China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum

This is what it looked like a year or so ago.

Christian media figures have claimed that the Iran war could signal “the second coming” or the “End Times” and said “we are watching incredible prophecy in this time come to pass” Right-wing Christian media are praising President Donald Trump’s decision to join Israel in launching military strikes against Iran, with some figures likening Trump to Cyrus the Great and Constantine...

Pretty crazy stuff happening in Christian nationalist media wrt the Iran war. www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

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UK MP quits parliament group as husband accused of spying for China

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Well, I mean... we're all in space...

Israel hacked Iranian traffic cameras to spy on Khamenei: Report Israel reportedly hacked nearly all of Tehran’s traffic cameras to spy on Ali Khamenei. Israeli spies spent years surveilling the ayatollah’s bodyguards by accessing the Iranian capital’s traffic came...

It turns out that when you put your entire nation under surveillance, you might not be the only one watching.

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Iranian drone strikes at Amazon sites raise alarms over protecting data centers Tech industry’s past focus on cyberattacks and natural disasters overshadowed threats of physical attacks.

As AI becomes critical to national economies, cloud infrastructure becomes a wartime target. Drone strikes on Amazon sites in the Gulf may force the industry to rethink where it builds https://restofworld.org/2026/iran-amazon-data-center-strikes/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky

NPC 2026: China to Enshrine Xi-Era Ethnic Policy in New Law China's new assimilationist ethnic policy mandates forging a common Han-centric Chinese culture and identity, while muting minority identity expression.

NEW POST – NPC 2026: China to Enshrine Xi-Era Ethnic Policy in New Law

China's new assimilationist ethnic policy mandates forging a common Han-centric Chinese culture and identity, while muting minority identity expression.

npcobserver.com/2026/03/05/c...

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

Iran Calls Torpedoing of Ship by U.S. an ‘Atrocity’

Iran Calls Torpedoing of Ship by U.S. an ‘Atrocity’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

How many countries need to be engaged in hostilities before it counts as a "world war"?

Asking for a friend.

Maybe it could be used as a special containment area for disgraced former presidents who couldn't safely be placed in a normal prison.

The complaint, btw, reads like a movie. I suppose because the AI draws on all the movies and Scifi out there.
It's a strangd idea, that stories are what are gonna get us.

China Tells Top Refiners to Suspend Diesel and Gasoline Exports China’s government has told the country’s largest oil refiners to suspend exports of diesel and gasoline as an escalating conflict in the Persian Gulf disrupts the arrival of crude from one of the world’s largest producing regions.

China’s government has told the country’s largest oil refiners to suspend exports of diesel and gasoline as an escalating conflict in the Persian Gulf disrupts the arrival of crude from one of the world’s largest producing regions

#NPC2026: 🚨 Full text of China's DRAFT 15th Five-Year Plan. It's subject to further (minor) revisions and NPC approval next week.

The text is available in Chinese only.

npcobserver.com/wp-content/u...

Complaint – #1 in Gavalas v. Google LLC (N.D. Cal., 5:26-cv-01849) – CourtListener.com COMPLAINT against Alphabet Inc., Google LLC ( Filing fee $ 405, receipt number ACANDC-21715311.). Filed by Joel Gavalas. (Silverkorn, Brandt) (Filed on 3/4/2026) (Entered: 03/04/2026)

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Complaint – #1 in Gavalas v. Google LLC (N.D. Cal., 5:26-cv-01849) – CourtListener.com COMPLAINT against Alphabet Inc., Google LLC ( Filing fee $ 405, receipt number ACANDC-21715311.). Filed by Joel Gavalas. (Silverkorn, Brandt) (Filed on 3/4/2026) (Entered: 03/04/2026)

The new complaint storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Friends We’ve Made: An Initial Breakdown of Draft Rules for Human-like AI China’s newly released draft rules on human-like interactive AI mark one of the most direct regulatory responses globally to the rapid rise of

Worth revisiting China's draft approach to 'human-like' chatbots in light of the new suit against Google for Gemini's role in a man's death www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/friends-w...

#NPC2026: Full text of Premier Li Qiang's 2026 Government Work Report*:

🇨🇳: npcobserver.com/wp-content/u...

🇬🇧: npcobserver.com/wp-content/u...

*Non-final; subject to further revisions

The Senator describes his conduct as de-escalation.

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]

Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

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A cartoon graph showing the exponential growth of AI intelligence over time, with humans first laughing at its cute tricks, then being dwarfed by it.

A human looking into a technological mirror, asking a computer to act like a person, and then being fooled by the impression of sentience they requested. "Say 'I'm alive", "I'm alive", OMG.

So, one of these cartoons is probably accurate- and I feel like we're not in for an easy ride as a species either way.

If we start a BSKY thread that criticizes both AI and the peer review system, we'll break the internet.

The gold-plating glitz has spread like mold between Merz visits.

It was a joke.

But it is also something that absolutely happens.
I have also had people tell me they have AI fact-check AI-generated content.

The least they could do is run it through AI first for a few editing suggestions.

A cartoon graph showing the exponential growth of AI intelligence over time, with humans first laughing at its cute tricks, then being dwarfed by it.

A human looking into a technological mirror, asking a computer to act like a person, and then being fooled by the impression of sentience they requested. "Say 'I'm alive", "I'm alive", OMG.

So, one of these cartoons is probably accurate- and I feel like we're not in for an easy ride as a species either way.

Let's be clear: the U.S. had a deal that could have prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

Trump ripped up that deal.

Then he started a war instead of doing the hard work of diplomacy to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

The gold-plating glitz has spread like mold between Merz visits.