The China Initiative

The Great Translation Movement

 

And so they’ve pretty much given up on trying to sway the Chinese public to the “Light Side of the Force”, and have chosen instead to poison the well - by depicting the Chinese people as wholly alien, fanatical, weird, irredeemable, and inhuman.

In other words, "hate the Chinese government, and the Chinese people too".

 

The Great Translation Movement 

140 years

 The Chinese Exclusion Act

Ceremony on Angel Island Marks 140 Years Since Passage of Chinese Exclusion Act 

yeah, ok

The next time the U.S. talks about human rights, it should clarify that those rights do not apply to women.

Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights

NYC - raining

 

we can only depend on ourselves, our own strength, our own preparation, our own will

The coming war will be more tragic and bloody. There will be no mercy and no reinforcements. For everything we can only depend on ourselves, our own strength, our own preparation, our own will, and our own ability to prevail in all out conflict. There is no retreat.

"将到来的战争将会更加惨烈，也会更加血腥，不会有仁慈，也不会有援军，一切都只能靠我们自己，靠我们自己的力量，自己的备战，自己的意志，自己的拼杀，没有退路可言。"

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The banality of writting for the NYT

What is the “The banality of evil” in China? 

As we are, we two, we three
As I alone can never be.

How I lost my past

... the United States that[sic] has created during the Cold War a formidable machinery of open and concealed propaganda. That machinery cannot be easily turned off. It cannot produce narratives that do not agree with the dominant one because no one would believe them or buy such books.  There is an almost daily and active rewriting of history...

How I lost my past

 The inside story of the Pfizer vaccine: ‘a once-in-an-epoch windfall’

"you could have it ranging up to $1,000 a dose"

"There’s a significant opportunity for those margins to improve" 

"we saved the world"

"to say that they are wielding their power fairly, openly, with a sense of compassion, is manifestly untrue.”

“I think it’s immoral for anybody to profiteer to the extent that has happened out of a serious crisis for humanity as a whole.”

Skog

 This big brown bear always greets you with open arms. Cuddly like no other and with a lovely giant stomach where you can feel safe resting - in other words, a real softy.

Djungelskog

 

Courage born of fear

"To place our faith in a desperate, hopeless attempt to save everyone...and to see it amount to naught in the end.

What else could we do but offer up that tiny remainder in a final, futile effort? Even knowing, deep down, it was worth but a few moments more..."

We All Lift Together

 

 China Bans For-Profit School Tutoring in Sweeping Overhaul

The out-of-school education industry has been “severely hijacked by capital,” according to a separate article posted on the site of the Ministry of Education. “That broke the nature of education as welfare.”

 

functional programming toolkit

Oh girl it's you

@sarahcothran

new view

 

Tiny

 

Where are the space arks? 

The great and terrible scientific and technological inventions we associate with the present are almost all more than half a century old... During that axial age, humanity dreamed of ecumenopolises, of heavy industry and its by-products removed off-planet, of giant cylindrical worlds in orbit, of towers stretching into the heavens, of Dyson swarms of man-made infrastructure harvesting the full power of the Sun, of a Kardeshev II civilisation capable of re-engineering the solar system. These dreams already seem absurd.