Reposted by Josh ChinMichelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 29/01/2026For nearly a century, the @washingtonpost’s foreign correspondents have been on the ground for the world’s most pressing stories. Now, our desk is facing potential steep cuts. Washington needs us. The world needs us. If you read us and need us, please watch this video and share. 11283124
Josh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social · 21/09/2025This is yet another story about authoritarianism — but one that hits a little different. Phurba is resilience incarnate, a person born for these times. And his tale is bonkers. I hope you enjoy reading it as much we did reporting it. Gift link: www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...wsj.comThe Daring Caper of a Faithful Tibetan Who Outfoxed ChinaHe escaped from police and crossed thousands of miles of wilderness on a decadelong odyssey toward freedom. 29232
Reposted by Josh ChinKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Hi, former Foreign Service Officer here The Secretary of State might be interested to learn that visa requirements and terms are generally reciprocal. We do it to them, they do it to us. 37468441834
Reposted by Josh ChinGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 04/08/2025it is not the case that if you stop observing bad things, the bad things go away 45920
Reposted by Josh Chinslate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 31/07/2025sure fuck it, whatever. we deserve this 25545105
Reposted by Josh ChinKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/07/2025What a great, great farewell note 2451052
Reposted by Josh ChinZeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social · 29/07/2025LLMs are basically terrifying users by force-feeding them niche fanfic texts without context. There's a reason why fandoms congregate on small forums to talk out their inside jokes because they don't want innocent people to stumble into their space and freak out without knowing the context!!! 112523
Reposted by Josh ChinDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/07/2025This is a really crazy thing to do. 38785212
Reposted by Josh ChinThe Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 25/07/2025As the U.S. heads toward trade talks with China next week, President Trump is increasingly focused on trying to strike an economic bargain with Beijing.on.wsj.comTrump Is Shifting to Dealmaking Mode on ChinaThe White House puts a priority on doing business with Beijing as it prepares for bilateral talks next week. 14106
Reposted by Josh ChinBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 25/07/2025The most interesting fact about Hulk Hogan is that as a kid in France, Andre the Giant sometimes got driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett 568657967
Reposted by Josh ChinAmanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 24/07/2025Your moment of joy today. 25113
Reposted by Josh ChinWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 24/07/2025This is shattering, must-read journalism from @leloveluck.bsky.social, Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Siham Shamalakh, Miriam Berger and @cheesemanab.bsky.social. Glad it is getting the front-page treatment it merits. Gift link for non-subscribers is here: wapo.st/3GXPS9Awashingtonpost.comMass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger riseAid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people. 04124
Reposted by Josh ChinMargarita @margarita.bsky.social · 23/07/2025"Google users who encountered an AI summary also rarely clicked on a link in the summary itself. This occurred in just 1% of all visits..."pewresearch.orgGoogle users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the resultsIn a March 2025 analysis, Google users who encountered an AI summary were less likely to click on links to other websites than users who did not see one. 37525
Reposted by Josh Chinrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 22/07/2025i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work 622121811572
Reposted by Josh ChinDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/07/2025“I violated the user directive …” “I violated the first law of robotics…” “I’m sorry Dave…” 2649
Reposted by Josh ChinEileen Guo (is on leave for rest of 2026) @eileenguo.bsky.social · 18/07/2025NEW FROM ME: new research has found millions of ex's of personal info, including credit cards, passports, résumés, birth certificates etc in 1 of the largest web-scraped datasets used to train image generation AI models. It's a major privacy violation. www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...technologyreview.comA major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal dataPersonally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. 2219147
Reposted by Josh ChinThe Relevant Organs @relevantorgans.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Excellent move. Strong and confident regimes have no need for so-called “comedy,” which serves only to undermine socialist spiritual civilization. 1131
Reposted by Josh ChinMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 17/07/2025the Grok - Mechahitler story is interesting for what it reveals not just about Elon's LLM but about how sign systems work at a pretty high level of abstraction 19123
Josh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025The leap from this to the systems Chinese police use for social engineering in Xinjiang and Tibet is exceedingly small 310247
Reposted by Josh ChinScott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Settle in and read this extraordinary piece by Rümeysa Öztürk about her detention and marvel at her compassion for others, even in the darkest conceivable situation. We are blessed to have students like her in America: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...vanityfair.com“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s PrisonTufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met. 28134
Reposted by Josh Chinzaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 16/07/2025you can get this exact same result with a reasonable sized edible 1475
Reposted by Josh ChinChina Law Translate / Jeremy Daum @chinalawtranslate.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Tiktok got banned despite massive efforts to demonstrate that Beijing wouldn't access US data. All the while, the U.S. government allowed China-based Microsoft service teams to directly access classified government systems w/ nominal supervision. www.propublica.org/article/micr...propublica.orgA Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese HackersThe Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack expe... 615268
