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I, Lawrence Teo, hereby officially declare that I am challenging Wittgenstein by attempting to prove the Private Language Argument wrong. zenodo.org/records/17634978
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A Chinese anti-scam blogger was kidnapped, tortured, and left to die on a mountainside after he named the Chinese nationals running massive telecom fraud compounds in Cambodia.
In August 2024, Wu Kai (online name “Huijian”) publicly exposed violent crimes, casino lending, and scam operations linked to senior figures in the Prince Group and Jinbei Group. These industrial-scale compounds in Cambodia are overwhelmingly run by Chinese networks. He was among the first to name them.
Weeks later, an overseas contractor posted a bounty on Telegram, starting at 300,000 yuan and rising to 1 million yuan. Men posing as police grabbed him in a Huizhou parking lot. They forced him to delete his WeChat posts, beat him, and used pliers to clip off half a fingernail.
On November 11, 2024, the main attacker kicked him in the head until he was unconscious on a remote hillside in Jiangxi, then covered his body with grass and left. Villagers found him two days later. He died from blunt-force head trauma.
The ringleader who carried out the beating received a suspended death sentence. The overseas contractor who ordered and paid for the hit remains free. The man Wu publicly accused was extradited to China in 2026 and is under investigation.
When someone who exposes industrial-scale fraud run by Chinese networks can be hunted and killed inside China, what does that say about the cost of speaking out?
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Don’t EVER tell me that Flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar isn’t a hero, or that it was just an ‘altercation’ in the cockpit.
The man is a genuine HERO who saved 174 lives from a scumbag Islamic jihadist who wanted to end 174 lives.
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If Yao Ming had said "I think George Washington was an American slave owner"...
1. He would be correct
2. Few Americans would care
3. George Washington didn't initiate a ten-year-long violent mass movement against his own countrymen.
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最近，日本TBS電視台播出的熱門諜報劇《VIVANT》（別班）第二季，竟然也被中國官方認定為「辱華」。
這部由堺雅人、阿部寬等明星主演的電視劇，描寫日本秘密情報組織「別班」的故事。其中，中國情報人員對日本特務施以切斷手指、刺傷腹部等酷刑，引發中國官媒強烈反彈。
中國的央視不但指責這部戲「顛倒黑白」、「刻意抹黑中國」，甚至無限上綱、扣帽子說是「日本政府的認知作戰」，稱之為「認知投毒」。
我看了只想說：人生在世，真是想不辱華都難！
前幾天，法國足球巨星姆巴佩只因談到一張把自己合成毛澤東的搞笑圖片，就引發軒然大波，連中國央視都暫停轉播西甲比賽。
中國人的民族感情，似乎已經脆弱到碰一下就會受傷。但奇怪的是，中國自己拍了多少抗日神劇？手撕日本兵、褲襠藏手榴彈，把日本人描寫得愚蠢、殘忍、毫無人性。還有大量抗美援朝的影視作品，把美國軍人塑造成邪惡的侵略者。
至於曾經讓中國觀眾熱血沸騰的《戰狼2》，更把外國反派描寫成野蠻、殘暴、草菅人命的惡棍。
中國可以天天醜化外國人，稱之為「愛國主義教育」，但外國影視作品只是出現了幾個中國壞人，就變成了「辱華」和「認知作戰」。這究竟是什麼雙重標準？
更有意思的是，日本首相高市早苗也曾公開表示想看《VIVANT》。中國官媒特別把這件事拿出來批判，彷彿連首相看什麼電視劇，都成了政治問題。
不過，央視這麼大張旗鼓地宣傳，恐怕反而替《VIVANT》做了免費廣告。原本不知道這部戲的人，現在可能都想找來看看。
中國長年煽動民族主義，把任何批評都上升到國家尊嚴，結果讓自己陷入騎虎難下的困境。政府不敢表現寬容，民眾也越來越經不起玩笑。
最後，想起網路上流傳的一句妙語：「稱它為小國，人口太多；稱它為大國，器量太小。所以取其中，稱為中國。」
不知道這句話，又會傷害多少人的民族感情？
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This might be the craziest one yet.
They are MORTIFIED when they believe that Trump had s*x with a 9 year old, but refuse to condemn Muhammad when they found out he was the culprit.
