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Dec 7, 2022

🧵For those new to my feed, or newly unblocked- Yes, I know exactly what I look like, yes I understand many find it offputting or at the very least incongruous. Some people find this context helps:

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Jan 29, 2022

Every supervillain has a backstory- here's mine. Why Do I Look Like...This? The SexyCyborg Origin Story A few of you know the broad strokes, this is more detail about how it happened- youtu.be/Z9vW_MpXTfs

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I just realized Facai is like the IRL version of Buff Doge vs Cheems😅

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SERIOUS QUESTION: Do you know anyone who is fully vaccinated, boosted, and never got COVID?

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"I'm an LGBT activist and an ally even though I follow, signal-boost, and write for media outlets that Out and defund at-risk lesbians in authoritarian countries because their grossly homophobic editors think it's good for clicks" LOL ok but no you aren't then?

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It's also an important reminder that most "progressive" activism online is a lie. There is rarely praxis. These people don't truly believe what they profess and will not act on their convictions unless it benefits them personally. It's mostly just meaningless self-branding.

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This was in 2018, but time is a force multiplier- 滴水穿石 "Dripping water wears away stone" as we say. They can do this over and over because most of their targets can't fight back, but I will drag them for decades if that's what it takes for some accountability.

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Correction,

did reach out at the time on backchannel I think and try to explain. The rest of the foreign correspondents I contacted- who are quick to feign concern for Chinese, did nothing and said nothing when the danger posed was from one of their own.

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Christian Petersen-Clausen

@chris__pc

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A few minutes ago we made it to Mohe, Heilongjiang in an electric car. Not everyone can say that.

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Yay! Could have been cooler but at least you popped it😁 Can this become like a yearly international "egg-drop" engineering competition between countries? See who can bring down/capture the other's balloon with the payload intact?👩🏽‍🔬

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Alejandro Alvarez

@aletweetsnews

We got 'em.

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You are not "one of the good ones" if you see parachute journalists throw at-risk women living in authoritarian countries under the bus- and are silent because you don't want to burn bridges. As a journalist, you are accountable, if all are silent? The profession is to blame.

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Western Journalists have broad leeway under freedom of speech laws- this is good. In most countries, they are not directly regulated by the state- this is also good. But I'm living proof, that like police with Qualified Immunity, the profession is incapable of self-regulating.

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I've lost 2/3rd of my income for the last 5 years- which I accept as the consequence of needing to defend myself by the only path remaining. But not one person responsible has faced even mild rebuke from their colleagues. The entire profession is complicit. No one spoke up.

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You don't get to harm someone and play the victim when it's clear you knowingly intended harm, and they act to protect themselves- no matter what your profession. The end result of my acting to protect myself, and mine was

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@Patreon

to terminate my account.

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My obligation is the safety of myself, my partner, and my family. I have a right to defend myself against a threat, acted on simply for the sake of clicks.

came to my country, lied to me to get a story, and not one organization would hold them to account.

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Before defending myself I pursued *every* avenue- I begged

to talk to journalists with experience reporting in China, about exactly what the potential consequences were of Outing a high-profile Chinese woman- they refused. They had clickbait, and did not care who it harmed.

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I begged

for help. Not one would intercede, speak up, or even mediate. They do not exist to advocate any kind of ethical code- they exist to ensure the profession has a veneer of legitimacy.

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In the weeks prior to the release of the article I knew would turn my world upside down dozens of journalists were told of the situation- journalists in China with full knowledge of exactly what

was doing would result in. All were too careerist to speak up- and still are.

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I'm a Mainland Chinese citizen, high profile, and at risk.

broke a written agreement not to discuss my relationships or personal life- they never do with men in tech they interview. In the end, the speculation in their article directly resulted in my being Outed.

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She’s really cunty dxing the ceo of vce bc they put unwanted information about u in an article is so raw

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Lian Li 李莲

@lianmakesthings

It’s so over for hotpot restaurants

Hot pot spread with all kinds of meats, mushrooms noodles and tofu

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Variety of sauces like Douban, hoisin, fermented tofu, oyster and freshly sliced scallions

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I just realized Facai is like the IRL version of Buff Doge vs Cheems😅

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China state-affiliated media

Ok ok here's how to do this- whatever aircraft/rocket you use to take the balloon down, paint the Flying Tigers on the nose. Then send back unharmed (data removed) with a smug "Always happy to help our Chinese friends" note😉🤯😂

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People's Daily, China

@PDChina

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A Chinese airship used for meteorological purposes accidentally entered US airspace due to the Westerlies and its limited self-steering capability, the Chinese FM said. China regrets the unintended entry and will properly handle this unexpected situation caused by force majeure.

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China is definitely not teabagging the entire US right now. I mean honestly, it's not doing any harm but it's a face thing, you can't just let it do that to you. Look, tell the CPC I said it was ok. Just do some cool 'murica explody thing to it I dunno- lasers, Fulton Skyhook?

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ABC News

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The balloon appears to be heading toward North Carolina, according to a senior U.S. official. The U.S. will likely wait until it is over the Atlantic Ocean to then try to shoot it down and retrieve it, the official says. trib.al/0RjExPD

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In case you're wondering why you're following me😅

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Judging the overall progress of 3D printing by how many factories use 3D printing shows a profound lack of understanding about what the promise and point of 3D printing is.

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I love it, it's like a 3D printer article straight out 2016. No clue about the current state of printing, taking startup founder's technical claims at face value with absolutely no fact-checking- and to top it off, showing an absolute shit demo print👍🏻 archive.is/KLdd8

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Yep, the company is shit, but until non-Raspberry-Pi SBC companies have real communities, working drivers, a variety of flashable images and tutorials the hardware is still going to be top pick for most hobbyists just looking to tinker.

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Jeff Geerling

@geerlingguy

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Apparently when you post a video on a non-Raspberry-Pi SBC, you get a ton of emails and DMs from people who bought other non-Pi SBCs begging for support—since the non-Pi vendors provide precious little of that.

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因为关于我在网上的中文报道不多。因为我是啦啦，他们认为我的性取向令中国感到尴尬。中国更倾向支持外国为中国发表言论而不是本土的中国人无论多优秀 baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=173251059 sohu.com/a/401312302_18 blog.csdn.net/kaiyuanshe/art

So even though they are popular, I shoot very little with my dogs. When my rent is due, my views are down- I can only push myself. For pet influencers, no matter how much they love their pet- they are still pushing a helpless animal, and behind closed doors that often goes bad.

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I'm sure you think your favorite influencer would never- and hopefully that's true. But when a pet becomes profitable, you start relying on them. First just doing something cute, then there's an update due and you scold them- for what? Your content obligations? They're a dog.

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Those cute TikTok videos you see- a lot of that's not normal for a dog to do. Not all these dogs are outliers. These dogs are income-producing property and their owners- sometimes unintentionally because they have no formal training, become cruel in maximizing their profit.

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Working dogs exist and an acting/modeling dog is a kind of working dog. But animal wrangling is a highly trained profession. People can do 99 takes, most dogs don't know what they did wrong, they just know they got hit or scolded 99 times and then for some reason fed the 100th.

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I've met a few "pet influencers" here. People that rely on their pets for some, or all of their online content. None of them have what I would consider healthy, happy relationships with their pets. Some are flat-out abusive- even though the dogs look cute and happy in videos.

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MarksmaneBullseye

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