T. Greer

@Scholars_Stage

Essayist ║ Common topics: China, Taiwan, or Cambodia • history and social science • security • U.S. culture & conservatism ║Old tweets on auto-delete!

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    7 hours ago

    Well, here they are. Yesterday, China's cyberspace watchdog, the CAC, finalized China's groundbreaking new rules on recommendation algorithms. They take effect in early March. Thoughts on the final version below. 1/11

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    7 hours ago

    These rules reflect some of the biggest concerns in Chinese society today — internet content control, aging population, anti-competitive practices — and seek to get out in front of a future where algos are used to corrode social unity or exacerbate market problems. 11/11

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    22 hours ago

    This seems like it deserves much more attention: - the total fertility rate in the US has declined from 2.12 in 2007 to 1.64 in 2020 - half the world’s population lives in countries with below-replacement-level fertility - China now has a fertility rate even lower than Japan’s

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    Jan 4

    We also continue to track "excess ICU pressure" — total number of people in ICU, for any reason, Covid or otherwise, compared to past winters: Latest data show that the number of people in London ICUs has fallen in recent weeks, and is not following the same path as last winter.

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    Jan 4

    NEW: first thread of 2022 is an Omicron situation update, starting with a detailed look at UK hospitals, before going international. Let’s start with severity, and the most important chart: Despite steep rises in cases and patients, the number on ventilators has barely risen.

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  6. 20 hours ago

    But is this actually unique among autocratic regimes? Why do we tend to think they *don't* care about mass public opinion? What Communist regime didn't care intensely about what their people were thinking, and try to shape these thoughts accordingly?

    Just a thought: something that makes China relatively unique among autocratic regimes is the profound interest the leadership holds in mass public opinion—it’s something they care about deeply, certainly try to shape, and are even a little bit afraid of. How best to capture that?
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  7. 20 hours ago

    Social changes are mostly about cohort change (); the first post civil rights act cohort became adults in that decade.

    question: why did US attitudes on interracial marriage change so sharply for the better among white Americans in the mid-1990s? or did Gallup change the wording of its question?
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    Jan 2

    Me: so when will I actually receive the shark Loan Shark: what

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    Jan 3

    Dave Chappelle and JK Rowling are probably more left-wing than 90 percent of Americans, it's just the other 10 percent are on Twitter.

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  10. Jan 4

    Adding “dark triad” to the list of “if referenced by someone trying to describe social situations, run away and don’t look back” terms

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    27 Dec 2021

    Read reading Ernst Jünger:

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    Jan 3

    1/3 The Intelligence and Applied History Projects at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center invite submissions for an essay contest on imagining a new U.S. National Security Act for the 21st century. Essays should consider the rise of China, technological advances, globalization,

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  13. Jan 3

    How do the next four or five biggest podcasts compete?

    Joe Rogan has completely disrupted the legacy media.
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  14. Jan 3

    She did not put the Koreans and Japanese together; she simply said Japan has a school and said nothing about where the Koreans go.

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  15. Jan 3

    Schools #9-11 are imagined by the creator of the graph, not something Rowling said herself. The schools are unnamed, as are the places they draw students from.

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  16. Jan 3

    In Rowling’s defense, she did not create this map. She said there were 11 magic schools, and wrote paragraph length blurbs for eight of them. It was the fan that imagined who went to each

    Harry Potter wizarding schools
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    Jan 3

    Don't crowd in to look all at once, but Germany's imports from China (white line) are up by about 50% since pre-pandemic levels. German companies are gradually becoming Chinese companies.

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  19. Jan 3

    You could make this argument on free trade as well—but the key thing is that the groups most protectionist are lined up in critical swing state battlefields. Is that of those most against legal immigration?

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  20. Jan 3

    My guess, for what it is worth, is that the median base voter is scared enough of the Democrats that they will vote R regardless. It was not a failure to rally the base that lost the popular vote 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020.

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