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“You can’t reform any institution from inside because people don’t act against their own interest. The only way you reform institutions is by competition from the outside.”
— Milton Friedman
Lidang is right that complexity theory is shaken, but worried about the wrong thing.
The Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) getting disproven in theory doesn't mean your software code needs rewriting.
Here is why asymptotic proofs don't touch real-world engineering. 🧵👇
We treat computational complexity as absolute laws of physics, when they are actually just worst-case upper bounds.
Real-world systems don't run worst-case inputs—they operate on structured, compressible data where approximations win.
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This is honestly shocking.
Three months ago, Hong Wang was awarded the Fields Medal for resolving the Kakeya conjecture in three dimensions.
Today, OpenAI released a proposed proof of the conjecture in ALL dimensions.
And that’s not all. It also announced a proposed existence proof for quantum chromodynamics and a proposed refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis.
Experts say that, if confirmed, these would be Nobel prize and Turing award level discoveries respectively.
A journalist just asked me: “What remains for humans to do?”
I think it’s becoming increasingly clear that more and more problem solving will be automated.
But humans will remain crucial in determining the direction of discovery. Deciding which problems are worth solving.
Because the value of a discovery depends on our needs, our priorities and the kind of world we want to build.
There will be a shift from problem solving to problem setting.
I also think there will be huge individual differences.
People with strong critical thinking skills, creativity and imagination will be supercharged by AI.
People without those skills risk surrendering to it.
I’m particularly concerned for children, who may never develop these skills.
I think epistemic literacy - how to distinguish information from knowledge - is the single most important skill we should be teaching.
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the more you are tied to China, the more you’re a prisoner to it. How many celebrities will be warned by their PR people after the Mbappe incident? How many companies changed maps due to China’s‘sensitivities’? So much remoulding of ourselves to fit China’s own insecurity. 🤮
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Many of the things that make a country rich are invisible.
You can’t see or touch property rights, the rule of law or the ease of doing business. That makes them easy to overlook.
People talk about natural resources, but pay much less attention to whether ordinary people can start and run businesses without facing senseless rules and regulations.
People are much more willing to invest when their property is protected and the same rules apply to everyone, including politicians.
If you’re afraid an official could take your land or shut down your business, you’re going to think twice before risking your savings.
A country can have plenty of natural resources and still make it hard for its people to prosper.
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"People who can't create always destroy"
In 2001, the Taliban blew up Afghanistan’s 1,500 year old Bamiyan Buddha's statue. Imagine a belief so fragile it has to wage war on stone.
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“娶你养老吗？要不你加我爸吧”，就这一句话，在杭州相亲大会上炸锅了！
这不是段子，36岁女硕士相亲要求男方年薪70万以上，不是拍脑门说的，她早就算过账了，低于这个数，生活质量会下降，好不容易碰上一个满足条件的，没想到对方是一个直男，给了她当头一棒。
现场很多人第一反应是这个男孩嘴太毒，不同意就算了，何必出口伤人，可反过来说，这位女士也太把自己当成一碟菜了，男生年薪70万最不缺的就是选择。
不是说她不该要70万，而是为什么到了今天，两个都是受过高等教育的成年人，最先谈的仍然是“你值多少”，而不是“我们能不能把日子过到一块”。
这些大龄剩女能把自己剩下，不是没有原因的！
你们认为是女生太不靠谱，还是男生太过刻薄？
Swap cash for grocery credits, call the total allocation "unchanged," and market it as a win.
Behind the political optics of government "goodies," a dangerous liquidity trap is squeezing low-income Malaysian families.
Let's unpack the hidden cost. 🧵👇
Economists have cautioned that an unchanged total in government aid for low-income families risks masking a squeeze on household cash, as credit for groceries cannot cover rent, utilities, and transport costs.
The alert came after it was reported that Putrajaya will slash cash aid for disadvantaged families under the Rahmah Cash Contribution (STR) next year, with the reduction offset by an increase in Rahmah Basic Contribution (Sara) grocery credits.
Read more: malaysiakini.com/news/887974…
Political goodies are a clever illusion: they take money from your pocket via taxes and inflation, filter it through bureaucracy, and hand back restricted vouchers.