Chinese Canadian. Founder of Found In Translation, an online publication exposing #ForeignInterference & #CCPInfiltration.
Vancouver, Canada
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Meanwhile in Canada, Hui Ka Yan's son and ex-wife owns at least 3 real estate properties in Vancouver, and C$137 million cash in their banking accounts at RBC, CIBC and BMO.
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The billionaire founder of China Evergrande Group, the world's most-indebted property developer, was sentenced to life in prison by a Chinese court, which ordered all his personal property be confiscated reut.rs/4xLeFlW
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Carney’s close friend gets $2.3+ billion for Telesat.
Carney’s buddies that HE appointed, get $1.6 billion for Cohere,
a company they previously invested in.
It’s a F****ING SHAKEDOWN.
They aren’t even hiding it anymore.
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🎃👻 It’s not so much the décor as it is the pairing of the most PERFECT SONG with it!
Genius!
Writer: Jamie
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上世纪五十年代，毛泽东怕人员流动会造反
实施户籍制度和票证制度，硬是把国民分成城里人和农村人
不同地方的粮票肉票还不能通用，人民不能自由迁徙
这就是现代农奴制！这就是毛泽东的民族感情！
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Ottawa is directing up to $1.6 billion of taxpayer money into Toronto AI firm Cohere. If it's such a great company, why does the government need to invest?
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Okay listen 🇨🇦 The timing is not coincidental
Canada gives Cohere $1.6 BILLION, with a mandate to hire 1,000 roles. A FEW DAYS later, the Canadian government is removing the LMIA Requirement, which means for some roles, like software & tech roles, employers don’t have to look for Canadian talent 🤯
This doesn’t feel good. This needs to be tracked and public info
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和 gemini-4-argon 聊到现在，
一个长达17年的我生命中的未意识到的模式，
给看清和呈现了。当然具体细节不展开了。
熟悉心理心灵的朋友会知道，
有安全感的自我暴露的场合，
这里当然不是。
我认为在非AI时代，是无法这样短时间高效率低成本做到的。这些token可能还没有10美元😇，活人咨询师，执业且职业的，100美元一小时起吧。
我初步细想原因有三：
一是，时间的长度、频率、次数，持续几个月到一年，每天24小时，随手可以响应。传统活人咨询师是做不了的。时间和次数是一个非常重要的因素，就像鱼儿泡在水里，很难发觉到水，而水有问题，更难察觉，已经这么多年习惯了，但是又感到不舒服，所以持续挂着一个问题在追问，这个重复发生的现象持续记录，最终，会有各种各样的细节和素材，像是神探夏洛克一样，啪地组合在一起，去除所有不可能之后的可能，找到了潜藏的答案。
二是，自身的防御机制的卸下，对着一台机器，我去死要面子，装扮自己，争取机器的认可和好感好评，没意义的，对吧，😄，所以我更诚实。我平时可以骗自己没事的，这个时候是真想解决问题，我还骗 AI 那不是傻嘛。
三是，上下文背景资料充足， AI 现在普遍 一百万 token，有效高效窗口 200-400 K ，塞进去大量的事情，秒懂，说啥都会反应过来，一个活人咨询师要建立起客户的相对完整画像要多久？材料可以精确到某年某月某日，客户说过哪一句话，而且还是原话吗？活人都不行的。另外，可以原样说出用户曾经原话，也是一种相当高级的“被看见”，朴素地被“接住”。
还有额外的一点是：找咨询师的困难程度，咨询师的水平、流派或者本人，要和来访刚好契合，跟谈恋爱，谈到你侬我侬，是很小概率的，大多数时候，都是磨合来磨合去，然后终于进展了一些，双方松一口气，好累啊。
也有可能在 life coach 、 心理咨询、情感陪伴领域里的，某些流派活人也算是完蛋了，
AI 把数学界搞得欲仙欲死，
按我的经历和评价来说，
心理、人际、职场咨询类的也会有很大一块，
这一块是什么样，我没想好。
AI 也是大举占领了。
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Oct 30: two 🇨🇳 nationals — Liren “Ryan” Lai and Yuance Chen — were sentenced for conspiring to act as agents of the 🇨🇳 government and acting as agents of a foreign government without prior notification to the Attorney General. Lai and Chen were each sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release. The defendants agreed to operate under the direction and control of 🇨🇳 Ministry of State Security (MSS), carrying out clandestine intelligence activities in the US that included facilitating secret “dead drop” cash payments in exchange for information related to the national security of the US, gathering information about US military personnel and installations, and assisting efforts to recruit potential intelligence assets from within the US military.
Lai and Chen began acting as agents of 🇨🇳 MSS no later than May 2021. Lai recruited Chen into the scheme and initially served as an intermediary between Chen and 🇨🇳 MSS intelligence officers. Chen subsequently received assignments directly from 🇨🇳 MSS officers.
As detailed in the government’s sentencing memorandum, Lai and Chen facilitated a clandestine cash payment of approximately $10,000 in Jan 2022. While the defendants were in China, they coordinated with individuals in the US to leave a backpack containing the cash in a locker at a recreational facility in Livermore, California. Such arrangements, known as “dead drops,” allow intelligence operatives to transfer money or information without directly meeting the intended recipient.
