Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social

Lit. Professor in Taiwan || 🇹🇼+🇺🇸 ☕📜 || “much madness is divinest sense” || “子不語怪力亂神” || capricious

[Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social @ronentity]

Why no tsunami warning for Taiwan after the 7.8 earthquake in Philippines?

[Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social @ronentity]

@OunkaOnX Brave young lady

[Reuters @Reuters]

The number of Chinese students sitting the country's national university entrance exam, due to begin on June 7, has dropped sharply by 450,000 to 12.9 million from a year earlier, as more teenagers opt out of pursuing academic degrees https://t.co/qan3bZgDkU

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔UC Berkeley's computer science department just posted its worst failure rates in years. 35.3% of CS 10 students got F's in spring 2026, up from under 10% in prior semesters. Professor Dan Garcia says the primary driver is a "vast increase in academic dishonesty" through LLMs. Students use AI to complete assignments, never learn the material, then fail exams. His office hours, once full, are now empty.

My Take
Companies are firing experienced engineers while the pipeline that produces new ones is being gutted by the same technology. Students use AI to bypass the hard part of learning, show up to exams without the understanding, and fail. One professor discovered a student's linear algebra class had an "open AI" policy for homework and exams. That student then couldn't do basic linear algebra in the next course.

Both ends of the workforce are eroding at the same time. Senior engineers are getting cut to fund AI spending. Junior engineers are graduating without the skills because AI did their coursework. And the companies spending trillions on these tools haven't connected those two facts yet.

Hedgie🤗

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose graphic novel series “Persepolis” illuminated the struggles of Iranians during the Islamic Revolution, died at 56. https://t.co/WQWxavBm5l

[Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social @ronentity]

Cocaine bear spotted

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@LeighPfeif59911 @MarcinTyc Because they know it’s not true—he works for the oligarchs who got him elected and uses his office to make vast sums of corrupt cash…Also, the journalists know he will ban them from press conferences and likely cost them their jobs.

[Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social @ronentity]

@billmoran73 @MarcinTyc They are afraid for their jobs because they know he’s a petty and very vindictive little snowflake….When he says “you shouldn’t be working at CNN” he really means: “watch, i’m going to get you fired for making me uncomfortable.”

[Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social @ronentity]

@thehill The Epstein Class and the media machine that protects them still have the balls to criticize the “moral authority” of progressive candidates? The pedophile-protecting GOP and their paid apologists must really think we’re idiots.

[Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social @ronentity]

Merrily entering the era of Philip K Dick’s precrime (from Minority Report) #AITogether

[UnveiledChina @Unveiled_ChinaX]

Beijing is officially weaponizing artificial intelligence to punish citizens for thoughts they have not even voiced yet.

A bombshell New York Times report has unmasked a terrifying evolution in digital tyranny, detailing the shift from punishing dissent to predicting it before it happens. Analyzed by researchers at Vanderbilt University, a massive data leak from the Beijing-based tech firm Geedge Networks reveals that China is actively developing AI-driven predictive surveillance to neutralize political risks. The company has deep ties to Fang Binxing, the infamous father of China's Great Firewall, and is moving far beyond passive internet censorship into the realm of preemptive control.

The leaked documents show that these new systems utilize Large Language Models to synthesize data at scale. By aggregating real-time internet browsing histories, tracking physical movements via cell tower records, and mapping out social media connections, the AI builds comprehensive citizen profiles. It then generates political risk scores to flag individuals who might become critics of the government, allowing the state to intervene based entirely on inferred intent rather than actual actions.

This dystopian toolkit is already being exported as a commercialized service to authoritarian regimes aligned with Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative. The leak exposed that Geedge’s flagship product, which functions as the Great Firewall in a box, was deployed by the military junta in Myanmar to locate pro-democracy activists, block social media, and trigger regional internet blackouts that led to targeted arrests. Similar mass surveillance deployments capable of deep packet inspection and tracking citizen reputation scores have been uncovered in Pakistan and Kazakhstan.

Fortunately, the leaked files also reveal a critical vulnerability in Beijing's digital panopticon. United States export controls on advanced semiconductors have successfully starved Geedge of the high-end computing power required to scale these predictive AI models. Forced to pivot to less efficient tech due to chip shortages, their progress has been significantly slowed. This serves as a stark reminder to Western policymakers that maintaining tight semiconductor sanctions is the primary line of defense keeping this predictive surveillance grid from expanding globally.

#UnveiledChina #PredictiveSurveillance #DigitalAuthoritarianism #GeedgeNetworks #GreatFirewall #Geopolitics #AICensorship #NationalSecurity

[Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social @ronentity]

李老師加油!

[Li Yuan袁莉 @LiYuan6]

He Gave Chinese Voices a Megaphone in Exile. Then the Threats Followed Him Home. Teacher Li built one of the world's most-read Chinese-language social media accounts from Italy. Then strangers began appearing at his door. My profile of @whyyoutouzhele https://t.co/F9Hb8eBygq

[Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social @ronentity]

Everyone in this country is high as a kite on a new drug called AI

[TaiwanPlus News @taiwanplusnews]

COMPUTEX 2026 is the largest ever. Under the theme "AI Together," TaiwanPlus explores the exhibition and what attendees can expect as Taiwan takes center stage in the global AI landscape.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

'AI simply can't replicate it'

Despite the decline of the publishing industry, self-publication and handmade "zine" magazines are growing in popularity in Japan, reflecting the country's enduring love of paper in the digital era

https://t.co/ArOY1SGjPR

[Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social @ronentity]

@RazvenHK Pretty sure that’s what they are really for in Taiwan also.

[Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social @ronentity]

@AFP In Taiwan we have thousands of these dens, but most of them are empty most of the time…I’m no investigative reporter but my theory is that they are 100% likely to be run by the mafia as money laundering operations.

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@TheJFreakinC @LongTimeHistory Coming soon to an election station near you: masked, armed, untrained intimidation squads.

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@DOWResponse @Harp00n707 @SecWar Did this peacock just say “no peacocking”? lol

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NEW: Xinjiang has the highest detention capacity in the world, according to FT analysis - enough space for almost 1 in 40 people in the region - more than five years after the Chinese govt announced the camps had closed.