You know what would be amazing, if Vance can negotiate an agreement where Iran doesn't enrich above 3.67% (far below weapons grade); gets rid of 98% of its stockpile of uranium; has weekly inspections by the IAEA; and commits to all of this for at 10 years. Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.
lmao
PLA declares live-fire exercises in Yellow Sea today, interpreted here as a slap in the face for Cheng Li-wun’s claim to be able to reduce tensions with her trip to China. I suspected this would be the case, the PLA doesn’t really seem to know to hold off
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honest and vulnerable. powerful words by masha. in solidarity.
Screenshot of a tweet by Rep. Ted Lieu stating that U.S. military law prohibits war crimes, including strikes on civilian infrastructure that cause disproportionate harm. The tweet warns that service members must disobey illegal orders and could face prosecution by a future administration if they commit war crimes.
Rep. Ted Lieu isn't backing down.
Iran won’t close the Strait
Iran better open the Strait
Iran has 2 days to open the Strait
Iran has a week to open the Strait
NATO, open the Strait
I’ll bomb your critical infrastructure if Strait isn’t opened
I don’t care about the Strait
No ceasefire till Strait is open
fantastic overview by the reuters team on the damage beijing’s insecurity has done to hong kong and its people in the last few years.
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my level of stress has crossed a threshold where i think it would be funny if trump attended the birthright citizenship oral argument and scotus incoherently ruled in his favor 6-3. cortisol levels so high that i can't stop lolling about all my family members in danger. wouldn't it be funny tho
A Dutch court has ruled Grok must stop generating non-consensual undressing images of Dutch residents worldwide and child sexual abuse material in the Netherlands, with €100,000-a-day fines for non-compliance, reports Ramsha Jahangir.
The KMT party chair will meet with Xi. This could be huge not just for the upcoming local elections, but also KMT internal politics for their 2028 presidential nominee.
All eyes and ears on how Taiwanese voters receive this meeting and its outcome.
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Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...
It’s always interesting to see which subjects Meta will refuse to do content moderation on because “free speech,” and which content moderation the CEO will volunteer to do in advance to curry favor. In this case it was “naming a DOGE employee”
LinkedIn China
China used fake LinkedIn profiles to spy on NATO, EU: security source
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just updated my iphone to the latest ios version 26.4. it feels much snappier.
fantastic article by @brianhioe.bsky.social on how the western left, and specifically jacobin, needs to be more reflective and critical, and reminding us what actual solidarity might look like.
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Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.
Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity in Iran from February 24, 2026, to March 8, 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's connectivity normal most of the time period, with a sharp drop on the morning of February 28. The drop in connectivity aligns with nation-scale internet blackout imposed during joint military strikes by the US and Israel. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 1% and 1%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red horizontal arrow labeled 'SHUTDOWN', indicates the period of disruption and includes the NetBlocks logo in the lower left corner.
⚠️ Update: It's Sunday morning in #Iran where the internet blackout continues into its second week, with the incident entering its ninth day at hour 192.
Though technical infrastructure remains operational, only a heavily controlled domestic intranet is available to residents.
if you're in taipei, come join @thinkpanzer.bsky.social and me for a chat on how to improve journalist safety.
it's the first event im organising as a newly minted prof at the graduate institute of journalism at national taiwan university.
register here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
"He says the federation will work with the Chinese Society for Science and Technology Journalism to obtain assurances for the independence of conference planners and participants."
These societies and organisations are GONGOs, funded and run through a system of state-led patronage.
“You are going to ‘promote’ journalism in a place that works actively against it”
why i think it doesn’t make sense for the world federation of science journalists to hold their conference in china.
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A court on Thursday used Hong Kong's national security law to jail Kwok Yin-sang for eight months, in the first case against a family member of an activist living abroad, and wanted by authorities. n.pr/4qVSANO
thank you for the kind words.
of course it is not perfect. it’s work in progress, a project, like dewey said how democracy is always a work in progress, one i am excited to join.
also, the food is pretty damn good here.
but also, i am no (longer?) naive. i have the battle scars to show for it. i feel hopeful about taiwan, as a place where we can be kind to each other, where we believe the truth is part of the solution, rather than the problem.
i feel hopeful about this opportunity, the place, and the people here. i know, i know. hope, hope, hope. another friend said she was concerned, that she thought i was wildly optimistic or even overly romantic about taiwan. she might be right.
what would 24 year old me think of me, if he could see me now? i imagine he would think that i’ve done some pretty cool things so far. i also hope that he is proud, that after all that has happened, we are still here, grinding it out, not ready to throw in the towel just yet.
i struggle with mandarin chinese, my 4th language. all this makes me think of the times my therapist would stop me if she sensed i was going into a spiral of self-pity. she would shift my perspective, by asking what the people i feel safe with and care about me, would say to me, if they saw me now.
i am not going to lie, there are moments where i feel really behind in life. here i am, 48 years old, starting all over, again. wondering if my body and mind and spirit will hold up. uprooting yourself, moving to a different city, culture, country, continent, is f* hard.
