I don't know though. CCP certainly love their alt-right cousins, and they probably spent and will continue to spend a huge amount of money to get them elected in the western world.
Given CCP more data and means to produce such influence might not be the best of ideas.
You would honestly believe a giant media conglomerate and one of the most influential tech monopolies in this hyper-capitalistic world shows people completely unbiased news, just out of the goodness of their heart? For their unconditional love towards the vulnerable underaged population that they intentionally attracted?
If TikTok has the power to "turn" youth into pro Palestine, they can also turn the youth pro China when China invades Taiwan.
TikTok is in its expansion phase so it need to show its good will, but as soon as it is large enough, it will seek to do whatever make them the most money, like everyone else.
Time and time again, big-tech controlled social media have intervened and will continue to intervene with public opinion, Meta, Xitter, TikTok, all in their own ways.
If government decide to ban meta tomorrow, will you object as hard as banning tiktok?
This might sounds surprising to you, but all big tech monopolies love money more than their users.
They will push whatever agenda that makes them more money, and this is exactly what got every social media into the current enshittified stage.
Keep kissing their ass, then they will turn around and send your lips straight to Trump.
I am only on mastodon and lemmy, yet I have only seen things from pro-palestan standpoint.
Believe it or not, building a ethical platform will encourage ethical news on there. Unethical platform might sometimes push ethical news, but eventually will only prioritize its own agenda.
Both of them are beyond excellent from a story telling and visual prospective: highly entertaining, motivating, and fun.
However the "physicists will stop talking to you" bit just comes from the fact that professionals typically prefer rigorous discussions to handwaving; as handwaving will sometimes leads to reasonable, yet completely nonsensical results. And over-fantasization of a topic can cause student burnouts quite quickly, when they discovered the field is completely different from what they imagined. Finally many physicist just don't enjoy string theory. String theory describes a universe that is fundamentally different from ours, and they just keeps making up more math to fix unrealized predictions; Feynman famously puts it: "string theorists don’t make predictions, they make excuses."
But certainly my bits are exaggerating the tension between profession scientists and pop science. Many physicist do enjoy the presentation of Greene.
In general, I think the Brain Greene do benefit both the field physics and the general public, by bringing many talented students to physics. And I believe many teachers and professors can learn a lot about storytelling and visualization from pop sciences.
Brian Greene - "Elegant Universe". This is the typical illustration of general relativity.
Brian Greene documentaries were really addictive for the high-school me. But be careful, if you watch too much of them, your physics friends will stop talking to you.
Pixel goes on seriously steep sale in holiday season. If you are in the U.S. and you think the price is right, you can wait for that.
last year: https://www.cnet.com/deals/black-friday-pixel-sale-takes-up-to-25-off-unlocked-google-phones/
I personally will take the pixel over oneplus, just because I like the android aesthetics and like to keep the possibility of modding open.
I certainly didn't have proficient english after I graduated college 🥲...
Because of the language barrier, people typically needs years of preparation to leave the country. Imagine finding a H1B job with zero connection in the U.S. and subpar English, that is literally impossible.
Even said person are willing to pay the high tuition fee in U.S. or Europe, it would take a Chinese at least a year of intense language learning to achieve reasonable fluency in a language, that is acceptable in universities.
Not to mention, leaving China also means leaving everything they know behind, friends, family, way of life, and especially money, like the other post suggests.
In fact, confiscating public workers' passport has been practiced for at least a decade; partly for control, partly for security. And that did not spark mass exodus, slightly expanding the program likely will not change much as well.
Finally, most people in China choose public work for job security, hence they are usually averse to change. These crowds are the least likely to react to policies like this.
I think a even better solution might be to not unnecessarily waste energies 😉
Okay this debate has been way too tiring for me. I am not going to explain to another rich western kid why you are more fortunate than my friend who have been separated from her activist dad for decades.
If you don't believe western privilege is real and you are as oppressed as the numerous dictatorships across the world... Good for you I guess, and I will not entertain this topic further.
As for ways to learn, I prefer to learn through peer-reviewed literature; high-effort investigative journalism; and people who have worked decades in the field, and specifically hired to research and teach.