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David Cowhig 高大伟

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Retired US State Dept guy, worked 10 yrs in PRC (Beijing and Chengdu), good at reading 'communist Chinese' Qiushi etc., now studying ancient Chinese and literature. Enjoy studying languages. Ham call WA1LBP. Translation blog: gaodawei.wordpress.com

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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 1h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher (Gift Article)
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 1h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models (Gift Article)
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 1h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/w...
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Israeli Settlers Stop Soldiers From Returning Palestinians to Their Home (Gift Article)
The Supreme Court had ordered the military to ensure a West Bank family that fled violence could go back. But settlers blocked the effort, with the authorities accused of not doing enough to confront ...
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 1h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Why China Is Requiring Ninth Graders to Read ‘Jane Eyre’ (Gift Article)
The Victorian heroine has long been celebrated in China for her independence and insistence on equality.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 2h
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Is China Really Stealing A.I. From American Companies? (Gift Article)
As Xi Jinping visits President Trump in Washington, the leaders are expected to discuss claims that China is surreptitiously copying American A.I. technologies, a process known as distillation.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 2h
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The Voices Behind ‘Made in China’ (Gift Article)
In a faltering Chinese economy, working-class stories are striking a chord.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 2h
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Trump Administration Prepares to Ask Tax Filers if They Are U.S. Citizens (Gift Article)
The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 2h
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Voice of America Cuts Hurt ‘U.S. National Interests,’ Internal Watchdog Says (Gift Article)
The assessment by the State Department’s inspector general echoes concerns raised by critics of the move to shutter V.O.A., including some Republicans in Congress.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 2h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 11h
2026: PRC Profs on America’s Tech Right and Trump’s New Political-Technological Alliance Chinese scholars are examining the US high tech far right and its influence on the current US government even as China confronts its own questions how to adapt to the AI cyber world tides. Below is a ChatGPT…
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2026: PRC Profs on America’s Tech Right and Trump’s New Political-Technological Alliance
Chinese scholars are examining the US high tech far right and its influence on the current US government even as China confronts its own questions how to adapt to the AI cyber world tides. Below is a ChatGPT constructed bibliography of current Chinese work focusing on the influence of US far right high tech investor and philosopher Peter Thiel on the Trump Administration.
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Vivian 賭城婆婆🌹🌊 @vivian08102023.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
教皇笑納披薩🍕的風采👍😹
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Min Jin Lee Was Underestimated for Half Her Life. Then She Started to Write. (Gift Article)
A torch bearer for the great 19th-century tradition of social realism, she’s become one of the most important novelists of her generation.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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‘We Are Losing Our Soul as a Nation’
What we saw in Springfield, Ohio.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
they claim insurrectioning is protected free speech
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Revolving Door: Why ICE Agents Are Quitting in Record Numbers open.substack.com/pub/eyesonic...
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The Revolving Door: Why ICE Agents Are Quitting in Record Numbers
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is running an unprecedented hiring surge to staff a mass deportation machine, throwing cash at recruits to double the workforce on paper.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2026 Liao Yiwu on Gao Zhen and Gao Zhen’s Final Statement to the Court 英文翻译 廖亦武著《深海》与高兟:无奈的申辩与自白 ——我的最后陈述 gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/2...
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2026 Liao Yiwu on Gao Zhen and Gao Zhen’s Final Statement to the Court
Gao Zhen, a PRC citizen and permanent resident of the USA, returned to China for a visit. Gao was not allowed to depart. He was charged, convicted and sentenced to three years in prison for ‘…
