8月11日晚7时许，与父母吃饭后，梦雨被自称她叔叔伯伯的人架走，现下落不明。坪山黑势力对殴打工人的黑警放任不管，对全国人民的质问反咬一口，对声援团的出行食宿公然骚扰，现在直接怂恿不明身份的人把梦雨绑架？！深圳工人和声援团打的就是持久战，等的就是黑势力的彻底灭亡！立即恢复梦雨人身自由！

I just co-wrote a @wired feature with ian bremmer making three arguments: 1) Technology now seems to aid authoritarianism more than democracy. 2) This is particularly worrisome in an age of AI. 3) And it may be leading us into a new Cold War . wired.com/story/ai-cold-…

How to Be a Chinese #Scientist without Being #China’s Scientist shar.es/aahwDH via @chinafile Yangyang Cheng

for those tempted to make some shallow comparison of US seeking extradition of meng wanzhou with PRC tactics -- the proper point of comparison would be if the US govt was threatening her son who lives in Boston in order to force her to enter US to be prosecuted

"He believes, in the tradition of the great American photo essayist, Eugene Smith, that photography “is a small voice” that can help change the world. We hope that he will soon be returned to us, safely." nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opi…

So this is the response from the Chinese authorities when Li Wenzu tries to speak to the media outside a courthouse in Beijing about why her husband, human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang who’s been held for 3 and a half years without trial, should have a fair hearing. #China now.

Flamethrower* vs Aerogel youtu.be/qnOoDE9rj6w via YouTube

I wish we had this dataset. We would never need to do XPS again! Just fit things to suit the story.

"Students" painting by Oleg Filatchev, USSR, 1975

微博上的一些声音 "我支持亲人团聚，骨肉永不分离“ #XinjiangCotton #ChineseForUyghurs

Exactly x.com/yejungu/status…

It is our responsibility as scientists ... to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed.

Thinking about the dislocations of the early Qing, Bada Shanren would be proud of these artists, via The New York Times nytimes.com/2018/03/10/wor…

China is unsurpassed at making hair-raising U-turns.

So much fun w/ a little videoshoot Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists talking science, public policy, +how the Bulletin provides an amazing platform for young ppl to bridge the two&have a voice in the public dialogue. Join us at #MarchForScience Field Museum TMR! Thx Rachel Bronson Thomas Gaulkin

This Is Slacker Minimalism ssense.com/en-us/editoria… via SSENSE