Apple CEO Tim Cook has lived in fear of Trump all year. And now Apple TV+ has pulled a show about right-wing violent extremism after some criticism from MAGA social media accounts. open.substack.com/pub/telos/p/...

You utter fraud. You didn't handle a fucking thing responsibly as a journalist. Why would a camera cramp your style?

From Stat: A multipart series "American #Science Shattered" on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed #health #medicine discoveries www.statnews.com/american-sci... #CDC #NIH

a fun thing from a class I'm guest teaching tomorrow: which of these will turn out OK for you, and which will be a disaster? (they're all from a single Chinese city between 2010 and 2022)

As a thought exercise, is there a money-trench-dwelling, market-rigging, child-fucking greedwhore somewhere in federal custody that stands no chance whatsoever of being pardoned by this president?

BREAKING: Lizza drop of Olivia Nuzzi's alleged strategy memo for RFK Jr. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Everyone seems to forget the Lizza family's Gotti / Mafia connections www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

The transfer of #thailand's Bangkok Remand Prison chief has pulled back the curtain on how wealthy “Grey Chinese” inmates allegedly turned parts of the facility into a private paradise, complete with luxury perks, contraband and protected zones. #China #scam www.nationthailand.com/news/general...

There's something spiteful and contemptuous about the way Netflix refuses to give a halfway decent theatrical release to creatively ambitious films by brand-name directors. Like they're trying to make sure we all know that they hate doing it.

Breaking news: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s top aide and closest confidant — who also served as lead negotiator in talks with U.S. officials to reach a peace plan to end Russia’s war — resigned Friday amid a widening corruption probe.

Officials are scrutinizing how #bamboo #scaffolding and other construction materials, including plastic netting and foam panels, ignited and contributed to the rapid Tai Po fire spread. Approximately 2,500 bamboo scaffolders are registered in #HongKong. news.ssbcrack.com/deadly-hong-...

Spent a little time looking at CGTN's influencer studios. How they operate. Some tricks they use, and how it is helping shape the outlet's future digital strategy.

A new Chinese law regulating influencer speech has gotten applause from social media users and commentators who want similar policies in their own countries. But the truth is far from what's in the news and it's a sad reflection of our internet and media space. wenhao.substack.com/p/anatomy-of...

The incident of this type that sticks out in my mind are the several times in - I wanna say Hangzhou or Nanjing (maybe both) - that some park/mall rent-a-cops made a huge stink and detained groups of 20-sthing cosplayers for "Dressing Japanese." They were wearing hanfu.

British swimmer Simon Holliday became the first person to circumnavigate Lantau, Hong Kong's largest island, a distance of over 65 kilometres, in 20 hours and 56 minutes. The American Edie Hu closely followed, completing her own odyssey of 21 hours and 28 minutes. In full: buff.ly/t1uZrHn

Two noodle vendors "Chuang" & "Tiam" have been charged with Royal Defamation for putting up protest signs in front of their shops with called for the cancellation of section 112 (Lèse-majesté) & calling for the release of political prisoners. #FreeOurFriends

In the realm of getting PNG'd in utter disgrace, there are those who truly swing for the fences by accidentally posting troll content on main...

The @sltrib.com has been a beacon for large daily newspapers since going nonprofit. Now it's getting ready to drop its paywall. www.sltrib.com/news/2025/11...

Did MBS tell Trump he'd ordered Khashoggi killed, and did Trump say he was fine with it? Josh Marshall looks at the evidence and concludes that the answer to both questions is "yes." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/relea...

New at Media Nation: “Things happen” — and for one brief moment, The Washington Post rediscovers its soul. dankennedy.net/2025/11/19/t...

China underground church pastors arrested, face up to 3 years in jail, NGO head says – Reuters: ‘The remaining 18 detainees were formally arrested and charged with the crime of "illegally using information networks", said Bob Fu, the founder of Christian NGO ChinaAid’

this is obscene and evil

#China #influencer Pei Chung goes into high-end NYC restaurants dressed to the nines, racks up $100s in food, skips on the bill, then posts on #Instagram. Chung disappeared into the bathroom for 45 minutes before allegedly offering a mgr sexual favors to wipe her $146 bill nypost.com/2025/11/18/u...

Yes, your honor, we received and sold stolen goods, but if there was no market for such we wouldn't have done so. Our customers are to blame. We live in a golden age of shamelessness and grift.

From January through August of this year, #sovereign wealth funds participated in #AI venture deals worth $46.4 billion overall, with $43.3 billion (over 93%) of this funding going to US startups, according to #PitchBook data. #startups #VC pitchbook.com/news/article... #AbuDhabi #oman

Hard, fast rule from a veteran police reporter: Excepting anyone engaged in infiltrating a criminal conspiracy in an undercover capacity, any law officer who hides his identity from the public is a shitheel is doing vile shit and is, in fact, actively destroying the credibility of law enforcement.

