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The journalistic abdication is incredible. An important, powerful person with a vested interest says something just wild—and you don’t figure out how to check it out and contextualize?

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Anyway, he actually says some sensible/interesting stuff about how people should de-mythologize “AI” systems and think of them as software products needing safety and reliability testing—but always manages to include some rhetoric that detracts.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Huang doesn't know his address because he has people available to him to do stuff at all times. It’s not the most relatable deskilling example, but it‘s also not quite like relying on chaotic and unaccountable computer systems.

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White House is violating court’s order with impunity, and CNN, MSNOW, and Politico are heading back to court. DOJ’s options are to admit incompetence or confess contempt of a court order and the rule of law.

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What China’s Vibe-Coding Capital Can Tell Us About the A.I. Boom

Too much of the China “AI” discussion is about imaginary things. @afrawang.bsky.social in The New Yorker brings us the opposite—a story of how people are using LLM technology and what AI means from one of many culturally situated perspectives. Read: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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Liangzhu, a small town near the tech hub Hangzhou, has become a haven for tech workers burnt out by the grind of China’s booming tech industry.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

in a rule of law regime, judges rule once and the government abides by orders

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to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 23/09/2026

Do you mean to tell me the whole apparatus is for stills?

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we seem to be a real scaredy cat country with all this insecurity these days

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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 23/09/2026

Good grief. We should hang a portrait of the deleted student from Hoover Tower and compensate them all with a year of free tuition.

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I think I’ve figured out what’s wrong with DC. In a town of big umbrellas, no one has the delightful hook on the handle. Always the stick. A refusal to enjoy a twirl now and then.

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ChinAI #375: Critiquing Anthropic’s Variant of Pacing the Frontier

ChinaAI from @jeffreyding.bsky.social is always worthwhile, but Amodei essays seem to occasion some of the most pointed writing. Highly recommend this post. chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-375... Too many in the press and policy worlds take each CEO missive in isolation and without needed context.

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Greetings from a world where…

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not sure how to measure a comparison but absence of publicity in controlled media should not be mistaken for absence of terrible injustice

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Gabriele is not a fish from those waters.

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Jesus man you’re a drummer!

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literally what the hell? I’m not a full time national security person but it’s deeply important for service members to have excellent resources on China, including civilian scholars. Did someone say the wrong thing in a meeting with the windbags at the top?

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“If you can’t find your client, don’t know what’s happening to your client, you can’t get that information to the court to stop their removal,” said My Khanh Ngo of the ACLU, who I can assure you is a good source.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I read ”several months of incantation”

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Some may recall that during the Y2K panic in 1999, there were rumors/fears that planes were at risk of falling out of the sky at midnight on NYE. The Chinese government responded by ordering all its airline executives to be aloft in one of their planes at that hour. www.wired.com/1999/01/y2k-...

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Y2K in China: Caught in Midair

China orders its airline executives to fly on New Year's Day, 2000. You can bet those execs are taking the Y2K problem seriously now.

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1) good if they’re prepared to consult on any emergency 2) really there’s not a current way to get in touch if the other side is willing to listen? 3) of course china has a history of not picking up when us rings on the hotline 4) an “agreement” not yet endorsed by the boss, but leaked to press

Sources familiar with the talks tell me: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent & USTR Jamieson Greer
worked out an agreement to have a direct
"hotline" with China over artificial intelligence. This "hotline", similar to the direct line of communication the military has, will allow either side to have a direct line if any issues arise with Al over hacking, national security concerns, rogue A-l's, or other Al concerns. President Trump will give a thumbs up or thumbs down on
the deal this week before meeting President Xi.

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Let’s be conservative and say the average PhD takes five years of training in a specialized field. (Estimates vary online.) Thats 50,000 years of training lost, not to mention any other experience these people accumulated.

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Now we’re talking. I kept looking for any actual action in expressions of solidarity.

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Leo Schwartz (@leomschwartz) on X

I transcribed from a longer video, but here's a similar one. It's worth noting Bessent isn't reading from written notes and sounds tired/confused. Probably should not parse too literally. x.com/leomschwartz...

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On a potential AI slowdown, Treasury Sec. Bessent said that the U.S. and China discussed a mechanism called the U.S.-China AI dialogue and have agreed to meet again. The U.S. proposed a notification ...

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So Bessent has said in the future tense a "US-China AI Dialogue" is to exist. In May, Xinhua reported that the two leaders 同意开展人工智能政府间对话 "agreed to establish a government-to-government dialogue on AI." www.news.cn/20260519/201...

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外交部：中美同意开展人工智能政府间对话-新华网

外交部：中美同意开展人工智能政府间对话-

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"The notification for whether there are incidents, whether there has been something that rises up to a national security level from AI, 'cuz we think, just like in any cross-border activity, that moving from opaque to more transparency between the #1 and the #2 AI powers in the world is vry impt.”

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"What we discussed was setting up a mechanism. It’s going to be called the US-China AI Dialogue. We’ve agreed to meet again. We– the US has proposed that we have a notification mechanism between the two countries and we want a shared vision of our common goals and common concerns”

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Bessent quotes I transcribed (may not be perfect) from a video on X. "We just had a very successful engagement wiith the Chinese on trade and AI, completing where we left off in Beijing. We–there we created the Board of Trade and began the subject of AI, and this evening those were operationalized.”

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Bessent says they talked about econ and AI, and reporter questions brought out more on AI. Chinese readout goes on about Econ consultations and says oh yeah also AI was discussed. www.news.cn/world/202609...