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[笨 @2020benlang]

@RnaudBertrand Was meant to be a joke
https://t.co/UnwUru3xcw

[笨 @2020benlang]

It looks like the United States government needs an AI takeover. "missed an email warning" (by a UPS employee) is the lamest excuse one can find in history. An insult to the greatest president in history, President Trump.

https://t.co/VzsvvXbGYF

[笨 @2020benlang]

So the #RMB firmly took out 6.7 again after the recent Fed rate hike

[笨 @2020benlang]

But then, the tomorrow world Amodei and Altman (or Karp) promised us is at the moment only in their stock price valuation everyone else is also betting on.

https://t.co/2qPUkKDY0w

[笨 @2020benlang]

It looks like the United States government needs an AI takeover. "missed an email warning" (by a UPS employee) is the lamest excuse one can find in history. An insult to the greatest president in history, President Trump.

https://t.co/VzsvvXbGYF

[Bloomberg @business]

China managed to get a hold of parts from an F-35 stealth fighter jet after a UPS employee missed an email warning not to route the shipment through Hong Kong.

@wbenjaminson reports https://t.co/B2DewJRWhp

[笨 @2020benlang]

@jekavanagh @tshugart3 Shugart isn't engaging you on the lesson of Iran. He thinks everything is just cool

https://t.co/fEx56R6DOa

[Tom Shugart @tshugart3]

That distinction matters. “You can take Taiwan, but it will cost you” isn't denial. “You are unlikely to take Taiwan if you try” is.
I talked in testimony here a few years ago about why cost imposition is not a safe way to deter the PRC from assaulting Taiwan:

[笨 @2020benlang]

有多少都难说，“全世界无产者团结起来”，好遥远。今天大家的误解，是（西方）教育愚昧化的结果（包括华人精英在西方的教育）。

从这个角度来看，结合三体动机，人工智能加速也有他们的道理*。

【*】控制人工智能的资本精英团体绝对不是为了你我

https://t.co/2hE54ZE1mB

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

One of the great tasks of the left in our time is to rediscover the urgency of the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’. We need defences against the dirty attempts of the imperialist-aligned oligarchy to take food from the mouths of the poor and seize the land from under our feet.

[笨 @2020benlang]

中国人民大学国际关系学院李巍不久前到巴西智利调研，发现“身处巴西和智利，我们能够切身感受到这个地区上下对美国的崇拜”，气话的说就是没救了。比如巴西，生活水平不咋样，但生活方式处处模仿美国，从不吃苦（工人权力，处处法律）到举债享受，利益集团势力

https://t.co/MWjVqr1OIK

[Dajun Zhang @ZhangDajun]

巴西今天的选举结果证明，世界范围的右转正越来越明显，而且转变的速度和强度都在增强。

这不仅表现在巴西右翼总统候选人在今天的得票率超过之前的预期，以明显的优势进入10月25日的第二轮决选。

而且巴西右翼今天在议会选举中的卓越表现让他们实现了对参众两院的历史性控制。

可以说，巴西右翼正处于1985 年拉美第三波民主化浪潮以来最强盛的政治高峰期。

同样值得注意的是，这一波的右翼与之前的以大地主或寡头为主的利益取向型的右派有一个关键的不同，带有强烈的道德主义立场并非常反对左翼的意识形态。

[笨 @2020benlang]

更切确的说是资本主义契而不舍，最终实现反革命大业，包括征服（西方）民主机制和自由机制（包括言论自由媒体自由）。民主也许不是假象，但民主的实质一直与其理想大相径庭，人民从来就没有当家做主。

可以说拉美不是特殊现象，拉美左派不仅困难重重，希望

https://t.co/WVDN736i2y

[François Valentin @Valen10Francois]

South America has been swinging from left to right pretty wildly for a while now

Nada nuevo bajo el sol

[笨 @2020benlang]

@policytensor

[笨 @2020benlang]

What's wrong with Chinahawks?

Why do people talk about normal GDP and everyone nods along as if gospel?