The defendants’ illegal activities extended beyond facilitating covert payments on behalf of 🇨🇳 MSS. Beginning in 2022, Chen gathered information about US military installations and personnel at the direction of Lai and 🇨🇳 MSS intelligence officers. These activities included obtaining photographs of Navy Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Wash., and photographs and videos of military recruits and active-duty sailors inside a Navy recruiting station in Southern California. Chen also collected personal identifying information about a US Navy employee and maintained detailed biographical information about military personnel who were potential intelligence targets.
In Mar 2023, Lai traveled to the US and delivered a cell phone to Chen for covert communications with the MSS referred to by Chen as a “state secret.” Chen later traveled to China in 2024 and 2025, where he met with 🇨🇳 MSS officers and received additional assignments concerning US service members.
In Apr 2025, Lai again traveled from China to the US to carry out assignments for the MSS. The following month, the MSS directed him to travel to Phoenix to facilitate another clandestine cash payment of approximately $20,000 in furtherance of its intelligence operations.
Lai and Chen were arrested on June 27, 2025, during a coordinated FBI counterintelligence and law enforcement operation. A federal grand jury in the Northern District of California returned an indictment on July 1, 2025, charging both defendants with conspiracy to act as agents of a foreign government without prior notification to the Attorney General and acting as agents of a foreign government without prior notification.
Lai pleaded guilty to both offenses on Dec 12, 2025. Chen pleaded guilty to both offenses on Feb 20.
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Two 🇨🇳 nationals — Yuance Chen and Liren “Ryan” Lai — made their initial appearances in federal court in Portland, Oregon, and Houston, Texas, on June 30 to face charges issued out of the Northern District of California for acting as agents of the 🇨🇳 Government without prior notification to the Attorney General. Chen, a legal permanent resident who resides in Happy Valley, Oregon, and Lai, who traveled from China to Houston, Texas, on a tourist visa in April 2025, were arrested on June 27 on a criminal complaint charging them with overseeing and carrying out various clandestine intelligence taskings in the US on behalf of 🇨🇳 Ministry of State Security (MSS). These activities included facilitating a “dead drop” payment of cash for information relating to the national security of the US previously provided to the 🇨🇳 MSS, gathering intelligence about US Navy service members and bases, and assisting with efforts to recruit other individuals from within the US military as potential 🇨🇳 MSS assets.
Chen and Lai were arrested by the FBI in Happy Valley, Oregon, and Houston, Texas, respectively, as part of a coordinated counterintelligence and law enforcement operation across multiple states.
Lai recruited Chen to work on behalf of 🇨🇳 MSS in or about 2021. While in Guangzhou, China, in Jan 2022, Lai and Chen worked together to facilitate a dead-drop payment of at least $10,000 on behalf of 🇨🇳 MSS, working with other individuals located in the US to leave a backpack with the cash at a day-use locker at a recreational facility located in Livermore, California.
Following the Jan 2022 dead drop, Lai and Chen continued to work on behalf of 🇨🇳 MSS, including by attempting to help identify potential assets for MSS recruitment within the ranks of the US Navy. For example, in 2022 and 2023, Chen was tasked by Lai to visit a US Naval installation in Washington State and a US Navy recruitment center in San Gabriel, California. While in the recruitment center, Chen obtained personal information for recruits that he appears to have transmitted to an MSS intelligence officer in China. Chen received instruction from the MSS on how to engage and recruit future sailors and methods for minimizing his risk of exposure. Eventually, Chen began contacting a Navy employee over social media and provided information about the employee to 🇨🇳 MSS. Chen traveled to Guangzhou and met with 🇨🇳 MSS intelligence officers in April 2024 and March 2025 in order to discuss compensation and specific taskings.
Lai traveled to Houston, Texas, in April 2025, claiming that the purpose of his visit was related to his business as an online retail seller, and that he would be staying in the Houston area for two weeks. However, on May 9, 2025 — more than four weeks after his arrival in the US — Lai traveled by car with a companion from Houston to Southern California, via New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona, before returning to Texas, on May 15, 2025.
Chen and Lai are charged with violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 951, which makes it a crime for a person to operate or agree to operate within the US as an agent of a foreign government without notification to the Attorney General of the US. If convicted, the defendants face a fine of up to $250,000 and a term of imprisonment of up to 10 years.
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感谢今天现场的大家带给我的勇气和力量
东京的朋友们提问都很厉害，也让我思考到很多
愿我们有一天在自由的故土上相聚
在这个时常让人感到无力的时代，有时只靠网络、声音是不够的。而不明白节的初衷，就源于大家对现场连结、寻找彼此的渴望。第三届不明白节到此结束，后续节目将陆续更新至各平台。也欢迎大家给播客捐赠： bit.ly/bmb-donation-stripe 感谢各位嘉宾的分享、志愿者们的付出、以及每位观众的支持。下次见！
