"Users can choose between light, medium, and heavy sabotage modes depending on how closely their boss is observing the process, and the agent rewrites the material into generic, non-actionable language that would produce a less useful AI stand-in."
Heavy sabotage mode, let's go
is it too soon to say that @chactivist.bsky.social has another 🔥 piece for Jacobin
Incredible "it isn't because of racism" sequence from KMT Legislator Huang Chien-pin
It's in the article: "Willingness to work in China has steadily declined from 7.9 percent in 2016, to 8.3 percent in 2017, and to 7.7 percent in 2018, ultimately dropping to just 1.6 percent last year, the lowest in the survey’s history."
There were 430k workers in China in 2012, that's a whole lot for a country of 23 million
"willingness to work in China hit a record low of 1.6 percent"
Can't overstate what a huge change this is from the boom years of the 00s/early 10s
Beijing is structurally incapable of enticing anyone in Taiwan other than economic elites, they have nothing to offer middle/working class people
MR has unfortunately completely lost the thread
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He could have gone for cheap shots (there were plenty of opportunities) but David took the time to write a thoughtful and super informative rebuttal to the drivel in Monthly Review.
Worth a read even if you didn't see the original
Absolutely egregious behavior by Fantuan in NYC, forcing workers to front them money to cover food orders.
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It takes a refined palette to appreciate fugu
Loved this article, including its account of very niche forms of antisemitism:
"...the mythologised ‘Fugu Plan’, which imagines a Jewish-Japanese collaborative plot against the Chinese people to establish a ‘Jewish state’ in Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War"
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As an Ithaca resident, I just learned there are 160 bees for every person in my city
"The baseline pension for retirees who lacked formal employment—a category that includes almost all farmers—is 163 yuan ($24) per month."
Endless billions for AI and robotics while the generation that built the miracle is forced to toil until their last breath
Very insightful piece
"The cost is paid by the children inhaling radioactive dust around Baotou, by the Cuban families navigating a blackout, by the sailors stranded in the Gulf... Furthermore, resource wars require authoritarian consolidation at home to manage these social costs."
Proud to be a member of the AAUP
"the rise in births in 2024 was only 'surface-level,' boosted by the handouts and the fact that it was the Year of the Dragon"
What if they made every year Year of the Dragon, it's a moonshot but Xi can make it happen
"Chinese tech giant Alibaba has brought in a business veteran to lead its AI division as part of a strategic shift towards models it can monetise."
Monetize socialistly, of course
It's also classic dictatorial disavowal, like we have to insist that Chinese people don't attack Chinese people precisely because we know the opposite to be true.
Like Trump saying America has never been more respected.
Totally, the whole history of modern China is an endless cycle of Chinese people making war on each other (obv with some foreign imperialism too).
With respect to Taiwan, I always read the slogan as a threat, like if you say you're not Chinese it's fair game for us to attack you
This partnership has been a boon for BYD and its EU market access, but the upside for workers is questionable www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Orbán has been Beijing's man in the EU and Hungary has received far and away the most Chinese investment of any country in Europe merics.org/en/report/ch...
There is only one army in the world that is actively preparing to start a war in Taiwan and they could just not do it