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Steady State and Marc Ostfield: We Built It for 80 Years. We’re Dismantling It in Months. Diplomatic power took generations to build. The damage being done now could take generations to repair. steadystate1.substack.com/p/we-built-i...
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We Built It for 80 Years. We’re Dismantling It in Months.
Diplomatic power took generations to build. The damage being done now could take generations to repair.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2026 Liao Yiwu on Gao Zhen and Gao Zhen’s Final Statement to the Court Gao Zhen, a PRC citizen and permanent resident of the USA, returned to China for a visit. Gao was not allowed to depart. He was charged, convicted and sentenced to three years in prison for 'slandering people's heroes',…
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2026 Liao Yiwu on Gao Zhen and Gao Zhen’s Final Statement to the Court
Gao Zhen, a PRC citizen and permanent resident of the USA, returned to China for a visit. Gao was not allowed to depart. He was charged, convicted and sentenced to three years in prison for 'slandering people's heroes', specifically the people's hero Mao Zedong aka The Great Red Sun in our Hearts. The Gao Zhen case is making some Chinese citizens abroad have second thoughts about a visit back home.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
5 weeks before the midterms, American taxpayers are paying to air an ad from the 2024 Trump campaign. You are paying for this political ad. bsky.app/profile/bayl...
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abcdef 🕶️ @onecaliberal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The NFL is owned by rapists and genocide supporters.
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melora72.bsky.social @melora72.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I consider Trump renaming foreig places as American a form of theft. He has always been a thief.
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Lady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An actual cartoon from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
2026: Feng Zhenghu | Those Words “May Refrain from Informing”: The Weight of Article 6 of the New Exit-Entry Regulations Some other translations on law in China: 2023 Party to Law Schools: Strengthen Xi Jinping Thought on Law Education 2023: Building China’s Independent Legal Thinking Guided by Xi…
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2026: Feng Zhenghu | Those Words “May Refrain from Informing”: The Weight of Article 6 of the New Exit-Entry Regulations
Some other translations on law in China: 2023 Party to Law Schools: Strengthen Xi Jinping Thought on Law Education 2023: Building China’s Independent Legal Thinking Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Law 2022: Chinese Law Prof’s Lament and Encouragement 2004/2019/2022: PRC Lawyer: China Law Will Progress, Despite Everything 2021: Xi Jinping Thought on Rule By Law 2019: Some Thoughts on Law in China…
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sylviseb 💙🌈☮️🌊💙💛Maga➡️blocked💛💙🌎🌻✌️🦋 @sylviseb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Less than a human being is just one of the things he'll be remembered for.
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We’re not being governed, we’re being looted!
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
冯正虎 | 那句”可以不告知”:出入境新规第六条的分量 yibaochina.com?p=258634
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冯正虎 | 那句"可以不告知":出入境新规第六条的分量 - 议报
来源:作者的X.com账户@fzhenghu 2026年7月31日公布、9月15日起施行的《国务院关于出境入境管理的规定》,条文不多,却有一句话值得反复琢磨。 第六条写道:对依法决定不准出境的人员,决定机关应当及时通知移民管理机构执行,并”向当事人书面告知不准出境的事实、理由、依据和救济途径”;紧接着是一个转折——”有可能影响国家安全、刑事案件侦查等情形的,可以不告知当事人”。第二款则规定,移民管...
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
2026: Querying DeepSeek in English and Chinese: Differences gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/2...
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2026: Querying DeepSeek in English and Chinese: Differences
Large Language Model AI systems can a fine information search tool as long as we keep in mind their biases, limitations, strengths and weaknesses. Otherwise we may trick ourselves into dependence u…
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
2026: Querying DeepSeek in English and Chinese: Differences Large Language Model AI systems can a fine information search tool as long as we keep in mind their biases, limitations, strengths and weaknesses. Otherwise we may trick ourselves into dependence upon cyber overlords. That could happen…
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2026: Querying DeepSeek in English and Chinese: Differences
Large Language Model AI systems can a fine information search tool as long as we keep in mind their biases, limitations, strengths and weaknesses. Otherwise we may trick ourselves into dependence upon cyber overlords. That could happen even if the threat of looming monsters of quasi?-fascist accelerationism advocates exist only in our minds and overheated philosophizing. Below I compare the results of Chinese and English language queries to China's…
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jaculis.bsky.social @jaculis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a plausible translation.
September twenty-fourth

