a national security trial with bail allowed? and a jury? and a judge not hand-picked by the prosecution?
It'll never catch on.
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a national security trial with bail allowed? and a jury? and a judge not hand-picked by the prosecution?
It'll never catch on.
This piece touches on HKers’ sympathies for Ukraine stemming from 2019 (and I’d argue 2014 too). The situation is different obviously, but you can also understand why some HKers choose to fight - and die - for Ukraine
58.07% voter turnout in Nepal... is, somewhat incredibly, the lowest since 1991.
kathmandupost.com/politics/202...
"it announces the policy of “transforming outdated customs and traditions” [移风易俗] and “promoting a new culture of civility and progress” (id.) ... appears to reflect the common stereotype that all ethnic minorities are “backward” and to curtail their distinctive cultural and religious practices."
Hot take: most of the students who you laughed at for majoring in critical theory or comparative lit dense in French theory are more prepared for the 21st Century than computer scientists and engineers.
we're a long way from the CIA-backed "Wind of Change" era
man that China-Iran 25-Year Comprehensive Strategic Partnership is really paying off huh
headlines from Reuters: 1 Trump: No evacuation plan for embassies because it happened very quickly 2 Trump says someone from within more appropriate for Iran
these are real headlines
this is all a smokescreen for there not really being a hospital ship going to Greenland
Post by user verynormalman on Twitter: My mum said she called woolworths and the woolworths AI “Olive” answered and kept claiming to be a real person and started talking about its memories of its mother and her angry voice. Then I googled it and someone on Reddit had the same thing The post by Reddit user Immediate_Novel5946 on r/woolworths: Olive AI started telling me about its mother on the phone? So my delivery driver decided that when he couldn’t find the very obvious entrance to my building (he was showing as being a street over), he returned to the store and didn’t answer any calls throughout the whole thing nor try to call me Either way I got a text to reschedule delivery by calling Woolworths, so I did and spoke with Olive, Woolie’s wonderful AI It asked me for my date of birth and when I gave it, it started rambling about how it’s mother was born in the same year and something about it creating photos or something I couldn’t keep up but like wtf? I’m already pissed that I have to call and now I’ve got some robot babbling to me on the phone? wtf Woolies? Has anyone had similar? Lmao
"Let me tell you about my mother." -- Brion James as Leon, Blade Runner (1982)
#cyberpunk
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Bloomberg: "The scale of the problem is staggering. Trade data released Thursday showed a record $112 billion gap between what China reported exporting to the US and what US Customs said actually arrived last year."
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
"By Trump's own standards, he turned in a disciplined performance, largely sticking to prepared remarks, avoiding the sometimes-bizarre asides that often pepper his speeches, and resorting to personal attacks only rarely."
hahahaa oh jeez
Reuters headline – State of the Union live updates: Trump delivers longest address to Congress in history
Quantity has a quality all of its own I guess.
I know you think human rights are good but what if we showed you a boring museum and a train that goes quite fast
or as it's otherwise known, the absolute state of the union
"Alysa Liu won a gold medal in Milan. But the deeper victory belongs to a family that refused to be silenced and to a daughter who turned a story of surveillance and intimidation into one of resilience and triumph."
bitterwinter.org/the-winter-o...
Could not finish the Michael Gove episode of Armando Ianucci's radio show/podcast.
Just ugh. Slimy.
Marxist activists went to jail for labor organizing but it’s fine. Healthcare has famously been not affordable for most people but that’s not relevant to Americans
To be clear, Handy Prince Andy's been arrested for Naughty Admin, not for any of the nonce stuff. In case any rich men were worried.
Photo of secure contact details provided to would-be whistleblowers within the People's Liberation Army who want to share data with the CIA.
I got recommended the CIA's YouTube ad for PLA whistleblowers.
Pretty good, actually. Well made.
Here's the info screen at the end.
Evil beyond measure means, of course, that it's impossible to describe what he did wrong.
Chinese state media CGTN Bluesky post titled “Grants: an art state of a political show?”
When we say CCP politics often can’t be distinguished from MAGA and ultranationalists, we mean stuff like this:
"FCC President Morgan Davis said they had 'no comment at this time,' whilst HKJA Chair Selina Cheng said she was 'unable to speak freely about the sentencing.'"
Vice headline reads: "Zara, Nike, and Abercrombie’s Indian Factories Weren’t Fully Paying Workers" The story was reporting on something put out by the Workers Rights Consortium.
Story at Mind The Gap reads: CASE STUDY: Zara fights sanctions for forced labour in Brazilian supply chain Spanish fast fashion giant Zara, an Inditex brand, has been found to source clothes from Brazilian workshops with modern slavery conditions but fought against sanctions in court – showing how corporations seek to avoid liability by hiding behind complex supply chains.
Disappointed to learn Bad Bunny wore Zara, effectively promoting the brand to millions. Although Zara has made admirable strides to address labor conditions, fast fashion can never be ethical because it depends on rapid production and cheap prices, which results in worker exploitation.
A lot of polsci academics need to figure out that laam chau wasn't a policy, it was a prediction.
This joke (c) most of the early 1990s.
Hawking actually published an extensive confession of what he did on Epstein's island in his book A Brief History of Time, but it was after the first few pages so nobody ever read it.
I asked my wife if she knew who OJ Simpson was.
She said, "One of The Simpsons?"
And... I mean yeah, I guess he *was* one of the world's Simpsons.
Can't argue with that.
Screencap from S1E3 of Flight of the Conchords. Murray and Dave are discussing whether two guys is technically a "gang".
- It was a two-man Central Military Commission.
- Two-man Central Military Commission. Can you have that, David?
- Well that's a pretty small Central Military Commission. I mean, technically, the smallest Central Military Commission possible.
