The New Fabio Is Claude | Mei Fong The new Fabio is Claude. Almost 80% of hit horror story Shy Girl was AI generated. And the writer who foresaw this wasn't Asimov or Orwell, it was Roald Dahl. In 1953's 'Great Automatic Grammatizator,...

The new Fabio is Claude. Almost 80% of hit horror story Shy Girl was AI generated. And the writer who foresaw this wasn't Asimov or Orwell, it was Roald Dahl. www.linkedin.com/posts/mei-fo...

Why women over 50 are the future of work in the age of AI Women workers in this age bracket bring a kind of seasoned judgment that’s especially valuable when the environment is uncertain.

With AI upending future of work, organizations need more women over 50 expert at listening, mediating, anticipating needs, managing relationships. www.fastcompany.com/91505607/why...

Peter Arnett, Pulitzer-Winning War Correspondent, Dies at 91

RIP #PeterArnett one of the last of the riproaring reporters who blazed a trail reporting on the Vietnam War. In the latter part of his life Peter was a generous teacher and mentor to his journalism students in China. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...

Why Wikipedia Still Matters in the Age of AI and Grokipedia It was Friday, October 17, 2025, at the WikiConference North America in New York City. During the opening session, a man walked onto the stage with a gun and threatened to end his life after a dispute...

The last time I got an update on Andrew Lih, I was walking around Seattle with his equally formidable wife, my friend @meifong.bsky.social. Next thing I knew he was one of two people who disarmed a man with a gun at a @wikipedia.org conference. Andrew's related post is a must read: lnkd.in/grjXzhHV

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.

That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

Newsom addresses Trump directly: "Where's your decency, Mr President? Stop ... it's immoral. You're creating the conditions that you claim you're solving."

Booker: "We have a president who did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, & then when those people who viciously beat police & led to some of their deaths - therefore cop killers - were convicted, he pardoned them. So for him to be talking about responsive law enforcement is hypocritical at best"

JOURNALISTS IN LA or COVERING FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT:

Press rights groups are trying to coordinate responses to unlawful attacks by federal officers against journalists during protests. If you can help ID individuals in charge of operations (incident commander, etc.) & contact info please LMK.

China's Quiet Push in India - China Media Project Indian scholar Sriparna Pathak examines how China seeks to influence India's diverse media landscape through academic infiltration and digital manipulation.

How is language important? Media expert Sriparna Pathak discusses how China sponsors Indian journalists to visit Tibet, who return calling it "Xizang." The terminology normalizes not just China's sovereignty over Tibet but also Chinese territorial claims in dispute with India.

Good Morning, Good Luck. Watching live broadcast of Clooney’s #GoodNightGoodLuck Sunday morning Kuala Lumpur time with Malaysian friends. The state of press freedom & new McCarthysim is something that concerns the world, not just America.

The Hong Kong Human Rights Art Exhibition is showing at Taiwan's National 228 Memorial Museum. Curated by Kacey Wong, here's one look: letters written to political prisoners, which visitors are welcome to sit down and engage with. The tangible nature of this work deeply moved me.

Lebanon: Indiscriminate Israeli Attacks on Civilians Two unlawful Israeli strikes on the northeastern Lebanese town of Younine between September and November 2024, which killed 33 civilians, 15 of them children, were apparent indiscriminate attacks on c...

NEW: Two unlawful Israeli strikes on the Lebanese town of Younine between Sept. and Nov. 2024 were apparent indiscriminate attacks on civilians.

At least one of the attacks used an air-dropped bomb equipped with a United States-produced JDAM guidance kit.

"HERE AND NOW" —— A video work by Badiucao for Hong Kong 2025

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So great to catch up Kate! Lucky to have smart clever writer friends like you to inspire me

2024 was a year of reckoning, testing the integrity of democratic institutions and the principles of international human rights and humanitarian law.

With more rigor and urgency than ever, governments should respect and defend human rights. bit.ly/4gUvG5f

#Rights2025

RIP Jimmy Carter

WATCH: Scuffles at South Korea's parliament as special forces take control under martial law

South Korea's National Assembly in a midnight meeting votes to lift the president's surprise imposition of martial law. en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2024...

I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.

But not heritage foundation

CHILLING: Today US House of Reps passed H.R. 9495, which would allow authorities to remove tax-exempt status of any US nonprofit group it designates a terrorist supporting organization--with no clear definition nor requirement of evidence.

International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against h...

‼️#ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024

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My cartoon on Hong Kong jails 45 pro-democracy campaigners for subversion under China's national security law.
漫画《香港国安法与47人颠覆案》
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Delta CEO says the Trump administration will reverse government 'overreach' seen under Biden The chief executive of Delta Air Lines says the incoming Trump administration will be a “breath of fresh air” for airlines after what he called government “overreach” under President Joe Biden.

Delta’s CEO says Trump has promised to roll back a rule requiring automatic refunds on canceled flights and another requiring airlines to disclose the full cost of a ticket up front

Breaking: Arrest warrants out for Netanyahu and Gallant for #crimesagainsthumanity #Gaza. For more details check out @hrw & partners work on starvation, forced displacements, indiscriminate bombing of civilians, collective punishment, etc. www.hrw.org/middle-east/...

Singing the joys of Malaysian hawker food— rich, complex, and deserving of a million Michelin stars.

US: Californians Once Facing Life without Parole Give Back People formerly sentenced to life without parole (LWOP) in the state of California have flourished since they have had an opportunity to return home.

There's a false narrative that tells people to fear someone sentenced to life without parole.

But in a new report, HRW shows how people in the state of California have flourished since returning home. www.hrw.org/news/2023/06/28/us-calif...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court outlaws consideration of race as a factor in college admissions.

One of the more interesting roundtables at RightsCon: "Ni China ni Silicon Valley" — neither China, nor Silicon Valley — with Lat Am / Caribbean folks in a room rejecting the tech paradigms established by US tech capitalism AND Chinese techno-authoritarianism.

Hey BlueSky! Here’s hoping you have all the good of Twitter and non of the bad.