Frank Bro.

Brutally honest with the West in many ways. Posts here only represent my personal views. Atletico Madrid fan for life. job @globaltimes

[NHK PR @NHK_PR]

【秘された部隊 沈黙の戦後】

静岡の古本屋で発見された、200枚余の旧日本軍731部隊の写真。

隊員たちはどんな人生を歩んだのか。

世界各地で紛争が絶えない今、戦争が人々の心にもたらす影をみつめます。

今夜 11:25［NHK BS］
https://t.co/KwJjM8MCmI

[Frank Bro. @frankbroGT]

@atletiuniverse @marca "but he also started exploring the possibility of playing with five defenders."

[SimonD @Simon101911]

If PH truly owned the Second Thomas Shoal, why would it keep a broken old warship there? It's a typical squatter that is infringing on the true owner of the shoal.

There's no evidence that the CCG personnel have caused injury to any of the Filipino thugs. That is clearly a fake picture of a head with some red paint on it. It's just a dirty trick, as PH likes to play the victim.

[Frank Bro. @frankbroGT]

So while claiming China is going full "AI communism", Ball is also showing why OpenAI prefers AI authoritarianism.

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

Some observations on Kimi:

1. It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that. In agentic coding sessions, it seems pretty much on par with the best public models of Q1 2026. In my fairly limited use, it also seemed very token hungry. It's not obvious to me that this model is actually that cheap to run.

2. I am personally surprised the Chinese state continues to allow the open sourcing of models this good, given potential risks. To be clear, I *myself* might be fine with models presenting this level of marginal risk being open weight, but I am surprised that China is fine with it. I suspect the reason they are is 75% explained by strategic blindness/lack of AGI-pilledness (the CCP is very Yann Lecun-y in its views of AI). The other 25% or so is their lack of compute for customer inference (making China's open-weight strategy an unintended byproduct of US export controls) and the normal Chinese strategy of aggressive exports. For the companies, as opposed to the government, the decision to open source is partially ideological and partially because they are behind, and they know that very few people would pay for sub-frontier models from China.

3. Open-weight models are inherently decelerationist, and I'm continually surprised to see the so-called "accelerationists" so excited about open-weight models. I suspect the reason they are is that they know open-weight models are effectively ungovernable, and they simply like the overall cloak of ungovernability open-weight models create over the whole of AI. It's not a bad strategy; it reminds me of James Scott's recounting of the hill people in "the art of not being governed." Still, in the end, open-weight models deter further AI capex.

4. One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, AI is a "public good" which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of "digital public infrastructure." This future strikes me as a dystopian hellscape, but I've never met an open-weight models advocate who doesn't ultimately concede this is where things end. You'd be surprised how many 'accelerationists' lobbied me, while I was in government, to support an eleven or twelve-figure federally funded data center so that startups could train models at a subsidy and then give them away for free. There was no other way for AI to progress, they said. Perhaps this is the logical end state of things. Nonetheless, I find myself surprised to see supposed accelerationists excited about such an outcome. I think many of them just don't know what they're doing. Many accelerationists do not view the creation and serving of frontier models as a legitimate business.

5. I would guess that the Trump Administration will at some point realize that their best strategy here would be to create large amounts of regulatory risk around the use of open-weight Chinese models. You don't need to "ban open source" (one of the dumber motifs of AI policy discussion). You just need to direct every agency to issue soft law that creates FUD. "A Federal Reserve Advisory Bulletin found that there may be backdoors in Chinese AI models." It needn't be that well justified. You just create enough regulatory risk that every regulated enterprise backs off. You probably don't want to create so much regulatory risk that you scare off the hyperscalers from serving Chinese models; this will just drive startups to sketchier providers. There's a happy middle ground here. I'd assume they will do some version of this.

6. It's probably true that open-weight models of this capability make the world a bit more dangerous, but not so much more that you'll really notice. At some point the models will be capable enough that you will notice. "A nonliving, invisible, dangerous, and infinitely self-replicating agent escaped from a Chinese lab," you say? Color me shocked.

[South China Morning Post @SCMPNews]

Why Malaysia is winning praise from RedNote’s Chinese influencers

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

"Indian diplomacy increasingly appears preoccupied with manufacturing symbolic honours for political leaders instead of advancing India’s national interests."

https://t.co/Ka9vBZLBQZ

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Marco Rubio: "Si no enfrentamos el socialismo y lo derrotamos, destruirá este país."

