Toady Babirusa

Oh darling, please don't be obsessed with my majestic tusks. Father of the Computer Science Professor Yi Ma.

[Toady Babirusa @ToadyBabirusa]

If you wonder where I stand: a nonchalant anarchist, anti-fascism, anti-authoritarianism and anti-capitalism.

[👑 @kingchefyaoi]

🏀 #bronsteph

[Toady Babirusa @ToadyBabirusa]

需要杨永信教授正义制裁了。

[isaac chen 🔻 @isaaclichen]

@PredebutVTuber @noname2095_ A very confused and even, dare I say, mentally ill individual. She posted this right before blocking me, declaring that the pro-PRC LGBT people today are just like the LGBT people who supported Hitler in the 1930s.

[Chris Brunet @chrisbrunet]

Scoop: Chinese Professor Sues Southern Methodist University (@smu) over Discrimination by Indian Professors

"The Accounting Department granted tenure to 100 percent of Indian-origin candidates, while denying tenure to 100 percent of non-Indian candidates."

link in comment 👇

[Toady Babirusa @ToadyBabirusa]

如果习近平能把你也nen死，我终生会成为习粉不说他一句坏话。

[Kuangyi (Guagua) Bo @BoKuangyi]

Fourteen years since we last spoke.

Your face is still distinct in the photos I revisit, your hair still black.

Time has made our status quo quotidian and each Mother's Day seem a little less stormy.

I cycle through the set scenes we have.

The walk-up in Dalian, where you completed your first book, only for me to destroy the floppy disks. You rewrote without reproach.
The flat in Beijing, where you sat up all night to finish my Lego, Air Tech Claw Rig, 1992, because I could not forgive you for leaving. By morning your eyes were bloodshot.
Our earthworm site in the Sea, where you sat and watched as Ba dug.
The lily pond in Beidaihe, where we lapped around with Laolao, and marched as we sang.
Then falling into you, after a homesick month and eighty-seven unanswered emails at boarding school.

Your world stills and mine moves.

Each day of your absence adds to the weight of iniquity.
What you have endured has surpassed 黑眉爷, and is catching up to 白眉爷, who each walked their own long march to exoneration.

Let the world have its capricious judgements.
As you told me: as long as I know the truth, it is ok.

[你法我笑的Dictator Yang🌻🍉🏳️‍🌈📄🐚 #pray4jade @Y_Wenli]

There are people who’ve lived in China their entire lives who are incredibly ignorant of China’s borderlands/internal colonies

Saying this as a foreigner is just one step above “I know what I’m talking about cuz I have a Chinese wife!!”

[Toady Babirusa @ToadyBabirusa]

@badiucao 不会的，都是scalable的，永远是越大越好。

[Toady Babirusa @ToadyBabirusa]

The best way to stop bullying is to bully the bullies as the biggest bully.

[DW 中文- 德国之声 @dw_chinese]

【新加坡将以“鞭打”惩戒校园霸凌 适用9岁以上男学生、最重鞭三下】
新加坡教育部4月15日公布新的校园��霸凌指引，未来学生若涉及霸凌、网路霸凌，最重将可能面临被藤条鞭打三下的处分。教育部长李智陞5月5日在国会说明，只有校方考量犯行严重性、“所有其他措施均不足以应对”时，才会施以鞭打，且须经严格评估后由校长批准、授权教师执行；校方也须评估学生的成熟程度，以及鞭打是否有助学生从错误中学习。

李智陞指出，鞭打措施目的在于让学生理解行为后果，且“绝不会单独实施”，将搭配辅导等修复措施，包含持续关注受惩戒学生的身心状况与后续表现，并透过辅导支持其反思并重新融入校园。他指出，研究显示，当规范明确、后果具实质意义时，有助学生作出更好的选择，也能降低霸凌事件发生。

鞭打处分将适用9岁以上男性学生。针对议员质疑为何仅男学生适用鞭打，李智陞援引新加坡《刑事诉讼法》指出，法律禁止对女性施以鞭刑；但他强调，女学生若涉及霸凌，仍会依情节轻重接受留校、停学、调整操行成绩等处分。

新加坡教育部此次公布的反霸凌措施，也包括统一全国学校的惩戒准则，例如留校、停学、鞭打及调整操行成绩等。所有学校须在今年底前依据新指引制定反霸凌政策，并自2027年起设立供学生与家长使用的线上通报平台。此外，教育部也正密切关注AI生成猥亵影像等新型态网路霸凌问题，并将与网路安全委员会合作处理相关案件。

人权团体长期批评新加坡在校园与司法制度中保留体罚。联合国儿童基金会（UNICEF）、国际特赦组织等多个国际组织，均反对体罚儿童，认为此举可能损害儿童身心健康，甚至加剧行为问题。世界卫生组织（WHO）去年发布的报告指出，“压倒性的科学证据显示，对儿童体罚不仅伴随多重伤害风险，且毫无益处”。

曾任新加坡心理卫生学院急诊与危机护理部主任的精神科医生Jared Ng则向亚洲新闻台投书指出，若未有效约束霸凌行为，部分青少年可能变本加厉，甚至出现更严重的偏差行为。 “不追究后果并非仁慈，它既伤害受害者，也伤害加害者。”他认为，透过修复措施，理解霸凌成因、引导学生正视行为后果，是避免惩罚流于形式的关键。

新加坡鞭刑（caning）体罚制度最早由英国殖民政府于19世纪引入，可再分为司法、监狱、军事、感化院、学校、以及家庭共六种类型。

[Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) @ShriramKMurthi]

I feel sorry for either this person or their PhD advisor for them to say "The thing that still matters —> taste <— was never really taught". This is *most* of what my advisor taught me; the rest (semantics, coding, etc) was just hard work; he answered questions and gave feedback.

