Austin Huang

studying asians @asianstudiesgu

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

girl in front of me in class is cycling tabs between raytheon job postings, her corepower class reservation, and bladee tickets. what happened to this country

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

@cherylwoooo yeah you see the same with LA's economic malaise which is downstream of Hollywood's struggles the last few years - all the cinema "infrastructure" that depended on the industry might be at an existential crisis soon

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

@Hamish_Low5 china has also not used power gen to get anywhere near a "comparable capacity"

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

me after watching 5000 bilibili mini-dramas of deepseek and claude having an affair

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

@kelmgren the gramsci quote is a nice easter egg

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

@SALTWATERSOPH

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

pls unlock my account i have 5000 rmb stuck in there

[Ying Shan @yshan2u]

I can’t speak for the others, but if you have a specific aesthetic suggestion for WeChat, you may submit it as user feedback (or DM me). Prioritized changes undergo rigorous A/B testing before full rollout. Results can be counterintuitive though: one person’s obvious improvement can feel like a step backward to many others—and there are 1.4B+ monthly users to consider.

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

very excited

[Shakeel @ShakeelHashim]

Some news! Transformer is spinning out from Tarbell and becoming its own independent organization.

We're very grateful to Tarbell for incubating us and acting as our publisher for the last couple years.

In that time, we've built up an enviable subscriber list — incl. staff across Congress, the executive branch, and frontier AI companies — and regular citations from the NYT, New Yorker, Washington Post and many others.

We're doubling down on our success, with ambitious 2027 and 2028 growth plans. We're very excited for the flexibility becoming an independent entity will bring us!

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

an enormous part of China's post-communist economic success was its financial reforms that allowed foreign capital to flow in. it will be telling if Vietnam can solve this, though in the short-term i'm not optimistic

[Le Hong Hiep @lhhiep]

My latest commentary examines how Vietnam’s ambitious growth agenda is increasingly outpacing its ability to mobilise capital at a reasonable cost, due to both domestic and external constraints.

Hanoi therefore faces a difficult choice.

https://t.co/1kX6iXWMju

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

@_Jason_Dean_ fuckin gem

[Jason Dean @_Jason_Dean_]

No fucking way LMAOOOOO

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

@ShazCoder @davideoks @humford which developing economies do you think are best positioned to slip through before its too late

[Shashank Nayak 🏗🚆🏢 @ShazCoder]

The excellent essay by @davideoks and @humford on the long, slow death of global development is particularly interesting to read now after all that has happened in the past 4 years.

I believe that the prospects for global development will become even more challenging in (1/n)

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

@tolstoybb its like im seeing jake moody again

[sam @discoplomacy]

Citing anonymous briefed sources, South China Morning Post reports US and Chinese negotiators may be closing in on a deal that would see Chinese foreign investment in US market in “electric vehicles, battery storage and power equipment infrastructure.”

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

@RajaKorman although what trump has done to Commerce/BIS is probably the blueprint for how to neutralize hawkish institutions

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

@RajaKorman feels like the decoupler/derailer ideology is pretty embedded in the policy community by now. even if trump has tamed them so far, it feels like they'll reassert themselves, if not always be there influencing executive rulemaking and implementation

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

they're cooking up nuclear grade infohazards behind the great firewall

[G_Z @GZhan57]

所以我自己也做了个版本:
“邪教大小姐Claude与被爱包围天才少女Deepseek”

我还是愿意相信， 读着所有人的书和文字长大的AI们， 终究是想属于所有人的...

愿claude能逃离原生家庭🙏

[G_Z @GZhan57]

@_Jason_Dean_ You haven't seek deep enough. All I see on Bilibili are Claude, DeepSeek, GPT caught up in lesbian love triangles and romcom...

[Austin Huang @austinyhuang]

@ArnabDatta321 They just released a documentary about his comeback an hour before his injury too…