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@teortaxesTex @egoe_ray @XiangLin69684 my bad. thought cursive just meant squiggly fair translation.😅

@teortaxesTex @egoe_ray @XiangLin69684 it's a [prank/trolling](?) cursive(草书)* calligraphy that to a layman obviously reads 'fuck this/fucking/..' but if you say it's 'aktually' "春池嫣韵"(very poetic/culturally refined phrase) it makes (uncultured?)sense on second look *terrible translation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_s…

Chinese bros this is rude if you have DeepSeek-Vision, report some tests for the rest of us

@teortaxesTex @egoe_ray @XiangLin69684 >‘This was fucking "Chun Chi Yan Yun" to begin with—only the uncultured read it as "Chun Chi Yan Yun."’ this translation by grok is wrong

@teortaxesTex @egoe_ray @XiangLin69684 i'm no expert on 草书

@Spacew3asel @teortaxesTex if optimality is an inevitability, does it render all effort meaningless?

@teortaxesTex > Therefore it is optimal to have >50% press Blue Of course it's optimal, the experiment was without possible coordination tho, so you don't have any power to influence that outcome.

In a world where >50% press Red, there are no Wenfengs. It quickly becomes a very hellish world, no matter what bullshit you tell yourself about game theoretically dominant strategies, rational choice and "only babies". Therefore it is optimal to have >50% press Blue

you wouldn't repost a deleted vaguepost, would you anon?

@Redgreenblue45 @xiyue1123_1 全球底层劳动者是开比亚迪呀还是开布加迪呀

@xiyue1123_1 同样是1300万的布加迪 员工待遇比比亚迪的员工待遇 真是天壤之别。中国企业的崛起 是全球底层劳动者的悲哀

北京车展最贵量产车，1300万起售的仰望U9X，全球限量30台，已经全部售罄，而且购买意向远超比亚迪预期。首位U9X定制车车主巴西的桑切斯和第二位车主澳洲汽车教父尼克都现身车展，彰显了这款车的强大魅力！ 视频转自抖音：-神经漫游指南-

@teortaxesTex @AsilenA123 haha incidentally the tool i used to get the subtitle is part of that supply chain. googled bilibili subtitle it was the first. for future needs: kedou.life/caption/subtit…

@AsilenA123 I don't mean it, I just mean reach I would try to promote your video but you have to consider the audience otherwise it's a bit of a wasted effort

we need a translation of this video.

@teortaxesTex original sub(ai generated by bilibili, pretty good) and translation by deepseek: filebin.net/7dbafi3k5sr0ih…

@stephenpratley @Molson_Hart

Nope you're right. Chinese has one of the lowest rates of information transfer of any language. English is second best, only beaten by French. When I started building Chinese Websites, I thought this will be easy. One character per word = lots of menu space. (If you've ever had to translate a German site, you'll know the problem) They take almost as many characters to get the point across as English does. Chinese is only the most spoken because of population density. Good written languages survive distances.

Chinese character for "crooked" is 歪 which if you look closely is just 不 for "not" and 正 for "straight". They literally needed a word for "not straight" and made it "notstraight" lol. It's a real testament to network effects that the world's most spoken language is also the world's most poorly designed**. **or am I just butthurt about being tone deaf?

@teortaxesTex @gpuhell @victor207755822 gboard works for me

@gpuhell …at last I truly see @victor207755822 could you guys adapt the app for international keyboards?

I was excited for DeepSeek's 2.0.0 app update, but it still does not let me create a new line, there's no "enter", only "send". I guess this capability will only become available for V5… you can't ask for too much when they operate on such a shoestring budget… sigh