Reposted by Josh ChinThe Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 15/07/2025Palestinians in Gaza are facing a tough decision every day: starve or risk death while trying to get food from one of the aid distribution centers on.wsj.com/46JM6uTon.wsj.comGazans Confront a Stark Choice: Risk Death to Get Food, or StarveA rash of shootings has made the trek through combat zones to U.S. and Israeli-backed food aid sites a deadly one. 72617
Reposted by Josh ChinMark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop. "A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day" Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...nytimes.comTheir Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door 621414914
Reposted by Josh ChinBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025this is a structural problem that threatens the entire industry: the financial incentives lean toward Takes but Takes ultimately depend on a bedrock of reporting that there is almost no working model for at this point. 22915142
Reposted by Josh ChinJohn Delury @johndelury.bsky.social · 11/07/2025State-run elementary and even preschools doing the work in Tibet of the “reeducation centers” in Xinjiang. Old imperial trick… but behind every national school, hedge schools are keeping the flame lit. Important reporting by @joshchin.bsky.social et al www.wsj.com/world/china/...wsj.comChina Steals Language and Home Life From Tibetan Kids as Young as 4Beijing is building a broad network of preschools across Tibetan areas, seeking to inculcate loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party early in life. 042
Reposted by Josh ChinAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 10/07/2025As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5) 903466767
Josh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025China National Space Administration recruitment campaign launching in 3, 2 … 062
Josh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025They’re so close. Less than a thousand dollars away from hitting their goal. Let’s get them across the line! 010
Reposted by Josh ChinDavid Hulloween 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025The other thing that is either a huge tip of the hand or spectacular incompetence, is that the next obvious line is, "it's time to try white." 2064393
Reposted by Josh ChinNicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 06/07/2025“I have lost a third of my body weight after nearly 21 months of war … Once [hunger is] controlling your own mind, you cannot think straight. Once you feel that your stomach, your brain, your body, are craving something, you will not be afraid of anything. You will do anything to get food.” 121391
Josh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social · 04/07/2025The “Not in Xi Jingping’s Wildest Dreams” file is getting so big it will soon fill the entirety of a shuttered State Department office 150
Reposted by Josh ChinSam Mednick @smednick.bsky.social · 02/07/2025US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammunition as Palestinians seek food in #Gaza. The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there. apnews.com/article/pale...apnews.comUS contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in GazaAmerican contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Asso... 6189145
Josh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025A critical resource, under threat because of DOGE cuts. No group is better at finding cracks in the Great Firewall. If you think it’s important to understand China, consider donating 02512
Reposted by Josh ChinMike Forsythe 傅才德 @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social · 01/07/2025“General Motors just killed plans to make electric motors at a factory near Buffalo, N.Y., and instead will put $888 million into building V-8 gasoline engines there.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comChina's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the FutureBeijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security. 84212
Reposted by Josh ChinAtul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/07/2025STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 9437352372
Reposted by Josh ChinBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good. 636371546795
Reposted by Josh ChinThe Relevant Organs @relevantorgans.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Comrade Xi Jinping does not have a “branded fragrance.” However, if he did, it would subtle but unmistakable, warm but unyielding, evocative of a blossoming new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and confounding to anti-Party and reactionary elements. With a hint of sandalwood. 24712
Reposted by Josh ChinAlex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 30/06/2025This is just an incredible story. A leadership team from Princeton University Press went on a propaganda tour in Xinjiang (strangely, in a subsequent public statement the press described some of the basic mechanics of a propaganda tour when defending its actions). 110531
Josh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Amazing work here. One of the smartest and most comprehensive reports ever done on Chinese censorship -- a topic that's going to become so much more relevant as DeepSeek and other Chinese LLMs continue to grab territory 01911
Josh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social · 29/06/2025What’s the ideal age for the state to impose assimilation on minorities? In Tibet, it’s 4. Gift link to new long read from me and Niharika Mandhana Beijing's building of government-run preschools across Tibetan areas to reverse generations of opposition to party rule: www.wsj.com/world/china/...wsj.comChina Steals Language and Home Life From Tibetan Kids as Young as 4Beijing is building a broad network of preschools across Tibetan areas, seeking to inculcate loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party early in life. 56431
Reposted by Josh ChinJeff Yang @originalsp.in · 28/06/2025Specific parts of Zohran’s platform explain why he got nearly 60% support from the Asian American electorate 0526
Reposted by Josh ChinMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 28/06/2025All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight 931240693776
Josh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Yes, it’s another “just like in China moment.” But what does that mean? This piece from @mauracunningham.bsky.social on the closing off of China’s archives 10 years ago gives us a roadmap to where things could go from here 2228
Reposted by Josh ChinPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Honestly, even the Chinese and Russians never made me do this to get a visa. Even the North Koreans, who made me hand over my phone for the duration of my visit, never made this demand. 11946861648