You have to have wit in order to outwit.

He's a parody and doesn't realize it.

This is positively surreal.

I usually recommend listening to great music, but here is music so absolutely pathetic that it is in a class all its own. It has a certain aspirational nobility as the band bleats and crashes into sheer chaos. I couldn't stop laughing. youtube.com/watch?v=PR6xZk…

I present 三个结合 “the three unites” the new and improved version of the “two unites”: fusion of Deng Xiaoping thought, Qin Shihuang thought, and Xi Jinping thought.

Overall, though, there's crying need in the 21st century to revise the whole system.

VPNs in China have been very slow for the past month. If they want to subtly push foreigners out, this is the way to do it.

Wordle 1,169 2/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Luck

Writer and musician Francis Bebey sdemonstrates a single-note Pigmy flute. [📹 Real World Records, 1995]

I’m really impressed with the way Ambassador Nicholas Burns and staff use his travel around China to accentuate the ties between China and the United States. We need more of that because the differences are all too apparent and all too amplified by daily political tensions.

To achieve that, we need robust engagement with Chinese history and culture. We need jobs, research, funding to continue this work.

Florida has banned 23 pf my books. What the fuck?

Fewer foreigners *percentage-wise.*

Nice riposte.

And Trump will likely get away with his election interference.

(1) There's no evidence of any substantial voter fraud ever. (2) The voter would be asked to pay for the processing of the voter ID, thus discouraging poor people from registering. (3) This solution to a non-problem will benefit Republicans.

Today's NYT article by Yuval Harari repeats "GPT-4 Hired Task Rabbit Worker to Solve Captcha" story & concludes "This incident demonstrated that GPT-4 has the equivalent of a 'theory of mind'." Time to re-up my fact-check of this oft-repeated story. ⬇️

这还是都市类报纸吗？ 😂

Willie Horton.

TBT…again… #ThoughtsAndPrayers