Wright: "are you aware that the United States has outgrown China over the last five years?"

wtf

https://t.co/zYqPnuppTY

[Kyle Chan @kyleichan]

Adding my praise for this ChinaTalk interview with Logan Wright on his new book Broken China: https://t.co/zGDZD3TimF

[笨 @2020benlang]

@mranti 这不是抖音、豆包一年前开创的吗

[笨 @2020benlang]

not to stop.

It is a level of depravity that is very hard to imagine. Other than the humanitarian facade, it is not possible to believe the level of cold-bloodedness of the Biden team is lesser than that of Trump's.

We are facing multiple crisis. It is a depressing time.

[笨 @2020benlang]

Start reading «Crossing the Red Line»

A sense of despair just took over. It's more than a horror story. What's clear is the Biden administration completely disregarded all Palestinian lives and treated the #genocide as an inconvenient crisis to manage,

https://t.co/Lu1PflawXM

[Akbar Shahid Ahmed @AkbarSAhmed]

News from Iran & Lebanon increasingly resembles years of bloodshed in Gaza—civilian areas pummeled, international law ignored & a spiral of war endangering millions. Understanding why means understanding the US-Israel dynamic in one key period: under President Joe Biden, after October 7, 2023.

CROSSING THE RED LINE, the book I’ve been working on for more than 2 years, documents the Biden administration’s failures in Gaza & beyond. I conducted over 150 interviews to detail why the US enabled unimaginable violence against Palestinians and Lebanese, and ignored off-ramps toward peace – with Biden drawing a red line, yet still rushing weapons to Israel after Benjamin Netanyahu crossed it. He sent Israel a message of impunity and sent Americans a message of disdain and incompetence, helping Donald Trump win back power.

I’m thrilled to share that the book is now available for pre-order at https://t.co/1RBb0ppBPK.

These orders affect availability in bookstores, my publisher’s decisions about printing numbers + more. If accountability for Palestine matters to you, or if my investigative reporting has ever struck a chord, please place an order. To those who made this possible, in my life and at Norton: I can’t thank you enough. Onward to publication day: September 22!

[笨 @2020benlang]

is much better than that. Chinese Shahed is cheaper and more reliable. Can be built more heavy weight.

As former Deputy Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations said, if China had really helped, the battlefield would have been entirely different.

[笨 @2020benlang]

State media (wsj) reports that China is helping Iran in its war effort, and "Chinese companies .., had publicly advertised sales ... for sensitive electronics, including those found in the Shahed".

Well, kind of disappointing. You know, China⬇️

https://t.co/lxLdPfGofN

[笨 @2020benlang]

真不能怪小姐姐笑死，也来个cosplay

【耿爽：中国是个负责任的大国
如果中国真的向俄罗斯提供军事补给，战场的局势就不会是今天这个样子了
如果中国真的向伊朗提供军事补给，战场的局势就不会是今天这个样子了
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[笨 @2020benlang]

We will then be in the territory of a total nuclear war.

That is hellscape.

20/20

• My personal take: No #XiJinping is not looking to start a war, not anytime soon. Not the Chinese mind. Unless you all force his hands.

https://t.co/vwiLRIk5TC

[笨 @2020benlang]

"President Xi and I, we are on the same page."

https://t.co/ojlTXjqxJM

[笨 @2020benlang]

Though as I said elsewhere, promises are supposed to be broken, even treaties can be broken at a whim, that does not mean China will sit still. When it is in a position to demand, it will.

If you still have any delusion, to think "the purge"

https://t.co/ws33r3FIXn

[笨 @2020benlang]

resort to extremes. Today, the surplus is from "not one of us". You can understand they change their tones (of free trade). Oh "no trade is free".

It's not that they change the rule of the game. They do. But rules are supposed to be changed. Fairness or rules-based-order

[笨 @2020benlang]

a real war for decades. The organization, battleground deployment, multi-force, multi-theater operations (like C2/C3, ISR) of the PLA can be all just paper. But in this *war*, the war can be over when a 21-year kid soldier from rural China pressed a *launch button*.