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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s his now (not least because SO MUCH FUR)

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This happened in October and reportedly was because several of the trees were sick or damaged

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A mural in Edgewater of Dolly Parton

A picture of Dolly Parton painted on a wall

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 16/07/2026

If we’re going to have Beijing air then we should at least get Beijing restaurants/bookstores/bike lanes too

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

AQI: 179. That’s about the threshold at which I wouldn’t go outside without a mask when living in China

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Strong ~2010 Beijing vibes in Chicago today. Smells very strongly of smoke

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Hilarious, actually, as I’ve had to retool my team’s professional translation processes repeatedly over the last 6 months as LLMs infiltrate formerly good tools and break old machine-assisted processes. Those tools now routinely make up passages or omit entire paragraphs from the source

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

“Managing risk alone” is exactly what it felt like to teach social science for an American university in the PRC, FWIW. At least admins at local universities could sometimes be honest about red lines and help faculty navigate them.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I submit to you that these are functionally equivalent.

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A wild tidbit in the new issue of Foreign Affairs "Some Trump officials have even invoked the former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's dictum "hide your strength, bide your time" to describe their rationale for avoiding confrontation with China"

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Google Translate is also mostly broken due to Gemini integration 🫠

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Not mad at my choices tonight

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Like, the Holy See has been around an order of magnitude longer than the US, sit tf down

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Has anyone checked on Moo Deng?

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

NYT reporting that China intervened with Tehran to push for a ceasefire at the last minute. Not that shocking tbh, any wider escalation risks forfeiting the massive benefits China is getting during Washington’s distraction by squeezing their energy supplies and economy further

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Pretty sure no one, anywhere, has the full picture right now

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Google just plugged Gemini into Google Translate and it is nigh unusable. Keeps adding things that weren’t in the original or skipping over things that are too complex

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Rupert offers a vicious timeline cleanse for a very strange day

A Shiba Inu toothily enjoying some yogurt

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Last Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Since Artemis will orbit the moon today, sharing one of the all-time great Chinese propaganda posters, in which the moon rabbit gives a bouquet to the world’s most cherubic astronaut. The late scholar Stefan Landsberger used this as the cover of his wonderful book of Chinese posters.

Alt text: Vintage Chinese propaganda poster showing a smiling toddler in an orange romper and silver helmet styled like a space suit, sitting on a toy rocket and reaching toward a white rabbit that offers a bouquet of flowers. The child wears a toy camera and is surrounded by dreamy imagery including stars, a temple, doves, and a small astronaut figure in the background, creating a whimsical space-age scene. Red Chinese characters appear below the image.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

15/ This will have the biggest impact on China. At 5.2 mbd, any disruption to Persian Gulf supply would hit China harder than any other nation, with limited short-term substitution options. Approximately a third of China's oil supply comes from the Gulf.

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Ai-Men Lau 劉羿雯 @aimenlau.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I’d love to see the average white North American Tik Tok user be subjected to a Chinese auntie’s blunt comments and probing questions about your weight, love life, babies, and salary. I’d bet that many would not be “Chinamaxxing” anymore

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi's reaction as Trump says "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour?" Undoubtedly the worst American diplomatic gaffe in post-war US-Japan history.

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

New from me and my team, on how China manages its electromagnetic spectrum resources: www.uscc.gov/research/chi...

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China’s Management of Electromagnetic Spectrum Resources

Prepared by BluePath Labs, LLC

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I just simply cannot imagine being a supposedly Serious Person and directing my staff to police which photos of me as a public figure got published, not to mention the staff gleefully going along with it as if it was normal (yes, I know *image* matters, that is not what this is)

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

My team has been digging into their reactions for CASI. This on Midnight Hammer, for instance: www.airuniversity.af.edu/CASI/Display...

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

NASA just completely overhauled its lunar program, functionally admitting what I reported a while back: that China is in position to beat the United States back to the Moon, and declare an end to a century of American technical and scientific supremacy. www.wired.com/story/china-...

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Trump Declared a Space Race With China. The US Is Losing

If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there.

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China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum @chinalawtranslate.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

There is so much going on in the Draft Cybercrime Law that I can't do it justice: - fortifying real-name registration - threatening VPNs - China's first penalties for possession of CSAM - cyberviolence protections - New offenses for enabling cybercrime (including converting gains to crypto)

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China's Draft Cybercrime Law

The draft is already controversial, with some commentators concerned that it increases online surveillance, fortifies censorship, and extends long-arm jurisdiction to conduct overseas. While it is not...

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Clambered onto my desk during a work call next

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Today in “that is a cat”

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Errr let’s not go crazy now

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Also: a network of trusted allies

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I had a null finding paper in grad school that I was advised to shelve because null findings are known to be nearly impossible to publish

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

A startling number of my millennial-ish friends in both Taiwan and China credit this show with teaching them English

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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Allow me to rush to say that economics columnist Adam Tooze knows nothing about Chinese military modernization. Being smart about one thing does not make you smart about everything.

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

This would indeed be explosive if true, but I would encourage deep skepticism lacking further confirmation. Someone like Zhang either suddenly going turncoat or being a longtime US asset without being detected is nigh incomprehensible

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026