Omega Quay

@VanessaTaiwanH @CarlZha There are different costumes in China at different eras

@CarlZha But the costumes look like nothing to do with China.

Chinese photo vlogger spotted a Wasian couple who weren't happy with their ancient Chinese costume photoshoot. She decides to dress them as Xiang Yu 项羽 and Consort Yu 虞姬. I wasn't prepared for the ad insert.

An anonymous developer built a library so big it made Elsevier's legal team cry. It's called Anna's Archive. This got 99 million books and papers. Every shadow library on earth mirrored and searchable in one place. Domain takedowns bounce off it. It just moves to a new URL and keeps going. Here's the story behind it. In November 2022, US law enforcement seized Z-Library's domains and arrested its operators. The largest ebook library on the internet was gone overnight. A pseudonymous developer going only by "Anna" had already seen it coming. She had spent months as part of an anonymous group called the Pirate Library Mirror, quietly making full copies of every major shadow library before they disappeared. When Z-Library fell, she had the entire thing backed up. Days later, Anna's Archive went live. Here's what makes it unkillable. It does not host a single file. It indexes metadata and links to third-party mirrors. Legally, there is nothing to seize. Technically, there is no central server to shut down. The entire codebase is open source. The entire dataset is distributed via torrents and IPFS, a decentralized file system where data lives across thousands of nodes simultaneously. If every domain gets blocked tomorrow, anyone can spin up a new mirror in minutes from the same data. Italy blocked it. Germany blocked it. Publishers sued it. The US Trade Representative put it on their notorious markets list. It added new domains and kept going. What you get for free: → 99M+ books and academic papers → Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, Internet Archive all mirrored in one search → No account required → No subscription → Download via IPFS, torrent, or direct link → Works across multiple mirror domains when one goes down Elsevier charges universities $2 billion a year for journal access. A single anonymous developer with a pseudonym and a backup drive just made that business model look embarrassing. 100% Opensource. annas-archive.gl

Yet another striking illustration of just how ideologically rigid the West has become compared to what we used to be. This was the obituary The Economist published for Mao in 1976 - at the height of the Cold War. Read this part: "In the final reckoning Mao must be accepted as one of history's great achievers: for devising a peasant-centred revolutionary strategy which enabled China's Communist party to seize power, against Marx's prescriptions, from bases in the countryside; for directing the transformation of China from a feudal society wracked by war and bled by corruption, into a unified egalitarian state where nobody starves; and for reviving national pride and confidence so that China could, in Mao's words, 'stand up' among the great power." Show this text to any Economist "journalists" today - without telling them it's from their own paper - and they'd reply: surely it's "CCP propaganda" 😏 Yes, incredible as it may sound, there used to be a time when Western journalists could assess a geopolitical rival honestly and respectfully without being accused of being a traitor. And this honesty was in no small part a key factor why the West won the Cold War. Today we call honest assessment "propaganda," and we harass, smear, and blacklist people for it. And we're puzzled why the West is in steep decline. Truth matters.

@manhhung_ai @kinglinzhuhui it was from a debate. Robert was arguing against that pov, he in this clip was summarizing what he thought his opponent was saying.

@kinglinzhuhui Tough quote to verify. Wonder what exact context that was from?

For someone who still believes in the American dream, you're just too naive. 🤡US diplomat in China: 'It has nothing to do with systems, beliefs, or culture. We must stop China from succeeding, even if it means plunging China back into poverty.'

@guai_xia @kinglinzhuhui wasn't the host, it was his opponent. Robert Daly was summarizing what he thought his opponent was saying and arguing against that

@kinglinzhuhui 主持人的反问才是点睛之笔：这样做何错之有？🤣🤣🤣

@JLocke1632 @kinglinzhuhui if people actually watched the whole debate, they would know Robert Daly was summarizing his opponents pov, and was arguing against that.

@kinglinzhuhui The speaker, Robert Daly, works for think tanks. He does not represent US government policy and is NOT a "diplomat".

@PandaFlow520 @kinglinzhuhui Robert Daly was actually arguing against that. He couldn't believe that's what his opponents were proposing. He gets a bad rap because of this video

@kinglinzhuhui This guy is exactly like that jealous coworker with red-eye syndrome. Instead of working on improving himself, he’s obsessed with stopping anyone who’s better than him. Truth is, stepping on others won’t make you look any taller.

@LinguisticArk @Anubis3214 @AA_Gabriel1111 Tibetan Buddhism has always had religious practices that were frowned on by most everyone else. Their musical instruments are made from human bones and skin. These artifacts are stored in western museums

@LinguisticArk @Anubis3214 @AA_Gabriel1111 ok, i c your point. Don't agree, I'm more from the pov, that we are all human. Some great aspects, and some bad aspects. Imagine if the world was always vegetarian, and one day someone cooked a chicken. Everyone would think he's a monster.

