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I often use apps to read aloud long texts but all kinda suck, wheres the open source vanilla alternative? If you use the free version of @natural_reader, the "Pro" white woman 👩🏻 voice changes to "Free" Indian woman 👩🏽. No joke! 😂 🇮🇳

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National Associations

@LaBase_TV Se va él núcleo irradiador 😔

Manu Levin se ha despedido hoy del público de La Base ✊😢 Todo nuestro cariño y agradecimiento. 📺 LA BASE | youtu.be/IDkB93SATdU

@TheEconomist Is this a parody account? Are they just trolling and doing the "at what cost" meme on purpose?

The Chinese Communist Party, once famous for pillaging from the natural world, has set to protecting parts of it. But the country’s “eco-authoritarian” approach deserves scrutiny economist.com/china/2026/07/…

While Washington is stuck in a losing war on Iran, neocons are investing $500 million on anti-China propaganda. The stated purpose? To gain "diplomatic leverage." China hawks want to weaken China's global standing with smears. They can't offer countries a better deal. A military confrontation risks nuclear and economic disaster, and defeat. The masters of war are stuck, again. So they've turned to an expensive war on your mind to buy time.

@TheEconomist China fights climate change, but at what cost? 😂

The Chinese Communist Party, once famous for pillaging from the natural world, has set to protecting parts of it. But the country’s “eco-authoritarian” approach deserves scrutiny bit.ly/4x4lWge Photo: Getty Images

“Not only is there virtually no chance of China overtaking the United States as the world’s largest economy, but it is also likely that the U.S. advantage in economic strength will expand further in the next decade,” writes Logan Wright. foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-m…

As free Chinese AI models have got closer to matching paid American offerings, some tech executives and national security leaders have accused Chinese firms of creating security risks or unfairly using U.S. technology to train their own. wapo.st/3RzpFDA

Quite funny to see that 3 countries claim Fields Medal winner Hong Wang as theirs. When in her case, as in the case of so many top researchers throughout history, the clear lesson is that greatness in science is almost always a collaborative product of multiple countries and cultures. Even if you go back to Marie Curie: same thing, she wasn't originally French but Polish, studying first in Warsaw and then in Paris. Or Einstein who studied and worked in 4 countries. Or take Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal: she was born and educated in Iran, then did her PhD in the US. There is obviously something special that opens the mind about being exposed to different scientific traditions and different ways of thinking. Which all means that there is a special irony, at least in the case of France and the US, in both countries increasingly treating collaboration with China as a security threat while simultaneously celebrating a scientist whose brilliance is literally the product of that collaboration. The US's National Science Foundation is even presently straight-up banning scientific collaboration with almost all Chinese scientists (science.org/content/articl…) while Europe is doing the equivalent with its flagship Horizon Europe research program, barring Chinese institutions from its grants which, in effect, also bans scientific collaboration with China (nature.com/articles/d4158…). In other words, both countries want to claim Hong Wang but both are actively fighting the scientific spirit of openness that produced her. China is, somewhat ironically, moving in the opposite direction, continuing to "reform and opening up." China's NSFC, the Chinese equivalent of the US's NSF, continues to actively fund foreign researchers to come work in China across all fields (nsfc.gov.cn/english/site_1…). Fields medals, as is the case of Nobel prizes, are very much lagging indicators, by 1 or 2 decades: Hong Wang left China in 2011, at a time when the situation was arguably the reverse of today - the West was open, China was relatively more closed. Which means that 1 or 2 decades from now, don't be surprised if the Fields Medal goes to a French or American researcher who had to go to China to find the openness that produces the very best science.

It's only "dystopian" for OpenAI and Anthropic shareholders. For the rest of us, the dystopia would be a world where the only AI models we can use are those from closed-source US labs that are increasingly part and parcel of the US security state.

on se souviendra de ce jour où les modèles fermés ont attaqué les modèles ouverts et où ce sont les modèles ouverts qui ont sauvé la mise lol une attaque jamais vue, à vitesse machine et ce qui a tenu le choc c'est GLM: un modèle chinois en open weights donné gratuitement à la planète 🤭🤭 pourquoi ? parce qu'en plein incident tu peux pas dépendre d'une api fermée qui refuse la moitié de tes requêtes de sécurité et qui peut te couper au pire moment, il te faut un modèle que tu fais tourner sur tes propres serveurs,sans que tes données sortent, entraîné sur tes propres menaces et lancé en 1000 copies en parallèle pour tenir le rythme d'une attaque qui va aussi vite, l'open weights te donne tout ça, le fermé rien les amis! et pour moi voilà la leçon à retenir ici: un modèle verrouillé au nom de la sécurité désarme surtout ceux qui défendent, l'attaquant lui se fout des règles, la restriction protège personne, elle punit juste ceux qui jouent le jeu ;)

@Reuters ousted => kidnapped

As ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores attended a hearing in New York in which they were told their trial will begin next year, his supporters and detractors gathered outside to debate the legitimacy of the process reut.rs/3RvWLUJ

@dw_chinese 狗屁

美国总统特朗普周四（7月16日）进行电视演说，宣布立即解密情报档案，指控中国介入2020年美国大选。特朗普指控，中国取得2.2亿笔美国选民档案，并透过媒体干预选举，有意导致他落选。不过，多家美国媒体事实查核指出，多州选民档案属于公开信息，认为特朗普的说法具有误导性。

A plane in the United States was forced to land after the sound of the adhan was heard from a passenger's phone. A Southwest Airlines flight traveling from Tennessee to Florida was forced to make an emergency landing in Atlanta. Upon landing, a SWAT team boarded the aircraft and detained one of the passengers, accusing him of terrorism and posing a bomb threat. It was later revealed that the detained passenger was a Muslim. During the flight, his prayer-time app activated and played the adhan (the Islamic call to prayer). The crew reportedly interpreted the sound as a potential security threat, notified dispatchers, and decided to make an emergency landing.

We offered China peaceful coexistence. We funded their industry, educated their children, brought them into the global economy. They murder our children with fentanyl. Sabotage our critical infrastructure. Strangle our supply chains. America has a positive sum spirit. No country did more for Chinese prosperity than America. So why has no country done more to undermine America than China? For the CCP it is not enough for China to prosper, America must fall. The Chinese have made their choice. Now we must make ours. This is how we respond to the economic warfare thrust upon us: @WSJ link👇

BBC be like: UK grows 𝟎.𝟔% in Q1 → “Economy grew by MORE than expected!” China grows 𝟒.𝟕% in H1 → “Economic growth falls SHARPLY!” Mate, is learning basic maths a criminal offence in Britain or is this just peak BBC copium?

@Telegraph @amendelson_ Maybe if USA dismantled it's colonial military outposts encircling China they could invest their efforts in other endeavors other than defending from a decadent, decayint empire

Revealed: China is not just building replicas of US warships.  @amendelson_ This satellite imagery reveals just how advanced China’s military is 👇 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

@Telegraph China plans to defend itself from US warships surrounding their country.

Satellite images reveal China is building models of fighter jets, naval bases and Taiwanese presidential buildings, as it prepares to take control of Taiwan – a top priority of Xi Jinping ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

@Telegraph Invent 💭

Police have arrested thousands across China in a drive to shut down underground churches. The Telegraph spoke to six Chinese Christians who have either been targeted by the CCP or have incarcerated relatives. These are their stories ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Similar anti-China academic export control debacle is simultaneously going on in Germany 🇩🇪 🧪