Homework

Respected model Volodymyr M.

1. Respect and benevolence toward everyone

Testament of Monomakh: Honor elders

as parents, and younger ones as brothers

Modern adaptation : Treat with respect The experience of elders is support for the young Always smile, be tolerant A feeling of success both in real life, and online

2. Testament of M.: "Be kind", strong favorable to the poor and defenseless, protect orphans and widows.

Modern adaptation :
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The school notebook of the 14-year-old boy killed by Russia in Kyiv today. The Russian strike killed him in the middle of the day, in his own room. His desk still had the notebook with unfinished homework.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2026: Safeguarding the Sound Development of Artificial Intelligence Through Rule of Law in Cybersecurity 英文翻译: 光明日报 邹学庚著《以网络安全法治护航人工智能健康发展》 gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/2...
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2026: Safeguarding the Sound Development of Artificial Intelligence Through Rule of Law in Cybersecurity
Professor Zou Zugeng’s appeared in Guangming Ribao, 《光明日报》 (Guangming Daily) published by the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee and was reprinted in other PRC media including …
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2026: Safeguarding the Sound Development of Artificial Intelligence Through Rule of Law in Cybersecurity Professor Zou Zugeng's appeared in Guangming Ribao, 《光明日报》 (Guangming Daily) published by the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee and was reprinted in other PRC media including the…
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2026: Safeguarding the Sound Development of Artificial Intelligence Through Rule of Law in Cybersecurity
Professor Zou Zugeng's appeared in Guangming Ribao, 《光明日报》 (Guangming Daily) published by the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee and was reprinted in other PRC media including the Party ideological journal Qiushi. Guangming Ribao is the Chinese Communist Party’s principal intellectual, cultural, and theoretical newspaper—a Party paper aimed particularly at academics, educators, writers, scientists, and other intellectuals, rather than a general political newspaper in the mold of People’s Daily.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
CROSSPOST: SINEAD O’SULLIVAN: SpaceX Pivots Away from Space braddelong.substack.com/p/spacex-bro...
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CROSSPOST: SINEAD O’SULLIVAN: SpaceX Pivots Away from Space
Sinead’s subheadline: “Starbase, we have a problem”; the megabear case on SpaceX makes a lot of sense; as Nilay Patel ways: it’s broadband telecom with a splashy marketing department...
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2026: PRC State Media on 9/26 General Secretary Xi Jinping's Visit gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/2...
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2026: PRC State Media on 9/26 General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Visit
[Video] Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan Chat over Tea with President Trump and the First Lady  Video at  The CCTV evening news broadcasts are archived on YouTube at Below is the September 25, 2026 repor…
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2026: PRC State Media on 9/26 General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Visit Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan Chat over Tea with President Trump and the First Lady  Video at  The CCTV evening news broadcasts are archived on YouTube at Below is the September 25, 2026 report on Chinese Communist Party General…
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2026: PRC State Media on 9/26 General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Visit
Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan Chat over Tea with President Trump and the First Lady  Video at  The CCTV evening news broadcasts are archived on YouTube at Below is the September 25, 2026 report on Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping's state visit. from CCTV transcript of the news broadcast archived above   ChatGPT machine translation below is followed by the Chinese language official text.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump Admin approaches Quebec for special deal; Quebec says no. www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/09/25/w...
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Ingérence: Washington a approché Québec directement sur les tarifs douaniers pour court-circuiter Ottawa dans la guerre commerciale
Les représentants de l’administration Trump souhaitaient discuter d’une possible diminution de certains tarifs.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The U.S. government contacted Quebec government, in an attempt to bypass Canada in trade talks. Quebec said no. Ingérence: Washington a approché Québec directement sur les tarifs douaniers pour court-circuiter Ottawa dans la guerre commerciale | TVA Nouvelles www.tvanouvelles.ca/2026/09/25/w...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Marco Rubio: “Iranians are radical religious lunatics.” Also: Have you met Paula White, the White House faith advisor?
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2021: Zhuangzi’s Three Modes of Speech Zhuangzi sometimes enlists Confucius as a strawman saying unConfucian things! Ancient IPR violation? 英文翻译: 林凱著《莊子「三言」與「道」之傳達》 gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/2...
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2021: Zhuangzi’s Three Modes of Speech
Zhuangzi even enlists Confucius (no doubt kicking and screaming as much as the Confucian li permit) as his straw man. Getting used to these terms might take a bit of work so I enlisted ChatGPT (no …
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2021: Zhuangzi’s Three Modes of Speech Zhuangzi even enlists Confucius (no doubt kicking and screaming as much as the Confucian li permit) as his straw man. Getting used to these terms might take a bit of work so I enlisted ChatGPT (no doubt kicking and screaming in its AI non-conscious way) to do…
