other news, searches for "VPN" in the UK just went through the roof.

"A spokesperson ... would not comment on “specific individuals.” They also said that the Journal “has been and continues to be a fierce and vocal advocate for press freedom in Hong Kong and around the world.”" how do you spell hee-po-cree-see? hongkongfp.com/2025/07/23/w...

let’s ignore for a second how ridiculous this is. but how did they even know it was him? were there cameras in the toilet?

One response to Trump grabbing traveler's social media data is that this has been happening for years. That misses how much wider and more intrusive the new practices are, e.g. now DHS wants to review social media posts of green card holders applying for citizenship.

Great to know the Anthropic CEO thinks so highly of us. "The “media / Twitter / the outside world” is “always looking for hypocrisy, while also being very stupid and therefore having a poor understanding of substantive issues,” www.wired.com/story/anthro...

"Today marks the sixth anniversary of the 721 incident. At 3:45 pm, the police deployed tactical buses and assault vehicles outside Yuen Long Station" More police at Yuen Long MTR to suppress commemoration than responded to the attack. 😒

A global zero-day attack on common SharePoint server software from Microsoft has breached hundreds or thousands of organizations worldwide, including some federal and state agencies, we report at the Post. It started with a bad patch. Gift link: wapo.st/3TRrqcP

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Autocratic populism produces poverty and decline

For those who are in the Netherlands and like Wong Kar Wai, they are screening In The Mood For Love (25th anniversary) www.lab111.nl/movie/in-the...

Five years ago, I asked the question "what if trump got SNL cancelled". Turns out it is the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

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jimmy went from making jokes for a living to being a joke for a living.

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"Chinese students are familiar with surveillance, scrutiny, and expansive definitions of national security. They just didn’t expect all of that from the U.S. government, as well."

Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.

some light reading for a wednesday morning. (“trauma and truth: when language is inadequate”)

this is really the key sentence: “Paramount’s board was concerned that paying a higher amount to settle the case could increase the company’s exposure to potential legal actions from shareholders accusing them of bribery.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

Radio Free Asia has halted its Cantonese-language service after 27 years due to funding cuts by US President Donald Trump's administration. In full: buff.ly/GfJon48