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My latest @thejamestownfdn.bsky.social on PRC #Consular Pop-ups in Canada
📍105 gray zone activities in 22 cities across 11 provinces
📍All PRC consulates & the PRC Embassy in Canada are involved
📍Sub-national #UnitedFront work targeting most provincial capitals
⚡️x 8
jamestown.org/consular-pop...
📍105 gray zone activities in 22 cities across 11 provinces
📍All PRC consulates & the PRC Embassy in Canada are involved
📍Sub-national #UnitedFront work targeting most provincial capitals
⚡️x 8
jamestown.org/consular-pop...
December 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
My latest @thejamestownfdn.bsky.social on PRC #Consular Pop-ups in Canada
📍105 gray zone activities in 22 cities across 11 provinces
📍All PRC consulates & the PRC Embassy in Canada are involved
📍Sub-national #UnitedFront work targeting most provincial capitals
⚡️x 8
jamestown.org/consular-pop...
📍105 gray zone activities in 22 cities across 11 provinces
📍All PRC consulates & the PRC Embassy in Canada are involved
📍Sub-national #UnitedFront work targeting most provincial capitals
⚡️x 8
jamestown.org/consular-pop...
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Secretary for Security Chris Tang:
⚠️ The protective nets' fire-protection performed up to spec, but the foam boards installed on windows surrounding the buildings were highly flammable.
The extreme heat caused the windows to burst, allowing the fire to enter buildings
⚠️ The protective nets' fire-protection performed up to spec, but the foam boards installed on windows surrounding the buildings were highly flammable.
The extreme heat caused the windows to burst, allowing the fire to enter buildings
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Secretary for Security Chris Tang:
⚠️ The protective nets' fire-protection performed up to spec, but the foam boards installed on windows surrounding the buildings were highly flammable.
The extreme heat caused the windows to burst, allowing the fire to enter buildings
⚠️ The protective nets' fire-protection performed up to spec, but the foam boards installed on windows surrounding the buildings were highly flammable.
The extreme heat caused the windows to burst, allowing the fire to enter buildings
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A must-read account of a Wang Fuk Court resident who escaped the deadly blaze: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/28/i...
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
A must-read account of a Wang Fuk Court resident who escaped the deadly blaze: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/28/i...
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When people from Hong Kong / who are familiar with Hong Kong tell you it is not the bamboo but the corrupted system is responsible, listen. Don't shut your ear because "it is difficult to understand" or it is different from your reasoning. 2/
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
When people from Hong Kong / who are familiar with Hong Kong tell you it is not the bamboo but the corrupted system is responsible, listen. Don't shut your ear because "it is difficult to understand" or it is different from your reasoning. 2/
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A few takeaways from my reporting Hong Kong lecture:
Context is everything.
Talk & listen to local people (not just your taxi driver).
But always consider their safety.
Give credit where you can.
Know what you don’t know.
Acquiring In-depth local knowledge requires time, experience & humility.
Context is everything.
Talk & listen to local people (not just your taxi driver).
But always consider their safety.
Give credit where you can.
Know what you don’t know.
Acquiring In-depth local knowledge requires time, experience & humility.
I hope the Western media uses the same standard of investigation and reasoning of the Grenfell Tower fire when they explain the catastrophic residential blocks fire in Tai Po, Hong Kong. 1/
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A few takeaways from my reporting Hong Kong lecture:
Context is everything.
Talk & listen to local people (not just your taxi driver).
But always consider their safety.
Give credit where you can.
Know what you don’t know.
Acquiring In-depth local knowledge requires time, experience & humility.
Context is everything.
Talk & listen to local people (not just your taxi driver).
But always consider their safety.
Give credit where you can.
Know what you don’t know.
Acquiring In-depth local knowledge requires time, experience & humility.