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2021: Zhuangzi’s Three Modes of Speech
Zhuangzi even enlists Confucius (no doubt kicking and screaming as much as the Confucian li permit) as his straw man. Getting used to these terms might take a bit of work so I enlisted ChatGPT (no doubt kicking and screaming in its AI non-conscious way) to do a warm up. Zhuangzi has characters in his stories speak for him, drafts sages like Confucius.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2026: Preventing AI Doomsday? PRC AI Policy While Silicon Valley tech bros fulminate on AI Doomsday, Chinese leaders minimize risks, enlist AI to build a China guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/2...
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2026: Preventing AI Doomsday? PRC AI Policy
There has been lots of monster movie-like AI Doomsday talk lately. While the depredations of the monster crab is great fun (as long as your head doesn’t get between the claws) and Invasion of…
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2026: Preventing AI Doomsday? PRC AI Policy There has been lots of monster movie-like AI Doomsday talk lately. While the depredations of the monster crab is great fun (as long as your head doesn't get between the claws) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers a warning against spies and alien enemies…
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2026: Preventing AI Doomsday? PRC AI Policy
There has been lots of monster movie-like AI Doomsday talk lately. While the depredations of the monster crab is great fun (as long as your head doesn't get between the claws) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers a warning against spies and alien enemies within, this kind of SF cloud tech bro thinking is a distraction. Meanwhile Chinese leaders have been wondering about the AI world and how it might help build a China guided by…
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2026: Keeping PRC AI Training Data Ideologically Pure and Improving Chinese Language AI Functionality: Chinese Internet Basic Corpus 4.0 gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/2... #AI #China
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2026: Keeping PRC AI Training Data Ideologically Pure and Improving Chinese Language AI Functionality: Chinese Internet Basic Corpus 4.0
Data collected on the Internet including the Common Crawl is one of the sources for ‘AI’ Large Language Model training. The quality and biases in the information therein, including the …
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2026: Keeping PRC AI Training Data Ideologically Pure and Improving Chinese Language AI Functionality: Chinese Internet Basic Corpus 4.0 Data collected on the Internet including the Common Crawl is one of the sources for 'AI' Large Language Model training. The quality and biases in the information…
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2026: Keeping PRC AI Training Data Ideologically Pure and Improving Chinese Language AI Functionality: Chinese Internet Basic Corpus 4.0
Data collected on the Internet including the Common Crawl is one of the sources for 'AI' Large Language Model training. The quality and biases in the information therein, including the proportion of data in various languages affects AI performance. Queries to an AI in Chinese on Chinese topics can sometimes return superior results. In the PRC a curated set of training data presumably adding in much Chinese language material from books, magazine articles, government documents and elsewhere helps mitigate this problem.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Couldn't find translation of Peng Dehuai's letter to Mao at Lushan so made one. 1959: Peng Dehuai Writes to Mao Criticizing the “Great Leap Forward” gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/1...
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1959: Peng Dehuai Writes to Mao Criticizing the “Great Leap Forward”
Peng Dehuai’s 1959 private letter to Mao Zedong. Mao circulated the letter at the Lushan Conference and had Peng criticized for it. From Wikipedia: Lushan Conference The Lushan Conference was a mee…
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Solidarity 💥
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/09/2026
NEWS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured a record $131.5 million settlement from DoorDash after a NYC investigation found the company underpaid or failed to properly pay 264,000 delivery workers. 1/
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2021: Achieve a Correct Understanding of Modern Chinese History History is confusing. People disagree. China's Party fixes that. 英文翻译:中共中央关于党的百年奋斗重大成就和历史经验的决议 (2021年11月11日中国共产党第十九届中央委员会第六次全体会议通过) gaodawei.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/2...
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2021: Achieve a Correct Understanding of Modern Chinese History
History is confusing. Historians, government, political parties and the people on TV all keep saying different and contradictory things about it. Even professional historians disagree sometimes. Fo…
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2021: Achieve a Correct Understanding of Modern Chinese History History is confusing. Historians, government, political parties and the people on TV all keep saying different and contradictory things about it. Even professional historians disagree sometimes. Fortunately China has a Communist Party…
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2021: Achieve a Correct Understanding of Modern Chinese History
History is confusing. Historians, government, political parties and the people on TV all keep saying different and contradictory things about it. Even professional historians disagree sometimes. Fortunately China has a Communist Party that can keep things straight by penetrating its influence into every cell of society. This is the 2021 version of history. Canonical interpretations may vary under different leaders but all are absolutely correct until the next ones come along.
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