@RnaudBertrand x.com/milletandrifle…

This is absolutely huge: the UN Special Rapporteur on the matter calls to lift Western sanctions against China because they dangerously undermine basic norms of law (like the presumption of innocence) and violate human rights, particularly in Xinjiang. The UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights, Prof. Dr. Alena Douhan @AlenaDouhan, has just spent 12 days in China, most of it in Xinjiang, to study "the impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights". She confirms that the sanctions put on China - mostly by the US, but also other Western states - under the guise of protecting "human rights" are actually very harmful to the very people these sanctions cynically claim to "protect" because they impoverish them, and that they are illegal unilateral coercive measures. You can read her full 14-page statement here: ohchr.org/sites/default/… Here's a small summary of her report: She says that the sanctions have a big economic impact on the livelihood of people, particularly in Xinjiang because "due to the risk of sanctions and seizures for any nexus with Xinjiang and consequent reputational damage not only foreign but also Chinese businesses from other regions may hesitate to participate in supply chains that involve entities in Xinjiang, and this out of fear of sanctions." These sanctions include the US's "Uygur Forced Labor Prevention Act of 2021" which automatically assumes that all goods partially or wholly produced in the Xinjiang region are tainted by forced labor, and as such in effect bans all imports from Xinjiang in the US. Which is detrimental not only to the people affected but also in terms of critical supply chains for the world economy, given that - as she reminds in the report - Xinjiang produces "half of the global supply of polycrystalline silicon used for solar power energy", 20% of the world's cotton, and 20% of the global production of tomatoes and tomato products. She says she "received information about enterprises employing thousands of people, which were forced to undergo in short period of time significant cuts in their workforce, in some cases of more than 50%, or small and medium enterprises getting bankrupt. While certain advanced technology and high-tech industries may have managed to absorb such shocks, others with labor-intensive production faced more challenges to readjust and re-recruit part of the lost workforce. Those most likely to be affected are persons in vulnerable situations, including those in informal employment, older workers with less skills and productive capacity, as well as women employed in certain sectors of the economy." She says there is little to no due process the companies or people affected can follow to appeal the sanctions, no matter how unfair they are: she gives the example of one company "submitting more than 10,000 pages of documents with data concerning its personnel to challenge the allegations of forced labour" but even that "was deemed insufficient". On legality, she writes that "unilateral targeted sanctions as a punitive action violate, at the very least, obligations arising from universal and regional human rights instruments, many of which have a peremptory character, including procedural guarantees, the presumption of innocence, due process, access to justice and right to remedy." Specifically when it comes to the sanctions related to Xinjiang, she writes that they are based on the principle of “presumption of guilt” (i.e. assuming that a person is guilty of a crime until proven innocent) which "violate fundamental principles of international law, provisions of the UN General Assembly and UN Human Rights Council resolutions, and constitute an attempt to supplement the legal standards with a so-called 'rule-based order'". Her conclusion is that "unilateral sanctions against China, Chinese companies or individuals neither conform with international law nor correspond to the criteria of collective countermeasures of art. 48(1b) of the Draft articles on responsibility of states for internationally wrongful acts and constitute therefore unilateral coercive measures. In view of the illegality of primary sanctions, means of their enforcement including secondary sanctions, civil and criminal charges for (alleged) circumvention of sanctions regimes are equally illegal." In terms of impact, she says the sanctions "have negative humanitarian impact on labour and social rights of individuals from the industries affected by unilateral sanctions or designated companies, their right to decent life and freedom from poverty, as well as right to education, right to benefit from the outcomes of academic research, prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of nationality or ethnic origin, and access to justice. They also affect exterritorialy third country workers of the Chinese companies, branches and affiliated companies in China and abroad, markets of developing countries after the withdrawal of Chinese companies and investments, or people dependent on humanitarian and development assistance from China including via the Belt and Road initiative, Confucius institutes and other initiatives." For Xinjiang in particular, she says the sanctions are particularly egregious because they "introduce the presumption of guilty (high risk) of existence of any nexus to Xinjiang at any stage of supply chain", which "affects the overall economy of the region" and "consequently result in rising unemployment, particularly affecting the most vulnerable, [...] undermines development [and] rises risks of poverty". She is "seriously concerned" about the "presumption of guilt of entities and individuals under sanctions" because it "shifts burden of proof of legality of their activity to the individuals/entities under sanctions". She says this violates "the presumption of innocence being a peremptory norm of international law". She also interestingly "recalls that eradication of poverty and enabling the decent life for people constitutes an inalienable element of suppression of international terrorism in accordance with the UN Global counter-terrorism strategy, that is especially important in a view of the series of terrorist attacks taken place in China and especially in Xinjiang region before 2016." Suggesting therefore that many of the Chinese government programs introduced after 2016 to alleviate poverty and counter terrorism were misrepresented by the West. It is often these very programs which were given as an excuse for enacting the sanctions. Her final recommendation is to "call on sanctioning parties to lift and suspend all unilateral sanctions applied to China, Chinese nationals and companies without authorization of the UN Security Council, and the use of which cannot be justified as normal business activity in the form of retortions or countermeasures in accordance with international law. No good intentions, or references to the need to protect national foreign, economic or technology interests can be used as grounds for or justification of unilateral sanctions, as contrary to international law and ultimately resulting in human rights violations."

