Funnier than any joke we could write
What you need to know about China this week: thechinaweek.com Lessons from China, Russia, South Africa, North Korea etc. for Trump and Musk's America: rhymingchaos.com Other links: jeremygoldkorn.com
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Funnier than any joke we could write
There was. I’ll try find it on the CCTV video tomorrow
Alright, I'm going to bed, enough military parade for one day
Sorry no Alt text, I am just posting screen grabds from the live feed of the Sptember 3, 2025 military parade in Beijing from here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYp...
Trump is going to be be the greenest with envy, check it out:
This guy gets it. This is the way.
"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."
Why is Google's reverse image search so bad compared to TinEye?
So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!
I use Fitbod but it is designed to recommend workouts using some algorithm but you can enter your own workouts
Yes, we have arrived at the "students publishing their articles under a pseudonym in the college academic journal" stage of authoritarian slide in the US.
"Blueskyism" helped the Mississippi Free Press overcome algorithmic suppression on other platforms (Facebook, Threads) and ride out plummeting engagement on Twitter following Musk's X takeover. Thank God we took our eggs out of the X basket when we did.
This is also routine rhetoric in Silicon Valley — even by immigrant founders! — about America and nobody says shit. Journalists refuse to even *mention* it, let alone ask questions or hold anyone accountable.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Musk’s whole timeline for the last few days has been racist slop with the occasional promotional slop tweet for one of his companies.
No question
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently chastised Silicon Valley for burning billions chasing AGI instead of focusing on useful AI. China agrees, steering AI into tasks like grading entrance exams, sharper weather models, and crop-rotation advice. Pragmatism vs moonshot, I wonder which bet pays off?
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
Funny that an American Worker looks like he just stepped out of a 1960s Soviet factory somewhere in eastern Siberia , full of determination to fulfill a five-year plan in four years and conscious of the dangers of too much alcohol and talking to foreigners.
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
Federalism. It's what's for dinner.
substack.com/@democraticw...
In which the President destroys our relationship with a global power and drives it into the arms of Russia because their strongman won’t help him get a Nobel Peace Prize. (Sorry, used up all my gift links this month.) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
In authoritarian states, the disappearance of the Dear Leader for a few days might mean everything is about to change. Or it might not…
I have no idea what it is, but he always gets the Real Shit healthcare and seems to understand RFK's bit is a ruse for his base that he has an uneasy alliance with. He was saved by traditional medicine when he got COVID. I don't think he fucks around with the fake stuff. I agree it's likely an IV.
Trump take LEGO www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
To be clear: RFK Jr. is a sociopath, killing people at home & abroad, & whose anti-vaccine campaign is only part of the greatest threat to American public health in memory. But this is Trump & the GOP's doing. DJT continues to back Kennedy. This is on him & the party he leads. They're killers too.
Needless to say, I would not have been able to complete my PhD had this rule been in effect when I was a student. What a nightmare.
my hot take is that if vance takes the big chair, the whole maga coalition collapses from infighting and attempted power grabs in about thirty minutes. our boy jaydee does not put the fear of god in anyone.
As RFK Jr. destroys the US healthcare system and attacks science, @mariarepnikova.bsky.social and I talked to science historian William de Jong Lambert for Rhyming Chaos about Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet agronomist and pseudoscientist whose policies killed millions.
Envious, not jealous…
Trump is going to be insanely jealous after China's September 3 Victory Day military parade.
As RFK Jr. destroys the US healthcare system and attacks science, @mariarepnikova.bsky.social and I talked to science historian William de Jong Lambert for Rhyming Chaos about Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet agronomist and pseudoscientist whose policies killed millions.
Interesting.
all of the best old internet was on typepad blogs
The US is engaging in “active measures” in Greenland.
There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
good god
Whatever you think of Newsom, at least he is one of the few people with a platform saying things we all know to be true.
Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Sadly, I think it's going to get much worse than that before it gets better.
Great. Instead of fixing the encouraging-youth-to-commit-suicide problem, Sam Altman wants ChatGPT to snitch on its users.
The latest: • Soaring markets and another DeepSeek breakthrough •Putin and Modi to attend military parade • Trump's crumbling trade war update • Journalist denied Hong Kong visa • Youth culture, old consumers
There isn't enough crime and they fired the people whose job it was to pick up the trash!
