🐥 John dEFR0G 🐧

Practitioner of flibberty jib / Preoccupied and dedicated to the preservation of the motion of hips / I have nothing to tweet, and I am tweeting it / Obviously

[🐥 John dEFR0G 🐧 @defrog]

Time to go.

[Tom Grundy @tomgrundy]

Again, a story no other English-language outlet reported on: https://t.co/HMo4dypgvi
We can't cover everything - we're tiny... But support Team @HKFP if you want to get a fuller picture of what's going on. 💪

[Webb-site @webbhk]

If HKU upholds freedom of speech then it is notable that the video of my High Table Dinner Speech "Freedom and the Future of China" at HKU Chi Sun College on 30-Oct-2018 has been taken down, along with all other such speeches. Anyway, the text is here: https://t.co/iM6YHyQUpH

[Rachel Cheung @rachel_cheung1]

Three recipients of National Endowment for Democracy funding told @thewirechina they were notified that NED had suspended payments to them because its own funding had been frozen. @eliotcxchen on the impact:

https://t.co/0Cf7ydfwBe

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

After its head and staff were taken away by police for questioning, and office raided, HKPORI is effectively shutting down itself gradually

[🐥 John dEFR0G 🐧 @defrog]

Somehow HKU's boilerplate generic response that doesn't even mention Webb's proposal or acknowledge what the actual question was about doesn't fill me with confidence about their alleged commitment to academic freedom and freedom of speech.

[Holmes Chan @holmeschan_]

David Webb said his proposal for a public transparency project was rejected by the University of Hong Kong.

HKU's response to @AFP:

"(HKU) is an institution dedicated to academic excellence, we will continue to uphold academic freedom and the freedom of thought and speech."

[Tom Grundy @tomgrundy]

Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek's answers about the Hong Kong protests in 2019, Taiwan's status and other topics echo Beijing's party line, according to test questions posed by HKFP. https://t.co/YwDuBdXeIU
Unsure why many top outlets aren't highlighting the censorship issue.

[William Yang @WilliamYang120]

Uyghur historian Tursunjan Hezim, the founder of the Orkhun website, which archived a vast collection of books and materials on #Uyghur history before it was shut down by Beijing, was sentenced to life in prison in 2022.

https://t.co/mzhSUqFVIm

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

"Jesus’ parents were also obliged to flee from their country and seek refuge in Egypt, to save the life of their Child: the Messiah, the Son of God was a refugee."

Pope Benedict XVI.
Angelus, January 16, 2011

Image: "Our Lady of the Journey" by @KLICONS

[Webb-site @webbhk]

OMG it’s the year of the Panda.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

DeepSeek's censorship is no match for the jailbreakers of Reddit

(from u/JimRice18)

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Enjoy wildly more expensive coffee to go with your nonexistent eggs.

[The Hong Konger @HongKongerWorld]

News Roundup | Beijing altered US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Chinese name, possibly to bypass sanctions and allow his visit despite a travel ban, rfa reports.

📖 Read more: https://t.co/29zcWIIG4h

#ChinaPolitics #MarcoRubio #USChinaRelations #Xinjiang #HumanRights

[Timothy McLaughlin @TMclaughlin3]

Centre for Refugees in Hong Kong says families waiting in the city for 10+ years to be re-settled in the US have been told they now cannot go because of Trump immigration policy.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

So, this erroneous take on a #DEI hire is synonymous with ‘not a white man’?

Hmm.

Exhibit A: Why We Need humane, strategic DEI policies and practices

[WIRED @WIRED]

Spearheaded by the president's own memecoin, people including Donald Trump are rushing to cash in on Donald Trump’s inauguration and second term in office. https://t.co/CdaheD2dlO

[Vox @voxdotcom]

When it comes to speeches, there are two Donald Trumps:

1️⃣ Teleprompter Trump, who reads a prepared speech and tends to be staid, sleepy, and insincere.

2️⃣Rally Trump, who riffs in front of a cheering crowd and is wild, aggressive, and more true to the person Trump really is.

[Timothy McLaughlin @TMclaughlin3]

Trump is going to pause this ban and look like a hero for doing it. No one in Congress is going to want to own it and TikTok will live on in the US. Not going anywhere.

[FactCheck.org @factcheckdotorg]

Meta is ending its partnership with U.S. fact-checking organizations, such as ours, but we’d like to reassure our readers: https://t.co/ecYJelC1HK isn’t going anywhere. Our journalists will continue to provide nonpartisan coverage of false and misleading political claims, helping you to sort fact from fiction, just as we have done for more than 20 years.

[Carmen Lau 劉珈汶 @carmenkamanlau]

In memory of Mr. Shiu Ka-Chun (1569-2025), a well-respected former Hong Kong legislator, social worker, former political prisoner, and founder of the prisoners' rights support group Wall-fare 石牆花, who passed away today (10 Jan, Hong Kong time) of gastric cancer. RIP.