Researching China isn’t easy. With many foreign sites blocked, journalists depend on domestic platforms. Even under tight controls, Chinese apps are the main window into the country. Chu Yang’s latest guide explains how to research Xiaohongshu (Rednote). www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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People should read.
I'm tired of people not reading.
Please, if you can, PLEASE, read! Read everything, but especially fiction! Read comics!
It will help you with empathy AND make you smarter.
Please, read.
Congrats to everyone who fell for this just because Anthropic said it lol
Flash was everywhere. Now it's gone. Sound familiar?
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“Love and kindness are the most punk thing you can do right now," David Byrne quoting writer / actor John Cameron Mitchell at #Coachella. “He’s right. Love and kindness are a form of resistance.”
Amen.
Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
🔥 Incredible footage of Ukrainian Yak-52 crews in action. Pilots of the 11th Separate Army Aviation Brigade “Kherson” clear the skies of Russian drones.
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image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.
FBI's yearly cybercrime report is out
Cybercrime losses passed $20b last year
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This is pretty alarming. Based on reports they also targeting Microsoft, Google and Apple. This will only escalates to more serious situation 😳 this is not seen in the us news
graphic novels do count as books and being mad at your kids for liking them more than prose books is how your kids learn to hate reading
this is turning out to be one of the onion's all-time classics
new github update automatically enables scraping your code for copilot 😍☺️
change it under settings > copilot > features > privacy
archive.ph is something that people still don't know about
Do your part to educate others, everybody 👍😊👍
The update, which was added to Wikipedia’s guidelines late last week, cites the tendency for AI-written articles to violate “several of Wikipedia’s core content policies” as the reason for the ban.
This is why I unapologetically tell the economics students to change their major to something respectable.
This whole concept in LOTR is one of my favourite parts of the whole book. “Evil fucks up because evil people fundamentally cannot imagine that others are not motivated by the same things as them” is another theme that feels relevant right now
You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything?
That’s how the internet was.
it's not nostalgia if the past was objectively better
This is a class action waiting to happen
ICYMI for this.weekinsecurity.com: I wrote about the rise of age verification laws around the world, and why requiring you to upload your government-issued ID to access apps, websites, and VPNs is a really bad move for the internet, and puts *everyone's* security and privacy at risk.
I'm very lucky that @minimus.io considers the work I do for Kubernetes to be part of my job. That isn't true for most maintainers. Projects are failing or suffering attacks because of a lack of contributors from companies built on top of them, and that's *everyone's* problem.
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40-Year-Old Not Active Enough To Realize Body Falling Apart
40-Year-Old Not Active Enough To Realize Body Falling Apart theonion.com/40-year-old-not-active-e...
older i get the more obvious it is that even a modest sliver of power over another person completely shreds the human soul. not sure what's to be done about that "haha" 👍
Each stick acts as a leaf spring. By weaving them, they store elastic potential energy through the woven & bent tongue depressors. Once they are triggered potential energy converts into kinetic energy. #science #physics #nature #energy #cobraweave
