People who talk breezily about the U.S. orchestrating "regime change" in China don't have the slightest grasp of even modern Chinese history, much less anything earlier. They live in a fantasy world of DC cocktail circuits.

Reading a summary of a book is cheating. A decent bluffer should be able to pretend to have read a book on the basis of reading the blurb, hearing about it at a dinner party, or just guessing from the title - most of us were doing that for years before this newfangled nonsense came along

Why do people keep pretending that there was some unbridgeable barrier between the United States and the People's Republic of China until three days ago? There are absolutely massive cultural and economic connections between the two countries, and have been for decades now.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

I am here once again to complain about the enshitification of Google search. Maybe AI will kill us, maybe it’ll save us but meantime, it has taken one of mankind’s greatest accomplishments of last 40 years and ruined it.

There is huge variation in the strength of member stations. A KQED can lean on our community (and our staff) and survive. Small stations will be in really serious trouble.

Meyerson's thesis: corporations & companies have become global, beyond the reach of any national gov't; consequently, inequality has soared & people are unhappy; but people blame national gov'ts, punish democratic leaders, & look to autocrats for solutions. Grim.

prospect.org/world/2024-1...

i think it is very cool that the political press was basically uninterested in the fact that vance is openly adjacent to/pals around with far-right and Nazi-sympathetic maniacs

Interesting article about the clash in corporate culture at 7-Eleven, where the Japanese founding family want to take control rather than sell. They value customers more than shareholder value. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/b...

This is why you don’t settle defamation lawsuits by public figures.

Questions today about vaccines might just be a product of their success. Here’s what people should know about six once-common illnesses that vaccines have contained for decades.

to add to to this: I want journalists to know there are countless “content creators” using your reporting, misrepresenting it, erasing your existence & profiting from it. i found this podcast that literally PHOTOSHOPPED MY NAME OUT of my own fucking story. are we going to take this shit lying down?

A quote that a veteran Chicago reporter once told me be about newspaper owners that always sticks with me “No one ever bought a bicycle that they didn’t want to ride.”

An eventful five years at @kqednews.bsky.social!

“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx.com in @gizmodo.com gizmodo.com/silicon-vall...

On today's episode of The Bay: San Francisco's hotel worker strike, which is on its 80th day. www.kqed.org/news/1201748...

Vlado Chernozemski, who assassinated King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, belonged in his youth to a club that was devoted to a game of regicide.

In the game, known as "chess," contestants subtly maneuver into a position that allows them to topple the opponent's monarch.

unrestricted pardon power is a good example of how the US, by virtue of being one of the first countries to abandon monarchy, retains far more elements of monarchic authority than most nations