#thailand's "new Chinatowns" are the wrong investments. "Ordinary Thais increasingly feel excluded from their own cities, while officials and developers continue to chase foreign capital with minimal oversight." asia.nikkei.com/opinion/thai... #immigration #china

For the first time in 26 years, #Asean has expanded its ranks, with #TimorLeste officially admitted as the grouping’s 11th member on Oct 26. Ex-Portuguese colony, island nation of 1.3 million, Timor-Leste aka East Timor applied for membership in 2011. www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...

Vorapak Tanyawong, Minister and ex-MD of KrungThai Bank, appears to have profited from China-#Cambodia #cyberscam compounds appointed to investigate. He's the 7th #thailand politician implicated in the pig-butchering scams. www.asiasentinel.com/p/vorapak-ta...

Half of the 136 US #newspaper closures over the past 14 months have been from independent, for-profit newspaper chains that own five or fewer for-profit papers, according to a new report. 38% of 8,891 U.S. newspapers that existed 20 years ago shut down. #media www.axios.com/2025/10/21/l...

What happens at Mardi Gras stays at Mardi Gras. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Yet amidst the #AI boom, the US continues bleeding #tech jobs—tech #employment is down 90k from its 2023 peak and has declined by more than 10k over past year. That is a massive slowdown from the 300k-per-year job growth pace seen in the 2022 tech boom. #california www.apricitas.io/p/california...

US government has seized more than $14bn in #bitcoin and charged Chen Zhi. founder of a #Cambodia business empire, the Prince Group, with allegedly masterminding a massive #cryptocurrency scam, which involved forced labour camps. #UK #cyberscams www.bbc.com/news/article...

#Signal Foundation on Friday said its end-to-end encrypted messaging #app will leave the #EU market rather than comply with a potential new regulation known as Chat Control. therecord.media/signal-calls...

Just look at the numbers. #china's extreme #EV overcapacity has ignited brutal price wars at home, causing profits to vanish. This is forcing Chinese #automakers to face an ultimatum: export or die. 7 million exports in 2025! newsletter.dunneinsights.com/p/how-china-... #BYD #chery #UK

there's some good coverage of the appalling human trafficking but much less of the high end stuff that's really what differentiates it. www.icij.org/investigatio... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Who among us hasn’t grabbed a pellet gun to go hunting for rats in an urban area near a synagogue during Yom Kippur services? brookline.news/brookline-ma...

The #China-owned company InfinitUs also used the fake profiles to amplify anti-American content created by #Philippines writers, including some who had received money from Beijing. Also created Ni Hao Manila, a media outlet designed to look Filipino-run. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p... #infowar

Reflections on #JaneGoodall from fellow scientists, Peter Singer, PETA's Ingrid Newkirk, International Fund for Animal Welfare. nautil.us/the-indomita...

Newsweek ran a list.

#China often engages in “intermediated #censorship” inside and outside its borders by delegating responsibility to internet companies, filmmakers and #art galleries to remove sensitive materials before problems arise, www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w... #thailand #myanmar #tibet #xinjiang

#Indonesia has suspended #TikTok's registration to provide electronic systems after it failed to hand over all data relating to the use of its livestream feature, a government official said on Friday. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

#NIH’s push to reduce the use of #animals in biomedical research. What to call these approaches is still up for debate. They’re sometimes referred to as “new approach methodologies,” or NAMs. Others use the acronym to stand for “non-animal methodologies.” www.statnews.com/2025/10/03/a...

Riyadh #comedy festival: Jeff Ross, Kevin Hart, Chris Tucker, Russell Peters, Sebastian Maniscalco, Louis C.K. and Jimmy Carr to be expected. Then you get Bill Burr, Pete Davidson, Aziz Ansari, Mo Amer ... man, they must be getting a lot of money. defector.com/all-your-fav... #saudiArabia

Chinese man tricked in #Myanmar scam escaped by swimming to Thailand. The compound sites operates under the control of the Karen Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) and has become a major hub for online #cyberscam operations targeting victims worldwide. www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2025/09...

#China is building a $168 billion #dam so massive it could alter the world's water systems as profoundly as climate change. Himalayan site on the Yarlung Zangbo River (aka the Brahmaputra) is in the one of the world's most seismically active zones. #tibet #india asia.nikkei.com/opinion/chin...

Read this investigation on US tech companies played a major role in designing and building China's surveillance state, by @dakekang.bsky.social and @yaelwrites.com apnews.com/article/chin...