LiPo Ching

Photojournalist and Filmmaker

[Wayne "D22-soso" Chiang @D22_soso]

Wow, Just got announced a @BNBuzz Book of the Year Finalist. Thank you @Joemattonpoker for twisting my arm to write Betting on Yourself: Winning in Business, Poker, and the Age of AI!

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[LiPo Ching @LiPoChing]

@EricBalchunas I’d recommend watching the movie it was based on, Infernal Affairs.

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@NickDiFabio1 Amazon

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@Urs__01 The eye

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Why does Trump like Xi and Putin so much and despise our democratic allies so much?

Thoughts? Theories?

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Here is Trump in 2011 calling Obama “stupid” for hosting the Chinese president and claiming that he wouldn’t give him a dinner.

“The president of China came a few months ago and we gave him a state dinner. Now, when people are screwing you, you don't give them state dinners.”

Fast-forward 15 years and Trump is giving President Xi a state dinner while China is helping Iran target American service members.

Who is the stupid one now?

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Bill Clinton: "Some days I can hardly believe what is happening in this country that I love so much. People in charge have created one set of rules for themselves and another set for everyone else. They've weaponized government to settle personal scores, prosecute enemies, stamp out free speech. They've even made the federal government a new profit centre for themselves and their allies."

[LiPo Ching @LiPoChing]

@markminervini @adamkhootrader And yet, there’s a 10% chance that AI can destroy humans in the future.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Barack Obama breaks his silence on Trump's attempt to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House and mocks him for being unable to "take som criticism."

This is what a real President sounds like...

“You do not have, as far as I can tell, any substantial group of Republicans who are standing up and saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, because we don’t want, if there’s a Democratic president, to be banning Fox News,’ or whatever other outlets that are going off on Democratic Presidents,” Obama said at an event in Massachusetts.

Last Friday, Trump barred CNN, Politico, and MS NOW outlets from the White House for supposedly spreading "fake news," which in practice just means honest, unflattering coverage of his disastrous administration. They have since filed a lawsuit to overturn the ban.

“You can’t do that and say that you are still living in a democracy,” Obama said, adding that “the President of the United States can’t take some criticism.”

“This should not be a partisan issue. I want to underscore this. This should be something that rises above partisanship,” Obama added.

Of course, in a perfect world both parties would be equally committed to defending the Constitution. But we don't live a perfect world. We live in a world where the Republican Party has mutated into a full-blown cult that prioritizes Trump's desires over the law, morality, and basic human decency. Right-wing politicians aren't condemning Trump's attacks on free speech because they're terrified of upsetting his base.

“The free press, the idea that the government cannot discriminate against, or pick on, or bully, or exclude somebody because they don’t like the criticism that’s being leveled at them, that is a foundational issue,” said Obama.

“And so, I am not surprised that the current president wants to ban newscasts that are critical of him, because he’s that guy," he added.

“This one’s actually in the Constitution. It’s pretty straightforward, right? Free speech, there’s a reason why it’s the First Amendment,” he continued.

“The issue is not the fact that (the ban) ultimately will be overturned. The issue is the brazenness with which any president could act like this, and the people in his or her own party not say, ‘No, you cannot do that. That’s not acceptable.’ That lack of guardrails is what I’m most concerned about," Obama added.

Please ❤️ and share if you fully agree with Obama!

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Can we just go ahead and name Kaitlan Collins Time’s Person of the Year already?

[LiPo Ching @LiPoChing]

@JonathanLittle @RealKidPoker I’d take 100k, although still probably better odds of beating dnegs than winning the lottery.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017:

"I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."

[LiPo Ching @LiPoChing]

@DavidSacks The media reporting was spurred by what’s being said on X

[Miles Deutscher @milesdeutscher]

Crazy to think that in 2026 we've had:

• Anthropic's head of safeguards quit, warning "the world is in peril" (Feb)
• OpenAI dissolved its own mission alignment team (Feb)
• Unrestricted AI usage for the Pentagon (causing several researchers to quit)
• Several AI models escaping sandbox testing (Since ~Q2)
• 1,100+ frontier-lab employees signing a letter begging the government to pace AI development (Jul-Aug)

And today yet another top researcher saying this.

[Evan Hubinger @EvanHub]

Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.

[BenNyc @ben_nyc]

"Ground Zero"

[໊ @buffys]

we don’t talk enough about this

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Hegseth has taken out more American generals than Iranian ones.