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International media, you can do better than this.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
International media, you can do better than this.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
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Thanks to this bussin new #rstats 📦 by @hadley.nz,
you can now yeet rows and vibe_check columns in your data frames, no cap
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
you can now yeet rows and vibe_check columns in your data frames, no cap
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.
hadley.github.io
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Thanks to this bussin new #rstats 📦 by @hadley.nz,
you can now yeet rows and vibe_check columns in your data frames, no cap
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
you can now yeet rows and vibe_check columns in your data frames, no cap
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
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10 protestors see prison sentence time reduced by 2 - 6 months by HK appeals court, judge says original sentence lengths excessive; upholds verdict for 2 found guilty in trial.
November 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
10 protestors see prison sentence time reduced by 2 - 6 months by HK appeals court, judge says original sentence lengths excessive; upholds verdict for 2 found guilty in trial.
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I’m going to keep mentioning how heavily people leaned on the “actually, poor Black people don’t go to elite schools, we need more investment at the community level” argument when affirmative action was before the court, and how fucking silent they are now.
Pell Grant Cuts Linked To Drop In Black Student Enrollment Rates
seattlemedium.com/black-studen...
seattlemedium.com/black-studen...
Pell Grant Cuts Linked To Drop In Black Student Enrollment Rates
Inconsistent Pell Grant funding and state budget cuts contribute to a nearly half-million decline in Black student enrollment at U.S. colleges over the past decade.
seattlemedium.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I’m going to keep mentioning how heavily people leaned on the “actually, poor Black people don’t go to elite schools, we need more investment at the community level” argument when affirmative action was before the court, and how fucking silent they are now.
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Republicans used a massive propaganda bullhorn to exploit the electorate's fear and ignorance about trans people
the answer to that is compassion, media reform, education, and aggressively defending ALL civil rights.
The answer is not validating those attacks like a complicit jackass
the answer to that is compassion, media reform, education, and aggressively defending ALL civil rights.
The answer is not validating those attacks like a complicit jackass
gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
October 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Republicans used a massive propaganda bullhorn to exploit the electorate's fear and ignorance about trans people
the answer to that is compassion, media reform, education, and aggressively defending ALL civil rights.
The answer is not validating those attacks like a complicit jackass
the answer to that is compassion, media reform, education, and aggressively defending ALL civil rights.
The answer is not validating those attacks like a complicit jackass
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October 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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1/ NEW REPORT: “We Say You Want a Revolution” - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime. We call it PRISONBREAK. Keep reading to find out why.
THREAD 🧵
THREAD 🧵
We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime - The Citizen Lab
We investigate a coordinated network of inauthentic X accounts that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in Iran. The network has been active since 2023, but increased activity during th...
https://citizenlab.ca/2025/10/ai-enabled-io-aimed-at-overthrowing-iranian-regime]
October 3, 2025 at 3:32 AM
1/ NEW REPORT: “We Say You Want a Revolution” - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime. We call it PRISONBREAK. Keep reading to find out why.
THREAD 🧵
THREAD 🧵
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People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
www.science.org
October 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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IMHO, the posters for After the Hunt look like ads for Marks & Spencers' autumn range.
October 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
IMHO, the posters for After the Hunt look like ads for Marks & Spencers' autumn range.
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Sinai Foundation for Human Rights & @forensicarchi.bsky.social released a groundbreaking report today detailing, for the first time, details on a mass grave in North Sinai where the Egyptian military buried hundreds most likely killed in extrajudicial killings. sinaifhr.org/show/627
مؤسسة سيناء لحقوق الإنسان - Killed in Cold Blood
A new report of the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights titled “Killed in Cold Blood”, which reveals for the first time, the existence of a mass grave in North Sinai that was overseen and concealed for ...
sinaifhr.org
September 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Sinai Foundation for Human Rights & @forensicarchi.bsky.social released a groundbreaking report today detailing, for the first time, details on a mass grave in North Sinai where the Egyptian military buried hundreds most likely killed in extrajudicial killings. sinaifhr.org/show/627
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Whatever you're doing, take a few minutes to distract yourself with this. Great to see people twist the whole concept of what a drum machine can be.