Brutal. A humiliation ritual.
Text message from a friend of mine in DC: It’s unbearably sad in my neighborhood right now. There are at least 4 groups of patrolling soldiers in full military uniform carrying guns…Being from Africa I am frightened to see military forces in civilian neighborhoods…usually a sign of very bad things
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
The kakistocracy wins
I don’t even want to see his mug on a stamp.
Wise and somehow reassuring words from @andreapitzer.bsky.social:
New Rhyming Chaos podcast with @andreapitzer.bsky.social. We discuss: • The definition of “concentration camp” and if Trump’s camps meet the definition • Forced labor in Nazi Germany and Trump’s America • Economic incentives behind the ICE bonanza • How US journalism empowers Trump, & much more
You‘d think the centrists and establishment people would all be going apeshit for Pritzker because they’re always looking for a new John D Rockefeller but I get the sense that they haven’t thrown in with him because he’s a little fight-y and not obsessed with bipartisanship
We have to go to war with the weapons we have.
And @reidhoffman.bsky.social and @mcuban.bsky.social and @billgates.bsky.social put your money where your mouth is
Oh, also go AOC @aoc.bsky.social !
Also go Walz! @governorwalz.mn.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov
Chatter on Bluesky from American 'leftists' moaning about people they call 'liberals.' And also, 'liberals' whining. What a crock of shit. You are either against Trump and MechaHitler, or you are enabling them. It's pretty fucking yes or no right now. Go Mamdani. Go Pritzker. Go Newsom. FIGHT!
Look at the simping! The hand clasped respectful body language. Very North Korean.
Here for it.
For anyone who hasn't had enough of me discussing the Trump regime, I had a great half hour chat with @goldkorn.bsky.social a week or two ago about how Trump is attacking science and academia in the US, and what individuals can do about it www.rhymingchaos.com/p/a-mathemat...
If they had let Tim talk like this during the campaign, they might’ve won
This is for Bluesky:
Is there any organization documenting prosecutable crimes being done by Trump, Vance, Miller, Vought and their gang?
Good on Pritzker. Also, I learned the lovely word "Illinoisan"! Bring on the noise, Illinoisans!
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Zelensky posts congratulatory note from Xi Jinping marking Ukraine's independence day - first such note since the Russian invasion www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
I think state capture is the right way to think about it:
PRC-ization of America part the 10th. The U.S. regime invents an American PAP, the People’s Armed Police 武警部队, a paramilitary force expanded after June 4, 1989 by the PRC government to combat future public disorder.
This podcast interviewing people familiar with authoritarian behaviour and what to look out for in Trump's America just keeps getting (chillingly) better.
Here are two way to start the list of charges against Trump for his next impeachment and eventual trial for treason: www.trumpactiontracker.info reportersonline.eu/all-of-trump...
New Rhyming Chaos podcast with @andreapitzer.bsky.social. We discuss: • The definition of “concentration camp” and if Trump’s camps meet the definition • Forced labor in Nazi Germany and Trump’s America • Economic incentives behind the ICE bonanza • How US journalism empowers Trump, & much more
Trump+henchmen are conditioning the country for their next insurrection if they lose an election. The DOD+IC and DOJ+FBI purges, combined with troops and goon squad in Democratic cities create the tools to invoke the Insurrection Act.
“They claim to read the same books” is such a multilayered burn, I LOVE it
Lolita has the worst fans, but most of them don't know who Nabokov is.
Chomsky.
It's always @teenvogue.com that steps up, while the rest of the media is still in the "is it authoritarianism? Some experts warn of rightward shift in Trump administration" mode. www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...
One of the things I am enjoying about Bluesky compared to Twitter is that I do not get moralizing lectures from anonymous randos. I am going to block you, because I like it that way. I suggest you reflect on the size of the chip on your shoulder.
Never said it has anything to do with China. China is of course not responsible. But it shows the same approach to data that Chinese companies are forced to live with. Merely comparing something to China is not "Orientalizing," a word that you are misusing here.
Bloomberg journalist Rebecca Choong Wilkins latest to be denied Hong Kong work visa ‘without reason’, as press groups raise concerns – HKFP