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Natalie Wang retweeted
Xi Jinping non ci va.
Al vertice a tre sull'Ucraina voluto da Putin la Cina ha detto di no. Lo ha raccontato il presidente tedesco Steinmeier, che venerdì era a Pechino: per il leader cinese questa è una guerra europea e al tavolo devono esserci anche gli europei.
Fa un certo effetto. Il capo di un regime autoritario, amico dichiarato di Mosca, mostra più visione e più voglia di pace di Trump e Putin messi insieme. Putin voleva chiudere la partita in Cina, senza Kiev e senza Bruxelles, e Trump era pronto a sedersi.
Forse a Pechino hanno solo fatto due conti. Domani in America si vota per il Congresso e Trump rischia di restare con le mani legate fino a fine mandato. Putin è un cavallo zoppo, dopo quasi cinque anni di una guerra che doveva durare tre giorni. Perché legarsi a due così?
Resta un fatto: delle tre potenze l'unica che si è ricordata dell'Europa è la Cina. Dovrebbe farci arrossire. Più ancora dovrebbe svegliarci, perché se vogliamo decidere noi del nostro continente dobbiamo esserci, e con una voce sola.
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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哇靠。不得不说，X 上这帮预言家是真的准。
昨天在 X 时间线上，刷到了对黄奇帆的路边消息，然后今早 7 点，香港的媒体也发可能出事的观点，今晚直接官宣落地了，这老哥其实也是以前金融界的大人物。 – at Meguro-ku, Tokyo
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This isn't talked about much in the media but there's been massive fires burning in Indonesia since mid-summer and much of the rest of Southeast Asia has been looking like this 👇 for weeks.
The "haze", as it's called, has gotten so bad in Malaysia that the King just called for schools to close (nst.com.my/news/nation/2026/…)
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
Natalie Wang retweeted
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the directors of NAZA, a documentary about Israeli soldiers’ killings of civilians in Gaza say that the film will be available to view online for free "so that every person can watch it."
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Natalie Wang retweeted
Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
Natalie Wang retweeted
If you care to know what really happened here, it was actually a mistake by the organizers of the event - the Seoul Defense Dialogue hosted by South Korea's Ministry of National Defense.
And this is according to Yonhap, South Korea's national news agency (koreancenter.or.kr/news/arti…) so you can't possibly have a more authoritative source.
As they write, the note was given to the organizers of the event by a military attaché at the Chinese Embassy in South Korea but it was never meant to be delivered to Teodoro on stage.
Direct quote from Yonhap's reporting, translated from the original korean: "the staff member [who received the note] misunderstood it as a note delivered from the Philippine side and handed it as-is to Minister Teodoro who was speaking on stage."
So there you are: a mistake by a Korean staffer.
What I suspect did happen is the most banal thing imaginable: a Chinese embassy staffer stationed in Seoul, attending a forum held in his own city, heard the Philippines making claims about the South China Sea that contradicted China's official position, and he simply did the job of embassy staff: re-stating his country's standard position and asking a conference staffer to pass it to the Philippine side.
The note isn't even addressed to Teodoro, it's not addressed to anyone, it's just a boilerplate statement that restates China's public position on the matter.
This is the type of stuff that happens all the time: breaking news, the job of an embassy is to make sure your country's position is on the record when it's being discussed. That's not "intimidation" or "wolf warrior diplomacy," that's just diplomacy.
In this case, the only reason we hear about it is because a Korean staffer delivered it to the wrong place at the wrong time, and also, of course, because the media are all too ready to frame anything China does - including a staffer's routine note being misdelivered by a Korean employee, as acknowledged by Korea's news agency - as sinister, because that's what the narrative demands.
WATCH: A Chinese military attaché passed a note to the Philippine Defense Secretary while he was speaking at a Seoul defense forum — restating that the 2016 South China Sea ruling is "illegal, null and void."
Teodoro read it aloud to the room, then responded line by line.
On "no binding force": "Because you don't want to be subjected to UNCLOS."
On China not accepting the ruling: "Of course, because you lost."
In Filipino he added: "Show a little decency, have a little shame."
The audience applauded.
He called it "actual coercion, bullying and aggression" and kept the note as a "memento."
Natalie Wang retweeted
"Pronto la gente (pobre) ya no podrá tener hijos, supongo que eso sería fantástico. Podríamos diseñar nuevos humanos en un laboratorio".
Mette-Marit, nueva reina de Noruega, aparece en los archivos de Epstein, alegrándose de que los pobres no puedan tener hijos en un futuro y que se puedan crear humanos perfeccionados a través de laboratorios, al estilo raza superior que hablaba Hitler.
Así es la nobleza europea, clasista y racista que darían la bienvenida a otro Hitler dando palmas con las orejas.
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I agree. Each city has its own charm with different cultural sites to see. Buildings and streets are clean and in good repair. Also, people are polite, hard-working, and respectful. I feel safe, so enjoy going to China.
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Spotted Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook leaving the Great Hall of the People and pool shouted some questions at them.
“Wonderful,” said Musk. Asked what had been achieved, Musk said: “Many good things.”
Tim Cook gave a peace sign then the thumbs up
“Meetings went well,” said Huang. “Mr Xi and President Trump were incredible.”
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Australian tea brand T2 Tea shuts all outlets in Singapore bit.ly/4bJqmRY
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BREAKING: Iranian drone struck Dubai International Airport. Fire reported at the scene
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The President of the United States might refuse to meet with the Chinese unless they demonstrate and deploy more expeditionary naval power is … definitely a new one.
Donald Trump said he could delay his planned summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping if Beijing doesn’t help unblock the Strait of Hormuz, the Financial Times reported, citing an interview with the US president bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Japanese food chain Itacho Sushi shuts outlets bit.ly/4sG4e0n
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The Thai government will require most government agencies to adopt full work-from-home arrangements as part of emergency measures to curb energy demand bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Cafe chain and grocer The Providore shuts all 6 Singapore outlets bit.ly/4bj2Zxh
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the BBC understands bbc.in/3OQ7BmL
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Hunter Biden really is the most ethical degenerate ever. No Epstein Pedo shit, Hunter simply just enjoys getting blazed out of his mind with consenting Latina sex workers of age. He’s a proper American Freak, a man of the people honestly.
Natalie Wang retweeted
Let me set the record straight.
Former Vice Chairman of the CMC, Zhang Youxia's main charge was "Undermining the Chairman Responsibility System" within the Central Military Commission.
Chairman Xi asked the CMC to do something, they, due to vested interests did not perform the task given to them. AKA insubordination.
It has nothing to do with "nuclear secrets" or any foreign countries.
So what is this task? A task so important and consequential? It's Taiwan.
If Generals has their own personal vested interest on the line to not do something, when the Chairman ordered them to, then that's insubordination, that's forming cliques opposing to the strategic direction decided by the Party.
Old generals are not the most valuable asset in a military, if the top brass needs new blood to get the job done, then we will simply find those new blood. Those who dare, those who are capable, those who are aligned with the Party's strategic decision.