10,000 Drum Machines is full of wild, weird, free Web music devices - CDM Create Digital Music
Forget what you know about drum machines. You're about to open up a browser tab and listen to a drum machine made with a bouncing DVD logo, or a game of Minesweeper, or seismic data, De Bruijn sequenc...
cdm.link
September 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Whatever you're doing, take a few minutes to distract yourself with this. Great to see people twist the whole concept of what a drum machine can be.
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the China studies version of this is a story about the leadership that you hear from somebody in DC who vouches for it because they got it from a source in China who read about it on a Taiwanese tabloid who copied the story from the Epoch Times who made it up in New York state.
September 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
the China studies version of this is a story about the leadership that you hear from somebody in DC who vouches for it because they got it from a source in China who read about it on a Taiwanese tabloid who copied the story from the Epoch Times who made it up in New York state.
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there's also a belief that something you've heard in person is more 'authentic,' even when the person you've heard it from is repeating something they heard at a conference from someone else who heard it from someone else who got it from a New York Times column.
It’s not just DC but elite America in general.
CEOs, VCs, or bankers all get their information from the same elite rumor mills: information reliability is based on the prestige of the person more than anything else.
The average CEO will pay more weight to a Jeff Bezos offhand remark than experts
CEOs, VCs, or bankers all get their information from the same elite rumor mills: information reliability is based on the prestige of the person more than anything else.
The average CEO will pay more weight to a Jeff Bezos offhand remark than experts
September 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
there's also a belief that something you've heard in person is more 'authentic,' even when the person you've heard it from is repeating something they heard at a conference from someone else who heard it from someone else who got it from a New York Times column.
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The race to achieve “sovereign AI” is overlooking critical security vulnerabilities in the very data centers that power the AI models, Seungmin (Helen) Lee writes.
The Neglected Security Gaps in the Global Race for Sovereign AI
Global data center demand is expected to triple by 2030, but crucial security vulnerabilities are being overlooked.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The race to achieve “sovereign AI” is overlooking critical security vulnerabilities in the very data centers that power the AI models, Seungmin (Helen) Lee writes.
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Almost back to where it was when they changed the methodology in 2023. Safe to assume it would be several points higher if using the old approach.
China youth unemployment nears 19% as new grads struggle
August data shows economy's lack of capacity to handle surge in educated workers
asia.nikkei.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Almost back to where it was when they changed the methodology in 2023. Safe to assume it would be several points higher if using the old approach.
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For Americans who want a play-by-play of what an authoritarian transition looks like in the 2020s, I strongly recommend catching up on what’s been happening in national security-era Hong Kong.
One of the first shots fired in the ongoing crackdown was cancelling a comedy show for “insulting police.”
One of the first shots fired in the ongoing crackdown was cancelling a comedy show for “insulting police.”
September 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
For Americans who want a play-by-play of what an authoritarian transition looks like in the 2020s, I strongly recommend catching up on what’s been happening in national security-era Hong Kong.
One of the first shots fired in the ongoing crackdown was cancelling a comedy show for “insulting police.”
One of the first shots fired in the ongoing crackdown was cancelling a comedy show for “insulting police.”
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Don't forget that the Democratic party is responsible for this. It happened due to a bill coauthored by Democrats, passed under Democratic control, and signed into law by a Democratic president.
It started as Trump's idea, but that just makes it all the more embarrassing that Dems fell for it.
It started as Trump's idea, but that just makes it all the more embarrassing that Dems fell for it.
I wrote about how Democrats and the press aided Trump's obvious five year quest to transfer ownership of TikTok to his technofascist buddies under the pretense of security and privacy concerns:
TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill
Donald Trump has successfully used xenophobia and fake concerns about propaganda and national security to get what he’s long wanted: TikTok (and its fat ad revenues) are poised to be sold off…
www.techdirt.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Don't forget that the Democratic party is responsible for this. It happened due to a bill coauthored by Democrats, passed under Democratic control, and signed into law by a Democratic president.
It started as Trump's idea, but that just makes it all the more embarrassing that Dems fell for it.
It started as Trump's idea, but that just makes it all the more embarrassing that Dems fell for it.
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Harper's letter signatories: please take a bow
September 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Harper's letter signatories: please take a bow