Adam Wu

Trump Is Now Mandating His Cabinet/Loyalist Wear "Trump Golden Bust" Pins The Golden Trump Ego Age Marches On

Just when you think these sycophants can’t beclown themselves any more than they already have…

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From Courtrooms to Crisis Lines, Chinese Officials Embrace DeepSeek Government bodies nationwide have been eager to show they are using DeepSeek’s A.I. technology since the company’s founder met with Xi Jinping, China’s leader.

"The police in the eastern city of Nanchang asked the DeepSeek chatbot to settle a dispute over who should keep the house after a couple’s divorce. (The husband should repay his ex-wife for the renovations to the house that she had financed, the chatbot reportedly said.)"

US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citize...

The U.S. has banned government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens, AP has learned. A blanket “non-fraternization” policy, as it is known, has been unheard of publicly since the Cold War
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My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.

Dear students, faculty and staff, We are writing to inform you about a deeply concerning situation involving one of our international graduate students at the University of Minnesota. We learned that, on March 27 at an off-campus residence, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials detained a graduate student enrolled on our Twin Cities campus. We are actively working to gather more details about this incident.

Well, UMN has officially been hit. We just got an email from our president that an international grad student was detained yesterday. No further details provided.

This. Is. Crushing.

Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...

In other news, Der Spiegel
found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online

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“I’m a student,” she said, according to the eyewitness, a Somerville resident who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government.

I had missed this detail earlier, but we're at the people won't speak to the media for "fear of retaliation from the government" stage of things.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.

Columbia University now has what we'd call a Party secretary in China, a person whose only job is to enforce the "correct" political line

In Depth: Where Chinese Overseas Investment Is Heading China’s ODI grew 10.1% last year to $162.8 billion, with significant funding going to Southeast Asia and the Belt and Road countries

In Depth: Where Chinese overseas investment is heading – Caixin Global: ‘As Western markets impose stricter regulations, Chinese investments are flowing into emerging economies eager to modernize their industry.’

U.S. House comes after Purdue on ‘Trojan horse’ of Chinese students on campus Purdue President Mung Chiang among six to get letters asking to account for what House committee calls a national security threat of Chinese students in STEM degree programs

Purdue University was among several universities to get a scary letter about admitting Chinese students. www.basedinlafayette.com/p/us-house-c...

WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism.

Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.

President Trump is pictured walking with Elon Musk at the White House. Headline reads: "Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China." Photo credit: Doug Mills/The New York Times.

The Pentagon is set to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s closely guarded plan for any potential war with China, officials said. nyti.ms/41GYSGt

Why China is suddenly flooding the market with powerful AI models The pace of Beijing’s open source push has been relentless

Why China is suddenly flooding the market with powerful AI models – June Yoon for FT: ‘By open sourcing AI models, Chinese tech groups create an ecosystem where global developers continuously improve their models — without shouldering all the development costs.’

If you think this is being alarmist there are 100s of political scientists who work on authoritarian regimes who will affirm that this is whats happening.

Exclusive | China’s Xi Is Angered by Panama Port Deal That Trump Touted as a Win Chinese leader Xi Jinping is angry about a Hong Kong company’s plan to sell Panama Canal ports to a U.S.-led group, in part because the company didn’t seek Beijing’s approval in advance.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is angry about a Hong Kong company’s plan to sell Panama Canal ports to a U.S.-led group, in part because the company didn’t seek Beijing’s approval in advance.

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Good point. Perhaps 冷暴力 is closer? It seems to capture the indirect and non-confrontational hostility or emotional withdrawal, even though it isn't technically an idiom

How about 阳奉阴违? One appears to be agreeable while secretly being unwilling or resistant

THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country.

When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/

China courts global CEOs for meeting with Xi Jinping Planned contact comes as Beijing seeks support of international business and fends off Trump’s tariffs

Beijing is arranging meetings between Xi and 72 global CEOs, including top executives from Blackstone, Pfizer, and Qualcomm, at the China Development Forum in late March, aiming to stabilize the decline in foriegn investment flow into China on.ft.com/4kJu5ld

Donald Trump makes Chinese stocks (somewhat) great again As U.S. President Donald Trump's wide-ranging trade war rouses fears of recession, global investors have found an unlikely new sanctuary: Chinese equities.

When Trump tanks the US market while China signals a boost for private enterprise www.reuters.com/markets/asia...

Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas" The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets.

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Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats

NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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It’s just fucking corruption. It’s just capture of spending to line his pockets. Crony spending lining the pockets of glorious ruler’s buddies is the hallmark of any strongman authoritarian government and ours is no exception.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

Someone has apparently been fucking with the NIH’s nameservers

We need to talk more about how it feels to be a woman amidst this sudden onslaught of “reclaiming masculinity,” celebrating male aggression and violence, and vanishing smart experienced women from positions of power.

Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it.

They did it for PEPFAR.

Now Ebola.

I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters The U.S. first raised the prospect of shutting off Starlink service after Zelensky rejected the deal presented on Feb. 12. Starlink terminals are critical in securing Ukraine's battlefield communicati...

Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds.

Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors.

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