Open Interpreter

Let language models run code on your computer.

pip install open-interpreter

今天读到 1933 年《大公报》上的一篇文章，标题是《屯垦青海与开辟西北》，作者 李慶麐 在文中说了一段话有点意思：

> 要想使中国人人有饭吃，有衣穿，过人的生活，并且更进一步使人人得享受欧美人的生活，惟有两种方法可用。第一种方法是节制生育，第二种方法是移民。

虽然时代背景不同，但如果把这段话单独拿出来，放在 90 年后的今天似乎也同样适用，甚至可以说人们正在践行他的这一主张。

李慶麐. 1933. 屯墾青海與開闢西北. 大公報 (天津), 1933-10-04, 第 11 版.

China ordered officials at central government agencies not to use Apple’s iPhones and other foreign-branded devices for work or bring them into the office, people familiar with the matter said.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-bans-iphone-use-for-government-officials-at-work-635fe2f8

前些天就看到《治安管理处罚法（修订草案）》第34条规定的内容。老实说，我有些不敢相信，今天特地到中国人大网上查了草案的内容，才知道确实是真的。草案目前正处于征求意见阶段，可以在人大网“ 法律草案征求意见 ”栏提意见（ www.npc.gov.cn/flcaw/ ）。

对于第34条第2-3项的规定，我持反对意见，建议删除为妥。主要理由是：

其一，“有损中华民族精神、伤害中华民族感情”是内涵极为模糊的概念，不同的人会有完全相异的理解与把握，将其作为法律上的处罚标准，必然面临处罚标准过于模糊的问题，容易造成任意扩张行政处罚的范围。

其二，由于处罚标准模糊，势必导致行政权力的选择性执法，容易出现滥权现象，从而为腐败的滋生创设新的空间，并且可能激化警民矛盾，给社会稳定带来新的风险。

其三，国家权力直接干预公民个人的日常穿着领域，明显有过度干预之嫌。民族精神与民族感情属于文化精神层面的事务，国家可以进行倡导，但不应通过法律强制的方式来推行。

其四，这样的立法规定可能会刺激民粹主义或极端民族主义情绪的肆意蔓延，进一步恶化公共领域的舆论环境，不当压制个人在日常穿衣与言论的自由空间。同时，也可能加剧与一些国家的对立情绪，导致外交上的被动。 source

希望大家都能去 人大网 提交意见，复制上面的文字即可，耗时用不了1分钟。

个人信息可以随意填写不需要实名。

劳东燕老师的这段文字在微信已经被屏蔽。

别跟我说“这根本没用”，至少在未来你可以聊以自慰：“我当时是出过声的，不是沉默的群氓之一”。

治安管理处罚法（修订草案）征求意见

http://www.npc.gov.cn/flcaw/userIndex.html?lid=ff8081818a22132f018a499710595932

https://once.com

Once upon a time you owned what you paid for, you controlled what you depended on, and your privacy and security were your own business. We think it’s that time again.

On registering WeChat pay for foreigners. An absolutely ridiculous situation…

https://fxtwitter.com/edsander/status/1699528005389844480

秦晖 2012 讲座：知青运动中的民族命运与个人使命

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_e6ue5wiwPE

China Seeks to Broaden iPhone Ban to State Firms, Agencies

Discussions of involution – a culture of overwork in China – have grown especially rife on the Chinese Internet, reinforced by a dismal outlook on employment. Translated from an academic term ‘involution,’ ‘neijuan’ 内卷 references a contemporary structure of alienation experienced primarily by college students: a sense of being entrapped in a society without opportunities, yet having to endure an endless series of stressful competitions to carve a respectable life.

Drawing from fieldwork and interviews, this paper examines the culture of involution through self-study rooms 自习室, places where people pay to study. Rapidly expanding in number since 2019, self-study rooms have become a popular tool used by youths to cope with involution. Modulating attentional capacities through design, these rooms assure users that they could study better, and excel in competitive exams and certification processes to find progression in life trajectories.

However, in doing so, self-study rooms also normalize an alienated learning and work culture in China, framing the attentional discomfort of forced learning as gain, and the privacy of self-study rooms as forms of individualistic therapy. Users learn not only to push their bodies within these rooms, they also use it to weep privately, expelling pressures to return to ‘gainful’ behavior.

To cite this article: Chen, Changwen, and Renyi Hong. 2023. “Business of Involution: Self-Study Rooms and Work Culture in China.” Journal of Cultural Economy, September. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2023.2246988.

会员畅读 | 完全上手顶级 Mac 自动化工具，用 Keyboard Maestro 拯救效率 [by 数字工具组]
https://sspai.com/post/82854

我写了半年的 Keyboard Maestro 教程今天在少数派上线了！

这个教程一共超过 7 万字，系统地介绍了我使用自动化工具 Keyboard Maestro 的技巧。如果你使用 macOS，相信通过这个教程，一定可以帮助你提高日常工作学习的效率。即日起至 9 月 17 日，可享上架优惠八折，欢迎购买，感谢支持。

https://sspai.com/series/350

Land Ownership Makes No Sense

The problem with the right to land is that it’s all been taken. Long before our births, every inch of habitable land in the United States was claimed. Historically, the ethics of land ownership were probably shaped by a sense that it was always possible to find more land somewhere.

The fact that we all need land to live, and that there’s no more land available, is the crux of the immorality in profiting from it. You’re renting someone’s rights back to them.

Thomas Paine had it exactly right back in 1797: “Man did not make the earth … it is the value of the improvement only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor therefore of cultivated land, owes to the community a ground-rent … for the land which he holds.”

You can now use Pixelmator Pro as a PDF editor.

小县城体制内工作 10 年（2012–2022）

https://fxtwitter.com/whyyoutouzhele/status/1702305038918393950

On January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell 贝淡宁 was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University 山东大学（青岛）政治学与公共管理学院院长—the first foreign dean of a political science faculty in mainland China’s history. In The Dean of Shandong, Bell chronicles his experiences as what he calls “a minor bureaucrat,” offering an inside account of the workings of Chinese academia and what they reveal about China’s political system. It wasn’t all smooth sailing—Bell wryly recounts sporadic bungles and misunderstandings—but Bell’s post as dean provides a unique vantage point on China today.

Bell, neither a Chinese citizen nor a member of the Chinese Communist Party, was appointed as dean because of his scholarly work on Confucianism—but soon found himself coping with a variety of issues having little to do with scholarship or Confucius. These include the importance of hair color and the prevalence of hair-dyeing among university administrators, both male and female; Shandong’s drinking culture, with endless toasts at every shared meal; and some unintended consequences of an intensely competitive academic meritocracy. As dean, he also confronts weightier matters: the role at the university of the Party secretary, the national anticorruption campaign and its effect on academia (Bell asks provocatively, “What’s wrong with corruption?”), and formal and informal modes of censorship. Considering both the revival of Confucianism in China over the last three decades and what he calls “the Communist comeback” since 2008, Bell predicts that China’s political future is likely to be determined by both Confucianism and Communism.

2021 年，贝淡宁被山东人民政府外事办公室推选为「山东省人民友好使者」。

Bell, Daniel A. 2023. The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University. Princeton: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691247137.