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a birb @rhiolit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Could have done better with a better domestic leader, but I think failing to understand how much life absolutely sucked before him will prevent you from understanding the somewhat complicated attitude a lot of even quite educated and well informed Chinese people have towards him
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
After China dominated the market for cheap drones, Chinese firms are selling cheap drone interceptors... www.ft.com/content/547e...
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China bets on exports of cheap 3D-printed drone killers
Chinese companies rush into sector as global conflicts raise demand for interceptors
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A new project: data bridge between #deepseek harness and #emacs: github.com/seewhydee/ds... Also my first serious effort at Emacs dev in about 15 years. Mostly AI aided for now, but will dig in manual polishing once the grunt work's done.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 15/08/2026
There's a new animated film out in China called Niu Lai that was made by a man and his mother over 5 years without any investment, marketing, or promotion. It made $1,100 from a few hundred people in attendance over its first 10 days, with many shocked that this could make it to the big screen.
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
As seen on Reddit.
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Calling it now, this "AI safety feature" is going to be turned into a creepy surveillance tool.
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The editorial line for #TheEconomist has always been negative on China, but this issue is really something else. The cover and reporting goes one way; editorial pushes in opposite direction with a stream of "but at what cost" cliches.
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I was wondering why #deepseek was giving 503 errors this morning, then saw this.
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Why are there suddenly so many shady companies with Tolkien-based names? And why do they all give the same vibes as Sauron forging the One Ring?
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
MiMo-2.5 turned down a job on an RPG project because it's high risk ;-) Not even mad, just curious how this happened.
Opencode session with mimo-2.5. The prompt says to work on a plan to make an AI RPG GM. The request was rejected because it was considered high risk.
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philpax @philpax.me · 31/07/2026
DeepSeek are fuckin' back api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I guess we're gonna have to refight all those 1990s battles over obnoxious freeware license terms all over again, including old-BSD style attribution clauses, commercial use restrictions, etc.
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Upgraded my Kimi subscription after reading this. Gib AI communism pls.
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"Do you know who I am? I demand to speak with your manager!" xcancel.com/balajis/stat...
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Tyler Cowen envisions a wave of Americans fanning out to third world countries to teach the ignorant natives how to use ChatGPT...
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Belatedly watched Oppenheimer. I liked it, but it's a pity how it skimmed over how the actual work of physics was done, or what made the historical Oppenheimer special (his charisma, organizational chops, and mentoring ability).
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is my mental image of oil tanker captains in the Straits of Hormuz now.
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
As I see it, the great bastion of hope for left techno-utopianism currently is Hangzhou Deepseek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Company, Ltd.
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
???????
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Original scifi and fantasy cover art on display at the Portals exhibition, Singapore
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Coda: I've wondered if the fact that the fascists currently running the global hegemon are obsessed with a warrior ethos but also make literally all the mistakes that Sun Tzu identified, basically they're just the kind of failsons he was warning against, might make people appreciate Art of War more.
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
An experimental project I've been messing with: get LLMs to prepare and run a tabletop style RPG adventure scenario. It's at a minimally playable level, and on GitHub: My GM is AI (github.com/seewhydee/my...).
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antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Another important thing: Chinese models are not strong because they distill US models. Distillation of models via API is *impossible*. If somebody tells you the contrary, they don't understand machine learning:
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codeofrobin.bsky.social @codeofrobin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Masterful play Dario
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Deepseek's censorship still remains by far the most incompetently done thing about it. Here it is censoring Mao Zedong thought. Can't have Maoism polluting impressionable minds!
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Hoyo whaling
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Tyler Cowen's gonna write a passive aggressive (ahem, Strausssian) post about how this is what democratic oversight is actually like, and people are too mood-affiliated to understand it.
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
What will be the next shoe to drop? A couple of stray thoughts: * US funded academics will be forbidden from doing peer review on Chinese (or all foreign) papers? * The AAAS (an AMERICAN Association after all) forbidden from publishing papers by Chinese (or all foreign) researchers?
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Look at it. Hormuz has that MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY "I realized I've only seen maps of the Strait of Hormuz and was curious what it actually looks like. It's majestic! It could be a tourist destination"
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
If you want to understand how the solar boom is playing out across the Global South, a good place to start is Agbon, Benin, where I lived for 2 yrs. It's exceedingly unexceptional: the reason solar is taking off there is bc it's taking off everywhere🧵 timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/solar-is-e...
