On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Soon you will no longer need to leave your inbox to reply to your friends status update. Facebook has apparently been testing a new feature that allows you to reply to a status update directly from your inbox. It is currently being tested by a very few subset of users and will be rolled out for everybody pretty soon. Convenient you say; yes it will be real easy with not having to login to FB every time you want to comment. There are no answers from them right now with how they plan to manage the spam that could be associated with something like this. Will be available across the network in the coming few weeks . An original post by Sociolatte