Linus

‘曾長年在台灣執政，以黨國體制壓抑民主人權，卻一直掛著「中國」招牌的這個在野黨，先前已有五名黨領導人與中國共產黨頭子會面，儘管冠冕堂皇的口號喊得很大聲，卻不僅未能絲毫化解共產中國吃掉民主台灣的野心，反而向國際社會釋放錯誤訊息，以致其得寸進尺，步步進逼。’ talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/…

英語を勉強している女の子が可愛すぎると海外で話題に

I've been thinking a lot about how AI is changing research, and over the weekend I wrote down 5 pieces of advice for young political researchers. > We're not going back to the pre-AI world. Learn the tools or fall behind. > Increase your ambition. These tools let every paper be bigger and bolder than before. > Build and test software prototypes -- explore new ways of doing research. > Break free of the literature, and study AI itself as a crucial new political institution. Political economy has so much to offer in the design of governance structures for AI, yet most of us aren't saying anything about it. > Clarify your goals. If your goal is to do research that helps to improve governance, then these new tools should excite you, because they can make research better. Full essay here: docs.google.com/document/d/1fy… We aren't the first generation of political researchers to see major technological change and disruption, and we won't be the last. I'll leave you with the words of Karl Deutch in his 1971 APSA presidential address: "The overwhelming fact of our time is change—rapid large-scale change in politics, societies, technologies, and cultures….We must navigate through the rapids of change or perish in them. We must face change, understand change, and sometimes initiate change in our thoughts; and we must meet change, respond to change, and sometimes initiate change in our actions."

Starting off my Monday with a monk reciting his favorite Linkin Park lyrics.

This Angelica lady should really go out and talk to local Taiwanese people.

『我剛注意到，這位親北京人士Angelica Oung（翁華志），一位原本來自台灣的美國人，最近在台灣境內開始推動中共的敘事與宣傳。她最近在自己的 YouTube 頻道上發布了多支影片，與多位親中共人士對談，包括旅居美國的網路人物Carl Zha（查科嘉），以及常駐上海的法國人Arnaud Bertrand等。 我過去曾在《電訊報》（The Telegraph）看到她幾年前報導北京打壓香港的新聞文章，因此對她如今轉為親北京立場感到驚訝。我懷疑，考量到近兩三年來有報導指出北京加強從內外滲透與影響台灣的行動，她可能在這段期間被中共的代理人或相關人員接觸並吸收。這種情況過去在香港已經發生過多次。 簡單說，她現在開始讚揚中國，並推動「中國正在勝出」的敘事——向西方受眾講述有利於中國的故事。』

鄭麗文 宣布「九二共識」加入 國民黨黨章

isn’t it strange how our moms don’t know what ragebaiting is yet they do it so well

高雄観光の写真🇹🇼🌺

Angelica didn’t share the whole tweet because the bottom half of the tweet doesn’t adhere to the silly conspiracy theory she is currently promoting, so in the interest of basic honesty, here is the full tweet

Been so into this Instagram account that plays Vietnamese soul and funk music from the 1960s and 70s IG slowznguyen

今日視角之我今年ㄉ第一場主場✨

Let us not forget that not all Frenchmen are of such weak spirit.

Marco Rubio showing up to work on Monday after a long weekend abroad.

@RT_com $100 million to a failed alcoholic state like Russia is a lot of money, to America it’s a rounding error

Operation Eagle Claw II: redemption

A wise Japanese athlete once said: “Monkey never cramp. Because monkey every day eat banana. Two.” That’s stuck with me ever since.

The White Sox finished off a three-game sweep of the Blue Jays! 🧹

The FY2027 President's Budget Request proposes cuts to science agencies, including cutting the NSF by 55% and eliminating NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate. I've seen people treating the budget request as if it's a final outcome. This is just the start for FY2027 budget cycle! Some facts for folks not as steeped in DC budget world -- 1 - The President's Budget Request is a request. It's the White House telling Congress what it would like to spend, reflecting the administration's policy priorities and the direction it would like to head. Congress will still decide on the actual appropriations level through its usual budget process. 2 - Last year, the FY2026 PBR proposed cutting NSF by 57% (from $9.1B to $3.9B) and NIH by 41% (from $47B to $27.9B). However, Congress enacted the FY2026 budget with a 3.4% cut to NSF and gave NIH a 1% increase. Congress did not implement the President's budget request. 3 - Congress wrote into last year's bill that no NSF directorate gets cut more than 5% relative to FY2024, and there's no reason to believe that appropriators in Congress have changed their position. 4 - Every Trump budget request, both in his first term and now in his second, has proposed deep cuts to civilian science agencies. Congress has rejected these proposals each time. The real impacts on the scientific ecosystem have come through different channels like cancelled grants, shifting to multi-year funding, indirect cost rate fights, and reducing agency staff capacity due to RIFs. 5 - The PBR may still have near-term effects. Historically, agencies begin planning around the PBR even when it's widely understood that Congress will not end up enacting the budget as the President proposed. If patterns from the current term are any guide, planning based on the request could mean slowdowns in new awards, staff reassignments, and early moves to wind down targeted programs. 6 - Based on historical appropriations cycles, FY2027 appropriations will almost certainly not be enacted before the November 2026 midterms. Agencies like NSF and NIH will likely operate under a continuing resolution at FY2026 levels. The final FY2027 budget will most likely be finalized after the midterms by a Congress with different political dynamics than the current one. For economists and social scientists seeing the President's Budget Request and reconsidering career plans: know that the PBR is not the budget for FY2027. It's a serious signal for the social sciences of where the administration would like to take science funding, but I would be very hesitant to make career decisions based on this.

@Dexerto Half of jobs in China's cities are gig works like food delivery, Uber, live streaming. All those gig works require digital wallet WeChat or Alipay for payment. ——If you are blacklisted by social credit system, WeChat or Alipay will ban you from getting gig works.