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Solar is everywhere now. Even here.
How the solar boom is playing out in one West African village
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So, about that Kuwaiti jet that mistakenly shot down three F-15s... Do they get to paint kill marks on the plane?
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 05/02/2026
US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe ft.trib.al/rg4IDIC
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US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe
State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Tyler Cowen hack fraud watch. In this one, he gently chides people for being emotional about a brutal murder by ICE, and tries to steer the conversation toward "political equilibrium" analysis. Getting roasted in the comments.
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Tyler Cowen hack fraud watch. In this one, Tyler enumerates US coups in Latin America and finds they're a net good. The US-Mexico War, the "most unjust war" In Grant's words, is a utilitarian success as the US made better use of the territory it annexed. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
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U.S. interventions in the New World, with leader removal - Marginal REVOLUTION
I can think of a few.  I am not thinking of ongoing struggles, such as the funding of opposition to the Sandinistas, rather I wish to focus on cases where the key leaders actually were removed.  After...
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Attended the Albatross File exhibition at the National Library, about Singapore's negotiated secession from Malaysia. Here's my summary:
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Between the “unitary executive” and Donald Trump extraordinary command of the Republican Party, he’s obtained unprecedented ability to govern the country according to his personal whims — extremely bad news for the long term. www.slowboring.com/p/a-warning-...
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A warning sign for America about Trump’s personalist rule
Why and when do autocracies underperform on growth?
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Forbes @forbes.com · 12/08/2025
Singapore Paints Billionaire Goh Cheng Liang Dies At 98
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Singapore Paints Billionaire Goh Cheng Liang Dies At 98
Singapore Paints Billionaire Goh Cheng Liang Dies At 98
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
One of the minor perks of being a professional physicist, to me, is receiving occasional crackpot papers. I used to try to read them, but nowadays seldom have enough time. Aside from the entertainment value, there's also a lottery aspect of maybe, just maybe, discovering the next Satyendra Bose...
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Andrew Watt @andrewwatteu.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
In the face of the most blatant trade coercion since at least 1945, the EU has failed to even activate its anti-coercion instrument, designed, as the name indicates, precisely for this purpose. It has let down trading partners less able to stand up to Trump's bullying and weakened multilateralism. 8
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
‘There is nothing to buy’: Gaza’s descent into mass starvation www.ft.com/content/e5d7...
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‘There is nothing to buy’: Gaza’s descent into mass starvation
Israel’s offensive and aid curbs tip enclave of 2.1mn Palestinians into famine
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Beth Kitson @drbethkitson.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
‘On the days he and his brother cannot find food, the children eat a tablespoon of salt and fill their bellies with water.’
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵
Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
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L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This is a common framing, but what actually strikes me about Singapore's tutoring scene is... how relatively mild it is. I'm sure there are some students who are stressed and over-tutored, but it is not a major social ill.
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cyd @chongyidong.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
More progress on cross-border clean energy trading within Southeast Asia. Could be faster...
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F Shawn @realfshawn.blacksky.app · 08/06/2025
Fuck The Atlantic as a staff, record label and as a motherfuckin' crew And if you want to be down with The Atlantic, then fuck you too.
An article asking where Obama is and well he told you to vote and you said nah so what the fuck?
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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Visiting the US right now is at that weird skydiving risk level where the odds are clearly overwhelmingly in favor of nothing bad happening, but if something did happen even your friends would be thinking "well that wasn't a super necessary risk"
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Punk Flight @european-military-aircrafts.net · 27/05/2025
... 😑
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WarshipCam @warshipcam.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Republic of Singapore Navy Formidable-class frigate RSS Formidable (68) in London, England - May 4, 2025 SRC: TW-@GeoffreyWatson2
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 03/05/2025
Volley fire of longbow arrows looks cool in movies, but its bollocks as an actual battlefield tactic. It never happened. @bretdevereaux.bsky.social takes us through it acoup.blog/2025/05/02/c... (aLso @michaellivingston.com 's book on Agincourt gets a mention too)
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Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire
This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know the scene: the general readies his archers, he orders them to ‘draw!’ and then…
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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
7 habits that make you look like a professor.
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