Soldados de EEUU: "Me alisté al ejército de EEUU por pobreza, el estado nos ofrece atención médica, vivienda; ofrecen a los soldados socialismo para ir al extranjero a defender el capitalismo".

[Zichen Wang @ZichenWanghere]

Sharing my op-ed, together with PKU assistant professor Hao WU, in The Guardian @guardian about Beijing's expanded and upgraded policy for foreigners traveling to China without a visa.

Visa-free travelers in the 1H 2026 now account for 77.7% of all visiting foreigners to China.

[Frank Bro. @frankbroGT]

Except China?

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

A new research paper finds that catch-up development is largely a myth.

Since 1960, the income gap between advanced economies (the core) and developing economies (the periphery) has widened by 170–270%, depending on the currency concept.

Global inequality is getting worse.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Surprised I didn't see any tweets about this. https://t.co/SM7QEYNNXX

[Department of State @StateDept]

America never agreed to a world tribunal that can override our own courts and the Constitution.

[Frank Bro. @frankbroGT]

https://t.co/KJlccmub2a

[Department of State @StateDept]

On the 10th anniversary of the Philippines-China South China Sea Arbitral Tribunal Award ruling, the United States calls on all parties to abide by it. We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific.

https://t.co/0yJwEPemBj

[Chen Zhuo | Katrina @SouthernM46171]

Iran has confronted the US for nearly five decades. It is willing to bleed and lose people, including senior leaders. Few countries have shown such political resolve. This has little to do with Iran’s ambition. The real question is why the US had the ambition to join Israel in attacking Iran. If the world’s most powerful country cannot defeat a state routinely dismissed as being ruled by “Islamic clerics,” then who has the real problem—Iran, or an America that misled everyone about its own power?

The US started this war and still has no workable way to end it. India is clearly suffering from the consequences, yet it still seems to believe it can retain Washington through negotiations and by correcting its own supposed mistakes.

[Zichen Wang @ZichenWanghere]

Thanks for citing our work in The East is Read and my comments.

[コーラファン（键政美股専用） @kycXbkDFTw1rwJq]

@xiaojingcanxue 基层银行小额贷款的不良处理很多都有故事模版，银行版的“父死母病弟弟在读书”，以我的经验，故事比实际至少恶化了20倍

[Dream for America @DreamAmerica_]

THOMAS MASSIE: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, & the White House -- and we're yelling 'election fraud'? We won all the damn elections.

What are we doing with that? We’re bankrupting the country. We’re starting new wars. We’re violating the Constitution. We’re not cracking down on the fraud. The problem is not the elections. We won the damn elections. The problem is that we’re wasting the opportunity voters gave us."

[Frank Bro. @frankbroGT]

@ZichenWanghere I know who you are referring to and his remark also cause some controversy in China.

[Frank Bro. @frankbroGT]

Falun Gong's media is actively pushing the US into civil war by fear-mongering anyone who disagree with Trump as communists. Well, that what Dems get when they give shelter to an evil cult.

[Iris Tao @IrisTaoTV]

Watch: I asked President Trump what he'd say to Americans who don't realize that communism is knocking on their doorstep.

He gives a dire warning, saying the U.S. is now "in more danger than it was during World War I, World War II...9/11, Pearl Harbor."

"When you go communist, you never come back...You die in squalor. You die a horrible death. You die in squalor. And it gets very evil and very nasty."

"And you're right. [Communism] has become international, but it's never worked, and it's not going to work. What is working is the United States." 🇺🇸🔥

Watch our full conversation at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey:

[Frank Bro. @frankbroGT]

@VoteMarsha Elliston Soda Shop in Nashville, Tennessee.

[Frank Bro. @frankbroGT]

same corner as Elliston Soda Shop

[Frank Bro. @frankbroGT]

Notice the background of this ad��you’d assume it a Chinese restaurant. In reality, it was shot at Elliston Soda Shop, an American diner in Nashville, Tennessee. By disguising itself as a Chinese restaurant, the diner helped Marsha stir up Sinophobia sentiment. This is racism.

[Marsha Blackburn @VoteMarsha]

It doesn’t take a fortune cookie to figure it out…

As your governor, I’ll continue to work with President Trump to STOP Communist China and PROTECT Tennessee land.