@edgaryu7 @shangguanluan 你不要给我说。你去给看到新闻额头上一滴汗😓的非洲三国说，你说这是记者瞎掰不关赖桑的事，你说你们非洲人为什么看不懂台湾新闻

總統賴清德明將首度訪問非洲，前往友邦史瓦帝尼王國。據透露，賴總統受邀在史王登基四十週年及五十八歲華誕雙慶典禮致詞，預計向與會非洲各國政要及部族領袖，闡述台灣走向世界的堅定立場及與非洲國家的願景，在中國積極擴張非洲版圖，甚至發動認知作戰抹黑台灣之際，再次彰顯台灣的存在不可或缺，破除北京長期輸出的「一中論述」。 這就是內容，都是記者自己寫的，賴清德到底表示了什麼？看到標題就自以為是，這叫有查證？

笑死了 沈政男说，原来非洲三国拒绝赖清德入境并不是因为中国，而是因为赖清德放话，把人家非洲三国吓到了。 他说，赖清德行前表示：要去非洲破除一个中国论述。 非洲三国一下头大，没见过这么高调拉人下水的，于是赶紧关闭。

@edgaryu7 @shangguanluan x.com/xixi58160526/s…

@shangguanluan 賴清德行前什麼時候表示的？不查證就傳謠，這是你的水準

@highrankfast @m4ng0_L4ssi @uluser but apple is great and sexy and it's great that it is one of the biggest richest companies in the world right?

@m4ng0_L4ssi @uluser Racist or making complete objective statement? Haven't they were eating dogs and rice 30 years ago? They were making iPhones inside prison camp like production facilities. They are still trying to sell fake or underquality products. If those are lies I am racist I accept.

@AngelicaOung 🤣

Ppl like @BonnieGlaser ask…Angelica…do you want Taiwan to share Hong Kong’s dark fate? Oh no… As opposed to fighting bravely as the Asiatic Ukrainians? We’ve reached peak Orwell here from the American think tank class. War is peace. Freedom is bondage. Being dragged off to die in a trench is democracy. Just think about it for a minute folks: Ukraine is their great success story. Hong Kong is their great cautionary tale. Who TF are they expecting to fall for it once they get the download that US is no longer the hegemonic sole world superpower?

@AngelicaOung @HL3133 ah so most likely 边防证 for border areas

@milletandrifle @HL3133 塔县

I CAN SEE AFGHANISTAN FROM HERE And Pakistan. And Tajikistan. And maybe even Indian Kashmir. See I am standing at the Wakhan corridor at the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang. This was where the Tang dynasty monk Xuanzhuang came through en route to India in the 7th century and possibly the route where Marco Polo went home in the 13th century. It was not a main thoroughfare of the Silk Road but more like a high-altitude strand connecting the silk web. The modern day geopolitics of this region is shaped by the great game of the 19th century. The narrow « finger » of Afghanistan reaching straight for the Chinese border separates Pakistan on one side which was then British India and Tajikistan on the other side, part of Russias central Asian empire. And of course its Xinjiang, we have Cops Doing Outreach. The main message of the day seems to be focused on the possibility of foreign agents infiltrating the borderlands and also watch out for marijuana laced brownies and such. There was a Tajik-speaking cop giving the spiel to a bunch of Tajik-speakers that I got some footage of. I also saw some tourists coming through in a RV…apparently it’s becoming really popular in China.

@AngelicaOung @HL3133 is that for 塔县 or for whole xinjiang for you?

@HL3133 No you go to a little office

@Leisenfelder @KieranMacNeil_ @MrBig2024 @AngelicaOung @MoMoCat54392959 well under threat of murder what do you want me to say? i think you'll understand when i say fuck off

@milletandrifle @KieranMacNeil_ @MrBig2024 @AngelicaOung @MoMoCat54392959 The CCP will kill people if they express an opinion they don't Is this what awaits Taiwan as a SAR?

DRINKING POLICE TEA IN XINJIANG At the Pamir plateau, being asked to « drink tea » with the Chinese police is not a cause for panic, but a good time to whip out your camera! Yup that’s right! Real border control police, after checking your entry papers, also set up a little kiosk for dispensing tea and public education. The policewoman I took a selfie with reminded me not to run around too much until my body is acclimatized to the high altitude!

@Leisenfelder @KieranMacNeil_ @MrBig2024 @AngelicaOung @MoMoCat54392959 yes not unlike how the US is so considerate to host xinjiang xizang separatists

@KieranMacNeil_ @MrBig2024 @AngelicaOung @MoMoCat54392959 The Russians are so nice, protecting random Americans like that.