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The moon shows up every year. Mars shows up when it feels like it, walks backward, and makes us wait 780 days. On Mid-Autumn night, the moon rises. The mooncake on the table is cut into eight pieces. The old man says, Look, there is a rabbit in the moon. The child looks for a long time and says, No. The old man says, There is. You will see it when you grow up. That is tradition. It does not depend on being right about astronomy. It depends on being visible every year. Mars cannot do that. I.

Open a streaming app. The homepage usually has two big categories: costume romances and crime thrillers. A new crime drama appears almost every month. Some are good. Many are not. Viewers complain, then watch the first episode anyway. Why so many? The stable audience is one reason. There are others. Platforms, censors, producers, and viewers all push in the same direction. Viewers want order. Platforms want watch time. Producers want lower risk. Censors want predictable boundaries.

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The elevator reached the seventeenth floor and stopped. A man in his early fifties came in, gray jacket, carrying two bags of groceries. Behind him was a man in work clothes, a badge clipped to his chest. The gray jacket said his son was acting up again, saying he was stressed and couldn't sleep. The work-clothes man laughed and said, Don't worry, big brother. Wait till he's my age. It'll be fine. You're almost free anyway. The female colleague next to him added, Kids today aren't like us back then.

“Our students didn’t get into Peking University or Tsinghua. But they can go work at Peking University and Tsinghua.” That sentence comes from a teacher at a vocational school in Henan. On the world skills stage, Henan Chemical Technician College presented its electron microscope technology program. It is small. It is also the only one of its kind in China. The school says students are often booked by employers in their sophomore year. Over 101 graduates have entered Peking University.

A comment under Lei Jun’s post got a lot of likes: “Can you make a version without the privacy display?” Below it: “+1” repeated. Two years ago, that comment would have been ignored. A privacy display is a flagship feature. Business users want it. It protects sensitive information. Today, enough people have used one to know its cost. They pay for a feature they don’t need, and the screen suffers after they turn it off. One screen, two kinds of pixels A hardware privacy display uses two sets of pixels.

Yo, y’all talking loud, but your words don’t mean a thing, Like shadows in the dark, you ain’t even in the ring. You are a glitch in the static, a flicker, a fade, Tryna throw dirt, but you are just a temporary grade. I’m a storm in the making, a force you can’t cage, You are a paper thin page, I’m a god damn manuscript. You talk tough, but you ain’t built for the war, Just a memory fading like the tide on the shore.

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There’s Jake — the one person who’s been in my orbit long enough to understand the way my brain actually works. Not the surface version. Not the polite version. Not the “mom” version or the “partner” version. Just… me. Jake has always known how to talk to me. Even when he’s annoying. Even when he’s pushing my buttons. Even when he’s getting on my nerves so bad I want to throw my phone across the room. He still knows how to bring me back. It’s not romantic. It’s not dramatic.

I have just realized That ignorance was like a veil Before my eyes And I might have removed it. I am tired of lies Not just politics But religion too And even science. They taught us lies Like materialism And fake doctrines Like fear and hate. I began to contemplate as a child Something didn't quite feel right My own physical body Didn't tell the whole story. I was an androgynous being Female at birth But with unclear features voice and gait Neither gay nor straight.