Dude in the sauna telling me he was in Himalaya last week. I ask him how it’s been. He tells me it was dark. I ask him why. He tells me Epstein shit been going on 100x with the Dalai Lama in the Himalaya. I ask him: no shit? He: Yeah…

@LinguisticArk @Anubis3214 @AA_Gabriel1111 are you saying the current dalai lama living in India is sort of clone? He was chosen by the 9th panchen in 1936. He's the same person, unless you think all Tibetans are liars?

@Anubis3214 @OmegaQuay @AA_Gabriel1111 Yes, and that isn't the same dude. And the Panchen isn't here to testify to that.

Would have never expected Will.i.am to make an actual decent philosophical point on the meaning of freedom in China (vs the vile Bill Maher...) but here we are 👇 Worth mentioning that the meaning of freedom also evolved quite dramatically in the West over the recent past. Now it overwhelmingly means individual freedom but it wasn't always the case. If you re-listen, for instance, to Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous "Four Freedoms" speech, 2 of his 4 freedoms - which to him constituted the definition of "freedom" - were actually collective freedoms: namely freedom from fear and freedom from want. How free are you really if you don't have security, if your streets are so unsafe you don't feel you can walk freely outside? And how free are you really if you're poor in a society where doing anything costs money? You are technically free to do anything but, practically-speaking, you can't: you are in fact a slave of your material condition. Same thing in France, hence our national motto: "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité". Freedom/liberty was always meant to be balanced against collective interests: equality between people and fraternity towards your fellow citizens. Or you could be speaking about literal personal freedom: can a country like the U.S., with by far the largest incarceration rates - the most people in cages - of any big country (350% higher than China, per capita: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c…) be genuinely considered the "land of the free"? Which is why Maher's points - that "freedom is freedom", that the U.S. "generally has more freedom than others" and that the Chinese are "too brainwashed" to understand freedom - are so painfully shallow and so ironic. They betray a man who has obviously never put a single thought into the concept, and chose to swallow his own country's official propaganda straight from the firehose. Will.i.am, on the other hand, went to China, looked at the facts beyond the caricature, and arrived at his own thoughtful conclusion. That's what freedom of mind actually looks like.

@LinguisticArk @AA_Gabriel1111 Panchen Llama was supposedly "kidnapped" in 1995. Dalai Llama was enthroned in 1940. How can China travel 50 years into the past?

@AA_Gabriel1111 That isn't the original Dalia. When the Panchen Llama got kidnapped. It turned the whole cycle on its head. This was done on purpose, for the Chinese government to take their power away. Then corruption ensued.

@AmericanHades84 @tyleraloevera ok, if you say so. As long as you are consistent for every other politician that supports Israel.

@OmegaQuay @tyleraloevera Ok so maybe death for what she did is overboard, but she did use her influence on behalf of a foreign nation. Prison sentence, then denaturalization/deport in my opinion.

Death penalty to all American politicians with loyalty to a foreign nation.

@chiky_handlr not true, Trump has longer legs, but Xi has a longer torso. Here the Chinese tried to make Trump look taller sitting, but Trump took away the pillow. x.com/perde_arkasi1/…

The sofa cushion was clearly custom-made. Xi Jinping’s seat was obviously higher than Trump’s, even though Trump is about 10 centimeters taller than Xi. The Chinese Communist Party puts enormous thought and calculation into details like these.

@ThatRetiredDude @tyleraloevera @FBI @Kash_Patel Spies usually send private US information outside. She didn't do that. She published an article about China.

@OmegaQuay @tyleraloevera @FBI @Kash_Patel I don't like spies, I also don't like Patel... what now?

@ThatRetiredDude @tyleraloevera @FBI Yes, yes. Keep deep throating @Kash_Patel , while burning down your first amendment rights. So very smart

@OmegaQuay @tyleraloevera No... @FBI ... found another one for you.

@ThatRetiredDude @tyleraloevera that's what she did. Publish an article about China

@OmegaQuay @tyleraloevera Okay, you're a fucking idiot.

@ThatRetiredDude @tyleraloevera so you've never read a web article about the UK or Canada? If it did, does that mean you committed treason?

@OmegaQuay @tyleraloevera huh? She needs to be off US soil yet still in custody. That is what GITMO is for.

@AITokenX @tyleraloevera it was public the web article she published. That was her "crime"

@tyleraloevera I assume she confessed to save her head no? Else why confess?

@PatOfManyNames @tyleraloevera She published a web article

@tyleraloevera I mean it is literally sedition, the only crime explicitly stated in our Constitution to get capital punishment.