[Toady Babirusa @ToadyBabirusa]

感动

[程益中 @YizhongCheng]

我昨天去纽约长岛Optimum前台办事。事毕，浓发棕眼的年轻客服笑问：“你是中国人吗？”我答：“是的，我来自中国广东。”
他点开自己的手机，向我出示锁屏照片，一位面貌姣好、身材娇小的亚裔女士。“很漂亮可爱，她是你妻子吗？”我问。他说：“是的，我的妻子来自���国台湾。“
他解开外套，指着圆领衬衫上的五星红旗，用结结巴巴的中文说：“我爱中国。”
我笑着用英文说：“The one you love is a Chinese woman.”

[Toady Babirusa @ToadyBabirusa]

破桥又开始搬运洋舔支企业家的东西了，看来共惨党还是关少了。

[小径残雪 @xiaojingcanxue]

Arnaud Bertrand：中国首次阻断美国长臂管辖的严重性。（机翻）

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

Name the most overrated movie of all time.

I’ll start:

[sui ☄️ @birdabo]

everybody calm down.

i got this.

[Toady Babirusa @ToadyBabirusa]

@Y_Wenli 这位上一条转推是24年黑吗喽。。。

[Toady Babirusa @ToadyBabirusa]

@Y_Wenli 大外宣文化水平较低理解下，当然可能也就是个便宜AI。

[Byron Wan @Byron_Wan]

University of Oxford postgraduate student Catherine Xu, the Oxford Union’s President-Elect for Michaelmas 2026, has been removed from the position and permanently barred from holding office at the Society after an Election Tribunal found that she committed electoral fraud by orchestrating a scheme to impersonate legitimate voters at the Hilary Term 2026 election.

Xu was found to have distributed union membership cards to non-members to vote on polling day.

Tribunal documents state that Xu was found guilty of procuring “the impersonation of members of the society at the poll … by supplying an instrument and/or the Oxford Union membership card … for the purpose of enabling other persons to cast ballots at the poll in the names borne on them”.

During the tribunal, which sat on April 25-26, Xu was found to have handed out a stack of union membership cards on polling day to people not entitled to vote and told them to cast ballots in other members’ names.

A number of students were caught on Mar 6 voting using the identification of other members by Leo Zhou, a candidate for the secretary’s committee, who confronted them.

They were reportedly voting in favor of Xu and other candidates of Asian origin, the document stated.

Yolanda Liu, a candidate for the secretary’s committee, was found to have received six cards from Xu and handed at least one out on polling day.

The pair discussed the process of “finding people” on 🇨🇳 WeChat, while Xu told Liu to be “especially careful”.

She also sent a voicenote to Liu a few days after the election in which she asked whether she still had “the cards”, which the tribunal found to be “particularly damning”.

Celine Li also wrote a witness statement, in which she claimed she had given a membership card belonging to Lisa Chung and told to vote on her behalf for Ea Ventura Marty and Xu.

A total of seven charges were brought against Xu, including threatening and intimidating another student named Zhou “with the purpose and/or effect of deterring him from reporting electoral malpractice to the returning office”.

Following the outcome of the tribunal, Xu has been disqualified from the Hilary Term 2026 election, and from nominating in any current or future election in the Union. She has further been “permanently barred from holding any Office, Appointed role, or official position in the Society”, “permanently barred from sitting on any Committee of the Society, with the exception of Consultative Committee”, and “suspended as a Member until the end of 9th Week Trinity Term 2026”.

Liu’s membership has likewise been suspended, and she has also been disqualified from the Hilary Term 2026 election.

Xu denied the allegations levelled against her and dismissed them as “political drama”.

She said: “I strongly reject the findings against myself and deny that any conspiracy existed. I am deeply concerned that the decision appears to rely on evidence I believe to be fabricated or materially unreliable, yet imposes an extraordinarily severe and disproportionate penalty.

“The union has seen increasing political drama and decisions based on contested evidence in recent years, and such a verdict risks encouraging more anonymous and fabricated allegations. This case must receive strict appeal review, with full procedural fairness and transparency.”

A re-poll to choose the president is to take place on Monday May 11. 

Xu was elected to the role in March, winning ahead of Liza Barkova, Gareth Lim and Hamza Hussain. In her manifesto, she had proposed a new access membership fund, moving procedural motions away from Thursday debates and inviting more female speakers.

Before the election, Xu had said: “The union is way bigger than its scandals, but the perceived dysfunction keeps drowning out the good. I want to help fix that.”

https://t.co/KvEU89NYWt

https://t.co/QLfN70oqTK

[Toady Babirusa @ToadyBabirusa]

你球为数不多几个比川普还坏的人锐评川普。

[小径残雪 @xiaojingcanxue]

纽约时报对右翼名嘴塔克·卡尔森的采访内容简述。

[Toady Babirusa @ToadyBabirusa]

@badiucao 就算是真的也基本不会，因为目前是这些都是scalable的，所以模型还是越大越好。

[Mathieu @miniapeur]

NeurIPS authors: remember to write papers not just for the reviewers who barely skim them, but also for the chatbots who actually read them and write the reviews.

[Toady Babirusa @ToadyBabirusa]

@JentseHuang Nobody cares.

[Toady Babirusa @ToadyBabirusa]

@badiucao 黄人确实不care这个。