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@greg_travis @Joshua_Ariza Of course, but keep it up.

@Joshua_Ariza No. The workers being fired are not being "replaced by AI" That's just the cover story

Am I the lone person who doesn’t believe that AI is the actual reason all these layoffs are happening

@iandenisjohnson It's certainly getting divine, purple-prose treatment; Pico Iyer on bhang lassi (no offense, Pico!).

It’s maybe a bit like: Wow, there’s a religion called *Christianity*, which spread to Europe, North America, and around the globe, transforming the world as we know it today! Amazing! 🤦‍♂️ 2/3

Am I missing something? As someone who writes a lot on religion, I’m always excited when people write anything about the topic, but this comes across extremely bizarre/orientalistic. 1/3 nytimes.com/2026/05/14/t-m… via @NYTimes

@bikhim Well, deservedly: one of the best books I've read in the past year.

Amid the stresses of global geopolitics, some good news of warmth & culture from Taiwan, as the book Taiwan Travelogue wins another major international literature award. Congratulations to both author Yang Shuang-zi & translator Lin King. ❤️🎊

@atmoio I don't see AI surviving a week in an average coat-throat corporate management environment.

"I don't think people managers will have any value in the future." Airbnb CEO said on a recent pod the people most screwed by AI will be people managers. Perhaps we had this all wrong. The future belongs to ICs. There is now more use for them than ever before.

@mhar4 @gregorylent @abcnews It's embarrassing. There's an air of cluelessness – and worse, defeat – haunting the hesitancy of every exchange of words ...

@gregorylent @abcnews erm, no. it's a miserable example of just how ignorant Australia's elite national media actually are.

In which the @abcnews Insiders panel suggests that in the Trump-Xi summit the US wanted China to open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for allowing China to take over Taiwan. One of those horrifying glimpses into the machinery of Australian public and media discourse.

@aurorachaang Based on four decades of tapering off interactions with fellow human beings on China-Taiwan affairs, I assert that what you say is very difficult to grasp.

that the US is an imperialist war-mongering terrorist state responsible for a lot of the world's problems doesn't detract from the fact that in the case of taiwan, china is the belligerent party a war over taiwan would be avoided if, you know, china simply didn't invade taiwan

Heading for some supplies ahead of ominous incoming in Phnom Penh:

@Rajprasong_News There's also the compelling novelty factor. Getting local for regular Chinese involves trying as many of the local snacks as possible and it's an inexpensive way of immersing in a foreign culture.

@Rajprasong_News Chinese culture 101. If they're not talking (or shouting) they have to be nibbling.

Wonder if they bug dry durian as well, frankly dry durian is so so taste! Mango tastes better dry! #Thailand #China

@Rajprasong_News Indeed!

Not entirely different than the Thais! #Thailand #China

@ted_huang @HistorianZhang Pujing, most definitely.

@HistorianZhang It's a bit hard to hear, but I believe Xi said Pǔ dīng (普丁) the way it's said in Taiwan instead of Pǔ jīng (普京) which is how Putin is officially translated in mainland China

Sometimes I wonder if these journalists think at all about what they're saying. In what world is that a taunt Have you seen how Starmer was led around the Forbidden City? Now that might actually be a taunt

Was it the Maotai? Sheer persistence? Other people joke it was so last-minute that Huang didn't even have the opportunity to bring any luggage with him.

@mryoung151 @DavidJoffe64 If there's one certainty here, a repeat Ericdemic is heading our way.

@DavidJoffe64 Done. For ppl who want to know what is going on. Register for this happening today

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@LazarusLong13 @unique_anonym @RichardCityNews As if – and I don't mean to be disrespectful – anyone could know when they've entered the 48 hours before the onset of symptoms. In the event of enhanced transmission on a global scale, that could be hugely problematic.

Definitely confirmed with this 48 hours here. Thank you, @unique_anonym. !!! (FYI @RichardCityNews ) 48 hours before start of symptoms and 48 hours after is the window to be most careful of. COVID was 1-3 days initially. x.com/i/status/20532…

Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario's CMOH, 'Andes Virus can be transmitted 1 day before symptoms....', at any time during the 7 week incubation period. We now only have 16 people being quarantined. 130 are doing home isolation. This one day ASYMPTOMATIC TRANSMISSION is NOT GOOD.

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario. a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose. the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant. he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests. Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time. GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead. Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on. Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for. then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company." GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing. then he splits the users by income. Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%. 18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time. so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for. it isn't recommending the best option for you. it's reading the room. and the room is paying. read this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

Well done, Xi, you've rekindled the Japanese military spirit.

@danaparish @KLHM2010 It's been floating around out there since relatively early in the outbreak. I think – and I may be wrong – since as early as January 2020 when those paying attention were going, How did this happen and how long has it actually been going on?

@KLHM2010 It was published and reported globally but not highly publicized

I don’t know what’s really going on with this craziness but I sure do remember when the first Covid superspreader took place at the Oct/ Nov 2019 World Military Games in Wuhan and seeded the world.

@the_dt33 @amelia_tweetz Look up hantavirus, Andes variant.

@amelia_tweetz Given the transmission rates? Hantavirus has no known human-to-human transmission mechanism.

I don’t mean to be…dark but. If everyone has hantavirus on that ship, or they’re most likely going to get it, due to the transmission rate The ship can’t dock.. isn’t everyone on that boat eventually going to die? So there’s just gonna be a ghost boat floating around like a giant Viking funeral? What is the plan here? We got rid of spirit airlines just in time to launch spirit cruise ships? Like what the fuck…?

For people like me who grew up in Taiwan and were taught how KMT ruled all of China, historical maps like this one (c. 1931) can be a bit jarring It’s a reminder that what we think we know about history is often very different from how things really were

I'd love to see the special Trump cognitive examination: stuff like, count to three and add one more number; spell Xi Jinping's surname backwards and what animal says moo? etc ...